Thank you to the wonderful people who reviewed last chapter. I honestly am too tired to list them out, so I'll do that next chapter. I made my deadline of two weeks just barely, same deadline for next week. I hope you all love this chapter. I was running out of ideas, and I'll gladly take suggestions, and if I like it, I'll use it and give you credit! PM me if you have an idea. Well, I should stop ranting and get you guys along to the story.
Sometimes I think to myself that I have had enough drama in my life. I guess life doesn't agree with me, ever. In the past two months my mom has dies, a new kid came to school, Tavros, Aradia, and Vriska got in an accident, and here dad dies. Not to mention that we had this weird ass thanksgiving which ended in Karkat and I getting together. I honestly hope it works out…
They finally finished the autopsy last week, and they couldn't really figure out what happened all that well, but it had to do something with a genetic malformation of some sort. Meulin and I have to get tested by getting a blood draw. I HATE those things! Before that happens though, we're having her funeral. Generally these things happen a lot closer to the death, but they had to do all those tests.
The funeral's today, and I'm not all that happy. Not that I should be, but I guess crying over her ashes is acceptable. No dur it's acceptable, but I don't like being sad. Being sad is not fun, and I like fun. But I guess if I don't grieve then I'll never healthily get over it. This funeral thing is going to take a while, isn't it?
We're all in a little clearing by the Willamette River, just a few close friends, like Equius and his family, Terezi, Karkat and Kankri, Kurloz and Gamzee, and Meulin and I. Equius's Dad is up there. Being part of the FBI, he's had to attend many funerals. He keeps his composure, though looks a bit broken. Our families have known each other since Horrus and Meulin were in preschool. I guess our parents were platonically made for each other.
"Now, I know how most funerals start, but this is not most funerals, and I am not most people. I do not grieve like most people, yet most people grieve. Although we have gathered for the death of an amazing woman, and we should be sad that she has departed much too early, we should be joyous that we live. We need to be joyous that her life was full of love and friends, something we have probably taken for granted. Est omnibus ad vitam, sed non est super. It's Latin for we all have life, but we aren't living. I never fully understood the meaning of that phrase until after she died. Ugh, this is probably one of the most cliché things to say, and it may not necessarily be true, but I believe we are all better people after knowing her," he concludes his speech. He bows his head and walks back into the group. Soon enough someone else was at the front.
"Now, I knew Mrs. Leijon since I was in fourth grade, when I met Nepeta. I never saw her, but I could smell that she was beautiful. Her long cherry locks always smelled so delicious, and she was always happy. I can tell we will all be missing her, and may justice rule over all!" exclaims Terezi, raising her cane up high. She walks back into the midst of us.
"Well, I never met her, but from what I can tell we are missing someone dear. Someone dear who I wish I could have met. From what I heard she was an amazing woman, and she deserved to live longer. I wish I could have met her, and she will be missed," Kankri dictates and walks back to join us.
No one else walks up soon, so Meulin and I take the box and open it up. After setting it on the ground, we each take a handful, and sprinkle it into the water. The wind carries it down stream and into the water. She used to love this little clearing, so we thought it fit to lay her here, putting her back into nature. It's how she would have wanted it.
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I come back from break, and there is a test.
There is a test, on the first day back from break.
I'm staring down at my test.
f(x)=x^2+3x-8
I have to graph this. What type of equation is this? This obviously isn't linear, but what does it look like? How do I do this?
I sit, just staring at the paper, for twenty minutes. The teacher gets our attention.
"Okay, thanks for doing that pressure test. You can keep the papers if you want, but they can also be recycled."
Oh my flipping gosh. What the HELL?!
"You can have the rest of the period as break."
Well, I'm drawing.
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"Hey, ride?"
"Of course! Want to just come to my house?" I question him.
"If Kankri says yeah, sure," he states.
"Ask ask ask!" I yell, probably in his ear.
"Fine, give me a second. Now calm down before you blow a damn gasket."
"Okay, just call!"
He takes out his phone, and surely enough it takes ten minutes before he can say anything. When he gets the chance to ask, he gets a rant about chastity, but an eventual yes. So we sit there, two weirdoes, one with messy hair, a frown, and a cello, the other a crazy cat hat on, a cleft lip, and a half fallen apart sketchbook. What a spectacle we must be. We just sit there happily in silence next to each other until Meulin pulls up. We get in and hitch a ride to my house.
I love cookies, but doughnuts are just as delicious.
