There and Back Again {On Hold}

Another change.

Karkat's POV:

It's been almost four weeks since I moved in with the Egberts. Life is great and I'm happy. I'm now officially part of our friend group and we hang out as much as possible, we don't hang out every single day but dave usually hangs out with us after school and we hang out as a gang at the park every weekend. Its perfect. I feel at home with the egberts, I feel like I belong with my friends, and I have the best step brother anyone could ask for.
I've also grown accustomed to the cool kid in "shades" as he calls them. Like I said he hangs out with me and john almost everyday so I'm used to him coming over and hanging out but for some reason, I feel weird around him. I'm all flustered when he's around and I blush more then I'm supposed to...maybe ill talk to rose about it...she always knows what to do.

~carcinoGeneticist began pestering tentacleTherapist~

CG: HEY...CAN I ASK YOU SOMETHING?

TT: yes of course, what seems to be the worriment?

CG: WELL, YOU SEE WHENEVER DAVE COMES OVER I SEEM TO GET FLUSTERED BUT I ALWAYS WANNA BE AROUND HIM. WHATS WRONG? AM I SICK?

TT: far from it. It seems that you have idolatry for our Young friend with sunglasses.

CG: GOD FUCKING DAMNIT LALOND! I DONT KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!

TT: it means you like him karkat.

CG: I

CG: I WHAT?! NO I DONT! I

CG: WELL NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT IVE NEVER BEEN ATTRACTED TO ANYONE ELSE SO I NEVER REALLY KNEW WHAT MY SEXUALITY IS SO...

CG: MAYBE YOUR RIGHT...UH
..THANKS ROSE.

TT: any time dear.

~tentacleTherapist ceased pestering carcinoGenticist~

I turned my phone off. Mr Egbert got it for me and I downloaded pesterchum onto it.
I looked at my digital clock that sat on my nightstand.

10:32

Might wanna get ready for bed soon even though its the weekend. I got out of bed and threw on a pair of Gray sweatpants and a long black shirt. I jumped into bed and waited for sleep to come.

Sleep didn't come.

I looked at my phone that read 1:56.
Its almost two in the morning. Fuuuck. I'm not gonna sleep am I? Not only did I suffer from terrible nightmares, I also suffer from insomnia. Lately I haven't been having very many nightmares, but I've been having more sleepless nights then anything.

I turned on my music and put in headphones, lately music has been helping with my insomnia. After thirty minutes of laying there, I finally drifted off to sleep.

~•~•~•~•~

I was fast asleep when all of a sudden something is thrown at my head. I sit up straight to see john giggling in my doorway. He threw a pillow at me.
"Oh you're gonna get it now Egbert!" I jumped up out of my bed, grabbed my pillow and begun to chase john around with it, hitting him every so often.

We stopped at the top of the stairs. "You have no where to run now!" I yelled.
"Oh yeah? Come at me bro." He chuckled. He's never talked like that before.
I went to step forward but stumbled over a kink in the rug.
Before we knew it we were both tubbling down the stairs.
We hit the bottom with a thud.

"Ow...curse you and your clumsy nature." John said.
"Shut up." I kicked him off of me cause he somehow ended up on top of me.
We both heard swift footsteps come from the kitchen and looked up, there stood mr Egbert.

"Are you boys ok?! What happened?!" He asked frantically.
"We're fine dad, karkat tripped and took me with him."
I punched john in the shoulder. "You started it."

Mr Egbert sighed. "Well come on, breakfast is ready."

After breakfast we both went to get dressed so we can go meet the others at the park.
John knocked on my door and told me to hurry up.
I came out and we went downstairs. John yelled at mr Egbert and told him where we were going and we headed out.

It was almost 1. I couldn't believe I slept for that long.
We went to get strider so we could all walk together.
We walked to the end of the street only to be puzzled by the amount of boxes on Dave's front lawn.
I gave John a look of confusion and he just shrunged through his bemusement.

We went up to the door and knocked.
A man looking to be in his early 20's opened it.
John spoke first. "Hey Dave's bro! Where's dave?"
"I'll get him." Said the older man.
Soon dave came back to the door instead of the man.
"Hey guys" he sounded worried.
"Hey dave you ready for the park?!" Said john, unaware of strider's mood.
"Oh..the park..um I'm kind busy today...I can't swing it..sorry guys maybe tomorrow." He tried to close the door but john stopped him.
"Its ok we understand! But one last question, what with the boxes?"

"Don't worry about it." Replied dave in a saddened tone.
Now I knew something was wrong.

John just shrugged it off. And we headed to the park to meet the others without dave.
I couldn't stop thinking about dave all day.

We headed back home around 5 and as soon as we got home it Dawned on me.

The boxes.

Him being busy.

His sad tone.

I ran upstairs and into my room to text the blond in peace.

I started pestering him.

~carcinoGeneticist began pestering turntechgodhead~

CG: DAVE

CG: LISTEN WE NEED TO TALK

CG: YOUR MOVING AREN'T YOU?

he never answered me.

Just another change in my hectic life.