Alright, chapter 2 is finally complete! Sorry for the wait, it was a bit difficult to find writing time while also juggling school, band and work. But here it is! I hope you guys enjoy it~ This one is from Rose's POV.

Chapter 2: Dawn of the Second Day

'Dawn of the second day, 48 hours remain,' you think to yourself, smirking. Video game references aside, you quickly turn off your screaming alarm clock. You suffice a yawn before rubbing the sleep from your eyes. Drowsiness has gotten the best of you, but it's only the second day of school. You'll get used to the schedule of things soon enough.

You take a quick shower to refresh yourself and it fully awakens you. After this, you get dressed, putting on a lavender short-sleeved shirt and a black skirt. Before putting on a black headband, you make sure to blowdry your short blonde hair. You take a look at yourself in the mirror and begin to put on your purple eyeshadow, mascara, and finally, your signature black lipstick. You always make sure to wake up early enough so that you have enough time to fully ready yourself for the day without worrying about being late for school. Seeing as you have a few moments before you need to be downstairs, you take some time to make funny faces at your reflection just for the fun of it.

You eventually leave the haven that is your room, making sure to grab one of your fanfiction notebooks with you. Perhaps you'll get the chance to write about Zazzerpan's adventures during the course of the school day.

As you enter the kitchen, you can hear your mother vacuuming elsewhere in the house. She's always cleaning, or at least pretending to. You make certain to feed your wonderful cat, Jaspers, before noticing the full plate of pancakes at the table. There's a note next to them. It basically tells you that your mother bothered to make you breakfast and hopes that you have a great day at school.

It seems like it's time for another passive-aggressive war between you two. You will not be outdone. You ponder for a moment on how to return this passive-aggressive gesture. After a moment or two of thinking, you start to make some coffee. Hopefully it goes well enough with the breakfast theme of this war. While it's being made, you get a coffee mug out of one o the cupboards. It says 'Best Mom' on it. Perfect. Once the coffee is done, you pour it into the mug and set it on the table for your mother. You're not sure if she even likes coffee, but there always seems to be a supply of it in the house. Sometimes, when you're really tired, you'll drink some to wake up. At this point, you're fine without it. Anyway, you pull out some paper and a purple pen and begin to draft a note for your mother to go with your passive-aggressive gift of coffee.

'Mother. Thank you very much for the pancakes, they were absolutely delicious. I wanted to return your kind gesture, so I made you some coffee. I would have done more, but I don't wish to be late for school. I hope you enjoy it none-the-less.

RL'

You hope that will suffice for now. You're almost giddy with anticipation for her next move. For now, though, you eat the pancakes your mother left for you while Jaspers snuggles up against your legs.

When you finish eating, you pet Jaspers before heading out of your overly large house. You smirk, getting into your car. You didn't realize just how amazing it would be to have both your license and a car until you received both. It gives you quite the sense of freedom, you must admit.

You head to Kanaya's house, which is actually just her mother's hobby shop. You love it there, since there are plenty of crocheting supplies. Also, Kanaya is a lovely friend. She still can't seem to grasp the concept of sarcasm, though. You're pretty sure she'll get it eventually.

You watch as Kanaya leaves the hobby shop, gracefully walking toward your car. She's in a beautiful sleeveless red dress with a v-neck and black designs on it. It has a black belt with the Virgo symbol on it as well. She's in matching black shoes and you're relatively certain she designed the entire outfit herself. She's an aspiring fashion designer and you wouldn't be surprised if she almost instantaneously became famous once she debuts some of her finest work.

Kanaya opens the passenger side and sits down next to you. You smile at her, "Hello, Kanaya. Did you make that wonderful dress?"

"But, of course. You should come over afterschool. I made you one or two outfits," is her reply as she smiles at you. "How was your morning, anyway? Any more passive-aggressive shenanigans I should know about?"

You put on a look of mock offense even going so far as to suffice a gasp, "Me? Have passive-aggressive shenanigans with my drunken mother? Never."

Kanaya frowns, trying not to look puzzled before realization hits her. "Oh. You're being sarcastic again. I should have known. I believe it's a bit too early for such things..."

