Days and days passed, and Nepeta and I didn't say a word about our near-first kiss. I honestly felt fucking horrible about it, I must have made a complete and utter douche of myself, but honest to fucking god, I hadn't meant it, I wasn't sure what had taken over me in that moment.
I didn't think it had started out as romantic intent, but I let my mind wander for two seconds, and suddenly the two of us were close to kissing!
How the fuckdropping hell does something like that just happen?
I wanted to bring it up to her, and try and apologize for being a total asshole, but the mere thought of it, as my brother would have put it, was… very triggering.
I opened my eyes, and glanced over at my clock, it was still dim in my room, so I figured it couldn't be time to get up for school yet, sure enough it was only 5:30am, I groaned rolling over to my side, clutching the comforter, trying to not let myself wake up fully.
Once I woke up fully it was fucking over.
Why was it that the time your bed always felt the most comfortable was in the morning when you were being forced to wake up?
I could hear my dad scuttling about the house, getting ready for work.
I hardly ever saw my dad, and when he was home he was on his computer.
It was completely fine by me because I hated that bastard's guts.
As much as I hated Kankri for bailing out on me, I just knew that once I graduated highschool, I'd be following right in his footsteps, and running right off to college.
I started calculating the days, trying to remember what day it was, and my mind stopped on Wednesday.
Fuck, I'd silently hoped that it was closer to Friday.
It was so close to summer I almost couldn't take it, I just wanted to fast forward the next week or so, but instead it was slow, and repetitive like a broken record.
Little did I know this day would be obnoxiously different.
I must have let myself doze back off, what seemed to be a two minute nap, was really me falling asleep for another hour, and then being rudely awakened by my alarm clock.
I grumbled, a couple of swear words leaving my mouth before I threw myself out of bed to hit the snooze button.
It would have felt so fucking amazing to just turn off my alarm clock, and go back to sleep for the rest of the day, forgetting school, but with eight days of school left, it seemed like a big waste to start slacking off now.
I stumbled over to where I'd laid out my school uniform, and still half asleep put it on, the uniform for boys at my school were khakis and a white button up shirt with the initials of the school in red on the pocket of the shirt.
The rules for shoes were pretty simple, kids could wear shoes of any color, only no heels, and no open toe shoes.
I slipped on black converse, and looked in the mirror, getting a look at my messy black hair, I lazily ran my fingers through it, noticing the roots of it were slowly turning grey.
The thought of the roots of my hair made me remember my contacts, I put in my brown color contacts and then grabbed my bag, giving a silent nod to my appearance I headed down the stairs.
You see, I didn't care about fashion, but I did have a secret.
The thing was, I didn't have black hair and brown eyes like people might think, or I wasn't born with them.
Okay… I was born with white hair, and red eyes. Yeah, yeah, a fucking albino.
The second I entered second grade, I gave myself a bad dye job, and then begged for color contacts.
In kindergarten one of the kids started a rumor that a kid had been killed in our classroom, and me, with my white hair, kids started to think I was the ghost.
I vowed to pay back the kid who started the rumor, but sadly, I couldn't remember a thing about the kid, it'd been way too long ago, and I couldn't remember if he even went to school with me anymore.
Anyway, yeah, back to the dye thing, the last few days before second grade started, I bought black hair dye with the money that I'd saved up myself, and then proceeded to rid myself of my snow white colored hair, only Kankri walked in on me doing it, and was exceedingly triggered.
But just my luck it was too late, the process had already started.
Though thoroughly opposed to it, he helped me finish what I'd started because he didn't want me to look completely awful.
Then afterwards it was Kankri who I begged to buy me color contacts, and still opposed he helped me with that as well, and that was the last I ever saw of my old albino self, I got regular dye jobs, and always wore brown color contacts.
The only friend I had knew me far enough to remember my white hair and red eyes was Gamzee, and he was always way too high to recall it.
As far as my friends knew, I had black hair, and brown eyes.
Though, Terezi had hinted otherwise more than once, and she was the only one obsessively interested in it.
I gulped orange juice, and threw my cup in the dishwasher before, looking down at my watch and heading out the door, completely oblivious of what was in store for the day.
. . . .
It was today of all days, I decided to get on the bus instead of walking like I usually did, I was still incredibly tired, and couldn't get over it, and I hoped I could doze off a bit on the bus for a bit before we got to school, but as soon as I walked onto the bus, I heard a voice that informed me mentally that there would be no dozing off for me.
"Well, well, well, look who it is, Terezi." Vriska nudged her blind friend, using the wrong choice of words, though Terezi didn't seem to mind.
"Who?" She asked.
"It's your friend Kitkat~." She informed.
"It's Karkat, you insufferable dumbfuck." I retorted, taking the seat in front of them.
"Oh, it really is you, Karkles!" Terezi laughed a little, putting her hands on the top of my seat casually leaning up closer to me.
"So what brings you to the bus, Karkat? Don't you usually walk?" She asked.
I rolled my eyes, secretly hoping that the bus would halt to a stop suddenly, just so she'd fall back from the place where she was comfortably leaning, but no such luck.
