I'm awakened by poorly whispered voices and the sound of the door to the game room opening. I can easily tell who is who, but the conversation in itself makes me curious.
"Aw look they're so cute!"
"Damn that's adorable, I'm glad we didn't wake them up last night!"
"Wonder if they'll freak out when we wake them up, they do have to go to school,"
"But we have to do it anyway,"
I don't alert them to my awakeness and continue to lie still, trying to figure out what they're talking about. I crack open my eyes the tiniest bit and begin to curse myself mentally when I'm met with face-full of Sollux's shirt.
"HEY KIDS GET YOUR ASS UP IT'S TIME FOR SCHOOL!" Latula yells, successfully making all four of us snap to (complete) awakeness.
"Motherfuck?" Gamzee groans, sitting up and rubbing at his face. He hadn't taken off his clown makeup the night before so now it's smeared weirdly. When Tavros sits up, he has paint on his face, how? I really don't want to know.
Sollux and my arms and legs are tangled together, so I have to make him wake up totally so I can move away.
"Jesus fuck Captor, you're a active sleeper," I grumble, standing up and stretching. He rubs his eyes and blindly reaches for his glasses before looking up at me.
"Thorry KK, geeth, what time ith it?" He yawns, looking at the others.
"Oh, almost eight," Latula says. I freeze and look at her. I glance at Sollux before beginning to panic.
"WHAT!" I yelp, running out the door, looking at the clock by the staircase. "HOLY SHIT SOLLUX GET YOUR ASS MOVING!" The taller teen is quickly running after me, after grabbing Latula's keys and before they can ask what we're doing, the two of us are out the door and in the truck. We watch them run out the door and yell at us before Sollux drives away, and I let out a frustrated groan.
"Ugh, that'th definitely not my favorite way to wake up," Sollux groans, still trying to wake up. I only nod in agreement, rubbing at my eyes. The floor hadn't been to uncomfortable, but it certainly did nothing to help the bruises littering my body. I'm glad we had fallen asleep in our clothes, it would've been worse if we were still in PJ's.
It doesn't take long before Sollux is parking the truck and stumbling out, tossing me the keys before jogging down the street. I blow out a breath, watching my bangs fly off my forehead. We were ridiculously close to not picking up Nepeta. At least we remembered...but then again we technically stole Latula's truck...
"Hi Karkitty! Good morning!" I'm distracted by Nepeta's voice and I smile tiredly at her.
"Morning Catnep, Sollux is going to drive us today," I say simply, pecking her cheek and watch her climb into the backseat. Handing Sollux back the keys, I turn to her as he begins driving again.
"So how are you today?"
"Purrfect! I was talking to Terezi yesterday, and she told me her birthday is coming up soon, so I made her a present, and I'm going over to her house after school today, but you still need to pick me up!" She continues to babble until we pull up to the school. I climb up and help her down to walk her to the doors. I can already see her friends waiting inside.
"See you at the end of the day Catnep," I yell, then run back to the truck.
"Should we go to school or back to Tavros's house," I ask, looking around. Sollux frowns, staring intently at the steering wheel.
"In all technicalitieth, we thtole Latula'th truck, tho we thould probably return it-" He got cut off by his phone ringing. He growls and tosses it over to me, after looking at the caller ID.
"Hello?" I ask, not having the time to see who it is.
"WHY THE HELL DID THE TWO OF YOU TAKE OFF WITH MY TRUCK! THAT'S NOT COOL!" Latula shouts at me. I wince and keep the phone a few inches away from my ear.
"SORRY OK! I had to take my little cousin to school, calm the fuck down," I retort, leaning back against the seat. She falls silent before sighing.
"Just get your ass back to Rufiohs, you little bastard." she hangs up with a click and I toss the phone back at Sollux.
"Rufioh's house it is!" I say extremely sarcastically before falling silent. We stay silent for the whole ride back to Tavros's, to tired to really try to bring up a conversation.
