You wake up, and rub your eyes and look around for your eye drops to help with your bothersome allergies that no matter what medicine you took, always seem to be around every spring. You get up, stretch your arms, and cross the room, grabbing your eye drops, squeeze the infernal eye drops into your eyes, and flinch a little as it began to sting. But what had to be done had to be done, as they always say. Who the hell is 'they' anyways, you wonder. What a terrible quote. Oh well, at least your eyes don't look as red as last night's homemade rendition of pizza, now leaving you to find your glasses. Which are conveniently who the hell knows where. You feels your phone vibrate in your pajama pocket and you wonder who it could be. You take it out of your pocket and find a text from Jade and squint hard to read what it says.
-gardenGnostic [GG] started pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 9:55-
GG: Did you have a dream about it last night?
EB: About what?
GG: About your true love!
EB: i dont know what youre talking about :B
GG: Of course you do, you just don't remember it silly :)
EB: hehe if i had a true love im sure i would know about it
GG: I guess you'll just have to wait and see!
GG: Anyways do you wanna see a movie with me and Karkat later?
EB: Which one?
GG: I wanna see a horror movie but karkat doesn't really want to :/
EB: Can we see something funny?
GG: Yeah let me ask Karkat!
GG: He got really mad and said comedy movies are as interesting as staring at paint dry!
EB: We should watch Scream 4!
EB: He'd get so mad hehe
GG: He doesn't know what that is and he says as long as it isn't comedy or horror he's okay with it
GG: He's gonna flip out when he finds out what it's about!
GG: :(
EB: It'll be funny though :B
EB: Which theater?
GG: The one nearby our school
GG: We'll meet there at 11 since that's when the movie starts!
EB: Okay sounds good, see you then!
-ectoBiologist [EB] ceased pestering gardenGnostic [GG] at 10:01-
You shove your phone back into your pocket and decide to get ready, figuring you really need to find your glasses before you did anything, considering you kind of need them to see. Fortunately, you find them in a relatively short amount of time in a hidden space in your sock drawer. They must've fallen in there you figure, unless there was a ghost haunting your house that specifically did not want you to see. Which was what you would probably do if you were a ghost. Prank the hell out of everyone who happened to be around.
You got ready, changing into your day clothes which consist of a jacket since it was still spring and thus would still be chilly, and afterwards, you slurp down your cereal before your dad could come into the kitchen and offer some routine cake to you. Which he still did regardless of the fact you just had some hearty Cheerios, but thankfully he didn't push you like he usually did to eat the cake. You were eternally grateful.
"Hey dad," you said, washing your bowl out, "I'm gonna go see a movie with Jade and Karkat at 11 by the school."
"Which movie?" Your dad asks, looking up from his newspaper.
"Scream 4."
Your dad's smile twisted into a frown, "I don't know how you kids can watch that. Have fun though!" He got up and ruffles your hair, messing it up quite successfully much to your annoyance.
"Dad please don't do that," You grumble, trying to pat down your now unbrushed looking hair. You don't know why he always felt the need to do that, it made you look incredibly unkempt and that was not the look you were going for!
"God wouldn't have made you with such fluffy hair if it wasn't made to be messed with," your dad jokes, opening the fridge to put some creamer in his coffee.
"What does God have to do with my hair? You just like messing with it." You roll your eyes. Speaking of god, you wonder what your new, friend/enemy/acquaintance or whatever he was turntechGodhead was up to right now? Probably sleeping. He seemed like that kind of person.
"True that son, true that," Your dad sort of chuckles, returning to his seat at the table, now this time with a coffee. You then hear a rev of an engine outside and peek through the kitchen curtain and to your surprise saw a sleek black car outside, which you know belongs to Jade's grandma, which Jade fortunately knew how to drive, having gotten her permit and license as soon as she possibly could.
"Hey dad Jade's here, I have to go!" You wave, and turn off the sink faucet, quickly setting your bowl in the dishwasher and grabbing a twenty dollar bill from your dad's rainy day jar. He waves back and you jog outside, slamming the door behind you. You cross the front yard, the little garden gnomes your dad placed last week freaking you out, motivating you to go faster.
You jump into the back seat, since Karkat was already in the car, and you say, "Hey thanks for the pick up! I thought we were meeting there."
"Jade thought you shouldn't walk so far so she dragged me all the way here just to pick you up," Karkat grumbled, the eye roll almost visible in his voice.
