Is This Real?

Chapter 22

Karl:

It was the day of the festival, but Karl decided to skip out on it. He couldn't bear to see Quackity or Sapnap anytime soon, so he stayed home all day and slept.

When Karl finally wakes up, its night.

He assumed the festival had been over and done with and goes outside to look at it since no one would be there, but when he arrives, he sees someone kneeling on the ground.

Karl is hesitant, but soon walks up to the person.

"Hey, why are you here?" Karl asks the figure.

The person stands up and looks at Karl.

"Oh! Fundy hey what's up." Karl asks

"What do you mean what's up?" Fundy asks which confuses Karl.

"We're you at the festival today Karl?" Fundy asks to which Karl shook his head no.

Fundy sighed "Then you don't know what happened." He said, confusing Karl more.

"Let's sit somewhere." Fundy says walking towards a bench, and motioning for Karl to follow, so he did.

Together they sat on the bench and Fundy went over everything that happened at the Festival.

At first everything just seemed like fun and games to Karl, but as Fundy continued Karl felt his heart drop.

Fundy then explained how everyone had been able to run away, but how he didn't know what happened to Tubbo, Quackity, and Schlatt.

"Wait, s-so you don't know what happened to Quackity?" Karl asked with a shaky voice

"No, I didn't see him or Tubbo leave I don't know where the- "Fundy started to say, but Karl had gotten up and began running away, leaving Fundy confused and upset because Karl didn't let him finish.

Once Karl heard that Fundy didn't know what happened to Quackity, fear took over, and Karl started running to where he knew Quackity lived.

Karl was hoping that just maybe Quackity had been able to get home.

Once Karl arrived at Quackity's house he started banging on the door.

"Quackity! Quackity please open up!" He screamed at the door, slowly beginning to panic.

"Quackity hello! Please open up please!" Karl kept screaming.

With every knock unanswered panic filled Karl more and more.

"Quackity please!" Karl screamed into the door.

He kept going and going, screaming into the door hoping someone would open it. But no one did.

He slammed the door one last time crying out "Quackity" in hope that his old friend would open the door, but nothing happened.

He didn't know where else Quackity could be, he didn't know what happened to him either.

Karl hit the door and began crying.

"Karl...?" Someone from behind him said.

Karl froze up instantly. The voice sounded familiar, but Karl couldn't tell who it was.

But when Karl turned around to look at who called his name relief filled his body.

"Q-Quackity." Karl said with relief

Quackity stood there staring at Karl.

"I-I-I heard about what h-happened" Karl says quietly "I was worried. I didn't know if something had happened to you."

Karl steps towards Quackity staring at his cheek where a new huge cut had appeared.

"Y-your cheek" Karl said as he walked closer to Quackity, then touching his cheek, being careful not to touch the cut.

"are, are you okay?" Karl asked softly but Quackity didn't answer.

Karl looked back up at Quackity and saw that he had been staring at Karl.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Karl said stepping back, then clearing his throat.

"I'm sorry, um I can just go. I just needed to make sure you were okay." Karl whispers and starts to walk away, but Quackity grabs his arm and stops him.

"Despite everything that has happened between us, you still came here looking for me, just to make sure I was okay?" Quackity asked softly

Karl gulped, "W-well yes. No one knows what happened to you or Tubbo. And w-when Fundy told me he didn't know what happened to you I just, I panicked, and I had to find you and I- " Karl kept going but was stopped when Quackity pulled him in for a hug.

"Thank you, Karl." Quackity said quietly, squeezing Karl tightly.

Karl didn't know what to do, he was frozen, but Quackity just kept holding him. So, he slowly hugged Quackity back, and they stayed like that for a while.

Karl melted in Quackity embrace, he had missed this feeling. Him and Quackity had been away from each other for so long.

Tears began to fall from Karl's eyes as they hugged.

"I've missed you so much." Karl whispered to Quackity, which caused Quackity to squeeze Karl closer to him as a response.

Karl squeezed him closer as well.

"I'm so sorry for what I did to you Quackity." Karl said quietly "It was wrong of me to do, and I should've handled it better. I'm so sorry, I hope one day you can forgive me." He said with a heavy breath.

Although it may have been a bad moment to bring that night up, Karl felt like he needed to, and in that moment the need became too strong.

There was silence for a couple of seconds, and Quackity loosened his hug.

"I'm sorry too Karl." Quackity said causing Karl to look up at him in confusion.

"I shouldn't have forced myself on you like that. I should've waited and told you properly how I felt." Quackity said with a sigh "Maybe one day, you too can forgive me." He finished with a smile. Karl nodded his head in response, and they both hugged each other one last time before parting ways again.

And although that wasn't the reason Karl had gone to see Quackity, he was happy with what had happened.

Karl hoped that maybe, just maybe, soon they would become friends again, and that was all Karl needed to keep going.

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A shorter chapter, last minute too I won't lie so I do apologize for it maybe being a little worse than others, but I hope you guys liked it and enjoyed this chapter!

I apologize for not updating a lot, I do live in Texas and have been dealing with all this power outage stuff, but hopefully it's getting better and I'll be able to write more!

Anyways, hope you guys are having a good day/night and thank you for reading this today!