He woke the next day to his parents cooing him awake and flicking on the lights and he got out of bed and made his coffee and waved good-bye to his parents as they walked out the door and he shuffled back into his room to look for something to wear for today picking out a nice pair of jeans and a royal purple shit with a loose collar so it slipped over one shoulder, the joke bra again and his favourite scarf and his glasses, he wore his simple boots today as he straightened his hair the same as yesterday. He checked out his looks in the mirror in his parents room and sighed, he could do this he just had to wait a few weeks then just 'come out of the closet' as a trans* person who was afraid at his last school or something like that, he could work on the details later, but at least he was in pants again, loose as they were to hide any trace he could be male in the groin region.

He picked up his bag and laptop, Sollux had told him he could hack his laptop onto the school server so they couldn't track you on their computers to see what you were doing in class after he got the school programs that he needed on it from the office so that was easy done he grabbed a little money for the on site canteen instead of grabbing food today and trudged out the door, feeling just a little more like himself with his old scarf and glasses on again and walked the 10 minutes to get to school.

He was at his locker stuffing his bag in there when he heard a familiar laugh, the laugh of one Nepeta Lejoin as he learned that was her full name yesterday in art.

"Hey Eripurr how are you today?" She asked sounding the smallest bit sleepy as she rubbed her eyes her dark green jacket covering her hands, it was quite over sized on her though it did touch the ground.

"A little sleepy but fine I guess, what about you?" He politely asked in return turning his attention away from his locker to the shorter girl

"Sleepy, I need a cat nap." She yawned, "My dad wanted me to go hunting with him this morning so I've been up from about 4am." She explained to him her eyes struggling to stay open.

"Ahh I see, any luck this morning?"
"Four Foxes and a rabbit."
"Good?"
"Dad was a little disappointed but nothing we could do."
"Ahh okay."

Nepeta smiled and waited for Eridan to grab his books and shut his locker and Nepeta led them off, "So what do you have furrst?" She asked rolling her R's like it was nothing.

"Uhh, I think I have...Math?"

"Ahh, I did it last year so I'm not doing it anymore, are you doing Foundation? or did you do it at your last school?" She asked dodging a 6ft of Blonde student who she turned around to give the one finger salute to him behind his back.

"Foundation, I didn't do it last year I took an extra science class instead of math and I'm not so great with numbers" Eridan explained quickly double checking his time table to make sure he was headed the right way and hadn't passed his room already.

He arrived and sat by Kanaya in about the middle of the room, Karkat, Sollux and Dave also had this class with them and Sollux sat by the next desk to him with Karkat next to him Dave who had entered with Karkat he moved to the back corner, that looked like it was reserved for him with that cool kid act he put on with his shades inside and the swept across his forehead he seemed to reek cool but really to Eridan, he kinda looked like a dork even if he acted cool.

The class happened, teacher didn't notice he was a new student again to his delight so no awkward introductions. When the bell rang the class emptied faster than headless chickens in a cage that the door had opened up on, Eridan followed the trend and absconded out of there and to his locker, Sollux was there with him as he opened it up.

"thup?" he asked leaning against the locker next door that wasn't in use and had insults written all over it, clearly they didn't like the last student who used it.

"Hello to you too Sol." Eridan replied shutting his locker and grabbing his snack and facing the ever so slightly taller boy.

"Yeth hello." He said and turned to head down to where they now to Eridan, normally sat Eridan catching up and walking along side him and tried to start conversation.

"So...anythin new?" Eridan asked looking over to him as they walked.

"I got portal two latht night, already beat it and co-op mode with KayKay and most of the achivmentth." Sollux bragged but it meant very little to Eridan.

"Cool, thats that game with the mega bitch GLaDOS right?" He asked, he knew but he also as a male knew that boys liked to be asked about their toys.

"Yeah and the portalth, did you do anything thpecial latht night?" He asked in return clearly being polite as the rounded the corner and their gathering group came into view.

"Not really, gained a few followers and just drowned myself in my Tumblr." He partly lied, he did drown himself in his tumblr and even started a side blog about his crossdressing adventures under a fake name, mostly wanting advice from his friends about how to get out of this mess without much drama.

"Whatth your url? I have one for my gaming fandomth." Sollux asked pulling out his old looking smart phone and clearly logging into the internet.

Well fuck, this can either be a fix or he could dig himself a bigger hole. "CrossdressingAquarium, sometimes for fun I w-would dress as a guy for parties and just to hang out in, it was a huge inside joke at my last school, cause I swim and guy swimmers look like girls" Yes well done Eridan just completely fuck yourself over why don't you? "I do enjoy crossdressin since I got into it, I w-was going to w-wait a little w-while till I started doin it again, cause I w-would do it at school too at times." He admitted and his damn stutter returned, this could be bad, very very bad, well it was better than his current situation at least besides his url was a joke between him and Feferi to begin with.

