School Romance (DaveKat)

A Vantas In Love

Your name is Karkat Vantas and you are in love with Dave Strider. You don't plan on telling him anytime soon. At least, you didn't until you found out about the upcoming school dance on Friday. Today was Monday, so you had plenty of time until then. Or so you thought. You realized that throughout the past week girls asked Dave numerous times to the dance. If you didn't hurry, he might take one of those girls instead of you.

As you walk into the classroom behind Dave, you notice there is a substitute teacher. You hope she isn't mean like all the rest of the faculty here. She is tall and thin and has her blonde hair up in a neat bun.

As Dave sits down in the back, you take the seat left of his. You stare at the teacher not knowing what to think of her. Then you turn to Dave.

"I don't like her."

"Huh?"

"There's just something about her that doesn't seem right."

"She looks ok to me."

Then as the last student enters and the bell rings, the temporary teacher slaps a ruler onto her desk.

"QUIET!"

The class is stunned by her loud voice. All except Karkat, who figured she would be another one of "those" teachers. You look over at Dave and whisper so the substitute didn't here.

"I told you."

She starts writing on the chalkboard. She turns around with an angry, stern face.

"My name is Mrs. Martin. I will be your teacher for the next week."

She has to be kidding. From now until Friday you're stuck with her? How could things get any worse?

"You will be partnered up with another classmate for a science experiment that will be due at the end of the week."

Oh, great. Now you have to worry about some science project, too.

"I will now list off your partners. Gamzee and Tavros, Feferi and Aradia, Sollux and Eridan, Dave and Karkat,..."

Did she just say you and Dave? She did. You and Dave would be partners for a whole school week. You would be working alone, by yourselves, with no disturbances. After class, Dave asked if you could come to his house after school to work on the project. Of course, you agreed.

"Sure, I have nothing better to do."

"Sweet, we can pick a topic then."

The rest of the morning flew by fast and soon it was lunch time. You and Dave sit next to each other across from Dave's sister, Rose and her girlfriend, Kanaya. You notice how close the two girls are and wish that you and Dave could be like them. Sighing, you take a bite of the burger you had gotten from the hot lunch line.

"What's wrong, Karkles?" Dave asked.

You only let Dave call you that, since you were madly in love with him.

"Nothing, just thinking."

"About what?"

Karkat paused for a moment, thinking about how to respond to the question.

"You know, just my usual thoughts."

You could tell Dave wasn't buying it.

"Come on, dude. What is it?"

"I told you! It's nothing!"

"Karkat."

You look up at Dave. You wonder if now was a good time to tell him. You decide it was now or never. You open your mouth, but as soon as you do, the cafeteria starts to empty.

"We should probably go."

"Yeah." Dave says, sadly.

That was a close one. You all head outside for recess. You continue across the playground until you reach a field of grass. Rose and Kanaya sit next to each other on the ground a few yards away from you and Dave. You lay back and stare at the sky. Dave does the same. You wonder what the blonde is thinking about. Then he whispers something to you.

"Karkat."

"What?"

"Can I tell you something?"

"Uh sure, I guess."

Dave pauses for a long while. You couldn't help but stare at him the whole time.

"I... I..."

But before he finished his sentence, you felt a pair of lips pressed against yours. Dave was kissing you. The Dave Strider was kissing you. When he pulled away, your face immediately turned red.

"Heh. Sorry, Karkles."

Both you and Dave looked around to see if anyone had noticed the kiss. It seemed like no one had until you looked in the direction in which Rose and Kanaya were sitting. The two girls sat there looking at both of you, eyebrows raised. You went to say something, but nothing came out. Then Dave spoke up.

"You saw that?"

"Yup." Both girls replied with wide grins on their faces.

"You can't tell anyone about what I just did. Got that?"

The girls nodded and then walked away saying something like giving us some "alone time". It was now just you and Dave. You look at Dave.

"Sorry about that, Karkat. I just..."

"It's fine."

"No, it's not. I kissed you. How are you ok with that?"

"Because I... I kind of like you."

"What?!"

"I'm in love with you, Dave."

You finally said it. You finally told him the truth. For a while he stood there silent, then the bell rang. You both, in awkward silence, went back inside the school. The rest of the day was quite awkward between you two. That is, until you got a note in study hall.

Hey Karkitty

It was pretty obvious who it was from. You look over to the left and see a smiling Dave. You start passing the note back and forth and to your surprise, the teacher doesn't notice.

Hi

Are you still coming over?

Yeah, why wouldn't I?

I was just wondering

Oh, ok

I have a question

What is it?

You know the school dance?

Yeah?

Want to go with me?

Just then, the bell rang and it was the end of the school day.