You laugh as you drive to the school, resisting the urge to turn to Kanaya as you proceed to tell her about your morning. She pretends to be surprised at your newest passive-aggressive war with your mother. It's always enjoyable spending time with Kanaya, you must admit.

As the two of you grab your things and head into the school, you notice an 11th grade coolkid leaning against the building. He's wearing his trademark Ben Stiller shades and he looks as ginger and "ironic" as always. You make a beeline for him and smirk as he nods at you in greeting, trying desperately to appear cool. In your opinion he's already failing miserably. "Hey there, Strider. Shouldn't you be heading to class?"

"Well, yanno, class can fuckin' wait until after I'm done doing the coolkid bit. You know, gotta slouch against a wall just right, stare at absolutely nothing while the ladies walking by swoon, thinking that I'm looking right at them when I literally couldn't care less. How's the whole 'I'm not dating Kanaya' thing going along cuz it sure looks like the two of you are lesbianing it up. Coming to school together and everything like hell."

Your lips quirk up into a sly smile as you respond, "Well, it's going just fine. Later we'll go on a no-homo picnic and hold hands while staring deeply into each others' eyes. The sexual tension will eat away at our very souls but we will not kiss for that would breach into homo territory and, oh no, we can't have that. Now that we've been through my "deal" how about we talk about your Freudian slips and how your sexuality could be inferred by your statement about not caring about ladies."

You watch as Dave's shades slip down his nose as he turns his face downwards a bit to look at you incredously. You love bothering him like this "Oh no. Oh fuck no we are not getting into this. I'm not into sausages and you know it. Not everything I say is a Freudian slip. Jesus fucking dicks I can't even have a conversation with you without you trying to psychoanalyze me."

"You're being defensive, Strider. Perhaps you are in denial?" You tap your foot for a few moments before adding "And while I'd love to psycho-analyze all of your speech and actions just to write an essay on the glorious Dave Strider, I have to head to class. I'll see you another time. Perhaps we can talk about the rumors I've been hearing about you bleating like a goat on the first day of school for the ironies next time?"

After your somewhat brief conversation with Strider, you and Kanaya make your way to French class. You just so happen to be in your fifth year of taking this particular language, so you're quite well-versed in it. Two of your friends also take French, but one of them is in a lower level of it. You tend to help him whenever he gets particularly confused, but not without teasing the poor 10th grader first. Obviously the other person you know that takes this class is Kanaya. Both of you are quite good at it by now, and sometimes you study together.

This particular class goes by rather uneventfully and you find yourself biding Kanaya adieu before heading to 2nd period. This class just so happens to be History and sadly there is no one you really know in this class, so it also passes by in a boring manner. You, of course, take a good amount of notes on the subject. You aren't about to do poorly in a class just because you find it to be a bit dull. The teacher has this dreadful habit of talking in monotone, making everything sound ridiculously boring.

Next up is English class. One of the other seniors that you sort of associate with, Aradia Megido, is in this period. You don't really talk to her much, but you're on that acquaintance basis where you greet each other and then do your own thing after the typical 'hi, how are you's are completed. She smiles at you when she enters the classroom, wearing a white button downed short sleeved shirt and a dark red skirt today. Her hair is a mess as per usual and she waves "Hi, Rose! Anything interesting happen to you yesterday?"

You shrug in a nonchalant manner "Not really. Just a typical first day of school and a few passive-aggressive shenanigans with my mother. Nothing particularly intriguing or new. What about you?"

"Well, I didn't get to do too much yesterday, but this weekend I'm going to another archaelogical dig! Isn't that awesome? I'm really excited for it and I'm hoping to convince Sollux to come with me."

You nod "Good luck with that. I don't know how you manage to get Sollux away from his computer for more than five seconds though." You've always found her obsession with archaelogy and corpses to be rather endearing.

She laughs "It's pretty difficult, I must admit. But I've got ways to make him listen to me. How's the psycho-babble stuff?"

"It's fine. I heard from one of the teachers that Karkat has already received a detention, so I'll have to stay after school with him today. It'll be a good chance to see how well he's been dealing with his insomnia and how his summer has been. It's rather difficult getting him to talk to me about his issues, though. He's quite the stubborn boy."

