It was a rainy October afternoon in 6th grade. It was just after our teacher left us for an indoor recess and all 13 of us were already bored out of our minds and we would much rather have been playing in the rain. Instead we were trapped in the world's smallest class room with nothing to do. Even Gamzee looked bored and he's usually off in his own world. Suddenly he whispered something into Karkat's ear with made him go bright pink and scream 'Heck no Gamzee!' Which Gamzee replied "Dude it was the one time you thought of something fun to do other then watch rom coms and fail at hacking". Karkat looked insulted but gave in and pulled out a piece of paper and split it into four sections writing four words over each part with a symbol under each. Matesprit with a heart under it, Morail with a diamond under it, Kismesis with a spade, and Auspistice with a club. By now we had all swarmed around him even though we had no idea what was going on. He looked up at us and rolled his eyes and shoved the paper into Gamzee's hand and said "I'll tell them you fill it out." Gamzee was obviously not happy with this so he gave the paper to Karkat, pulled his chair out and picked Karkat up. "PUT ME DOWN!" he cried, flipping out while the rest of us were laughing like idiots. Gamzee was a nearly a foot taller than we were and a foot and half taller than Karkat. He walked over to a corner while Karkat mumbled about how embarrassing this was while Gamzee said "heck no bro, it's cool." He put Karkat down in the corner and said "Write, bro." and walked back over to us. Then he explained what the heck was going on.

Quadrants was a game where everyone has a piece of paper with a drawing like Karkat's on it. Then someone asked you to either fill it out and show it to them or do a dare (The dare couldn't be quadrant related). The Matesprit stood for basically your crush/boyfriend/girlfriend, Morail for your best friend, Kismesis for your enemy, and Auspistice for basically you rival and someone who is friends with both you and your rival who makes sure you guys don't kill each other. By the time Gamzee was done explaining Karkat had stormed over and handed the paper to Gamzee who glanced over it and said "same as before," to which Karkat replied "It never changed." Gamzee shrugged and said "Oh yeah, one more thing. Never tell anyone what the paper says. Ever! Or I will go to your house and pour mountains of Faygo on you."(A promise he kept when Vriska told Kanaya what Tavros put) we all laughed and started playing until recess was done. After that we always would play that with each other, at recess or at each other's houses.

"Karkat," I whispered and he stood up and gave me a hug, and I couldn't tell if it was an 'I like you more than friends' hug or a 'you have been forever friend zoned' hug. When he let go the first words out of his mouth were, "I have a lot of explaining to do."

"Heck yeah you do! What on earth are you doing here?"

Then I heard a familiar voice calling "Karkat! Where are you? I can't go anywhere without you, you idiot." And a girl stumbled into the office's lobby. She had messy short brown hair and red glasses and a cane with a dragon head on top of it."Ugh," she said, stumbling into her brother "Karkat? Is this you?" she then started poking his face "Hmm…it seems like you…" and I giggled at her, flopped over Karkat, and Karkat's face looked like he was either going to kill himself or her.

Suddenly Terezi's (that was her name) head perked up and she forgot about annoying her brother "What…is that… no, it can't be. Karkat couldn't be right…"

Karkat rolled his eyes "I can't be right? What do you me-" he was cut off by Terezi slamming her hand on his face and mumbling "Karkat, Karkat, Karkat, shut up and tell me who is standing before me,"

"Nikki. Nikki Kirk. You know…your best friend," but you could barely hear what he said over Terezi's spazzing.

"OH-MY-GOD-NIKKI-I'M-SO-SORRY-THIS-IS-ALL-KARKAT'S -FAULT-OMG-HUG!" and with that she flung herself and me and gave me a huge hug. She had dropped her cane and what looked like her schedule on the floor. I hugged her back, almost crying. I was so happy my crush and my best friends would be going to my school I didn't see how it could get any better. But it did.

"Nepeta! Karkles was right!"

Then I was knocked down by my other best friends, Nepeta Leijon tackle-pounced me from behind. Then my third best friend appeared.

"Nikki! Oh my GLUB! This is not happening! God Nepeta, did you have to knock her down?" a girl with dirty blonde hair helped me up and gave me a huge hug. She smelled like the sea. Her name was Feferi Peixes and she was the most normal and comforting of all my friends.

It was official. I must be crazy. I looked a Karkat "are all of you here?" then I remembered.

12! 12 of them! A new record!

Karkat nodded and I nearly screamed. All of them were here. From grumpy Karkat to hyper Nepeta. I had a dream this would happen but it was so insane I wrote it off as just another dream.

I admit I almost fainted.

When I finally got over the shock I met another of my old classmates.

"Hey sis. Tackle flop" and Gamzee Makara flopped on me and I stumbled back a few steps. He always did that after one of our birthday parties where he and Nepeta had to go into a closet together for 3 minutes. Nepeta always said they kinda just talked and afterwards they became great friends. While sometimes Terezi would say she thought the kissed but I could never think of Nepeta doing that; or Gamzee for that matter. Plus I'm almost 100% sure they didn't because I was right next to the door and at one point I heard Gamzee laugh and say 'I bet they think we're like, making out.'

