Hi Guys!

Sorry for the delay in updating! I started school last week (BLAH!) and I already hate math… (It's weird, it's almost like I predicted the future. In this fanfic Aradia has math first period and when I got my timestable on the first day of school I saw that Math was my first period class…ugh!) Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter and I'd like to give a shout out to predatoryExcitement who gave me an idea for the end of this chapter and possibly the next one! Thank you so much! :D

~90sbaby112

Chapter twelve:

*Aradia's POV*

So, it turns out that Sollux and I have a class together. That class is History 20 during period 2. It still baffles me that I didn't know; it was like I went completely deaf while the teacher took attendance until he called my name.

Well, even if I hadn't heard his name being called I knew I wasn't that crazy. I had never seen him in that class. The first time I saw him in the History classroom was when I looked up and saw him walk in.

He noticed me staring at him and nodded in my direction. I smiled weakly (and confused) and waved. He smiled back and sat in the seat behind mine. My eyes widened and my cheeks grew hot. I was about to turn around and ask what he was doing there but then Karkat walked in and took his usual seat beside mine. He looked just as confused as I was.

He took out his notebook and his favourite grey pen. He wrote something in his notebook, tore out the page, crumbled it up and chucked it at me.

I opened it.

SINCE WHEN IS HE IN THIS CLASS?

i d0nt kn0w he just walked in

THE IDIOT'S PROBABLY BEEN SKIPPING

yeah pr0bably

Suddenly the bell rang and our teacher stood in front of the class and started taking attendance. That time, I heard Sollux's name being called.

"Here." He said from behind me.

"Well, look who finally decided to show up. Sollux Captor, if you skip my class again you will be kicked out and have to retake this course next year."

"Yeah, I know I heard…" He said in a semi-bored tone.

"Good." The teacher replied and continued taking attendance.

Karkat and I exchanged a glance and shrugged. Once the teacher started teaching I ignored everything else around me and paid attention. History is my favourite subject and the reason I wake up in the morning. Honestly, if it wasn't for history I wouldn't go to school at all.

As I began writing notes another paper ball landed on my desk. I took it and turned to Karkat who was looking straight ahead as if he was induced on what the teacher was saying, despite the fact that his face was turning redder than a tomato.

HEY ARADIA, I NEED YOUR HELP.

sure whats up

WELL UHH...UGH THIS IS STUPID!

take y0ur time

IT'S JUST...I WANNA ASK NEPETA OUT OKAY!

A huge smile spread across my face and I blushed a little. I had been waiting for this day since Nepeta and Karkat met in grade four!

then ask her 0ut

I CAN'T DO THAT

why n0t?

BECAUSE... WHAT IF SHE SAYS NO?

0h my g0g are y0u kidding me?

WHAT?

I was about to reply back when suddenly, another paper ball landed on my desk from behind me.

AA iim 2orry

I wrinkled my eyebrows and debated on answering him back or not.

I turned to face him. His eyes were big and resembled ones of a puppy. He was frowning and looked sincerely sorry. I sighed and turned back around to write a reply.

its n0t y0ur fault s0llux

it was my fault

no iit wa2nt

iit wa2 my fault

ii wa2 beiing an a22hole

I sighed; I couldn't just not forgive him...

i f0rgive y0u

we were b0th pretty stressed

and stuff. Sch00l can be stupid s0metimes

2ometiime2?

alright, its always stupid

: ) youre great

My breath suddenly got caught in my throat and smiled so wide that my face started hurting. My heart started beating quickly and I could feel my face grow a darker shade of red with each minute that passed by.

I quickly started writing a reply when Karkat threw another paper ball at me.

ARE YOU GOING TO REPLY BACK OR WHAT?

0h, s0rry Karkat.

anyway i think y0u sh0uld ask her 0ut

BUT...WHAT IF SHE TURNS ME DOWN?

I REALLY LIKE HER...

I rolled my eyes.

i kn0w y0u d0 but d0n't w0rry

y0ull be surprised 0u0

... THANKS I GUESS...

when were you planning 0n asking her?

I DON'T KNOW, PROBABLY LUNCH?

g00d idea

The rest of the period consisted of me talking back and forth from Karkat to Sollux through paper balls. Karkat was freaking out and asking me how to ask a girl out and Sollux kept begging me to forgive him. And, as much as I loved the fact that he was apologizing I hated the fact that he blamed himself.