Ignoring Karkat's complaint, Jade asked, "Who's ready to see Scream 4?"
"I heard it was really good! I wanted to see it for my birthday but my dad insisted that we saw Insidious instead." You try not to shiver but it happens anyways. The movie made you sleep with your lights on the night you saw it. You kept expecting the demon from the movie to pop out of your closet, or for yourself to randomly start astral projecting, neither of which thankfully did not happen. Although this did remind you of the potential glasses-moving ghost haunting your house.
"Well it better be good or next time we see a movie I'm not going," Karkat threatened, which you and Jade both ignored knowing very well he would go with you two regardless of how bad it was.
After that the conversation spiraled into a story about Jade's dog and how her dog had ran away again, but was found only a few days later eating out of her neighbor's trashcan much to her neighbors dismay, because inside the trash were several divorce papers from the neighbors now ex-husband and many torn love letters from said divorced ex-husband. You weren't sure how these kinds of things continuously happened to Jade, when your life was always so boring, just a constant routine of homework, movies, and tomfoolery from your dad. Some people were just like that you suppose, just more interesting than others. Which is likely why Jade makes friends so much more easily than you, with her natural charisma and exciting tales, while your stories mainly consist of plots from thriller movies or movies you used to watch as a kid (a.k.a stories that aren't even your own as sad as that is).
Snapping out of your self-piteous reverie, you all reach the movie theaters in a surprisingly short amount of time, thanks to the lack of traffic likely due to it being before noon on a Saturday of all days, and you all climb out and go inside and buy your tickets.
"I call sitting in the back." Karkat says, as you got your popcorn.
"Fine, me and John will sit in the middle, right John?" Jade assures, batting her eyelashes hopefully, despite knowing you would already say yes, and you did, not minding where you sit.
"Whatever. If I get bored from the actual shartstain this movie will be just wake me up when it's over." Karkat commands, grabbing his popcorn and lathering it in butter.
You all buy your food and drinks and walk into the dark theater, Karkat taking a seat as he previously mentioned in the back, you and Jade sitting directly in the middle. As you were settling into the movie you realize you forgot to turn off your phone as you feel it vibrate against your leg. You silently curse and try to get it out of you pocket as subtly as you could, checking to see who had texted you. Much to your surprise it's TG as you were so lovingly told to call him.
-turntechGodhead [TG] started pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 11:20-
TG: 'sup dude
You turn down the brightness and hold your phone as close to your thigh as you could, hoping Jade wouldn't get curious and read over your shoulder as she often had a tendency to do.
EB: just watching Scream 4 with some friends!
TG: Spoiler alert but everybody dies
EB: heeey unfair
TG: Jk I haven't seen the movie yet
TG: What's going on in it?
EB: right now the main character is just self-promoting her book nothing exciting yet
EB: unless thats exciting for you
EB: get it haha because i was saying you dont have a life
TG: Wow I almost laughed
TG: It was almost funnier than the insults you come up with
EB: need some ice for that buuuurn
TG: I think the ice from your heart will suffice
EB: wow...that was cold
EB: ;B
TG: Did you just make a pun
You felt a nudge against your shoulder and you look up to find Jade staring suspiciously at you, one brow raised, "Who're you texting?"
You glance down at your phone then back up at Jade, "No one, I was just about to turn off my phone."
Jade's mouth twitches up a little and she looked even more dubious than before, "I had a dream about this last night you know." She turns back to the movie, not giving any further explanation to what she just said.
EB: yep i did so deal with it
EB: oh and I have to go watch a movie so text you later!
TG: See ya
TG: Or rather text you later
-turntechGodhead [TG] ceased pestering EctoBiologist [EB] at 11:29-
You turn off your phone and return to the movie, not having paid attention to the last five minutes, figuring you'd probably catch up pretty quickly.
After the movie finished, the two of you got up and you did indeed find Karkat in the farthest row sound asleep, even a little drool sticking to his hoodie. Jade shook him awake much to his displeasure and you all left to go eat at a burger place next door, Karkat burning a hole into your heads the whole way there, likely for disturbing his rest.
"So," Jade starts, looking over at you, "Who was that in the theater that you were texting? Got some girlfriend we don't know about?"
You stupidly feel heat spread to your face and you shake your head, "No not at all! It's nothing like that. I just made a new friend."
"When will we meet this 'new friend' hmm?" Jade asks, you unsure if she was genuinely curious or trying to get a rise out of you based on her implicit tone.
