"N-Nepeta STOP!" Tavros whines, she is running around him chasing a blue tail she had found and attached to her pants.

"I can't help it! Its following ME!" she shouts happily. "If I could just- Umpf!" She tripped and landed straight on her face.

"Whoa little ninja, you all right mother fucker?" Both Nepeta and Tavros look up at the new voice and see a teen about their age, Nepeta scurries over next to Tavros and hides her face in embarrassment. "Hey, you don't gotta all up and hide, just wanna know if you're all fucking good." The new voices says, he curses a lot but he seems actually concerned.

"I'm fine." Nepeta squeaks out. "I just fell."

"Well thats motherfucking miraculous!" He shouts. Tavros can't stop staring at him though, he feel as though he has seen him before, but not around here.

Tavros gathers his courage, "Wh- Who, uh are you?" he manages.

"Fuck I'm sorry, motherfucking Gamzee is the name, Gamzee Makara." he says with a huge grin. "Who might you all up and be?"

Tavros could feel the color drain from his face, this was Gamzee Makara, an elite in the neighborhood, he lives in Alternia Hill with all the other socialites. Tavros had only seen Gamzee when he was leaving for parties and what not which is why he didn't recognize him, he had only seen him while Gamzee was dressed up. Now he wore what appeared to be pajamas, spotted gray pants and a black tee, he was tall and his hair was a wreck yet it looked intentional and slightly cared after in this manner. Tavros couldn't stop staring at his eyes though, they were purple, he had never seen him up close, usually Tavros was scavenging when he saw him. Quickly Tavros realized that he was just staring at him in silence, "I-I'm, uh Tavros, Tavros, uh Nitram. This is, uh Nepeta, Nepeta Leijon" damn his stutter.

"Well Tavbro make sure this little kitty doesn't all up and fuck herself up, alright motherfucker?" Gamzee said with his ridiculous grin, Tavros liked his smile, it showed most of his pearly white teeth.

Tavros felt like he couldn't breathe, his mind was completely scrambled. He was actually talking to one of the richest people in his neighborhood. "Uh, y-yea alright." he didn't know what to say.

"Thank you!" Nepeta shouted as Gamzee walked away. All they saw from him was a thumbs up.

Nepeta and Tavros stared at each other for a minute and then ran, almost at the same time, to their sleeping area. Neither of them could understand what just happened. Tavros couldn't believe that he had just had a ,albeit short, conversation with someone of such a high class. Nepeta couldn't believe that Tavros actually talked to that stranger, and then she was even more bewildered when Gamzee had introduced himself that Tavros lost all color in his face. She couldn't wait to write this in her journal. Tavros just wanted to get away from where other people might show up.

"N-Nepeta, do you, uh know who that w-was?" Tavros coughed out when they reached their 'home'.

"No, but you certainly do!" she said with a smile, "Tell me, who is he?" she was intersted.

"Th-That was Gamzee Makara, of the, uh Makara family, THEY'RE ONE OF THE RICHEST FAMILIES HERE!" he shouted as the realization finally sunk completely into him. "And we, uh, we just talked to him like, like we w-were on the s-same level!" Tavros was still processing that fact thathe had actually talked to a Makara, like an average person. "Th-The Makara family is, uh insanely rich cuz they, uh make and s-sell this drink called Faygo. Th-they are the third, uh richest families in-in this WHOLE area." He thought his head would explode. Normally those in higher classes don't talk to people in lower classes, it wasn't a rule or anything, its just how it happened.

"Calm down Tav!" she purred to him, she had a way of calming Tavros down when he got too excited. "Maybe he's just a nicer one of those 'elites' as you put them." Where Nepeta came from there wasn't much in difference of social classes, everyone was middle class. Now of course since she was homeless she would probably have to start acting like it. She decided to change the subject a little, "Who are the other two families?"

"W-well theres the Peixes and the, uh Amporas. B-both of them are, uh in the f-fish market. Th-the Peixes familiy sells, uh edible fish and the A-Ampora family deals w-with the, uh aquarium type fish."

Tavros had to remember which was which, the only reason the Piexes family was richer than the Amporas was because almost everybody buys fish to eat in large quantities, and less people buy aquarium type fish. "The P-Peixes are the, uh richest, th-the Amporas ar-are second, and uh the Makaras are third. Th-Theres only uh, four families in Alternia H-Hill, Peixes, Ampora, Makara, and uh Zahhak. All in th-that order too."

"Well who are the Zahhaks?" Nepeta was no longer trying to just change the subject, she has become interested in this whole social class thing.

"Th-they sell horses, and uh own the r-race track." He said blandly, he wasn't as interested in the Zahhaks, he didn't care for horses.

"Ok, well where do those that are in lower classes live?" she urged him to tell her more, she was hurriedly writing in her notebook now about each family.

"A-all of them live, uh on Skaia Ln." he stated as though he were becoming bored. Nepeta knew he didn't like talking much because of his stutter but she needed to know this.

"Well, what about their families? Are any of them doing anything like the ones in Alternia?" She pressed him.

"Th-the only family that h-has a, uh family profession would b-be the, uh Pyrope family, they deal in, uh criminal affairs, but they, uh they're on the, uh good side. Besides that th-there is the Serkets, they uh say that family is, uh set for a w-while c-cuz their ancestors were, uh pirates, between me and uh you I think th-that their money is uh running out, uh which is why th-they don't live in Alternia anymore."

Nepeta could tell he was getting really bored now, and tired his usually bright brown/gold eyes were darkening. "Alright, I'm done asking questions for now, you're free." she giggled. Tavros looked relieved that she finally stopped questioning him, he didn't know if he could have kept going.

Nepeta and Tavros curled up to go to sleep but something kept Tavros up, he felt like he needed to be awake.