I will be attempting to update more frequently from now on ;) I know where I want this story to go, and the pace should start to pick up from now!
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When Sollux walked into his own kitchen, he was immediately confronted by an angry-looking Karkat.
"Sollux you complete ass-fuck I haven't heard dick from you all fucking day!"
"Hello to you too, KK."
"Don't fucking 'hello' me you turd-fucking, ass-wrangling, shit-eating..! Oooh, what's that?" Karkat watched as Sollux opened the box towards him as an offering.
The chocolate on the profiteroles glistened, and Karkat eyed them like a magpie would a necklace. Sollux moved the box left and right, and Karkat's eyes followed.
"Look KK! I bring you a peathe offering."
Karkat looked up at Sollux, his eyes narrowed, "damn right it's a peace offering." He snatched the box out of Sollux's hands and sat at the kitchen table. He continued to glare until Sollux sat down opposite him, and Karkat put an arm protectively around the small box, "so, tell me about your day then. Please indulge me in your fucking thrilling tales of adventures and best-fucking-friend ignoring."
Sollux waited until Karkat had pulled a spoon out of the cutlery pot on the table, and had begun eating before saying anything. It was best to wait until Karkat had some food in his mouth as to postpone the inevitable rant.
"Well, like I told you thith morning, I went to the library." Sollux began.
"Fuck me sideways this is fucking delicious." Karkat muttered, he looked up, "take those damn glasses off. I want to be able to look you in the eye when I begin my fucking gloat-fest."
Sollux grudgingly pulled his sunglasses off, and dropped them onto the table. He held Karkat's gaze with furrowed eyebrows. "Happy now?"
Karkat licked his spoon clean, "very much so. Now, I'm guessing that your library excursion didn't take all this time, did it?"
Sollux hesitated before answering, "no. It didn't."
"Mmm-hm. Thought not. So, where did you and Eridan go?" Karkat smirked.
"There'th no uthe lying to you, ith there?"
Karkat shook his head, his spoon full of pastry and poised next to his face, "nope. So spill it."
"We were both hungry, tho we dethided to get food. I got him to pay for all of it, including your caketh. Then I went to dad'th, to vithit Mituna. Then I came home. Thatithfied?"
Karkat nodded, "yeah, I'm fucking ecstatic, can't you see how fucking delirious I am?" He leaned back in his chair, looking thoroughly pissed off. "I do have one question though. Why didn't you fucking answer your phone once?"
Sollux gave Karkat a confused look; he hadn't heard his phone go off once all day, so he pulled his phone out of his bag. He had 7 missed calls, and 15 very angry text messages that held a wide variety of curses and insults.
He looked guiltily at his best friend, "thorry KK. I didn't turn the volume on after going to the library."
Gamzee strolled casually into the kitchen, and stood next to Karkat, "hey best friends, is everyone feeling the motherfucking good vibes floating around?" He had applied his strange makeup at some point during the day.
Karkat lifted the almost empty box above his head, "a peace offering, courtesy of our friend here."
Gamzee smiled and lifted a single profiterole out, "peace is the best motherfucking type of offering, brother." He walked over to the fridge, and opened it. He then balanced the cake on top of a milk carton. "I want to remember this beautiful, motherfucking offering of the peaceful kind forever."
Sollux pulled a face; he never knew how to respond to Gamzee when he acted like this.
Karkat put the box back on the table in front of him, "now. What did I say would happen when you returned? I believe it was something about gloating?"
"Something about teaching dogs not to shit anywhere they motherfucking like, and rubbing their faces in their messy leavings." Gamzee added, his head inside the fridge for no apparent reason.
"Fucking right you are." Karkat folded his arms. "You were warned, Sollux. I told you about the shit-storm you would invoke when you went out with Eridan. Fucking prepare yourself for the wrath I'm about to extend to you." Karkat stood up, and walked to Sollux's side.
"I fucking told you that you enjoyed his fucking company. You both had fun! That was why you continued the whole goddamn act of pissing each other off!" Karkat exclaimed smugly.
Sollux felt himself beginning to get angry, but he saw his phone light up on the table next to him. He thought he recognised the number.
"Thith ithn't over, KK." Sollux snarled, standing up and walking out of the room.
"Go to her, Sollux! She needs you!" Karkat dramatically called after him.
When Sollux was about half way up the stairs, when he heard Karkat again. He had followed Sollux when he left and was now at the foot of the steps, "hey Sollux, we're still friends right?" He smirked innocently.
"Fuck off, KK." Sollux grinned. He couldn't stay mad at his best friend, even if he was being a prick.
Sollux closed the door to his bedroom, and sat down on his messy bed. He contemplated not reading the text today, still feeling a little sore from Karkat's comments, but he wanted to see what Eridan had messaged him.
He decided to read the text.