A few days later it was New Year's Eve. Roxy had invited everyone to her house for a party. On the invitations she wrote in clear, bold words ANYONE WHO DECLINES WILL BE DRAGGED THERE BY THEIR DICK! Needless to say, no one declined.
"Awesome! Everyone's here!" Roxy exclaimed.
"Like you gave us a choice." Karkat grumbled. Roxy ignored him and led them inside.
"We're having the party in my room! It's big enough for all of us to have a blast!" she said. "And I've got a large stash of alcohol up there! And it's New Year's Eve, so you all have to get at least a little drunk!"
"Fuck no." Karkat snapped. Roxy kicked him in the shins and kept walking.
"Here we are!" She led them into her bedroom. There were a bunch of white stuffed cats in pink wizard costumes. There was also a whole bookshelf full of vodka bottles, all sorted by brand. And her closet was full of weird blue cubes with mutant black kittens in them. Though they obviously weren't real.
"That's a miraculous amount of motherfucking alcohol." Gamzee commented.
"Thanks! Now c'mon, let's get some music started!" Roxy started playing music and her older sister Rose came up with snacks for them.
"Behave yourselves." she said before leaving the room.
"She actth like a mom." Sollux said. Roxy giggled and nodded.
"Yep, she's just like that. C'mon! Let's all paaarty!"
Roxy got everyone dancing and eating snacks and playing games. Soon they were all in a pillow fight. Karkat was the shortest and therefore the easiest target and everyone eventually ganged up on him. No one really went after Tavros much since that would be unfair. Instead Gamzee was holding him up with one arm and his other hand was hitting people with his pillow. Thanks to Gamzee Tavros was able to hit people with his pillow easier. By the end of the pillow fight everyone was lying on the floor, exhausted.
"Who won?" Roxy asked breathlessly.
"I think it was a tie." Gamzee said.
"Cool. Now let's get drunk!" Roxy got up and grabbed some alcohol off the bookshelf. "We got half an hour 'till midnight! Let's all get our asses drunk!"
Karkat didn't remember much of what happened after that.
When Karkat woke up he had a pounding headache and a disgusting taste leftover in his mouth. He groaned and opened his eyes and winced at the bright light. He slowly sat up and looked around him. Sollux was lying next to him and their legs were tangled together. And Karkat noticed Sollux's shirt was pulled up. What the hell happened?! Gamzee was asleep holding Tavros and Roxy and Calliope were lying together in a corner. They were also starting to wake up.
"Gays…welcome to Hangover City." Roxy said. "We are booking a night at a motel…except it's morning right now…but who gives a fuck?"
"Good-morning sunshines." Rose said, walking in. Kanaya was standing next to her. "If you're going to puke, the bathroom's down the hall, third door on your left."
"What's Kanaya doing here?" Karkat asked blearily.
"I'm seeing Rose." Kanaya answered.
"Huh? Why?" Karkat heard Sollux choke and Roxy face-palmed.
"Karkat." she said, putting an arm around his shoulders. "She didn't mean sheeing as in friendsh, she meant sheeing each other like GIRLFRIENDSH!"
"Wait, what?!" he exclaimed.
"Don't shout KK. I have a headache." Sollux grumbled.
"Mother will pick us up after lunch." Kanaya said. She and Rose walked out of the room, shutting the door behind them. Karkat groaned and lay back down.
"I don't feel like moving for years." he grumbled.
"Thame here." Sollux agreed.
"Okay, I gotta puke. Be right back." Roxy said, getting up. Calliope helped her get out the door and down the hallway. After a few seconds Gamzee stood up.
"Me too." he said. He stumbled out of the room and down the hallway. Tavros just lay on the ground, rubbing the sides of his head. Karkat sighed and closed his eyes. He never wanted to get drunk again.
Karkat woke up sometime later. Everyone else was lying on the floor again, all asleep. Karkat stood up carefully and stretched. He winced as his headache flared and smacked his forehead. That only made it worse. He slumped onto a couch and stared at the ceiling. Slowly everyone woke up and they all stumbled downstairs. Rose and Kanaya were sitting at the table eating chicken-caesar wraps.
"Hello." Rose said. "Would you all like some lunch now?"
"Huh?" Roxy asked.
"It's past noon." Kanaya said, pointing at the clock. It read 12:45. They all grumbled and grabbed some sandwiches Rose and Kanaya had made them. They clearly knew they'd be too tired to make themselves even some toast, let alone a whole sandwich.
"So, did anyone think up some good New Year's resolutions?" Calliope asked.
"Yeah." Sollux said.
"What did you think up?" Calliope asked.
"I'm not thaying. It'th better not to thay to make thure it cometh true."
"I got a motherfucking resolution too." Gamzee said.
"Um…same here." Tavros said.
"Eh…I can't think of one." Roxy grumbled.
"I got one. How about you Karkat?" Calliope said. Karkat shrugged and nibbled his sandwich.
"There's nothing I really want to achieve."
"How about you resolve to get a date with Sollux?" Roxy said. Karkat choked on his sandwich and Roxy laughed. Karkat glared at her and kicked her leg. "You so want that Karkat."
"Fuck you."
Then the doorbell rang. Rose got up and answered it. She talked to the person for a second before turning to them.
"Kanaya, Karkat! Porrim's here." Porrim peeked in and waved. Karkat got up and trudged to the door. Kanaya gave Rose a quick kiss before following Porrim to the car. Karkat waved to his friends, then followed them down the stairs and into Porrim's car. He sat down and pulled his seatbelt on and Porrim drove off. He stared out the window and tried to ignore his headache.
When they got home Karkat stumbled inside. Kankri was instantly upon him with one of his lectures.
"Welcome home Karkat. How was the party? I hope you didn't engage in any triggering behaviour while you were there. If you did you should know that I find that extremely triggering. But if you didn't I apologize for triggering you by suggesting it. And why are your eyes red? Do you have a hangover? Karkat did you get drunk?! That's extremely triggering! While at your age it might seem cool to drink you should know that it isn't a good idea to drink no matter what age you are and you can't actually drink until you're an adult and you're not you're only a teenager so that makes it even more triggering-"
"Shut the fuck up! I have a headache!" Karkat snapped, covering his ears. Kankri kept talking and Karkat stormed off into his room, slamming the door behind him. He collapsed on his bed and covered his head with his pillow. He could faintly hear Kankri yelling and he groaned. He hated dealing with him, especially when he had a headache. Then he was pretty much intolerable. Well, more than he usually was.
"Just shut up." Karkat muttered. He squeezed his eyes shut and tried to relax. But he was all fidgety and it took him a few hours to fall asleep. And Kankri hadn't shut up for the whole time.