"Really!?" He sounded surprised as he typed in the url and hit follow and Eridan's fate was more or less sealed. "I'd keep it on the down low for now till your ready, it took Dave and VERY long time to dress like a guy all the time and get all the teachers to call him Dave i've known him theince primary thchool and damn he wath a pretty girl." Sollux explained, that would be why he was staring at him like that yesterday, maybe he could see right though him, best to stay on his good side if he could.

They sat and joined in the conversation about Nepeta's animes mostly fairy tail, turns out quite a few of the people here had fandom tumblrs, now they were all following each other and Eridan was panicking inside now, surely they wouldn't scroll too far down his blog to find his side blog or even his post about his plan to crossdress, he logged into his iphone and casually deleted his post about his side blog and plan before anyone could find it before he followed everyone back.

Next class was English again, more boring classes, he sat next to Nepeta again and did the mundane work about McBeth and how it could be translated into current day examples.

Lunch came again and once more Sollux was there to meet him.

"I gotta go buy lunch, I slept in and didn't have time to make it this morning." Eridan started, "Where is it again?"

"I'll thhow you, pro tip the wedges they thell are the thit." Sollux told him as they walked to the canteen and stood in the growing line.

"Hey Sollux finally get a girlfriend did ya!" A random boy a few people ahead of them called out and a few people turned around to look at him and you could see the colour just explode on his face as he blushed.

"theth not my girlfriend thhe juth moved here and I'm helping out." He explained truthfully.

"Then how about you and me go out on the town this friday hot stuff?" Asked another jerk from behind them and put his arm around Eridan, "Your a tall one ain't ya?" He commented getting all close to him.

"Uhh no how about you back off okay." Eridan said calmly simply removing the guys arm and taking a step away and crossing his arms.

"Feisty too, I like that in a woman come over here and give us some sugar." Said another boy and some girls huffed in line but others laughed.

"Oi you wanna back off Eridan you block head!" Sollux yelled snatching Eridan's wrist and pulling him behind him. "thhe just tharted juth leave her the hell alone alright."

"Oh look here Captor grew balls." "Bee boy has some sting in him." "And found himself some sweet honey too." Chimed in a few voices in the line and Sollux just stood there fuming.

"SHUT THE HELL UP!" Sollux screamed his lisp seemingly gone for a moment in his rage.

"Come one captor show us your sting." Urged a near by red headed jerk and Sollux just glared at him causing him to take a step back in fear before Sollux lunged at him punching him in the face knocking the much bigger boy over, only then did a teacher notice what was going on.

"Sollux! Get off him!" The teacher cried pulling Sollux away who was swinging another punch and one of the guys friends who had come to defend him.

"No no its not his fault, he w-was defendin me!" Eridan pleaded to the teacher and following him and Sollux when he was dragged to the office.

Eridan waited for Sollux to get out of the principals office hearing the occasional shout from both parties and when Sollux came out Eridan smiled at him but could hear a phone being dialled as Sollux gave him a halve smile back and headed to his locker.

"Sol, you okay?" Eridan asked walking along side Sollux in the now empty hall as the next period had started and Eridan didn't even care he was missing class.

"I got a detention tonight and every night till the end of the week but otherwithe i'm off the hook, firtht offence and all, why aren't you in clathh?"

"I wanted to vouch for you but seems I didn't get the chance." He explained with a small smile.

"You didn't have to mithh clathh for me I wath fine on my own." Sollux said a hint of anger in his voice.

"Sol you stood up for me not many people would do that for me even at my old school what you did means the fuckin world to me!" He almost yelled stopping Sollux with a hand on his arm, he never had anyone to stand up for him and he was picked on a bit at his old school for being the lame hipster going out with the popular girl.

Sollux was quiet after hearing this then a small blush came to his face, "Look it wath nothin alright I just really like you Eridan and I didn't wanna thee you with any of those jerks who jutht want a quick root." He admitted not really looking at him. "And I'm not normally one to you know tell them, I have lotht the girl before by not telling them before now AA is off with her boyfriend from another thchool and I'm left to fucking rot." Sollux said angrily shaking just a little, "I'm just fucking thick and tired of thothe jerkth being mean to me and all my friendth and now you and what they were thaying and" He trailed off before muttering a quick apology and gripping Eridan's arm and pulling him over to the nearest wall and holding him up against it pressing up against him.

"Sollux! what are you doing!" He yelled then found Sollux's hand over his mouth and there was something different about his eyes even from behind his shades Eridan could see they were darker.

"Voiceth fuck off." He muttered to himself as he held Eridan agains the wall shaking just staring at him and Eridan was terrified.

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ahhh i keep writing and writing this and I can't stop...but ahh i got another chapter done YAY