Thanks for the couple of reviews. I died of cuteness... even though they weren't that cute but its the fact people take the time to read my shitty writing. So thanks ;33 *all the love*

Calm down.

Okay, I did not intend this to happen. I have just walked into work and almost lost my 'cool kid' poker face.

Outside Tricky Ink was a really cute guy. I couldn't stop looking at him. How could you not stare at someone that cute like... okay now I feel like a creeper for it but the way his raven hair spiked up in places, how his tattoos and piercings suited him and how his skin was sun kissed was just... oh my God I can't.

Lets just say acting like a four-teen year old girl wasn't my style. He had faded skinny jeans and a grey plaited jumper, but what got me most was his eyes. His piercing blue eyes. They were actually close to the color of my eyes ( if you don't count the left one ). Why did I have to be born with such disgusting freak eyes? Its not that they were two different colors that bothered me; it was how my left iris was blood red. This had freaked a lot of people out when I was a baby or so Dirk says, so he gave me shades to cover them. After all Dirk had bright orange eyes himself and dealt with the problem by putting shades on. I'm pretty sure I remember one being green but that's impossible, he has two orange eyes.

But what has been done is done. Hands down, I am so gay for this guy and all I did was pass him on the street. Wow me, all this thinking made my legs stop. Maybe its best I stop focusing on random meaning less shit and get my ass into this flower shop.

"Hi!"

Was it just me or was a pot of roses talking to me. Obviously not because a girl emerged from behind the assortment of flowers.

"You must be Dave?" she said chirping in a high pitched voice.

"Yeah" I say with my 'award winning' poker face.

"Oh, I've really wanted to meet you-" her arms fluttered and she was bouncing slightly like she was trying not to jump like a fan girl who had just met their idol. "I heard a bit about you from Jake!"

Jake.

I'd heard the name before but I don't know where from. I open my mouth to ask her but she already had started explaining.

"Dirk never told you about him I take it? Hes really a nice guy though so I wouldn't worry about it."

Dirk. Why would she bring up my brother like- oh, I remember.

Jake is the boyfriend of my idiot elder brother. God I feel sorry for the guy, he probably has to put up with the same bullshit I do with his weird dick puppets. Smuppets, I think that's what Dirk called them. I have no idea how Jake takes them but i'm scared shitless by those things. Sometimes he dumps a mountain of those things on me and after I just go into the corner of my room and cry like a little girl who got her AJ taken away ( for the irony of it... the irony of those plush rumps... ).

Bro took irony too far when he made those. Even for a Strider it's too much.

"Well onto the point." Jade has suddenly said banishing my thoughts. "So you will be working here part-time."She hummed like she was trying to decide on something, rubbing her cheek as she did so. "Since its your first day i'll just give you the little jobs I haven't got time for."

With that she turned around grabbed a watering can and thrust it into my hands along with an apron that has the logo of her small shop printed on the front.

I stared down at my hands like she had just dumped a new born baby in them.

"You do know how to water plants don't you?"

"No. Please teach me how to tip the watering can and sprinkling water over them. Feeding them so they're full as fat people doing food challenges." I said in exaggerated distress. She giggled and gestured me to get on with the task.

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Roxy and me were tidying up the shop so we could leave for home. When she picked up a couple of packages and inspected them like they were some foreign object that she'd never seen before. What ever she was doing she snapped out of it quick and swiftly crossed the room to hand me the small packages like they were a top secret government file.

"Go give these to Harley, would ya?"

I take the packages from her hands and walk out the door. The night air is a bit chilly and technically it wasn't night, it was six o'clock and the sky is getting dark. I take roughly four steps to reach the flower shops door. I walk in and there is no bell sounding above my head. I look around to see if I could spot Jade but the guy with the aviators who had walked past me earlier shot up from behind a bunch of flowers.

"The shops closed" he said while putting down a bouquet of red and white roses with a circle of black ones in the middle.

"I know, i'm John Egbert . I work next door and packages for this shop came to ours." I gesture to the two small boxes in my hands and the guy doesn't reply. After a while he opened his mouth to say something when jade came bounding in.

"Dave, who are you talking to?"

Oh, so this guys name is Dave. Well whatever his name is he pointed to me and Jade whipped her head round to look at me. I walk up to her, avoiding knocking flowers out of their pots.

"Here." I fling the brown boxes towards her when i'm at least two feet away, she catches them effortlessly. Shes always had good catching skills. I used to think she was very dog-like and I still do."The post got the address mixed up."

"John! You hardly see me anymore. We used to see each other every day but now you don't come to see me!"

"One, we grew up in the same house when your granddad died. Two, i'm nine-teen. I don't need to see you all the time."

She lets out a loud whine that sounds like a dog when it cries.

"You're still my older sister, Jade."

Jade lets out a grin but it fades into a surprised look.

"Oh yeah. Rose is having a party soon and she's wondering if you are coming." She lightly slaps my shoulder repeatedly in rapid motions while her eyes begged me to say yes.

"Rose Lalond?" Dave says from behind me making me jump. God that was embarrassing, I forgot he was there. "Whoa there, Egderp. FYI I don't bite so I think you're safe." Way to make it awkward! I feel myself flushing further with the addition of a pet name. Jade just stands there with her hand round her stomach and the other clamped over her mouth to try suppress her laughter. She fails and doubles over in hysterics. I look back at Dave and he is smirking with a hand placed loosely on his hip. This couldn't get any worse. I decide to avert my attension from Dave and my idiot sister, who seems to be recovering from a serious case of the giggles. I start to inspect my tattoos, there's this one of a girl standing on the edge cliff looking down. Her hair blows in the non-existent wind getting caught in her horns, one was hooked and the other was like a claw. I can never remember how or where I got it but it's on there and doesn't seem to be disappearing anytime soon. I look up and join the conversation.

"Yeah that's her. How do you know her?" Jade by this point was panting from laughing too hard.

"She's my second cousin" Wait a second. If younger Lalond was his cousin then drunk Lalond was also a part of his family.

"So since shes your cousin would you come and gatecrash her party?" Dave hesitates for a moment before replying.

"I, uh- Don't really think... I mean I haven't talked to her in a while" I can see that hes nervous by the way he rubs the back of his neck. Something must of happened.

"You don't have to talk to her. Just go and see what happens when your there!" Jade does her fan girl jumping again.

"alright then." Here comes the squeals.

"Well it looks like were all going then" After that quick sentence I walk to the door, wave goodbye and head to my car.

Looks like my mind decided to make them go to a party so that's what is going to happen.

This chapter way way longer than the last one because I didn't feel right with the second one on its own so I joined the third one on.

Also I wanted to add something about the trolls that wouldn't be human, the result of that is Johns tattoo of Vriska ( and if you didn't get the tattoo it's from the panel where Vriska looks down at Tavros after paralyzing him)