All day, I was floating on a cloud. Apparently, I had a dreamy look on my face all day, and people kept staring. The teachers had to tell me a few times to pay attention, and by the time lunch rolled around, just about the whole school knew Karkat and I had kissed. I sat down at the lunch table with Equius. He was the only one there, but he looked mad. I sat next to him, and pulled out my lunch, but he just sat there, arms crossed.

"Nepeta."

"Yeeesss?" I said, looking at him. I knew he was mad, but I just couldn't help but smile.

"You know. The Vantas boy?"

"Yeaahhh...that.. look, people were gonna ask questions if he was seen coming out of the girls room, so we came up with a way for it to not look weird.. by pretending we were making out...though, there wasn't much pretending involved." I said giggling. "But I swear, all we did was kiss. He didn't touch me, Rose and Kanaya were watching, they'll confirm if you need them too."

"... I trust you, Nepeta. Just... be careful, okay?" He said, sighing.

"Heehee... okay!" I began to eat some, and our friends slowly began to trickle in. Karkat came in last, and sat next to me, smiling.

"Well, now the whole school thinks we're a thing. Can you believe it?" He said, looking at me. I looked at him, and noticed her neglected to wipe off the lipstick. I smiled, and shook my head.

"Rumor weeds; bites everyone in the ass at some point."

"Nepeta, language." Equius reminded me. His family was big on the censoring type thing.

"Oh, stuff it, Equius." I said, giggling a bit.

"So tell us KK. Did you get some boob action in that bathroom?" he asked, smirking.

"What the fuck, Sollux, no! And even if I did, she would have to be okay with it, and I wouldn't tell you." Karkat spat. Sollux frowned.

"Well then what the fuck was the point?" He said, getting up and walking over to Feferi and Eridan.

"Asshole. Well, anyways...Nepeta, your Guitar Night is tonight, right?"

"Oh, yeah! I can do two songs, so I'm doing Follow You Into the Dark, and a song I wrote myself!" I said proudly. "You guys are coming... right?"

"Of course! Wouldn't miss it for the world." Karkat told me.

"Of course, Nepeta. I would love to attend." Equius said, smiling and patting me gently on the back.

We continued idly talking, and as we did, me and Karkat's hands met under the table, and we just held hands till the bell rang. Then we let go, walked off, and continued our day.

When I got home, I changed my clothes into something a little nicer, and grabbed my Ukulele, and sat on my bed to practice. Karkat came over soon after, and he sat on my desk chair across from me to listen. He smiled, and listened quietly as I played Follow You Into the Dark. Then I played the song I write, the first time anyone outside my family heard it. He smiled, leaning forward with his elbows on his thighs to listen, closing his eyes, and soaking it it.

"That was beautiful, Nepeta."

"Really...? Thanks..." I said, blushing. He pulled the chair up so he was right in front of me, and smiled.

"So...about this morning..." He said, blushing and smiling more. I let out a small giggle, and looked at him.

"Yeah...?"

"...Wanna repeat what we did this morning..?" He asked, blushing bright.

"Yes!" I said, leaning in to kiss him again. He wrapped his arms around me, and kissed me back, smiling. He stroked my hair softly as we kissed, and I was embarrassed, but I started purring. He broke away and started giggling.

"Karkat, don't laugh!" I said, blushing bright.

"I can't help it, it's so cute! I thought you stopped doing that in the fourth grade..."

"I...I still do it when I get really happy..." I said, blushing bright.

"I make you happy..?"

"Well.. yeah! You always make me so happy..." I said, smiling and looking down. He put his hand under my chin and tilted my head up, smiling at me.

"You make me happy too.. and you know, I really don't mind having the whole school thinking we're together... I- well, I kinda..want it to be true..." I giggled and smiled.

"I want it to be true, too.. wanna make it so?"

"Yes. I really do." I said, leaning in to close the deal with a kiss. I am kissing Karkat Vantas. Karkat Vantas, my boyfriend.

A/N In case you didn't see yesterday, when I updated the Not-a-chapter, I moved the deadline from two weeks from now, to the end of one week, because next week is my last free week before I have Band camp, which is eight hours a day for two weeks every day except weekends. So then I will not be updating as much as I would like to. So please keep that in mind, and forgive me when, in the last two weeks of July, I only update maybe once every week. Thank you for understanding!