Karkat sighed as he tossed his sack lunch onto a table. He sat down and started unpacking it.
"Mind if I join you?"
Karkat looked up. It was Cole.
"Not really." He pushed his lunch towards him and Cole scooted in the other side of the booth.
"I have to say," Cole said after taking a bite of his sandwich, "you've been one of the nicest people I've met while working here."
Karkat almost spit out his drink. "Are you serious?!" he exclaimed. "Really?!"
Cole sadly nodded. "Apparently, what I do after work isn't 'interesting' enough."
"Well what do you do?"
"It's either read shitty sci-fi novels, watch shitty sci-fi movies, or play video games. Excuse my language, if you care."
"Not at all. You should hear what I say."
The two laughed.
"So where do you live?" Karkat asked.
Cole wiped some mayonnaise off of his lip. "I live in the neighborhood off of Dogwood Street. You know, the one next to that apartment building."
"Oh, yeah, I know where you're talking about."
"Cool. Anyway, I'm still living my family while I'm trying to finish college. I'm saving up to buy a condo and get the hell out of there."
"Ugh, I know what you're talking about." Lies.
"But I like my neighborhood and all, it's just…my parents are annoying, and I have four siblings, all younger, and… They're just all annoying. But I like my neighborhood."
"Oh, yeah, I know someone who lives there. It's nice."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah. I live in that apartment building you mentioned. With my fiancée. You'd need to come over sometime."
"Sweet."
"We've set the wedding date for June. June 23, to be exact."
"Karkat, that would only give you two months to plan the wedding." John stuck his fork into his piece of birthday cake. "Do either of you want my cake?"
Terezi reached across the table and grabbed the plate. "We already know who we're inviting and we got the invitations we ordered in the mail yesterday. Oh, and we need Dave's, Rose's, and Jade's addresses."
John grabbed a Post-It notepad and began scribbling his friends' addresses on it. "But you'd still need to decide who you're going to hire for catering, order the cake and flower arrangements, not to mention, Terezi, buying a wedding dress and the bridesmaids' gowns and, Karkat, renting tuxes for you and your groomsmen."
"We're not stupid." Karkat leaned back in his chair and stretched. "Oh, and you need to like get your stupid transportalizer ready or something. We told Nepeta and Sollux we'd go back to Alternia to give them and the other fuckasses their wedding invitations, and Terezi wants to bring back her bridesmaids to look at dresses."
Terezi nodded enthusiastically. "Oh, and here's your invitation." She reached into her handbag and pulled out an envelope addressed to John.
"Okay." John took the envelope and got up from the table. "Follow me."
After this chapter is when the story gets awkward.
I really like Cole. I don't know about you, but I like him. I'll reveal more about him later on in the story.
I plan to update with a new chapter at least once a week. I start German classes tomorrow morning, I'm busy Monday nights, and I have stupid church every Wednesday night, plus I can't get on the computer often due to some reason I forgot (something to do with my grades and fanfiction-it happened last October). So just look for chapter 12 either sometime later this week or next Sunday!