Once at Tavros's, we're both tackled to the ground by Latula, and she snatches back her keys before growling at us, "Don't fucking take off without warning!" Before releasing us to stand up. I wince as I stand up off the ground, rubbing the bruise over my chest. Standing behind Latula were the other members that were in the house.
"Sorry, it would've been bad if I had forgotten about my kid cousin," I say , glaring at them all.
"Oh, is that why you took off! Sorry for flipping our shit Karbro," Gamzee says with a wide grin, walking over to hug me.
"Did you seriously forget asshat? Jeez you're dense," I growl, pushing his arm away.
"Well, uh, we kind of need to get to school guys," Tavros interrupts, motioning at the backpack he was holding. Sollux glances at his phone and nods with a scowl.
"Yeah we should, thee you Mituna, Latula," Sollux calls, beginning to walk away.
"Hey now, shouldn't I drive ya'll or somethin'," Rufioh protests walking forward a few steps.
"Ugh, I don't uh care, but we do need to be at our first class in uh in about ten minutes," Tavros groans, walking toward Rufiohs truck that's parked in the driveway. I follow him, pulling Sollux.
Meulin grins at us, signing quickly: Have a good day at school!
We luckily get to school as first bell rings. Bypassing lockers, we split and head to our classes. All of them passing as uneventfully as always.
When we walked into Art though, Jade smiles and motions us over to the far wall, where the other students are standing very confused.
"Today we will be doing something different! You will be able to work on your projects more tomorrow ok?" She says happily. In the center of the room she has the tables pushed together and on top of them are a bunch of books and musical instruments. I glance over them. The books are musical books, and the instruments are all well worn. I count four violins, three viola's , a few flutes (I think?) and some old guitars. There are a few snare drums, and some other instruments that I don't feel like naming. Sitting under the table is a cello and an old electric keyboard.
"As you can see, I've gotten all of the instruments we have and set them on the table, and under it. I know all of you in the class can play something, so I want you to pick the instrument you are most talented at, and I know there will be enough so don't bother asking," she winks knowingly, "And from one of the technical studies book, you shall choose a song and have it playable by the end of the week!" She grins happily and claps her hands together.
"But I won't make everyone play something, some talents will be saved for later," I see her bright green eyes flick over to me and I duck my head slightly, staring at the ground.
"Ok, go ahead and get started then!" She smiles and backs away slightly. Most of the students are cautious as they approach the table, excluding my group. I go for the best guitar there, a worn acoustic with thick strings. Roxy grabs the keyboard and quickly retreats to the corner of the room. Gamzee finds a bass guitar amongst the other instruments and waits for Tavros to grab the drums before retreating to their own space. I watch Sollux to see what he will grab, and to my shock he grabs a violin. Color me surprised when he inspects it closely before grabbing a bow and a book titled 'Vivaldi's Four Seasons'.
He walks over to me and looks at me weird. "Dude why are you th'taring at me like that?" he asks nervously.
"You play violin?" I state incredulously, looking at the instrument before looking back at his face. He shuffles his feet a bit.
"Uh yeah, my dad taught me a bit when I was younger and I ended up learning alot of it on my own, but to be honest it's the only thing I'm really comfortable with, I mean I'm pretty good with guitar too but...and I thought I told you I played," He chuckles nervously as he grabs a folded up stand from the side of the room and sets it up.
The others have begun playing with whatever musical device they had chosen and the room is beginning to fill with music. With a huff I sit down nearby Sollux and set the guitar on my lap, practicing a few chords before playing through a few songs. A soft playing reaches my ears and I turn to see Sollux hesitantly playing through a few measures of whatever the hell he's playing. The tune almost sounds like a cuckoo bird, before it transitions to a different type of tune.
I'm not able to read the titles, but I can see the concentration etched into his features as he plays through most of the pieces. I barely notice that the other students had begun to quiet down to listen to him as well. Every time his finger slips in a position shift, he seems to flinch then become more determined to get it right. To be frank I'm in awe of how he's playing.
