Sorry, I was going to update much sooner than this but I got sick and busy and I just had two tests today. But all that crap's done so here's another chapter for you all. :)
"Karkat, wake up." Karkat sighed and opened his eyes. He'd fallen asleep on the couch with Nepkat asleep on his chest. Nepkat yawned and licked her paw like she couldn't care less about where she was, then she jumped down and walked off. Karkat sat up and looked up at Gary.
"What is it?" he asked, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
"A phone call for you." Gary said, handing him the main phone. Karkat frowned. Who could it be? Gary would hang up if it was a salesman or something stupid.
"Hello?" Karkat said.
"Hi! It's John."
"Oh, hi. What is it? Did I forget some homework?" John laughed.
"No, the fair's today and Casey's inviting all her friends to come and she wants Nepeta to come as well."
"Okay, just a sec." Karkat walked to Nepeta's room and knocked on the door. Nepeta poked her head out and tackle-hugged him.
"Karkitty! Good morning!" Nepeta said.
"Good morning. Do you want to go to the fair?" Karkat asked. Nepeta's eyes went wide and she grinned.
"Yeah! Yeah!"
"Great, you're going with your friends." Karkat got back on the phone. "She says yes."
"I can hear." John said, chuckling. "I'll come pick her up in an hour."
"Okay." Karkat hung up and gave the phone back to Gary. Then he got Nepeta dressed and ready.
"We should invite Terezi and Sollux!" Nepeta said.
"Okay." Karkat decided to phone Terezi instead of texting.
"Hello?" Terezi said.
"Hi-who's that in the background?" Karkat asked. He could hear someone talking.
"Oh, that's the TV. What is it?"
"Nepeta's going to the fair with her friends, you want to come?"
"Oh, yeah! Sure! Should Latula come? She'll definitely want to."
"Yeah, can you ask Sollux too?"
"Sure!" Karkat hung up and grinned. This was going to be fun!
Nepeta sat in the back of the car with Sollux, Casey, Aranea and Jane. Terezi was sitting in the front with Casey's dad and Horrus, Rufioh, Latula and Karkat were sitting in the middle row of seats.
"Why didn't Mituna come?" Nepeta asked.
"He's, uh…taking the day off." Latula said. Nepeta thought Latula seemed nervous when she said that, but she couldn't think of why she would be.
"Tho, are you excited?" Sollux asked. Nepeta grinned and nodded.
"Yeah! This'll be my first time going to a fair!" Nepeta said.
"Cool! You'll have a great time." Sollux said.
"I'm going on all the rollercoasters!" Latula declared.
"Let's go on the ferris wheel too!" Terezi said.
"Oh by the way, my dad's meeting us there." Horrus said. "He said he wanted to keep an eye on me."
"That's fine." Casey's dad said. "The more the merrier, right?" Then Latula suddenly started singing.
"Ten million bottles of beer on the wall! Ten million bottles of beer!" Nepeta didn't know the song but Terezi and Sollux joined in. She just stayed quiet and listened to them sing.
When they got to the fair they were down to "Nine million, nine hundred and seventy-six bottles of beer on the wall! Nine million, nine hundred and seventy-six bottles of beer!" Casey's dad parked the car and they all ran to the fair. Equius was waiting for them.
"Hello! Quite a group." he said.
"Yeah, Casey's got friends who brought their friends." Casey's dad said.
"Let's play games first!" Casey said. So they ran to the games. First, they came to the "Test your strength" game.
"How do you play this?" Nepeta asked. She had never been to a fair before.
"Allow me to demonstrate for you, Nepeta." Equius said. Karkat and Latula groaned, but Nepeta didn't understand why. Equius took the hammer from the guy there and hit the thing they were supposed to hit. The little metal thing shot straight up and hit the bell.
"Wow!" Nepeta exclaimed. Equius handed the hammer to Horrus.
"Here, now you try." he said. Horrus sighed and took the hammer. When he hit the thing, the metal box only went almost halfway. But Equius nodded and said he did great.
