Each Touch

Start Over

John was tiredly staring at the letter that was on his desk, blinking a few times to make sure he was seeing correctly. Grabbing his glasses, he walked over and read the letter that was addressed to him. Dave's hand writing was on the front along with a picture of himself badly drawn; John couldn't help but giggle at that.

After getting dressed, he opened the letter to read what it said,

"yo john

i snuck into your room through your window and placed this letter on your desk for you to see lock your windows when you sleep man you never know when a batshit crazy clown is going to climb through your window and leave you a message
and ill be here saying i told you dude lock your windows when you sleep
okay not really your dad let me in but then I snuck into your room and left you this letter but who knows maybe you dont lock your window when you sleep i should try it sometime

anyway this is the first letter for the hunt im going to make you do.
first clue crab"

"Crab?" said John confused as he stared at the letter, "Crab...Crab, Crab, Carb- Crab."

He held the letter as he went downstairs to eat breakfast, wondering what Dave could mean when he said crab. Was Dave at a market? Is he allergic to crabs? Is that his favorite animal? The questions are...Not really endless but there. John grabbed a small breakfast and went into the living room to put his shoes on.

"Maybe I should ask Karkat, it didn't say anything about having other people help me." he mused to himself as he went to get his bike.

Once at the blond's place, he knocked on the door. Kankri opened it and gave John a good morning and went to get Karkat. He waited a minute before his friend came out and handed him a letter.

"Oh-"

"Just take the dumb letter. You don't know how annoying Dave was this morning. He came at the ass crack of dawn just to tell me to give you this letter. Who the fuck does that?" he said as he rubbed his eyes.

John opened the next letter,

"i cant believe you figured that last one out though it was obvious enough dont let karkat see the last clue hell get a bit CRABBY
hahah see what i did there
you didnt get the first clue and thought karkat could help you huh
anyway you can have people help you but they cant go with you
this is special man heart to heart

next clue Rink"

"Hahah..." he trailed as he looked at the letter, "Thanks Karkat. Uhnm, do you know what this is all about?"

"He didn't tell me batshit about what this is about," replied Karkat, "It better had been worth it to wake me up so goddamn early."

"Right, well thanks again!"

The blond closed the door as John went over to his bike, racking his brain for what the second clue had meant. Rink. Rink. Rink...The more he thought about it the more weird the word sounded to him, never mind that though he had to figure this out. He got on his bike and went to bike around the block as he went to figure out what it meant.

"Rink. A Rink...The ice rink!" he exclaimed as he turned his bike around to bike into town towards the ice rink he had taken Dave for his birthday two years ago. This scavenger hunt was getting fun.

"glad you remembered this place it was fun going here to be honest even though i almost fell flat on my ass because of you
but well since youre in town the next few will also be near because i really dont want to go through the effort to go to different towns just to put a damn clue there