Sorry for the slight delay! Thanks
The next few days at school, not much changed. You were still pushing me around everywhere, even when you didn't have my class, and I was thanking you as many times as I could. After school I started heading off. "Hey," you said. "Where you going?" I grinned.
"Oh, uh, I forgot to tell you. Remember how I told you about how I was an actor in the school play? Theater club starts back up for the end of the year play today. We're doing auditions for Peter Pan! I'm really excited since it's my favorite story! I mean… was my favorite story. You know, l-like, was, when I was a kid and stuff." I corrected myself, turning red. You grinned.
"I never got to reading that story."
"What?" I cried. You shrugged.
"Well you know, my mom was up and working whenever she got the chance to, and my dad was out doing whatever the hell it was that motherfucker was always doing, and Karkat was just about as little as me so nobody ever really read us much." I frowned, feeling bad for bothering you about it.
"Oh," I said. "W-well I… I'm going to find my old book and read it to you tomorrow!" You hugged me.
"Yeah, Tav? That'll be great!" You sounded more excited than I had expected, which made me laugh.
"I'll see you after my audition, okay? I really wanna try and g-get the lead role this y-year. I hope M-Mr. Shane will give it to me even th-though I'm in a wheelchair."
"Well, of course he would!"
"W-well, you see… Peter Pan is supposed to fly, Gamzee. And I… I'm not really in any condition to fly."
"That'll just make it motherfucking one of a kind! Good luck! I know you'll up and impress the shit out of them."
Gamzee looked up, then set the notebook down, standing up slowly. He wandered over to his closet, then dug around the mountain of various clutter that had formed on the floor of it. Somewhere in the middle, he found a book. It was a children's book, with a bright blue cover. On the cover was a yellow circle- the moon. There was a silhouette of a flying boy on the cover. In big, slanted white letters on the bottom of the cover it read Peter Pan. Gamzee stared at it. It had been Tavros' copy of the book, and he had accidentally left it over the house when he read it to Gamzee. Gamzee wished he could've given it back. He felt guilty. Peter Pan was Tavros' favorite story. Stupid little things like this were going to bug him for a long time, little things he forgot to do before Tavros left. He flipped through the pages. Halfway through the story, on a scene where the green-clad boy was sashaying around a pirate ship, sword-fighting captain hook he found a folded up piece of paper. Slowly, he opened it.
It was a drawing, which appeared to have some parts of it drawn by him and some parts by Tavros. Gamzee had drawn Tavros, dressed as Peter Pan, flying through the air. Tavros had added an extended hand which reached out and held the hand of a more crudely drawn Gamzee. On the bottom he had written in his chicken scratch writing Me AnD mY pEtEr pAn
Before Gamzee knew what he was doing he had crumpled up the drawing and flung it away from himself, along with the book. The old book didn't react welling to being tossed, and a few of the pages fell out. Gamzee paused, then ran over to it.
"I'm sorry, Tavros," he said quietly. "I'll fix your book and I'll give it back, okay?" He carefully scooped up the book, and put the pages back. He'd have to tape it up later. He smoothed out the drawing, and tacked it up on his wall.
He set the book down on his nightstand and turned back to the notebook.
The next day I found out that I was getting the part of Peter Pan! I was so excited to tell you; the first thing I did was text you and mom! You ended up meeting me at my house after mom drove me home, and we went out to dinner at Friendly's. You beamed from across the table at me.
"I told you that you'd get it, Tavros."
"You've never seen me act, though, Gamzee," I said shyly.
"Well you gotta let me come to your show at the end of the year."
"Of course! I mean, I'd really like you to come if you can!"
"Well of course I can," you said, "I'll make sure I can!"
Getting the part ended up being pretty cool. That's how I met Kanaya, who was the assistant director. I introduced you two the next day at lunch.
"This… this my friend from theater K-Kanaya," I said. "Kanaya this is… my…," I wasn't sure whether to say it but I went for it, "My boyfriend, Gamzee."
"How's it going?" You said with a lazy wave. Kanaya waved back.
"Hello, Gamzee. It's very nice to meet you." I was sure it would be awkward since you to weren't all that similar but I was wrong.
"So what's your job in your club?" you said.
"Well, I am in charge of correcting errors, editing the script, and deciding upon sets and clothes. All the stuff besides the acting and the lighting, really." You seemed genuinely interested in what we were doing which I thought was really cool.
"So when's your play gonna be?"
"At the beginning of June," I said. "So in three months." You grabbed my hand and squeezed it.
"I can't wait!"
So days went pretty fluid. I had drama practice twice a week and on almost every other day you stopped by or I came over to your place. One night, I realized you were watching me instead of the television. "Hey," you said after a while. "Tavros, you think I can kiss you now?"
"Huh?"
"I mean, only if you want to. I was just thinking how," you laughed slightly, "How it's been a few motherfucking weeks now and how much I'd like to." I stared, bug-eyed at you. "Or we could wait."
"N-no, I-I'd really l-like that. To k-kiss. Yeah." I remember being so nervous that I couldn't move, I sat like an awkwardly slouched statue as you leaned over and gave me a quick kiss. I twitched slightly, but it was only because my mind was screaming, super excited about our first kiss.
"Hey, how about one more time?"
"You can kiss me… a-as many time as you want," I whispered shyly.
And so you did, until Karkat walked by mumbling something about how nasty we were. I was embarrassed, and watched him leave. You shrugged. "Eh, he's just being motherfucking Karkat."
Everything really was perfect then. I had learned how to make friends, I got my part, and I had you to come along for the whole ride with me.
