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Days felt like months and every day seemed to be boring most normally now. Eridan hasn't visited or contacted Sollux in 4 months, Aradia and Sollux are still together which surprises him but the girl tells updates about what's going on with Sol as he's not in school anymore. Or with him.
School just now starting their Christmas break. Aradia invites Eridan and Feferi to come over to Sollux's house for plans, "Do we really have to go? I mean it's going to be really awkward betwe-" "Yes we do eridan and you haven't seen or talked to him in a while." Her voice seemed to be a little snappy once she interrupted Eridan. Once getting up to Sollux's door step, feferi knocks then immediately Sollux opens the door.  With a tired face but trying to smile as now his brother is here with a couple of his own friends, "You guys can come in now, we're just settling in on things." Feferi walks in and goes next to him, giving him a side hug and goes to find aradia but also talk to other people. "So..Y-you actually came, huh? It felt like a year." the stuttering surprises Eridan as he closely listened to hear if the boy's lisp came back or not, walking into the house and Sollux closing the door behind him. "It's pretty crowded..i suppose. Um but yeah it does feel like a year." Both of the boys stayed silent and the girls watched this happen.

"God, they're so awkward now! What really happened to them, really did something bad to their relationship." Aradia leans on the kitchen counter drinking water with Feferi as she listens to her, "I thought this would work out..now this is just depressing to watch honestly." both sighed and feferi puts her head on aradia's shoulder. Then a call from Sollux's brother comes from the living room calling for everyone to gather around. Everyone who is in the house scattered goes in the living and gathering up for the meeting, " So how exactly should be plan this for this year? How about what we did 2 years ago?" "Oh no no, We're not doing that plus that was a disgrace after it." Sollux rolls his eyes and writes down everyone's thoughts, "How about more board games? Or maybe entertainment?" a few people agrees about the board games a couple agree and disagree on the entertainment. Eridan listens to everyone as he sits on the couch between feferi and sollux, "So eridan, have any thoughts? or ideas yet?" the short boy nudges the taller boy who was looking down at the coffee table as he focused. "Well.." looking up from the table and noticing people are looking and waiting for eridan's response to this. "Maybe the board games seem reasonable like if some don't want to stand or anything in general then they can play with other people." Sollux seems to be not that much impressed but realized that his left hand is a bit shaky which is a little bit close to the boy's thigh.
It seemed like hours until the meeting ended around 10pm, a few people started to get up from the couch while a few already left before the meeting even ended. Sollux, Aradia, and feferi already left the couch and were in the kitchen, talking, "So you're telling me he was uncomfortable? And you sure he was?" the short boy who got done doing the dishes, turn to the girls. "I literally felt him and his left hand was shaky plus he just stared at the coffee table.." Feferi looks back to check on the tall boy who is still staring at the table. Then back to her friends, "Excuse me Sol, Do you mind spending the time with Eridan?" Nodding without a response and goes towards the boy, the girls watch him but soon they turn back to the kitchen and talk more.

I mean i guess it's not bad talking to him again.
Right?
Sollux finds Eridan already laying on the couch with his eyes closed, "Uh Eridan? You okay?" Kneeling down to him and shaking me lightly not to startle the tired boy. The tired boy felt this and curled up not wanting to be bothered at this moment, "Hey dude, if you want to tell me-" getting interrupted by the boy's mumbling, finally responding to him. "I'm spending the night over here." This made him surprised by words and what he just said then peeks his head to look at feferi and Aradia, they seem to not be there. "I'll tell feferi that you're staying over okay?" No response after that but a little snore coming from the tired boy.
That's the answer I wanted.
Once everything is settled and done with, the people who attended the meeting already left a while ago and the rest is just Mituna, Eridan and Sollux, all in the living room while they had a conversation. "You sure you can handle this while I'm gone for groceries? I mean what if something in his mind just flick off?" Sollux is sitting next to Eridan, having the sleepy boy's head in his lap and rubbing his back. "I can handle this plus we haven't talked in ages so I think we need time to figure things out." Mituna nods his head and listen carefully to him, knowing he can trust Sollux, "alright then, I'll leave you guys alone. Cya bro." His brother gets up from the chair and goes to grab his keys and wallet then leaves. Once he heard the car leave the parking lot, Sollux looks over his shoulder hearing the vehicle move then looking back down to Eridan still having his eyes close. "What am I going to do with you?" Having a conversation to himself and stopped rubbing his back after a while. Eridan begins to move around a little and rubs his tired eyes, "Feferi.." he yawns and got up slowly, sollux watched him and not saying a thing. "You felt ni-...SOL!"  Turning to look at him surprised and looking around for anybody else, "you fell asleep on the couch." "And you did nothing? But watched me fucking sleep?" Eridan has an attitude now. "Sorry about that..I didn't want to wake you up." The sorry boy looked away from him, eridan is confused now, "Hey! Why are you looking away from me?" He grabs onto sollux's shoulder and turns him around to find his eyes in full tears. "Whoa whoa why the fuck are you crying for?" "What's wrong with us!? We used to be something but after that fucking time you..you-Ugh! Fuck me damnit!!" Sollux already has charged up psionics and used it against eridan's hand to move off of his shoulder so he can leave the living room and go up to his room. "What do you mean Sol!?" Getting up quick after what happened and ran after him, no response "SOLLUX! GET BACK HE-" hearing the noise of his bedroom door closing loudly once the exhausted boy reached the top of the stairs.  
Did I really mess this up?

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