I was sitting on an old worn out sack that I considered a couch. My eyes were glued to the screen in front of me as I frantically pressed the buttons on my controller. If I

just got one more point, my team of quirky COM characters would tie with Sollux's. Just as I was about to jump over the gap that would be the difference between losing by

a long shot and winning it all, a familiar face broke my concentration. A million thoughts and emotions ran screaming through my head as he leaned in and pressed his lips

to mine. He didn't know it, but that was my first kiss.

"Sollux!" I groused, desperately blocking out any potentially risky emotions. "What was that for!?"

He just smirked and looked at the screen. My character was tumbling through a black abyss of disappointment, and my computer-controlled teammates stared accusingly.

Their sad puppy-dog eyes seemed to burn through the screen into reality.

"Another point for Captor." Sollux grinned.

"You dirty cheater! I almost had it!" I complained, although it wasn't losing that had upset me. It was his methods.

"But didn't I give you thomething better?" he teased.

I glared at him, hoping he would chalk up the colour in my cheeks to frustration. I couldn't let him know that I was flushed for him, so I forced myself to think about

something else.

"What? Meow-beast got your tongue?"

"More like I'm gonna rip out yours!" I snapped.

"Like you would."

"Well, I guess you would be less fun mute." you said coolly, not letting him savor the satisfaction of being right.

Just then, Sollux's computer pinged.

"That mutht be Feferi."

"See you later, then." I muttered, excusing myself to me jumbled emotions.

I walked down the street, my thoughts heading south. I probably should have done something differently. I could have kissed him back, but he most likely wasn't flushed for

me. Maybe if Feferi hadn't messaged him I could fix things, or maybe she had saved me from the awkwardness caused by the frustrating indecision I was feeling.

Sollux and I hung out all of the time, and I had been surprised and a little but insulted when he became moirails with Feferi out of the blue, and so soon after her break-up

with Eridan. When Feferi stopped being moirails with Eridan, he had gone even further off the deep end, and I was pretty sure she had done it because she wanted to get into

a red relationship with Sollux. He didn't dump me the way she dumped Eridan because we weren't moirails, but he and Feferi hadn't even been anywhere near as close as we

were, and then, to add to the confusion, he went and kissed me like that! He took my first kiss away from you just to win a stupid video game! I noticed Nepeta's cave in the

distance. What would Nepeta think? That naïve little role-player obviously had no idea how hard it was actually being anywhere near a quadrant. She and Feferi were both

just happy-go-lucky girls who abused their great luck. Imagine what will happen when it runs out one day... They were playing right into Sollux's plans. That manipulative

jerk! I tripped over a hole, probably from Aradia's digging. Aradia was probably better off all irritatingly high and mighty and emotionless. She didn't have to deal with this

crap! It was at times like this when all of the things I let pile up came crashing down. I stomped along the path, deciding to ask a favor of Equius and try a new strategy

for letting out your anger. We hardly spoke, but at least that meant he hadn't had the chance to develop much of an opinion on me yet.