As you can see, I'm updating faster than I did with my Cronkri. I promise I'll keep updating quickly! (I'll probably slow down a bit during summer vacation just as a warning if this is still being posted by then. I don't have internet at home so I go to the library and when I don't have school I usually stay home because I'm lazy. Sorry).
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"Fuck!" Karkat yelled. The words GAME OVER flashed on the screen. Sollux laughed as Karkat threw his controller across the room.
"It'th jutht a game, KK." Sollux said.
"First of all, fuck you. Second of all, what the hell did you just call me?!"
"KK. What'th wrong with a nickname?"
"It's fucking annoying! That's what!" Sollux grinned.
"If it annoyth you tho much, I'll jutht keep calling you that." Karkat groaned and collapsed on his bed. Sollux sat next to him, still grinning. "Don't be thuch a thpath KK."
"Fuck you!" Karkat snapped. Sollux just laughed.
"Karkat! Come have supper!" Karkat sighed and got up.
"Coming Porrim!" Karkat called back. Sollux followed him out of his room and into the dining room. Karkat's aunt Porrim was putting supper on the table. Karkat had been living with his aunt and uncle and cousin since his parents died.
"Hi Sollux." Porrim said. "Kanaya mentioned you. Do you like pasta?" Sollux nodded and sat at the table. Porrim put their food in front of them and Karkat started eating. The food was tasty as always.
"So, you're new in town?" Kanaya asked. Sollux nodded and swallowed some pasta.
"Yeah, we jutht moved in."
"I hope you have a map of the city." Porrim said. "This place is big, and new people always get lost."
"I have a GPS on my phone." Sollux said. Porrim nodded.
"That's good. How was school today Karkat?"
"Ordinary." Karkat said.
"Everyone the same as usual?"
"Gamzee was. Tavros was absent." Kanaya looked worried. "He probably just has a cold."
Karkat zoned out on the conversations after that. When he finished his supper he put the plate in the dishwasher and sat down on the couch. Sollux finished eating and sat next to him. Karkat flipped through channels for about thirty minutes before admitting there was nothing good on.
"Maybe dad'th friendth are gone." Sollux said, pulling out his phone. "Hey dad-oh, shit. Bye."
"Staying longer?" Kanaya asked.
"Yeah, lookth like my dad'th friendth are thtaying over for the night."
"Okay, you can share Karkat's room." Kanaya said.
"What?!" Karkat exclaimed.
"You've got plenty of extra blankets to make a second bed, so stop complaining." Kanaya glared at him before going back to sewing a shirt.
"If you're just going to sit there, why don't you work on some homework?" Porrim said. Karkat groaned, but got up and went to his room. He took his science book out of his bag and sat down on his bed. Sollux sat down on the floor. Of course, he'd already read the science book, so he didn't have to do anything. Karkat scowled at him and looked at the textbook. Shit, why was science even necessary to learn?!
An hour later, Kankri came home.
"Karkat, did you enjoy you're day? I hope nothing at school proved to be triggering to you. Please let me know if something did. I will call the school and let them know. So-" Kankri stopped when he saw Sollux. "Oh, you made a new friend. Congratulations. I'm Kankri, Karkat's uncle." Sollux smiled and shook his hand.
"I'm Thollux."
"Pleased to meet you Sollux. I hope you and Karkat have been getting along. Please tell me if his behaviour triggers you even a little, and I will talk with him. He hasn't been very sociable during the time he's lived with us and I have been trying to get him to break out of the shell he's created around himself, but it didn't seem to be working. So I'm glad he's made a new friend. It seems like he is getting rid of that shell now, or at least I hope he is. Oh, are you staying overnight, Sollux? I suppose it's fine to let you stay in Karkat's room. Though I honestly have no idea if he's straight or gay, so I suppose this could be a potential risk of triggers. Karkat, should I have a parental talk with you?"
"NO!" Karkat yelled. Kankri looked offended.
"I am merely doing what a parent is supposed to do, Karkat. And while I am not you're actual father, I have taken that role for six years now and I expect you to treat me according to how one treats their father. So I expect your behaviour to improve soon, or I might confiscate privileges. Please keep that in mind from now on." Kankri nodded and walked out of the room. Karkat sighed and lay back on his bed.
