What? Why would you be avoiding your matesprit? That is absolutely preposterous. You are offended that anyone would even suggest that. You could go talk to her right now and everything would be fine.

…

However… you are kind of busy right now and don't feel like disturbing her. So why don't you just continue with what you were going to do and leave this train of thought for later?

You decide to do that. You walk down the hall. It is your intention to go visit Vriska and learn a bit more about what happened with Karkat's journal. You notice some commotion outside of Vriska's door. You arrive just in time to see John push past you and storm off. After the crowd disperses, you knock on Vriska's door.

It takes quite a while for anyone to answer, but you wait patiently. You can hear movement from inside. Eventually, the door opens.

"Hey Kanaya. What are you doing here?" She asks.

Something seems a little off about her. Her eyes look a little bluer than normal and her voice cracks slightly. Has she been crying?

"I heard the commotion outside of your door and came to see what happened." You say, partially truthfully.

"Oh. I heard that. I don't know what happened though, so see you." She tries to close the door but you stop it with your foot.

"Vriska, is everything alright?" You ask.

"Everything's fine! Gog!" She kicks your foot out of the way and slams the door in your face.

You stare at the closed door for a couple of seconds. What just happened?

You shake it off and decide to leave her alone for a while. You will have to figure out what happened from a different source. You find your feet taking you to your matesprit's respiteblock. You go up to her door, take a deep breath, and decidedly walk past it.

You pull out your portable communication device and quickly pester your matesprit to see if she has any information on the matter. You have a quick conversation with her and are trying to come up with a suitable answer for a particularly difficult question she poses when you crash into someone.

You apologize and look up to find that it was Roxy you bumped into.

"It's fine, don't worry about it." She says, smiling warmly. She seems a little sad though.

"Is everything alright?" You ask. She sighs.

"Yea, I did something I kind of regret, but there's no changing it now."

The pieces start to click together in your brain. You wonder…

"It wouldn't by any chance have to do with the events earlier today, would it?" You ask.

She looks at you, startled.

"Please don't tell my mom." She says. "I didn't know that that's what he wanted the files for."

"He?" You ask.

"John was the one who asked me." She says looking down sheepishly.

You nod in understanding.

"So you won't tell my mom?" She says hopefully.

"I can't promise that I won't." You say. You wouldn't feel right lying to her.

"At least… could you wait a bit until all of this dies down? And so that maybe I can spend some time with her before she hates me?"

You think it over. You suppose it's not a big deal to put it off a bit. It's not like you are particularly motivated to talk to Rose right now anyways.

"Fine." You say. Roxy sighs in relief. "She will not hate you though. I would recommend telling her yourself."

"Thank you!" Roxy hugs you briefly before scurrying down the hall. You shake your head.

You look down at your portable communication device and realize that you still have not responded to Rose. You type something you think is suitable and are about to send it when she messages you first. Something must have come up because she says you can discuss the matter later. You sigh, grateful that you can put off this encounter at least for a little bit longer.

Jade, play solitaire.

Hey! Happy Dave's birthday! I could have timed it so that this chapter had to do with Dave, but I didn't because I hadn't realized Dave's birthday was coming up. Also, happy birthday to Jade retroactively because I forgot that that was a thing.

I'll probably be posting a second chapter later since I have no life and nothing better to do. :P