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i have to go

Karkat was so shocked that he didn't know what the hell he was supposed to feel. Sure, it felt wrong but oh god it felt so right. Sollux's kiss literally tasted like an elementary school lunch and Karkat loved it.

So that was it. Karkat decided to go with it. The two sat, tangled in each others' arms, leaning into each other, and trying to intensify the kiss. The only sounds that could be heard were the rumble of thunder and slight gasps and moans.

Sollux's long fingers pulled at Karkat's soft messy hair, while Karkat's soft stubby fingers pulled at the smooth fabric of Sollux's dress shirt.

Sollux began to press himself into Karkat even more, but Karkat gently pushed him away. Before Sollux could quirk an eyebrow at him, Karkat began to undo to top buttons of his shirt. His hands ran up and down Sollux's chest, making both of them shudder. Karkat began undoing more buttons before Sollux moved Karkat's hands and broke the kiss.

Karkat nodded his apology, and the two just kind of sat there. Karkat folded his hands in his lap and stared at his trembling wrists.

"So I guess you really like me, h-huh?" Karkat asked, shaken from the storm outside and his first homogay lovey romantic make out session.

Sollux just nodded. After a bit, he said,

"You know dude, that was pretty gay." He laughed nervously. He sounded like he was going to be sick all over the place.

"Shit dude, I was fucking seeing rainbows." Karkat replied, smirking now.

"KK, I swear to God your mouth tastes like a packet of Sour Skittles. Taste the rainbow. You are Skittles, KK."

"I'm fucking sorry for that then."

"Don't be. You goddamned Lickitung." Both boys snorted, one humorously and the other not.

Sollux looked around him, as if someone would be listening, and then stared straight at the door.

"I'll be back in a minute." He said quietly.

Sollux hurried out of the room and Karkat listened to his feet pat down the hallway. It was time for another round of snoop around Sollux's bedroom.

"Let's play a game," Karkat muttered to himself. He wondered where that had come from. He shrugged and got up. Then, he looked around and decided to go through Sollux's closet. He opened the door, and Karkat could not believe his eyes. The were four whiteboards stuck to the inside of the closet door, and equations and notes that Karkat could not even begin to comprehend were scribbled in Expo markers of red, blue, and black.

So, Sollux was smarter than he looked. He kept it a secret alright. But boy, was this amazing. Karkat caught himself trying to understand what was written there, but couldn't quite get himself to...

"So, you found my little ol' scribble board, I see." Sollux's voice said from a few feet away. Karkat nearly jumped out of his skin.

Karkat spun on his heels. "Well that was fucking fast! Don't ever do that again or you'll regret the very syllables that spill from your protein chute, you turd." He spat, scowling and crossing his arms.

"Says the guy who comes into my house and goes through my stuff. Nice try KK, but I know you were rummaging around in here. The evidence is pretty obvious." So he knew. Oh well.

"I'm sorry," Karkat apologized, genuinely ashamed with himself.

"It's fine. Wanna see more crap I wrote?" Sollux pulled two thick binders filled with lined paper from his bookshelf and put them in Karkat's arms. He then closed his room door, revealing two more white boards.

"Wow," Karkat said, astonished, "How often do you write those?"

"I usually keep them until I start something new. I'm serious about being a computer expert, you know. That's why I've never been held back. I'm a freakin' genius." Sollux was completely serious when saying that, so Karkat didn't laugh. A little confidence was fine. As long as it didn't get too out of hand...

Karkat put the binders down on the desk and sat down on the desk chair.

"I code a little myself, you know." Karkat said while spinning himself in a circle. He could already feel himself growing nauseous, but it felt really good as well.

"You do?" Sollux looked at Karkat, his nicely shaped eyebrows raised with interest.

"Yeah," Karkat's thick eyebrows scrunched together. "I suck at it though."

"You do? Do you do C++?" Sollux asked.

"I try. But alas, I can not code for the sake of my own sweet ass." Karkat spun himself in half circles, his chin resting oh the head of the chair.

"I can show you how." Sollux says, turning on the monitor for one of his computers.

"I know how to code, idiot!" Karkat spits. "I just don't... Remember a lot of things. That's it."

"Come on, it'll be fun." Sollux says, smirking.

"As fun as our make out session?"

"Not quite."

For the next few hours, Sollux and Karkat bonded over coding, video games, and really dumb arguments that didn't make a lot of sense. Karkat was legitimately enjoying himself, which really happened when he was with certain people. Karkat even introduced Sollux to the majority of his friends, and talked about them. Sollux and Dave had a few heated arguments, and after Dave dumped him with a weak burn, Sollux had said that he hated Dave. Good. That signaled that the two would be good friends in the future.

When Karkat had to leave, the two kind of stood in front of the door for a few minutes.

"I'll invite you over next time, if I can." Karkat said, gentle drops of rain hitting his round nose.

"Sure," Sollux said. He scratched his head. "Uh, KK?"

"What?" Then, Sollux leaned down and kissed Karkat's soft lips again. This time, it was not awkward or sudden. It was perfect.

