"No. We weren't fucking lost." The grumpy baby kicked some dirty snow around his feet as he walked. He's pissy but you can't figure out why he's mad at you.. You walk together, john and vriska throwing the occasional snowball, tavros laughing right behind them. And then you and karkat. Less than 6 ft apart, not a word exchanged between. You look down at his feet, he's wearing sneakers. You chuckle before looking back in front of you. He darts his eyes at you defensively.
"What's so funny dumbass?"
You ears perk at the sound of his voice. He hasn't said a single word to you in weeks. You laugh again. "You're wearing sneakers in the fucking snow, that's what."
He eases a little and begins walking closer to you.
"Oh i'm sorry, I didn't know we were going on this stupid adventure that egbert arranged."
His voice carries sarcasm so heavy, he absolutely despises you. You finally make eye contact with him.
"Can we start over.." everything seems to pause.
He stops in his steps and looks towards the ground.
"Look, I just-" You're abruptly interrupted by John.
"-This is it!"
You look up to see the tall warehouse building the windows are all broken, graffiti covering the walls. You follow behind tavros who wields the flashlight. You all find yourselves just dragging on, expecting to find something interesting, but to no alas. John jumps up on some sort of big table, showing off for vriska.
"I am the King of this hot pocket factory!" vriska and tavros get a kick out of it. Vriska jumps up on the table with him.
"What is a King without his Queen?" she cackles, resting her hands on her hips. Tavros claps, while karkat boos. You are just a silent overseer. A babysitter to all these weird ass children.
Vriska gets too rowdy and John is too short to warn her as she falls right off the table. John immediately jumps to her aid.
"Oh my God are you alright?" He lifts her up from the cold floor. And that's how Vriska broke her arm.
Once you're back at John's house the party's fading. John sits Vriska on the couch to look at her arm
"Well…I think we should just take you to the hospital." He squints his face as examines her injury.
Vriska sighs loudly.
"Fuck. Okay let's take my car." She throws him the keys and they get up. Tavros tags along with them. You stop him at the door for a second.
"Sooo you just want me to chill until you get back?"
He nods his head.
"Uh yeah, we'll probably be awhile just watch some movies, okay?"
You nod back and shut the door behind him bidding him a farewell.
As soon as you hear the slam of that door, everything grows quiet. You turn around to face who else but Karkat. His demeanor is so different now. He doesn't look angry at all, maybe a little tired.
You turn away from him facing the hallway towards john's room.
"I'll just get out of your way then."
You start to walk in the direction only to find a grasp on your arm.
"Dave wait.. Please, stay in here. I-"
You turn around to face karkat and he looks absolutely pitiful. Your eyebrows crease in question.
He still hasn't let go of your hand.
"I wouldn't mind if you wanted to stay and watch the movie…"
He muttered, red grazing half his face.
"Well alright. If you really want me to stay."
You sat on the couch and watched as he put Mean Girls in the dvd player. You've haven't seen this movie since you were real little and bro said you were gonna see Spider man 2 but he fucking lied. Not that it wasn't a good movie. Back to staring at the back of karkat's head. 'His hair looks so soft, I wonder what conditioner he uses-' you stop yourself right there. What the hell are you thinking, there's no point thinking these kind of things. He doesn't care about you, it was an almost. He's obviously just showing you pity because he knows how fucking deep you got yourself, yeah that's it. Your subconscious is cut short by a pleasing voice."Do you want anything from the kitchen?" He stops in the doorway.
You nod no and see him disappear.
He's so attractive, it's so painful to be here right now. You start to watch the movie to take your mind off of it. Before Kady can even get to school karkat is back and more distant looking than ever. Awkwardly the piece of furnishing in front of John's television is a love seat. He sits as far as he possibly can from you. After a while all your attention was focused on Mean Girls and you didn't even notice karkat was closer than before, barely touching your shoulder. This means nothing. The party scene was on the screen, Karkat scoffed.
"What?" you half laughed.
"Nothing, it's just that Regina knew how much Cady liked Aaron and she still pulled that bullshit move.." He made a solemn face.
"Well what do you expect? Regina is literally a mean girl."
He paused and looked at the ground.
"Well, Cady really liked Aaron and when you really like someone it hurts a lot to be duped like that.."
You pressed the mute button on the dvd player remote.
"Karkat.. You literally walked out of my room and never talked to me again.."
His face suddenly grew red.
"Are you fucking kidding me right now? I pestered you literally 300 times and you never responded to any of my messages you fucking dense asshole!" His head is way too close to yours.
Suddenly it hits you. Really hard.
"I reset it."