Anyway Gamzee always claims he's too lazy to tackle pounce so he just tackle flops on to people which would be ok if he weren't so tall. But I didn't care now. I was just so happy see him.

I didn't know why I wasn't flipping out. I should be flipping out. None of this made any sense at all. But Karkat promised to explain it later, and no way was he going to get out of it.

Then I heard a voice fighting with someone behind the office desk. I walked over there, wondering who I was going to meet next. When I saw him I got super happy. We had been pretty good friends, and I admit I had a crush on him for a while, but I was over that now. I got up behind him and said "Hey Tav,"

He leaned his head back because he couldn't turn his wheelchair all the way around. "Hi Nikki. I can't believe you're here. We all thought Karkat was full of it!" I walked around to the front of Tavros and gave him a half hug because I couldn't really hug him. Tavros' older brother was arguing with Miss Lynch, the lady behind the desk. He was complaining about Tavros not being in the right classes, which was probably right. Tavros was moved up a year in first grade and was the second smartest kid in are class behind Kanaya. Miss Lynch was explaining they had lost Tavros' files so they had to put him into normal classes until they got another copy. Miss Lynch looked relieved to see me, and said hello.

"Hello Nikki. Do you need help?"

"No," I replied 'I'm just saying hi to Tavros. He went to my old school." I smiled "sorry to be eavesdropping, but I couldn't help but overhear that Tav was in normal classes. Just so you know he was one of the smartest kids in my class. Plus, I would be willing to take him to his classes, if something got messed up with that," I felt badly for overhearing so much but oh well.

Tavros' older brother nodded "I'm ok with her taking him, but not Vriska. They don't have the best relationship. If that's ok with you Tav," Tavros nodded and his brother turned back to Miss Lynch and said it was fine he was in normal classes, he was just worried about the whole Vriska thing. He then left and I took Tavros' wheelchair and pushed him down the hall. No one was in the hall because they were already in homeroom. Miss Lynch had already told my homeroom teacher I was here and was late. Luckily I had my first period class with Tavros so I didn't have to take him to a different class before hurrying to my class.

"Tavros," I asked "Why are you all here?"

"Um, Karkat promised to explain. And it, uh, would take too long for me to tell all of it now." by now we had reached the math room.

I let out a sigh, "Ready Tav? You know they're all going to stare. Just ignore them. They really aren't that bad." Whenever we went anywhere in Whitefork before we entered I would try to make Tavros more confident because wherever he went, people would stare. I guess it was part of human nature, but it made Tavros feel awkward it was just plain rude.

"Yeah… Yeah, I'm ready." He closed his eyes and then opened them and I pushed him though the door.

Suddenly everyone's eyes were on us and I blocked them out and pushed Tavros over to Mrs. Kenny.

"Hey Nikki," she said smiling. She was my favorite teacher at school and she always seemed to put people in a good mode. I could see Tavros relax a bit "You must be Tavros." She smiled again "Your seat is over there in front of Nikki's. I've been looking forward to having you in my class." Suddenly her voice dropped to a whisper "my brother was paraplegic too. It's ok," and Tavros' eyes got big. He didn't know anyone like him or anyone who knew someone like him. I pushed him to a desk in the front row without a chair and sat in my regular desk. Angel sat next to me looking confused. Before I could say anything Karkat came in, Terezi grabbing his arm.

"Kardog don't go so fast. I'm blind remember? I'm not comfortable going fast!"

"For the last time, I am NOT your seeing-eye dog!"

She shrugged "Close enough. Anywhere we're in class now right? Who's in it?"

Karkat looked fully annoyed "Tav and Nikki," he mumbled.

"You sound so annoyed. Are you embarrassed?"

"Shut UP Terezi! I am literally going to kill you, you know," he said though his teeth.

"You wouldn't hurt a poor blind girl would you?" I loved how Terezi didn't care how everyone in the whole class was staring at her. "Anyway, Nikki's in this class?"

Karkat didn't answer. Instead he turned to Mrs. Kenny and apologized for being late. She said it was fine and that there should still be two empty desks. There were and Terezi sat down next to me and Karkat sat in the back row, looking like he wanted to disappear while Terezi turned to me.

"Let me guess they're all staring at me," and with that she turned to face the class and said in her most defiant voice she could "You know it's very rude to stare at the poor blind girl. You all were probably staring at poor Tavros too. It's not very nice to look at us like that," with that she turned to me and said, "so immature."

Now Angel was staring at me with the weirdest look on her face. "Nikki what's going on?"

Before I could reply Terezi sighed and said "Karkat, give me my Braille book," and Angel's eyes went big.

"Karkat?"

I realized Karkat wasn't the only one who had a lot of explaining to do.