"Me next!" Casey said, taking the hammer. After Casey, Rufioh, Aranea and Jane tried. Then Nepeta did. The hammer was heavy and she had trouble holding it up. And she only managed to get the metal box to go up to the height of her knee. But she got a prize anyway and was told she did great. The prizes were blown up hammer balloons.
"Let's go to that game!" Jane said, pointing at a thing with a wall covered in balloons. It was a game where you threw darts and the balloons and tried to pop them.
Horrus didn't do very good, but Rufioh did great! Aranea and Jane did alright and Casey couldn't pop a single balloon. Then Nepeta tried. She picked up one of the darts and looked at it. How hard could it be? She threw the dart and it pierced a dark blue balloon. Next she popped a bright red one, then an orange one. She managed to pop a balloon every time she threw a dart. She got a small monkey plushie as a prize.
"If you play again, you can exchange that prize for a better one, then play again and exchange it for a better one until you get to the giant ones." the lady at the booth said, pointing up at the giant plushies at the top. Nepeta looked up at Karkat with big eyes.
"Please? Karkitty, can I play again? Pleeeeaaase?" Karkat sighed, but nodded. Nepeta grinned and hugged him. "Yay! Thank you!"
So Nepeta played a few times until she finally got to have a giant prize. She looked up at them, grinning.
"I want the crab!" she said, pointing at the giant red crab. So the lady handed it to her and Nepeta grinned. "Thank you!" she said. Karkat smiled and patted her head.
"Okay, let'th go on a ride now." Sollux said. So they walked around looking at the rides.
"How about the merry-go-round?" Jane said.
"That'th tho boring." Sollux complained. Latula grabbed him and whispered something in his ear. He blushed and pushed away from her. "That'th thtupid!" he yelled. Latula just laughed and poked his stomach.
"Okay, we're going on the merry-go-round!" she declared. Sollux sighed but didn't argue. Nepeta smiled as they got in line. Latula handed the guy the tickets she'd bought for them all and they walked in. Karkat picked Nepeta up and carried her to one of the big horses. He sat down on it and put her on his lap. Sollux sat on the medium horse next to her, and Casey sat on the big horse in front of her on her dad's lap. Aranea sat on the medium horse next to Casey, though it was a bit big for her. Jane sat on the small horse next to Aranea. Horrus wanted to sit on the bench with Rufioh, but his dad wanted him to sit on one of the big horses.
"Let him do what he wants." Latula said. "He's still a kid." So Equius let Horrus sit with Rufioh on the bench while he sat on a big horse behind them. Terezi sat on the big horse behind Nepeta and Karkat and Latula sat on the medium one behind Sollux. Once they were all ready, as well as the other kids around them, the ride started. Nepeta clutched the bar and grinned. While the ride wasn't very fast, it was fun! And when Nepeta got off she was smiling.
"What next?" she asked.
"Let'th go on a roller-coathter!" Sollux said.
"I doubt most of you would go on it." Latula said, looking at all the kids.
"Just pick a small one." Aranea said. "I'll go on that."
"They look kinda fast." Nepeta said, eyeing one nervously.
"You don't have to go on." Karkat said. "Actually, I won't let you."
"What?!" Nepeta exclaimed. "But I wanna!"
"No, you don't! You only think you do because I said you can't." Karkat said, sighing. Nepeta whined.
"Okay, why don't we just go to the funhouse?" Latula said, pointing to a colourful house with the word FUNHOUSE painted in bubble-gum pink.
"Okay, fine." Sollux said. So they walked to it and went inside. There were moving floors and weirdly shaped mirrors that made Nepeta look deformed. There was a floor that was bouncy and a bridge that moved. Nepeta clung to Karkat's hand as they walked through. Sollux seemed to find it boring but Terezi seemed to be interested. Nepeta supposed it was because she couldn't see the moving bridges or floor. The last thing in the funhouse was a twisty slide. Nepeta sat on Karkat's lap as they slid down.
"What next? What next?" Nepeta asked.
