Sollux sat in Mituna's room still working on his program for work. He honestly would have preferred to have been perfecting his new virus, but this paid sooner. Mituna slapped him on the shoulder. "Sollux!"

"What is it, Tuna?"

"I gotta go to class!" He fidgeted with the straps of his backpack.

"You know how to get there."

"No I don't!"

Sollux looked up at him from his computer. "Do I need to draw you a new map?"

He hung his head in defeat. "Yeah."

"What'd you do with the last one?" His eyebrows furrowed together.

He cackled. "I tore it up and put it in Cronus's food!"

Sollux sighed. "I'll print you a new one. But you have to stop doing that. I'm starting to think you're doing it on purpose."

"I'm sorry."

Sollux really hated the way Mituna could go from laughing and excited to utterly defeated with a single statement. It was such a far cry from the twin he'd grown up with that it almost made him afraid for both of them. "Don't be sorry. It's no big deal. When do you have to be to class?"

Mituna wrapped his arms around his head. "I don't fucking know!"

"Hey calm down. I can look at your schedule for you." He went to Mituna's computer. It was always a little painful to look at it since he hadn't done much with it since the accident. Even after nearly three years, he still had his high school program files littering his desktop. A few new folders were scattered around as well, though Sollux could barely read the titles. He clicked the one labeled "iimpotant 2hiit" and printed out the schedule and his map again. "It says here that your first class starts in an hour. Do you remember what class it is?"

He hit his hand against his head, thinking. "It's... math?"

"It sure is." He handed him the papers. "You'll be okay getting there on your own?"

"Of course I will be, Bollocks!"

"Okay, just keep to the red path. Your second class is the blue path."

"All right!" Mituna grinned, the chipped tooth in the front an ever-present reminder of the accident.

"I'll see you later."

"Bye!" He left the room leaving Sollux on his own.

He went back to working on his program and was interrupted by a text.

HEY BALLSACK, WE'VE GOT SOMEONE STAYING IN THE LOUNGE.

kk you have two be fuckiing kiiddiing me

NO, SNAKE BREATH. HE'S PAYING ME MUCHO DINERO TO STAY HERE IN OUR SHITTY LITTLE EXCUSE FOR A SUITE FOR THE NEXT WEEK AND A HALF.

now why the fuck wont ii be gettiing anythiing out of thii2?

I KNEW YOU'D WANT SOMETHING, YOU COCK LICKING PIECE OF SHIT. JUST GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE BEFORE EQUIUS SCARES THE EVER LOVING FUCK OUT OF HIM AND HE BACKS OUT OF GIVING ME MONEY.

oh ye2 ii wiill come back two the room ju2t two get you mucho diinero. would you liike me two rub your feet whiile you re2t them on my 2weet a22?

HOW THE FUCK WOULD THAT EVEN WORK? YOU'RE AREN'T MAKING ANY SENSE.

and you never make any 2en2e, so ii gue22 we're even

JUST COME BACK HERE, SOLLUX. WE HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN WEEKS.

you know tuna need2 me, kk

YEAH WELL I NEED SOMEONE TO SULK AROUND AND TO KEEP THIS LITTLE FUCKER IN LINE.

fiine, kk. don't get your pantiie2 iin a twii2t. ii'll be back 2oon.

THANKS.

Sollux put his phone back in his pocket and packed up his things. He'd been staying in Mituna's room since the semester had started. He grabbed a few changes of clothes and his laptop. He left the room and walked across to the Prospit suites. He wandered into the old yellow building and opened the door to 120B. His roommate was laying on his bed, face down in a puddle of what Sollux assumed to be vomit. He put his bag on his desk, which had burn marks and rubber tubing covering it from the addict. He made sure to shove all of the stuff that wasn't his onto the floor.

His roommate lifted his head at the noise and waved vaguely at him, his eyes clouded over, and the black and white clown makeup covering his face smeared. He didn't return the wave, but instead walked into the common area where he saw Karkat sitting in one of the chairs, typing furiously at someone.

"Sup, KK."

"Took you long enough, Sollux."

"Well excuse me I had to clean off all of the stupid shit that GZ left on my desk. Why don't you tell him not to leave his stupid paraphernalia off my junk?"

"Gamzee and I aren't exactly on speaking terms right now." He continued typing.

"Oh what the heroin dependent juggalo finally get your metaphorical goat?"

"Something like that." He stopped typing for a little while. "Now that asshole who's paying me to stay here is in the bathroom. He's gonna come out here and make some big scene about his moral superiority and then you're going to demand cash."

"How much cash?"

"I don't know, Sollux. I just figured that you'd want cash because you know you could get some."

"That is true. Being poor will do that to an asshole like me."

A door opened and closed. "That should be him now."

"Oh sweet, just what I need. My own little cash cow." He smirked as he sat on the sofa, his leg shaking.

After a few moments a familiar douche bag wandered into the room, stopped and gaped at Sollux. "You!"

"Oh great it's Cronus's irritating little brother. I can't believe you had to pay a friend to stay in a shitty suite like this."

"I can't believe you left your retard brother's room long enough to come to this room and do exactly the same thing you were doin' without that stupid fuckin' laptop."

Sollux moved from the couch quickly and was in Eridan's face in a second. "What the fuck did you call my brother?"

"I called him a fuckin' retard. It's true. I've heard the stories about him from Cro."

"Your brother is a cunt and doesn't know shit about Mituna. And you don't know shit about anything either, you cash slinging piece of human filth."

"I know he's a cunt, but your brother is still a retard. That's not about to change just because a you gettin' upset."

Sollux hit him squarely in the stomach, knocking him to the ground with a loud crash and a girlish scream. "I fucking hate you so much."

Eridan looked up from the ground. "Yeah. I hate you too."

Karkat looked over at them. "I'm just going back to my side of the suite. You two knob knockers can figure this out yourselves." He moved himself back into his room quickly.

Sollux walked back and sat down on the couch. "If you ever insult my brother again, I'm going to make sure you don't get away from me walking."

He stood up shakily. "Not if I can beat the shit outta you first."

Sollux glared at him. "I'd like to see you try."