"Fuck off" Karkat replied.
"Tsk tsk tsk. Bad answer." the kid said, sliding the knife on Karkat's cheek, drawing blood.
He didn't flinch. He wasn't afraid. He didn't care. His life was shit anyways. "Hey, what the hell are you doing?" a voice from behind said.
The teens looked back to see another teen wearing glasses with one lense red and the other blue. "Sollux what the hell are you doing out here?" Karkat said.
Sollux walked up. "Couldn't find you at the buth thtop. Knew thomethin' wath up."
"Better give us you're shit too!" the threatening teen said.
Sollux shook his head. "No can do, got important thtuff. Like my dignity. Unlike you."
The teen looked angered at this, and rushed him. Sollux simply stepped to the side and stuck out his leg, making the teen stumble and fall on the ground, the knife scattering to Sollux, who met it with the edge of his shoe and flicked it up, catching it. "Running with kniveth ith dangerouth, you know," he said, tossing it over the brick wall, "and you might wanna get the hell outta here before our other friend getth here. He will toss you all over the wall after breaking all of your limbth."
"James, I recognize this guy.. He hangs around that Gamzee guy.. Shit! We have to get the fuck out of here!" That teen ran off as fast as he could.
"Gamzee?" The teen on the ground said, sitting upright fast, his heart almost audible to the others.
That teen and the other remaining one ran off. "You okay KK?" Sollux said, walking up to Karkat.
"Yeah, why the fuck wouldn't I be?"
"That little.. medium sized cut on your cheek."
"I've had worse."
"You know GZ'th gonna flip."
Karkat sighed. "Probably.. Why the fuck would he care so much, though?"
"Becauthe, you're one of hith betht friendth."
"But he'd do that for most of his friends.."
"You're no exception. He worrieth about you the motht."
"Why?"
"You have it roughetht out of all of uth. You've been though a lot. You get picked on tho much. Like with thothe doucheberrieth back there."
Karkat gave a loud sigh. He tried acting mad still, but his eyes betrayed him. In reality, he was relieved. Gamzee did care about him. He'd been looking out for him since that day they met after he stood up for the smaller teen. It was like Karkat was his weaker sibling. Well, that's how Karkat thought of it. "And don't forget, you've got all of uth to look after you ath-well."
Sollux was referring to the group of kids Karkat met the day he and Gamzee met. Karkat began to smile, but pushed it back, as he and the group had really become great friends. "Well, we thould get going. We're gonna be late" Sollux chuckled.
Karkat wiped his cheek with a napkin he took out of his pocket. "I don't give a fuck" he said, starting to walk towards the school.
Everyone had become sophomores since the day they met Karkat. They had learned quite a bit about each other. For one, Nepeta and Equius were siblings. Every year they had lunch together, but rarely classes. This year, though, they had last period together. Even their parents had began to communicate with each other. Karkat never admitted it, but he was glad he found somewhere he felt he fit in.
A couple minutes later, they were in front of the Alternian Highschool, the school they attended. Right as they walked in, the first bell rang, and they said 'later' to each other and went to their classes. Karkat had chemistry with Gamzee for his first hour. He walked to the class, going up stairs as it was on the second floor. He saw Gamzee standing outside the classroom, holding one of his many faygo drinks. 'Probably waiting for me', he thought. "Yo Karbro." Gamzee said, his gaze immediately falling to the cut on Karkat's cheek, giving him a questioning look.
"Tell you later fuckass. Let's go inside so we don't get counted as late. Pisses me off." Karkat said, walking in.
Gamzee shrugged his shoulders, drank the rest of his faygo and walked in, sitting in his desk near the back of the room. The class sat there, chit-chatting for about 10 minutes, before a security guard walked in, announcing that their teacher was running late, then left the room. Gamzee gave a yawn, and layed his head down. Karkat sighed and leaned back in his chair, putting headphones in his ears and turning his mp3 on, noticing Gamzee was probably gonna sleep in class. Again. He sat the chair back on all fours and put his head down as well, closing his eyes. 15 minutes passed, and the guard came in again and said the teacher wasn't going to make it. The teens just continued talking, and moving around. Gamzee sat up, yawned, stretched a bit, then walked over near Karkat, pulling a chair up to the desk.
Karkat noticed the tall teen sitting next to him, so he sat up and pulled an earbud out. Gamzee gave a warm smile. "Goodmorning my bro."
"Goodmorning, fuckass."
Gamzee chuckled a bit, knowing how Karkat was. The two chatted about anything that popped up, Gamzee's mind wandering alot and everywhere, till the end of the class period. The bell rang and everyone got up. "I'll see you at lunch bro" Gamzee said.
Karkat gave a grunt and walked out of the room. The teens walked to their next classes. Karkat computer technologies with Sollux, and Gamzee took the guitar class.
Couple hours later, lunch came around and the group met up, exchanging hugs. Terezi took ahold of Karkat's hand. They had been dating since the beginning of their freshman year, which wasn't really too long. Gamzee had noticed that Karkat had acted strange around her at times back then, so he asked if he liked her. Like a normal Karkat, he avoided the question, but was really shy about it. Gamzee knew he did, so he asked Terezi the same. She came out with it, saying she did, so he made a plan to get them together. It had worked, and he was happy it did.
Eridan was always trying to get with Feferi, but she shot him down many times. She never gave a reason, but some of the group saw she acted coy around Sollux, so they knew she liked him. They just wanted Sollux to do something on his own, since some knew he liked her aswell.
