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Chapter 5: In which the two protagonists (do not) go on a date
Friday came and went way too fast, or at least Dave thought so, John had complained about the day going too slow, luckily neither the blue-eyed dork, nor anyone else just yet, noticed anything weird about him. But by Saturday he's shaking and his sister catches him, the real reason he got into the street at all was because he was absconding from her, he then figured he should just head to the Aresta-Mills household while he's out because, now that he thinks about it, he really doesn't want to find out if Robin was serious about the closet
On the other hand, Friday went really great for Karkat, once he got out of school that is. Robin and him walked to the red-head's house and Karkat was reminded of the fact that one Gregory Mills was in fact related to his new-found moirrail, it literally took the guy parking his motorcycle right in front of him to make that connection, it was easy to forget since they didn't look like brothers at first sight but once you remembered you could see the similarities, not like with Dave and Rose or John and Jade, but still there were some
Lunch was made by Robin, who made the best spaghetti ever and no one could tell you otherwise, they then proceeded to go to the living room and Karkat helped Robin set up the living room while Gregory went on doing his own things
"Do you want to do your homework now zo you don't have to do it later?" asked Robin
"That, might actually be a good idea" said Karkat
"Good, I'm planning to write thiz weekend zo I could really uze the free time" said Robin
And so they did their homework, Robin was really good at history, Karkat was better at chemistry and they both were on equal ground on Spanish which developed into an all out conversation in the language that kept going through the rest of the subjects, neither of them was all that good at biology but Robin had a knack for math and Karkat found geography was more of his forte, or at least he was better than Robin
"Fuck Aresta, how is it possible that I know this planet better than you?" said Karkat
"I juzt zuck at thoze kind of thingz" said Robin
"She's not lying, she wouldn't know where the North is even if you pointed it out, it's a wonder how she doesn't get lost in the city" said Gregory
He had gotten downstairs at some point and was dressed to go out; Robin rolled his eyes at him
"I know how to get places, not how to guide others to them" said Robin
Gregory chuckles and Karkat raises an eyebrow
"Why are you here anywayz? I thought you didn't like zeeing me work" said Robin
"I don't, I'm just going out and decided to bother you" said Gregory
"Of courze, you coming back?" asked Robin
"Nah, the guys got a bunch of new games so I'm staying there, don't burn down the house" said Gregory
"Shut up, it waz one time!" said Robin
"You burned down your hive?" asked Karkat
"I waz zeven! Who the hell leavez a zeven year old by herself?"
"Yes, yes, whatever, I'll go now" aid Gregory
Karkat decided not to pry anymore about that and Robin concentrated on doing her work furiously, once they finished she was somewhat calmer and let him pick the first film they would watch, then they took turns picking movies and by dinner time they were laughing and arguing and screaming at the screen, it was amazing, they had pizza because Robin didn't feel like cooking again and pizza could be eaten in the living room. They felt asleep in the bundle of pillows and blackest they had installed there after turning the TV off
The next morning Robin had the decency of making breakfast, which consisted of toast because really neither actually ate breakfast; then she fixed him up against his protests because she aid he had the worst case of bed-head ever and that she wouldn't let him outside looking like that, it took the ringing of the door-bell to actually get what she was doing
"Go answer the fucking door and leave my hair alone you insufferable nookwif" said Karkat
Robin let him go but smiled while she went to get the door, Karkat hid in the living room and she opened the door
"Hi Dave, good to zee you actually came, let me get Karkat" said Robin
She went back in leaving the door open so Dave could come inside, he saw how she dragged the troll out of hiding and into the entrance
"Now, be nisse and zay hello to mr Ztrider" said Robin
Karkat growled but wasn't fighting her hold, Dave smirked
"Always nice to see you Karkles" said Dave
"Yeah whatever, let' just get this over with" said Karkat
Robin pushed him outside and then gave Dave an amused smile
"Remember the deal Ztrider, play nisse" said Robin
Dave raised his hands in defense and she gave an approving nod, he got outside where Karkat was waiting still scolding
"Uze protection" said Robin
"Shut the fuck up" said Karkat
She rolled her eyes smiling and then closed the door, once she was out of the picture a weird awkwardness settled with them
"Uhm so, there's a fair not too far from here" said Dave
"Fine, sure, I can deal with that" said Karkat
"Great, so let's go" said Dave
Against all odds this wasn't as shitty as either party thought it'd be, Dave even managed to crack a smile on Karkat's face a few times, but as soon as he managed to make Karkat laugh he was done for, seriously the troll had to had the cuttest laugh ever, it should be a sin for someone so grumpy to have such a cute laugh, this is bad, he's going to want to hear it again, that can't end well and... shit! It's already happening, isn't it? Danm that troll and his cute laugh and danm Aresta for making you go through this. Although you guess she was right, the two of you can get along when you want to, and you have to admit that Karkat's not so bad to hang arround, and it probably beats the closet... that would have raised many questions from everyone and probably endless teasing from the read-head
Karkat on the other hand had a decent day and thinks that maybe Strider isn't so bad after all, Robin probably guessed they should get along since Karkat was interested in John, a friendship with Strider could only end well, right?