Back home, Sollux was in his room with Karkat, the two lounging on Sollux's matching set of blue and red beanbags. Karkat had been staying round Sollux's house throughout the duration of the summer holidays. Sometimes they swapped round; and Sollux went round to the Vantas household. The two had pretty much been inseparable throughout the entire break.

"So, looking forward to going back to college?" Sollux grinned, melting into the cushiony blue beanbag he was relaxing into. He earned a painful-sounding groan from Karkat.

"Fuck no. Why the hell would I want to go back to that lunatic asylum? Ugh, I bet I'll get all the assholes in my classes, like usual. Always happens each year." Karkat grunted, taking a sip of Coca-Cola as he leant back into the plushy material of the red beanbag.

"You might find someone you like though." Sollux simpered, giving Karkat the 'eyebrows' look. Karkat growled in reply. "What? You never know. Though I doubt it, it's not like you're the friendliest guy on earth. I'm surprised I even put up with you."

"Let's just drop this whole conversation." grumbled Karkat, blushing red. He got embarrassed whenever anything regarding romance was brought up.

"Anyway, what was with that guy at the park earlier? What a fucking weirdo! I've never seen that sorry excuse for a man lurking round before."

"Maybe he's new?" pondered Sollux, thoughts of the adorable, yet overdramatic teenager flooding into his mind.

"Let's hope for humanity's sake that he was just passing through. I don't want to run into that fuckass again, literally and hypothetically speaking."

Sollux just let out an inaudible mumble, before flicking the TV on with the remote that was conveniently placed beside his beanbag. The television set flickered into life, filling the somewhat dark room with a pleasant blue light. Sollux punched some buttons on the remote, and switched the channel to some cartoon show.

"Hey! This is shitty. I want to choose what we watch." Karkat leant over and attempted to grab the remote from Sollux. However, his arms were too short, and all he managed to do was topple over onto Sollux's lap.

"No KK, that is not how you score dick." Sollux shoved Karkat onto the floor, and held the remote up high so he couldn't reach it.

"You're the dick!" muttered Karkat gruffly, "I don't want to watch this toony shit."

"What, and your romance films are any better?"

Karkat let out a loud groan. He padded back over to his beanbag and settled down into it once again, defeated. They ended up watching a couple of hours of Adventure Time, until Karkat fell asleep halfway through an episode. Sollux just smiled, as he gently lifted the sleeping teen up from the cushiony embrace of the red beanbag, up onto the blow-up mattress which was to bed his bed for the night. The things he did for his best friend. He pulled the duvet over Karkat, before slipping into his own bed. "Night, KK."