Karkat thought about kissing Sollux the entire time he walked home.

–

-carcinoGeneticist [CG] began pestering grimAuxillatrix [GA] at 19:08-

CG: I HAVE A THING I HAVE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT

CG: IT'S PRETTY FUCKING IMPORTANT SO LISTEN UP.

GA: Karkat

GA: Did Sollux Kiss You

CG: A CERTAIN BOY

CG: WAIT WHAT HOW THE HELL DID YOU KNOW?

GA: Well I Remember Last Year I Was Having Computer Troubles

GA: So Aradia Kindly Told Me That Sollux Was Good At That Kind Of Stuff

GA: And He Did An Excellent Job

GA: Well It Turns Out He Remembered Me From Then And Asked Me For Advice Just A Couple Of Days Ago

GA: And I Told Him To Just Kiss You When You Seemed Calm

CG: WELL I SURE AS HELL WASN'T CALM.

GA: Did You Hurt Him Karkat

CG: NO. IT WAS THE BEST KISS EVER IN THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF EVERYTHING.

CG: WAIT WHY THE FUCK WOULD I HURT HIM.

CG: I DON'T HURT NOBODY FOR NOTHIN.

GA: It Was Your First Kiss Ever

CG: SILENCE YOUR LIES. I KISSED BOTH JOHN AND TEREZI SO SHUT UP.

GA: They Were Pecks

CG: EMOTIONAL PECKS. AND THE ONE WITH JOHN WAS A BET.

GA: My Point Exactly

GA: Pecks Dont Count You Know That Karkat

CG: I'M DONE. TALK TO YOU LATER, MARHAM.

GA: What A Burn

-carcinoGeneticist [CG] ceased pestering grimAuxillatrix [GA] at 19:11-

Karkat closed the lid of his laptop and rolled off of his bed, landing with a heavy thud! He had always known that he was bisexual, but he hadn't planned on dating anytime soon. Heck, he didn't think anybody had an crush on him! Except for maybe Terezi, but it was weird between them.

Then, the serious thoughts began to pour in. What if his parents were homophobes? What about Sollux's parents? Karkat put his face in his hands.

What if their parents kept them from seeing each other? Karkat didn't want to think about any of that, but the thoughts just poured in and he just couldn't stop them. The dam couldn't be sealed. So Karkat fell asleep of the floor.

–

When Karkat awoke, it was nearly ten o-clock, and he was hungry. He lurched up from where he had had slept. His dreams had been troubling and just thinking of them made him sick. Karkat headed downstairs.

Karkat entered his favorite room in the house, the kitchen, and grabbed a soda and some of his mom's pita chips. He sat down and began wolfing down the food as if he had been stuck in the Labyrinth for weeks without a bite to eat. With his mouth full, he whipped out his cell phone and punched Gamzee's number in. Gamzee picks up after the first ring, as usual.

"What goes on, Karkat?" He hums into the phone. His low voice is soothing, even over the phone. But he was still annoying as hell.

"Hey Gamzee. If you want to know what goes on in Karkat's stupid fucking pathetic troubled life, I suggest you let me come over and talk things over. I really need to, and since Eridan and I are..." His voice kind of fades away and he's thinking about the hard times he and Eridan got through together. Sometimes he really missed the guy, but he was too much to handle at the moment, and you were seriously tired of dealing with his bullshit.

"Alright then, you can montherfuckin' head on over. We can slam some wicked elixir and we can chill and talk and calm ourselves down and settle some shit." He drones on. Karkat wonders if he's tired, but mentally bonked himself on the head because that's how Gamzee always sounded.

Karkat crept upstairs and put his ear to his parent's door to check if they were asleep. He was guessing they were, so he pulled on his sneakers and headed out.

It was a warm night, and the walk to Gamzee's house was pretty short, so Karkat enjoyed it. The clouds in the night sky put comically spooky face on the surface of the moon, and as he walked, Karkat searched for constellations. It was a bit difficult because of the drifting clouds, but he smiled when he finally spotted his favorite constellation, Cancer. For some reason he felt personally connected to it. He didn't know how, but he just did.

When Karkat reached the home of Gamzee's grandparents, he walked around the back. Only he knew that the door leading to the basement was always unlocked, and when he opened up the rusty cellar doors and descended down the stairs, his friend was waiting for him with open arms.

"Hi there Karkat," Gamzee said softly. He waved him over and they sat on the bed. When Karkat plopped onto the messy crumb covered covers, a loud honk! sounded from under his rump. He nearly jumped out of his skin, and with a trembling hand, he pulled the horn from under his butt and tossed it to the ground. Gamzee began to rub his head to get him to stop shaking, and though Karkat hated it, it was working. It also felt kind of nice.

"You talk first, and I'll be all covered in ears, soaking up your motherfuckin' words like a well-mannered sponge, bro." Gamzee says, and Karkat smirks, then sighs.

"Gamzee, you know Sollux, right. The skinny nerdy anime guy with the fucked up glasses?" Gamzee nods, and Karkat continues. "Well, we kind of... Made out earlier. It was a fucking amazing kiss that shot my brain to Loner Boner Island in the sea of fucking Nowhere. It was amazing and I want to do it a billion times over and over again but I don't know if I can. That's Karkat's deal."

