Running(from what I thought was home)

by fanaticalParadox

Humanstuck AU; You are one of the 1000 'special' people 'chosen' for Skaia high, the most acclaimed and hard to get into school. But something isn't right, or hasn't been since one of Crocker inc.'s experiments went missing.

15. Chapter 15

Third person POV:

Though classes would start in a week, Feferi Peixes had already made herself a morning routine and study time. This annoyed her roommates, Terezi and Vriska, who wanted to sleep in rather than be woken up at the crack of dawn to go swimming in the pool at the other end of the school. But they went along with it after moaning and groaning when Feferi woke them, and after swimming awhile, they somewhat enjoyed it.

Karkat Vantas was also one of the people who went to the pool every morning. Not because he particularly enjoyed it, he wished to actually do his job of body guarding Feferi and protect her. But unlike Feferi, Karkat did not drag his roommates to the swimming pool. In fact, he went out of his way not to wake them in the mornings.

But today, like any other day of this first week, began with Karkat waking up, grabbing a drink from Dave's secret stash of Apple Juice (which Karkat had known about in previous lifetimes) and leaving to the pool. When he arrived, he would nod to the lifeguard, Cronus, and sit down on one of those pool chairs that ALL public pools had. But today was different. Karkat could feel it, just the feeling in the air gave off a 'different' sense. When they walked in, Feferi and her dorm-mates seemed to feel it too, a shaky feeling that could make Jack Noir feel nervous.

So the pool was quiet and awkward until it moved. The feeling of fear had now focused on one place. Rose Lalonde.

Dave Strider had always wondered where all of his Apple Juice had been going, now he knew. Karkat had been stealing his drinks for about a week now, and the wouldn't go unnoticed by Dave, who protected his Apple Juice with his life and manly spirit. So today, Dave Strider would follow Karkat Vantas and get to the bottom of the mystery, who was Karkat Vantas? So he followed Karkat, followed him to the kitchen, to the bathroom, and then to the pool. And that's when things began to get interesting.

Rose Lalonde joined the equation.

Terezi Pyrope hated negative feelings. She hated the way someone could be broken with a few words. Her mother was a Lawyer, and perhaps that was what made Terezi's sense of justice be more prominate than others. And she had seen how negative feelings could break someone. And if this feeling couldn't break her, nothing could.

Nobody could break someone as well as Rose Lalonde.