It was my fault, really. All he did was asked me if I was going to go out with Equius, I should've answered him, even if at the time I didn't know... He was just trying to be a good friend... Wait... Equius... Shit.

Suddenly, the bell rang and everyone started packing their stuff up. I found myself frozen. I had to sit next to Equius in biology...

"Hey are you okay?" My head snapped up to Karkat's voice.

"Uh, yeah I'm fine."

I started stuffing my notebook and pencil case into my backpack when Sollux walked up to me.

"AA are you okay?"

I stood up too quickly and practically tripped over my own two feet. Sollux reached out to grab me before I could.

"I-Uh...yeah I'm fine!" I shouted feeling flustered.

Karkat and Sollux both looked at me in confusion.

"What clath do you have next?" Sollux asked.

"Um, biology."

"Do you want me to walk you there?"

"Uhh..." I was a bit confused by the offer and was about to agree when something sneaked up in the back of my mind... Feferi.

I shook my head. "No it's fine really, I'll just walk there with Karkat we're going the same direction anyway."

His face flinched as if my words had stabbed him. I immediately felt guilty.

"Uh, it's just I...uh..." I was tripping over my words. Gosh, I probably sounded like an idiot! "You should go walk Feferi to her next class, I'm sure she'd like that!" I said quickly and then slapped on the fakest smile on my face.

Sollux's grinned lightly but there was no hint of happiness or joy in his eyes.

I laughed nervously and grabbed Karkat's wrist.

"Well, I'll see you later Sollux."

"Um, yeah bye..."

I gripped Karkat's wrist harder and ran out of the classroom and booked it toward the stairs.

"Hold the fuck up Megido! What the hell was that?!" He shouted.

I stopped running and let go of his wrist. "I don't know I just... My head pretty much looks like Gamzee's room right now, I can't think straight okay!?"

His eyes widened. "Oh... Okay..."

I frowned. "I'm sorry."

He quickly shook his head. "No, don't be sorry I understand. We all have one of those stupid days where we just wanna crawl into a hole and die."

I smiled. "You get me."

I went and hugged him. He hugged me back for about one second before pushing me off.

"Alright, alright we're gonna be late!" He shouted and ran up the stairs.

I laughed a little and followed him upstairs.

As he made his way to Psychology class I made my way into the biology classroom... A place where I really didn't want to be in. I walked in and saw that Equius was already sitting at our table.

I took a deep breath and walked over to him and sat down.

"Hi Equius." I said as I took out my biology text book and notebook.

At first he looked shocked that I had said anything but then he smiled (Which was odd because I didn't recall ever seeing him smile).

Without thinking I smiled and squealed:

"Oh my gosh you look so cute when you smile!"

I regretted those words as soon as they rolled off my tongue. Both his face and my face turned red and I covered my mouth.

"I'm so sorry...I didn't mean to-"

He shook his head and started laughing. He actually started laughing!

I felt my face cool down.

"It's alright Aradia; you look cute when you smile too."

"Uh... I...Thanks?"

He then chuckled and shook his head again.

Feel extremely embarrassed, I opened my textbook and started doing the questions that were assigned up on the board.

For about ten minutes neither Equius nor I made a sound. The only sound was the pages of a textbook flipping and the sound of a pencil scrapping against the paper. After a while the silence actually grew to be comfortable. And, I'm pretty sure that's why I jumped when I heard Equius clear his throat.

"Aradia." He said, his voice shaking a little.

I looked up at him and nodded slowly, almost encouragingly.

"Yes?"

He cleared his throat again and rubbed the back of his neck nervously.

"I was hoping that we could talk about our…conversation last night…"

I chewed on my bottom lip nervously and turned red again.

"Um, okay, sure…?"

He took a deep breath. I couldn't help but try to make him a little more comfortable.

"Look, Equius, It's okay you don't have to feel nervous while talking to me…It's just me…"

He looked at me straight in the eye and I looked back with the same intensity. He then smirked a little and nodded.

"Alright, I guess that helps a little."

I waited.

"Would you like to go out with me on Saturday?"

I felt a knot form in my stomach. My heart was hammering in my chest and even though I had planned to say yes every inch of me wanted to say no. But, I had already said yes to him the night before so… I didn't have much of a choice.

"Sure! I'd love to!" I shouted sounding way too excited for it to have been believable.

But, Equius didn't catch that so, that was good.

