(Humanstuck)
Prologue
Ever since Nepeta could remember Equius had been there for her. even when they were young. The stoic and silent troll helped balance out Nepeta's reckless and overly attitude about life and absolutely everything. Every time Nepeta tried to climb up something dangerous Equius would simply pick her up and carry her off to distract her with something new. It was quite obvious to everyone that although the little boy never said it, he loved that little girl. Nepeta however was oblivious to it and Equius seemed content to stay her steadfast friend until the end.
10 years later
16-year-old Nepeta Leijon lounges out on the veranda, her short brown hair blowing in the wind. Equius sat next to her fiddling with a piece of machinery, she had no idea what it was apart of but she knew if she ever asked she would get herself talked half to death. The summer days slipped by so slowly the heat was overwhelming and the activities were few. She had run out of ideas or fun things to do and Equius was content just playing around with machinery and such. Equius was sweating a lot in the summer heat but Nepeta never seemed bothered by it.
Equius stood after a while and in his deep and very articulate voice excused himself to head to the library to check out a book about motors. Nepeta grinned up at him stood on her tiptoes to hug the taller boy.
"Bye Equius!"
"Farewell Nepeta"
Equius was 5'9 and still growing long black hair pulled into a ponytail and a black muscle shirt and white shorts. He always wore slightly cracked sunglasses to cover his eyes. His appearance may have been scary but to Nepeta he was about as dangerous as a kitten.
After Equius left, Nepeta decided to take a bit of a walk to stretch out her legs. Swinging her legs she jumped down to the grass and walked barefoot across her lawn humming. She had never really liked shoes ever; her feet had built up calluses over the years so she never felt anything even when she was walking on gravel. Equius preferred his shoes and simply shook his head and tried not to crack a smile at his little friend.
This small town didn't really have much, a library, a couple local diners, a medical clinic, a grocery store, a small elementary school , and a mechanic ran a little shop a little ways past a the bus station. In this town everybody knew everybody strangers were quite rare around here.
Nepeta ended up walking past the bus station humming "teen idle" when something caught her eye. A boy of medium build and fluffy black hair and a scowl on his face was glaring at a letter with one hand crumpling a map of the town. Intrigued she walked up behind him a big smile on her face.
"Hey purrhaps you would like some help?" Nepeta asked in her singsong sort of voice. The boy darn near leapt out of his skin and dropped his map.
"JEGUS FUCK!" He whirled around on her shaking like a leaf," YOU DON'T FUCKING SNEAK UP ON A POOR JERK LIKE ME AND SCARE HIM HALFWAY TO FUCKING HELL AND BACK! AND NO I DON'T NEED ANY FUCKING HELP!"
Nepeta smiled completely unaffected by his outrage and said,"I'm Nepeta what's your name!" She extended her hand. The boy stopped his mouth still open and then he shut it and stared at her hand like it was a snake about to strike him.
"I'm Karkat," He grumbled and took her hand giving it a firm shake. He picked up his map and dusted it off before sticking it in his duffel bag that sat on the ground next to him