In the fall, Kindergarten started for us both. On the first day, our parents brought us together. I stayed by his side, as I was very nervous, and we both stayed in the drawing corner. I sat close to him, and hid behind him when people would sit close to us. I held his hand for a while, and I calmed a bit. I hyperventilated a little a few times, but Karkat was there to help me calm it down.
The teacher announced that it was nap time, and we all grabbed our sleeping mats. I laid mine next to Karkat's, and we laid down facing each other. We kissed away our bad dreams, and held each other while we slept. Too soon, the lights were turned back on, and it was time for reading. We were each given a copy of the book the teacher read to us, then we would read it back to her. Then she gave us a reading test to see how well we could read, and Karkat ended up getting a better score than me, but that was okay. We both still scored pretty high. Then the school went on like normal the rest of the day, then my mom picked us both up.
Most days went like that, us together in a corner, by ourselves, him calming me when the other kids made me anxious, me helping him with anything he needed. We were inseparable, though the teacher saw this as a problem, and called home. Our parents explained this was okay, we were always together, and both of us had some social anxiety. The teacher wanted to try to get us to socialize, but the first time we tried, I cried and had an anxiety attack, and had to go home, and Karkat was quiet the rest of the day.
Then, one day, Karkat was home sick. I was alone, all by myself. I was close to having another anxiety attack, when the teacher introduced me to the new boy, Equius. He was short, shy, but the thing that stuck out most about him was the fact that his shoulders weren't even. He explained his spine was curved, and so he couldn't stand right. He looked down, and I walked over and hugged him. He stiffened, and hugged back, and neither of us said anything. We sat in the reading corner, and he read to me about horses. He seemed to understand I didn't want to talk, and he was very nice and understanding about my anxiety. He didn't make me talk or do anything uncomfortable to me, and after a bit, I eased up, and began answering his questions. Kids made fun of the fact he couldn't stand right, and I just lead him away, and taught him how to ignore him, and eventually, they stopped.
The next day is when Karkat came back. I introduced him to Equius, and he kinda stared at him, then at me. I explained that he helped me with the anxiety yesterday, and Karkat seemed to relax.
"Anyone who helps Nepeta must be a really good friend... maybe we can be friends soon too?" he asked. Equius just nodded and gave him a small smile.
We went to the drawing corner, and each drew each other something. I drew Equius riding a horse, and Karkat feeding his crab. Karkat drew me as a cat, and drew a picture of all three of us as friends and gave it to Equius. Equius gave me a picture of a cat and a horse being friends, and Karkat a picture of his favorite horse.
"Dude, whats with your thing about horses?" Karkat said, looking at him.
"Well...when I was a baby, my dad raised horses, and he would go to the stables every day to tend to them. One day, he fell and broke his leg and hit his head, and we had no idea. Then, a horse came running up to the house, and whinnied loudly, until my mother got up on his back, and roe him to where my dad was, and she called the doctor, and he was okay. The horses saved my dad, and I've loved them ever since." He explained. It was the most I'd heard him say. I gave him a gentle pat on the head, and he smiled a bit.
When our parents came to pick us up, we asked if Equius could come play with us today. Our parents looked at each other, and shrugged and said sure. He rode home with me, and we went to Karkat's house. We played pretend, and I was a fierce huntress, Equius was an archer, and Karkat was a rebel leader. We ran around outside, hunting bad guys, and making things right. Then, maybe an hour later, we got tired, and went inside for a nap. Karkat and I did our bad-dream-banishment, but before we went to sleep, I went over, and did it to Equius too. He was kind of shocked when I kissed him, then I explained it made bad dreams go away, and he smiled a little and hugged me, then went to sleep. I crawled up next to Karkat, and fell asleep.
A/N Wow, I got up this morning, and read all the positive reviews, I just finished what I wrote yesterday, and decided to upload it! Gosh, all the reviews were so nice, I nearly cried, thank you all so much! I will try to upload as much as possible, and I'm really pumped for this story, so it should be often!