"He's so annoying." he grumbled.
"How doeth he talk that much?" Sollux asked. Karkat shrugged.
"No idea. He's always been like that."
"Karkat, are you done you're homework?" Porrim asked, popping in. Karkat groaned and picked the science textbook back up. He hadn't actually been reading it. Porrim nodded and left the room. Karkat debated not reading, but if he got bad grades Kankri would be on his case about it.
When Karkat finished he was already tired. So he brushed his teeth and put some blankets next to his bed. He also grabbed an extra pillow from the hallway closet.
"You can have the mattress." Karkat said, pointing at his bed, which really was just a mattress on the floor with blankets and a pillow. Sollux nodded and lay down.
"Aren't you going to change into pyjamath?" he asked.
"Nah, I don't bother." Karkat turned the light out and pulled the blankets over his head. He heard Sollux move around on his bed. He sighed and closed his eyes. He liked nighttime, it was the one time when he could relax and forget about the world around him.
"Karkat! Get ready for school!" Kanaya said, banging on the door. Karkat sighed and opened his eyes. Great, another day. Karkat tried to get up, then realized something was on top of him. Oh, fuck! How the hell had Sollux—okay, he was obviously an active sleeper! He'd rolled right off the fucking mattress! Karkat grumbled and sat up. Oh, great. They're legs were tangled together. Karkat punched Sollux in the stomach, causing him to wake up.
"Hey, will you get the fuck off me?!" Karkat snapped. Sollux untangled their legs and sat up.
"Thorry." he said. Karkat just rolled his eyes and went for breakfast. He always had cereal, though Kanaya had been nagging him to have something different. Sollux had cereal as well and they ate silently.
On the walk to school Karkat listened to music and tried to ignore Sollux. It wasn't that he was angry with him, he just wasn't a really sociable person. When they got to school Karkat couldn't see Gamzee or Tavros anywhere, so they just walked to homeroom. By the time homeroom had started, they still hadn't shown up. Since Mr. Slick didn't care about phones, Karkat decided to phone them.
"Hello?" Gamzee said. Karkat noticed he sounded like he'd been up all night.
"Gamzee, where are you?!"
"Uh, I'm with Tavbro. Sorry we're not at school."
"Did you both get sick? Because that's stupid!"
"Nah, we're both healthy."
"Then why the fuck aren't you at school?!"
"Oh, uh yeah. Tavbro got hit by a car yesterday."
"Wait, what?!"
"He's alive, rest assured best friend. He's just, uh, paralyzed from the waist down."
"Oh, fuck."
"I'm staying with him at the hospital, to keep him company. He'll be outta here by tomorrow morning, so we'll be at school then."
"Okay. I guess I have to bring you you're homework now, huh?!"
"Uh, yeah. Sorry about that, Karbro."
"Whatever. I'll bring it after school."
"Thanks bro. I gotta go."
"Bye." Karkat hung up and put his phone away. The bell rang and he walked off to class with Sollux. By lunchtime they already had some English homework. Karkat texted Gamzee while they ate.
CG: GAMZEE, WE HAVE HOMEWORK. SO I WILL BE THERE AFTER SCHOOL.
TC: CoOl. ThAnKs BrO. :O)
During Spanish class the principal came in with some forms to hand out.
"There's a skiing field trip starting on the 9th of December. We'll get back on the Sunday, so there will be school the next week. Make sure you hand these in this month." The forms were handed out and the principal left. Karkat skimmed over the permission slip. He had never skied before, but Kankri would insist he go for "socializing" anyway.
"Cool." Sollux said. "Are you going, KK?"
"Yeah, probably." Sollux nodded and kept reading the paper. Karkat just put it in his bag and looked around the classroom. The big group of girls in the corner were whispering to each other, and they seemed to occasionally glance at Sollux. Huh, he'd only been there two days and he'd already gotten popular. Good for him. Karkat didn't really care. He mostly found girls annoying.
When the end-of-day bell rang Karkat grabbed his stuff and walked outside. He knew the way to the hospital well enough. He'd been there before when he'd broken a few bones as a kid.
"You coming?" Karkat asked Sollux.
"Thure. I can meet your friend." So the two of them walked to the hospital together.
