Waking up you stretch your arms above your head before collapsing them beside you. You didn't want to get out of bed yet. You don't want to move. You don't want to get up and go to that stupid coffee shop. Turning over you look at the wall beside you. Blank. Colorless. Well you shouldn't say colorless it's the same color as it was when you moved in. Yellow. You're not sure why it's yellow but, it's been yellow as long as you can remember.

"I'm not gay," you tell it. You look straight at it and furrow your eyebrows at it.

"I'm not gay"

You're not sure what you expected out of a wall, but it sure as hell isn't answering you. You burrow yourself underneath the covers again until your snooze alarm goes off. Fuck. You really didn't want to get up. You cover your head more hoping that the alarm would stop soon. You question slightly whether or not you can call in but decide against it. You can't just call in every day you have a low day. You'd be calling in every other fucking day.

You swing your feet over the edge of your bed and cup your face in your hands, "I'm not gay," you groan out.

You have no issue with the gay community and fuck some of your friends are gay but you've been attracted to women your entire life and, changing that...feeling different is not something you want to go through. You have enough emotional ups and downs without adding the confusion to your sexuality to it as well. The last time you questioned something like this you had so many panic attacks you almost lost your job from your sheer inability to get out of bed. Only that had been over whether or not you should actually going to college. Big decisions and bipolar disorder with anxiety on the side just do not mix. So if you had to keep telling yourself a lie on repeat to convince yourself and get the feelings to move on then you were going to fucking do it. Standing you stretch and pop your back before heading to the bathroom

In there you brush your teeth and groan at your hair. Opening the sink mirror you grab a maintenance medication you've long forgotten the name of. You pop the long white pill into your mouth and swallow it dry. Not the best decision on your part you quickly decide before scrambling for a drink of water as it is now lodged in your throat, you fucking idiot. Coughing and calming down you look into the mirror once more. Your eyes are sunk in from the restlessness of last night. Your hair is standing everywhere in the back but managing to stay completely fucking normal in the front, and if that wasn't enough you can see yourself breaking out on your chin. You're almost 23 what are you doing having breaks out

Muttering about your stupidity you quickly get dressed and head out the door. You can find people interesting and you can want to be their friend without wanting to jump on their dick can't you? You mentally cringe at the image of you actually jumping on Eridans dick. Oh defiantly not.


Opening the door you groan. Great looks like Kanaya took a shift off and now Vriskas working today. Which means you'll be doubling the apologies you do considering she never fixes anyones coffee right. On fucking purpose too. She doesn't give a shit when Kanaya works with her but when you show up she mysteriously forgets everything in her training just to make your life hard.

"Heeeeeeeey tholluth" she sneers mocking your lisp.

"Fuck off Vrithka," you glare as you walk past her.

Behind her you can hear her snickering. You can already tell today is going to be a long fucking day.

Looking up you hear the door ring and see the same small red head enter the shop as the day before. You don't bother smiling as you know she can't see you. Today she looks slightly different. Same red glasses only paired with a form fitting pair of red jeans and a black tank top and, what seems to be a lace blouse over it. She must be going somewhere important you decide.

"Hello how may I help you?" You ask trying to sound cheerful

"Can I have a black coffee with a warmed bagel?"

"thure (sure) that'll be… theven dollarth and fourty three thenth (cents)," You inform her punching it into the cash register.

"What was that? Sorry I guess my hearings a bit off today hehe" she says snickering. You know it's the lisp. You can't help it but it's always the lisp.

"I thai- said that'll be theven dollars and fourty three c-cents" You say fighting it. It's always hard to force your tongue into the frontal part of your mouth when you pronounce your lisp letters.

"One more time dear? I don't think I caught that." She says frown on her face.

You're about to fight your lisp again and possibly have a breakdown about your fucking inability to speak when you guess Vriskas had enough of you, and pushes you out of the way.

"What s-stuttering s-tumbling lithp boy thollux here is /trying/ to say is that'll be seven forty three" She mocks looking at you with a fake sympathetic face on her. Like she actually gives a shit.

You're about to push her away and accept the money and put her on coffee duty when you see Terezi pull a face of disgust.

"I would of gone to Starbucks if I knew you were working today Vriska." She sneers at her slapping the money on the counter.

