"Hmmm...Hey sol how would you feel about havin' some free flowers since that bouquet looks like shit now?"

Eridan smirked at him and picked up a handful of the violet roses.

"The bouquet ithnt the only thing that lookth like thit"

Sollux would reply and give him a snarky smile. Eridan rolled his eyes with a huff and filled up the bouquet with the new color in hopes that it would look fuller and more vibrant then before. And well. It did. It looked more...elegant he supposed. As he was putting the flowers here and there eridan began to converse with sol.

"So...who are the lovely mix of flowers for sol"

"Itth really none of your buthineth. Hey wait how the hell do you know my name?"

Well fuck, smooth move eridan you let the cat out of the bag. He looked down at the flowers nervously and continues to work. Trying to drop the question. Lets just say sol did not like that idea at all. He grabbed eridan by the collar of his shirt and slammed him up against the wall, picking the shorter male up slightly. Seething with confusion and utmost rage.

"How. Do. You. Know. My. Fucking. Name."

Eridan's eyes went wide with shock and fright behind his glasses as he looked at the taller young man.

"I..I...erm...I met you before...you are fef's boyfriend right..?"

Eridan's face was a light red and he kicked his feet slightly trying to get away. But then sol just dropped him like a sack of potatoes. His anger gone and depleted. Eridan slid down the wall slightly before landing on his rump. Looking up at sol a bit before moving away. Holy cod, holy fuckin' cod he thought he was a goner there for a minute.

"yeth i am and you better remember that"

He would glare down at eridan. He stepped away and retrieved his roses from the table.

"i'll just be taking thethe and be on my way now. Thanks, erm, I never caught your name."

Eridan stood to his feet and brushed the dust offa his pants. He looked at sol with a irritated expression.

"My name is Eridan but you of all people would never remember that. Even after fef introduced me to you about four months back."

"Well thanks anyways, Ed. For ruining my flowers and then making up for it."

Sollux rolled his eyes with a snicker and walked off with the new vase and the flowers. Leaving Eridan awestruck with the sass that sol had. Eridan went back to his work after he left and went home afterwards.

After the rather hectic and claustrophobic day at work eridan was rather relieved to be at his seaside home where he practically collapsed on his waterbed. He shut his eyes for a moment and let the air escape otta his lungs.

"Why the fuck did he have to show up today. Otta' all of the days he had to go a' pick this one."

He had a momentary flashback of sol literally picking him up offa the ground. He was scared shitless sure but sol was looking directly at him not necessarily mad or angry at him but rather lost and confused. The mismatched eyes almost lost in his own for a moment. Thats when eridan shook his head and sat upright, snapping him out of the memory.

"No...no no no no no nononono...I w-will not think about him...no...cod damn it..."

No he was not going to think about sol right now. He smothered his face into a pillow.

He...he didn't feel that way about sol like that..h-he despised him.

Or did he?

Meanwhile, Sollux was out for a lovely dinner with fef. He presented the roses to her and she absolutely adored them. They both had a romantic night on the town, via sollux's money of course.

They returned to fef's home and sat up to watch late night television programs, all cuddled up into each other. One thing kept bugging him throughout the night as he was with fef. Sure she was a sweet girl and she cared about everyone but damn she had a gift to gab. She had this little voice that almost nagged at everything and anything and it was enough to give sol a headache throughout the whole evening. He grinned and bared through it until she fell asleep in his arms.

Fef always treated him more like a friend that she could talk with so he wondered why he even stayed in this type of relationship. Oh sure they kiss and hold hands but that is about it. They didn't even have sex because fef was always so shy she got pissy about it and ruined the mood.

He wished he could find a way to tell her that this relationship wasn't working out, but he couldn't stand to see her upset, especially at him. He just wanted to make her smile and be there for her, like a real friend he was. She was rather a flush crush of romantic beginnings. But now she is more of a pale friend with him, and to sol, friendship would be the best option in his head.

Sollux let out a sigh and let his head lie back against the couch cushion, rubbin' his temples as he closed his eyes, trying to relax. In his head flashed a vision from earlier today.

Those set of bright violet irises framed by the black sharpness of that hipster's glasses. God his eyes were beautiful. Wait. That the fuck did he just think? Its not like he wasn't attracted to men all that, because he was, he and his old friend Dave used to have a fling but it was just friends with benefits.

He was proud to be bisexual and he didn't give a fuck what other people thought. BUT DAMN. He didn't think that eridan guy's eyes were beautiful. What the hell.

UGH SNAP OUT OF IT SOLLUX

He repeated that last bit to himself as he spoke in his head and shook the thoughts out of his brain. He opened his eyes slightly. Out off all the things to think about now, he had to think of those violet eyes from that loser hipster.

He face-palmed and let out another sigh trying to wiggle out from underneath fef. She finally curled up and moved to the other side of the couch. Hugging one of her ridiculous cuttlefish plushies that she is just so in love with.

Sollux stood up from his new freedom and stretched, popping his lower back. Cracking his neck for good measure as he walked from the living room to the kitchen getting a glass of water and with some migraine pills out from the bathroom cabinet. He popped the pills and took a swig of water before looking at the roses that he got for fef that were on the table as he thought to himself.

"Yellow, pink, and violet. Yellow and violet...complementary colors.

Compliment."

Sollux's lips twitched into a smirk for a moment. Just before he decided to at least get some sleep for the night in the recliner next to the couch where fef was fast asleep.