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Same warnings as before.
Might change rating later in the story :)
Homestuck belongs to Andrew Hussie.
Oh shoot I just reread my first chapter again and it seems that there was a paragraph that was deleted ;A;
(It was just explaining that Eridan ripped off his apron and threw it at Nepeta while he was running out. :P)
Chapter 2: You Live Here?
"FUCKING THIT YOUR GOING TO PAY FOR THIS YOU ATH!" I winced as the man I had ran into lashed at me.
I got up and swept my pants and began to apologize,"I-I'm really sorry-"
"YOU BETTER BE! MY LAPTOP HAD ALL MY SCHOOL THTUFF IN IT!" he was now furiously trying to turn his laptop on with no luck.
"Look, you don't have to keep yellin' at me!" I was starting to get annoyed. I let out a quick sigh then helped the lanky dick up, "If it'll make you feel better how about I go get you a new cup of coffee."
"Oh, so you can thpill it on me again? Plus I got the coffee from TheaThalt Caramel," he pointed to the entrance I just fled from, "It'th probably gonna take forever to get another cup!"
I finally realized that he had probably not seen me run out of the restaurant," O-oh I see."
Suddenly Nepeta bursted out the doors with my apron tangled on her head. She tore it off then started to scream, "AMMPPURRAAA! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" She was absolutely furious now. Equius ran out and tried to calm her down but she only got louder.
The lisping guy turned to look at Nepeta,"What the-"
"I-I think we should just go to Mc'Donalds, don't you think?" I grabbed his shirt then tugged him across the street to Mc'Donalds.
Once we were past the door he ripped my hand off of his shirt than looked at me,"You better fucking buy me anything I want from here." He walked into the line and looked up at the menu.
Facepalming, I joined him in line then took out my wallet.
"Welcome to Mc'Donalds what can I get for you today?" The cashier said with a fake smile plastered onto his face.
"Umm...Can I get a Big Mac with extra cheethe, a 20 piethe chicken Mc'Nugget, a large caramel mocha, a large thweet tea, aanndd 2 large frieth." He crossed his arms and smirked at me.
I looked at him, dumbstruck, "Really? Can you even finish all of that?"
His smirk just grew.
After I paid we sat down in a corner with all food in tow. I started to bang my head against a wall at how ridiculous the situation was. He started stuffing his face with almost everything right away. I glared at him then started to speak.
"Soo... now that you have your greasy buffet would you at least tell me your name?"
I finally got to get a good look at him. He wasn't all that bad looking actually. Tall and lanky...not bad at all. He had oval shaped bi-colored glasses and a black and yellow button-up with loose black jeans. His dark auburn colored hair was gelled up in the back, and a Gemini sign tied onto a black string graced his neck. I realized that I've seen that same necklace before at the place I got my Aquarius bracelet. Karkat worked at that store.
He took a sip of sweet tea then looked up at me, "Mu mame? gulp. Thollux Captor, minuth the lithp," he grabbed a nugget and dipped it into some ketchup, "and your'th?"
"Hm? O-oh it's Eridan Ammm-" the image of Nepeta yelling out my name flashed through my mind, " Piexes! Eridan Piexes."
We fell into a somewhat awkward silence as we looked at the remains of food littering the table.
"Um... So Sol, about your laptop..."
His eyebrows furrowed,"Right. Your lucky that I have motht of my clatthh thtuff thaved in a USB at home."
"Okay, so all I need to do is buy you a new laptop?" I looked at him hopefully.
"Don't get all happy and thit, my laptop was the betht on the market. Altho, I wath doing a report for a webthite I have but it wath thaved in my laptop. I wath thupposed to get it done within a month, and I only have a week and a half left!" His face twisted into a look of frustration.
"So you want me to help you?" I asked in shock.
"Well what am I thuppothed to do? It took me two thraight weekth to do all that rethearch and pluth I have clatthheth too!"
He was now standing. Grabbing all his trash he marched to the trashcan then the exit.
I chased after him, "O-okay! I'll do what I can but I have classes too ya know. Can we at least talk at a more proper location? Like maybe one of our households?" He kept walking until he got to the parking lot of SeaSalt Caramel. He stopped in front of a beat up looking mini van and unlocked the doors.
"Um..." I looked at him hoping this was a joke.
"You coming?"
"... Can I just walk?"
He rolled his eyes and opened the passenger's door, "Get in."
He walked to the other side and slid into the drivers seat. I gradually placed myself into the passengers but was utterly appalled at the site that laid around me when I had got in.
The van was filled with wires, wrappers, soda bottles(Faygo mostly), clothes, and tons of other things I rather would not ask about.
He started the engine,"Yourth or mine?"
"Mine!" If this was his car I really did not want to see his living space.
The car ride was even more awkward than when we were in Mc'Donalds. We did not talk the whole ride besides for directions to the house.
"Holy thit! You live here?" Sollux pulled up in front of a large gated mansion and looked at me.
I hopped out of the van relieved to get out of that dumpster,"Yeah, why?"
"I thought you thaid it wath a HOUTHE not a fucking manthion!" He turned the engine off and got out of the van.
"It's actually pretty small compared to the one my mother has up in Washington." I tapped a code into a little box hidden behind a wall of bushes. The 12 foot gate began to open and I led Sollux through the lawn. His jaw dropped when he began walking on the pathway to the door.
