Jake threw his bag on his shoulders nervously, this would be the last time he would see his grandma's place for quite a while, and all in all, he was sad to be going. He wasn't sure how his Grandma would cope with being alone after raising him for eighteen years. Oh well, he thinks to himself, It's time for me to say goodbye, I've got to go to uni, it just can't be helped.
Jake thought to himself just how empty his room looked without his tv and posters on the wall and his junk thrown everywhere it was all in his friend John's car now. He thought about all the years he had called this small room his own. His grandma had moved her just before his mum had died. He was only two back then, and still a needy little blighter. He had caused his Grandma so much trouble through the years. He felt like maybe after uni he might be able to make it up to her. The skull bed sheets that he'd had since childhood seemed to smile reassuringly at him. It was time to go.
Waving sadly to the house he had grown up in and the woman who had raised him, Jake climbed into John's car and they drove off into the distance, toward what was sure to be a bloody brilliant new adventure!
Dirk sat behind his new desk in the lecture hall. In the next week he would be giving his first ever lecture as a professor, he would be teaching people only a couple of years younger than himself. He remembered his own first day at university, he'd just moved into a shitty little flat on the edge of the city that smelled like booze, weed and bad decisions. It smelled like his dad's house.
Dirk quickly corrected his thought path to his first day at university. His first lecturer spelled his own name wrong on the board and proceeded to get half a dozen things wrong when talking about nuclear physics within the space of half an hour. After that Dirk walked out and sat in a different class, and the rest was history. Now just five years later, he was teaching robotic engineering to a bunch of kids just younger than himself.
The college had tried to take his sweet shades from him when one of the dudes at the top asked him to teach. However when he explained that he had literally built an artificial intelligence into the fucking things they let him keep them. It was safe to say that he was pretty smart, in a completely ironic way of course.
Dirk cracked open a bottle of mountain dew and took a deep swig. A soda a day keeps the doctor away, as his big bro always used to say.
John sat awkwardly in the car next to his friend and future roommate Jake. It had been slightly awkward since their sleepover in which a viewing of con-air had turned into a completely different form of putting a bunny in a box. John hadn't been able to shake the hangover for two days, or sit comfortably for weeks.
Despite this, john was overjoyed when he heard that Jake would be going to the same university as him, and had insisted that they share a flat in the city. They had found a place that was perfect, and close to the college. It was a big flat with plenty of space for them both to do their own thing, and even better, the rent was cheap enough that they could both easily pay for it.
The only downside? The front door was right next to the neighbors house, which meant that any umm... walks of shame... could walk straight into the neighbor without a seconds notice. Still, thought John, if he and Jake were to hook up on a more permanent basis this wouldn't be a problem.
John clicked on the radio, it would be a long drive, and he couldn't afford to fall asleep at the wheel. He flicked it over to something that both he and Jake would like and decided to focus on the road, lest the bulge in his pants get any more obvious.
Everything sucked for Dave Strider at that moment. Not only had his brother revealed that he was going to be teaching at the same university that Dave would be attending, but also that he insisted they both stay in his new apartment, supposedly to keep his university fees down. Dave wouldn't have minded the extra debt if he could have had his own place, but he was just glad to get away from his dad. Dirk leaving and not saying a word to his dad had made things so much worse. The house smelled more, the cupboards had to be stocked with alcohol more, the beatings happened more.
Dave shuddered at the thought of his dad's house and wondered if Dirk asking him to stay in his flat was Dirk's way of trying to give him a happy family environment. Dave laughed at the thought, nah, all that ass-wipe cares about is himself, otherwise he would have taken me away from dad when he left in the first place. Instead he left me there for five years bearing the brunt alone.
Dave decided he couldn't think about this now and flicked on the tv, some shitty news channel was on, not the bbc, not sky, not even rt, it looked like it was made using about five pound an hour. It was obvious this was Dirk's main source of news in an instant.
Dave pulled open his bag and grabbed a packet of Doritos, he decided just vegging out in front of the tv for the first time in months was the best thing to do.
Here's chapter 1 :3 I hope you all like it half as much as I enjoyed writing it :3 In case you haven't noticed this fic will be... M rated shall we say? ;) Yeah basically It's a humanstuck AU where people are around the age to go to university and all live in England? I'll be introducing the rest of the cast but the main focus will be on those four. Yeah basically the main ships comprise stridercest, dirkjake, johndave and jakejohn, so yeah. It starts out as stridercest and johnjake but i plan to make it turn all dirkjake and johndave :3 anyway, I hope you enjoy the first chapter of this fic, if not... don't read the rest I guess?