"I TRIED OKAY! Nothing worked!"

"Did you try or did you hint it?"

"Hinted it, BUT KARKLES GOT IT." Terezi sighed. "Dave, I don't think you understand how bad the mess you've got yourself in this time is." Terezi's voice echoed through her empty house as she said everything. The acoustics to the house was amazing, that's why she got it, it meant that she'd be able to better locate everyone and hear them.

"I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO HIM." The voice came in through the phone.

"DAVE YOU HURT HIM A LOT."

"I DIDN'T MEAN TO. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING."

"WELL FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD KARKAT HAD EVERY REASON TO THINK THAT YOU WERE CHEATING ON HIM."

A sigh emitted from the phone amidst all the commotion that seemed to be happening. Police sirens were errupting everywhere. No matter how hard Dave tried, they wouldn't go away - it was like the policeman was on drugs or something (A/N: hehe, guess who). What kind of a police force was this?

"Are the police still there?" Came the voice, slightly strained, but inevitably caring.

"They're as here as Karkat was 5 hours and 27 minutes ago."

"Wowww. You must really like him, you're counting the time."

"I DON'T JUST LIKE HIM."

A laugh errupted from the troll in this conversation. "You even SOUND like him."

"Yeah, well too bad I'm never going to see little nubs again."

"Hehe, when you call people nicknames you sound more like a coolkid again."

"Rainbow troll that's not the point. How am I going to get beep beep meow to like me again."

"Dave, just so that you understand how hurt Karkles is I'm going to try to talk like him." Dave put his ear closer to the phone in order to get a clear sound of how this was going to go. God, did he regret that. "DAVE DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT'S GOING TO BE TO GET HIM TO FORGIVE YOU. HE'S NOT GOING TO BELIEVE ONE WORD YOU SAY. THIS IS KARKLES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT."

It was like the mental facepalm Dave was giving was visible by phone. "Couldn't you say it's a human custom?"

"TO CHEAT, HAH, HE WON'T BELIEVE YOU."

"No. To pin your friend to the floor, genius."

"Wait, you pin each other to the floor as a custom?"

"No, dude, it's just an excuse. You do when you're super angry."

"OH I GET IT - Pshhhh, Like that's going to work."

"..I could get John to talk to hi-"

"NO! Dave, you've gotta take responsibility for apologizing."

"Yeah but what's the point of apologizing if I DIDNT DO ANYTHING." The growl from the human erupted into a shout. "I DIDNT CHEAT ON HIM. I DIDNT SAY ANYTHING TO MAKE HIM THINK I DID. I WAS ONLY JUST GIVING THE WRONG SIGNALS."

"Jegus CHRIST I KNOW! Okay? But you've gotta make up for them an show him that you love him."

"He doesn't think I love him?" Dave's voice was immediately quieter.

"Karkat thinks that you don't think he's enough for you." From the other side of the line there was an intake of breath that sounded Dave didn't know how to take it.

There was the sound of him swallowing hard. "Are you sure?"

"Kanaya and I went over to his room to put his stuff there." Hah, Kanaya hadn't even talked to him except to ask to go into the house. "He was like one of those earth flier things with his blanket like a cocoon. He couldn't stop murmuring to himself and he smelt sad."

"You smelt all of this."

"Yeah."

"What does sad smell li-"

"Dead flowers, rainy earth, and salt."

"Holy shit what the hell am I going to do."

"Find a way to show him you care and tell him what happened."

"But HOW?"

"You'll find something! For now just give him a place to breathe." Then Terezi hung up. Trolls didn't really see the point of telling people goodbye all the time - they kinda just ended the chat half the time when it felt like it was good.

Dave puffed out his cheeks in aggravation and looked around the empty house. The wooden floor was cold - John had left soon after the police looked like they weren't going to be doing too much. He could still see the kitchen from where he stood. And to think that just this morning he had seen his boyfriend in the kitchen. Matesprit, even-if Karkat were listening to his thoughts. Dave wouldn't mind classifying it as troll dating as long as Karkat were there, but he'd lost him. Maybe they weren't officially broken up, still, there was nothing stopping it from feeling like a breakup.

The not-so-cool-now kid started making his way up the heavy wooden stairs. Every insignificant moment passed by quickly which was every moment without Karkat. Soon Dave was on top of the bed, propped up and thinking. Oh god, his brain hurt. The blond took off his shades. He looked upwards as though there was someone that was going to help him with anything. His shoulders shook and soon broken tears erupted from him. Messy, uncool, broken tears. Past the ceiling, there's an entire universe. But only one Karkat. And if he'd lost that one Karkat, then the rest of the universe may as well not have been there.