A.N: Guys, really. All the follows, thank you so much! I made this chapter a bit longer than the rest just for you guys! Also, we meet more trolls(humans) in this chapter. Aaaand- *drumroll* Karkat's little romance is about to unfold!
Though it had only been two weeks since Karkat had stumbled into that motel damanding for warmth. Although he was embarrassed to admit it, he didn't want to leave. Surprisingly, Equius had offered him a job as a waitor for the Diner installment of the building. Karkat took the job, working off his payment for the room he was staying in, and all seemed well.
Calling John was a constant part of his newly-developed routine, and they would chat for hours, even if the topic made no sense. Karkat didn't care, it felt nice to have a friend. Nepeta had deemed to the task of mothering him. She clearly cared about Karkat , which made him feel almost, dare he say, happy?
Yes, he was happy there.
"Yo, Karkat!" greeted Jade Harley, one of the few employees. She reminded Karkat of John, with her long brown hair, circular glasses, and slightly buck teeth, she could easily be his sister. "Any hungry customers?"
"No, slow morning." he grumbled, putting on his waitor apron-thing. Jade grinned up at him, and proceeded to put her apron-thing on, as well.
"Can you help me get my hair into this pony-tail?" Jade asked, removing a green hair tie from her wrist.
"Sure." Karkat said. He weakly grabbed her hair into a bundle and tied it up the best he could. It looked decent...ish.
"Thanks!" Jade smiled, skipping into the kitchen.
"You're welcome, Harley." he muttered, and headed off to set the tables.
When his task was finished, Karkat sat himself behind the bar, waiting for any passing cars to come to a hault and get something to eat. As if answering to his prayers, a large R.V pulled up into the Motel division. Karkat watched as a young man got out of the drivers side, catching a jumping female and swinging her around before they kissed.
After the lovebirds started hand-in-hand towards the door, a tall, lanky man crawled out of the back of the vehicle, assisting a girl with a cane out, next. The skinny man offered her his arm, she took it, and they skipped into the door, following the driver and girlfriend before them.
Karkat thought that was all who was left in the car, but apparently not. Another man came out of the passengers side, carrying what looked to be three suitcases. He was wearing 3D glasses. Not the cheap, black, imax ones they sold nowadays. No, these 3D specs were the old paper ones, with red and blue draping over his eyes. The man struggled to get out of the door, and Karkat stood up before he could stop himself.
He opened the door to the Diner, jogging up the the man who was trying to close the vehicle's door with his foot. "Need some help with those?" yelled Karkat.
The man turned, revealing he was actually quite tall, lean, not to mention, young. "Oh, yeth, thankth tho much." Ah, a lisp, too.
Karkat awkwardly took thhe biggest suitcase, watching the stranger's shoulders relax. They hobbled into the Motel division, and were greeted by Nepeta.
"Karkat! I told you you should be in the Diner, we have new customers!" she scolded, half-heartedly.
"Sorry, Nep." Karkat said, "I was just helping this guy."
"Thollux." said he. "My name is Thollux."
"Okay," Karkat mumbled to him, staring up at the latter, "Sollux."
Nepeta grinned, "Just take the bags up to your room and join your furr-ends! Room 107."
"Nice cat pun." Sollux smirked, heading for the hallway. Karkat followed, dumbfoundedly.
They reached the room, Sollux knocked on the door three times before it was opened, and the girl with the cane was the one who met them, "Hello, Captor. Who's your friend?"
"Thith ith KK. KK, meet Pyrope." nodded Sollux at the girl.
Karkart raised a brow ay the nickname, but said nothing but, "Hello there, Pyrope."
"Terezi." the girl corrected him. "May I see you? You have a nice voice."
Confused, Karkat looked at Sollux. "The'th blind."
"Uh, okay. Sure." Karkat mumbled, dropping the suitcase. Terezi reached out until her hands found his face, then they slowly started to examine things. She ran her thumb down his nose, ran her fingers through his hair, and nearly poked his eyes out. Finally, she retreated. "You're handsome." Terezi giggled.
Karkat frowned, "I have to get going now. Late for work." And off he ran, trying to avoid socially awkward situations. He was almost back the Diner when he heard footseteps behind him. The entire group from the R.V was walking down the hallway!
He made it just in time, and Jade was clearly not impressed. "C'mon, Karkat! I already served two people on my own while you were away. You get the next group."
"Sorry, Harley." Karkat said, "I promise it won't happen again."
Jade's stern glare softened back into her friendly green gaze, "You're so hard to be mad at, Karkat. Honestly."
