School is as horrible as ever, it seems like the teachers started getting together just so that they could plan the most amount of homework and tests in the same day for everyone. When we get out of school on Friday, after I pick up Nepeta, I have to immediately start working on a History project that's due Monday, but had been assigned a week before and like everyone else I've procrastinated until the (almost) last minute.

I sigh as my bangs fall into my face, and I brush them back in annoyance as I draw a (terrible) island on the poster paper I've borrowed from my core+ teacher. My music is turned up as loud as it can go and I heard a few neighbors yelling but I honestly don't care so I just sing along loudly to annoy them more. Layla is out getting art supplies, which would take her the better part of the hour, and Nepeta is in her room.

My phone lights up with a text and I debate ignoring it since I'm doing pretty well with drawing the supposedly egg-shaped island with little trees and mountains...yeah I pick up my phone.

TA: ii reque2t that you GET ME OUT OF THII2 2IITUATIION

There's a multimedia file which I immediately begin laughing at once it opens. I can see Sollux's eyes and the top of his head, but I then focus on what's in the background. Latula and Mituna are in the background laughing at something but are sitting on each others laps. A bottle of some sort of drink is on the table by the couch, two actually, once I zoom in enough. Now that I'm zoomed in I see Kankri and Cronus macking it out in the background.

Jesus freaking Christ.

CG: OH MY GOD I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING
CG: SERIOUSLY
CG: DUDE

CG: SEND ASSISTANCE
TA: II'M 2UFFERIING
TA: II NEED TO E2CAPE
CG: DO YOU WANT TO GO DO SOMETHING THEN?

I glance at the time, it isn't terribly late, only around 5.

TA: YE2
TA: DON'T CARE WHAT
TA: II JU2T NEED TO GET AWAY FROM THII2 HOU2E
CG: OK OK YEAH I UNDERSTAND
CG: COME OVER HERE AND WE CAN THINK OF SOMETHING
CG: I HAVE TO WATCH NEPETA UNTIL MY MOM GETS BACK
CG: BUT THEN WE CAN GO SOMEWHERE
TA: i'm almo2t at your pla2e actually, ii left on2e you an2wered me

Seeing the message, I scramble up from my place on the ground and sprint for the door, yelling at Nepeta that I 'm going out for a few minutes. I disregard shoes but kick off my socks to run barefooted down the many flights of stairs and skid to a stop just as Sollux walks into the lobby, running a hand through his bangs.

"Hi KK," He smiles, putting his hands in his pockets and walking over to me.

"You should've told me you were already headed over, Jesus Sollux," I scowl, smacking his arm before turning and walking back up the stairs. I can hear him chuckle as he follows behind me.

As I get to my apartment, a neighbor, a fat asshole who I could care less about, stalks up to me.

"You need to turn your music down boy," He growls at me, giving me a glare. I keep an expressionless look on my face as I slowly raise my hand to my eye level, then flip him off before darting into the apartment, dragging Sollux with me. I slam the door and laugh as I hear the man shout indignantly.

"...uh...ok then..." Sollux says quietly, and I turn to see him blow his bangs off his forehead.

"Oh hey, you got new glasses," I say in surprise, seeing he's wearing a pair of old paper 3d glasses. He smiles lightly and takes them off, folding them to put in the pocket of his coat.

"Yeah, my other one'th are going to take another week or tho to fix and I really didn't want to deal with thothe annoying contactth for that long," he grimaces slightly, but looks around a bit.

Nepeta darts out of her room at the moment and tackle-hugs Sollux from behind. He loses his balance and falls forward, using my shoulders to steady himself. And unfortunately I'm not the best choice for that because under the both of their weights my knees buckle and I yelp as I hit the ground.

"PAWLLUX!" she squeals, Sitting on his back as he tries not to crush my legs.

"NEP JESUS FREAKING CHRIST!" I yell, sliding out from under Sollux and letting the man fall to the ground with a thud and groan.

"Heh...sorry," She giggles, standing to let Sollux sit cross-legged on the floor. He has one eye closed as he rubs at his back.

"Ow, Nep how can you be tho throng for thuch a thmall girl," he half-whines.

"I didn't mean to hurt you! I was just saying hi!" She pouts before grinning, hugging him in apology before sitting back again.

"So what have you been doing Nep?" I question, seeing some paint splattered on her hands. She giggles and runs back to her room, running back out and displaying a canvas about the size she was. On it, she had painted stick figure versions of her friends and some other people.

"This is what I'm doing for class! See, the pink is friends, like with me and Purrezi! Then red means really likes each other, like Eridan and Feferi." She points at each of them, and I nod even though they all looked like scribbles to me. "Black is HATE but not really hate," She points to one with Vriska, Kanaya and Aradia.

I noticed one with red that looked like Rose and Kanaya, then one with what seemed like Dave and John. I contemplate these for a second before bringing my fingers forward to touch the now dry paint.

