The rest of lunch went terribly. Karkat wouldn't stop glaring at Eridan and muttering things about him under his breath, which was a feat given his usually outspoken nature. Eridan just pouted as he licked at his lip. No one did that shit to him and got away with it. After they'd finished, though, he was forced to carry all of Sollux's boxes back to the suite and dumped them by his door with an angry note written in his best prose. He slung his messenger bag over his shoulders and went into Karkat's room.

"Hey Kar? Can I steal your ID, I wanna go for a walk."

Karkat frowned. "You know that my ID can't get you any booze, right?"

"Kar, if I was gonna try an get booze I'd just Cro's fuckin' fakes guy to make one for me. Again. I just need to get in and out a the fuckin' buildin' without havin' to wait, yeah?"

"Yeah, whatever." He threw it at Eridan and he ducked with a screech. "You're such a fucking pussy."

"Kar what the fuck did I do? You're bein' a bigger dick than usual."

"You did something my my best fucking friend!"
"But you two hate each other!"

"Yeah but we hate each other in that way where I'm the only one that gets to send him into shitty moods like that without warning."

"Yeah? Well maybe he found someone he hates more."

Karkat laughed. "You know we don't really hate each other, right? He's my best. Fucking. Friend."

"I thought that I was your best friend?" He pouted.

"Okay just because of that one party, no. No we're not. I will listen to your whining and give you advice because no one else fucking will. And you know why? Because I'm a decent fucking human being."

He crouched down and picked up the ID. "Yeah, Kar. I know." He tucked it in his back pocket. "You gonna need anythin' while I'm out?"

"No. I'll text you. Just don't lose that fucking ID, Eridan. You're going to replace it if you do!"

"Yeah, Kar. I get it. I'm gonna go for that walk now." He left the room without another word.

He looked around for a good direction to go in and saw what looked like a nice forested area and just wandered off that way. He figured that he'd rather be in some natural light and away from all of the people anyway.

He walked down a path aimlessly. There weren't any people on it, which suited him just fine. Trees overhung the path, and the early spring light streamed through the budding leaves, casting an early greenish hue on everything below the canopy. As we walked, he heard a rustling. He looked over and saw a leg sticking out of the thick bushes. He kicked at it and heard a groan.

At least they were alive.

He kicked at them again. "Whoever's out there better stop now!" That lisp.

"So, Sol. Hidin' in the bushes now are you?"

"I was going to lay here and pretend to be dead." He kicked at Eridan.

"Well you're doin' a shitty fucin' job a that seein' as you spoke the second time I kicked your foot."

"Yeah, well I figured that any asshole that's going to kick my foot might be stupid enough to be scared of me saying anything."

Eridan crawled into the bush Sollux was in, being careful not to get his pants dirty. "You might be the most hopeless fucker I ever met, Sol."

"Yeah. I know. I'm a pathetic waste of space that should just go die in a hole somewhere and never disturb the world with my wretched presence."

Eridan frowned. "You're no fun like this. What happened to that Sollux that I was just hate snogging back at Denny's?"

He was met with a blank stare. "What the fuck do you think happened?"

"Wait? Bein' kissed made you this upset?" He laid down next to Sollux, staring up at the sky. "Whoa, nice view here! You come here to feel better?"

"Go fuck yourself, really. You are the last person I want to fucking talk to right now."

He made a hurt face. "All I did was kiss you!"

"No, you made a fucking show of it. See these, ED?" He pointed at the cuts on his face. "You did this! They're still fucking bleeding!"

He raised his eyebrows. "What? Want me to kiss 'em and make it all better?"

Sollux huffed. "Maybe. But you're not going to."

"And why's that?"

"Because I still have revenge to plot for this."

Eridan laughed and rolled his eyes. "I'm sure you do."

Sollux rolled on top of him. "Yeah, ED, I do." He pinned his hands on Eridan's shoulders and was grabbed around the wrists.

"Just what the fuck do you think you're doin' up there, Sol?"

"I was planning on exacting my revenge." He smiled wickedly, his braces glinting in the bright sunlight.

"It's pretty fuckin' difficult to take you seriously with all a that fuckin' metal in your mouth." He frowned.

"You'll see just how serious I am soon." He lowered himself down and pressed a kiss to Eridan's neck.

Eridan's breath hitched at the kiss. "Sol, what're you doin' now?"

"What's it look like?" His lips brushed against Eridan's neck as he spoke and Eridan could swear he felt something strange too.

"Sol? What the fuck was that?"

"What was what?" He started to suck roughly at his neck.

Eridan gasped at the sensation. "Your... You tongue." He groan when Sollux bit at his neck hard. "Fuckin' Piss Christ, Sol, that's fuckin' hot."

He snickered against his neck. "Yeah I can feel that you think that." He tilted his head up. "I can't believe you're hard after just thing."

"Fuck you, it's perfectly normal for a boy a my age!"

Sollux reached down and palmed the erection through the tight jeans. "Hm, feels like you could use some relief."

Eridan nodded. "Yeah, can't say I'd be denyin' any help here." His face was flushed and he whined a little at the pressure against him as Sollux pushed down hard.

"Oh you make such needy little noises, ED. Are you sure you want me to do this?"

"Yes. Yes just do it. Fuckin' touch me, Sol." He couldn't believe this was happening. It was too hot to even be real.

Sollux unzipped his pants and reached his hands into the silk boxers, rubbing at the tip roughly and drawing a loud moan from Eridan. He smirked down at him, admiring the quick state of disarray that he'd fallen into.

"Sol? What is it? What are you smirkin' at me for?"

"You're just so easy to get going, ED." He pulled harder at him, drawing another loud moan. "You're just a little slut for this aren't you?" He leaned back down and sucked at his neck again and brushing his tongue against it.

"What in the ever lovin' fuck was that, Sol!"

He sat back up. "That would be the sweet mods on my tongue."

"What?"

He stuck his tongue out and revealed that it was split to where one would normally have it pierced, wiggling either side independently. Eridan moaned thinking about that tongue in his mouth or on his aching cock. Sollux pinched the tip of it harder than he should have and Eridan squealed. He then burst out laughing and stood, leaving Eridan where he was. He pulled out his phone quickly and snapped a picture. "See you, ED. You might wanna get outta here on the double. I here there are a couple of tour groups coming through here today." He smirked and walked away.

Eridan's jaw dropped and his brow furrowed. He pushed himself back in his pants and zipped them up, hissing at the pressure from his skinny jeans. He sat back up and grabbed his iPhone to look at himself, hoping that his hair wasn't ruined.

His hair was fine, just a few stray hairs that needed to be fixed but he had a giant hickey on his neck. He felt his cock twitch remembering the hand and the mouth of the man that had caused it.

He huffed and grabbed his bag, standing in the bushes. As he stood, one of the tour groups passed by him, all of the students giving him looks and some of them just giggling at him. How embarrassing.

Now he knew that he had to get Sollux back somehow. He needed to make a plan. And it was going to have to be a good one. It was going to be a long fucking nine days.

And he was going to enjoy every fucking minute of them.