Vriska Serket depsised couples. They were soooooooo happy all the time, and her stupid girl-friends were always trying to set her up with all of the single trolls. All of them. They were always meddling! Meddling, meddling, meddling!
At this point, the only person that didn't bother her about filling her damn quadrants was...
EB: hey! :)
Her cerulean heart thudded in her chest. John.
AG: hey ::::)
Yes, the only person that didn't piss her off was John Egbert, the movie dork. Too bad that Vriska knew that her relationships were destined to fail. Eridan, Tavros, hell, even Alternate Vriska and John broke up! She'd cried too many tears eightfold to let herself care about him, or anyone.
But that didn't stop her from answering his messages, day after day, night after night, staying up ridiculously late talking about Nic Cage movies.
EB: what's up? it's been a while
Vriska giggled. Oh, eternitites.
AG: Yeah, a whole three hours.
EB: i've missed you
A strange feeling invaded Vriska's abdomen.
AG: yeah...
It made her sad to not really respond, to not tell him that she had missed his human sarcasm, his bad jokes, his-
EB: So, how's life?
Oh shit. He always uses correct puncuation and capitalization when he's upset. That's what Dave had said.
"Hey, don't go breaking his heart." Vriska turned around in confusion.
"Huh? I think you've got the wrong troll, Dave-human. Against popular belief, we don't all look the same."
The blond teenager shook his head. "Nah. You're cuter." He winked at her and Vriska scowled.
"Nice try," she sneered. She started to walk away, but he clamped a hand, strong with years of record spinning, on her shoulder.
"Dude. I mean it, don't break John's heart. He's a geeky, bad movie-obsessed, naive kid who capitalizes things when he's upset and blindly trusts any troll girl that tells him to blast off with a rocket pack. Don't break his heart, cuz it's gonna be my damn job to put him back together. "
She'd laughed it off then, but then she hadn't actually car-
EB: I mean, if you're ok for talking.
AG: Of course I am!
EB: oh. ok.
She breathed a sigh of relief. No more capitalization. Vriska's fingers flew across her keyboard and John typed back even faster. She giggled, scrolling through his long-winded speech about yet another Earth movie she hadn't seen.
It's not like I'm flushed or anything...but this is nice.