You shrug, "I dunno, I met him on a website, I don't know when or if I'll meet him anytime soon."
"Ooh so it's a boy? Is there something you're not telling us John?" Jade teases, making your face heat up further much to your displeasure.
"No - he's just my friend, stop making it weird!" You were pretty sure your voice was getting to octaves you haven't reached since your voice started cracking, and you weren't sure why you felt so nervous at the mention of liking TG, it's not like you were gay or anything. You figure no one really likes the insinuation that they're gay though, thus reasoning that your reaction to Jade's implications were reasonable.
"I'm not making it weird John! If anything I think you're the only one here reacting so much, right Karkat?" Jade asked.
Karkat grunted in agreement behind them. You roll your eyes and mutter, "Oh you got me, I'm completely gay for someone I met online like 2 days ago who I don't even know the name or face of."
"Where'd you meet him?"
You look anywhere but Jade asking, "Does it really matter?"
Her brows flew into her hairline, "Don't tell me you met him on a dating website."
"No, why would I do that, I'm not that desperate!" Your complaint comes out more like a whine and you huff, "If you must know, I was trolling around on a Dave Strider fan site and met him on there." Realizing what you just confessed to you hear Karkat cackle behind you and you slap a hand to your face and groan.
"John I knew you were lonely but I did not expect you to be so lonely as to do that!" Jade gasped, covering her mouth with a hand.
"I was bored! Can we go inside now? We're at the restaurant." You knew Jade was burning with questions with the way she was looking at you, but you find that food tends to shut her up and that's what you desperately need her to be doing right now.
The three of you enter and are quickly seated, and get your orders in places only for them to arrive at your table not even five minutes later, you suppose due to lunch hour probably having just finished. Karkat orders a Pepsi and Jade ordered a Coke, of course sending the two of them into a fierce argument about which was better, which neither won, since it was all based on opinion of course. You just sit there sipping on your coffee and water the whole time. You think you're starting to turn into your dad, with the rate you need caffeine these days.
Once you all finish you walk back to Jade's car and instead of having a movie night marathon like you usually do at Jade's house every Saturday night, Jade has to help her grandmother renovate the guest room for some family friends, so she instead just dropped you and Karkat off at your respective houses.
"Goodbye John, it was fun spending time with you!" Jade calls as you hop out, back onto the familiarity of your front lawn.
"Thanks Jade, it was fun spending time with you too, see you next time!" You wave her off as she drove away, turning around just in time to see the sunset sprawled out in soft pinks and oranges over the evening sky. If your phone camera wasn't so awful you were sure that'd make for a nice picture.
You cross the lawn, the sinister gnomes grinning devilishly at you the whole way there, and you unlock the front door, greeted by your dad tidying something up a few feet away. "Oh hello John," your dad looks up from whatever he was folding, "How was the movie?"
"It was pretty good, funnier than I expected." You took your shoes off by the door and set your keys on the shelf a couple feet away, "I think I'm gonna go upstairs and start on my homework though."
"Glad you had fun, good luck with your homework son." With that you were dismissed, and you run up to your bedroom and immediately go on to your computer, wiggling the mouse around again to turn it on. You were surprised to find you were still logged into the Dave Strider fan site and remember you forgot to message TG back after the movie. You open up pesterchum and opened up his chat and immediately started pestering him.
-ectoBiologist [EB] started pestering turntechGodhead [TG] at 16:15-
EB: hey im back
EB: people think i met you on a dating website
TG: how was it
TG: oh yeah we're totally gay for each other didn't you get the memo
EB: it was good! but a lot less people died than i wouldve expected
EB: oh was that you who was staring at me through my window last night
EB: because if it was you stop that we're not even on second base yet!
TG: did you want people to die or something you sicko
TG: no I was the one in your closet, do I have competition?
TG: the one outside your window was probably also me now that I think about it, hope you don't mind
EB: no i didn't, it just would make it funnier if they did
EB: i do mind actually, there's an order to these things
EB: you have to see someone's face before you stalk them, otherwise how do you know how to stalk them! silly TG
TG: Dude if you think people dying is funny you should check yourself into a mental hospital, I'm really concerned
TG: Who's saying I don't know your face
EB: are you actually concerned?
