i don't like this chapter a lot but it has Kanaya so i cant really complain that much. I know its kinda slow right now but soMETHIng happens soon and shit. will. go. down.
(Karkats pov)
Screaming you roll off the bed, the sound of a too loud police siren drowns you out. Castor stretched and slaps his phone on the bedside table and the siren stops. From your place on the floor you see Castor shove Pollux off the bed and on to you.
"Get the fuck off of me" you grumble shoving him off and standing
"Thorry KK you know how hard it ith for uth to wake up" Castor says getting off the bed and walking over to his closet.
"Why the hell did you even have an alarm on?" you ask confused as you poke Pollux with your toe.
Castor turns to you with his shirt half off with a confused face. "KK ith monday"
Holy shit its monday? When did this happen? You look confused then Pollux groans and rolls over. You poke him again and he stands. Castor throws a shirt at you and you rip off the one you have on
"What time is it?" you ask putting on the black shirt with the yellow crab. Castor's already fully dressed and heading to the bathroom. "About thick ith" he calls over hes shoulder. You slightly remember your phone in your pocket and pull it out, 6:12.
Pollux pushes past you and to the closet and grabs a grey shirt with a deep red Gemini symbol and black skinny jeans. The exact same thing Castor was wearing. God these boys loved to confuse people.
Castor walks back in with his teeth brushed and hair halfway decent and sends Pollux to do the same. You follow Castor down the stares and into the kitchen for, guess what, honey comb cereal. They have this weird thing with honey and it kinda rubbed off on you. He pours you and both him and Pollux a bowl.
You sit up on the counter when Pollux comes back in, teeth brushed and hair slightly better than Castor's. They both seem realize this and Pollux grabs a nearby comb and brushes Castor's hair while the other eats. He turns to you and holds up the brush and you set your bowl down and grab it. You halfheartedly brushed your hair then finish your cereal.
"You guyth ready?" Castor asks grabbing their book-bags. You remember leaving yours at school and nod your head, tieing your sneakers. They were plain black but the twins had gotten bored one day and doodled all over them so the right was almost pure blue an the left red.
Walking out the door Pollux takes the lead and walks backwards and you all strike up pointless conversation about what the fuck today's test is about and Pollux can walk like that without falling on his ass.
You meet up with your usual group by the tree on the right of the front doors. Already under the tall oak was a few of your friends. Gamzee was talking to Tavros, Nepeta was in the tree, and Kanaya was sitting on the bench by the trunk.
Gamzee was a friend you met in about 6th grade. He's always been really nice and level headed. When he takes his medicine that is. One time while you were over at his house he woke up and didn't take it and by noon he had chased you with safety scissors and trashed the house. It had took 3 different sessions of shushing him before his dad finally got home. You think he doesn't remember, or he chooses not to talk about it.
Tavros was his best friend, a paraplegic. He got a very bad concussion in the accident that broke his legs and gave him a studder. He 'fell' off of the big cliff in the park a few blocks from your house. But your almost 76% sure Vriska pushed him when he was playing that stupid game for girls.
Nepeta was a girl you've known since kindergarten. She's always had this odd fixation with cats. And gymnastics. You kind of know she has a huge crush on you. And you do like her. But you just feel that you like her more of a friend than a girlfriend. Shes a girly girl and even has tea parties at fucking 17, but she can be scary when she wants. She's been known to throw a tomahawk almost 20 feet and hit the red on the target. And just because she's short doesn't mean she can't round house kick you in the face.
And Kanaya is like your best friend other than the twins. You can always talk to her and she always talks to you, and over the years, her, Pollux, and Castor sometimes even have sass offs. She has a big hand in fashion and made the sweater with the red Cancer. Hell she was the one who introduced you into the group when she found you crying behind the swing set after a beat down from the other kids about your height and eyes.
Just as you walk up and say your hellos the bell rings and Nepeta almost kicks you in the face while back flipping out of the tree. Pollux laughs and you kick him. Hard. Kanaya has first period (the only one you don't have with the twins. Its a computer class so they don' t really need it) with you and you walk with her after saying the goodbyes to the group.
"So how have you been?" She asks looping her arm around you, like you were escorting her or some shit.
"Other than almost being kicked in the face by Nep im good" you say and she raises a eyebrow.
"You spent the night" Its a statement, not a question.
"Indeed I did" You say opening the front doors for her before looping your arms again.
"You know I still don't get why they give me a weird feeling" She says picking up her long red skirt to climb the stairs.
"Well they're strange alright" You say turning to face her in front of the door to the class room.
Shes wearing a long red skirt with a complicated pattern of one side horizontal lines and the other vertical, but every other vertical line is missing to make her right stocking covered leg visible. Black heels and a black shirt with some kind of symbol you dont recognize on it. You've always loved her taste in fashion, good but not flashy.
