Homestuck Oneshots

CronKri (1)

AN: This is dedicated to daughter_of_sin and mindlessFizz. Just a warning I'm not sure how in character this will be and it will be set in the late nineties.

Word count: 1,259

Kankri's POV

A house is not a home you have to make it one.

This is what my father told me. Those were the last words he ever said to me.

I loved my father with everything I had. He was open minded and was willing to take any ideas or opinions you had into consideration.

He was always there for me and he never let me down. He didn't desert me even when I told him I would never like girls like the other boys did. He stuck by my side and told me it was okay to love who I wanted. I can imagine how hard this was for him considering how he was born in the late thirty's into a very religious household and took the words of the Bible as law.

I will never understand how he managed to get over the fact that his eldest son was gay, but I'm glad he did. I didn't want to lose him.

I guess this is where this story will start.

I was in the tenth grade when a new family moved into the old house across the street. It was a family of three, a dad and two sons, exactly like mine. Unlike mine, the mother had the two sons to their father refusing to take care of them. He had taken the two twins with a promise to take care and love them for as long as he lived. He promised them they would never be left in the cold.

The two boys were my age and we're to go to the same school as me. My younger brother was a grade below me and had just started high school, so we were to all get on the bus together in the mornings.

I first met them when the two came over to ask if we wanted to shoot some hoops with them. I accepted and forced Karkat, my younger brother, to go with me.

They introduced themselves as Cronus and Eridan. Cronus was quick to say how he was the eldest by six and a half minutes. I laughed a little and smiled at him.

Eridan was very moody and I could tell that he and Karkat would get along just fine. Cronus was the exact opposite of his twin. He was very energetic and, from what I saw on that first day, he never stopped smiling.

Eridan and Karkat sat on a bench being moody together while I attempted to learn how to play basketball with the help of a very energetic coach.

Cronus was actually a good coach and by the end of the afternoon I was at least able to make a basket every fifth try.

I invited the family over to eat supper with us and they eagerly accepted.

My father and their father actually got along really well. They talked about sports like most men seemed to do and after dinner disappeared to smoke a cigar.

Karkat and Eridan quickly disappeared out the front door, probably to walk around in the woods near our house. This left me alone with Cronus.

We walked over to his house and um the stairs to his room. The floor was covered in boxes and his bed was unmade. He started pulling random items out of the boxes as we talked.

I was sitting on the floor leaned up against his bed. I observed him as he moved around. There was no denying he was attractive.

I felt awkward sitting there staring at him so I offered to help him unpack. He accepted reluctantly saying how I didn't need to, but I said it was no trouble and pulled open the box nearest me.

We spent the next hour setting up his room and talking. With our combined effort we managed to get his room completely unpacked and settled in.

Just as we finished his father appeared in the door telling me that my father said to come home and get ready for school in the morning.

I smiled at Cronus and bid him goodnight as I walked out their front door.

For the next couple of weeks the two families fell into a routine. School. Come home for lunch and then go back to school. Come home around four. Hang out until seven and then eat dinner. We always ate together and we alternated which house we ate at every night.

I couldn't help developing feelings for the energetic boy who lived next door and my routine became resisting them as they grew stronger. Little did I know that he was developing feelings for me too.

It went on like this for the rest of the school year and about a month into the summer, until that fateful day that Cronus walked over to my house and asked if I wanted to go on a walk. I accepted and we walked down the trail, that my father and I had made, into the woods.

The trail led to a little clearing with a crystal clear pond in the middle of it. When I was about twelve years old my father and I had hung a couple of swings in a big oak tree next to the little pond and it was them that Cronus and I chose to occupy.

We sat down and stared into the pond. You could see right to the bottom and watch as a pair of koi swam around in it. On that day a frog happened to be sitting on a lily pad that was floating in the middle of the pond. It's stopped it's croaking when we walked into the clearing, but resumed it when we sat down on the swings.

I would have been perfectly happy to sit there for the rest of my life.

I noticed that Cronus kept glancing over at me out of the corner of his eye. He looked like he has something to say to me. I asked him if he was alright and he nodded his head absentmindedly.

He looked over at me again, but this time he turned his head and looked directly at me.

"Kankri I need to tell you something."

I said okay and waited expectancy.

He took a deep breath and sighed.

"I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

I gasped. I couldn't believe he actually returned my feelings.

I realized that he was looking at me worriedly and had just gotten up to leave. I stood up and wrapped my arms around his neck.

"I love you too, Cro."

I felt him relax and he started to smile. One of his hands settled on my waist and the other tilted my chin up. I looked up at him and he leaned in and kissed me softly.

My eyes fluttered closed as I kissed him back. We pulled away a few seconds later and he took my hands in his and pulled me down to the ground under the oak tree where we spent the next hour staring at each other or the pond which by now had taken on a silver glow from reflecting the moon's light.

We spent the rest of the summer together happily. Both our parent were accepting of us and we couldn't have been happier.

I now understand what my father was saying when he said that you had to make a house your home as I stared at my Cronus. We got married and we have adopted two little boys of our own and we couldn't be happier.

AN: Oh. My. God. This is so long! I hope you enjoyed it and it wasn't complete rambling.

Thank you so much for reading.

Byeeee
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