A/N: I'm alive and I bring a new chapter! Please don't kill me! I've been going through some changes and I've been diagnosed with I-can't-write-for-cheezits-itis. It's pretty bad. So let's hope this doesn't suck as horribly as I think it does.
John blinked, bringing himself out of his remembering. Everyone was staring at him with the biggest grins. He felt a smile creeping across his face.
"You guys are the best. You know, you are the reason I made it through therapy." Gamzee threw an arm around John's shoulder.
"This motherfucker wanted to inspire us to work through our issues." John laughed.
"No, I wanted to get out of that group and never see you guys again." Everyone laughed, even Karkat. Aradia stepped up.
"Come see the epic pillow fort I made, guys!"
"Hey, I helped," Sollux called indignantly from the entertainment area.
"Come on, guys! Let's go see Aradia's fort." Feferi skipped across the room, pulling Eridan along. Everyone pushed John to the front, then they all walked toward the TV room. Taking up most of the free space and nearly touching the ceiling was what, at first, just looked like a big pile of pillows. However, walking around the structure, John noticed a hole big enough to crawl through. Glancing at Aradia, John raised an eyebrow.
"Can I go in?"
"Of course! The lighter blue pillow's yours." With only a confused glance backwards, John crawled through the hole. Inside was a soft, plushy wonderland. Somehow, the fort seemed bigger on the inside. Aradia had seriously outdone herself. Shaped like a mountain, Aradia had balanced the pillows perfectly so that, not only could one watch the TV (which she had moved), but there were places along the walls that you could watch, supported by cardboard and the magic of Aradia's architecture. John spotted his blue pillow and flopped down, peering through the little window at the TV. Of course, being the most important person there, he was the one who was meant to give judgment.
"John, what do you think," Nepeta called. Crawling to the other side of the fort, he said, "This is a great fort, Aradia," stuffing a pillow in the entrance to throw everyone off. Crawling back to his own pillow, he laughed at everyone looking for him outside. Vriska had just come back from the bathroom when she said loudly, "What are you losers looking for?" When Vriska was standing in front of John's little window, her back to him, he let out a giant yell. Vriska jumped and turned, confused.
"John, when I find you, I am feeding you to my tarantula!"
"If you can find me," he said from the middle of the fort. She let out a groan of frustration.
"Let us in, Egbert. We wanna see the badass fort, too," Dave said, peering around the base of the mountain.
"Eqkitty, I hope you fit! Hee hee."
"How did he hide it so easily?" Jade managed to find and remove the pillow that John used as a plug. Everyone crawled inside and found their respective pillows. Of course, Kanaya and Rose were next to each other. Tavros handed John the remote, who then turned on the TV. Aradia put a disc in the player, then joined Sollux on his pillow. The opening to Ghost Busters played, causing everyone but John to roll their eyes. Twenty minutes into the movie, Karkat started complaining about the lack of romance. Being who he was, Dave jumped in and told the angry midget to stuff it. A few minutes later, Terezi sniffed the air.
"Hey, guys?"
"What, Pyrope?"
"Vriska, don't be so rude. Am I the only one who smells that?"
"What? I don't smell anything." Jade sniffed the air a bit.
"Something is burning." John bolted up.
"The cake!" He dashed out of the fort to everyone's laughter. Just as he pulled the cake out of the oven, Vriska and Feferi came over to John.
"When is the food getting here? Eridan and I haven't had much to eat all day."
"Yeah, where's the pizza?" The doorbell chimed.
"That would be it. I'll get it. Vriska, you get the cake out of the pan. Fef, make sure she doesn't kill anyone." John opened the door to see a few familiar faces.
"Hey, John! Sorry about being so late. I brought cookies," Jane said, a greeting smile on her face. A blur of blonde and pink bounded up the driveway.
"Yo! Jane the male! What's shakin', bacon," she laughed, winking - *ahem* - wonking. John laughed and let them in. Dirk came swaggering up the drive, carrying more beer with him.
"Sup, little man. Is my doppelgänger here?"
"Yeah, Dave's in the fort."
"Yo! The life of the party is here," Dirk shouted, walking in. "And he brought alcohol!" John was about to close the door when another car pulled up. Out stepped Jade's pen pal, Jake English, carrying seven pizza-sized boxes.
"Hello, chap! Your delivery has arrived." John smiled.
"Jake! I forgot that you worked at the pizza place. You're off, then?"
"Yessiree. You ordered as I was packing up, so the boss let me take the pizzas. It's been busy as of late. Didn't think he could spare a delivery boy."
"Well, Jade's here, and you're just in time. Go check out Aradia's sick fort!" Jake went inside, setting the pizzas down on the counter. John closed the door, a wide smile on his face. Yes, he was much, much happier now.