"Oh so I suppose you're in the mood for sibling spit, for an extra dollar then hm?" Vriska spits back, "you know what? You're a regular, conssssssssider it on the house." She adds smiling at herself.

"Oh it wouldn't be a black coffee without the spit of someone whose heart is the same, bitch" Terezi throws back scrunching her face up in disgust.

You look at the two, completely out of your mind, and when it hits you that Vriskas not moving to make her coffee you realize you might be in the beginnings of a sibling cat fight if you don't fix something. Walking behind Vriska you grab a bagel and a cookie in the pastry cabinet and start the bagel in the toaster. You grab a large cup from next to Vriska and fill it to the brim with hot black coffee before putting a lid on it. You're moving too fast though and manage to spill some on the counter. Grabbing the bagel and the cookie you hip check Vriska out of the way and hand the order to Terezi.

"Thorry about that. Hereth one black coffee, a bagel, and a cookie on the house. Thorry about our rude customer athothiate (associate), and we hope to see you soon." You add. You had better fix it up because the last thing you needed was a complaint to your boss that might get you fired for not helping the blind chick.

"Thank you." She says and with that she walks out her order and an extra cookie in hand. You can't get Vriska in trouble, you can only pick up after her.

Turning around you look at her, "Do you want to get uth both fired?! I don't know about you but I need thith job so back the fuck up if you think you're going to get me fired, because I will fight you every fucking inth of the way." You shoot out, glaring at her.

She doesn't give you the decency to respond. Instead she rolls her eyes and begins to clean up the mess you made all over the coffee pot trying to hurry up Terezi's order. Today was going to definitely be a long day.


Staring at the clock behind the counter you sigh heavily. It had been slow all day. Vriska had pretty much left you alone , besides fucking with the orders which only made her redo them and have you suffer through your lisp twice as much. You guessed your message got through and her and her sister was a one time thing.

You look back up at the clock again and before you can sigh you force yourself to turn around. It was about 20 minutes until your shift ended and Eridan hadn't been in to see you once all day. Since you had given him your number about a week ago you'd only texted back and forth that one time but he'd been in every day since then. It was kind of weird and you weren't sure what it meant.

The few days he first hadn't texted you, you figured he was trying to give you space. But then the third and fourth day he didn't text you but showed up to The Coffee Shop, you thought something was fishy. You ended up asking Kanaya if he had really called you cute considering that was the tipping point of you actually becoming friends with him.

She then proceeded to tell you that he didn't call you cute, but she could see it in his eyes. Which caused you in turn to almost break through the wall with how hard you slammed your head into it. You felt dumb enough that you gave him your number and he never texted you but now he wasn't showing up to see you at work? You almost felt betrayed that he would go through all that effort to get your number and then just give up.

Frowning you pull our your phone for some investigative skills on your part.

not 2howiing up today?

I'm running a bit late. Wwanna do something after wwork? ~Eridan

Well that defiantly disproved the "He didn't like you" theory. Or maybe proved it more? Maybe he just didn't like using his phone.

2ure meet here? My 2hiift end2 iin 20

On my wway ~Eridan

You close your phone and cram it in your pocket. You wonder what he even does for a living. He comes in looking like a movie star from Hollywood practically every day so it must be something for a big company. You don't know of any Wal-Mart that pays you enough to get one item he has much less the entire outfit.


Hearing the door ring open you look up and see Eridan smiling at you. You're about to take off your apron and sign out when it registers that he might want a coffee.

"Want a coffee?" you offer reaching for a large cup and the sharpie.

"Sure I'll hav-ave a… double shot latte extra wh-whiip extra hot in a…large"

Rolling your eyes you write it down and begin making it yourself earning several snerks from Vriska. On about the 5th one you roll your eyes and acknowledge her.

"What Vrithka?" You question

"Meeeeeeee? Oh nothingggggggg I just think its cute how you're making a coffee for your boyfriend." She says snickering again.

In shock you practically drop the beginnings of it and manage to get half of it on your apron though you can feel it soaking through your shirt. So this is how she was going to play. You make one fucking remark about her behavior, and she starts making you out to be gay. You should of just met Eridan outside and gotten a coffee down the road.

"We are not boyfriends. I just don't want you to fuck it up like you do everyone elses. I'm trying to get off my shift." You say throwing the cup away and starting new. You can change when you get home.

