A/N: I was soooo procrastinating! I got this in 7 minutes before the day was over. ; w; *shoosh paps self* Anywho, I'm glad you all are enjoying! :D I'll keep writing for you all!
"Peace and silence." Titaia said with her head in the pillow. She still had the room to herself, so she was okay. But, then, it was just another opportunity of inescapable thinking. She looked around the room for something to distract her, nothing seemed to work. She brought out her homework, and worked on it. She resumed her math homework.
Vriska entered the room, smiling the stupid smile that she offered, ever. "I see you've met Tavros!" She smiled. "He's so easy to manipulate! Weak, isn't he?"
Titaia looked up and gave her the worst deathstare ever. "No. Fuck you. You used him so you wouldn't get the fucking detention you deserved!" She stood up, balling her fists. "It's people like you who piss me the fuck off! Like, shit! He can't even move on without making sure everyone's okay, and you fucking use him?"
Vriska only laughed. "Oh, you're hilarious!" She laughed. "You got so mad! If you didn't like Sollux so much, I'd say you were in love with Tavros!" She walked towards her bed, laying down on it casually.
Titaia's face was red, from anger and another unknown feeling. "What the fuck, Vriska!" She shouted. She never really minded when people were childish, and talked about how she was the perfect pair up with someone else, but with Sollux, it was taboo. How could anyone even say such a horrid thing?
"Mhm. Love hate relationship~" Vriska waved off. "Anyway, the point is that whatever Tavros is doing for me is none of your business, so I recommend that you hop off."
"I recommend that you watch your back." Titaia warned, sitting back at her bed.
"Mhmm." Vriska said, which only set Titaia off even more.
And with that, another night that the neither of them would make a sound, which again, was fine with the both of them.
It was the end of the week, and from what everyone was panicking about, it was time for the every-other-weekly test. Whatever the fuck that meant. Supposedly, everyone was going to be tested on the subject that they sucked on the most. It was incredibly inconvenient that Titaia sucked at one of her counseling classes. She had a 43 average, because of her answer choices to anything that was short response, her failure to even try to smile during smiling time, and her conduct. That teacher was having a really hard time. Honestly, it isn't that big of a deal. If she fails, she'll still be in the building; they won't make her leave because she could kill herself anyway. So, there was virtually no point. She sighed, while walking to the line, where everyone would be handed their testing criteria.
"Hey, Titaia!" A wild voice said from behind her. "Smelling black as usual! Don't you know your other colors?"
She turned around, knowing it was Terezi. She was playing with some red chalk. "Helllo, Terezi." She greeted with a slight wave. She didn't even look down to realize how much black she was wearing. Apart from that stupid shirt that they put in her closet, her closet was a blurry dark mess with colors that contrasted from purple to black, a bit of white thrown into the whole mess.
"So, Titaia!" Terezi was ready to ask a question. "You don't sound nervous. Aren't you nervous about this exam? Everyone else sounds nervous!" She pointed to herself. "Except me of course. Even Karkles is nervous about it!" She giggled wildly, her signature giggle.
Titaia sighed. "No, I'm not afraid of this stupid exam. Why is everyone afraid of it anyway?" She put her hands on her hips, waiting for Terezi's reply.
"They make it a big deal here. If you start failing, then you'll have more classes than others the following school year, and everyone hates it. So instead of seven hours, you could have eight or nine! And it will be much harder, to get you to pass." Terezi explained. "I'm here for one of my counseling classes. I don't know why they want me to be scared. I'm blind, so I can't write, and I know how to lie about 'getting better', so it's awesome!"
"Wow." Titaia was mindblown. "Fuck, that sucks. It means I'd have to have more of those classes…" She sighed to herself.
Terezi nodded. "Yeah. And the take time to make the exam specialize on your weaknesses, too. I hope you do good on yours." She offered a smiled.
"Thanks, Terezi. I hope you bullshit your exam wisely." Titaia returned, with a smirk.
"No need to hope. I will." Terezi laughed, placing a hand on Titaia's shoulder after patting on other parts of her body to get there. "Have you seen Nepeta?" She asked.
"The hell is that?" Titaia returned. She hadn't met a lot of people, she was fine with the three person circle of friends/acquaintances she had.
Terezi giggled again. "You couldn't miss her! Karkles told me she walks on all fours like a cat! And looks like one. I don't know how they look, but she sure sounds like one!"
Titaia laughed to herself. "It's a neko-cosplay gone wrong." She shook her head. Was anime really that damaging to the brain?
"No. It's acutally kind of cute! Anyway, if you do see her, can you tell her Terezi was looking for her?" Terezi asked hopefully.
"Sure." Titaia replied, "I'll tell her."
"Cool! I'm off to skip in line!" Terezi said, walking to the front of it. "Pchooo~!" She'd shout, the others getting either angry or nervous at her actions.
Titaia kept her eyes on the watch for this Nepeta character.
Tavros was at the end of the line, and saw Gamzee approaching.
"Hey motherfucka." Gamzee greeted.
"Uh… Hi Gamzee." Tavros replied with a smile.
"Why're y'all all the way at the motherfucking end of the line? I thought you all up and woke up early to get in line?"
"Oh! Yeah! But… people wanted to go into the line, so I let them all skip, and eventually, I uh… just went to the end." Tavros replied.
Gamzee shook his head, grabbing the collar of Tavros' shirt. "C'mon, Tavbro. We're gonna get you to the front of the motherfuckin' line where you all up and belong."
"N-no!" Tavros frowned, being dragged to the front of the line. "This never works!"
