Two years had passed since John and Jade had joined the rest of the kids on the ship. Since their arrival, they had started to get close, learning about their lives back on earth and how the game session was for them. They told each other tales of their adventures and what they did. Even the trolls told them about how their session had gone, feeling close enough to share what had happened. Their session had been rough, having had prototyped 24 things instead of eight made their session pretty brutal.
John and Dave were walking around, they had just finished playing one of John's video games that he had brought from his house and set up on the meteor. John won, being the expert that he was at the ghost buster game from growing up and playing hours on end of the terrible graphics experience. They had played ten rounds in a row when Dave decided that they had played enough of the game. John pestered him for one more round but Dave didn't cave in.
John turned off the game and they went for a walk. They had reached the part of the meteor where there were stairs leading up to a room where you could go outside. They both walked up and after the short trek managed to get up through the trap door.
"It's so refreshing out here; it gets pretty stuffy in there after a while." John exclaimed stretching his back.
"Yeah, it's probably from Karkat sucking up all the air whenever he goes on rants that the oxygen has no time to repopulate itself." John laughed at his comment, Karkat was pretty talkative. Talkative might not be the right word, how about verbose and states his opinion, and his opinion usually ends in telling John to fuck off. Most times, he did need to.
"Yeah, he does get pretty loud. I wonder how his lungs can handle that, he's so short, maybe he has like three lungs, I mean, they are another species, they could have five stomachs for all I know." John said then sat down at the edge of the roof.
"Gross man. Now you got me picturing their weird ass anatomy, no thanks." Dave said sitting down beside him.
" Sorry, but I mean, I wonder if they're like us. Probably not though," John smiled while adjusting his glasses a little.
"Maybe, but we'll never know man. Some of them had those powers and stuff." Dave said calmly.
"Yeah, wouldn't that be cool to like be able to control people with your minds, Vriska could do that, I think she even did it to me once," John said.
"Oh yeah, I think you told me about her once," He leaned back, resting on his arms outstretched behind him.
"Well, she could only make me go to sleep."
"That's kind of lame."
"Yeah I guess it is. So how are things going with Terezi?"
"Well, she's been going out with this other guy, but it's in a different quadrant, they have four you know right."
"Oh yeah, Karkat told us about that when he made that shitty shipping chart."
"That was pretty shitty. But anyways, so I guess ours would be in the red quadrant, and theirs would be in the black. Or that's how it seems. I don't really understand it that well."
"Yeah, it's pretty weird."
"But, the thing is, I'm trying to be culturally understanding, but it just feels like she's cheating on me, I know that to her she's not."
"That's hard Dave. Do you love her?"
"She's cool and she's totally funny and shit, but lately I've been asking myself that question. Do I even like her anymore?"
"I used to like Vriska, I don't really anymore though, it's probably because we haven't talked to each other in so long we just naturally parted. It's not a big deal anymore, but I really did like, I just wish I had told her at the time. But it's alright now; I just hope she's happy," John sighed and looked up at the stars.
"Hmm, I think I'll talk to her about this later."
"It's weird how we're moving at light speed but it doesn't feel like it when we're just sitting here. Like, we're moving, but it doesn't feel like we're moving."
"Dude, it was like that on earth, and on every other planet, that's how they work. There is this weird invisible field called gravity."
"Oh yeah, I learned that in school. I can't say I miss school, but I guess I just miss my old life."
"Ouch dude, that means you wouldn't have got to see me face to face."
"No it's not that Dave, I'm sure we all would have met up eventually, but I miss being a normal kid." John laid back on the floor and closed his eyes.
"I guess I miss it too. Maybe I could've made a career like my bro, I didn't really want to follow in his footsteps, more like, I wanted to walk beside him, but doing my own thing. I'm not really into the puppet business."
"Oh yeah, sorry about that," John chuckled.
"Why are you apologizing?"
"Well, it wasn't until I pointed out how fucking creepy the puppets were that you were scared of them," John laughed a little more.
"Now that I think about it, it is your fault, you're an asshole dude. But I didn't like my bro's other puppets to begin with, but I used to genuinely think lil' Cal was cool, but then john decided to fuck that up, thanks."
"No problem." They stayed like that for a while, just talking about their past, just talking. John and Dave had gotten closer since they had settled on the meteor. John had started out with pranks that started out heavy but gradually disappeared. John did prank anyone the odd time, but unlike his former bombardment of the practical jokes, it had become a rare thing.
Dave of course, did not enjoy that pranks, he could in no way think of them as an ironic thing. But even Dave's quest for all things ironic had diminished. They were growing up and out of their old habits. John had especially discovered this when they had a mass screening of Con Air. John came to accept the fact that the movie sucked, it genuinely and utterly sucked. This fact did not make John happy.
Davesprite was happier than he had been before, even though he really didn't show when he was happy at all, in fact, ever. Dave and Davesprite had gotten along, they even had a few rap sessions, and Jade and Davesprite had been going steady since they got on the meteor and their relationship was strong.