Aradia laughs once again, giving you a big smile "Well, I'm sure you'll find ways to get him to talk~ Good luck though!"

You nod in response and thank her before the bell rings and English class begins. The period races by completely uneventfully after your conversation with Aradia and after this you enjoy Psychology and then you go to Gym and Math afterwards.

Next up is Lunch. You quietly debate whether or not you'll spend the period with Kanaya or go seek out your other group of friends. After a few moments of thinking on it, you decide to just spend it with John, Dave and Jade. You can spend time with Kanaya tomorrow, after all. As you approach their table, Dave makes a big deal out if it, which doesn't surprise you in the least.

"Oh, looks like Rose has decided to grace us with her presence today. To what do we owe the honor, Miss Lalonde?"

You smirk, taking a seat next to your pseudo-sibling "I just figured it would be a crime to deprive you all of some time with me. So, how have you all been? Jade, how is highschool treating you so far?"

Jade smiles "Oh, it's been great so far! I got sort of lost yesterday, but I'll figure out my way around soon enough. So how have you be-"

You roll your eyes as John interrupts Jade's last sentence to ask you a question "Sooooo, Rose, did you propose to Kanaya yet? Or are you and her still not a thing?"

"How rude, interrupting Jade for such a lame question. No, Kanaya and I are not dating as of yet. How are things between you and Dave? Have the both of you kissed yet? Or are you both still denying your blatantly obvious amorous feelings for each other?" You don't actually think they'll ever date, but poking fun at them on the subject is always rather enjoyable.

John and Dave simultaneously turn red and you and Jade both laugh at their obvious embarassment. You almost forgot how enjoyable things were when all four of you are together. You'll make sure not to forget such a thing in the future. You all continue to tease each other throughout the entire period and you are more than a little disappointed when the period ends. You make a mental note to swap off every other day between what table you sit at, since you still want to spend time with Kanaya at lunch on certain days.

Next you have Study Hall, since you don't have a lab period today. You basically spend the entire period working on your wizard fanfiction. After this, you have Science with Equius. He's rather interesting to talk to and he just so happens to be your lab partner for this year. He can be a bit odd though and appears to always be sweating. Which, you must admit, is rather gross. But, you aren't one to judge someone by something like that. You don't really get much of a chance to speak with him today though, so the period goes by in an exceptionally dull manner.

The final bell just can't seem to ring fast enough, but once it does, you're shoving all your books into your messenger style bag and you immediately leave the classroom, waving goodbye to Zahhak as you go. You note that he begins to sweat even more when you do and you try not to be disgusted by that. Either way, it is now time for you to engage in one of your favorite past-times! Psycho-analyzation. You should feel bad for enjoying it whenever Vantas gets a detention, but you just can't help yourself. You just love picking apart people's psyches way too much and he's such a perfect opportunity for it.

You head for the cafeteria, which is where detentions are usually held and spot the demon boy after a few moments in the senior area of the cafeteria. Most detentions are carried out in the normal cafeteria but the teachers already know that Karkat serves them here, with you, after he got put on suicide watch. He threatens suicide a lot, you've noticed, but he's never gone through with it. You're not actually sure if he would, either. Probably not, you silently muse to yourself.

You take a seat across from the glaring demon and smile "Hello, Karkat. You already managed to get a detention? It's only the second day of school, you know."

"It's not my fault that my English teacher is a piece of fucking shit that was just looking for a reason to hand out a detention. I bet he can't even teach and hates people in general. Now my dad is going to murder me when I get home for being late to work. By the way, I'm not dealing with your psychotic bull shit today, go make someone else your pet project."

"I'm here to help you, Karkat, not use you as a project. How can you expect me to assist you with your personal issues if you won't actually talk to me? Have you been sleeping properly as of late? Or do you still have that dreadful insomnia? Judging from the bags under your eyes, you still have it. Perhaps if you told me why you have this issue, we can fix it?"

He scowls at you and you let out an exasperated sigh. He's in a more difficult mood today. Some days it's easy to get information out of him, because he wants someone to dump his shit on. Obviously today is not one of those days. Then again, he always clams up whenever the reason behind his insomnia comes up. Or when you ask him about anything to do with his family. There are other topics he won't breach with you, like when you subtly try to get him to actually tell him what he is. Obviously you already know that he isn't human but that's mainly because of the nature of your own abilities. But that's extremely understandable, almost everyone you know is wary of telling others about what they are or what they can do.

