Hi! Sorry! End of the school year and work bullshit everywhere! Sorry! Uwu

== Be Dave

Since you're the only one out of the four of you with a car on campus, you've become the chauffeur of stupidity, trucking around three whiny dweebs that you are slightly annoyed to admit you think of as friends. You slap Karkat's hand away from the volume control for what must be millionth time this trip, and he glares at you. You stick your tongue out and turn the music up even higher. It's an ironically retro tape of some of your bro's old raps, and you bob your head along to the beat as you turn into the mall parking lot.

While you're cursing about the lack of parking spaces, Karkat finally manages to turn off the music when you're not paying attention. You turn to him and raise one eyebrow, but he just mocks you by sticking his tongue out. You roll your eyes beneath your shades and pull into the parking spot to your left.

You get out of the car and wait for everyone to join you before you begin walking to the glass doors of the mall. You are in the back of the parking lot, and Karkat complains about having to walk so far when he just wants to be asleep. You jokingly offer to give him a piggy-back ride, and he turns a bright shade of red before storming off in front of the three of you.

John snickers and says, "I think Karkat has a crush on you, Dave. What do you think, Sollux?"

Sollux looks up from his phone and says, "Do I look like I give a shit?" before looking back down at whatever he was doing.

"I suppose you don't," you say absentmindedly. Did Karkat really have a crush on you? He was cute and everything, but you weren't sure if you were interested in him that way. You decided you'd have to think about this as you all walked into the mall.

Jade sees John almost immediately, and hugs him as the other girls walk over. You recognize the blonde holding Kanaya's hand almost immediately and curse softly. Sollux and Karkat turn around to look at you, trying to figure out why you're uttering seemingly random profanities.

They are answered quickly as the blonde human girl says, "I didn't know your brother was acquainted with mine."

Jade blinks and replies, "What do you mean, Rose?"

"Dave and I are half-siblings, fraternal twins with different fathers to be precise."

Jade claps her hands together and throws her hands around both yours and Rose's shoulders, saying how wonderful it is that you two are siblings.

"Yeah, wonderful," you spit sarcastically.

Rose rolls her eyes and removes herself from under Jade's arm, "My brother and I do not always see eye-to-eye. We had a rather large disagreement recently."

"Whatever," you say as you thrust your hands into your pockets and walk away from the group.

You end up in one of the side corridors of the mall, and you almost slide down the wall before you notice Karkat lingering behind you.

"What do you want?" you ask as you take off your shades and rub your eyes after turning away from him.

"Are you okay?"

"Sure, whatever, just leave me the fuck alone."

"Hey, don't be a fuckass to the person trying to help you."

He reaches out to grab your shoulder, but you turn to face him before he can. He looks surprised to see your eyes, but quickly regains his composure. He takes a step back and says, "What happened between you and Rose?"

You sigh and sit down on a nearby bench before starting, "We just don't really get along, since she lives with our mom and has this high class life and everything, while I live with my other half-brother that adopted me since our dad is dead or whatever. She always tries to do all of this psychology shit to me, and I guess she went too far last time we talked. It's just really hard to talk to her anymore, y'know?

"Not really, but I guess I can pretend," he mumbles as he grabs your hand, your fingers intertwining.

You blink in surprise and look at your hands on the bench between you as you say, "You really do have a crush on me, don't you?"

"Maybe, what of it?"

"Well, maybe I'm starting to have a crush on you too."

You turn to Karkat and kiss him lightly before standing up and putting your shades back on, removing your hand from his.

With a very red face, he looks at you and says, "We should probably go back to the others. Can you deal with Rose?"

"Yeah."

You find everyone in a bookstore on the lower level. John is perusing the movie section, and you notice another troll standing behind him, offering advice on different titles when John picks them up. She's hot, but definitely not your type, standing slightly shorter than John, with long black hair, blue lips, and a metallic arm. She turns around when everyone else notices you, and you see her eyes, or eye, in full light. One of the lenses of her glasses is purely black, hiding what you suppose is an empty eye socket or blind eye. The other eye is what catches you off-guard, since, as far as you can tell, it is a spider eye. The extra pupils contrast with her otherwise gorgeous face, making her look more threatening than cute.

Rose steps towards you and introduces the troll as Vriska Serket, her roommate. You shake hands with Vriska and she grins, showing her intimidating fangs. After the introduction is complete, Rose grabs you by the arm and drags you to the back of the store, meeting little resistance. You know you two will need to sort out your issues with each other, and you may as well do it as soon as possible.

Once you two are hidden within the finance book section, she turns and says, "Can we perhaps act like civil human beings amongst our new friends?"

You shrug and reply, "Yeah, sure. That fight happened a while ago anyways."

"Indeed. It happened 5 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days ago to be exact."

"Sounds like a record."

"For you, it is. I'm sorry, Dave."

"It's fine, it doesn't matter anymore. Let's just not bring it up again."

"Of course."

After that you two shook hands and walked back to the group. Rose immediately went to Kanaya and whispered something in the other's ear. Kanaya smiled softly at what she said before showing Rose a book she had found. You stopped watching them when they started flipping through the pages, deciding that you would need to find out what was going on there.

Oops unintentional Davekat. Guess I should mess with that at some point. Hee! OvO