When he pauses to turn the page he stops and looks at everyone with wide eyes, seeing how all of them are staring at him. He slowly removes the instrument from under his chin and waits for everyone to turn back to what they're doing before turning to me.
"How long wa'th everyone watching me KK?" He asks me, embarrassment obvious in his voice. He tucks the instrument under his arm and turns a few pages in the book as he waits for my answer.
"I don't know, I think around the third page turn," I answer, turning to look at the other students. They keep glancing back at us, it's enough to put me on edge. Before he can answer, Jade walks over with a large grin on her face.
"Wow Sollux I didn't know you could play that well! "She exclaims, grinning at him, "Have you been playing long?"
"Oh, I th'tarted playing when I wa'th around theven but gave it up for a few yearth, I th'old my violin tho that I could buy my own computer and I took up playing again a few years later, but then ended up selling it, tho on and off for about ten yea'rth, if I only count the year'th I've played it would be...five year'th," His face twists into concentration as he has to think of the number.
"Well you're amazing Sollux, I honestly didn't know you could play that well, it was Vivaldi correct?" Her head tilts as she waits for him to nod. "Vivaldi is quite difficult, I hope you find something nice to play for us by the end of the week, oh and you can borrow that violin as long as you want," She tosses over her shoulder as she ambles over to another group.
I look at Sollux, a thought flashing through my mind, "Ok, if you had to sell your violin to get your computer, explain to me why you have a guitar, and haven't sold it yet," I say with an accusatory tone. He glares at me lightly, but just turns a few more pages in the book before answering.
"It wath a prethent from 'tuna and I can't exactly thell a prethent, that would be mean," He mutters lightly.
"Oh, sorry, but seriously, why would you sell your violin? I'm sure you would've done fine with it, hell you probably could've used it to make money," I exclaim, staring at him. He just shrugs and moves to put the instrument on his shoulder again.
"I'm not that good, and I needed a computer more than I needed an instrument," He retorts, closing the book and trying to play something by memory. I stare at him as he almost effortlessly plays through at least a three page song from memory before the tone switches and becomes more lilting. My eyebrows crease as I realize the song is an old lullaby or something. It sounds familiar.
G# A F# E C# E D C# B C# E
A G# E F# G# A B C# C#
E D C# D F# B G# A B C#
BAG#ABC#DE D C# A B C# E C# B C#
He pauses in his playing as Jade walks over carrying the case to the violin, setting it by the stand. "It has rosin and stuff in it, just try not to break it or anything," She giggles, walking away once more. Before he could play again, I grab his bowing arm .
"What was the song you were just playing," I murmur, confusion probably obvious on my face, but I didn't really care. He frowns and opens his mouth to say something, but stops himself.
"I think it wath,...Candleth and...Clockwork? Yeah, I think that wath the title. It'th an old piethe that my dad taught me," He says, mall smile alighting his face. "My dad had an old muthic boxth with it, it'th really pretty, remind me to show you it later," He grins at me, folding up the music stand and putting the violin away in it's case. I glance up at the clock and quickly replace my guitar before heading out the door when the bell rings.
Gamzee and Tavros quickly catch up to us, and Roxy tags along as well.
"Nice violin playing Solbro, you're motherfuckin' talented!" The juggalo exclaims with a smile, wrapping an arm around Sollux's neck.
"Thankth GZ, but I'm theriouthly not that good," Sollux protests, swinging the violin case up over his shoulder for it to rest on his back. Despite the compliments, he continues to deny that he's talented, and the four of us end up arguing all the way through the rest of our classes. At the end of the day, we meet up at the front doors, we're going to meet up at Tavros's place again to tweak the song a bit. We played through it ok, but there are still some changes that needed to be made.
When we walk out front, I immediately spot Latula and Mituna standing outside her truck, and the two of them move to greet us. Sollux gains a scowl at this, but doesn't say anything.
"Hey, I've decided to be nice and drive you guys home, as in back to Rufioh's," she says with a large grin.