I couldn't blame him though, the lawn was beautiful with its green grass and roses lining the stone pathway. A seahorse fountain was shaded on the left of the stone path by a large oak tree, while the right was trickled with purple and dark pink flowers with a statue of a majestic mermaid placed in the center of a pond. The front yard really did bring back nice memories of when Feferi and I were younger. A smile had crept onto my face as I unlocked the large heavy hazel door.
I opened it and held the door for Sollux. He walked in and glanced around. His eyes going wide.
Again, I couldn't blame him. A large teardrop chandelier hung from the ceiling in the center of two arched staircases leading upstairs. A large portrait of Feferi hung on the wall at the top of the left staircase while the other side had a portrait of me. The sides of the room had gigantic curtains that hung from the ceiling and fell down almost in a waterfall like fashion. They were tied back to reveal massive windows that viewed a terrace on both sides that were hidden by hedges.
I never did take the time to actually look at this house anymore, and now that I was looking at it with Sollux it felt nice to remember all the good times me and Feferi had before highschool graduation. Before we became to busy to actually have fun as siblings anymore.
"Thith plathe ith amazing... I would definitely kill to live here..." Sollux mumbled to himself. He continued to stare in awe when I heard a door creak open.
"Your back early Eridan dear," A short chubby women hobbled out from behind a large maple colored door underneath the balcony of the staircases,"and who might this dashing young man be? You're new boyfriend Eridan?"
Sollux whipped his head towards me,"Wha-?"
"N-NONONO! W-We just met this morning Lucy! It's nothin' like that!" I started to wave my hand frantically trying to explain but she only laughed.
"hahaa~ Oh Eridan, you can be so cute sometimes. Reminds me of when you were younger and you got in trouble for something so small," she walked over and pinched my cheek.
I light blush swept onto my face and I tried shoving her off," Lucy, I still have a rep to uphold ya know."
She only giggled again but turned to go to the kitchen.
"Would you like any snacks dear?"
"No, it's fine. We just ate. Thank you Lucy, I'll call if I need anythin'." I started leading Sollux up the staircase towards my room. He stopped to look at the large portait of me.
"Wow, thith must have taken forever to paint," I placed myself next to Sollux and looked up at the large canvas.
"Actually, it wasn't that hard. All I really needed was a mirror and a nice painting enviorment. In hind sight it might have taken a few tries, but it was a nice little project to work on."
"Wait wait wait. Tho your telling me you painted thith thing?" His expression showed that he did not believe me.
"Yes. My signature is even on it," I pointed to the large purple messy signature in the corner, "I also painted the portrait over there," pointing to the painting of Feferi.
He squinted his eyes at the signature,"Wow. That'th awethome. You're really good."
"Thank you," I smiled then proceeded to tear Sollux away from all the things he though were "amazing" that we passed by. I saw those things everyday, nothing shocking about them besides the price tags.
"Hey, if you don't mind me athking but... are you gay? Jutht athuming because that women downthairth athked if I wath your boyfriend and ya..." he scratched the back of his head and continued to follow me to my room past all the doors. The corridor stretched for a while but I had learned my way around. I have been living here almost my whole life.
"Oh, I don't mind at all," Actually I did.
" But I'm not," I am.
"She was just playing with you," I've always been but I'll never admit it to someone like you.
"Okay, thorry for athking. Didn't mean anything." He still looked kind of uncomfortable but he relaxed when we stopped in front of some double doors with the initials E.A. carved into the wood in cursive.
I pushed open the doors and left my shoes outside by the doorway. Sollux did the same.
His mouth nearly fell off when he saw the inside of my room.
The walls were painted a light shade of lavender, and paintings, sketches, and doodles littered the walls. Art supplies were scattered about the room, as well as different sized canvases. One side of the room was completely covered by dark purple curtains. My king sized bed placed itself almost right next to the curtains but left enough room to walk next to it. On the right side of the room was a rounded black couch that surrounded a large flat screen tv hanging on the wall. A small coffee table was placed in front of the couch facing the tv. The floor was covered with soft white carpet, and it dipped inwards towards the middle and to the right. Across the room was another set of double doors that led to the bathroom.(This room is really hard to explain so if I ever get a chance to draw it, I will. :P)
"I-I... whoa," Sollux just continued to stare at everything in my room.
"Yeah, I know," I ran my hand through my hair," It's kinda messy. I really wasn't expectin' for someone to be comin' over anytime soon." I flushed slightly in embarrassment.
"What? No way! I wath talking about how... incredible thith room ith! Thith whole plathe ith bigger than my apartment! Thit, and ith that a bathroom?" I nodded," Dang."
After I had closed the doors I flicked one of the switches next to it and the curtains began to draw back to show the backyard. It was alsolutely breathtaking.
"I can give you a tour of the house later if you want, but for now we have to situate the thing we came here for." I placed myself onto the coach then grabbed a pencil and a sketch book off of the coffee table.
"Right, tho," he sat onto my bed, "Oh thit! Ith thith a waterbed?"
I sighed," Sol!"
"Right, thorry. Tho, yeah...um... the laptop cotht about $2,000 thomething when I firtht got it, but I'm not too thur how much it cotht right now anym-"
The doors slammed open showing a very enraged Feferi.
"Eridan! You better start explaining right now?"
I'm dead.
I'm really sorry for taking longer to get this chapter in, but I was just really brainstuck on how to explain how Eridan's house looked like. -_-
If I ever get the time to do a little doodling I'll happily put a link to a drawing of how his house and room and everything is supposed to look like!
Lucy is also Feferi's Lusus but she works as a Nanny to her and Eridan in this story.
Thank you for waiting and Thank you for reading! :D
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