John glanced down at his watch impatiently and sat down next to Karkat on the white leather couch.
His hair was neatly combed and he was dressed in a jade green tuxedo with a dark black bow. He fidgeted with his hands nervously as time went by slowly; A few days ago he had finally built up the courage to ask out Vriska, and to his surprise she had happily agreed. Now all he had to do was wait for her to arrive.

As excited as he was, though, he felt bad for leaving Karkat home all by himself. Ever since Karkat had been living with him on Earth, he'd developed some...slightly homosexual feelings for the troll, but had been able to push them to the very back of his mind.
John smiled excitedly thinking of how fun his date would be.
Karkat, on the other hand, felt exactly the opposite about the whole thing. He never liked Vriska from the start, and he especially did not like her getting in the way of his potential relationship with John, Karkat had also developed some very mixed feelings for the boy, though he was unsure of how red or black these feelings were. All he knew was that they were romantic feelings.

"Where the hell are you going all dressed up like that?" Karkat gumbled.
"Oh, Vriska and I are going on a date together!" John replied eagerly.
"Well no shit, you're going together, that's kinda what a date IS. And why? Why do you even like her so much?"
John shrugged at this question. "I don't know, how am I supposed to answer that? I just kinda...like her."
"I think she's STUPID," Karkat muttered, crossing his arms with a frown.
"Well that's YOUR opinion. And why do you even care anyways? This has nothing to do with you."
"I..I just DO, okay?"

At this the troll could feel his face turn quickly from a pale grey to a dark red. John noticed Karkat's blushing and felt his own cheeks heat up as well.

There was an awkward silence. Oddly enough, Karkat saw this moment as the perfect oppurtunity to finally be able to tell John his feelings for him.
"John... I..I need to tell you something," Karkat murmured, blushing shyly.
"Y=yes?" the boy answered, staring curiously into the troll's eyes.
"I - I need to tell you that I...I...I lo-"

Suddenly there was a knock at the door.
"C-come in!" John muttered quickly, trying to escape the awkward situstion he was currently in.
The doorknob turned slowly and a beautiful female troll entered the room, wearing a sparkly clear white dress with her trademark blue Scorpio symbol in the center.

"V-Vriska, hey!" the human stuttered in excitement. He stood up and walked up towards her.

"Well, don't you look handsome," Vriska said with a wink.
"Th-thanks, you look handsome too...I-I mean beautiful!" John replied awkwardly, mentally slapping himseld for even saying something like that.
"Heh, I know what you meant," she replied, smiling and taking John's hand into hers.
Karkat rolled his eyes and gumbled in annoyance. "Can you two take your little LOVEFEST somewhere else, please? It's making me sick to my digestive food-processing system."
"Oooooooohhhhhhhh, I'm SOOOOOOOO SORRY, Karkles! Am I 8othering you? 8ecause that is the a8solute LAST thing I'd EVER want to do!" the spider-bitch replied with a devilish smirk.
"UGH, shut up! And sarcasm is MY thing."
"Whateverrrrrrrr you s8y, Karkles. ::::) I know your secret. Don't worry, I won't tell John. ;;;;)."
Karkat blushed in shock from hearing her say that and snapped back angrily. "Y-you don't know anything! Don't you DARE tell him..."
"Tell me what?" John asked obliviously.
"Ooooooooh nothiiiiiiiing~" the troll girl replied slyly.
"Oh. Uh...Okay," John said with his usual derpy look on his face. "Welll anyways uh...we're gonna go and stuff. See you later, Karkat!"
And with that the couple was gone, and Karkat was left all by himself in the vacant white room.
He sighed heavily, walking slothfully up the metal staircase and into John's room, forcing himself face-first into the cold sheets of his bed. He lied still for a while, letting blood-red tears flow softly down his cheeks.