Chapter 9
"There!" Sollux cheered. "I'm finally done!"
He held up the completed plans. After a long morning of work, he had finally completed his plans to finally catch Vriska's team.
"Hm." Sollux looked around the building. "I don't think Nepeta would be here thith early. I'm gonna have to wait for her to come."
He flipped open his phone. The blank screen stared up at him.
Thtill no methage back from FF... Sollux thought. After I thent her thomething, thhe jutht dithappeared. Mabye her phone died. Or thhe fell athleep, it wath three in the morning. Don't worry about it, thhe'll get back.
He closed his phone and sat down at his desk, shutting his eyes for a small nap.
Eridan yawned sleepily. He had been up the majority of the night due to Feferi's endless phone chirping. He had shot the phone to actually make he stop.
Lifting the pillow from his head, he streached his arm out to feel for his glasses. He only opened his eyes when he realized they weren't there.
He sat up. Eridan needed his glasses. The worlds was just a big ball of fuzz without them.
He shifted his vision and saw a figure sitting on the edge of its bed, drinking out of a glass.
"Gam?" Eridan guessed. "Is that you?"
"Yeah, bro." Gamzee answered.
"Are... Are my glasses on the night stand?"
"Nope." Gamzee went back to drinking his orange juice.
Eridan stood up. He made his way out of the bedroom and down the stairs, feeling the wall as he went.
"Fef!" He called into the living room as he made out three figures, assuming one of them was Feferi. "Havve you sean my glasses?"
Feferi giggled. "You mean these ones?" She held up a pair of huge glasses with black frames.
Eridan could barely see what she was holding, but he knew it was his glasses by the way she was toying with him.
"Fef... Givve me them."
"Only if you can get them!" Feferi tossed the glasses across the room. Nepeta, who had been standing near the kitchen door, caught the glasses.
"Woah, Ampurra!" Nepeta laughed. "These are huge!"
"I need them to sea, Nep!" Eridan marched toward Nepeta. "Givve them!"
"No way! This is fun!" She tossed his glasses back to Feferi.
The annoying game of monkey-in-the-middle went on for about ten minutes, Eridan occasionally tripping or running into something (or someone). Equius, who had been standing in the back silently, was not liking this at all.
"Nepeta." He managed to mutter. "Feferi. Please stop playing with Eridan."
Feferi caught the glasses one last time. "Oh, come on, Equius!" She laughed. "This is hilarious! You try!"
She tossed the glasses towards Equius. He barely managed to catch them, clamping it on the lens between his thumb and forefinger.
"EQ!" Eridan yelled, really pissed after the whole shenanigan.
Equius flinched, pushing down on the lens. A crack came from them and everyone froze.
"Oh no..." Feferi gasped. Nepeta stared at Eridan.
"Eq..." Eridan stared wide eyed at Equius, who was sweating bucket-loads. "Wwhat happened to my glasses?"
"Oh fuck!" Sollux lifted his cracked glasses and looked through them. "Cracked again. I'm literally wathting money on thethe thtupid thingth. But, I need them..."
He stood up and walked his office. Nobody was in the building still, so he walked through empty hallways to the exit.
Hopping into his car, he was glad he could atleast still see a bit.
It took five minutes for Sollux to drive down to the eye glass store. He picked up his broken glasses and hopped out of his car.
Geez, how do I keep breaking thethe? He asked looking down at the crack as he walked into the store. Lifting his blured vision from his glasses, he looked around the shop.
There were several racks scattered around the small shop, all covered in different glasses. One of the walls was covered too. In the corner sat the sleeping clerk, probably sleeping because of the lack of people there. Only two trolls stood looking at the wall, one had a hand on the other's shoulder. He couldn't quite pick out who it was, but he overheard them talking to each other.
"Eridan, what's the width of the lens you wear?"
"Wwhat, you couldn't tell by throwwin them around the room?"
"Shut it! I'm trying to help you!"
"Wwe wwouldn't be here if you just gavve me my glasses!"
"Just tell me!"
"I don't remember! Go ask the clerk to get them measured or somethin."
"Oh, what? You can't tell he's asleep?"
"No! I can't!"
Oh, Sollux realized. That mutht be FF.
"FF!" He called. Feferi turned and saw Sollux at the front door.
"Oh!" She jumped. "Hey, Sollux!"
"Fef." Eridan turned, his hand still hanging tightly to her shoulder. "Wwhat's goin on?"
"Shut up, Eridan." She hissed. "You're not being helpful right now."
Sollux walked over to Feferi.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
"Eridan's glasses broke and I'm helping him get new ones. By the way," She pointed back to Eridan. "That's Eridan Ampora. Eridan, say hello to Sollux."
Eridan attempted to look over at Sollux but completely failed and ended up waving at an eyeglass rack.
Feferi sighed. "He's as blind as a bat without his glasses."
"I thee." Sollux looked up at him. "What thize doeth he wear, anyway?"
"I don't know." She lightly jabbed Eridan in the stomach. "He won't tell me."
"I told you that I can't remember! I havven't had my glasses broken in twwo years!"
"Do you have the glatheth with you?" Sollux asked.
"Huh? Yeah." Feferi pulled the almost shattered glasses out of her back pocket.
"Geez." Sollux stared at them. "What happened? Did you thit on them or thomething?"
"Um... I-"
"Yes." Eridan said immidiatly. "Fef wwasn't lookin at wwhat she wwas sittin on and shattered the lens."
"Uh, yeah. That's what happened."
"Huh." Sollux continued to look at the glasses. "Well, you know that the thize ith written on the inthide of the frame?"
"Really?" Feferi opened up the glasses and looked around the frame. She smiled when she saw the tiny numbers written there.
"Thanks, Sollux!" She smiled.
"No problem." He grinned. "Oh, hey. Did thomething happen to your phone? I thent you a methage and you didn't anthwer."
Eridan balled up his hand into a fist.
"My phone?" Feferi looked suprised. "Oh, it, um... I lost the battery for it last night and, uh, have to buy another one. Sorry about that."
"It'th fine. Do you want me to buy another battery for you?"
"No, no. It's alright!"
"Ok. I got to go get thethe fixed." Sollux held up his cracked glasses.
"Ok! Bye!" Feferi stuffed Eridan's glasses back into her pocket and walked off, Eridan walking behind her.
