"Don't be so nervous Karkat." Kanaya said.
"I'm not nervous." Karkat mumbled. Then he dropped his spoon on the floor. Kanaya sighed and picked it up for him.
"Yes you are. Just relax. Everyone else will probably do terrible as well, so you don't need to worry."
"Hey, don't call our dumb play terrible if you haven't even seen it!" Kanaya smiled.
"Alright. Good luck today."
"Yeah, yeah."
Karkat brought his costume to school. Kanaya had given the others theirs already. When drama class came all the students got to go change into their costumes. Karkat put his on, then went backstage with his friends. Calliope was wearing a green princess dress with glitter and red lace. She had a tiara in her hair too. Roxy was wearing dark blue pants and shirt and had a fake sword sheathed at her side. She also had tall black boots and she'd drawn some stubble on her chin with a marker. Gamzee was wearing black pants and a black shirt and a purple silk coat that trailed on the ground. His shoes were also purple. Tavros was wearing light blue pants and a yellow shirt. His sandals were golden and he wasn't wearing any socks. He also had the fairy wings on. Sollux was wearing a dark green robe and black boots. The robe had a hood that covered his hair.
"We all look so cool!" Roxy said. Then Karkat's phone went off.
"Hello?"
"Hi Karkat, it's Kanaya. We're in the audience."
"What?!" Karkat looked through the curtains and saw Porrim, Kanaya and Kankri sitting together. Porrim and Kanaya waved and Karkat saw that Porrim was carrying a video camera.
"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll do fine." Porrim said in the phone. Karkat ducked his head back in and glared at his phone.
"Why are you gonna videotape it?!"
"Because it will be such a wonderful memory." Porrim said.
"Fuck that!"
"Karkat, that's very triggering of you-"
"Do not start!" Karkat yelled. He did not want to have to deal with one of Kankri's rants.
"Who's that talking?" Roxy asked, pointing at Karkat's phone.
"That's Karbro's uncle." Gamzee said.
"Oh, cool. Hi Mr. Vantasy! I'm Karkat's friend Roxy!"
"Vantasy?! Excuse me but that is highly triggering! I'm sure you wouldn't enjoy it if someone else made fun of your name by making it sound cutesy and if you actually would then you should know that I do not! You really should be more considerate of other people's triggers or you will end up causing many triggers in the people you converse with. I would suggest you make a list of all your friends' triggers so as to assure that you will not trigger them in future conversations. And while we're on that topic, I might as well give you some of my own triggers so that you will not trigger me in the future-" Karkat hung up his phone. Calliope looked through the curtains.
"He's still talking. I don't think he realizes you hung up." she said. Roxy laughed.
"He's so funny!" she said.
"Okay you guys, you're up first." Aranea said.
"Wait, what?!" Karkat exclaimed.
"Don't worry Karkat, Calliope and I are first. Then it's Gamzee and Tavros, then you and Sollux." Sollux helped Roxy and Calliope set up things for their Snow White play. Then he stood next to Karkat and Roxy went out of the curtains and talked to the crowd. "Hi! We've got a play that's so awesome because it's actually three short plays! We're starting off with Snow White, so start applauding!" She walked backstage and the curtains opened.
Calliope played Snow White, talking about her horrible stepmother (the cardboard witch). Roxy would stand behind it and go "Grrr!" whenever the stepmother was mentioned. Then there was the whole thing of Snow White running away into a forest. Then she found the cottage and took a quick nap. Then she woke up. And a bunch of lawn gnomes walked on stage.
Sollux had made the remote-controlled lawn gnomes for the play. He was controlling them and grinning as he did it. They circled Calliope.
"It's kind of creepy how much you're enjoying that." Karkat said. Sollux grinned.
"I'm feeling really intimidated!" Calliope whined.
"Don't fear beautiful princess!" Roxy shouted. She ran onstage, knocking over the cardboard witch as she did. "I, Prince Roxy, will save you from the evil dwarves!" Roxy then proceeded to attack the lawn gnomes with her sword. She even kicked some so they landed in the audience.
"Hey! I worked hard on thothe!" Sollux exclaimed. When all of the gnomes had been dispatched Roxy carried Calliope offstage. The audience clapped and the curtains closed again. Sollux helped set up things for Gamzee and Tavros. Roxy went out and addressed the crowd again.
"Okay, now we have Beauty and the Beast! But first, is there anyone here afraid of clowns? …Yeah? Okay all of you get out." Karkat watched some people leave the room. "Okay, we're ready to start!" Roxy ran backstage and the play started.