"Whatever fag" She expresses flipping her hair over her shoulder.

You suppose you're fine for now but you're still a bit shaken up from already being accused of being gay just by being around Eridan. Maybe you shouldn't hang out after work if it's already drawing this type of negative attention. It'd be better if you two texted. You finish up his latté and turn around. You set it down and look up at him but pause. He looks...really hurt. You try to convince yourself that it's not the homophobic slur that was literally just thrown at you in front of your face but you know it is. You're not sure how to comfort him considering you've never really dealt with something like this before. On top of that you're not really the comforting type. Instead you nudge your head at Vriska and make the crazy sign with your free hand.

That seems to do it be cause he grins at you, pays you, and takes the latte out of your hands. You take off your apron and slip out the door. It's muggy outside and the clouds cover the sun. It's chilly cold and slightly wet. Pretty disgusting day to go hang out but whatever. You're about 5 steps away when you hear Vriska call from out the door.

"Later fags!" she yells at you.

You're about to keep walking and just ignore her till it registers that Eridan is not walking with you. You turn to find him walking back in the shop. Fuck. You call after him and run towards him just to have him speed up. Fuck you do not need this right now. You can get fired from her. Not because she's higher up, but because she knows the guy who runs the place. Kanaya got you hired but Vriska can get you fired.

You catch up to him just as he's about to run into the building.

"Eridan thop" you exclaim grabbing a hold of his arm.

"WH-what? WH-why are you going to just take that from her? She's a bitch." He growls down at you in confusion

"Yeah but theth (she's) altho my coworker and the (she) could of done worthe" you whisper looking at him. "Pluth it'd be a really dick move on your part to get me fired becausthe you got pithed at a thur" you add.

"Me? I'm not pissed. You say you're not gay so she has no right harassing you like that." He says concern laced into his voice. He places both hands on your shoulders as he says it.

You drop your head now avoiding eye contact. Why would he of done that. I mean yeah they chatted occasionally while he worked but that was really about it. There was no outside communication. But yet he felt the need to stick up for him in such a vibrant manor. Maybe he did like you after all. Not that it mattered, but still.

"Oh..." you murmur, "Well I don't want to get fired so come on where are we going?" you grumble out grabbing his arm and dragging him away from The Coffee Shop.

He breaks into a smile and goes along with you. He doesn't take his arm out of your grip but simply leads you with it. You're not sure why you didn't let go though.

"I thought you'd like to come over to my place for some videogames. Didn't you say you liked minecraft once or twice?" he explained.

Sure you loved playing minecraft but you were kinda weirded out going to his house. You weren't sure where he lived or if he was safe he was practically a stranger still. You figured you'd go and if anything sketchy happens you can always bail and refuse service or something.

"Uh yeah thore. Jutht let me get out of my work clotheth. They're covered in half mixed coffee." You finish looking down at yourself. You truly did look like a wreck.

Nodding you two head to your place.


Eridans apartment was huge. You weren't sure what he did you just knew you wanted to get involved as soon as possible. He owned a penthouse suit. OWNED IT. He bought it off the company owner and they couldn't throw him out no matter what happened. You weren't even sure if that was legal. But none the less he explained it a bit on the elevator ride up, but now you were in it, and you couldn't believe your eyes.

It was 10xs larger than your apartment by far and you secretly are happy that you didn't let him come inside considering it's barely got essentials much less decorated and half of it's a mess. But Eridan had curtains, leather couches, even fucking toilet cozies. Who buys toilet cozies? And what was he doing in a run down city like this. They were in Kansas City for gods' sake. He could be in New York if he wanted to but he decided to settle here. You are tempted to ask but in fear that it might be a family thing you decide otherwise.

You let him lead you into a room that looks pretty decked out to be honest. He's got a computer with multi screens on one side. A portrait of a weird dude in armor on another side along with a huge bookshelf. He goes over to the massive computer and fires up two different CPU's oh so you guess he's got two computers then. While he's setting everything up you find yourself walking over to the bookshelf and glancing over it.