"Let's go to the bouncy castle!" Casey said. So they went to a large inflated castle. Casey's dad, Equius, Karkat, Terezi and Latula couldn't go in because they were too heavy. So Nepeta took off her shoes and followed Horrus, Rufioh, Aranea, Casey, Jane and Sollux into the bouncy castle.
It was really bouncy. There were a few other kids in there and Nepeta was worried about bumping into people. She jumped around and found that it was really easy not to fall or slip while jumping, and she dodged the other kids easily. Rufioh wasn't having as much luck so Horrus held onto his arm to help him. Casey, Aranea and Jane were jumping while holding hands. Sollux just jumped around by himself, so Nepeta bounced over to him and jumped on him.
"Ow! Nepeta!" Sollux yelled. Nepeta giggled and bounced off him.
"You looked lonely, Sollux! Come on, join the group!" Nepeta grabbed his hand and dragged him over to the others. She grabbed Jane's hand and pretty soon they all formed a circle and jumped in sync. Nepeta laughed as they jumped. This was fun!
After the bouncy castle Karkat suggested they go get something to eat. So they went to a stand selling fresh donuts. Karkat bought them all some and Nepeta bit into hers. It was so tasty and warm!
"Mmm!" Nepeta said, mouth full.
They spent the rest of the day going on more rides and playing more games. Nepeta had so much fun!
"Aranea! We're going home!" Everyone stopped and turned. A tall girl with black hair and a black shirt and dark skinny jeans and tall black boots was walking up to Aranea. She had a pirate eye patch over her left eye. She was with a girl with tanned skin and dark hair and was wearing a pink tank top and a blue skirt
"Aw, Vriska." Aranea whined.
"Now, sis!" Vriska snapped.
"You too, Rufioh." the girl said.
"Okay Feferi." Rufioh said.
"Hi guys, sorry, but we have to take siblings home." Feferi said.
"Oh, that's fine." Latula said.
"Bye guys." Aranea said.
"Yeah, uh, bye." Rufioh said. Nepeta waved bye to them as they left.
"Should I drive everyone else home?" Casey's dad asked. "It is getting late."
"Yeah, that sounds good." Terezi said. So Nepeta, Aranea, Jane, Casey and the others piled into the car and they drove home. Nepeta held her giant crab plushie and the butterfly plushie she'd won.
"Here we are." Karkat said after awhile. Nepeta looked out the window and saw that they were home. Karkat carried her on his shoulders.
"Bye!" Nepeta said, waving.
"Bye!" her friends called back. Karkat carried Nepeta inside, where Kanaya was waiting to greet them.
"Welcome back. Did you have fun?" Karkat put Nepeta down and she hugged Kanaya.
"Mama! It was so fun! Look at my prizes!" Nepeta held up the plushies. Nepkat came bounding over and jumped at Nepeta. "Nepkat!"
"Hey, how about home-made pizza?" Alex asked, coming in. "I found a recipe in a cupboard.
"Yeah! Yeah!" Nepeta exclaimed.
"Sure." Karkat said. "Go for it."
About an hour later Karkat was sitting at the table with Nepeta and Kanaya, with slices of home-made pizza in front of them. Karkat could only stare at it though. First, there was a layer of sauce, then a layer of ham and then chips of bacon, then a layer of cheese. Just like the recipe had said. Karkat knew that recipe. It was his mom's.
"Aren't you going to eat, Karkitty?" Nepeta asked, already eating her pizza.
"Uh, yeah." Karkat picked up his piece and bit into it. It was the same familiar flavour. His mom would make it for him on his birthday or when he did good on a difficult test at school.
"Take your time eating it." Kanaya said. Karkat looked at her and saw the sad look in her eyes. She recognized the taste too. Karkat nodded and bit into the pizza again. It was delicious, but so bitter.
So yeah, Nitrams and Peixes are siblings in this fanfiction.
And I can't remember if I've mentioned Vriska's age yet, so Vriska: 16.
And Mituna wasn't there pretty much because of brain problems or something. And someone else was watching over him so that Latula and Sollux could go (I'm thinking it was his parents or something).
Anyway, I hope you all loved the chapter. More to come. :3