You groan and open the door, letting her in first then finding seats next to each other. All through class you barely listened and thought about how Kanaya always knows things about people. Like how the twins are different or that Gamzee's a little off his rocker. You wonder if she has powers like the twins but soon dismissed that thought. She would tell you. Maybe its just something she can do, like a mother instinct or something.
The class ends and you pack up and bid Kanaya a farewell before heading to history and your seat in between the twins. The next class of Math go by with you not paying much attention while you sit at the table, of course, between the twins. Nepeta and Gamzee are also in the class and sit in front of you and Pollux with Tavros in front of Castor.
Your last class had almost your entire group in it, it was Gym. The day went by with the usual name calling and shoved into lockers when you somehow lost the twins. You will never understand why people hate you but fuck them, you have a lot of friends.
After your last class you agree to walk to Kanaya's house for her to take measurements for another sweater or some crap like that. You both strike up random conversation about colors and fabrics until you get to her house. About three blocks in the opposite way of yours and the twins house. When you walk in the door the smell of fresh cookies slaps you in the face and you give a look of begging to Kanaya, who rolls her eyes and nods then heads to the studio room. You grad a handful from the kitchen and follow her.
Her entire family is strongly dedicated to fashion so it doesn't surprise you that they have the biggest bedroom as the studio. You walk in and set the cookies down by the platform in the corner of the room.
"Karkat would you sta-"
"I know the drill Kanaya" you cut her off and step onto the platform with your arms open.
She walks over with the measuring tape and starts to work, occasionally handing you a cookie from the stack. Your phone buzzes from across the room and she walks over to it.
"Its your father" She says raising an eyebrow.
"He wants to know where I am, just say 'At Kanaya's'" You say as she reply's the text for you.
A few hours later you can't move with all the pens shes stuck in the cloth that is the unfinished sweater. She made you take off your shirt so it wouldn't get in the way, so the needles poked you. She stops and looks at her watch.
"Karkat what time do you need to get home?" she asks sticking you with another needle
"It doesn't really matter" you mumble. You ran out of cookies about 10 minutes ago and you're getting tired of standing.
"So how are the boys?" She asks moving behind you.
"Who? The twins?" You raise a eyebrow
"Yes" she says pulling down the sweater which makes about 5 needles scrape you at once.
"Why do you as- HOLY DICKS IN A DEMON, KANAYA THAT HURT" She giggles. Wow.
"Sorry dear, just trying to make conversation."
Many jabs of a needle and one long wrestle to get the whole thing off without drawing blood. (that failed your bleeding in about seven places) You're sitting in a chair shirtless while Porrum, Kanaya's older sister, is tending to your cuts as Kanaya starts the actual sewing.
"Its almost dinner time, Karkat would you like to stay?" Porrum asks you as she drowns one of the deeper scrapes with rubbing alcohol.
"Um, nah it's cool. I need to get home" you say grimacing at the sting.
After a few band-aids you had your shirt back on and was ready to leave. You slip on your shoes as Kanaya tucks one of her light brown stray hairs behind her ear. She pulls you into a hug, and you hug her back. She looks at you with those deep green eyes like she has a question.
"Spill it"
"Are you sleeping with Castor, or Pollux, or even both?"
You stare at her dumbfounded. Holy shit where did she get that idea?
"WHAT? N-NO WAY" you practically scream at her. She tilts her head.
"Karkat I won't judge you" She looks honest and all you can do is not to bolt out the door and head straight home.
"Kanaya I would tell you if we were, um, sleeping together. We're not." She seems to believe you.
She kisses your forehead and gives you one more hug. As you walk out the door you yell your goodbyes to the rest of her family. Pulling out your headphones for the walk back you wonder why she asked that. Did it look like you guys were dating?
Some song you cant name off the top of your head starts playing and you walk in beat lost in thought. You pass the twin's house and they're sitting on the front porch. Pulling out your headphones you stop and face them.
"What the fish dicks are you guys doing?" you ask. They looked like they were playing tag sitting down, just poking each other. God they're weird.
"Nothing KK, how was Kanaya's?" Pollux asks and you walk up to the porch.
"Oh my god she poked me with so many needles" you groan as they both laugh. You sit on the step in front of them.
"How were the cookieth?" Castor asks.
"How the fuck did you know I had cookies?" You spat. Wait did they ease drop?
"KK come on you know you love you thome Porrum cookieth" Pollux pokes you. Holy shit they ease dropped on your session with Kanaya, did that mean they herd the whole 'im not poly with the twins' thing?
"Yeth we herd your stunning 'im not gay' thpeech to Kan" Oh my god. You felt your face get hot. Luckily at that moment your phone gos off and its your dad, asking if you were coming home for dinner or not.
"One, fuck you guys. And two, I need to go home so see you dick bits later" You sneer. Holy crap it's getting dark. They both snicker as you stand and walk away replacing your headphones. You guess you forgot to turn off the music as a new song is playing now.