Rose and Kanaya's relationship was going swimmingly, in fact, it was going stupendously. They had kicked it off since day one and had been inseparable ever since. But lately Rose had been on the bottle. It was only a little bit, but soon it might progress to addiction.
Karkat usually hung out with John and Dave or with Terezi when she and Dave weren't together being radical and what not. Lately, it had not been so radical of course with Terezi's constant sneaking away to go see Gamzee and go do some very black things with him. Of course, pretty much everyone on the meteor knew of the relationship due to Terezi's shitty sneaking job.
John and Dave went down to the rest of the group and sat down on the couches. John laid down on the couch and pulled out a supernatural book. John had read this one numerous times, but lately he couldn't find any ones on the meteor. He had only gone to scavenge the bookshelves a few times but each time he came back empty handed. He had read on the internet a lot, but he enjoyed the feeling of a good old book in his hand.
Karkat walked in with a coffee and sat in the Arm chair. He sat quietly and enjoyed his beverage and kept his eyes closed. Dave stared at him, most likely just to get a reaction out of him. They say good things come to those who wait, but I'm sure a angry troll might not be considered a good thing.
"Why the fuck do you keep staring at me?"
"I'm not staring at you; you can't even tell where my eyes are through my shades."
"Well you sure as fuck aren't looking at the ceiling when your entire body is facing me."
"The ceiling is a pretty hot piece of rock, you should check it out."
"Fuck off Strider. I am trying to enjoy my coffee like a civilized person."
"Okay, drink your bean water. I don't really like it myself, prefer the sweet succulent juices of apples, or as I like to call it, juc du pomme."
"Well, the drink grows on you."
"Well I think any kind of growing with you is probably good." Karkat glared at Dave.
"I'm going to be the bigger man here and not fall for your childish shit."
"I think we both know who's the bigger man here."
"Seriously Strider if you're that bored, go do something. I don't even care if you want to have some shitty rap off with yourself, just go do something, anything, so long as it does not involve me." Karkat sighed then once again resigned himself to his drink.
"Fine, Hey John, want to play poker with Karkat."
"You know how to play poker?" John said looking up from his book, he hadn't been reading, he was really just listening to their conversation, it was more entertaining anyways.
"Yeah, I learned at school."
"I already said I don't want to play with you Strider."
"Fine, lets play a different game then like- " but he was cut off by John.
"Strip poker!"
"No fucking way dude, not with just three guys." Dave said seriously.
"You're the one who brought up Poker," John sat up and put the book to the side, "I understand it you are scared, it's alright to be a late bloomer."
"I'm not a late bloomer, if anyone one of us was, it sure as fuck wouldn't be me."
"Yeah, it would probably be Karkat."
"Why do you guys constantly feel the need to make jokes and my height, on my planet this height is considered average."
"We know you're lying, it seems that you guys grow the same as us, unless you keep growing taller later, but I think until then you guys are the same," John said the Karkat.
"He's probably just embarrassed because his height is probably not the only short thing about him."
"Fuck you strider, and fuck you John, fuck each other, I don't give a fuck, just leave me THE FUCK ALONE!" Karkat got up, spilling his coffee on himself in the process and left to go get some more and treat the burn.
"Maybe we went a little too far Dave." Said john feeling slightly guilty for pushing his buttons that much. Don't get me wrong, John can be a complete and utter ass, but that doesn't mean he doesn't feel bad when he makes fun of his friends insecurities.
"Yeah, but I think he'll get over it, he's pretty strong."
"I have an idea, how about we tell scary stories!"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because that's stupid."
"I think you're just afraid."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"No."
"Yes- fuck. Fine, but you're going first."
"I was planning on that. Hmm… oh I know, just the perfect one. Ok, once I was walking home from the library and it was dark. I was on my phone and it was pretty late, I sent a message to my dad that I would still be a few minutes; he got pretty worried when I got home too late. I was walking and there was no one else on the street. I had picked up a few paranormal books and I was pretty excited to read them. It was a full moon that night so I pulled out my phone and turned on the camera and took a picture of the moon for supernatural purposes. Then just because I wanted to, I decided to take a picture of myself because I was out after dark. Yes I'm aware I was a loser but I felt a little rebelish staying out so late. Now, my phone automatically detects faces in the picture with little squares. When I went to take a picture of myself, there was my square, and a little, small square in the corner right behind me." John said keeping an eerie tone and trying his best to make it a scary as possible.
"Wow, that was pretty spooky, caught me quivering in my boots, or slippers, or whatever the fuck you'd call these. I might even need to equip myself with a diaper in case we continue this, just so if I piss myself I'll be prepared."
"Okay Dave, I'll make sure to alchemize you some next time." John and Dave continued, Karkat showed up later with a fresh mug of coffee. Later, Kanaya and rose joined in on the action along with Jade and Davesprite. Jade ended up telling the scariest story about how once she accidently created a monster that almost killed her, she was lying of course, but none of the others knew that.
TBC…
A/N: Wow, who wrote this in the middle of the night, me. Who can tell it was written in the middle of the night? Everyone. Review if you enjoyed and thank you for reading.