Gamzee seemed to mull over this for a moment before speaking.

"Tell me, Karkat. What's stopping you?" He looked at Karkat with his half-lidded eyes. He was wearing his face paint, and Karkat felt as if he was revisiting an old friend. Karkat pulled his knees to his chest and breathed into the fabric of his pants. He then put his chin on his arms.

"What if my parents are homophobic, or what about his parents? What if his parents don't fucking like me? What if my parents find out that I'm dating Sollux of all people? Shit, what if-"

"Hey, hey! Settle down now, let's take this one easy step at a fuckin' time." Karkat takes a moment to cool off, and Gamzee rubs his back. It's soothing, and Karkat closes his eyes. It had been a long day, and he began to feel sleepy.

"Now first of all, do you know what your parents think of all this homosexual noise?" Gamzee asked. Karkat took a while to think. It hadn't been something his parents talked much about. Actually, he couldn't remember if he had ever hear them discuss it at all.

"I don't know. I don't think they'd be cool with it." Karkat opened his eyes and bit his lip. "I think they dream of having this flawless son who becomes some kind of academic legend or medical marvel, and every time I do something wrong, they think it'll cost me my future or something." Karkat heaved a sigh, and Gamzee continued to rub his back in a circular motion.

"I mean, I've never dealt with this before. Remember when I had a crush on John a few years back?"

"Yeah, you embarrassed yourself pretty badly that year." Gamzee chuckled. Karkat glared at him and hissed a "Fuck you" before continuing whatever he had been saying.

"Yeah, well this is a lot different. I think I'm actually in love with him. I never felt this way about John or Terezi or anyone. It's kind of scary, now that I'm the one experiencing it opposed to someone else." Karkat closed his eyes again. A huge weight had been lifted off of his shoulders, and though he felt a bit better, there was still a ton of stuff he needed to get out of him.

"You know," Gamzee laughed. "You're usually the one to come to when it comes to romance..." He sounded focused, but judging by his eyes, his mind was somewhere else.

"Isn't that what I just fucking said?" Karkat snarled, getting himself a bit worked up again. It was just late. He was getting crankier each passing moment. Gamzee just nodded and put his hand on Karkat's knee.

"What else are you concerned about, brother? His motherfuckin' parents or something? You think they won't like you?" Gamzee asked. Karkat nodded slowly.

"Did you do or say something you regret to them?"

"...No."

"Then why are you worried about them?" Karkat furrowed his eyebrows.

"I'm worried because everybody fucking hates me." Karkat buried his face in his arms.

"Aww, shit bro, are you yankin' my motherfuckin' chain?" Gamzee chuckled, amused by his friend's comment. Karkat lifted his head up and shook it furiously.

"What the fuck is there to like about me? I'm a stupid midget that has a third arm that grew from my ass and constantly punches my brain. I treat my friends like fucking sod and I can't live up to my promises. I have a fucking temper like an active volcano on a freaking sun that's not in this universe, and I have no patience whatsoever. I'm stupid and filthy and I want to curl up into a ball and eat myself. I just want to boil in a pot and they can serve me at a crab shack with the rest of my kind. Idiotic, piss-drinking smelly crabs." Wow. That had to be a new low.

"Wow," Gamzee muttered. "That was definitely a new low for you Karcrabs."

"Do not call me Karcrabs, Gamzee Macarcass." Karkat hissed. He really needed to recharge. Karkat was running on reserve power, and it didn't function nearly as well as the natural energy he usual relied on.

"Come on, why do you think you're so horrible? I mean, think about it for a minute or two. You have a bunch of friends that love you and your attitude, and if it wasn't for you, most of us probably wouldn't know each other. Everybody at school likes you, and you're a motherfuckin' top notch leader."

Karkat pondered that for a moment. He thought about it and thought about it, but just grunted in response.

"Whatever, man."

Gamzee ran a hand through his hair, pulled out a box of cigarettes and a lighter, and lit it. When he exhaled, Karkat watched the blue smoke swirl into nothing.

"Now tell me," Gamzee said, even more content than he was before. "Tell me all about your motherfuckin' tangle buddy."

The corner of Karkat's lip twitched, but he was much too tired to smile. "He's not my tangle buddy, you moron." Karkat moved and rested his head on Gamzee's shoulder. "Well, he's an annoying nerdy conceited dicktip, and he think's he so cool and smart. Which he is. He is a genius and a computer expert and he's really good looking." Karkat couldn't believe what he was saying. Saying what was on his mind was a bit nerve-wracking, but he felt so great talking about Sollux Captor. "He also has a lot of really cool cosplays and manga. I think he gets really moody sometimes, but when we're together, he seems fine. He's also really dorky and awkward sometimes." Karkat looked up at Gamzee, who was smiling.

"What is it?" Karkat asked, a bit alarmed and upset.

"Because, Bro, you're head-over-fuckin' heels in love."