School Romance (DaveKat)

A Strider In Love

Your name is Dave Strider, you are a thirteen-year-old eighth grader, and you're in love with Karkat Vantas. Yes, in LOVE. You've felt this way about your fellow classmate for a while now, but you would never admit it to him. Until now.

You arrive at the bus stop and to no surprise Karkat is standing there, waiting for you, just like every other day. But today was going to be much different than any other ordinary day. Today was the day you would confess your life. When you walk up to Karkat and greet him, he glares at you.

"Where have you been?! I've been waiting for 30 minutes!"

You smirk.

"I would have been here sooner, but I had to settle another strife with Bro."

"Any later and you could have missed the bus. You're lucky this time, Strider."

And with that, the conversation ends and you wait in silence until the bus arrives. When you enter the bus, you sit down near the center and Karkat sits beside you. You are the only one's on the bus at the moment and it might stay that way since not very many people take this bus. But after a couple of minutes the bus stops and a girl with black hair and red sunglasses enters. She takes the seat in front of you and Karkat. You hope she doesn't turn around and talk to you because you were about to tell the love of your life how you felt about him.

"Hey, I'm Terezi. What's your name?"

Of course, she does as soon as you start talking to Karkat. Karkat didn't seem very amused by the black-haired girl interrupting their conversation, but he thought he should be polite and introduce himself.

"I'm Karkat and this is Dave."

You just slightly wave your hand and smile at the weird girl. You've seen her before, but she never seemed interested in neither you nor Karkat until now. The girl with the red sunglasses looks over at you.

"I like your shades."

"Thanks, I like yours, too."

"Oh, these? I just wear them so no one sees my weird blind eyes."

Did she just say she was blind? How did she find her way onto the bus? How did she know you were wearing sunglasses? You wonder this while Terezi continues about her blindness.

"I can see through smell and taste."

She has to be joking. This can't possibly be true. Karkat must have been thinking the same thing according to his response.

"Are you joking? That's not possible."

"Oh, but I'm not. I really do see through smelling and tasting."

"Prove it." Karkat said, eyeing the blind girl suspiciously.

"Ok, fine." Terezi sniffed the air around Karkat, then around Dave. "You have black hair and brown-red eyes. You're wearing a black turtle neck sweater and grey jeans. Dave has blonde hair and is albino. He's wearing a white long-sleeved shirt with red sleeves with a broken record printed on the front and skinny jeans."

Both you and Karkat sit there in shock at how accurate the blind girl was.

"Was I right?"

"Spot on." You say as the bus arrives at your school.

You, Karkat, Terezi, and a few others abscond from the bus and ascend to the front doors of the school.

As soon as you enter the building, you are greeted by a buck-toothed smile. It was John Egbert, your best friend. He was the only one, besides Bro and Rose, that knew about your feelings for Karkat. He didn't think it was weird for you to be in love with a guy, even if that guy was Karkat. He supported you just like Rose and Bro did.

Behind John was his cousin, Jade, who also had that buck-toothed smile. Jade greeted both you and Karkat.

"Morning, Dave! Morning, Karkles!"

Of course, Karkat hated being called "Karkles" or "Karkitty", so when Jade called him that he was quite mad.

"I told you not to call me that! Doesn't anyone ever listen to me?!"

Jade just giggled and walked with John to their next class. Soon after they left, the bell rang. Luckily, you and Karkat have all the same classes including exploratory and study hall. Terezi apparently had another class to go to, so she went in a separate direction. It was only you, Karkat and a crowd of students in the hallway.

As you were pushing your way through the crowd, you found to your surprise a hand grasping yours. You turn around to see that the hand belonged to Karkat. You raised an eyebrow at him wondering what he is thinking.

"I'm only doing this so we don't get separated, so don't get the wrong idea!"

Of course, that was the logical conclusion. Nothing romantic about it. You shrug and continue pushing your way through the crowd until you reach your lockers, which are coincidently beside each other. When you arrive, you wonder how long Karkat would keep holding your hand until he realized what he was doing.

"You can let go now, Karkat."

Karkat... blushed? He snatched his hand away as quickly as possible.

"I-I knew that."

You wondered what exactly just happened as you enter the classroom with Karkat following.