By: Samantha Elise

Authors Note: Yayy I finally stopped being such a lazy butt and wrote the fanfiction idea that ive had in my head for a while now (*・∀・*)人(*・∀・*) but anyways its my second Homestuck fanfic (first on this account since my other account is mostly just aph Hetalia fics) and of course its horror! Horror is my specialty ;) though recently ive been hearing alot of people talking about "creepy hide and seek" and I was like hey why not torment all my favorite characters by having them play it (⊙‿⊙✿) but ya this is just the first chapter, nothing big happening yet oh and fyi if Karkat seems a little occ at times its because he's talking in like a diary type thing in the future after everything happens. So ya, be prepared for character death along the way and a bunch of other scary shit. If you like pls review cause I want to know if you guys like it or not c: tho I don't have very much else to say at the moment so please enjoy and let me know if you do~ (oh and i really like my middle name so thats not actually my last name, I just really like the name Elise ^^)

My name is Karkat Vantas. My favorite color is grey, my favorite animal is a crab, and my favorite person is dead.

It all started off simple and fun, it was meant to be a game. Of course as you can probably guess, it turned out to be much more than that. What happened changed me, and now I'm doing as my psychiatrist told me to and writing out everything that happened. It might take a while to explain, and I know that nobody is going to read this anyways, but I'll try my best to explain everything fully I guess..

It was a brisk but sunny day. The wind was cold but the sun made it feel a bit warmer. I was at school, unwillingly, and it was finally lunch time. I sat in the cafeteria with a group of friends, we were all in the same grade except for four people. There were twelve seniors and four juniors. Now that I think back on it, all of them were amazing people in their own ways, but of course I never really seemed to notice it before. Some of them annoyed me non-stop, but they were still great people. I never respected them like I should have, and I see that now. But anyways, back to explaining.

I sat down across from my friend Terezi. She had been my crush for ages, although just recently I had accepted the fact that she liked somebody else and (somewhat) abandoned my crush on her. I still loved her deep down though, but that's not the point. Earlier that day while on the internet she had read something that peaked her interest and she just had to tell me about it. It was a Japanese game, and at first it seemed stupid. Hell, even after words it still sounded stupid to me.

"Okay, so here's how it goes" she told me as I sighed and picked at my lunch. "First off you need a doll, a bag of rice, a sharp knife, a nail clipper, a needle with crimson thread, a cup of salt, and a place that you can use as your 'hiding room'".

"Wait, why the fuck do you need a knife for this? It's just some weird hide and seek game, not some sadistic ritual right?" I asked a little weirded out already.

"Of course it's not! Although you need the knife for a reason, you'll see just let me explain!" she complained as Gamzee (my ridiculously tall friend sitting next to me) started listening in to the conversation.

"Alright so after you get all the stuff, you cut open the doll and fill it with the uncooked rice. See thats why you need the knife! Anyways, after doing that you need to clip your nails and put them also inside. This binds you to the doll. You sew it up with the thread, and then you fill a bathtub or sink or something with water. Once that's all done you set a cup of salt water next to the hiding place for the doll, and then you name it"

"Why do we need to name the doll?! Doesn't that just make it more creepy then? I'm confused why you're telling us this in the first place. You're not thinking of having us play this shit right?" I asked. I specifically said "us" because now Aradia, Vriska and Sollux were listening in too.

"Of course we are doing this! It's going to be fun Karkat trust me. Don't be such a sour-puss" she said sticking out her tongue and snickering. "We need to name it so that the spirit is stronger, if you really wanted to know" By this time I was thoroughly creeped out by this, and wanted nothing to do with it. Supernatural stuff is just not my thing at all, but once she had her mind set on something there was no escaping it. I liked that about her. Her enthusiasm. But anyways, so she continued and Tavros began to listen in too.

"Now once we prepare the doll, we'll have to fill up the bathtub or whatever we are using. A bathtub is probably best, but as long as its a body of water bigger than the cup it should be fine. After that's done, that's when we set out the cup of salt water. Now comes for the fun part" she said sneering. I groaned and it seemed that Terezi's story had gotten even the four juniors attention. Nearly everybody at our table was listening in now, it'd be hard to try and escape now. "Then it'll finally be time to name the doll. I was thinking of naming it Terezi, but maybe I'll name it Karkitty.." she said snickering with my friend Nepeta who was sitting beside her.

"Alright alright, just get to it already will you" I said sighing, I just wanted to get the crappy sounding game over with. "Well I'll tell you the rest later" she said with a sly smile. That was it, that was her hook to try and get everybody in on it. "I don't want to ruin the game! It's much more fun when you say the rules right before playing, it makes it seem a little more intense."

"What, how the flying-fuck does it make it more exciting that way? You're just trying to reel people in!" I said a little too loudly. Our table was starting to get a few weird looks from people, that's probably expected when the whole group is huddling around one person though.

"Trust me Karkat, it'll be much more exciting this way. Justice knows all!" she said smiling. She was excited about going to college next year, she was going to study criminal justice at a top notch school. I hardly had anything planned, I was just going to go to some crappy community college while almost all my friends were going to these great high-end universities. It made me feel a lot more insignificant, they had such great dreams and aspirations. I'd never say it out loud, but I was jealous. I don't know why it had to turn out this way. I never wanted this to happen, how could this happen to such good people.. so much better then me… why am I still….. it should be them here, not me. That's not what my psychiatrist says, but I know its true.. Everybody knows its true.. they didn't deserve it… it should've been me...

Sorry I just went off for a minute there. He told me that it'd probably be emotional, well I guess he was right. I hate writing this, but I guess I'll continue..

So the bell rang and the cluster-fuck of people surrounding Terezi went to their separate classes. The day ended and the rest of the week went by fast. Somewhere in between the days everybody had decided on going over to her house on Friday to try this "game". I, of course, was pressured into coming too. I dressed up a little before going though. I mean I knew she liked someone else.. but still. It never hurts to look sharp at a beautiful girls house.

Well I drove myself over to her place after picking up John. He was one of the junior kids and even though he was 16 he didn't have a license. He was actually a really cool guy, of course I never told him that though. Or acted in any way that showed it. I was honestly embarrassed around him sometimes, which I thought was dumb so I'd get falsely angry around him a lot. He was a year younger then me but he'd just say things sometimes that'd get me flustered. Not like a bad type of flustered though, like the type you get when a cute girl calls you adorable. He had a crush on a senior girl though, and I wasn't ready to move on from Terezi. But still, he was really one fine piece of ass.

Okay sorry oh my fucking god I can't believe I just wrote that HAHAHA ignore that.

Anyways so we got over to Terezi's house and we both went in. Apparently we were the last ones to show up, even though we were only 14 minutes late. About half the people there were just sitting in the living room and watching tv. The rest were just chatting or doing whatever in other rooms. At first it almost seemed more like a casual party then a gathering for some weird demonic game. I didn't realize how peaceful that moment was until later. Just standing there and watching everybody have a good time seemed like nothing at the moment, but later it'd like heaven. I would want nothing other then to go back. We should have just kept it like that...