These actually seem probable...

I hear Sollux yelp suddenly and as I look over a blush is spread across his cheeks. He seems to be looking at one of the pairings, and once I move to his side to see, I know why he reacted as such.

"NEPETA!" I Yelp, covering my face with my hands. I hear her begin to giggle, which only makes me blush more. "WHY DID YOU PUT US ON THERE WITH RED!?"

"But you two are purrfect!" She shouts, earning more embarrassed protests from the both of us. Of course in that moment my mom walks in, looking at us in confusion with armfuls of art supplies.

"I always walk into the weirdest moments don't I," She sighs playfully, walking into the kitchen to drop off the art stuff before returning to us. Before she could greet us properly, I interrupt her.

"Hey can Sollux and I go out for a bit? School stuff," I add onto the end, realizing how it sounds. She just looks at me before laughing.

"Of course, why would I stop you?"

I nod and drag Sollux to my room so that I can put on some shoes and pocket my phone before heading out once more, still dragging Sollux. We both avoid eye contact until we get to the car, my awkward start for conversation the interruption.

"So uh where do you want to go?"

"Well thereth alwayth the mall I gueth, I honethtly haven't been here long enough to actually look around town or anything..." He rubs the back of his head as he works the keys out of his pocket, unlocking the vehicle and allowing me to jump inside.

"I would say we could go to the park, but it's insanely hot right now, so I'd rather not," It somehow was getting hotter progressively throughout the month which is strange enough since it should be cooling down instead, it is Autumn after all.

"So...mall?" Sollux asks, driving down the road and looking over at my with the corner of his eyes.

"Yeah, sure. So how's German class," I inquire, remembering that he had coded in German.

"Ist Gut, du... sheisse...ich... ok yeah I tried, ich spreche bisschen Deutsche, I still can't remember verbs and stuff," He winces.

"Hey, you don't lisp when you speak it though," I remarked, impressed on the fact.

"Yeah, it'th the thame for French too...um... Fils de Salop."

"Translate please, I don't speak your language," I tease, glancing over at him.

"But mon petite Karkat, that wouldn't be much fun now would it?" he smirks, adding a thick French accent.

"Ugh, but it's annoying me!" I groan in frustration.

He snorts, "Am I driving you crazy?"

"YES!"" I shout, glaring at him.

"Bin ich fahren du verrückt?"

"Translate you dick!"

"Hm, nein," he grins.

"JESUS CHRIST YOU"RE INFURIATING!"

"Ah, aber du liebst mich sowieso," He grins at me, and I give up in trying to get him to speak English.

We stay silent until we drive up to the parking lot, having to park in the back due to how crowded it is, but we're bored and neither of us wanted to go back to our homes so we don't.

Walking past the stores, there are multiple groups of teenagers goofing off, and that's honestly more amusing than anything.

We stop in a bookstore, where we spent the better part of an hour flipping through books and finding interesting phrases in some. We receive some dirty glares but we just stick our tongues out at them before moving to another section or shelf.

After browsing almost all the stores, successfully avoiding anyone we knew, I get a text from my mom saying it's time to head home. To which I agree because it's nearing nine o'clock.

"Merde, time to go Sollux," I sigh, tugging him away from the rack of CD's that he's looking through. He yelps but twists around, having to stoop down to my height to do so (which annoyed me to no end.)

On the drive home we recount the best moments form the stores.

"That one lady who I started giving advice to actually believed me," Sollux snickers, keeping his eyes on the road but laughing.

"And don't forget the old guy who thought we were girls," I snort. Hearing that from the old guy caused us to go up to a gaggle of girls and begin laughing in obnoxiously high tones before running off.

"Ah, such a fun Freitag wasn't it," Sollux sighs happily, pulling to a stop in front of my building.

"You're welcome for getting you out of the situation," I laugh, looking over at him.

"Danke! I don't think I could've lathted long," He shudders in horror but smiles at me.

"Well...

"Auf Wiedersehen," He says fondly, and it sounds like a goodbye to me.

"Bye," I smile, stepping out and backing onto the sidewalk to watch him drive away.

There's still a small smile on my face as I walk up to my room.

AN:

Translations:

Ist Gut, du... sheisse...ich... (German)- It's good, you...shit...I...

ich spreche bisschen Deutsche (German)- I speak little German

Fils de Salop (French)- Son of a Bitch

Bin ich fahren du verrückt (German)- Am I driving you crazy?

Ah, aber du liebst mich sowieso (German)- Ah, but you love me anyway

Merde (French)- Shit

Danke (German)- Thanks

Auf Wiedersehen (German)- Goodbye

Sorry if my translations are a bit off, I'm still only a ebene ein deutsche spricht. (Level one german speak) so I'm still learning how to properly construct sentences and such. I'm even more unsure about French, I only took it for like a year (in a program that sucked).

Hope you guys still like it though!

Ich liebst du alle!