"No, dad. We got out early, it's the end of school field trip, remember?"

I got a long drawn out response from him, I stood by, tuning it out mostly, moving the phone away from my ear.
I didn't give two flying fucks what he had to say, to be honest.

I caught the last few words, which was roughly, "don't fuck things up, you got it?"

"Dad,yes. I fucking know!" I replied, clearly annoyed.

The more I sounded clearly annoyed the faster he'd get off the phone with me.

"Yeah, yeah, okay… bye."

I stood outside the bus as the last of the kids were getting on. Groaning, and cursing myself for being on the phone so long, I got on the bus knowing that most of the seats were probably taken, unless my friends had saved a spot for me.

I threw my bag over my shoulder, looking around. I spotted Nepeta and Terezi sitting next to each other, giggling about something, roleplaying, more than likely.
That was one of the things they had in common, they were in the roleplay club together, and she got on with her and Vriska pretty well, despite that confrontation she had with them the first day.

Most of that had been put aside, but that didn't change that she always sat with Gamzee, Sollux, Eridan and I at lunch, and talked with us in the halls.

Their relationship didn't go beyond the RP club room, and the occasional text, and of course countless roleplays.

As much as that sounded, it wasn't much. So it was a little odd to see the two of them happily talking to each other.

I always felt as if there was some unspoken tension between them.

Or, maybe… it was spoken of, just not in front of me.

Terezi, startlingly turned her shaded eyes towards me, and grinned.

"Oh, is that Karkat I smell coming towards us?" She asked.

"Oh, stop fucking shitting yourself, Terezi, we all know you can't smell me." I groaned, stopping in front of them as the bus doors were closing.

It was a two minute warning before we'd be heading off, I'd have to stop fucking off, and find a spot before the bus started moving.

"Oh, you'd be surprised, Karkles. You're pretty easy to sniff out." She strung me along.

"Oh really? Then tell me, Terezi, without thinking long about it, what the fuck do I even smell like?"

I figured I would stump her with that, but she'd obviously thought this one through.

"Pent up anger, hair dye, and a hint of cherry." She answered, proudly.

I blinked.

"How do you smell anger?" I asked, avoiding the topic of hair dye, but at the same time I was genuinely curious as to how she was so vomit-inducingly sure of herself.

"Oh, there's just something about him that screams "I'm pushing back a shitload of anger" don't you think, Nepeta?"

She turned to Nepeta, who looked as if she felt bad for agreeing, but she nodded.

"It seems totally pawsible. No offense to mew Karkitty, just call it… a roleplayer's intuition…?" She smiled sheepishly.

"That, and a really strong nose." Terezi agreed with Nepeta's statement, and then added her own explanation.

I rolled my eyes and waved slightly at Nepeta, signaling that I was taking off to the back of the bus, with that, she and Terezi went on endlessly blabbing.

Once I got closer to the back, I found Gamzee sitting next to Tavros, and upon that, I found that Feferi had ditched Eridan for Sollux, and was now endlessly chatting, leaving Sollux with a completely overwhelmed look on his face.

Not far behind, was Eridan watching Feferi and Sollux begrudgingly, with an almost childish pout on his face, his arms crossed.

And the seat next to him was the first empty seat that I'd spotted that was next to someone slightly fucking tolerable, I that's who I ended up sitting next to.

The ride was only going to be 30, maybe 40 minutes, so tolerating Eridan was better than sitting next to some other pimplesqueezing dick sucker.

"What's with your face, Ampora?" I asked, casually.

"There's not a fuckin thin' wrong with my face, Kar!" I snapped back at me, as if he took that with offense.

"That was an honest to fucking god genuine concern, you pretentious douche." I snapped back.

"I wasn't making fun of your face, but now that I think of it, I should be, the question was regarding that shitty over the top fuckcrumpet of a look that you have on your face, asshole."

"You wanna know w-what's wrong with my face, Kar?!" He continued, building up the drama.