"Sorry Latula, I have to walk my cousin home and Sollux is coming with me, you can drive Gamzee and Tavros," I say quickly, walking past her and dragging Sollux behind me. She shouts after us, but I know we're already going to be late, so I break into a run, dashing down the street and not stopping until we reach the school, where I see an unfamiliar teacher waiting with Nepeta, Terezi, and Feferi.
Nepeta's face lights up when she see's me, and she moves to hug me before I can take another step.
"Sorry I'm late Catnep, I had to talk to some friends about a project," I explain, smiling at her.
"It's ok! Mrs. Kanaya waited with us! She's not my regular teacher, but Mrs. Aradia and Mrs. Vriska had to go do something," Nepeta explains in one breath, grinning at me. I turn to "Mrs. Kanaya" and smile at her.
"Thanks for watching her, sorry about being late," I say sheepishly. I assume they're waiting for Terezi's mom to come pick her up or something. The teacher just smiles in a sort of motherly way.
"That's quite alright, it wasn't any problem, I'm waiting for someone of my own in fact," She replies, gesturing at the street. I nod even though I don't particularly know what she's talking about.
"Is ok if I leave now Nep, I have to work on that project," I ask her, couching down to be at eye level.
She uses one of her signature smiles against me and nods, "Yeah! Glad you came to see me Karkitty!" I feel as if I'm dismissed, so I stand up and walk back to Sollux, and I'm shocked when I look past him and see Latula sitting in her truck, idling at the front of the school.
"Hey Sollux, turn around," I snort, walking forward. He twists around to follow me and see's the two of them
"Oh what the hell," he groans, following me to the gate and we stand outside the door.
"I said I was picking up my sister, we could've walked back to Tavros's," I say the moment she rolls down the window. She grins at me.
"Maybe I was going to leave you, maybe Gamzee said to follow you to pick you up," she jerks her chin to the juggalo grinning in the backseat.
"Sorry Karbro! Thought you would've rather been driven!" He shouts to me.
"Hey Tula, did you realithe there'th NO MORE ROOM IN THE TRUCK!" Sollux exclaims, gesturing to the small cab meant to fit only five at most.
She frowns slightly, but grins. "Simple fix! Karkat sits in Sollux's lap!"
"WHAT?!" I screech, blushing furiously. I stumble a few feet back from the truck and cover my face with my hands.
"NO WAY TULA!" Sollux shouts, blushing similarly, but glares at the laughing lady.
"Why not?" She laughs, looking pointedly at the two of us.
"I would rather walk!" I retort from behind my hands, not looking up at her.
"But Karbro it's be faster if you just let her drive," Gamzee protests with a sly grin. I separate my fingers to glare at him, then return to covering my face. I hear giggles from behind us and I turn to see Mrs. Kanaya covering her mouth with her hands in a poor attempt to hide her laughter. Nepeta was grinning proudly at me and her friends were laughing in the same manner. I groan and turn around front to see another car drive up.
Terezi grabs Feferi's and Nepeta's hands and runs to the car. "Hey mom," she cackles before climbing into the car. Nepeta looks at me and mouths "the ship shall sail!" before shouting "Bye Karkitty!" audibly, as the car drives away.
I sigh and wave bye, removing my hands from my face. At least my blush isn't as terrible, all it is now is lightly dusting my cheeks.
"Oh fine Karbro, how about Tavbro all up and sits in my lap so you and Sollux can sit in the backseat?" Gamzee chuckles, earning a shouted protest from Tavros. Throughout this whole time Mituna is just laughing at our misfortunes.
Kanaya walks up behind us with a small chuckle, "Are you having transportation issues?"
"Nah! These to babies don't want to sit on each others laps or else we would've been gone awhile ago!" Latula responds with a grin.
"Tula!" Sollux shouts, now covering his face with his hands.
"Well, the two of you are going to the Nitram's correct?" She asks us, looking more at me than Latula.
"Yeah, Why?"
"Rose is driving Roxy again and she is picking me up as well, she should be here in a matter of seconds," The lady responds primly, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Oh," is all I can say, watching as the sleek black car Roxy climbed out of yesterday drive up. The windows roll down and I see Rose look at us.