"Lalonde, I don't care how much you pretend to actually give a flying fuck about my life or my problems; I'm NOT talking to you about this. My insomnia and my shitty fucking life are none of your goddamn business and I for one am not about to be your fucking experiment project of all things psycho-babble. I'm sick and tired of this shit, I'm sick of suicide watch and I'm sick of getting detention at least once a goddamn week! I always end up with some teacher that can't seem to give me a goddamn break because oh, I don't know, sometimes I explain to them exactly why they're fucking morons and can't actually teach properly and because I'm RIGHT they can't handle it and punish me in some manner! If they did their jobs properly, this wouldn't have to be a thing and maybe if my life wasn't such godawful shit, I wouldn't be stuck on this suicide watch but no Serket just loves to make my life even more of a living hell than it has to be!"

You take a copious amount of notes as he rants, making sure to get anything important that he said written down "Mm-hmm. I can understand your disdain for Serket, I don't enjoy her presence much either. Anyway, I think if we build off of all the things you just brought up, we can make some progress today."

"Oh my fucking shit you are NOT psycho-analyzing what I just said! I can't even fucking talk without it being picked apart by you, this is such bull shit! I'd say more, but you'll just end up writing something down about that too!"

You sigh and decide that today just isn't a day for progress. It's one of those days. But there will be other days to get him to talk and one day you will figure out what makes him tick and how you can actually help him out. Kanaya sometimes gives you hints on how to make him tell you things, since he talks to her about almost everything. Speaking of which... "Alright, fine. I can see you just aren't in any sort of mood to talk about your problems so let's talk about something else. We've still got time before the detention is over, so we might as well spend it doing something. How are things with your friends?"

He looks at you suspiciously for a moment before responding in a begrudging tone "Captor's fine, but he's still getting a shit ton of migraines. Those won't ever go away though, but he needs to stop forgetting to take his medication before I strangle him for being such a complete retard. You know very well how Kanaya is, you hang out with her all the time. But she's fine and..." He whispers this next part, knowing that both of you know about what Kanaya is, "there's no need to worry about her feeding. If I remember correctly she swaps off between us? She fed off me last time, so I think it'll be your turn soon. Am I the only one who feels really faint after every time? Maybe that's just because I can't stand the sight of fucking blood. Especially my own." He pulls away from you, looking rather embarassed about having shared that last part. You smirk, making sure to keep that in mind but you don't write it down since you don't want him to complain about it. "No, I believe that's normal. I get that feeling as well." Really, Kanaya is the only reason Karkat is ever civil around you. The both of you are actually very nice to each other whenever she comes up, even if Karkat is semi-begrudging about it.

Kanaya is lucky though, she's a daywalker vampire, which means that she can actually go out in the sun. It's an excessively rare type of vampire. They're fine both during the day and at night, which is rather amazing. You hadn't heard of it until you met Kanaya. You're relatively sure Karkat already knew about that sort of thing though, since vampires are a type of demon and he should know plenty about his own kind. You've never seen Karkat's true form though, and you're quite interested in seeing it. Ah well. Anyway, so after that, Karkat continues "Eridan is okay too, and as always he's got the shit with Feferi going on. Do you know how fucking annoying it is watching two of your best friends fight just because of a girl? It's bull shit. Captor doesn't even know that Feferi likes him. But anyway, I'm going to be hanging out with Ampora later this week. Are we done yet? Have I spilled enough about my life to please you, oh magnificient therapist?"

You smile slightly "Yes, I believe that is enough. I'll talk to the teachers in charge of detention and you can leave. You're lucky, you're getting out of detention early today. I'll see you tomorrow at lunch."

Karkat just glares at you and leaves "Whatever, bye."

You shrug before grabbing your things and talking to one of the teachers. After that, you take your leave and drive back to your lovely home. Your mother is probably getting even more drunk by now and you spend the rest of your day finishing up your homework and then working on your lovely writing. All in all, this day has been alright. Perhaps tomorrow will be even more interesting?

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