Only You - Karlnap (ft DNF)

6 - A quick stroll

About twenty minutes have passed since Karl and Sapnap had ended their meetup stream and Sapnap was chilling in his room while Karl sorted out his stuff. Randomly scrolling on his phone like usual.

It wasn't long before he crossed paths DNF and Karlnap on his feed. Somehow, clips from the stream that he had essentially just ended had already begun to circulate on the internet.

He was looking at one now, the part with Karl holding his hand at the start. Curious, Sapnap studied the comments. The way Sapnap looks at Karl is so cute, one said. I think the reason why Sapnap likes Karl so much is because he's such a touchy baby,  said another. 

Indeed, looking back at the clip, he was staring at Karl and he could gather the reason why people perceived it as cute. Sapnap buried his face into a hand, suddenly overwhelmed.

Perfect timing: Karl had entered his room.

"Sapnap, you good?" He said, shocking the life out of him. "What are you looking at..." Before Sapnap could stop him, Karl had already settled beside him on the bed. 

"People are quick, man." Sapnap faced back up, pasting a smile onto his face.

"Oh, uh, I'm sorry."

"What for?"

"For making you uncomfortable..." Karl rubbed his own arm. "I feel like I'm too touchy most days."

"No, no! You haven't done anything wrong. I'm gonna be honest... I'm pretty touch-starved so I love it when you just be Karl." With an arm around him, Sapnap pulled Karl closer. "I'm just overwhelmed sometimes when people like... are so quick to ship us and stuff." 

Wrong answer, his mind told him with a sneer, you're just overwhelmed because you like Karl and can't figure it out.

Shut the fuck up, he shot back. Like, deadass.

"Really??" Karl's face lit up subtly. For a second, Sapnap lost track of conversation and all he wanted to do was to give him a big hug. Karl's head fell into the nook between Sapnap's neck and collarbone and he linked their fingers together. "Sorry, Nick. Nobody's actually told me that my touchiness was a good thing, ever."

"It's a win win situation for real," he said with a genuine smile this time, "like one of those fucking, uh, best ship dynamic videos which are everywhere. The touchy baby and the needs affection, that type of shit."

"Touchy baby," said Karl. It was impossible to tell whether he loved that name or that he hated it. The tension was suffocating.

"Uh... just forget I said that."

Pause. "Sapnap, do you want to go outside for a stroll or something? It would be nice to have a look at the neighbourhood."

"Sure, why not," he agreed. "Let's go."

It was only after they had gone downstairs and that they had bumped into Dream that they realized they were still walking with fingers interlocked.

"Holding hands already? It hasn't even been a day!" Dream chuckled, staring down at them.

Sapnap's eyes widened and he immediately twisted his hand away. "Uh, I just forgot to let go. Karl hijacked my hand."

"Sure thing. Well, I won't hold you guys any longer." Without saying another word, Dream disappeared somewhere else. He was going to sure as hell find George, then. A conversation with Dream could never be this brief otherwise.

"Hijacked your hand," Karl giggled. "I mean, to be fair, that did happen."

"Yeah..." Sapnap was facing away, blushing furiously out of embarrassment. "Are we going outside or not?"