Tavros played the part of the person who falls in love with the beastperson. Gamzee wore the clown head while in beast form, and took it off when in handsome (?) prince form. They acted out the scenes well enough and Gamzee carried Tavros offstage. People clapped and cheered. Sollux went and set things up for their play. Karkat sighed. Hopefully he wouldn't screw up.
"Okay, last of all, we have Cinderella. Oh, people who are afraid of clowns can come back in now!" Karkat heard the people who'd left go back in. "Okay, enjoy!"
Karkat was the only person on the stage because Sollux came later. Calliope was the narrator.
"This is a guy who's never gotten a date." she said. Karkat immediately flipped her off. "He's pretty touchy about it too. So he's going to a party."
"Actually, I'm just fucking gatecrashing." Karkat said.
"…You're terrible." Calliope said. "Anyway, he's gonna go gatecrash a party next door. But he can't go dressed like that."
"What?" Karkat was confused. This was the only costume Kanaya had given him.
"That's right. So I'll play fairy-godmother and get you a new outfit." Calliope grabbed a curtain and wheeled it over to him. She shoved him in there. "Put on the clothes in there. Karkat looked around and noticed a bag on the floor. He opened it and pulled out…
"What the fuck?! I'm not wearing the fucking dress!" he shouted. Yeah, it was the dress Roxy had given him for Christmas.
"Put it on Karkat!" Calliope said.
"No! This wasn't in the fucking script!"
"Yeah, we thought it up last minute. Put it on."
"No!"
"Sollux, get in there and make him put it on!" Roxy shouted. Sollux popped in a second later.
"Sollux, get the fuck away from me! I'm not putting it on!"
"Yeth you are." Sollux said. After a bunch of shouting and struggling Karkat had been forced into the dress. Sollux shoved him out of the curtains and the audience laughed. Karkat could feel himself blush. He glared at Calliope.
"I'm going to murder you all, I swear." he said. Calliope just smiled sweetly and nodded.
"Now you're going to the party!" she said. The curtains closed and Sollux quickly changed the scenery. Karkat elbowed him in the side and Sollux grinned at him.
"You know you love that dreth." he whispered. He leaned forward and kissed him, then rushed off and finished changing the scene. Karkat stood there for a second before Roxy pulled him backstage. The curtains opened and he walked on.
The party scene really just had a table with fake food on it, some cardboard cut-out people (including the witch) and a disco ball was hanging from the ceiling. Karkat just stood in a corner and pulled out his phone. Then he played flappy bird. Sollux walked on, drinking a soda. He walked up to Karkat, who was glaring at his phone.
"Hey." Sollux said. Karkat grunted in response. "Nithe dreth." Karkat flipped him off and slammed his phone on the ground.
"Stupid game." he muttered. Sollux stood next to him.
"Wanna hook up?" he said.
"What the fuck?! Why would you ask that?!"
"Becauthe you totally want me." Karkat rolled his eyes. Man, their play was stupid.
"Fine. Whatever." Then Roxy suddenly ran onstage wearing the unicorn/narwhal horn.
"Random two-legged narwhal!" she yelled. She ran up and grabbed Karkat. "Now kiss!" She shoved Karkat on Sollux and they both fell over. And they kissed.
The crowd erupted in laughs and some cheers. Karkat could feel himself blushing. Sollux picked him up and threw him over his shoulder. Karkat yelled and kicked but Sollux just laughed. Gamzee, Tavros and Calliope walked onstage and they all bowed. When Roxy bowed she accidentally hit someone with her unicorn/narwhal horn. When Sollux bowed Karkat accidentally fell forward and hit some kid.
"Oopth, thorry." Sollux said. He stood back up and carried Karkat off the stage.
After their play came their classmates'. One kid did a play about falling in love with a ghost. Karkat thought Sollux seemed to really pay attention to that one. He could have been imagining it though. There were some other stupid plays that Karkat didn't really pay attention to. When they were all done Porrim, Kankri and Kanaya came to see them.
"That was wonderful Karkat." Kanaya said. Karkat just glared at her.
"You knew I was gonna have to wear the fucking dress, didn't you?!" he accused. Kanaya smiled.
"Guilty as charged."
"I personally loved the play." Porrim said. Then Kankri began ranting to Karkat about how that must have been so triggering for him and did he need to talk about the triggers and blah, blah, blah, blah.
After school they all went to Calliope's house for a party. Apparently it was to celebrate how awesome they were. Porrim lent them the camera so they could watch the video. Karkat's only opinion on it was that he hated them for taking a video of it.
"You look hot in a dreth KK." Sollux said.
"Fuck you." Karkat muttered.