You are Dave Strider, and you think you're beginning to realise how hopelessly in love with Karkat you are. He's sitting on the couch with a book in hand, wrapped in a blanket in front of the fireplace. His hair is a curly, black mess, his eyes are half-closed staring down sat the book, and judging by the lightly flushed color on his grey cheeks, he's at an interesting part of the book. His soft lips make a line, and god do they look kissable to you.
He's not really doing anything other than reading, but he looks so calm and at peace. It gets to you, making your heartbeat flutter. He just looks so beautiful to you.
You know it was a good idea to come out here. Okay, maybe it was Karkat's idea but you found this place. Presently, you and Karkat decided to go on a weeklong vacation. You didn't want to go anywhere expensive because you don't really have the money, and you didn't want to go somewhere that was crowded or was in the middle of nowhere and completely boring.
You managed to find out about this cabin which wasn't expensive to rent and it wasn't far from other people – there's a store that's a 10 minute walk away – and wasn't crowded next to other people camping or whatnot. It's a really nice cabin so you were surprised about the price until you found out that a year ago two people who had rented this cabin went missing. Creepy, but you don't really care because it was actually just a rumor and it was affordable because of said rumor.
Karkat was definitely put off by it but when he saw the cabin, any issues were forgotten. The place is pretty awesome, it so cozy and the view of the lake outside is just calming. Karkat fell in love with it. And you just keep on loving him.
You don't realise that you staring at him from the kitchen until he glances upward with his bright red eyes. "What?"
"Nothing," You reply, and wince as your voice cracks. God dammit, puberty has been over for a long time, you're voice should not be cracking.
Karkat raises an eyebrow, "Then why were you staring at me?" He knows why, you can just see it in his eyes. But he wants to hear you say it.
"I wasn't staring, I was just thinking." You narrowly avoid.
"Uh huh." The hot chocolate machine beeps and you are reminded why you were in the kitchen in the first place. You grab the cup of hot chocolate for Karkat and yours which has been sitting next to machine untouched.
You go and sit next to Karkat passing him his beverage which is probably just warm rather than hot, depending on how long you were staring at him for. He thanks you and takes a sip, putting ghis book away. You grab the remote from the coffee table and put your cup in its place. The TV sits above the fireplace, it's a small one and has limited channels but Karkat had put a movie in so there was no need for channels. The movie menu screen lights up and you press play.
Karkat pulls you over to him so you're cuddled up together, watching the movie. You rest your head on his, which is resting on your shoulder. You keep your arm around him, wrapping him up closer to you. His fingers play with the ring you gave him on Valentine's Day.
You kinda wish you had given him an engagement ring rather than a promise ring, but you weren't sure how he was feeling about your relationship. You weren't sure whether or not he'd be willing to make that step, if he just wanted to stay as boyfriends or maybe he thought it wasn't working out. So, a promise ring was enough to tell him how you felt without putting so much pressure on him.
It's about halfway through the movie that he pulls away from you to kiss you. It's out of the blue, nothing could have influenced him to – the movie isn't at a romantic or overly sad part. But you don't mind. You've been dying to kiss this precious troll all day.
"I love you," He says when you separate.
"Love you, too." You pull him back into a kiss. It's soft, slow and full of love.
You make a note to come back to this cabin in the woods.
It's short, but it's still something. I've been really incapable of writing lately. But, i hoped you enjoyed it.
