How long is she going to keep talking? I'm not sure it's even words any more.

"Miss Serket?" The woman's strict piercing voice matched her stare as she looked at the girl.

"What?" She replied shortly.

"As I suspected, you haven't been listening." She spat. Vriska rolled her eyes, and the landlady rolled hers back. "I suppose I'll have to repeat myself."

Oh great, more talking just what I w-

"You are going to have to move out by the end of this month."

Her shift had ended early that day, she decided. Eridan would cover for her anyway, whether he liked it or not. She picked up her coat and her cell from the "Staff room" and headed out. The staff room was really more of a small room where they kept the coffee and other sorts of supplies for the pathetic excuse for a workplace, except Vriska and Eridan had a tendency to hide in there during the quiet hours. It had a back door for when they got deliveries, which was about once every week although they would sometimes come every two weeks. That was up to the manager, and seeing as the manager wasn't her, she never really bothered with looking too much in to it. She slipped out of the door and proceeded to send a message to her friend.

AG: Maryaaaaaaaam! I'm coming over, I have MAJOR news to discuss. ::::(

GA: I would ask if this could wait for later, but seeing as you included your arachnid-ified emoticon I suppose it can't

GA: You will have to excuse me however, I'm stuck babysitting Vantas

GA: SHE ISN'T BABYSITTING ME I'M JUST HERE, FUCK YOU.

GA: That was Karkat

GA: Also, I believe that "Fuck you" was directed at me

AG: I figured. Look, I'll be over in say...twenty minutes? Don't go out.

GA: I won't

She slammed her cheap flip-up phone closed and stuffed it in the pocket of her jeans, before making her way down town to Kanaya's apartment. She lived in a quieter area of the city, and it was a rather posh and expensive part too. Kanaya and her room-mate were really the only middle classed people who had lived there for as long as they had, most likely because of Kanaya's stable fashion business and her parter Rose helping her pay half of the rent. Vriska had been told many times that there was nothing going on between her friend and Rose, but Kanaya should know better than to lie to a liar. There were obvious signs of a relationship between the two girls and nobody could deny that, after all, "Just friends" don't sleep in the same bed in a two bedroomed apartment.

Once she arrived at the building, she walked up the not-so-surprisingly clean stairs to the 3rd floor and before knocking on the door and walking in. She could hear what she assumed was a terrible romantic comedy playing from the living room and walked in.

"She gets together with his best friend." Vriska stated, walking up and standing behind the white couch Kanaya and Karkat were sitting on.

Karkat promptly paused the playing movie and turned his head so he could see her.

"I'd be more pissed off at you ruining this movie if you hadn't just told me you were a rom-com fan." There was a familiar look of agitation on his face and in the tone of his voice. He had gained a little bit of weight since the last time she saw him, which was around three months ago. He wasn't fat, no far from it, but he was slightly chubby. With his smaller build and his practically eternal puppy-fat she admittedly found him rather cute. Of course, Vriska would only ever tell him that if she was teasing him, because then would there was less chance of him taking it seriously.

"Well now that we know how this terrible excuse for entertainment ends, we can switch it off." Kanaya smiled, obviously glad that Vriska had finally made an appearance and disturbed the playing film. Kanaya's smile could mean anything from "We're best friends and it's great to see you" to "I'm going to murder you violently with this plastic spoon."

"Oh fuck no, I still want to see the end of this."

"Well perhaps you can finish it with your new movie buddy next week Karkat, seeing as you two share the same tastes." She gave a teasing glance at Vriska.

"Oh there is no way I am going to Vriska's place and watching a movie with her, that is not happening. Not in this life, not in the next life and not in any fucking lives soon to come." He huffed, blowing a bit of dark hair out of his face.

"Yeah well it looks like I'm not going to my place either after a while." She put her hands on the back of the couch and leaned on it slightly.

"What do you mean? Vriska please don't be implying what I think you're implying." Kanaya said with a sense of motherly disappointment in her voice.

"Well if what you think I'm implying is that I got kicked out again, then yeah. I'm implying that." She sighed. "It's all because that bitch of a landlady hates my guts and wanted me out."