EB: because if you are that's kind of sweet
EB: okay if you know my face what does it look like
TG: pshhh
TG: okay you probably have glasses
TG: cuz you're a nerd
TG: I feel like you're kind of short
EB: aw you are concerned aren't you
EB: wow um i actually do have glasses that's weird
EB: hey! i am not short, i'm average height
TG: I mean duh i have to be if I'm apparently your boyfriend
TG: your friends with benefits
TG: the love of your life
TG: the loin of your cloth
TG: wait how tall are you, you're like 5'5" aren't you
EB: aw thanks :B
EB: wait what the loin of your cloth uhhhhhhh
EB: um noooo i'm 5'7" i'm basically average height
EB: i bet you're like a midget and you're really jealous right now
TG: I have a sister who likes to read don't ask
TG: I mean i won't stop you from asking but i'd advise against it, shit gets weird
TG: wow dude you're shorter than my dead grandpa's withered dick
TG: no I'm actually 6'2"
EB: you have a sister?
EB: no way
EB: how does she put up with you
EB: ummmmm do you spend time looking at his dick or something
EB: no way that's really tall you're like a giant! You probably terrify children
TG: yeah we're not blood related though
TG: um why don't you ask her she has a chumhandle
TG: she just looked over my shoulder and says she knows you or some shit
TG: hell yeah I terrify children they're all annoying as fuck
EB: no way what is it
EB: that'd be really weird if she knew me
EB: what if i was a child, would i still be annoying as fuck?
TG: her chumhandle is tentacleTherapist
TG: the hell? if you were a child we would not be talking about being boyfriends
TG: that's some nasty shit
EB: no way i've known her for years! Tell her John Egbert says hi
EB: um you don't think we're actually boyfriends do you
TG: she says hi and i'm not that much of a dipshit obviously that was a joke
TG: wow your last name is egbert?
TG: eg...derp
TG: also I have to go bye
-turntechGodhead [TG] ceased pestering ectoBiologist [EB} at 17:06-
You weren't sure if TG was mad or something, but you found that good bye to be pretty abrupt. Maybe he really just had to leave right then and there, not like you knew though, no point in worrying you think. Also Rose is TG's sister?! This whole time you never knew Rose even had a sibling, let alone a brother the same age as her. You knew Rose was born in New York, now living in Texas, but it almost seems like too big of a coincidence that they happened to be related. You also find it a little funny how opposite of each other they are, just based on the previous conversations they've had. Your curiousity growing stronger, you decide to pester Rose about it.
-ectoBiologist [EB] started pestering tentacleTherapist [TT] at 17:08-
EB: hey rose
EB: you're turntechGodhead's sister?
TT: Yes it so happens that we are related, although not by blood.
EB: no way
EB: this whole time i didn't know you had any siblings!
TT: Well I do, although he is rather bothersome now that you mention it, although analyzing him oftentimes does prove to be quite an interesting albeit difficult feat.
EB: whats he like
EB: whats his name he hasnt told me anything
TT: I'd assume since you two are now becoming friends he'd tell you when he feels comfortable. It's not my position to tell you for him.
TT: Although I will tell you he's not what you'd expect.
EB: awww cmon Rose really? The only thing i know about him is that he's tall and the same age as me
EB: what if he has like
EB: a hunchback
EB: or he's albino
TT: If that's all he wants you to know for now, then that's that I'm afraid. Sorry John.
TT: My mother needs my help with something, presumably to help her up the stairs after quite a drinking session she just had.
EB: it's fine thanks Rose
EB: oh god i hope she's okay!
TT: Thank you for being understanding, and I think she will be, she tends to do this a lot. Enjoy your night.
-tentacleTherapist [TT] ceased pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 17:15-
You sigh and logout of your pesterchum, figuring you actually have some homework you have to get to before you lost the motivation to do it. You grab a pencil and your precalculus homework from your backpack and start on it, trying your hardest to concentrate but finding it difficult, only able to think that the mystery that is TG might be a 6'2" albino hunchback and you would have no idea. You'd have to figure out a way to find out who TG really is if you were ever going to be friends.
You quit after 10 ten minutes and decide you've earned a well deserved break and so you go downstairs to fetch some popcorn and get a movie from your vast collection. Precalculus will do things to a guy like you and you had a feeling Liv Tyler would do just the trick, and soon enough you found the popcorn bowl empty and you felt content and decide now would be a better time than any to sleep, so you do, the sound of Liv Tyler's voice helping you drift off into a dreamless sleep.
A/N
Thank you guys for commenting! Haha poor John doesn't know a thing, poor guy...Let me know what you guys think, i really love the feedback!