Terezi ran her hands through Karkat's hair. It was thick enough for her to be able to mess it up no matter what she did to it. She laughed as Karkat muttered something under his breath.

"Hey I heard that!"

"You're a really shitty liar, you know that?"

Terezi grinned playfully, "Oh am I?"

He turned around and kissed her jaw and she giggled.

Terezi decided that she wanted to do as much as she could before she faced her death; or at least get a few things crossed off the bucket list.

She grinned as she slipped on Karkat's turtle necked sweater. "How can you wear these things? They're so baggy. But they are comfortable as fuck."

"Give that back you ass!" He stood up and tried to grab the collar and she jumped out of the way.

She giggled, "No 'cause I'm fucking Karkat Vantas! Bluh, bluh, bluh, bluh!" She took off the shirt and tossed it to him.

He grabbed it and slipped it on over the white tank top he was wearing. She smiled and plucked her shirt off the floor with her toes. She slipped it over her head and smoothed it.

She kissed him on the forehead and looped her thumbs through the belt loops of his dark jeans. She smiled and bumped their foreheads together. He still smelled like cherries, with the addition of her cherry scent. She smiled again.

"Want to go out for a bit?" she whispered.

Karkat smiled a little bit, "Sure, why the fuck not?"

They headed out of the dorm room, hand in hand. This time they passed by the same girl, only a really tall guy in a blue muscle shirt was giving her a piggy back ride. Karkat almost made a face at the girl, except for the fact that a tall pile of muscle was lugging her around. The guy looked like he could squash Karkat flat in under a minute, so Karkat kept his mouth shut.

They went back to the café that they had started visiting as a special treat since about a month ago. They enjoyed lunch outside today, talking to each other and having fun. They probably should have gone to class, but they both had fairly good grades, and there were no major tests this week anyway.

After lunch, they hitched a ride to the park and spent the rest of the day feeding ducks and talking the day away.

Later, as Terezi lay in bed—alone—a thought entered her head in the unnaturally quiet room.

Four days left.