Karkat sat up in bed when his alarm clock beeped sounding time to start functioning. But of course he have been up for hours.
"thtill can't sleep?" a familiar voice muttered groggily from across the room, as Karkat made his way into the bathroom.
"Getting fucking worse." Karkat scowled back at the image of himself in the mirror.
Jesus! He thought absently as he pull at the growing bags under his eyes. his hair was a damn mess even though he had tried to comb it about ten times already today I honestly look like I haven't slept in days.
"I'm off." Karkat said quickly to Sollux who had only just stumbled across the room to the bathroom.
"meeh" He groaned from behind the door. "don't forget your keyth again."
"Yeah yeah." Karkat muttered grabbing your set of keys from the hook near the door and walking quickly down the hall.
The dormitory block had always been pretty damn small, even with Tavros, the wheel chair kid, Karkat didn't talk to him much, taking up two two-person dorms and Dave and Gamzee not having anyone to dorm with. Although you're pretty sure that Gamzee just sleeps in Tavros's dorm now you moved to be with Sollux.
Karkat walked briskly to the building his lesson was in. It was always a longer walk than all the others because it was added on to the old buildings later, which means he have to walk a long way in his shitty jacket.
When Karkat entered he took his normal seat at the front, he really want to do well in this, not that that is actually anywhere near the front of the room. The best way to describe it was like a literal theatre stage, with a backstage and all.
Karkat settled down, take out some books that he had been using recently and mini laptop. Karkat started to open up his laptop when he heard a bang on the large doors. What the fuck? Nobody should be here yet. He looked up to see who was disturbing the only quite time he got and instantly regret it. Fucking John.
"Em... hello?" John said quietly to the darkness of the room before drawing his attention slowly to Karkat. "Shouldn't class have... already started?" he laughed nervously and Karkat notice a faint glint on his brow, he thought it was late.
"Not for another 25 minutes, moron." Karkat mutter angrily, somehow hoping John won't remember Karkat and leave him alone.
"... Karkat, right?" He said after a pause suddenly, evidently having to wrack his brain.
"Yes, oh, John, right?!" Karkat mocked him very loudly suddenly angry, how fucking dare he not remember me! I remembered him!
"Dave's told me about you!" The boy chuckled happily, brushing what you had said off easily and coming over to sit next to Karkat.
He look at John distastefully. "Oh fucking good. I'm so glad that arrogant dipshit has been telling someone I have only seen once before about me. Whoop ti-fucking-do!" Karkat said angry at Dave.
John simply laughed at him. "Dave said you'd say something like that."
"You've been talking to Dave a lot..." Karkat muttered.
"Well yeah, we are roommates..." John said as if it was completely ridiculous that Karkat didn't know.
"Since when?" Karkat said frowning heavily, if they were roommates then that would mean I can't even leave my room to hang out with my best bro anymore without worrying about running into him.
"For like a week now..." John says frowning slightly. "Since me and my sister got-"
"Er sorry to interrupt, but did you say sister?" Karkat said suddenly at John, throwing him off his stride slightly.
"Err... Yeah..." No... she can't be, she can't be...! "She's called Jade." She is.
Karkat practically fainted there and then. Of course they look alike.
"Have you met her?" John said getting very excited suddenly, not noticing Karkat complete lack of ability to live anymore.
"Yeah... I saw her yesterday, with Terezi and them..." Karkat muttered, looking down at him pant legs suddenly feeling rather shy.
"Oh! Yeah, she told me about you..." he snickered to himself, brilliant.
After a brief pause John seemed able to read the situation and changed the topic quickly. "Dave said you were into movies?" Karkat decided not to think about what Jade told him.
"What?" Karkat said bluntly not really taking in what was happening.
John laughs. "Movies, Dave said you had a movie thing. He thought we'd get along because we have that in common... you know, a movie thing..." He said his tone becoming shyer suddenly as he speaks.
"...Yeah, you could say I was a fucking movie expert!" Karkat said suddenly becoming interested in the conversation.
John face was suddenly filled with a massive, (adorable,) goofy (,endearing) smile making you fear the worse.
Then the pair go no to have a long conversation in which John convinces Karakt to go round to his dorm when Dave is going out of town to visits his bro next week and watch Con Air with him, (even though he so doesn't like it and hasn't watched it in like three years, but he'll watch it anyway because Karkat hasn't) that would be completely boring and drag on to any onlookers, which if course there aren't any. Ahem.
When Karkat looked around again after this long and detailed conversation he realized that pretty much everyone has turned up for class and has probably given him a strange look. See even though he is rather popular in his friendship group, it's only with that friendship group. In class Karkat tended to keep to himself and because it's an odd number the lecture generally only does partners when really necessary. But that John has joined the class there will be lots more partner work, and surely enough when the lesson finally does start Karkat found himself being put together with John to do a scene from Of Mice and Men, oh and of course he have to lend John his notes about race and class.
Next time on a badly put together AU: Karkat actual kinda cares, John says it's just a prank bro, Dave calls what is gonna happen in this fic and you can't hid shit from Kanaya so don't even try.