"Tonight~ We are young~ So we set the world on fire! We can burn brighter, than the sun~!"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP."
Looking offended, Gamzee sulked back towards his girlfriend, whining about 'mean motherfuckers'. Karkat could've cared less, and checked his backpack. He was down to about two-thousand-ish dollars, which was pretty troublesome.
The thing about teenagers, is that they act on impulse. Karkat was no exception, so, when he found out he had nowhere to go, leaving seemed like a stupid idea. Though, while he was leaving, it had feltn right. Fucking brain.
"You alright?" Sollux asked, looking up from his phone. Karkat curiously looked over at the screen, but seeing Sollux's worried expression, he closed his eyes. "Not really." he mumbled.
"Tell me about it," offered Sollux, clicking off his mobile. He scootched closer to his new friend, and Karkat was made painfully aware of how attractive Sollux was up close.
"I'm just...I mean...I don't know what I'm going to do after you guys dump me somewhere." Karkat said, a little embarrassed of voicing his current inner turmoil.
Sollux's eyebrows leaped to his hairline, "Uh, KK? We're not dumping you anywhere. Ever. You think you can ethcape?" Sollux said that last part in an eery way, the kind of way that made jumping out the R.V window seem pretty good.
"Whatever," huffed Karkat. He was about to turn his head when Sollux got really close, so close, their noses were fucking touching. "I'm theriouth. I'm not letting you get away." Sollux whispered, a teasing grin on his face.
"Fuckass." was all Karkat could reply.
The road was leisurely and long, Gamzee quietly singing along to the radio, Terezi playing with Gamzee's hair, Karkat watching his new favorite couple flirt, Sollux looking up at Karkat from his phone and smiling every few minutes, Feferi giggling at Sollux, nd Eridan watching Feferi.
The circle of fucking life.
"Were are we going, anyway?" Karkat asked, suddenly. Gamzee said, "We're all up and traveling along the motherfucking Mississippi river to get to Iowa, Terezi an' I got to handle some family shit." The incredulous glance Karkat had preparred for Sollux was seemingly unecessary.
"Fef hath an older thither in Iowa," the brunet explained, "We were gonna crath with her until we got jobth."
"If she even wants to see me." Feferi sighed, throwing a sad look in Karkat's direction. He then proceeded to have a conversation through eyebrows with her, eventually, winning some sort of unsaid argument.
"Wwe still have, like, wwhat? One-thousand four hundred miles left." Eridan groaned in complaint. "That's another fuckin' day in a car!" Gamzee lifted his head, "Will we be stopping at a motherfucking restaurant, soon?"
"That sounds heavenly!" Terezi crowed, giggling her cackle-thing again. "It's gettin' dark, might as wwell." Eridan muttered, and the car shifted right to pull into a nearby town.
...
They might as well have been asleep by the time they eached the R.V, again. Terezi had Gamzee piggy-back her to the car, and they both flopped down on one of the pull-out beds. Light snores were made minutes later, and Feferi curled into Eridan. They soon joined their hitchhikers in dreamland.
But, as always, Karkat found difficulty in sleep. He tossed on the matress, turned to get comfortable, laid in various different styles, and still, nada.
"KK," Sollux said, suddenly. Karkat swore he'd been asleep on the seats a few minutes earlier, which amassed his shocked little jump; Sollux was close again, all of a sudden.
"Theeth, it'th jutht me." mused Sollux, taking Karkat's arm, "Can't thleep, huh?"
"Fuck no." Karkat sighed, finding himself being towed outside. It was warm, yet, strangeky cool. The R.V had a ladder that lead upwards to it's roof, which seemed to be Sollux's destination.
"Come on," he smiled, looking stunning from the dim light of the street-lamp a few meters away. Karkat blushed, abruptly climbing up after the brunet.
"Thee thith?" Sollux asked, laying on his back. Looking up, Karkat saw.
Beautiful.
That's all he could describe it as. The night sky above them was filled with stars, a neverending pool of glaxies, looking so small and shiny. It was truely a magnificent sight.
"Holy fuck," Karkat murmurmed, eyes wide. Sollux handed him his 3D glasses, "Try looking at it like thith."
Whoa.
It was like looking through a keleidoscope, the small white dots that had been the stars erupted into colour with the aid of a piece of plastic. They were even more breathtaking, now. Karkat felt his jaw drop.
Sollux smiled, softly, "My dad alwayth told me that when I looked up at the thtarth wearing thoth glathteth, it wath like...looking through-"
"The wrong end of a telescope." Karkat finally breathed.
"Wow, how'd you gueth that?" Sollux sounded impressed.
"I think I just read your mind," Karkat drawled, eyes not leaving the sky.
They settled into a content silence, Karkat amazed, Sollux intrigued. It was a long time until Karkat realised he was unconsiously leaning towards Sollux, whom was seemingly leaning back. Their arms brushed, and that tingling feeling shot up to the tips of Karkat's ears. He blushed, but didn't retract. Sollux sat cheerily, glancing over to see the flustered expression on the raven head's face, he chuckled.
"You know, KK, you're pretty cute." Sollux decided.
"Like you should talk." Karkat said it without thinking it. Sollux broke into such a ridiculously large grin, Karkat wasn't sure if his mouth would just fucking fall right off. Both boys leaned into eachother, just forgetting everything they were insecure about and stared up at the sky as thought it was the most grogeous thing ever. Which it was.
Two older teenagers fell asleep on top of a R.V on a warm night in Florida.
They never lived it down, or at least, Feferi would never let them.
A.N: Just made it fluffy, I was in no mood to really raise the plot this chapter. Much more fluff will ensue, later. Just be paitient!