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Karkat kept glancing anxiously back at the taller boy, his excitement and nervousness playing havoc on him.
They'd only known each other for a little over two years, but since then they had become incredibly close friends.
Granted they hadn't actually gone to the same high school, though they didn't live all too far apart. However it was just enough distance that they'd been in separate school districts. That fact hadn't stopped them.
The internet had supplied them with plenty of resources, Pesterchum, Facebook, Skype, and e-mail. Plus both boys had gotten smart phones at some point over their high school careers. It had also been rare that they wouldn't be seen together on the weekends and during school breaks.
Karkat wasn't sure when it had started, but one day when he'd spent the night at John's apartment, the albino had caught himself dozing against the taller boy's shoulder and thinking how nice the warmth felt. He'd just dismissed it as an effect of his exhaustion, but shifted so he was leaning against the arm of an over-sized couch instead.
However that wasn't the only time he caught himself thinking about his friend in a way that wasn't were friend-like...
Like the time they'd gone swimming last year at the public pool near his house. They'd worn their swim trunks under their clothes, and when John had taken off his Ghost Buster green slime t-shirt, Karkat couldn't help but stare.
John wasn't particularly fit, and rarely ever partook in any kind of regular exercise, claiming it just wasn't something he found enjoyable. Though thanks to a couple years of summer camp and having been part of a highly ranked swim team for the previous three years, one of which was spent as captain, the boy was anything but lanky beneath the loose fabric of the well worn novelty t-shirts he always wore.
His figure was slender, but Karkat had seen the subtle way muscles flexed as John pulled off his shirt.
When John had noticed the stare he'd laughed, asking if he looked that awful shirtless.
The albino had blinked a few times, before coming back to reality and letting out an embarrassed squeak, his snowy cheeks flushing pink. He'd managed to ramble something about how Egbert should give warning before walking out, least everyone swoon and drowned. Thankfully John had found that amusing, and didn't catch that the shorter albino had been standing a bit awkwardly.
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"...at?..rkat..?..Karkat!?" John's voice pulled him out of the memory and back to reality.
"Wh..What?"
"I asked why you stopped," John said, his voice turning concerned as he added, "But you didn't answer.. Is everything okay?"
Karkat was thankful for the blindfold hiding him from John's blue eyes, that he knew would be clouded with worry.
"Yeah, just sorta got lost in a thought..." he mumbled
"Mind to share?"
The flustered albino shook his head, then remembered his friend's temporary blindness and said. "It's nothing important."
After that they'd mostly walked in nervous silence, apart from John's occasional questions of where they were going or if they were there yet.
Thanks for reading, sorry it's short.. there will be more to come for this and my other stories, as well as two requests I got from admins on my You Know You're Homestuck When facebook page, so keep a watch for my various updates... cause come the 26th, they'll be all you'll be seeing for a while, unless I can find time with my college work and lovelife.. and possibly job... so ya...
Off to work on the next story!
