The rest of the school day was a blur. I couldn't focus on anything, the only thing I could think about was the fact that I was really going to meet Gamzee. I was going to finally get to meet the guy I've only been able to see through a shitty webcam and pictures, in person. I would get to touch him, hug him, and maybe even kiss him. Maybe...
Once I got home I rushed into my room, not even greeting my brother. I had to tell Gamzee the good news as soon as possible, he'd be so thrilled. I'd hope he'd be, at least. Maybe he wouldn't be though and I was just getting way too excited. It was pretty rare for me to get so giddy about something like this but, fuck, I couldn't help it. This wasn't something I could just pretend to be chill about. I was not chill. I was fucking estatic and I was, unfortunantly, going to show it.
I quickly spotted my laptop on my bed and flipped it open, logging onto Pesterchum immediatly. Scrolling down my Chum list I found Gamzee's Chumhandle and was dissapointed to see that he was offline. Fucking great, I got all excited to share the big news only to find out that he wasn't even online. It was actually sort of weird for him to not be online for once, he was usually always online right after I got home from school because he knew that I liked talking to him whenever I got home. I frowned and just shrugged it off, I guess I would just tell him later then.
Now I had to find something to do. I still had to do my homework but... no. That could wait. I needed something better to do than that. Maybe I could watch a movie. Glancing at the shelf in my room full of my giant collection of Romantic Comedies, I sighed. Most of those movies I had already watched a thousand times, rewatching them would be just as boring as doing my homework. Basically, everything that I could think to do sounded boring.
It quickly dawned on me how dependent I was on Gamzee. I literally spent all of my time at home chatting with him on Pesterchum. I really didn't do much of anything else anymore... It was kind of pathetic, really. Actually no, it was pathetic. So pathetic.
With nothing else to do, I slumped out of my room and into the living room. Kankri was in there, as usual, but this time he was on the phone with someone. I was actually surprised that guy had friends to even call, he was such a prick. I couldn't even imagine someone holding a conversation longer than five minutes with him without getting absolutely annoyed by his trigger talk.
He hung up a few minutes later then turned his attention to me. "Karkat, I am not going to be here this weekend, I'll be staying in Las Vegas with my friends for a birthday party. I am hoping you can behave yourself while I am gone, I won't be back until Tuesday."
I rolled my eyes at him. As if I cared that he was going to leave! "Yeah, well I won't even be here this weekend, it really doesn't matter."
He raised a brow at me. "Oh? I do not think you informed me of that. Where will you be going?"
I hated the way he spoke. It was so annoyingly proper, I just wanted to throw a brick at him sometimes. Scratch that, not just sometimes. All of the time. I don't think I could possibly get a more annoying brother.
"To visit Gamzee in Sacramento."
"Gamzee? Who is that?"
"My boyfriend."
Kankri just gave me that same surprised look that everyone else had given me at lunch. Honestly, I didn't see what was so surprising about me having a boyfriend. Did I really seem that hard to date?!
"Oh. Well, please do be careful. I'm guessing, and please do excuse me if I am wrong, that he is the one you often chat with online?"
"Yeah, that guy. I'm leaving on Friday with Dave, he's gonna drive me or whatever."
"Sounds good. I'm leaving tonight, so I suppose I will see you again on Tuesday then. Have fun with your significant other!" He then got up from the couch and walked into his room, I'm guessing to start packing. I really could care less.
Since he was finally out of the living room for once, I claimed the couch and grabbed the remote, turning on the tv. Hopefully, I'd find a RomCom playing right now that I hadn't seen before. Which was hard, considering that I used to spend almost all of my time watching those movies before I met Gamzee.
I flicked through the channels until I saw 50 First Dates was on and settled for that. I know I just said that I wanted to find a movie that I hadn't seen before, but I couldn't resist this one. It was my absolute favourite and I could honestly watch it on repeat for a whole week straight without getting tired of it. It was just too great, don't judge me.
One minute I was watching Adam Sandler try to woe the woman of his dreams on tv and the next minute i was in pitch black darkness. I rubbed my eyes a bit, yawning as I did so. Apparently, I fell asleep on the couch while watching the movie, great. The tv was off so I guessed Kankri turned it off before he left.
I slowly got up, feeling groggy as fuck. What time was it even? I checked my phone and saw that it was already 9 PM, which meant I slept for about five hours or something. Gamzee had to be on now, if he wasn't I would be pissed.
Once I got back into my room I quickly went straght to my laptop like I had done before. I checked Pesterchum once again and let out a sigh of relief. That idiot was finally online.
carcinoGeneticist [CG] began pestering terminallyCapricious [TC]
CG: WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN?
CG: I HAVE LITERALLY BEEN WAITING ALL DAY FOR YOU TO GET ONLINE, SHITSPONGE.
TC: oH sHiT MoThErFuCkEr, SoRrY fOr mAkInG yOu AlL uP aNd WaIt.
TC: I hAd OnE oF mY bEsT bRoS aLl Up AnD oVeR aNd LoSt TrAcK oF tImE.
TC: :o(
CG: YEAH WELL IT'S FINE NOW, I DON'T REALLY GIVE A TWO-FACED FUCK.