"Hello Karkat, Sollux, why are the two of you just standing there?" She asks the two of us.
"Uh, there'th not enough room in Latula'th truck and we were trying to figure out thomething that doethn't involve any of uth thitting in thomeone'th lap," Sollux answers quickly, glaring at Latula, who just grins at him.
"Well I can drive you," Rose says with a shrug, turning back to the front.
"Wow ok thanks Rose," I say with raised eyebrows, then turn to Latula and stick out my tongue childishly. Latula just returns the motion and quickly revs the truck to drive off. I sigh and climbing the backseat with Sollux close behind me.
"Sup Karkat, Sollux," Roxy greets us, sitting on the far side, I end up sitting in the middle. "Hi," I say simply, keeping my gaze turned front. The two teachers seemed to be avidly discussing something, but Rose takes enough time to turn on the radio for us . After a few boring songs about broken hearts, a song all of us know comes on, and for a few seconds we all sit in silence before singing along.
"I don't like walkin' around this old and empty house," I begin to sing with a grin, glancing over at Roxy.
"So hold my hand I'll walk with you my dear," Roxy replies, offering her hand and smiling a bit, glancing at Rose. The teacher chuckles lightly before turning back front.
"The stairs creak as I sleep its keeping me awake," Rose lilts, smiling softly at Kanaya. Something clicks in my head, but I don't pay attention to it as Kanaya continues the line.
"Its the house telling you to close your eyes," Kanaya murmurs, returning the smile. She glances at Sollux, and he understands the hint and continues with a slight wince.
"And thome dayth I cant even, trutht mythelf," Sollux grins, laughing a bit at his lisp, he glances over with a "help me" so I grin and help him out for once.
"Its killing me to see you this way," I chuckle, mock falling back into the seat like I had been shot.
"Cause the truth may vary this, ship will carry our, bodies safe to shore," we all belt out together. Laughing loudly during the instrumental part, we all have to take a deep breath to continue the unspoken routine.
"There's an old voice in my head that's, holdin' me back," Roxy sings with a wide grin.
"Well tell her that I miss our little talks," Rose replies with a sly smile, looking at the girl in the mirror.
"Soon it will be over, buried in our past," Kanaya lilts
" We uthed to play outthide when we were young-" Sollux begins, "and full of life and full of love," I join, looking at him with a sideways glance. He laughs thankfully before giving me a smirk.
" Some days I don't know if I am wrong or if I am right," I say with a shrug and quirked eyebrow.
"Your mind is(th) playing tricks(th) on you my dear," Roxy and Sollux reply simultaneously. We wait in anticipation for the few short seconds to end before we all continue.
"Hey! Don't listen to a word I say!" Sollux and I sing.
"Hey! The screams all sound the same!" The girls harmonize, barely having to look at each other.
"Hey! Though the truth may vary this, ship will carry our bodies safe to shore," we all yell together.
"You're gone gone, gone away I watched you disappear, all that's left is a ghost of you," I whisper
"Now were torn torn torn apart, there's nothing we can do," Roxy begins.
"Just let me go well meet again soon," Rose continues.
"Now wait wait wait for me, please hang around," Kanaya begins.
" I'll thee you when I fall altheep!" Sollux finishes.
"Hey! Don't listen to a word I say!" I yell.
"Hey! The thcreamth all thound the thame," Sollux continues.
"Though the truth may vary this, ship will carry our bodies safe to shore," the girls continue, then we all trail off and listen to the artists sing the last part.
We stay silent until Roxy begins laughing, and soon enough we're all out of breath from laughter. I lean back against the seat again and brush a few stray tears from my eyes, seeing Sollux reduces to chuckles and taking off his glasses to rub at his eyes.
"Completely uncoordinated," Kanaya smirks, brushing a tear from her eye.
"And thtill amazing," Sollux boasts, replacing his glasses before laughing a bit more.