They walked into the cafeteria, grabbing food, going outside and sitting where they normally did. Today had been a topic on relationships, apparently, and they were talking about who each other liked. Only Karkat and Terezi had answered, since they were already together. Eridan, of course, asked Feferi out again, only to be rejected. Feferi looked over to Sollux, who in turn, had been looking at her. Their eyes met, both faces getting a bit flustered then looked away, the group not noticing as they were making fun of Karkat again, which was normal. He didn't mind though, as they did that normally to everyone in the group, and it was refreshing to know that they weren't doing it out of respite, but out of harmless fun, and at points he laughed at what some had to say, and they also laughed at what Karkat came back with.
After a bit, the bell rang for class, and the group threw their trays and stuff away, walking to their next classes, hugging and saying later. Sollux asked Feferi to hang back for a second. Nepeta and Jade giggled because they thought they knew he was gonna ask her out. So the rest walked on, as Feferi stood next to Sollux near the fence, slightly away from all the teens walking to their classes. "Fef, I wath wondering if maybe you'd like to go on a date or thomething later?.." he asked, looking down shyly.
Feferi smiled, blushing, looking down. "Yes, pick me up at 7, okay?" she replied, walking off, blushing bright.
Sollux walked to his next class, not expecting an answer so soon, or an acceptance answer at that, he was daydreaming slightly. Karkat had been waiting for him, and walked with the daydreaming gemini. "Bout damn time you asked." he commented.
Sollux barely heard him. "Uh.. yeah. Haha."
Karkat let a smile come, shaking his head slightly and made sure Sollux didn't run into anything.
Eridan was up a little from where they were heading, and he wasn't too happy. He had been trying to date Feferi for a while, and Sollux got her just like that? "Calm down. You weren't going to get anywhere with her anyways." Equius said to Eridan, then walked off.
Eridan sighed and silently agreed, walking off grudgingly.
A couple bells later, the group was in their last hour, which was PE. The first couple minutes was just exorcise and stuff, the rest of the class they did nothing but just chitchat. Only difference was Feferi and Sollux were closer together than normal, and Eridan didn't whine as much as he used to. The last bell of the school day rang, and the group walked outside. All their phones went off at the same time. Each got a text from their moms and/or dads, telling them to go to the school's auditorium. The teens looked at each other, confused, then went to the auditorium, walking in to see their parents. They could also hear them, they were arguing. Along with other of the older generation.
"We will not have our kids exposed to this nonsense!"
"Keeping them together is the best thing for them."
"Bullocks! We don't need this. We are taking our kids, and leaving."
Something huge was going down, and the teens didn't know what was happening. Next thing they new, their parents walked over to them, and told their kids to come. The parents were on two sides, so the teens were also on two sides, split right in half. "We(I) forbid you to ever see them again." each parent said to their kids, talking about the other side.
Each side said they were moving, and it seemed like each side had chosen a place, far away from the other.
Each teen looked shocked. "This is bullshit!" Karkat said, his dad proceeding to smack him.
Gamzee rushed over and pushed Karkat's dad away. "Don't motherfucking touch him like that!"
"Gamzee shut the fuck up and get your ass over here! What happens to him is none of your concern." his father said.
"Fuck off. He's my bro."
His dad came over to him and smacked him, dragging him back to the other side.
Equius looked to the other side. His dad had him on this side, and his mom had Nepeta on the other side. "Why, father, mother?"
"Just because you don't agree with thomething doethn't mean we have to get dragged into it!" Sollux said.
Each parent shook their head and walked off, taking their teen with them. Karkat broke away, heading towards Terezi, who had been on the opposite side, but was intercepted by her dad, who knocked the wind out of him. "What the hell, dad?" Terezi yelled, pushing him.
"You are not allowed to date him. No negotiation."
"Its my goddamned life, not yours!"
Again, he shook his head and walked off, taking Terezi with him. "Karkat!" she yelled.
"Terezi.. I promise I'll find you again, and we can continue to be together."
Terezi was crying. "Promise me!"
"I promise." he barely let out the words when his dad struck him again, taking him elsewhere.
"What the hell's going on?" Gamzee said, trying to keep his composure. Whenever he got far too pissed off and stressed, he was put in a bad shape of mind.
"None of your goddamned business, now get in the fucking car!" his dad said.
"Again, fuck off." They argued for a while.
Nepeta was crying. "But mom, why does he have to leave us?"
Her mom shook her head and didn't say anything. "Father, why are you all doing this?"
"Its for the best.." he replied, leading Equius off.
Each parent led the teens away, none without a fight.
...
Karkat sat in his bed, back against the wall, knees to his chest and his head on his knees. 'What the hell's gonna happen?' he thought. 'Half of the fucking group is going to be far from reach, some of the only people I've ever cared for and who's ever cared for me. Even Gamzee." His heart skipped a beat. 'Gamzee.' He started to silently weep. "Goddamnit all!" He still had many good friends, especially Sollux, but it wouldn't be the same.. He guesses that the ones on the side his dad was on were going to move into a community together, and the others were going to one far away from them. He had tried to text anyone that was on the opposite side, but response came back that his number had been blocked from theirs.
That's when Sollux walked in. "Hey KK.."
"What the fuck do you want?.."
Sollux sat next to Karkat. "To know why our parents are doing this.. But I won't find out till later, I hope."
Karkat looked up, not hiding the tears. "What the fuck is going to happen, Sollux? I'm scared of never seeing them.. Never seeing Gamzee... or Terezi.."
"You mith them the motht, huh?"
Karkat nodded. "The only thing that we CAN do ith wait it out. We are not gonna each run away from home, we all dethided we'd meet each other in the future."
"I hope it fucking comes soon" Karkat replied.
Sollux nodded. "Me too, me too."