I have a maple bar, and Karkat has a jelly filled chocolate ring. I don't like jelly filled, but he seems to be enjoying it. Footloose was on, so that's what we're watching, how I love that movie! I wonder why we have doughnuts. Kurloz must've gotten them for Meulin. Maybe we shouldn't have taken any. Whatever, Meulin won't mind, since she apparently SHIPS us. I mean, I ship my friends, but she was going to try to get us together if we didn't ourselves! Oh well, I just won't tell Karkat.
Okay, apparently I'm leaning against him, and he has his arm around me. I like this arrangement. I wonder if he's noticed. He probably hasn't, based on how much he's engrossed in the movie. I curl my legs up and watch the movie, blushing ever so slightly.
Wait, no, I'm not blushing. When have I ever blushed, ha ha ha.
When the movie ends, I feel Karkat suddenly shift. "I- uh, I didn't mean to, god," he sputters. I shut him up by scooting next to him and giving him a hug, then lick his jaw. I lean back, and he has a startled look on his face. I giggle and stand up, heading towards the stairs. I can hear him following so I continue up and into my room, him following. I dive under the desk, surprisingly not hitting my head, and hide. Karkat walks in and starts saying something, but is cut short because I am not in sight. He stands there for a second, and walks out, looking for me elsewhere. I sneak out and take all the covers and pillows off my bed. I make a soft nest and stand up and walk out. I call his name and hop back in my room, hiding under the desk yet again. He walks in, grumbling under his breath.
"The mighty huntress aims her shot, and leaps!" I start at a whisper and grow into a chant. I leap from my hiding place and onto his back, knocking him down into the blanket nest. "She captures her victim, gently holding him down on the ground."
"Nepeta, what the absolute ass licking, douche fucking thing are you doing?" he yells.
"The mighty huntress takes a blanket and covers her prey with it," I say, and do just that, then roll onto my back and open my stomach for scratches.
He gets a little look on his face, then he starts ti- "hahah ahh haha heheh ah ha heh hh ehh ah ehah e hah hahh ehaha heh ehaeh hehheahe heah sto- st st stop!' I manage.
"No," he plainly responds, taking one hand and pinning me down by the shoulder, his other hand tickling my side. I squirm underneath him, but to no avail. He suddenly stops tickling me, and just as quickly starts kissing me. A blush rises to my face as I kiss him back. It feels like an eternity when his phone goes off. He sits up and looks at it, answering it and putting it on speaker. "What do you want, Sollux?" he questions into the phone, annoyed as hell.
"Thit, kk, oh my god, I am freaking out," comes out of the device. Sollux sounds like he's hysterical.
"Can't it wait until-" Karkat starts.
I cut him off. "What's wrong, Pawlux?"
"Aradia tried to kill herthelf!" he yells, making the phone fuzz out.
"What?" Karkat asks, his faced confused. He's still on top of me.
"She thinkth I don't love her anymore, and that- and that-"
"Sollux, we're coming ofur," I say.
"Ugh, no. You don't have to. I-I'm gonna be fine. The police are taking Aradia to a facility, I won't thee her for monthth…"
"It is okay, Sollux, you obviously need someone to talk to," I say, somehow now having the phone. Karkat has a sour face on, still somewhat peeved about the sudden halt. I see sympathy on his face, though, probably thinking of how he'd react if I tried to kill myself, not that I would.
"Fine, come if you want. I couldn't care leth." His voice cracks again.
"Okay, give us a half an hour," I inform, then hang up, handing the phone back to Karkat.
"Why'd you say a half an hour? We can be there in ten minutes," he queries.
"Two reasons. One, because I wanted to do this," I stop midsentence and sit up fully, kissing him again on the lips, lingering for a few seconds.
He sits there, a bit shocked, and then questions, "What was number two?"
"I'm hungry."
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"Hey, Sollux. How are you hanging in there?" I ask.
"Like thit," he complains.
"No fucking duh," Karkat states.
"Shut up," I retort at him He is NOT helping. He mumbles a quick apology sorry thing. I forgive him and move on. "I-It was her fault, not-"
"Don't even fucking try to pin the blame on Aradia! It wathn't her fault at all! It wath all my fault, she was going to die becauthe of me! The felt like I didn't love her. I gueth it mutht be true…" he trails off. I can't even begin to imagine what's going on in his mind. Having his first love try to commit suicide, how heart wrenching that must be. Then having the fault pinned on him?
"Sollux, it has never been your fault, ever! I don't know what made you think that, but nefur, efur do again! Sorry fur my puns," I apologize, damn those persnickety, annoying cat related puns.
Well, I had to find somewhere to end it. I made my deadline by a couple hours! I will find you and I will trach you down if you don't review. By the way, there's this thing called the review revolution that I think everyone should join! For more info you guys can look on my profile, it's towards the top. Now I have to go to bed. Ciao everyone!