" That was quite enjoyable, but we have arrived at the Nitrams, I shall see the three of you tomorrow," Rose says pleasantly, stopping the car.
"Thankth for the ride Rothe," Sollux shouts as he jumps out, and I shout a similar thanks as we walk up to the house, entering.
"We're back!" I shout, then head down to the basement, where I already hear Tavros and Gamzee messing around.
" Thup guyth," Sollux greets, placing the violin case on the ground near the wall.
"Uh, hi you two," Tavros says with a grin, waving slightly as he adjusts something to his drums.
"Hey it all up and took you guys long enough," Gamzee jokes, plucking the strings to his base before comparing them with a diagram.
"Sorry Gamz, we got a little caught up in a song," I smirk, moving over to the guitars. Sollux follows me and the two of us grab the same ones we played yesterday. We sort of do nothing for a few minutes until we all decide we're ready to fix the mistakes we'd made on the first attempt (although there aren't many).
After about two hours of that, we are interrupted by Rufioh yelling down the stairs that he's ordered pizza. Immediately we all ditch the instruments and run to the kitchen, almost pushing each other over before we scramble for the box before grabbing what we could and stepping back. The adults stare at us for a few seconds before bursting out into laughter.
"Geez it was like you were starving or somethin!" Latula guffaws.
"Nithe job at tearing up the box you guyth," Mituna giggles, nibbling on his own piece of pizza.
"Hey, we haven't all up and motherfucking eatin' since lunch, of course we're motherfucking starvin!" Gamzee explains around his slice. We all nod in agreement, to busy trying to stuff our faces to answer.
They just smile and shake their heads at us and return to their conversation. I sort of listen in as I eat, slowly beginning to understand sign language.
"So we've contacted Horuss, Aranea, and Meenah," Latula states, marking something down on a piece of paper, then jotting down a few things.
"Yeah doll, and I'm texting Cronus right now, he's saying that Kankri and him will totally come whenever," Rufioh grins, texting without looking at his phone.
"Yay! We can see Vantas again!" Mituna yells happily.
Kurloz: But what about Porrim and Damara? He asks with a slight tilt of his head.
"Shoot! I meant to find out where the Maryams are working," Latula curses a bit before pulling out her phone and beginning to type some key-words. I decide to disregard the conversation because they all resort to using phones to communicate. We all stand around the kitchen awkwardly before Latula glances up at us.
"Why aren't you guys doing anything?" She asks, quirking an eyebrow.
"Because we don't want to work on our song at the moment, and we're still fucking hungry, problem?" I answer with a scowl, already knowing that we're thinking the same thing.
"Then go to the fucking store or somethin', don't just stand around looking like morons," She scowls back, tossing her keys at Sollux's head, then turning back to her phone. I glance at the others before we all simultaneously sprint out the door and scramble for the truck. Somehow I end up shotgun as Sollux pulls away from the curb, quickly going over the speed limit before slowing down.
We begin jamming out to whatever the hell was on the radio, when a thought hits me and I quickly turn down the volume.
"Hey guys, who's paying?" I question, turning around in my seat to look at the three in the back. Silence falls except for the badass bass and guitar players on the radio before I quickly yelp "NOT IT!"
For about five minute's we're all yelling not it until Roxy shooshes us and takes a deep breath before grinning.
"I'm broke," she states, pulling out her pockets.
"Same here!" Sollux and I shout blatantly, patting our pockets. We glare at each other lightly before laughing a bit more, and I turn to look at Gamzee and Tavros.
Gamzee chuckles, "I all up and got $13.14 in my wallet, and Tavbro has $12." He pulls out his wallet and grabs Tavros's from his pocket, causing him to blush deeply, and tosses it up to me, which I pull out the money and pocket before tossing back the wallet.
"Awesome, ok so if we have $25.14, and there's five of us, we basically get five dollars to spend each unless if we group together," I theorize, splitting the money to hand the amounts to each person and tossing the change back to Gamzee. Sollux screeches to a stop and grins, turning to us.
