I'm back. Again. I'm gonna try to keep the updates more regular, promise. Please enjoy this chapter! :3
The next day Karkat had waffles for breakfast. They were actually pretty good. Then they went on a nature walk with some other cabin groups. Their guide talked about the plants and animals and habitat they were in. No one really listened and just talked amongst themselves.
Eventually they came to a waterfall. A bunch of kids instantly broke the no-taking-pictures rule and got their phones taken away. Then they kept climbing and came to a river. The guide talked about the kinds of fish that lived in the river and the bugs that depended on the river to survive. Then they took a different path down again. The path also led them to the Lake, where they could see Calliope and Roxy and some other girls swimming. Gamzee waved to them and Calliope and Roxy waved back.
By the time they got back it was lunch time. They ate wraps instead of sandwiches and talked about the hike. Calliope and Roxy talked about how fun the Lake was to swim in.
"We caught newts!" Roxy said. "They were so cute! We had to let them go right away, but it was so fun!"
"Sounds awesome." Gamzee said.
"I heard we're doing archery next." Sollux said. Karkat groaned. He was terrible at archery. He'd done it in P.E. class before and he did terrible.
After lunch Karkat found out he was still terrible at archery. He was lucky if he could even shoot the arrow farther than ten feet, and even if he did it almost never hit the target. Eventually he rage-quit and threw the bow on the ground. He got in trouble for that and had to sit out for the rest of the activity. Which was exactly what he wanted to do anyway, so it wasn't really much of a punishment.
After that they had supper and then went to the bonfire. Gamzee brought more marshmallows and they roasted them over the fire. The camp volunteers acted out stories and told jokes and sang songs again. Calliope fell asleep a few minutes after they started and was lying on Roxy's lap. Roxy clearly didn't mind and patted her head.
Eventually it was time to go back to their cabins. They all waited while Roxy tried to wake Calliope up by shaking her shoulder.
"Calliope, c'mon. We have to go back to our cabin." Roxy said. Calliope mumbled something and shook her head. Then she gasped and sat up and fell off the log. "Calliope? Are you okay?" Roxy and Gamzee bent down next to her. Karkat realized she was crying.
"I-I had a nightmare again." Calliope said. Roxy and Gamzee hugged her and whispered to her. Karkat and his friends waited and so did the girls from Roxy and Calliope's cabin. Eventually Calliope calmed down and got up. They all walked to their cabins and Karkat lay down.
"Goodnight weirdoes." the chaperone said.
"Goodnight moron." Karkat mumbled. He heard Sollux chuckle and he grinned. "He is so a moron."
"Yep, he ith."
Karkat woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep. He glanced at Sollux, then realized he was gone. He looked at their chaperone, who was snoring loudly. He got up and slowly snuck outside. He shut the door quietly behind him and walked down the path. The path was a bit muddy so he could see Sollux's footprints easily. He followed them to the Lake. He looked around but he couldn't see any sign of Sollux. He looked down and noticed his shirt, shoes and socks lying on the ground. What were they doing there? Then Sollux surfaced from the water of the Lake. He shook his head and floated on his back.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Karkat asked. Sollux looked at him and grinned.
"I couldn't thleep." he said, swimming over.
"So you're swimming?" Karkat asked. Sollux nodded and stopped at the edge of the Lake, where the water was still deep enough to swim.
"You should join me." he said. Karkat shook his head. Sollux grinned and grabbed his legs and dragged him into the water.
"Whoa—fuck!" Karkat exclaimed. Then he was under the water. He could hear Sollux laughing but he wasn't focusing on that. He was focusing on a very important fact:
He couldn't swim.
He thrashed around and tried to get to the surface. But he had his eyes closed so he couldn't see where he was supposed to go. He wasn't sure what direction was up anymore and he was getting dizzy. Then he felt someone's arms wrap around him and he was pulled out of the water. He gasped and clung to the person.
"You okay KK?" Sollux asked. Karkat nodded, still gasping for air. "Can't you thwim?"
"…No!" Karkat snapped.
"Oh. Thorry." Karkat sighed and shook his head.
"It's fine." Karkat sighed, then remembered Sollux wasn't wearing his shirt. "Jesus, put your fucking shirt on." Sollux laughed and smirked at him.
"What? Am I turning you on?" Karkat blushed and shook his head. Sollux just laughed. "Yeth I am."
"No you aren't!" Sollux chuckled and tilted Karkat's head back. Karkat felt himself blush even more and opened his mouth to tell Sollux to cut it out. But before he could Sollux leaned forward and kissed him.
Karkat gasped and his eyes went wide. Sollux stroked the back of his neck and hugged him tighter. Karkat just stayed frozen in the same position. Whoa, Sollux had just kissed him! Holy crap! What was he supposed to do now? It didn't fell bad when he kissed him, it actually felt kinda nice…
After a few seconds Karkat hugged Sollux back. Sollux grinned and kissed him again. This time Karkat kissed him back. They didn't move for awhile. Eventually though Karkat started shivering, so Sollux lifted him out of the water.
Karkat took his shirt off and tried to wring as much water from it as possible. It still wasn't very dry after that but he put it back on anyway. Sollux put his shirt, socks and shoes back on. Karkat sat next to him and wrung water out of his socks. They were still pretty wet so he didn't bother to put them back on. And he kept his shoes off too. He and Sollux stood up and walked back to their cabin. They changed clothes and put their wet clothes on the top bunks to dry. Then Karkat lay down in bed. Sollux lay down so his head was touching Karkat's. He stretched out so his head was next to Karkat. He ran his hands through Karkat's hair and Karkat felt himself blush. Sollux grinned and kissed him. It was a little weird since they were upside down, but Karkat didn't mind.
"Love you KK." Sollux whispered.
"…Love you too." Karkat whispered.
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