Chapter 7
Feferi Peixes... Sollux thought, resting his head on his hands. Thuch a beautiful name. He hummed to himself, not noticing anything going on around him.
"Oh, come on, Karkles!" Terezi begged. "Just one!"
"Terezi!" Karkat moaned, dragging Terezi, who was hanging pretty tightly to his waist, behind him.
"Please?"
"Get off me! I said no!"
"Fine! I'll do it myself then!"
"TEREZI, NO!"
"Hehe!"
"FUCK, GET OFF ME! ARG!"
"You're causing a scene, Karkles! You're just making it worse for yourself!"
"I SAID NO. STOP-FUCKING GOG-TEREZI! SERIOUSLY!"
Terezi lifted herself onto her feet.
"TEREZI I SWEAR TO GOD!"
Still holding Karkat still, Terezi planted a kiss on his cheek.
Once Terezi let go, Karkat fell to the floor. He sat there rubbing his cheek.
"See, Karkles?" Terezi grinned. "That wasn't that bad, now was it? We're matsprits, we should do this all the time!"
Karkat's face turned bright red. Terezi trotted away with a huge smile on her face.
A couple of the officers stared down at Karkat from where they were. Karkat got back on his feet and stared back at them.
"What are you all looking at?" He yelled. "BACK TO WORK!"
All of them put there heads down and resumed working.
Sollux looked up, finally noticing everything happening. Karkat turned.
"What are you lookin at, Captain?" Karkat yelled at Sollux.
"Nothing thir!" Sollux put his head back down to stare at his papers.
Everyone was sitting on the couch, eating whatever they got for lunch. Nepeta was off at work again, so it was pretty quiet.
Vriska came down the stairs.
"What are you guys doing?" She asked.
"We're eating our lunch." Equius managed to answer, being squished up between Gamzee and Feferi on the couch.
"What? Lunch? Why didn't you invite me?"
"We didn't becuse we needed someone to open the door when we got back." Feferi groaned.
"Did you get me anythi-?"
"NO!" Everyone yelled in unison.
There was a moment of awkward silence.
"Well, fine!" Vriska spat. "I didn't want your food anyway."
"Good. Wwe didn't get you anythin." Eridan spat back.
Vriska stormed into the kitchen and grabbed a jar of pickles. She stuck her hand in it and crunched on one.
"You would have eaten our food anyway." Gamzee added. "Kinda like what you're doin now."
"Whatever!" Vriska chomped on another pickle. "Are you guys still pissed over that whole drunk scene I had this morning?"
"I'm just beyond pissed, Vvri." Eridan grumbled.
"I don't think there's a word to discribe how pissed I am." Feferi raged.
"I am also pretty angry." Equius added. Gamzee just sat there on the couch, munching on a bag of chips.
Vriska stormed up the stairs, still carrying the jar of pickles.
The room became silent once again. Feferi however, began thinking of her unexpected meeting with Sollux. She had been sitting near her phone ever since she got home. She kept wondering whether or not she felt flushed for the guy.
Do I feel flushed? She asked herself. I don't know, I haven't felt like this in several years... Do I still have feelings for Eridan? What? Of course I don't! Why am I thinking so stupidly! Feferi suddenly felt like banging her head against the wall. Of course she still didn't have feelings for him! She broke up with him, and what's done is done!
She stopped thinking after she heard her phone buzz. She picked it up with her free hand and looked at the screen. It was an unknown number, but she knew exactly who it was. She opened up the message.
"hey feferii! iit2 2ollux!"
Feferi almost jumped out of her chair. She immidiatly responded.
")(ey sollux! glub glub 38D"
She closed her phone and held onto it as tight as she could.
Sollux had just tryed out the phone number scribbled on his hand. He clearly put that it was him so she didn't think it was some random douche.
I know I have to work, he reminded himself. But I might ath well try and thee if itth the right number.
He rubbed his temples. Working had put alot of pressure on him. He couldn't consentrate.
Sollux's phone buzzed. He flipped it open.
")(ey sollux! glub glub 38D"
Happy to see his results were a sucess, he replied to the message.
"hey! iim 2tiill at work riight now but iill be done 2oon we can talk then"
Sollux sent the message and closed his phone. He began to attempt to consentrate on his work again. Failing, he looked out the office door. An occasional troll walked by, carrying a crap ton of paper work, but it was pretty much a calm day.
He picked up the pencil next to him and scribbled some notes onto his paper.
Damn it... thith ith boring... I'd rather be chathin the group now but I need a plan!
Sollux was about to pull his hair out. When he signed up for this job, he thought it would be more action than paperwork.
He sat there for a half hour just staring at the paper. When he finally realized that he hasn't done anything, he checked the time.
"Fuck!" He yelled. His work day was over twenty minutes ago. He began shoving papers into his desk drawers.
Karkat walked by his office to notice that Sollux was still in there.
"Captain." He said. Sollux stopped shoving papers and stood up to look at Karkat.
"Yeth?" He muttered.
"Your shift ended a while ago. You can leave."
"I know. I wathn't keeping track of time." Sollux walked out of his office and shut the door behind him.
Karkat looked at him. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah," Sollux turned around to look at Karkat. "I'm fine." He turned back around and walked out of the building. Climbing into his car, Sollux checked his phone. There was a message he hadn't bothered checking.
"w)(ale alrighty! talk w)(en your done then!"
He shut his phone and turned on the car. You're getting too dithtracted, Thollux. Calm down and pay more attention to your job.
