There and Back Again {On Hold}

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Karkat's POV:

Silence.

That's all I heard. Maybe he's asleep? No that wasn't it...it was only 6:30.

Maybe he just didn't wanna talk now...ill check on him later..

I shuffled into my room, my phone was dead so I put it on charge while I opened my laptop.
As soon as I logged into PC, my laptop started dinging rapidly.

Well someone was trying to get ahold of me.

I looked to see who was blowing me up.
Strider...of course.

~turntechGodhead started pestering carcinoGeneticist~

TG: hey.

TG: karks.

TG: KitKat.

TG: hey.

TG: answer me you cute crabby Kat!

TG: damn you.

TG: fine I won't tell you about my first day of highschool.

TG: karkat!!!

CG: DAMN IT STRIDER! I WAS AT THE PARK! CALM THE FUCK DOWN!

TG: hey! There you are!

CG: YOU ARE SO CLINGY GOD DAMN.

TG: you love me.

CG: I GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT...

TG: haha!

CG: IS THERE A REASON YOU WERE TRYING TO CONTACT ME A MILLION TIMES??

TG: oh yeah! School! So I met this guy.

CG: GUY?

TG: don't worry about him. He's an ass and I would never like him. And he's also straight.

CG: GET ON WITH IT STRIDER.

TG: anyway. His name is sollux. And.

CG: SOLLUX?? SEND A PICTURE!

TG: um...ok?

TurntechGodhead sent an image. click here to view.

CG: HOLY CRAP I KNOW HIM! HE USED TO BE MY ROOMMATE BACK IN THE ORPHANAGE!

TG: wow? Really?

CG: YEAH!

TG: well that's really cool, I'll have to ask him bout you. Anyway, its getting late and bro just told me to get my lazy ass off the computer.

TG: so I have to go.

TG: I love you. <3

CG: LOVE YOU TOO DAVE. <3

~turntechGodhead ceaced pestering carcinoGeneticist~

I pushed my laptop closed once more. I was starting to get hungry so I got up to go warm up pizza.

I knocked on johns door. "Hey I'm gonna heat up some pizza want some?" I asked.

No response.

I signed and walked downstairs, not even bothering to get a response out of him.

I preheated the oven and got the pizza box out of the fridge. As I did, I stared at the five cakes. That was in the fridge.

He has a problem...

I put the pizza in the oven, set the timer and went back into the living room and flopped down on the couch to wait.

I started up the Wii and played Mario Cart til the timer went off. I paused my game and got the pizza out of the oven.

I brought me a plate with two slices back into the living room and continued to play.

I looked at the clock at what felt like an hour later to see that it was almost 10:30.

I should get to bed soon.

I took my left over pizza and threw it away and quickly put three slices on a new plate.

I took it upstairs and sat it by johns door. "I brought you pizza...its by your door whenever you want it..."

I walked back into my room to slip on something to sleep in.

I put on Dave's record shirt. It still smelled like him...I really do miss him.
I slipped on some gray sweatpants and hopped into bed, made sure my alarm was set and tried to fall asleep.

Luckily sleep came fast and I didn't need my music to sooth me.

•~•~•~•~•~•

I shot up, breathing hard and trying to recollect myself.
my hair was a sweaty mess and felt my heart beating a million times a minute. I was shaking really bad and I couldn't seem to calm myself down

I turned on my phone. It was 12:03.

I'd only been asleep for two hours?? I didn't wanna go back to sleep...

I opened up PC to see if dave was online, he always knew how to make me feel better.

turntechgodhead: offline. Active 3 hours ago.

God damn it...he was probably asleep. I didn't wanna bother him...

I got up out of bed and walked out of my room. I saw that john never touched his pizza. But I left it there.

I walked down the hall to the bathroom.
I closed it. I splashed some water over my face with shaking hands.

I breathed in and out and started to calm down.
I stared at my pale skin tattered with freckles, my tired looking brown eyes with slight bags under them, and my ginger tangles that I refuse to cut. Man I'm fucking ugly.
Why does dave love me again?

I had enough staring at my ugly reflection and opened the door to leave.

As I was walking down the hall I stopped at johns room and knocked slightly on the door.
"I know you're probably not awake and most likely won't hear this...but I care about you john. If you want to talk about things I'm always here...I'm not going anywhere
..."

I walked back into my room and flopped back down on my bed.

"I hate nightmares..." I mumbled to myself.

I fell asleep breathing in the scent of the one I love...