I nervously glanced across the busy restaurant, slightly tapping my fingers against the glossy, cedar surface of the table. I looked at my big brother Equius who was nearly sweating bullets, but he always sweated a lot. Today was a very important day, and I was nearly a wreck.

When ever you were about to meet your soulmate, a wristwatch appears on your wrist about three days before you would actually meet them. It happened to everyone; and today, in around 5 minutes, I would meet my soulmate. I smiled at Equius, notifying that it was time for him to go away for a while so I could deal with this by myself. I watched as he got up and crossed the room to give me and my soulmate the little privacy we would need.

I sipped my lemonade quickly and returned to my perfect posture. Two minutes and 14 seconds until the meeting and the waiter has yet to show up. I sigh and rest my head on the table in anticipation, I want to meet him or her right now, I can't stand it! I am going to die of waiting! I rustle my hands through my chestnut brown hair and looked at my olive green dress. I then stared steadily at the wristwatch, which gave me my approximate amount of time left until the meeting. 45 seconds, it would feel like an hour! I groaned yet again as my stomach filled with butterflies. 12 seconds left, the short amount of time left made me sigh of relief.

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"Welcome to this shitty excuse of a restaurant. What do you want to eat?" the waiter asked in a grumpy tone. I looked over him, he had ebony black hair that was somewhat tangled and draped around his face, freckles, and blue eyes that sparkled. He was it, I looked at his nametag and it said 'Karkat'. I smiled at him, wondering if he realized is wristwatch went off but then I got a closer look. It looked dismantled, like he purposely destroyed it.

"Listen, if you aren't going to order could you say so? I have other tables you know." he said, man was he grumpy!

"Oh I'm sorry, I just couldn't help but notice your watch. It's all broken looking." I told him with an edge of sadness in my voice.

"No shit, Sherlock. I tore it apart because I think the soulmate and love at first sight crap is fucking pointless." he retorted. I sighed and frowned, he was such a hermit. Yet I felt sorta, what's the word, connected to him.

"Oh, well I'm sorry to hear that. My name is Nepeta! Do you go to school around here?" I asked; desperately trying to carry on a conversation.

"I actually just moved here last night. My Dad's friend owns this place. I am going to Andrew H. High school." he said to me, I squealed in joy, "I go there too!"

"Well woop-de-fucking-doo. Now do you want something to drink can you spit it out already?" he asked.

"Oh, well I'm ready to order, I already got pink lemonade."

"Alright, make it snappy."

"I guess I'll have the parmesean crusted tilapia?"

"Whatever floats your boat." he said while he wrote down my order. He left swiftly and I banged my head on the table.

"Nepeta? Was he it?" Equius said. He slid into the booth and looked at me. I raised my head and nodded, then dropped my head back on the table. I wanted to scream, but I was in public.

"He doesn't believe in the soulmate and love-at-first-site thing!" I told him. He patted me, it was soft in his opinion but it hurt like hell! But he was a good brother for comforting me. I noticed Karkat from across the room and urged Equius to return to his previous doings.

Karkat's P.O.V

"God dammit!" I shouted as I spilt someone's coffee on me. I spit out a few curse words and poured another cup. Whoever ordered this must be retarded because they asked for no creamer or anything. I grumbled and brought the coffee to their table.

"Hey asshat, why did you order just plain black coffee? That's retarded." I told him as I placed the coffee on his table. The man looked up at me- fuck. He looked buff, he is going to kick my ass. But instead he shrugged and said, "I like my coffee like my women. Strong and 40% iron."

"Okay, I didn't want to know about your weird fetishes or whatever. Please just, stop." I told him, but before he could say anything else I left. I returned to the kitchen and looked at the "Ready" table. It looked like that one cute girl's fish was ready. What? Did I just call her cute? No, she is not cute... She was adorable. Fuck you Karkat. Fuck you too. I wanted to punch myself but there were others so I shook my fists and picked her plate up.

Okay, I needed to prepare something witty to say to her. She was wearing a pretty green dress, I could remark on that? Yeah that could work, way to fucking go Karkat. I carried the plate across the restaurant and arrived at the girl's table. She looked up at me, and god dammit her eyes sparkled. Fuck.

"Here is your shit." I told her. Okay, time to slide in a compliment about her pretty dress.

"Your dress is... The same color as mucus." I said. Way to fuck shit up Karkat, I hate everything.

Nepeta's P.O.V

Oh, he was, kind of unpleasant...

"Thanks?" I told him, he was confusing. But I still liked him, though I questioned myself why.

"Fuck. I didn't mean it like that. I meant that, I liked it." he said. Aww! He was blushing! How adorable!

"Thank you!" I said, sincerely this time. I took a sip of my lemonade and looked back up at him.

"Well your food is there. I will come back when you are ready to pay I guess." He told me. I smiled and nodded.

That went better than I thought it would...

Karkat's P.O.V

That went awfully.

Nepeta's P.O.V

I finished eating my fish, and boy was it yummy! I purred to myself and smiled happily. Karkat came around the corner with the check and I waited.

"Here is the check, and I grabbed some peppermints for you." he said. How considerate!

"Thank you!" I told him, as a pulled out my credit card and signed the check. I slipped the card into the slot and Karkat took it away to cash it.

He returned shortly and I left him a 15 dollar tip. Along with a slip of paper with my number. Once he picked it up again I grabbed Equius and we dashed at the door. I looked back at him as we left and he had a dumb-founded expression on his face. It was cute!

Karkat's P.O.V

What the hell? Why was she hauling the sweaty fetish freak out with her? Well they had the same nose, they might be related. I opened the check to find $15, nice. A small sliver of paper fell out of it and I picked it up. It was, a phone number.

Hell yes.

Hey! Wow I wasn't expecting such positive reviews! This makes me very happy! Well here is the second chapter! Please review, this one is just for filling space, I feel that when I write things escalate really fast so I'm taking it slow with this one! Please review and I will try to update soon!