Hello, strangers. I have dragged my ass away from my procrastination so that I can write another chapter of this story just for you. (I am so sorry this is so fuckin' late.)

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Karkat's POV

Once Gamzee finally leaves to go talk to Tavros, I'm left to my own devices again. All that's ahead of us is open water, so I don't bother to steer the boat. I start to color in another of the childish pictures, but quickly come to the realization that it was only as fun as it was because of Gamzee's ridiculous antics. I glare at the coloring book in an attempt to make it catch on fire. Why the fuck not? It's not like the stupid piece of shit is actually entertaining me by not being on fire. When it becomes clear that the idiotic nooksniffers at school were wrong when they said my glare could make something explode, I slouch over to the spinning chair in front of the controls. I turn towards the window and watch as the rain steadily comes down.

I hear the wood behind me creak. Who the fuck was that?

I turn to see who it is, but I'm immediately thrown to the ground. I hit my head on the floor board, making stars dance before my eyes. I'm still pinned to the ground by a certain someone- Nepeta. I should have fucking known.

"Gog damn it, is there any reason at all why you have to do that? You made me hit my head, dumbass." I growl up at her, trying not to let it show that she had genuinely scared me for a second there.

She backs off some, climbing off of me. "I'm sorry, Karkitty." She offers me a hand up, and the disappointed look on her face almost makes me want to take back my initial spout of idiocy. Almost.

I reluctantly accept her hand up and brush imaginary dust from my clothes upon standing. "What even are you doing in here in the first place."

"Well, I thought that you were purrobably getting pawfully bored being in this room all alone, so I came to keep you company." she says, brightening up considerably.

I huff exasperatedly. "I don't need a babysitter, Nepeta. I promise I am perfectly fucking capable of being alone for an entire ten minutes without some babbling retard marching their way up my ass and around the corner."

She giggles. "You know you're purrty funny. So, what do you want to do, Karkitty?"

"I guess if you really have to stick around we can do something together, but I have no fucking clue what. It's not like there's really many options." I cross my arms.

"We could pawlways role play." she says, a hopeful gleam in her eye.

I groan. "Do we fucking have to do that?"

"Aw come on, Karkitty! Role playing is pawsome; you just don't see it beclaws you never roleplay with me." She sticks out her bottom lip, putting on her most hardcore pout face, but I'm not falling for it. Not this time!

"But, Princess Kitten," I say dramatically. "How the fuck will we defeat the monstrous barkbeast? He's going to fucking destroy everything!" Fuck role playing. Fuck my life. Fuck past me for giving in to that gogdamned face.

"I'm pawsitive there's a way! Maybe if the two of us work together we can win. After all, we're a purrty good team, Sir Karkitten." she smiles at me, clearly ecstatic.

"Are you out of your gogdamned mind? The battlefield is no place for a fucking princess!" Why the fuck does this little Hispanic chick have to be so adorable anyways? It's not even fucking fair to the rest of the world- especially not when the rest of the world is just trying to resist some stupid little pouty face.

"Purrhaps not for your ordinary purrincess it's not, but you know I am more than capable of taking care of myself. You don't have to clawddle me the way the others do." She looks into my eyes meaningfully, like this is the most important moment of her life.

I force a sigh out. "Yeah, I know that, but it doesn't change the fact that it's my fucking job to protect you." I mean, what the fuck does one gogdamn person need this much adorableness for anyhow? Seriously. If this shit could be bottled, it could be sold to ugly ass bitches all over the world for like a hundred dollars an ounce is not more.

She takes my hands in hers, and comes within a foot of me, still looking me in the eye in a way unnatural for any normal conversation betwen normal people unless they're lovers or something. "We can purrtect each other. Afur all, we make a great team. Don't you agree, Karkitten?" Wow. She's way too close . This is actually really uncomfortable. Fuck I hate roleplay. You can never tell what's supposed to be real or not.

A slight blush is starting to spread on my cheeks, against my internal pleading. Gog I hate this. I hate this so fucking much. "Yeah, I guess you and I aren't half bad in a fight together." I avert my eyes from hers. I'm going to fucking die. This is too much, and I am in well over my head right now. Why the fuck won't she stop looking at me?

I glance back at her, trying to figure out why she isn't answering. She's looking at me from underneath her lashes, biting her lip. Whatever she's thinking about must be pretty fucking important to her. I open my mouth to ask her what's wrong, and immediately close it when she crashes her lips down on mine.

In all the books I've read, this is the part where the person in my position calmly closes their eyes and kisses back. But of course, i'm too much of an idiot to do something reasonable like kissing the beautiful girl in front of me back. I just kind of freeze up, my eyes wide. In my head, I'm urging myself to move, but my body isn't cooperating. I stand there like an idiot while she steals my first kiss. When she pulls away a mix of disappointment and humiliation is spread on her face.

"I-I..." Tears start to well in her eyes. She backs up and turns to leave.

DO SOMETHING! FUCKING DO SOMETHING, YOU NOOKSNIFFING PIECE OF SHIT!

I grab her wrist and turn her around. This time I'm the one kissing her, and it's pretty fucking awesome. She's not as much of an idiot as I am, so she kisses me back. To my vague disappointment, I'm the one standing on my toes to kiss her. However that disappointment is fairly small, when compared to my glowiong joy over the situation. I'm kissing the most adorable, sweet girl ever.

Have I ever mentioned how much I fucking love roleplaying?

There ya go random guest. Originally, I thought Karnep would remain a onesided thing, but then you went and got me excited about the possibilities with all your gogdamed chanting. Be happy, motherfucker.