Chapter 6
Nepeta sucked in a breath of fresh air.
"AH!" She sighed. "Finally a break from so much work!"
Sollux and Terezi came out behind her. Nepeta noticed Equius standing next to the van across the parking lot.
"Hey, Nepeta." Sollux pointed at Equius. "That'th your moirail, right?"
"Hehe!" Nepeta giggled. "Yep! I'm kinda lousy at driving so he drives me efurrywhere!"
"That black van lookth familiar..."
Nepeta began to sweat. "Um, w-we have alot of friends that like to hang out with us, so we just drive around in that old van. Hahaha..."
Sollux stared at Nepeta.
"Whatever." Sollux shrugged and walked off to his car parked in the corner.
"You want to come with us, Terezi?" Nepeta asked. "We're going to the peir for lunch!"
"No thanks, Nepeta!" Terezi giggled. "Karkles promised lunch for me!"
"Alrighty then!" Nepeta began skipping towards Equius, leaving Terezi standing at the doorway.
"Hey, Equius!" She wrapped her arms around him, giving him a big hug.
"Nepeta," Equius said as she hugged him."We don't want to be late."
"Oh, right!" Nepeta hopped into the passenger seat of the van. She turned to look behind her.
Feferi and Eridan sat up against opposite walls and Gamzee sat in the middle looking as dopey as ever.
"Hm?" Nepeta turned to Equius. "What's wrong with Feferi and Eridan? They usually sit closer together."
Equius began sweating. "I, uh, don't want to talk about it right now, Nepeta." He started the van and pulled out of the parking lot.
"Well alright." She turned to face the front of the van as they drove down the road.
Mabye you'll meet somebody new! Nepeta's voice echoed through Sollux's head. Well, I am off to lunch, mabye I'll run into thomeone there. I never know.
Sollux pulled his car out of the parking lot and headed down the street. He shifted his vision once and a while to look for a suitable restrant.
Ugh, nothing to eat. If I can't figure out thomething thoon, my lunch break will be over!
He thought for a minute, thinking of every restraunt he knew of.
I know! I'll go down to the peir! They alwayth have good lunch platheth there.
Sollux turned the car to go toward the ocean. He smiled as he thought of Nepeta's reassurance to him.
"Yay!" Nepeta cheered. "We made it!"
"Honk." Gamzee honked from behind her.
Equius parked the car. Nepeta stared out the window at the calm ocean.
As everyone got out of the car, Eridan and Feferi sniffed the air.
"I havven't been near the wwater in a long time." Eridan sighed.
"Yeah." Feferi agreed. "Wow! It smells so good!"
"Alright." Nepeta got the attention of everyone. "I have to be back by one. Me and Equius will be together, Gamzee, sorry but you go alone, unless you want to go with Eridan and Feferi."
"Wwhat?" Eridan stared at Nepeta.
"Wait." Feferi argued. "Why am I with Eridan?"
"Becuase you two will go off and buy something fishy." Nepeta stuck her tounge out."Ok! Lets all be back here by twelve fourty-five!"
Nepeta ran off with Equius behind her, and Gamzee sped off somewhere as well, leaving Feferi and Eridan exchanging evil glares at eachother.
Sollux handed some cash to the man.
"Thank you, thir." He said. "Keep the change."
"Have a good day!" The man smiled.
I thure hope it ith... Sollux thought, walking away from the hotdog booth.
He began strolling down the peir, staring at the calm sea as he munched on his hotdog.
The thea theemth tho calm today, he thought, I hope I don't get attacked by a theadweller though... That would jutht ruin my whole-
Stopped in mid thought, he was run into. He fell over, another troll on top of him.
"FEF!" A voice yelled. "Wwatch wwhere you're goin!"
"Ugh," The troll on top of him sighed. "Sorry sir. I can be such a clutz sometimes." She pulled some hair out of her face with a finger.
Sollux stared at her, his mouth almost wide open. Her hair was a midnight black and her eyes had a hint of magenta around the pupils. He froze instently.
"Sir?" She asked. "Are... are you alright?"
"Huh?" Sollux almost couldn't stop his staring. "What? Oh, thorry. Yeth, I'm fine." He stood up, helping the other one up.
"Fef!" Another troll ran up to them. "Fef, wwhat the glub? Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, Eridan." She spat at the other one. "Go get something us to eat."
The male troll, Eridan, stormed off.
"Sorry for running into you." She apologized.
"No, no." Sollux blinked. "It'th not your fault. I don't look to thee if anyoneth coming."
She giggled. "My names Feferi Piexes. What's yours?"
"Uh, Thollux Captor." He said, rubbing the back of his head. "Wath that your matethprit or thomething?"
"Oh, Eridan." Feferi sighed. "No, we use to be moirails, but I broke up with him. We're together right now because we're both seadwellers."
"You are?"
"Yeah." She wiggled the fins on the side of her head.
"Oh..."
Figureth...
"Yeah. Um," She fiddled with her long hair. "Do you... wanna hang out sometime?"
"Thure. Mabye thometime when I don't have work."
"Hehe! Glubbing awsome!" She giggled. "Oh, let me give you my number!"
Feferi pulled out a pen from her pocket.
"Here, give me your hand."
Sollux reached out his hand. Feferi took it and wrote a series of numbers on his hand.
"There you go!" She smiled. "Call me sometime."
"Alright." Sollux stared at the numbers.
"I have to go find Eridan now. Bye!" She ran off, waving as she sped away.
Sollux waved back. His heart felt like jello and he could hardly breath.
I think I found someone different... He thought, taking another bite out of the hotdog that sat in his hand the entire time.