Away

Chapter Five

Still don't own Homestuck
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When Terezi got back inside the Serket residence she quickly rushed into her room much to the confusion of everyone.

She had thrown her backpack on her bed and turned in her phone after trying to find its power on button. It was just like a normal IPhone but bigger and read messages out loud.

"You have nine missed messages." The phone read to Terezi once it came on. She normally didn't have any calls but after last night she wasn't surprised.

"Read messages one at a time." Terezi said. If you just said to read the messages it would start reading the messages all at the same time. It was pretty freaky no matter if it was reading happy messages.

"Message One; Dave Stider <3," the phone began, actually saying heart, "Hey, yo TZ. Are you coming to school today? I didn't see you at the bus stop. Call me back, love ya."

Terezi giggled as the phone did its best to intimidate Dave's voice. She had all her friends speak into the phone so it could try to speak in their voices when a message came from them. It wasn't the best but it still made Terezi feel like they where there with her.

"Message Two; Dave Strider <3. Shit, sorry TZ! Ignore that last message! I didn't know what fucking happened. So not cool, I'm such a shitty Boyfriend. If you need anyone to talk to, I'm always here. Sorry for your loss, I hope the real murderer gets caught."

So Dave didn't think she did it, that's good. So far she had a single person ready to vouch for her. Vriska didn't count because Terezi couldn't tell if she was being serious. In all fairness she never was.

"Message Three; Karkles Vantasic," Terezi had decided to put that name in instead of Karkat Vantas because a lot of people call him Vantasic and she called him Karkles, "Hey, um Terezi. Sorry to hear about Latula. Damn I'm not good at saying stuff like this. When the murder is found I'm going to kick him or her in the bulge, or nook, so hard that they will fall on the floor crying like a baby."

Terezi cackled at his text. Karkat sounded like his usual angry self but with more sadness in it then normal. He truly was sorry so Terezi wasn't going to hate on him for not expressing it.

"Message Four; Sir Talks A Lot." The phone began. Terezi groaned, it was Karkat's older brother Kankri. He was probably going to rant for a good hour or so so Terezi skipped it.

"Message Five; Tavros Nitram. ...Hey, uh, hi Terezi. I heard what happened to, uh, Latula. I'm sorry to hear what happened... Uh, I mean, I'm sorry that happened to your sister. She, uh, never seemed to have any enemies, uh, so to speak."

Tavros' stuttery voice rang from the phone and Terezi grinned. That boy always stuttered even at his most confidant moments.

"Message Six; Unknown," the phone said. And unknown? That's weird, "hey fuckath, why didn't you try to protect my wife goddamn it! Fuck you, fuck you and your family! You thould've protected her!"

Terezi dropped her phone down on her bed. It was Mituna, Latula's soon to be husband. She sat there in shock as Mituna continued to rant until someone else came into the room and started to try and calm Mituna down.

It's not your fault Terezi, you couldn't have done anything. She reminded herself, rocking herself in her bed.

"Message Seven; Sollux Captor. Hey, thorry about that GC! He wath having one of hith mental breakdownth. Altho, I'm thorry to hear about Latula... Thhe wath pretty rad."

"Thanks Sollux." Terezi muttered to herself.

"Message Eight; Kanaya Maryam. Terezi I'm so sorry for what happened to Latula. She was really cool and nice. It's so sad that it had to happen before she got married. I'm not saying it would have been better for her after she got married so just so you know, I'm deeply sorry for what happened. I don't think it is your fault," the message began. Another voice then interrupted Kanaya's own, "Hey! Terezi we all are so sorry. We all loved Latula so much and we'll help figure out who the murderer is with you. Stay strong!"

Porrim probably had interrupted the message. She and Latula were good friends along with Meulin, Aranea and Meenah. Her voice sounded like it was breaking as well during the message so maybe she had started to cry once it was over.

"Message Nine; Deaf Cat Girl. Hi Terezi! Just so you know me and Nepeta are going to tear that murderer limb from limb when he's caught! He. Killed. Our. Friend. So, he's going to die. Bye!"

That was Meulin for you, threatening anyone who hurt a friend. Although Terezi knew it was more then that. Meulin hated anyone who got inbetween her ships and Latula and Mituna were one of her OTP's. Now that Latula wasn't here she couldn't ship Mituna with anyone so it must have pissed her off greatly.

Terezi picked up her phone from where she dropped it on the bed. "Write text for Dave Strider." Terezi said as the phone beeped. "Writing text to Dave Strider." It responded.

"Hey Dave, got both of your messages... You are a shitty boyfriend," she stopped and cackled to herself even if it didn't make her feel any better, "but thank you for your concern. I also might not be attending school for a few days because Vriska's house is now a campsite for reporters and other people. Send message."

Her phone beeped a total of five times to signify the message had been sent. She smiled and placed the phone in one of her pockets of her pants. It was the only place she could remember it.

After a few moments of staring up at the ceiling. Or wall. Or bed. No wait, she knew she wasn't looking at her bed because she was one her back. So she was looking up at the ceiling. Her phone buzzed.

Terezi pulled it out and told it to read the text.

"Message from Dave Strider <3. That's good to hear how ironically shitty of a boyfriend I am. ...Wait, you're not attending school and at Spider Bitches house? One, you are so fucking lucky that you aren't at school. Two, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU AT SPIDER BITCHES HOUSE?!!!!!!"

"Write text to Dave Strider." Terezi said as her phone repeated her sentence.

"Oh, like a accused criminal is lucky? ...Of corse I'm over at her house. The police officers told me I could choose someone to look after me until after the trail. Send message."

The phone beeped and a few milliseconds latter Terezi got a new text from Dave. Damn he could read fast.

"Message from Dave Strider <3. You're not a criminal TZ, fuck those cops. And why didn't you tell them that me and Bro would take you in?! Oh, wait, is it because we can't support more then two people? Damnit Terezi! You could've chosen someone else to take you in! I thought you were in bad terms with her."

"Write text to Dave Strider. Dave, no one has either enough space or enough money to support another person. Even though me and Vriska hate each other to death, her family was the only one who could support another being." Terezi said sighing loudly. She didn't really hate it here because it would be easy to avoid all the Serkets.

Vriska would go to school and she would some times go to her boyfriends soccer matches. Aranea had a job at a cafè and was always tending to Vienna and Vriska's spider Annora. Vienna was a black and brown tarantula and Annora was an albino one from what Terezi heard. And Mindy Serket worked eighteen hours a day at the bank.

"Message from Dave Strider <3. UUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"

Terezi fell on the floor laughing once the message was over.

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I feel like I'm over using cuss-words but when you think about it, Homestuck always over uses cuss-words.
Also, I'm sorry for you Karezi shippers but I ship Terezi with Dave more so Dave's her boyfriend but I won't make it very noticeable all the time.