CG: I HAVE GOOD NEWS TO SHARE WITH YOU.
TC: WeLl aLrIgHt tHeN, mOtHeRfUcKeR. lEt's hEaR ThE MoThErFuCkInG GoOd nEwS!
TC: :o)
I was about to type it out to him but then decided against it. I'd actually want to see his reaction, he'd probably do that huge smile again and say something like 'wow that's motherfucking great karkat i can't wait to see you' or something. Well, it probably wouldn't be worded exactly like that, but I was more than positive that it would involve the word 'motherfuck' somewhere in it because Gamzee apparently loved that word.
CG: CAN I TELL YOU THROUGH WEBCAM?
CG: FUCK.
CG: WHY AM I ASKING YOU IF I CAN?
CG: I *WILL* TELL YOU THROUGH WEBCAM WHETHER YOU WANT ME TO OR NOT.
CG: I'M GOING TO CALL NOW, FUCKFACE.
Before even giving Gamzee the chance to reply I mashed down on the call button. I was getting all excited again and fuck waiting. It took him till the fourth beep to answer, which was sort of long for him. Then again, I was sort of forcing him...
"Hey motherfucker." He said as he adjusted his camera so that I could see him. He was eating one of those pies he seemingly always baked.
"What makes you think you can just call me 'motherfucker' all of the time?! I am your goddamn boyfriend, stop calling me that!" Sometimes it just annoyed me. It felt like every single time we webcammed he had to start out calling me some stupid nickname or that word.
Gamzee just laughed at me and didn't answer. Instead he asked me about the thing I wanted to tell him. "So what were you so all up and motherfucking excited to tell me, Karbro?"
"I was gonna tell you tha-..." I cut myself off and glared at the wall behind me.
OH.
FUCK.
NO.
I could hear Dave and John through the goddamn wall. They were fucking banging eachother against the wall apparently and I could hear every single bit of it. It was like there wasn't even a wall! If I closed my eyes and thought about it enough, I could probably see them too! Fucking dumbasses!
"Why'd you stop talking, Karkles?" Gamzee just had a confused look on his face and I glared at him as well.
"You don't hear that?!"
"Hear what? All I all up and hear is your motherfucking cute self talking to me."
I rolled my eyes. Now was not the time for that.
"My fucking stupid neighbors are fucking! And I can hear them through the wall!"
Once again, he just laughed at me. I picked up the closest pillow next to me and harshly threw it at the wall. "HEY FUCKASSES. STOP HAVING OBNOXIOUSLY LOUD SEX RIGHT NEXT TO THE FUCKING WALL. IT'S DISTURBING AND I'M TRYING TO TALK TO GAMZEE!" I yelled at the top of my lungs to make sure they could hear me.
"O-Oh~! Wait Dave, Dave hold on! K-Karkat can hear u-us..." Of course I could fucking hear them, they were RIGHT ON THE FUCKING WALL.
"Let him listen then, John. My dick is in fucking Cloud 9 right now and he is not coming down yet." I swear to god if Dave wasn't the one taking me to see Gamzee this weekend I would kill him for even saying that. They started fucking the shit out of eachother again and I let out a loud groan before unplugging my laptop and hauling it into the living room. I sat on the couch and looked back on the screen and saw Gamzee laughing as if he just saw the funniest thing.
Hearing John moan Dave's name over and over again was not funny.
"Stop laughing! It's not even funny, dude!"
"Yes it motherfucking is!" He laughed a bit more before taking another bite of pie. "So now, what were you gonna all up and tell me?"
I froze for a second. Suddenly, I started feeling scared. What if he didn't even want to meet me in person? What if he thought this was taking it too far? My mind started going through tons of negative thoughts and I basically had to force myself to blurt it out.
"I-I'm gonna get to meet you, Gamzee! This weekend... My friend Dave is going to drive me up to Sacramento... so I can see you..." My voice lowered at the end and I slowly looked back at the screen, fearing the worst.
Instead of seeing Gamzee get upset about it, he did that huge smile that I had originally been hoping for and honked.
"Woah man, what?! Really? That's motherfucking bitchtits awesome!"
I smiled too, glad to see that he was excited just like I was. "Yeah, it'll be cool! I'll finally meet you..."
Gamzee gasped, hearing his phone ring, and picked it up. He typed something, I'm guessing a text, to someone then looked up at me with a frown.
"Aww, bro, I have to all up and go. Tavbro wants me to help him with something."
I may or may not have twitched a bit in annoyance. That 'Tavbro' person was always taking Gamzee away from me. It seemed like every other time he had to hang up on our calls it was because he had to go do something with him. I never hung up on Gamzee to go hang out with one of my friends, it only seemed fair that he'd do the same for me. But I guess not, apparently.
"Uh... Well, okay. Talk to you later, I guess."
Gamzee kissed the screen then waved at me. "I'll all up and talk to you tomorrow, Karkles. Love you, motherfucker!" He smiled one last time then hung up.
A sigh escaped my lips.
Now I had to decide on whether I would sleep on the couch again or risk going back in my room to hear my friends go at it again.
I was definitely going to pick the couch.