It was eleven in the morning when Gamzee and I walked out of the house, my brother was still passed out so I just left a note that I would be gone for a good half of the day.(Hey, who hasn't skipped school once in a while? Plus you didn't want to show your face around because by now half of the school already knows your branded, plus it's a Friday) We walked around the town just talking about what to do for winter break, Gamzee had said that his band were planning on being the entertainment for the winter dance the school has every year (even though I never go to any of those social occasions, even then I have been asked countless times by different girls.) when we walked along the path towards the center of the park I noticed that some people gave us strange looks
tHERE IS NO WAY ANY OF THESE PEOPLE KNOW HES BRANDED,,,wHATS THEIR PROBLEM?
it was already four in the afternoon and we were still at the park just walking around. Out of nowhere I felt something tackle me down "TAV!" I heard a familiar voice, "Nep what did I tell you about doing that, you know it scares me." I told her, I get up and brush off some dead leaf crumbs from my shoulder. I look at her when I notice Karkat and Sollux walking towards us, until they stop when they notice who I was with "Tho it ith true." Sollux glared at Gamzee "thith Upperclathmen got you branded." Nepeta frowns "But Sollux if he didn't save Tav, who knows what could have happened." Karkat looks at Gamzee, he didn't talk, he just held out his hand "Thanks for saving this fuckass's life." He says in a low tone, Gamzee bro-fists him "No prob, someone has to look out for him." Gamzee smirks "He can take care of himthelf!" Sollux shot at him "Now heth going to be beaten and thunned becauthe of you!" "Sollux what's your problem! He saved Tavros's life, you should be happy he got in the way or he would have en…" Karkat cut himself off trying not to bring up the accident "Look bro I had to save his ass, yeah I'll say it were friends, we've been friends for two years now and now that we're both branded there's no use for hiding it now." Gamzee says "besides it's not like everyone is after your ass because your bro is one of the baddest Hoods in town."
oH SHIT,,, hE DID NOT JUST SAY THAT!
Sollux let out a growl as he clenched his fist, without any warning he swung at Gamzee knocking him to the ground. Sollux jumped on top of Gamzee" YOU'RE DEAD MAKARA, DEAD!" he shouted. Karkat and Nepeta quickly ran to them trying to hold back Sollux's arms as I struggled to get Gamzee out from under Sollux. Then we finally got Sollux and Gamzee up, Sollux struggled to get out of Karkat and Nepeta's grip "YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT MY BROTHER, EVER! YOU UPPERCLATH THNOB!" he screeched "SOLLUX HE DIDN'T KNOW!" Karkat repeated to his enraged boyfriend. Finally Sollux calmed down and the siblings loosened their grip, he shook them off his arms and stormed off. Karkat ran after him "Sollux wait!" his boyfriend didn't listen he just kept walking. Nepeta turned to Gamzee and I "I'm sorry guys, take care." She said before she ran off towards her brother. Gamzee wiped the blood off his lip, smudging his face paint "What was all that about?" he asked. I sighed "it's a long story, come on." I walked towards the bench; I didn't even care about the people starring at us. Gamzee sat down beside me "Well I'm all ears." He says in a quiet tone. "Well…four years ago Sollux's brother Mituna got a letter from a girl. She was an Upperclassmen he had a crush on, a letter for him to meet her at the tracks. Mituna being a love sick puppy went without even thinking about the consequences. He met here there; they just sat there watching the sunset talking, until one of her friends drove up and found them, well that friend had three other friends in the car with him...one of them dragged her away while the three others started beating him. He didn't have a weapon and he didn't know how to fight back….he was lucky Rufioh was walking to a bar near the tracks…but when he saw them they were already driving off. When he got to Mituna….god it was like something you would see in a horror film. Mituna was in the hospital in a coma for a year and when he woke up, it was like talking to a child…Sollux took it the worst, and because their parents were fighting all the time they never took care of Mituna so Sollux was the only one there for him. The girl he went to see disappeared, and knowing that she's probably dead…all of Mituna's friends stopped coming over to see him, they all got annoyed by the way he talked and what he said. So Sollux was the only one there for him…but then it got too much for Sollux, and he tried to commit suicide. We were lucky Karkat got to him before he could pull the trigger…so we try our best not to mention anything about the accident to or around Sollux." I looked up at Gamzee; his face was painted with regret. "Shit man." He sighs, "Now I feel like a major asshole for saying that." He says as he looks down, I cupped his face with my hand to turn him to look me in the eye "Hey, you didn't know. It's ok, how about we go to the movies or something." I asked him trying to get his mind off of the story. He looked at me with a weak smile "sure bro." he says as he patted my back. we both got up and walked out of the park to the movie theater, later that day he had to go back to the east side of town before anyone from there noticed he was gone (his dad was one of the richest men in his part of town and everyone would notice his son missing for two days straight) I got home just in time for Rufioh to finally get out of bed. "Hey bro did you get the license plate of the train that hit me last night." Rufioh groaned as he walked over to the table. I laughed "No bro but I did see where it was going, thirty three Budweiser Town." Rufioh rubs his forehead "thirty three beers? Damn, I thought I drank more." He laughs. I walked over to a cabinet and took out a box of bandages and rubbing alcohol and gave it to him. "Go clean up before that 'Train Wreck' gets infected." I told him.