Authors note: Im back! Yay! First I would like to thank all of you who reviewed, I know I don't thank you enough but you are the reason I keep writing, so go you! Second, I received a few questions (both pm'd and in reviews) and I shall clear them up. Yes, this is a Karkat/John fic not john/eridan … about the "project" I mentioned a couple chapters ago…im sorry to say, I thought it would be such a good idea I decided to make it into a spinoff story if you would. So it wont be appearing in this story. (so sorry!) I will announce its name at the last chapter. About Eridan…read and find out. He shall appear again. Also, John is in fact a Junior, He passed all of his classes and is going to graduate early. REALLY early. And lastly, no, there will be no Dirk/Jake in this. Their relationship crashed and burned in this one. I may, MAY, write a story about that. But not for a while…anyway…on with the story! (and sorry for the shortish chapter!)

Johns POV

Of course, he WOULD be waiting right there as soon as I get a chance to get away from him for good…maybe if I play dumb he'll go away for the rest of the school year and I can head out right after my graduation…I think Karkat still has a couple more semesters here, that's what you get for failing 'public speaking' and 'physical education'. I mean, I passed speaking with a B but I scraped by in P.E. Even so I have the ability to graduate early because of my high GPA and my SAT scores. I don't think anybody but Rose is going to graduate with me. But that's fine with me, I don't need anybody. I've been just fine on my own for this long. I can last forever, it doesn't bother me.

I wished with all my heart someday I could believe those words.

I was snapped out of my thoughts by Karkat snapping his fingers in front of my face.

"Hello? Are you even listening to me?" He asked me in his usual tone. Yeah asshole? Two can play at this game.

"No actually, I found the fly buzzing around the door more interesting than anything you have to say so I focused on it, you should have seen it. It flew up the principals nose. I think I shall hold a funeral for it later." And with that I turned away and started to walk off.

"Hey fuckass I'm not done with you yet!" He grabbed me by the wrist, stopping me from moving further away from him.

"Really? Then what do you want?" Please let me go please let me go please let me go…

"Its just…I've been thinking about things…a lot of things, and…well…"

FLASHBACK

"I just don't get it Gamzee, why doesn't he like me?" I looked over from the fading brown couch to the worst moirail in the history of the universe, who as predicted, just stared at me blankly for a few minutes while sipping faygo.

"Man, Crazy motherfuckers all up and yelling at his maybe matesprite making him think he's not interested in him, maybe if you backed off and admitted your feelings to him he'd be a little more friendly and return your feelings." He leaned back in the recliner and took a swallow of the toxic liquid he's become addicted to.

"But what if that doesn't work? What if he thinks im joking, or worse, he laughs at me?" He wouldn't do that to me…would he?

"You just gotta take the chance my best motherfucker. That's what I did to Tavbro, and that worked out motherfuckingly beautiful. If I had never asked him, then we wouldn't be anywhere near where we are."

"Well that's all just fine and fucking dandy, but that wont help me very much will it? I cant just go up to John and ask if he wants to make out, that's liable to get me slapped, or punched in the bulge… probably the later."

"Well, if you don't like that approach, which is what I would have done. Ask him to dinner, like in one of your rom-coms. That always works doesn't it?"

I shook my head. "That's only in rom-coms Gamzee, its not real life. It just doesn't work that way. Even that's probably not going to end up with a favorable outcome…favorable outcome…maybe she'd no something about romance…she did find some way to get Kanaya to be her matesprite."

Gamzee looked at me with a shocked face. "Woah man, if your going to involve Vriska you better tread carefully, or you may just end up getting stabbed in the back." That reminded me, Gamzee had a slight fear of Vriska, not that I liked her much either, but Kanaya is a good friend. Maybe she'd be able to convince her to give me some advice.

END FLASHBACK

Johns POV

Where is he going with this? What sort of sick twisted game could he have possibly come up with to break me even further?

"Will you be my matesprit?"

Okay, so this is the demented…wait, WHAT?

"Uh…"

"Well? Is it a yes or a no? It's a simple fucking question that you can answer with one fucking word. Now which is it?"

Matesprit? What was that? Maybe I should have read the book on troll culture that rose had given me, instead of just throwing it in the trash bin. Maybe then I would know what these quadrants are. What is a matesprit anyway? What does it entail? Moirail is friendship so then matesprit is probably the opposite of it right? So, not a friend?

"Um, Karkat? Aren't we already matesprits?"

He just stared at me for a few moments, his face contorted into a plethora of emotions, disbelief, anger, happiness, hopeful, and some emotion I had only ever seen Dave look at me with.

Lust.

What was this, I had a feeling I just jumped into an Olympic pool and I had no idea how to swim.

I was given much time to think about it as he did the one thing I would never expect him to do in this universe or the next.

He pushed me flush against the wall and kissed me for all I was worth.