He stuck his tongue out at her and she stalked back into the kitchen, ready to prepare the next meal. Karkat heard Jade say hello to the chef, Jane, who was Jade's older sister, and they both had a knack for baking. They were also extremely like John, making Karkat confused sometimes.
"Wwe're ready to eat." someone called, voice wavy. Karkat turned around and saw Sollux smirking at him, Terezi grinning along, and the other three people from the R.V were there, including the owner of the voice.
"Yeah, one second!" Karkat sighed, walking over to them. "Here, I'll show you to your table." Scooping up five menus, he started to lead them to a booth.
"My name is Karkat, I'll be your server for today." he said, faking a smile.
"I'm Eridan, and I'll have a wwater." a young man with jet black hair said. He had a purple streak in his black locks, hipster glasses, and a purple and blue striped scarf.
"I'll have a water too!" piped up a girl at Eridan's side. She had long hair (really long) with a beaded head band resting on her crown, her shirt said You Only Live Once horizontally across it, and John Lennon-esque blue sunglasses. Hipsters.
Karkat noted down two waters, then glanced at Sollux, who was staring at him. "Hey, KK. I'll have a milk." Karkat jotted it down, then asked, "Terezi?"
She tried to place where his voice came from and said, "I'll have a milkshake."
"At ten a.m?" Karkat mused.
She nodded, "Make it a cherry one."
The last one to order was the tall guy who had helped Terezi out of the car. He had long, brown, moppy hair, which had a tuft tied up into a little pony-tail at the top of his head. He was smiling like a clown, and said, "My name's Gamzee, I'll have some motherfucking faygo." in a slight Texan accent.
"Okay, two waters, a milk, a cheery milkshake, and a faygo?" Karkat asked.
"Yup." Gamzee nodded for everyone.
Karkat was back with the delivery of beverages in three minutes. Everyone seemed pleased and ordered food. Eridan had 'wwaffles' his girlfriend (Fef?) had french toast, Sollux had a crepe, which he split with Terezi who had a hashbrown, and Gamzee had fruit loops.
After everyone was done, Karkat was stuck cleaning up their plates. The odd group had shuffled out the door, Eridan leaving a cheque. Seriously, who leaves a cheque? He was grumpily piling dishes atop of eachother, when Sollux came back into the practically empty Diner.
"Hi KK." he smiled.
Karkat glared up at the taller man's 3D glasses, "What's with the fuclking nickname?"
"It thuith you." Sollux shrugged, "I wath wondering if I could hang out with you, today, KK."
Karkat started towards the dishwasher, "I'm working."
Sollux followed him, smiling. "I don't mind."
"If you're going to fucking hover, at least make use of yourself." Karkat jabbed a dish towel in the direction of the brunet. Sollux raised his brows, then he took the cloth.
"Thure. I'll help out." his smile widened. Karkat almost blushed. Almost.
They stood side by side, scrubbing dishes until they were spotless. Every now and again, their arms would brush, causing a line of cusses to nearly explode out of Karkat's mouth. Soon afterwards, the dishes were clean.
"Thee? Two ith better than one!" Sollux said, setting a sparkling plate down to dry.
"You never fucking made an arguement." Karkat grumbled, rolling his eyes. He made his way out from around the bar, Sollux on his heels. "Why do want to hang out with me anyway, are you a creep?"
Sollux made a face of mock hurt, "Oh, KK, your wordth, they wound me!"
That made Karkat laugh, in spite of himself. Sollux grinned, "I knew you could laugh!"
"I'm not a fucking android." Karkat said, just as Aradia entered the Diner. She was normally there for live entertainment, but she was also a waitress.
"Hello, Karkat." Aradia said, approaching him.
"Hey, 'Radi." he mumurmed in gretting.
"Who's this?" she asked, refering to Sollux.
Karkat shrugged, "I hardly know myself."
"Ouch, hurtful." Sollux whined, then he turned to Aradia, "I'm Thollux."
Aradia smiled, "Nice to meet you."
"Lithen, if it ithn't any trouble, I'd like to borrow KK here." Sollux said, taking hold of Karkat's arm. "Think you could cover him?"
Aradia hesitantly took Karkat's apron-thing and put it on her own waist, "Alright. Be back by four, okay?"
"ARADIA!" Karkat howled in complaint, as Sollux dragged him outside. He eventually gave up the struggle and calmed down. "Where are we fucking going?"
"I dunno, I juth want to get to know you." Sollux said, looking down at Karkat with a smile. This time, he really did blush.
"Fuckass." he grumbled, being pulled away.