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Dave Tuxedo Strider here.
No not really. I wore a regular T-shirt and pants as Dirk drove the car. I tapped my fingers to the beat of one of Dirk's mixes while we drove toward the wedding. He offered to drive first and I agreed because once we get closer he's gonna be way too tense to really concentrate. I held his hand while we kept on the straight away but he still seemed pretty nervous.
"I can still fake sick babe." I offer, I've been watching him from the corner of my eye; every exit we take makes him grip my hand for a second. His lips twitch but shakes his head.
"Nah, I'm not so much of a wuss that I'd bail on Janey. She's a great girl... and Jake's not bad. He's definitly an ass but he's still mine and Roxy's friend. 'Sides, I wanna show you off." He smirked at the end and I mirrored the lip quirk
"Damn straight, I'm a real catch you know." I rake my hand through my hair and offer him a kissy face
He chuckled, "Don't offer up your lips, I'm driving." I just smiled and lifted his hand to my face, I undid the small clasp and slipped his glove off his hand enough to press a kiss to the top of his hand. "Dave...don't be a tease." He groaned
"I'm not, that's why I'm kissing you. Didn't want those kissy lips to go to waste did you?" I murmur against his palm before I placed a kiss there and pull his glove back over his hand. I still hold his hand on top of my leg while I hum along with the track on the radio.
"You're a damn tease and you know it." Dirk huffed
"You love it."
"... I do." He relented
"You love me." I pressed on
"I do." He nodded glancing at me.
"I love you too." I smile softly
"I love you more." Dirk replied, I saw the faintest red under his shades and on his ears and grinned
"I'm pretty sure I do."
"Let's just pretend like I don't love you more and call it equal Dave." Dirk smiled
"I totally love you more, which is why I'll agree. Ironically." I argue, he snorts and just holds my hand up and kisses it back. I feel my phone vibrate and see its Feferi. I open her text and smile at her puns.
"Whal-E? How do-Es it look Dav-E?"
"Pretty sick so far, I'll send you the finals when I'm done and you can choose your favorites"
"Can't wait to s-Ea th-Em! 8D"
I set my phone back down and start working on some lyrics in my notebook. I've been so caught up in the Trolls, Dirk, Bro, Dirk, moving in... Dirk. I haven't even needed to escape reality with ill beats and flying rhymes lately...I start scratching out lines in my book and thumping my other hand to the melody.
Dirk and I relax in the car while I do some light tapping and smirk, I'm surprised my notebook didn't just gild itself in gold from this shit I just laid down. I could have sloppy makeouts with these lyrics and everyone would just be like "damn that's hot". I feel Dirk's thumb rub across my hand, I squeeze it back as I capchalouge my notebook and realize it's only been a week since I really arrived. These last few days flew by one everything settled. I start recapping what's happened since I got here:
I met two of my pesterchums in person, and got the one I fell in "like" with to talk to another.
I found a whole new species of friends
Who suddenly had a flock of drama-llamas stampede my life and weekend?
I fought a sober rage-clown, then managed to save their friendships from sinking.
Skipped a day of school to watch one of my new friends start to get back up on his feet. Literally...
and I fell in love...
I met the best dude ever, managed to have him fall for me too...
I even got to make love to him.
"And I did all this in 9 days? Jegus, life moves fast sometimes..."
"Hmm?" Dirk hums making me realize I said that out loud
"I realized my life's completely changed in only a week." I explain
"Yeah, most of it happened in only 4 days too." He smiled
"Yeah, once Tuesday hit everything got a lot quieter..." I smirked, "Except for that thing we did after school, you got loud." I watch as Dirk recalls what happened and his face got reddish again. "What's wrong babe? Are you remembering something embarrassing?" I ask innocently
"Don't act all coy you teasing minx." He groaned
"I remember you acting all coy, and that's what started it..." I reply
"I remember you giving me a present, and I repaid it!" He huffed turning redder
"I should give you more presents then..." I muse
***Flashback***
I scrubbed my body under the warm spray as I washed all the grime off, I had been in the theatre getting the pictures done before I started photo shopping. I even went into the overhang to adjust the lights, getting covered in dust but I found a bunch of cool shit for the lighting. The pictures were gonna look great once I finished.
I stepped out of the shower and drying my hair before I wrapped my towel around my waist. I walked over to the mirror and wiped away the steam. I looked at my chest and neck, covered in love bites and even a few bruises. My cut on my neck was healing quickly thanks to Rene's crazy healing gel. I looked at my face and I didn't hate what I saw anymore. My eyes were still red, but brighter... no more bags or sunken cheeks. My face seemed clearer and tanner, a sign I actually went outside instead of hiding from the world, and best of all there was a dark hickey mark, shaped like a crude heart a little under my ear. I felt a smile come to my face as I realized I had his mark wear I left mine. I smirked and slipped my shades back on anyway, heading to my room.
I saw Dirk on my bed and smiled, "Hey babe? Miss me?" I lent over him and kissed his lips softly.