"Hasn't that been your excuse for every single place you've got kicked out of?" Karkat asked, a subtle tone of smugness emanating throughout his sentence.

"In any case, that's bad news. How long do you have to find a new place?"

"'Till the end of the month." Vriska replied. "So, about two weeks."

"You are kidding me aren't you?" An expression of shock took over the Virgo's face. "Vriska, It's going to take us forever to find something within your price range. Why don't you consider rooming with somebody?"

"Oh, because we all know what happened with that Nitram kid is something we want to happen again." Vriska said. This earned a slight grimace on her friend's face.

"Perhaps you shouldn't push people off of tall buildings in the future." Kanaya retorted, crossing her arms.

"It's not my fault!" Vriska almost shouted, flipping her dyed blue fringe out of her face. She made a mental note that she would have to pick up some more dye from the store on her way home as it had began to fade in to the blackness of her natural hair.

"It kind of is." She sighed. "Vriska. I am sick fed up of you getting kicked out of every place you ever live in, it's getting to the point where it is just ridiculous. How long where you in Park Drive? Two months?"

"Ladies, ladies stop bickering. God, it's like listening to a conversation that I'm in. I have a solution and because it's highly unlikely to be agreed to I'm going to offer it up." Karkat piped in. "You remember Feferi right?"

"I work with Ampora, do you think I can forget her?"

"Well about a year ago she bought this huge place, and she and Captor were living in it and I had to room with Captor because of complications blah blah blah long story short, she had to break it off with him and move but left us the place." He vaguely explained, now in a half sitting-half lying down position on the couch, looking up at her.

"Karkat, if you're implying what I think you're implying then that me-"

"Kanaya stop saying implying that's the fourth time in under ten minutes." Vriska butted in.

"Sorry, oh mighty implication police. I'll start again. Karkat, if you're suggesting what I think you're suggesting then that means tha-"

"Yeah, we might have a place for Vriska." Karkat said, cutting Kanaya off and leaving her with an irritated expression plastered on her face. "Of course, I'd have to get Sollux to agree and-"

"Who even is Sollux?"

"Will you let me speak?" Karkat barked.

"Ahem, both of you two had interrupted me, I don't think you're in any position to get mad here Karkat." Kanaya said bluntly. "In any case, that's wonderful news."

"Yeah, I guess. So Vriska if you're in tell me and I'll talk to Captor tonight."

Vriska, although not particularly sure about living with other people again, agreed. Karkat assured her that if she was allowed to move in with them that she'd have her own space and, because she'd be using Feferi's old room, her own small bathroom. He figured it would be a good idea to throw that in there just in case she'd feel uncomfortable keeping "All of her girly shit" in with the boys. Kanaya had laughed at his wording.

"No way. Not happening. I am not having some chick I don't even know coming in and sleeping in FF's room for god knows how long." He hadn't even looked up from his computer to reject Karkat's offer.

"It isn't Feferi's room anymore. She's not lived here for months." Karkat groaned, standing behind his friend. "Look, Sollux, I know you're upset that she had to leave but you need to accept that she isn't coming back. Ever."

"She will KK." He turned around in his swivelling desk chair. "FF promised that she'd come back."

"Yeah, to visit." The boy sighed. "I know that it's tough letting go of people you love, but you have to. She told you that she can't do long distance relationships and that she'd have taken you with her if you weren't sca-" He stopped mid sentence. Sollux had turned back around and had put on headphones and started to type again.

Karkat rolled his eyes at his friend's stubbornness and gave up, going over to the refrigerator. Sollux had packed it full of energy drinks, and there wasn't much else in there besides a suspicious looking block of cheese. Karkat mumbled something and closed the door to it. Deciding to go to sleep rather than to stay up trying to amuse himself with whatever came on the TV, which, judging by the time, wouldn't be any good anyway.

He utters a goodnight to his friend, even though he knows that he can't hear him, and goes in to his bedroom. He throws his phone on to the bed which he had forgotten to make earlier before stripping down to his grey boxers and sliding under the covers. He picked up his phone and sent a message.

CG: GOOD NEWS, YOU'VE GOT THE ROOM. GOODNIGHT.