"I already fucking said that I did!" I retorted.

"W-well…! I just don't like Fef hanging out with…him."

"Him?"

"Sol!"

"What's your problem with it?" I asked, already knowing the answer.

"I just don't trust him with her, the guy is a fuckin asshole, just… aggh! Fuck him."

"You know, I can hear you athhole, you're only three theats behind uth." Sollux groaned.

"Yeah, Eridan! Keep your glubbing gossip for your desperate chat rooms." Feferi looked back at us, rolling her eyes.

Eridan resumed him douchey pouty expression after that remark.

I lowered my tone so the others wouldn't hear me.

"Calm the fuck down, blithering waste of time of a person, Feferi will forget about Sollux the second she sets foot on that beach." I informed.

He sighed a little.

"I guess you're right."

. . . .

"Fef, w-wait…!" Eridan whined chasing Feferi, as she ran head first into the ocean.

She was wearing afuchsia colored, two piece, with lace on it, and she had let her crazy long hair down, goggles in place, and had gone charging straight for the ocean.

Everyone had changed in the out houses before we'd even gotten to the actual beach, right beforehand, but as soon as she saw the ocean she was long gone, and not even listening to Eridan who was, supposedly her best friend.

I stood by watching the crowd for the time being, everyone some were talking excitedly, while other had already started playing in the sand, or had gone after Feferi into the water.

"Oh Kaaaarkles~!" I heard Terezi call out to me.

She, Nepeta and Vriska were all grouped together, as the two of them looked at what Terezi had in her hand.

"I think I found one of your brethren."

She held out a crab that was scuttling around in her hands trying to get away.

Of course she was referencing the time she, Gamzee, and I had gone to the beach in the 7th grade.
I'd chased around the crabs on the sand into the ocean calling "Go forth, my brethren".

But god, I was like, 12 or 13 when that had happened, she never let anything go.

But… still… that crab.
It was so cute.
Oh my god, what the fuck was I doing?

"I'm taking it back to the water, Terezi." I told her, dully.

"Awwww." She groaned, as I pried it from her hands.

Of course, it wasme that it pinched, as soon as I took it, even though it had acted completely harmless when Terezi had been holding it.

"Ow, motherfucker—" I hissed through gritted teeth, shaking the crab off me, it hit the ground, and then started quickly scuttling off towards the water.

"Did I hear a brother calling out to me?" Gamzee instantly responded after I threw the crab off myself.

"No, Gamzee, I did not—"

Suddenly Terezi put her hands against my chest and started feeling around.

"Hey Karkat, how come you're wearing a tee shirt?" She asked casually, as if the fact that she was fuckingfeeling me up wasn't an issue.

Before I could answer, Gamzee did it for me.

He threw his arm around me, just as casually.

"Aw, man. Don't go off and motherfucking make fun of a bro just because he's uncomfortable with his body, that's not right."

Everyone within earshot started fucking laughing their asses off, as it was the funniest thing ever.

"No!" I groaned, raising my voice slightly, so others could hear me.

"You're all useless dickfucking piles of steaming horseshit, I wear it because I'm pale, and don't want to get sunburned!"

"Suuuuuuuure~." Vriska laughed, chipping in.

I rolled my eyes, yeah, this was a pretty shitty beginning for summer vacation.

A/N: Helloooo~! OwO
So yeah, this is part 1 of the beach chapter, there is more to come with that soon enough. And the next chapter is super important, so brace yourselves.
I want to thank all the followers, and people that have been reviewing so far! I'm really happy with all the credit this has been getting!
Also, to address this, I know sometimes people make the ancestors, like The Sufferer, and everyone else the trolls parents, but in this, it's humanize versions of their lusus', like, how Gamzee had an abusive dad, and all that, and Karkat doesn't really get along with his dad.
So yeah, just thought I'd make that clear.
All righty, I shall update soon! Until then, guys~!