It may sound odd, but Nepeta found herself daydreaming about a certain scruffy haired, tall, slender boy. She was even doodled his face on the desk, she blushed bright red and rubbed her eraser quickly over the desk to get rid of the image. She couldn't have liked him, she didn't like him, or did she. No no no! She shook the thought from her head; she could only feel that way about Karkat. The bell rang interrupting her train of thought; she looked at the clock seeing it was now her lunch period. She stuffed her unfinished class work into her bag and basically dashed out of the class and down the stairs to the lunch room. Nepeta always sat at the window during lunch, the view was amazing, and the large forest eased the queasiness in her stomach that kept her from buying lunch today. She lay back against the wall, her eyes closed when a tall boy with a Mohawk sauntered over.
"Nepeta, are you, uh, alright?" He asked nervously, she could see him shaking as he spoke in his soft, yet squeaky voice.
"Yeah, I'm feline Tavros, just too sick to get lunch today." Nepeta replied with her usual cat pun slipping into her sentence. He sat down beside her his hand on her shoulder, even sitting Tavros towered over her, everyone was taller than her, Equius told her she'll grow taller, just have to wait I mean they are only freshman.
"If you want, I could walk you home." Tavros insisted, a worried look plastered on his face. Nepeta laughed slightly and took his hand off her shoulder and set it in his lap.
"I'll be fine Tavros, just two more classes is all."
"Well since you're not going home you have to eat something! I'll be right back."
"Wait, Tav-." She cut herself off as he ran off to get something at Outtakes. She sighed to herself unable to stop him trying to help her. As Tavros ran off the guy she didn't want to see had shown up, how did she forget he had this lunch, she should have stayed in the library and read, or written a new fanfiction, but no she came to lunch and he came to bother her.
"Hey Nepsis," His low toned voice rang though her ears, the voice she adored and could listen to for hours. A sudden fluster came over her, she could say anything in response, luckily Tavros was finally back to break the tension.
"All they had left was apple juice and the crapy pizz- oh hey Gamzee, what are you doing over here?" Tavros set the food in front of Nepeta on the bench and looked over at Gamzee who walked over and sat between the two watching out for Nepeta's food. He was wearing his indigo jacket with the Capricorn symbol painted on the back; he goes on and on about that jacket, and what it means, he says it's to show how he's in the Capricorn Brotherhood. Nepeta didn't know whether that was a club here at the high school, or some gang. She always guessed gang, since how he acted.
Nepeta took her food and slowly ate it, looking down at her lap as Tavros and Gamzee when on about who-knows-what. She swallowed hard then cleared her throat, "Hey… Tav I changed my mind, I'm going home, you don't have to walk me though." Nepeta stood up with her food in hand; she tossed the unfinished food in the trash then walked over to Tavros and gave him a gentle hug.
Tavros grabbed Nepeta by her wrist, "Nepeta, you sure you don't need anyone to walk home with."
"Yeah Nepsis I can walk ya, I don't mind missin' any classes." Gamzee intervened with his usual dopy smile across his lips.
"I'll be fine Gamzee…" She stuttered nervously trying not to look Gamzee in the eye when she rejected him.
"Naw its final, I'm walkin' you home Nepsis." Gamzee stood up from the bench and hooked an arm with Nepeta. "Bye Tavbro, I'll see you in sixth period. With that Gamzee dragged Nepeta to the office to call her mom to be okayed to walk home. Minutes later they were walking out of the high school and onto the highway.