He smiled wider.

I cleared my throat and tried not to look awkward.

"So, where are we going?"

The questions seemed to stump him.

"Well, I uh, I was actually going to let you decide…I didn't want to take you someplace that you wouldn't enjoy."

Okay, so he had a good point. But there was just something about him letting me decide that made me feel like a deflated balloon. Like, when Sollux used to take me out he never told me where we were going. He always picked and yeah he would occasionally let me pick but it was those times that I didn't know where we were going that made the excitement rush up in my chest.

"Hmm… I'm not sure to be honest I've never thought about it." I answered shyly. "But, why don't you let me think about it and then I'll tell you?"

He smiled softly and nodded. "As you wish."

I smiled back and then the lunch bell rang. I quickly stuffed everything back into my backup and stood up.

"Well, I'll see you later Equius; I have to go find my friends."

He stood up and nodded. "Very well."

I turned around and dashed toward the door where I found Terezi waiting. I had forgotten that she was in this class with me!

She raised an eyebrow behind her red glasses. "What was that?"

"What was what?" I asked innocently.

She gave me a conspicuous look. "You and Equius."

My eyes widened. "Did you…hear everything…?"

She shrugged. "Maybe."

I groaned and she smiled and took my hand.

"Come on; let's just get to the lunch room."

I let her lead me to the lunchroom (it probably wasn't the smartest idea to let a blind girl lead the way). We didn't crash into anyone or anything so that was good.

When we walked into the lunch room and had gotten through the lunch line, we walked over to our table where we saw Karkat sitting down shaking like mad.

Gamzee and John were sitting on either side of him trying to calm him down.

"Karkat, it's okay, it's going to be fine."

"Easy for you to say Egbert!"

John laughed. "Come on don't be nervous, I'm positive she likes you back!"

Karkat groaned.

Gamzee managed to laugh too. "You gotta chill the mother fuck out Karkat! Here have a mother fucking sip of my Faygo."

"No I'm not drinking that abominable drink!"

Gamzee laughed again. "How about some pie?"

"No!"

Vriska and Tavros were sitting across from him. Vriska rolled his eyes.

"Come oooooooon Karkat! What's the worst that could happen?! This is Nepeta Leijon we're talking about! It's not like she's going to claw your eyes out!"

Karkat flinched. "Oh gosh…"

Terezi and I sat down on the empty chairs.

"Where is Nepeta anyway?" I asked.

"She had to go to the washroom after period 3." Vriska explained.

Terezi suddenly started cackling. "Look who just walked into the lunch room Karkles!"

"Ahh shit!" Karkat shouted and looked like he was about to faint.

"Karkat, you're making this harder than it needs to be." I said.

He shook his head rapidly. "Oh my gosh she's looking this way!"

We all turned and saw Nepeta smiling and waving promptly at us.

"Of course she's looking this way idiot!" Vriska snapped. "We're her friends!"

Nepeta started skipping towards us.

"Alright Karkles, here's your chance go run up to her and ask her out!"

Karkat let out a heavy sigh. "I-I don't know…"

"Come on Karkat, if you don't go ask her you'll regret it for the rest of your life!" I almost shouted.

He looked shocked but also as if he just realised something. Then, without much of a warning, he got up and ran towards Nepeta.

We all turned to watch him.

Even from here we could see his face turn as red as a ripe strawberry. His lips were moving but they were too far away for us to hear what he was saying. Nepeta's face looked curious, and then confused, and then a long smiled spread across her face and when Karkat stopped talking she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly.

Karkat looked shocked, as if he couldn't process everything that had just happened. It wasn't until about ten seconds later that he looked relieved, smiled and hugged her back.

My friends and I turned around and started fangirling inaudibly until we noticed Nepeta and Karkat walking back to our table. We cleared throats and tried to act natural.

Karkat and Nepeta sat down side by side holding hands. Nepeta's face was bright and I had never seen her smile so wide and Karkat's face was still red and he was looking everywhere but our faces.

No one said anything, there was tension in the air and we were trying to wipe the awkward smiles off our faces. Finally, when we couldn't hold it in anymore Vriska shouted:

"Are you guys dating?!"

Then that started a commotion.

"Yes!" Nepeta squealed.

"No, Uh, yes I…uh.." Karkat looked embarrassed.

"When are you guys going out?!" John shouted with a little too much enthusiasm.

