"Kanaya? Are you alright?" Rose inquired waving a hand in front of her lover's face. Kanaya blinked a few times as to regain her focus.

"What?"

"You were standing in the middle of the kitchen staring into nothing. Are you alright?" Kanaya managed a smile.

"I'm fine, just lost myself in my thought is all."

"Ok then," Rose said skeptically looking her over. When she finally decided that she was fine, she took her hand and led her out of the kitchen, into the main room where the others were.

Jade, John, Karkat, Dave, and Terezi either sat on the couch or the floor around the TV. The two girls came into the room and il sat on an unoccupied couch, walking into what seemed like a heated debate about something that didn't really grab the jade blood's attention. Kanaya watched as her matesprit easily slid into the conversation when Karkat shot up from the couch and flipped the coffee table. John had to grab onto him to keep him from attacking the hysterically laughing Strider.

The room was filled with a mix of profane threats, laughing, and attempts to keep the steaming troll calm enough to put his sickles back in his sylladex. Once he was calm (calm as a Karkat can ever get), the debate resumed. Kanaya sighed, slowly letting boredom engulf her.

"I'm a bit parched, anyone want some lemon juice? I can whip a pitcher up."

"You should make apple juice instead Kanaya, that shit's boss." Dave pushed his shades further onto the bridge of his nose.

"I will gladly take your shitty Apple drink and throw it it your stupid smug face!" Karkat growled from the opposite couch.

"So is that a yes or no?" Kanaya giggled.

"Yes!" "Yes please." " Apple juice would be a lot better-" "FUCK OFF STRIDER!"

"Alright, I'll be back in a few minutes." The Jade blood stood up and patted her skirt, making her way into the nutrition block.

Once there, she grabbed a pitcher from the cupboard and placed it on the counter along with a wooden spoon. She opened the refrigerator and peered inside. She continuously moved different items around its shelves but what she was looking for wasn't in there.

"I could have sworn there were about five lemons in here." Kanaya tapped her chin. "There might be some in the spare storage containment." Closing the door, she exited the nutrition block and made her way down the hall to the extra closet.

"Here we go." Kanaya grabbed about five extra lemons. As she was about to head back to the nutrition block, two voices stopped her from her trip back. Now we all know eavesdropping isn't very a polite thing to do, and our Maryam knew that, but of course there is nothing wrong with wanting to make sure everything is alright for the well being of others, right? Right.

By the time our little eavesdropping talk is over, Kanaya had already made her merry way along to the door where she heard the voices from.

"Ugh, I fucked up tho badly," A lisp? Could this be Sollux? The Captor boy did disappear earlier.

"It's alright Sollux, it's not your fault, and if anything it would be mine." Kanaya shifted the lemons in her hands to keep them from slipping. A feminine voice. So it's clear that it's Sollux, but who's the girl he's with?

"You can't really control where you fall F.F,"

"Feferi," Kanaya breathed. "So he's with Feferi. But she's not using any fish puns-"

"If I hadn't have tripped you wouldn't have fell on me, then Eridan wouldn't have come in on that and you would still have a matesprit and Sollux I'm so sorry!" The princess exclaimed in a rush. Kanaya's mouth slowly slipped open and she almost dropped a lemon.

"Hey, it'th ok F.F," Sollux began again. "I jutht wish I could talk to him again."

"I bet you aren't able to huh?"

"You kidding, he'th got a protective barrier of people who care about him. No way in hell I'll even get clothe." Feferi giggled.

"But that's a good thing Sollux, it used to just be Cronus and Kankri, and thanks to you, now he has more friends!"

"True," Sollux sighed. "I jutht want to talk to him without thomething interfering. I want tell him what really fucking happened."

"I would if I could but I think i'd make matters worse."

"Thankth anyway," A moving of a chair made Kanaya jump, again almost dropping the yellow fruit.

"I better get back to thothe monthterth tho I can thay I did my time and get the hell out."

"Wait Sollux!" Kanaya moved to the door and looked through the the crack but kept herself hidden.

Feferi was holding onto Sollux's hand in what seemed like a firm grip.

"What'th up?" Sollux asked.

"Well I uh..." Feferi bit into her lip and looked at the ground. "I wanted to tell you something,"

"What ith it?"

"Well Sollux, I... Ugh this is probably a horrible time to tell you." Feferi let go of the psion's hand and played with the gems on her bracelet.

"Jutht tell me already," Sollux said.

"I like you!" She blurted out. That's when the lemon dropped. But between the awkward tension in the room and the shocked Jade blood, no one really payed attention.

"Excuthe me.. what?" Sollux said slowly.

"I always had a flush crush on you Sollux, and when you and Eridan got together I was shocked because I was going to make a move. I tried my best to at least stay in your life even if he was your main focus at most times. Then when the accident happened, of course I felt awful, I just split my flush crush and my ex morial out of their matespritship,"

Feferi reached over and took the hacker's bony hand into her's.

"I minnow this is still a horribubble time to bring up my stupid feelings but Sollux Captor I am flushed for you, and even if that doesn't mean anyfin, just minnow that I always liked you." Kanaya wasted no time rushing back into the nutrition block and dumping her now four lemons on the counter and quickly going no back to the main room. She wasn't expecting to see someone sitting next to his morial when she entered.

"Hi Kan." Eridan said smiling and waving.

"O-Oh hello Eridan, I didn't know you were coming today.

"Cro dragged me out of the hive and wwe wwalked around towwn for a little, then he dragged me here so he could go be with his owwn morial." The nervous rainbow drinker nodded and kept her fake smile plastered on her face.

"Where is the fucking juice at?" Karkat growled.

"Patience Karkat," Kanaya quickly reprimanded. "Rose can I see you in the nutrition block for a second?"

"Sure," Kanaya quickly pulled the Lalonde into the kitchen by her arm.

"Are you trying to pull my arm off?" Rose chuckled.

"Sollux was telling the truth!"

"What?"

"Rose, Sollux didn't cheat on Eridan."

Rose shook her head.

"Wait but Eridan found him on top of Feferi-"

"He fell on top of her," Kanaya explained "When they were putting the books away, Sollux was ok the ladder and Feferi tripped into the ladder and he fell on top of her. That's when Eridan came in."

"Wait Kanaya how do you know?" The troll leaned against the counter.

"I was getting some things from the storage closet and I heard Sollux and Feferi talking in the room over." She explained.

"Then we need to go tell Eridan!" Rose said walking to the exit. Before she could step a foot out the we, Kanaya had pulled her backward.

"We can't!"

"Why not? Don't you think he would like to know?"

"We can't because Feferi has a flush crush on Sollux. She told him." Rose knitted her eyebrows together.

"You're kidding," she said.

"No, she told him before I left."

Rose grabbed a chair and sat down.

"What are we going to do?" Kanaya pulled a chair next to her.

"I don't know but we can't tell him or anyone." Karkat entered the nutrition block and tossed a dish in the sink.

"Kanaya I thought you were making juice, not fucking with your matesprit." He frowned. "Look you didn't even start on it yet, the fuck are you doing in here?!" Sollux entered the kitchen next holding a yellow object.

"Did anyone loothe a lemon?"