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The rest of the day follows in the same fashion. You follow Dave around, without him seeing, and make his day hell. Every bite of food he had was tampered with. Every drink was replaced with Vriska's concoction. You're getting more and more curious as to what she put in that thing.

You contacted John via Pesterchum and he gave you some codes and ideas to punish Dave. He went along with it because he said 'bros make sure other bros know when they've done something wrong'. He must have said the word 'bro' about fifty times in your conversation. Maybe someone is overcompensating for a lack of confidence in his sexuality. Either that or Dave is rubbing off on him. Is it wrong to hope that it's not the latter, but the former? You'd hate for him to turn out like Dave, John was so cheery and kind.

You'd feel bad for Dave if it weren't for Vriska's incessant reminders not to be a wimp. She ticks you off in the best of ways. Like, you hate her but it just drives you to keep going and be confident. She's such a bitch though and is constantly a bully to that Tavros kid.

You're getting side-tracked again, aren't you?

Karkat said that he wanted to show something to you tonight. All you know is to dress up nice and if you're honest, you're really nervous. You're wearing a red silk dress layered with lace that hugs your sides and has the mid-section open with just the lace covering your almost flat stomach. You might be sucking your stomach in just a little. You're wearing light makeup with a darker gold-ish eyeshadow and a red lip that goes well with your long dark blonde hair.

You are slightly worried that you went overboard until Karkat is at the door to the room you picked to be yours wearing a black suit with a candy red bow tie. You have been trying to help him to accept his blood caste by only wearing his colour and it seems that this is his way of showing thanks. Either that or Kanaya (you were introduced to her when you needed help getting clothes for tonight) forced him into it.

You take his arm and kiss his cheek and his face matches his bow tie. "Where are we going?" You ask.

"Haven't you ever heard of a fucking surprise?" He grunts with a slight twinge of amusement. "This way." He opens the door for you and it leads out to a balcony. Huh, you didn't know the meteor had these. You can see the millions of stars all rushing by and you can faintly see an iridescent film covering the balcony like a bubble, keeping the two of you safe from the harsh nothingness of space flying past you. This must be Rose's doing.

"Oh my gosh, Karkat, this is- just- oh my god, it's beautiful." You hug him in can't believe that he did all of this just for you. Does this mean he likes you? Like likes you likes you? I guess it is pretty obvious. No-one does this just for a friend. Or do they? Oh my god what if this is some pale thing. Okay, now you're being stupid.

"Would it be cheesy to say 'Not as beautiful as you'?" He jokes, see, look you're definitely being stupid he is being so red right now (you've picked up the troll romance phrases by now). It seems that you can take that literally as you can see a tint of blush on his cheeks.

"Definitely. But a little cheesy never hurt anyone, did it?" You smile.

-=New POV=-

He has been stressing endlessly about this. He didn't even know if she felt the same way for fuck's sake. The signs were there and it felt as though the pieces were falling into place as he leads her into the area he'd created with the help of Rose. For a brief moment, he had been worried that he had misread everything between them, that he had missed his chance. He worried that his timing would be off or that she'd fall for someone else. Maybe a fishy douche or a spidery bitch.

But in an uncharacteristic turn of luck, it seemed that she only had eyes for his flushed quadrant and no one else's. He didn't want to fuck this up.

After he had introduced her to Dave he was terrified. He saw the predatory way Dave looked at her and thought he'd have no chance himself. I'm his mind, Dave was far more attractive than Karkat. At least Dave was her fucking species. Dave just kept hitting on her in yet she just got more frustrated and angry. It perplexed Karkat; he just didn't understand why she wouldn't want that ironic motherfucker, Strider, with all his "sick beats", great hair and cool, stoic faces- framed by his aviator shades.

But, whether Karkat understood it or not, it seemed she wasn't interested. This, however, wouldn't be the end of that. When she came into the common room after slipping out for whatever reason,. she had a flushed face, dishevelled hair and clothes, swollen lips and strange rounded marks on her neck. She was sobbing slightly as she bolted in the door but just as you moved towards her Dave rushed into the room sharing all the things I noted, bar the marks on his neck.

Then it clicked. He must have gotten to her and seduced her. She fell for him and maybe he said something that had upset her. The things Dave said next only shocked and pained you further.

"Come on, Aria, baby, it was just starting to get good back there." He wines and his gaze turns to Karkat- that bastard.

For the best of silence in between, you only stand there in surprise and hurt until she spoke up and set the story straight. From there it was all history.

You still worry that others might be after her but tonight is going to just be you two and you won't let anyone ruin that.