Karkat

"Where the hell did you go?" Sollux asked once they were in his car and were driving. "Theriouthly, if I had known you were going to run off, I wouldn't have thpent my hard-earned money on thothe ticketh."

"Sorry. Although I met someone so I'm really not. Plus it technically wasn't your money, especially not 'hard-earned.'" Karkat smiled a bit as he rested the side of his face on his hand, elbow on his knee.

"Whatever." They sat in silence for a few moments, Sollux focusing more on the empty road and lights flashing overhead than anything else. "That girl you were with?"

"Yeah?" The brunette looked over at him as he did the same.

"You like her?"

"Yeah."

"Oh, alright. Jutht be careful." Sollux faced forward again, looking at him out of the corner of his eye.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Karkat raised an eyebrow suspiciously, lifting his head off of his hand a bit. "You're the one that said that we should get girlfriends, remember?"

"I jutht don't want you to get hurt again. You were a real methth latht time." The blonde tapped his fingers on the steering wheel as he pulled up a hill and stopped in front of an apartment complex, pulling into park before looking over at his friend again. Karkat seemed surprised that Sollux actually cared about him and remembered what had happened the year before.

"Whatever. She's different, I can tell." Karkat opened the car door and stepped out onto the cold pavement.

"Right. Did you get her number or thomeway to contact her again?"

He stopped before turning around and slamming the car door. "Shut up and thanks for the ride." Stepping inside of his warm apartment, he changed out of his wet clothes and into something more warm before curling up in his blankets. He fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

It seemed more like 5 seconds than 5 fours of time that had passed between when he went to sleep and when he woke up the same way as the day before, with his phone vibrating in his hand. He opened his eyes slowly, light shining through the window and onto his face as he looked at his phone. It was a number he didn't recognize but why not answer it? "What do you want?"

"K-Karkat? I… I hope you don't mind that I… Well I got your…" He heard a cough come from the other line before the girl continued in a weak voice, "Number out of the phone book. It's Nepeta." Imagine his surprise when he heard that. Had she really searched through the entire phonebook for his name? Also, why would she be calling him so early in the morning? Was something wrong? That would explain why she was coughing and sounded so weak. She could have gotten the cold but…it wouldn't make a person sound like that, would it?

"Nepeta? Are you okay?"

"I'm not perfect but I will be fine. Just don't cry or anything when you find me."

"Cry? Wait, what's going on?"

"I just wanted to…tell you that…even though I-" Much more coughing. "I don't really know you all too much I…I love you, I think."

"I love you too." Silence. "Nepeta? You there?"