"Good morning Dave"
John smiled and took a second to mess with his rainbow bracelet.
"Good morning Jonathan"
John made a face at the ridiculous name, sure it was his full name but he preferred John a lot more.
"David that is not my name"
"Just as David is not mine"
John bites his lip to fight off the impending wave of giggles.
"Your a huge dork Dave"
"Striders aren't dorks John" as if to prove his point a crudely drawn self portrait of the ghost boy Dave appeared.
"Even with your poor art skills I can tell you must be a dork, please tell me you don't actually wear those shades."
The shades he were talking about were some weird triangle shape that John could not for the life of him, place.
"Don't dis the shades bro"
"Aw man you do wear them!"
"I have sensitive eyes plus they're cool in a totally un ironic way"
John laughed, Dave was a huge dork.
"When I meet you I'll give you even cooler ones"
John wrote it before he even thought through it in his head. What was he thinking, Dave was dead, he wasn't even a real person anymore.
"If they meet up to my standards I'll wear them"
The bell rang causing John to snap his head up, everyone was getting up to leave.
John quickly wrote his reply.
"Trust me strider, they will"
John erased everything since the filled the desk up again. He left quickly, all the while thinking of the boy with weird triangle shades.
"Hey you!"
John almost dropped his stuff.
"M-me?"
"No the other person who just so happens to be standing in the exact same spot as you"
John was confused and looked around him before he realized it was a joke, "oh" he said, blushing realizing what an idiot he was.
John finally looked up at the boy, it was the one he thought was really cute but also really angry the first day.
"The names Karkat what's yours, gay boy"
John cringed at the name, "Im John, n-not gay boy"
This caused the very cute boy in front of him to laugh.
The laugh was absolutely adorable and caused Johns face to heat up.
"Dude you wear a very flamboyant, rainbow homosexuality bracelet, I couldn't call you four eyes since that's this other dick bags name and I didn't actually know your real name."
"Oh"
"Anyways I'm here to invite you to a party, tonight at Terezi's place and just so you know since your new Terezis parties are the shit, like super fucking live, you should go"
John was shocked, he was getting invited to a party? Him? John Egbert?
"I'm invited?" John asked uncertain of the events going on, maybe this was all a joke, John was great at jokes he would know.
"Yes dumbass I did just say that or is your attention span so small you DIDNT EVEN LISTEN TO ME" Karkat said, his voice raising from a little above normal to yelling.
"Can I ask another question" John asked hesitantly.
"YOUR GOING TO ASK ANYWAYS SO WHY THE FUCK NOT"
"Why is she inviting me?" Karkat actually calmed down after he said that, even allowing the corner of his mouth to turn up in a half assed attempt to smile.
"Because her friend TG won't shut up about you"
"Who?" John was beyond confused, who was this TG and how did he know John?
This just made Karkat smile, "Bye gay boy, this guys gotta get some lunch"
Karkat pushed away from the wall and left towards the lunch room. Leaving John utterly confused and speechless.
John eventually moved from his spot after a few people gave him odd looks. He headed the opposite way as Karkat entering the library.
He ate at the library even though eating here wasn't allowed, the librarian showed him a room in the back no one used full of old bean bags and desks the first day of school feeling bad for him. It was a sweet set up that even included a TV.
He flipped on the TV opting to watch Bobs Burgers instead of the Maury Show. Not that a good dose of other people's family drama wasn't good for the soul every once in a while, it just got real old real quick.
You took this time you had to text your loving father about the party.
"Hey dad! I was invited over to Terezis tonight for a party! Can I go?"
Somewhere inside of him he was really hoping his dad said yes, this whole mystery TG person was really getting him excited.
Another part of him was also hoping his dad said no, and for the exact same reason.