"But jutht remember that I'm your ride," He chuckles before jumping out and slamming the door, walking around to join me. Roxy joins the group forming a trio, but Gamzee and Tavros jump out and sprint into the store.
Roxy, Sollux, and I stick together as we meander down the aisle-ways and Sollux somehow ends up being our pack-mule by holding all of the items in one of those small baskets. Before long the three of us have almost spent our fifteen dollars total and I'm grabbing one last bag of chips before a snarky voice from behind me makes me spin around with a glare. Josh is chuckling as he smirks at Sollux.
"Wow freak, carrying the groceries for your boyfriend," He taunts, smirking at the boy. Sollux glares, but isn't able to do anything as he held a majority of our items. Roxy is a few feet up the aisle, and she turns back as I stalk towards the prick. He turns to meet my gaze with a sneer.
"Leave him the fuck alone Josh," I snarl, stepping up close and glaring down at him. He's probably one of the only teens in school shorter than I am, and he tries to make up for it by being a dickweed.
"Aw defending your boyfriend Vantas? That's so sweet," He mocks, grinning menacingly at me while leaning up into my face. His cohorts are laughing at our supposed humiliation and glaring with their "leader". I growl at him and hear footsteps come up behind me before Roxy speaks.
"How about you go the hell away Josh," Roxy slurs from behind me, smiling evilly at Josh as she brandishes a glass Coca-Cola bottle.
"Oh wow I'm so scared," He says, rolling his eyes, "You and your fucking friends are such freaks Vantas, and you are just the leader of the freak show-" He's cut off quickly by my fist in his jaw. He's thrown to the side into one of the shelves, and he turns to me with a horrified expression, before it morphs quickly into rage and he lunges, forcing me back into the shelf. I hiss as the bruise on my back is hit, but just blindly throw a punch until I can see again and toss him off. His cohorts are beginning to lunge forward to attack my friends as they attack back.
Sollux sets down the various food items and was now expertly wrestling with the largest cohort of Josh's, they're pummeling each other harshly and food is falling off the shelves everywhere, the various boxes making it hard to maneuver in the already small aisles. Roxy is holding her own as she boxes it out with another guy, using her Cola bottle to jab at the guy as he brandishes a pocket knife. The two other guys are going to gang up on Sollux and Roxy, before Gamzee appears with a loud HONK! and easily stops them.
We're beginning to gather attention by now, the few teens in the store are egging us on while adults are yelling at us to stop. I ignore them (as did my friends and Josh's group) as I get a clean hit to Josh's nose, feeling the bone bend before breaking. He growls and tackles me to the ground, gripping at my hair and throwing my head into the floor. I grunt and toss him off, rolling over to push him back to the ground. After a bit of grappling I'm able to return the favor by punching his jaw before slamming his already broken nose into the tile.
I hear Roxy yelp as the knife nicks her, but Gamzee is helping her before I can begin to stand, but that small waver of my attention is enough for Josh to retaliate and leap up, grabbing the collar of my shirt to slam my head into the shelf behind me, lights flash in front of my eyes and I roughly push him away, but not before he can get a hit to my chest. I gasp and somehow end up on the ground, panting for breath.
"KK!" Sollux yelps, glancing up from his own fight and beginning to walk towards me, because he had somehow ended up halfway down the aisle, before the guy he's fighting takes the opportunity to hit him to the ground from behind. Suddenly Tavros knocks through the crowd to help Sollux by pushing the guy into the spectators, who quickly move out of the way.
Josh goes one level higher on his level of Scumbag and kicks me in my chest again. I land on my back and wince pain, trying to regain my breath before shakily standing, brushing away the blood from a split lip. I begin to lunge at him again, before a store clerk quickly intercepts me, and it seems like they swarm around us, keeping us all pinned back from each other.
I growl lowly at Josh, who glares at me before I hear something in the distance that sort of catches my attention.
Police Sirens.
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To Guest Reviewer Wish:
I guess you could, if you contacted me over here or something, although I'm unsure to why you would want to read the original since it has infinitely more mistakes than this version.