A 15 year old boy sat at his computer desk in his newly bought apartment outside of the state his dad lives in. He sits there waiting for his friend, Karkat Vantas to reply on a messaging program named Pesterchum. His name is John Egbert; he is into corny movies and loves to play games. He recently found a game called S.B.U.R.B. but it had been removed, well off of the face of the earth. He searched it and tried to find it but he never could. He gave up a couple weeks ago and got on Pesterchum to join his regular chat party. That was when he found Karkat, well he didn't know him as Karkat, back then he knew him as carcinoGeneticist, just as Karkat knew John as ghostyTrickster. They began to chat in private and found out they had some things in common. Over the years things in john's life have changed, and for the worse at that. His friend Dave Strider took on this whole "to cool for anyone except for some red-haired blind girl" phase. His other friend, Rose Lalonde has gone totally dark on everyone. You see, Rose's mom is an extreme alcoholic and Rose is alone in her life. She just eventually snapped, after that no one really ever heard from her. Jade Harley is the only other friend John still has, other than the fact that she is usually depressed about the whole Dave and Rose thing. Karkat has a very similar story; most of his friends have either gone dark, depressed, dead, or ran away with some insufferable prick. They both can relate to each other and therefore have bonded closely.
They had been messaging each other via. Pesterchum, they had conversed so much they had been talking about meeting somewhere. Karkat didn't live that far away so it wasn't going to be that hard for him to meet with John. They were talking about meeting at an ice cream shop named dairy king. It wasn't a really big place, just a little shop with about five tables and booths lining the walls, they were the ones that you would usually find at a nearby pancake house. John logged on Pesterchum and started to chat with Karkat (a.k.a. carcinoGeneticist).
- ghostyTrickster [GT] began pestering carcinoGeneticist [CG] at 12:30 -
- carcinoGeneticist [CG] joins chat at 12:32 -
[12:33] GT: Hey Karkat!
[12:33] CG: HEY JOHN.
[12:34] GT: I can never tell if your mad or if it's just your quirk :I
[12:34] CG: YA YA, WHATEVER. SO IS THE PLAN STILL THE SAME?
[12:34] GT: Of course it is, silly! :D
[12:35] GT: Unless you have other plans. :(
[12:35] CG: NO, AS LONG AS YOU'RE FREE, I AM TOO.
[12:36] CG: BUT, SOMETHING HAS COME UP…
[12:36] GT: Something like what?
[12:37] CG: MY DUMBASS ROOMMATE KICKED ME OUT.
[12:37] GT: Really, why?!
[12:37] CG: HE SAID HE NEEDED ROOM IN THE APARTMENT BECAUSE HE APPARENTLY "FOUND SOMEONE".
[12:38] GT: Oh, well. Maybe you could stay at my place. We may not know what each other look like, but who cares, I know who you are on the inside, and that's all I have to know. :D
[12:38] CG: UM.. WELL. SURE I GUESS, YAH THAT WOULD BE GOOD. DO YOU REALLY MEAN IT THOUGH?
[12:39] GT: Of course I mean it, I don't have anyone else that visits me. So yah it would be good to be able to talk to an actual living person every once and a while.
[12:40] CG: SO BE AT DAIRY KING'S BY 1:15?
[12:40] GT: You got it. See you there!
- carcinoGeneticist [CG] ceased pestering ghostyTrickster [GT] at 12:52 -