"Yeah... a lot actually." He shrugged, "Barely saw you, what with school and then us working on our little projects." His arms wrapped around my waist as he put his forehead on my shoulder and sighed.
"You alright Dirk?"
"I'm... I don't know actually. I feel happy when I'm with you, and I feel safe and like everything's okay..."
"There's a 'but' coming..." I prompted
"but... this happiness... feels wrong? Like I feel anxious almost..."
"Like the calm before the storm?" I finished, petting his hair and combing my fingers through it.
"Yeah! I just feel like something... bad's heading this way." He sighed tightening his arms around me. "I just don't know what to do y'know?"
"Yeah..." I sigh
"What do you think?" He mumbled
"I think... you should just take a break." I smirk
"A break?" He deadpans
"Yup" I pop the "p","We're leaving Friday for the wedding, so today just forget all this shit and relax." I shrug "Let's just go on a walk. Maybe clear your mind... wait here for a sec." I step out of his arms and walk into my closet, I dig around through my old box and open it up. I saw old photos, my crow feathers from that one poor bird I accidentally killed, and pieces of the first shitty sword I broke; and there covered in some dust... my old shades. Just as pointy and very ironic in an anime way. I turn around and give them to Dirk. "Wear these instead." I tell him
"Why?"
"Well, there's a computer in your shades, and while that's way cooler than any google glasses shit, I can't imagine the pesters from Jake, Jane and AR are making you feel any less stressed." I dust my old shades off and hand them to Dirk, "These were the shades Bro gave me when I was young, and they kept me covered until I got my own from John and started being my own man. I let Bro think they were trashed because I thought nostalgia wasn't cool but... I didn't have it in me to throw them away..." I placed them on Dirk's face, "So keep these safe for me okay?"
"You sure?"
I nodded, "I can't let rad things like these keep gathering dust... and you need that break."
"You could help me relax another way..." He smirks
I walk towards him and lean down almost kissing him I feel my voice grow a little huskier as I try to stay calm, "How would you like that?"
"Well you could always-ROXY!" He shouts I turn my head and see Bro and Roxy by the open doorway her holding Bro's hand while he had Cal draped on his shoulders. I shooed them away and Bro snorted.
"Don't forget conmeds boys!" Roxy laughed before correctly giggling "Condoms"
"They've got plenty Rox… I made sure of that." I hear him chuckle I flash to the door and slam it shut before turning to see Dirk looking at me stunned.
"What?" I ask
"Was your door always covered in condoms?" He gapes I look and sure enough I never closed my door before but there taped to my door was a wall of condoms. A plethora of plastic, a barrier of baby-stoppers, a divider of dick.
"Gog damn it…" I sigh, "help me get these off." I mutter
"Weren't you gonna get me off?" He chuckled next to me as he ripped them off
"We'll have plenty of these for that." I smirk, "But you need a mental break."
"...Do you wanna go for a ride then?" He asked
"On what?"
"Lemme show you my side project." He grinned
Dirk lead me down the stairs and to the back of the complex where there was a shed, "What's this?" I ask
"My shed?" He deadpanned, he whipped out a key and unlocked a small box before punching in a code. He opened the door while giving me a "one sec" gesture. I waited for a moment before Dirk wheeled out a red motorcycle with orange flames painted on it. "Dave, this is my baby."
"Whoa. That's cool. Where'd you get it?"
"I made it from old junk parts, before you came here I kind of just holed up in here or my room with the bots. I liked keeping busy. Helped me not think."
"Well, let's go, you got helmets?"
"Yeah, here." He handed me a red one and started the engine once we were strapped up. "Hold on." He smiled as captcha'd our shades and flipped his visor down. I wrapped my arms around him and he took off.
We spent that evening riding around. Going through the city before reaching the more suburban areas and parked with some fast food to look at the stars. Before we left Dirk held me in the grass before giving me the other key to his shed.
"It's a place that I hid from the world in... now I wanna make sure you're able to join me whenever." He smiled before kissing me.
***End Flashback***
I touched the matching flame-printed key I made into a necklace under my shirt and grabbed his hand. "I still love how you squealed when Roxy came by while you were dirty talking."
"Shut up, that wasn't a squeal." He huffed
"Dirk you sounded like an anime girl when senpai finally noticed her." I teased
"Jerk" He pouted
"I love you."
"I love me too." he smirked
"What about me?" I prompt
"You? You're okay." Dirk grinned
"I'm gonna remind you why you love me once we're in our room."
"I look forward to it." He smirked before we slow down some. "We're here."
I look and see we've arrived at the rehearsal dinner location. Outside I see a man wearing cargo shorts and a green button shirt over a white shirt with a green skull. A pretty obvious pregnant girl with short black hair in a white and blue shirt and a long skirt is next to him talking. I feel Dirk's hand gripping mine. "Is that the couple?"
"Yup. That's Jane and Jake."
AN: WOW IT'S BEEN EXACTLY 364 DAYS SINCE I POSTED ON THIS LAST... DAMN.
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