"We don't know yet!" Karkat snapped.

"Ooo! Karkitty can we go see a movie!"

"Uh, sure?"

"There's a rom com I really wanna see! Can we go this weekend?!"

Karkat smirked and nodded. "Yeah we can."

I had never seen Nepeta's face that bright and playful before (and that says a lot considering that she's always bright and playful).

It wasn't long before Karkat's face brightened up too and him and Nepeta started laughing together.

We smiled and went back to our usual routine of eating the disgusting lunch room and complaining about classes we don't like. Although, this time we spent less time talking about our most hated classes and started talking about the Sum 41 concert.

"We're not going unless we're in the mosh pit." Vriska announced.

Terezi rolled her eyes. "Of course we're not going unless we're in the mosh pit. But, isn't that how it always works?"

"Yeah Vriska," John said. "Every concert we've been too we've always been in the mosh pit."

Vriska smiled proudly and leaned back in her chair. "Our older sibling's taught us well."

I smiled as well as I remembered our first concert ever.

We were 13 and a half and our older siblings wanted to go to a Billy Talent concert in a city that was two hours away. And for some weird reason our parents didn't let them go unless they took us… So, our 17 year old siblings (almost 18 year olds) took us on a road trip to a Billy Talent concert. And they told us that no matter what, you just didn't go to a rock concert if you weren't in the mosh pit… That night we saw why.

I smiled again and felt excitement welding up in my chest.

"Oh my gosh you guys I'm so excited!" I shouted.

Terezi cackled. "Yeah I know, I can't wait to mosh pit!"

"Yep," Vriska nodded. "Mosh pitting with the blind girl is always fun."

"Whothe mosh pitting?"

I froze at the stutter behind me.

Everyone else did too for about a second until Vriska sighed and folded her arms across her chest.

"We are Captor." She snapped.

"You guyth going to a concert? And if you are what band?"

Vriska was about to open her mouth to speak but Terezi interrupted.

"Sum 41!"

I heard Sollux gasp. "Thum 41 ith coming to thith shitty city?!" His voice was mixed with excitement and disbelief.

"You know it!" Terezi shouted and stood up to give Sollux a high five.

"Nithe!" Sollux shouted and gave Terezi a high five. "You guyth going?"

It was Vriska's turn to stand up and shout. "You know it Captor! We're going to go fist pump in the mosh pit!"

He laughed. "Thweet. That'th awethome I'm glad I walked by."

Vriska and Terezi sat back down and I felt him pat my head.

I looked up and wrinkled my eyebrows. "Did you just pat my head?"

"Yeah, I wanted to get your attention."

"Uh.. Okay?"

"Tho, are you going?"

"Yes she is!" Vriska shouted before I could answer.

I sighed heavily and rolled my eyes. "Yes, I'm going."

He smiled. "Good."

I smiled back and suddenly, Feferi appeared beside him holding his hand.

"Hi Sollux!" She said in a loud voice. I flinched.

He turned away from me and looked at Feferi. His smile faded a bit but it was still on his face.

"Hey Fef."

I frowned and turned away.

"Are you coming to eat lunch?" She asked him.

"Uh, yeah I wath jutht thaying hi to thethe guyth."

Feferi then turned to us and smiled. "Hi guys!" She said cheerfully.

"Hey." We all mumbled.

She gasped and turned to me. "Hi Aradia!"

I sighed, feeling extremely annoyed. "Hi Feferi…"

She smiled wider. "Have you and Equius started dating yet?"

My eyes widened.

"What?" Sollux almost demanded.

Feferi ignored him.

"I-uh-I…"

She smiled wider her cold eyes piercing through me.

I don't know what made me say these next words, but I prayed that Karkat forgive me.

"A-actually I'm going out with him on Saturday!"

"You are?" Sollux and the rest of my friends asked in unison.

I nodded. "Yep, I am! We're going on a double date with Karkat and Nepeta!"

Nepeta gasped excitedly and Karkat shouted:

"WHAT?!"

I turned to him and gave him "the look".

He glared at me but looked down and mumbled something.

I turned back to Feferi and smiled at her foxily.

Her frown faded and she glared at me.

"I'll see you around Feferi." I then turned to Sollux. "I'll see you Friday after school."

I then turned back around and smirked slyly as I poked the disgusting looking mac and cheese on my plate.

I felt Feferi's presence linger on more than she had to before walking away.