Air Pollution IV
Earth Under Siege: Water Pollution
The Chemistry of Pollution
How to Save the Earth in Under 40 Days
Stalin's Secret War
Mein Kampf
Hitler's Table Talk
Histories Greatest Dictators
Where Dictators Went Wrong IV
Pollution and You

You slowly back away from the book case. This dude had a bit of weird reading tastes, but you've seen weirder you guess. You turn around and see Eridan bent at the waist typing on one of the keyboards. You walk over and scoot between him and the chair you're attempting to sit in but manage to rub your crotch right over his ass in the process. He probably didn't notice you try to convince yourself. Even then you find yourself turning slightly redder after the fact.

"You ready?" you question while clicking on the familiar minecraft symbol.

With a nod he sits down next to you and begins to sign in.


"Did you theriouthly just come and theal my diamond...theriouthly?" You ask anger rising in your voice. You look over and find him snickering into his microphone.

Karkats on the other end along with one of his friends named Tavros. You all had been trying to create a full body diamond armor with diamond weapons and whoever finished first would win. But that fucking prick had nabbed you right before you finished your helmet.

"YOU DON'T EVEN NEED A FUCKING HELMET YOU FUCKING DICK" you scream in frustration lacing your hands through your hair. He looks over at you continuing to snicker.

"Hey you look kinda cute wh-when you're pissed maybe I should do it more often" He adds practically begging for you to punch him.

It's pretty much your snapping point considering you've never been able to fucking control your anger. You take off your headset and slam it against the table and lunge at him. You're going to rip him to shreds. You pull him out of his chair and he falls to the ground not expecting you to actually get violent with him. You throw him on the ground and he obviously thinks you're joking because the next thing you know you're being pulled down with him.

You scream as you fall on top of him with a thud and then proceed to try to fucking pin him. He probably works out, because he manages to pin you in less than 30 seconds. Fuck. You close your eyes and breathe in and out attempting to calm yourself down. You weren't usually violent at home. You just got pissed and quit playing. But he was right here. You couldn't just not do something.

"I hate you tho much" you breath before opening your eyes.

He's looking down at you with a bit more intensity than you'd realized. You look back into his eyes. They're the same shade of purple they've always been but they always seem to capture your attention. They have flicks of blue in them and you are now 100 percent sure they are not contacts and you really need to ask him what the fuck is up with his eyes one day. They dart around as you can only guess that he's looking at your face as well.

You feel him unpin you but you don't think you want to fight anymore. You let your hands relax at your sides and look at his face. He's got a small mole on his left ear and his nose has got a slight scar on the edge of it. His eyebrows are thick like caterpillars and you suddenly feel really gay making metaphors about some dudes eyebrows. But while you were being observant he must have thought there was the mood in the air because the next thing you know he gets on his elbows and his face gets a lot closer to yours. You feel very uncomfortable all of a sudden. You're not gay. You're not gay. You're not gay.

"Eridan I can't kith (kiss) you" you breath out in a desperate plea that he'll understand and get off.

He presses his forehead to yours and you suddenly want to kiss him now that you've told him no but you know you can't. His head is angled so your noses touch on their sides. You want to kiss him badly it would be so easy to just connect your lips and wrap your arms around him. But you're too busy mentally beating yourself up with every insult Vriska has ever called you 10x. He nods against your skin and breathes out. His breath smells like the peppermint gum he popped in half an hour ago and your jeans become tighter as he presses his ass against you to lean up. You want to push up against him and let yourself give in. You want to pull him back down and shove your tongue in his throat. But you're not gay. On top of that you're 60 percent convinced that by him thinking there was a mood, he then created a mood to match the one in his head. And his dumb made up mood messed with your head. Leaning back he presses harder against your crotch and you choke back a whimper as he gets up. Now you're sure he's doing it on fucking purpose. He walks back over to the computer and puts back on the headset.

"Yeah sorry guys Captor totally beat my ass for stealing his diamond like the fucking dick he is." He lies into the microphone looking at you smiling.

You rest your hands on your forehead and cover your eyes. What the fuck just happened.


A/N:

Okay so yeah side notes:

1. Vriska is a total bitch because i hate her with a burning passion and though I know she's a very very important character I needed an antagonist and so she gets to be the bitchy homophobe

2. Sollux is pretty much going to fight this the whole way guys strap in

3. I'm sorry i didn't make them kiss I really wanted too butttt..?!:LKDFJS

4. I'm like 65% sure some of those are actual book titles.

5. I hate reformating 3 different times for 3 seperate websites oh my fucking god.

6. ~~*Re-edited*~~