Titaia looked down and saw Gamzee dragging Tavros to the front of the line. She had already correctly guessed the situation, and laughed waving at Tavros.
Tavros waved back shyly and continued on with his journey to the front of the long line.
After about an hour, Titaia retrieved her manila folder of testing criteria. "Shit matches our room, might as well use it as a poster." She teased, walking into the cafeteria. From what Tavros told her, the cafeteria was a waiting lounge until the official testing began. It all just sounds like a load of bullshit. Putting more pressure on people who don't need it. Great job, Home for Help Academy. Good fucking job. She opened her folder to see what she'd be tested on. It was just a whole bunch of words and boxes. She read some to herself. "Optimism, positivity, happiness..." She read. Don't all those words mean the fucking same thing? She sighed, looking at the score rubric that was on the following page. She has to write an essay about the happiest moment of her life. The test was almost asking her to fail, if it weren't for the consequence she'd face the following year, she'd happily accept the test's offer. She closed her folder after hearing what sounded like a cat. "That must be Nepeta." She said, following the sound. She approached this girl who was sitting on the floor, licking the back of her hand. "Nepeta, right?" She asked.
"Hello! How do you know my name?" She asked.
"Terezi. She wanted me to tell you she was looking for you." Titaia replied. "So, yeah."
"Oh! Terezi shouldn't be out looking for people, she'll get herself hurt!" Nepeta replied. "And may I ask what your name is?" She smiled big, showing that she was inviting friendship.
"Name's Titaia." She replied, looking at her. "Do you really walk on all fours?" She asked.
"Oh, your name is purrfect!" She complimented. "And yes, yes I do!" Nepeta stood up. "They've been trying to teach me to be more in touch with my human side, and that's what I have to test on today. I'm so scared! I don't even think it's pawsible to pass!"
Titaia tilted her head, this girl just used cat terminology without even pausing to think about it. She patted her shoulder. "Terezi is going to bullshit it. Why don't you?"
"I don't know, I'm not a very good liar." Nepeta replied sadly.
Titaia frowned. "It's going to be… okay." She tried to encourage. "Just… believe in… yourself… and you will do… good..?" She was learning about how to support other people in one of her classes, it didn't seem to be working well for her. God, she's going to fail. "Anyway, it was… interesting meeting you, Nepeta. I'm going to go sit back down." She waved.
"Goodbye, my new furriend!" Nepeta waved happily.
Tavros and Gamzee were already at the seat she was about to go to. "Hey." Titaia greeted.
"Yo motherufucka." Gamzee greeted.
"Titaia! I uh… wanted to tell you something!" Tavros said.
"Lay it on me." She replied, taking his and Gamzee's folders and looking through them.
"Well, I uh… wanted to tell you to make a pesterchum!" Tavros started. "It's really cool, and you get to meet all kinds uh… of people!"
"The fuck? Tavros, I don't want to meet people." Titaia frowned, diverting her attention from his folder. "I'm not a people person."
"I uh… know! I want to help you out, so you can be more… happy." Tavros explained. "So, do a bro a uh… motherfuckin' favor and make one?" He attempted to imitate Gamzee, but ended up hitting his head on the table due to embarrassment.
Titaia laughed a bit. "Sure, just never say that again. Leave it to Gamzee." She flicked his head so he'd get up.
Gamzee looked at Titaia's folder. "I know I ain't the brightest motherfucka out there, but ain't all these things over here the motherfuckin' same thing?" He asked referring to her paper.
"That's exactly what I was thinking." She frowned. "These people are such try-hards." She frowned.
Gamzee shook his head. "Good luck with your shit, sis."
"Thanks. You too."
"So, uh… remember. After the exam, go on and make a Pesterchum. I'll tell you who to uh… add." Tavros reminded, while getting up.
"Sure, okay." Titaia said, getting up as well. "Good luck everyone." She said, walking off.
Room 18b. She looked at her folder and back at the room number. A perfect match. All the kids from her guidance class were there, with an exception for a few who must've been stupider in another class. She took a seat in the back, and looked at the board. It had the instructions for the day, simply answer these multiple choice questions, and write a good essay. The prompt was exactly what it said in her folder. She got out a pencil and started.
After the three hour testing period, the teacher released everyone to their room. Titaia walked into her room, and sat on her bed. She opened up her laptop, and went onto and downloaded it. "Username, huh?" She asked herself. She tapped her chin. She came up with delightfulSorrow. Good enough. She called Tavros for what to do next. "Tavros." She said when he answered. "I made it."
"Really?" Tavros asked. "Uh… good!"
"Mhmm." She replied. "So, now what?" She asked in a bored tone.
"Well, uh… what's your user?"
"delightfulSorrow." She returned. Next thing she knew, she had adiosToreador on her list. "Nice name, Tavros."
"Uh… thank you." He returned. "I want you to talk to this person named twinArmageddons. They're uh… really cool!"
"Really?" Titaia asked.
"Yes! Talk to him, he's a really uh… awesome person." Tavros smiled. "Okay?"
"Sure, Tavros. I'll do it now." Titaia said, searching for the person. "I'll talk to you later, 'kay?"
"Okay. Uh… bye!" He said, hanging up.
So, now she had to talk to this person. Whoever the fuck is behind the keyboard better be an amazing ass person. She'd only do it for Tavros, since he was so dedicated to this. She sighed, and tossed her phone to the side, putting her full attention to the laptop.
A/N: Hmmm, I never knew Tavros had such shady intentions. :o Anyway, till next time. (: Luh you all~
