Each Touch

No John

(Headcanon that the Vantas' are Norwegian <3)

April 1st, one of John Egbert's favorite day of the year. The one day Dave Strider dreads the most each oncoming year. Ever since befriending John he's been barraged with pranks on a weekly basis. As the years went on they weren't so big and as face palm worthy, but they were still pretty shitty.

The cold morning air hit Dave's face as he walked his way over to school, mentally preparing himself for the day. It wasn't so bad, he hangs out with John throughout the day and gets to see him grin ear to ear, laughing his ass off at the people who falls for his shenanigans. What nerves him was that it was he and that guy Karkat that got the worst pranks out of everybody.

"Man, I'm just going to have to live with this the rest if my life don't I?" he asked himself, "He's never going to stop pulling pranks on me and everyone around him until his dying days. I won't even be surprised if he died from laughing so hard from a prank. I won't be surprised if he crashed his own funeral for a dirty little prank scare, that'll be so shitty making us scared ass fuck and preparing a whole funeral for him. He thinks he's sooo quirky, if he wasn't so fucking cute I would have already gotten him back so bad."

Dave rambled to himself the whole walk to school, subjects changing in an instant as soon as there was a relevant topic to go off on. Growing up with literally no one to talk to often, he confided into himself for conversation.

Soon he arrived at school, some people greeting him as he walked past. Lately he's been gaining an unwanted title for himself. It didn't hit him in the beginning, but as soon as they were dragging him away from John ever so often that's when he realized that something had gained him the eyes of the more known people in the school.

"Like I want their mainstream shit." He muttered as he wandered the school, waiting for John to arrive by bus.

After greeting what seemed like the whole damn school, he strode on over to John locker, seeing the other digging through inside forsomething. He smiled and knocked on the open locker door, startling him. Dave chuckled as John looked over and beamed when he saw him.

"You startled me."

"Was the plan." he said, "But ever so, I'm watching you."

John gave his doe eyes and a mischievous, innocent smile. Oh he was playing this card with him.

"Don't give me that look, I know very well what that face is." said Dave pointing at him.

"I swear I'm innocent!" perked John.

"I'm still watching my back."

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The Prankster was back at it again with his pranks and a whole lot of new people to pull them off; he had gotten Karkat and the small group of friends he had, some of their older siblings and most of the staff. Dave was high on his guard, cautious of every step he took throughout the day as he saw brave victims fall to John's shenanigans. He felt as if he was the last man standing in this battlefield of the Gambit of Pranks ruled, controlled and fought by King John Egbert himself.

During lunch John almost had him, but Karkat bravely took in place and ate the sweets he had brought from home. They were filled with vanilla pudding, add the fact that it was warm as well. He might as well filled it with mayonnaise if he was going to food poison the whole school. The Norwegian gave John a loud earful of complaints and insults as the prankster laughed.

Somehow John was able to switch out Cronus' hair gel with glue, causing a big mess, lots of tears and a lot of Kankri. Karkat fairly enjoyed this prank along with Eridan, the both of them snickered at their older brothers. The bespectacled teen swiftly moved onto his next victim as he saw the glue switch was a success.