"Well, I was fucking hoping to doze off for a little longer, but then I was greeted by the goddamn looneyblock, any chance the two of you could… I don't know… shut the fuck up?" I asked.
Vriska chuckled, pulling Terezi back down to her seat, as the bus came to a halt in front of the next bus stop.
"Sorry, no can do loser, there's no sleeping on my bus."
"Oh, come on Vriska, it is his birthday." Terezi said, with a serious nod.
"What? No it's not." I instantly retorted.
"…You're kidding." Terezi said slowly.
"No, I'm not, it's not my birthday." I irritably informed.
"Karkat, are you serious? It is."
"It isn't."
"It's June 12th, dumbass."
"Fuck."
…I knew something was different about this day, I remembered crossing off the days on my calendar the night before, feeling like something seemed odd, but then shrugging it off.
It really was my birthday wasn't it?
"Don't think that pretending like it isn't your birthday will throw me off track, Karkat!"She crossed her arms, begrudgingly.
"Whoa, thseriously? Ith it the 12th already…?" Sollux entered the bus, overhearing the conversation before casually taking the seat beside me.
I turned to him glaring.
"Hey douchesack, get out of this fucking seat, I swear to ever loving god that I will lay my head on your shoulder, I'm still tired as fuck." I snapped at him, already annoyed by the thought of my birthday, and Vriska and Terezi's constant blabbing.
"Jeez KK, you theem like even more of an athhole than usual. What the fuck did you thtick up you ath?" Sollux chuckled, only finding my minor tantrum amusing.
"C'mon, your birthday ithn't tho horrible, you don't have to bitch about it."
"Yeah, Karkat! See? Even Sollux agrees." Terezi leaned over to me smugly again.
I narrowed my eyes at her, and then turned to Sollux, flipping him off before leaning my head on his shoulder, still feeling overly tired.
There was silence between us for a few seconds before he opened his smartass mouth.
"Thith ith what you get for thtaying up all night on the internet, douthbag."
"Shut up."
. . . .
"Karkitty!" I suddenly got tackled from behind by the unmistakable girl who was Nepeta Leijon, as I was standing in the hallway, throwing some things in my locker before I headed off to lunch.
"Ack—Nepeta, what the fuck?" I asked, startled, and unprepared for someone to tackle me, nonetheless, I stayed on my feet.
"I was just with Sollux, and he told me something interesting about mew~!"
I groaned, closing my locker, and turning to face her, she had a big grin on her face, but as soon as she knew she had my full attention, she crossed her arms acting pouty.
"I cannot believe mew let me go through all those classes with mew, and mew didn't tell me it was your birthday, it would be so unfurtunate for me to miss such an important day!"
Didn't anyone understand that it wasn't an important day to me?
"Well, it wouldn't be unfortunate, because in case none of you fucking knew, I don't give two flaming shits about my birthday." I informed.
Nepeta gasped.
"Karkitty!"
She looked at me with a cute sad expression, but then, just grabbed my hand, and started dragging me towards the cafeteria.
"Nepeta, what in god's name—"
"Just shut the furrick up for a second." She giggled, still pulling me.
She dragged me to the usual table, where I was greeted by Gamzee, Sollux, Eridan, Terezi, and a few others.
I was scared stiff that these assholes were planning on singing to me, but thankfully they didn't.
I froze for a second, staring at them all, realizing I was safe, I sat down next to Gamzee, and Nepeta sat on the other side, next to me.
"Thank fucking god." I breathed out loud.
"For half a second I thought you fucktards were planning on singing—"
And that's the time they chose to start singing.
Gamzee took a cupcake out of his lunch bag, and took out a lighter, lighting the candle that was on top of it, and he started singing badly, followed by the rest of the group at the table.
I begrudgingly blew the candle, and Terezi leaned over to me afterwards and whispered something to me.
"Don't eat the cupcake, Karkat. Gamzee made it."
After she said that she laughed, and then started to skip off to the table where Vriska impatiently waited for her.
Unexpectedly she came back a few seconds later.
"Oh, by the way." She leaned over and pecked me on the cheek, before finishing her sentence.
"Happy birthday, Karkles."
And with that, she left, leaving me flustered, and the table in silence for a few seconds.
"How doeth someone like you land a chick like Terezi?" Sollux wondered out-loud.
"Because Kar is charming, unlike you, Sol." Eridan retorted.
"Oh my god ED, thut. The. Fuck. Up!" Sollux snapped, turning, and shoving Eridan, slightly, which, unsurprisingly led to yet another full-on fight.
I glanced over at Nepeta, who looked slightly sad, but as soon as she noticed me looking at her, she smiled at me a little, before leaning over and hugging me lightly.
"Happy birthday, Karkitty."
A/N: /Finally/ I got this done! I've been wanting to get a chapter done for awhile, guys, but bleh... I've been so tired lately, my mom and a few of my siblings left the house for a couple hours today, and I finally buckled down. ~Raiden
So yeah! This chapter was pretty long. I hope you liked it, I'll update again soon! Thank you for reading follow and/or review if you have the time!
Until next time~!