Chapter 2

Silence hung in the air, blank stares followed the teacher, everyone knew that Sollux and I hated each other, we had since grade school after all, and a lot of us had known each other that long. At first the teacher smirked thinking he had won, but then the laughter started. Gamzee Makara, the class clown, had finally figured out what was happening.

Loud laughter echoed off the walls of the small room, cheery laughter at the moment. But soon others had joined in, namely John, Dave, Feferi, and the class bitch, a girl named Vriska. The teacher seemed confused and I felt my face grow hot as I looked down, why did the class really find this so funny?

"Thir..?" I heard the lisping voice ask and I lifted my head to look. Sollux had decided to speak out about all of this.

"Yes, Mr. Capter?" Asked the older male with a soft sigh.

"Well, you thee… I'm never going to work with that fool!" More laughter followed him and he also blushed, then he turned and glared at me intently. I couldn't help but notice his blue and hazel eyes filled with hate.

"Well, you should have thought about that before texting him shouldn't you have?" The boy flushed a darker red and stared at his lap, having been caught and called out in front of the class.

I hated this, sure he was being called out for nearly the first time ever in a class, but now the class hated me. Well, hated me more than they had. I'd ruined their ability to work with their friends! And it was all because the teacher was boring and evil.

And on top of it all I was now working with Sol, my enemy of several years. Ever since he walked into my fifth grade class acting like he could rule us all, ever since he outsmarted every single one of my taunts and teases, and ever since he was better than me.

There, I can admit it to myself, I'm not the best. No, Sollux was the best, not that I'd tell him. He was the nerd you wanted to talk to, just the right amount asshole, pervert, smart, and a hacker. The girls, even if he wasn't popular, liked him, and the boys of any social standing wanted to talk to him. He was a click hopper, a mystery, and he knew what he could do with that sort of power.

Suddenly the bell rang and the students quickly left, chatter breaking the half silence that had been in the room. Feferi moved toward me and grabbed my hand, her bright blue eyes flashing with joy and the light of a game. Her long brown hair surrounded us it seemed and I smiled.

"Hello, Fef" I said, smiling slightly, still upset by the teacher pairing me with him.

"Hey Eridan!" She said happily before giggling brightly, she scanned the leaving students then pulled me along, "Where are we sitting for lunch today?"

"Er…. I don't know Fef, how about with Karkat?" She nodded and skipped off dragging me behind her. I was used to being tugged around, she had been my neighbor when we were children and we'd always been close. I guess you could say she was my closest friend.

When we slid into the seats at the table Karkat was just finishing his lecture to the still grinning John. The boy didn't look upset at all that the small Hispanic had been yelling and swearing at him only a few moments before and simply reached into his bag to offer Karkat a bag of chips.

"Here you go Karkat!" He said with a small laugh, the laugh bubbled up a bit more as the bag was yanked from his hands and opened. "You always get grumpy when you're hungry!"

"Yeah, yeah…" he muttered angrily, but I caught a small smile. Said smile vanished as Dave reached over and took a handful of chips.

"Oh hey, my favorite kind," He said, shades hiding his eyes, and with that his emotion. Besides me I heard Feferi giggle and ask for a few, which Dave gave her. Karkat at this point was near exploding from anger. He quickly began yelling at Dave, only to stop when Jade, Dave's girlfriend and friend to everyone, snapped at him to shut up. I smiled and pulled out my lunch of a sandwich, tuna, only to be interrupted from my eating a few second later by the others at the table.

"Did he have any fucking right to take my chips?!" Karkat snapped in my direction, I guess he decided it was time to bring someone else to his side. He was glaring and being half held back by John, who was trying to tell him to calm down. Dave however had two people on his side, Jade, and Terezi. Both were strong girls, but Terezi was something else entirely, she was blind but made up for it with a sick sense of humor, almost as though to prove my point she was, at the moment, mocking Karkat with her tongue out.

"The chips were given to me by this living, breathing example of complete and utter stupidity," with the words he jerked his thumb at John who chuckled and waved, mouth full of his food, buck teeth obvious, "and taken by the emperor of the land of douche. Can I kill him for it?" I blinked and swallowed my mouthful, thinking before I spoke.

"Sure, Kar, of course you can… that is, if you can get out of the arms of your lovin boyfriend." I smiled having caused a stir. Instantly Dave burst out laughing and John blushed babbling something that sounded like "I'm not a homosexual" on repeat.

"He's not my boyfriend!" Karkat shouted, rounding on me and glaring. "We're simply something close to friends, nothing wrong with that is there? Are you going to tease us for sharing a liking of movies? Or is it the fact that I'm bisexual and everyone knows it, just like they all know he's a goddamn fag?"

"I'm not a homo…" John said with a red face.

"Sure you're not," Karkat said before beginning again. "I can act close without you teasing us for it, okay?! Is it because you're jealous of our friendship when you have no one?!" I looked away, having lost. I would never learn my lesson, Karkat did get angrier when hungry, and I would never learn not to tease him.

"Ha," said the voice of Sollux, "It's funny becauthe it'th true. ED… you have no friendth." And people asked why I hated him...