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“S-so Karkat-“
“You stuttered, do it again!”
“So Karkat, I’ve been meaning to talk to you about something. I’ve..um...I’ve....fuck!”
“You’re really bad at this Strider” Vriska teased him, it’s the afternoon and she and Dave had been practicing this for little over an hour, they only left Vriskas room to eat,
she met up with Terezi while eating and told her what was happening. Shockingly (not really, those dumbasses were head over foot pads for eathother) Terezi had revealed that Karkat was also planing on confessing tonight! She and Terezi planed it out for a couple minutes about what they were going to do and how to get them in the same place when Dave called her over. Karkat gave her death glares, but she wasn’t paying attention and happily went back to the room to practice with Dave again.
“I know I suck at this but you don’t have to rub it in! It’s weird being so open about this, especially to you. No offense of course, I just never really thought I’d be sharing any of this aloud, much less to anyone other then Karkat.”
“Well you’d better get your ass prepared cause we’re going to leave in twenty minutes to go find him and have you confess.”
“Wha? Dude, I’m not confessing this soon! I barely have anything prepared, it’s gonna suck if I’m not ready and-Shit!” Dave tripped over a random bean bag chair as he rambled and went stumbling over onto the floor.
“Pick your self up Strider! Look, let’s practice a little bit more, you should be ready though. Speak from the heart and all that bullshit.” Dave stared up at her, his glasses askew and his body tangled with the bean bag, but he looked confident. He had a certain drive in his eyes and he seemed to radiate some kind of seriousness, which was rare for Dave.
“Alright, let’s practice a bit more though, I don’t want to fuck this up.” He pulled himself up off the floor and leaned back up against the door, they were going to have to make these twenty minutes last.
“I can do this, I can do this, I can do this! I-I can’t do thisssss, Terezi. Do I have to confess today?” Karkat is right by the door, it’s ten pm on the dot and Terezi has been convincing Karkat to head out and talk to Dave for the past twenty minutes.
“Yes Karkles! You need to do this, just get it out of the way and confess! I’m sure he likes you. Now that my pandering towards your anxiety has been done let’s get this show on the road!”
“Alright, I have my speech prepared and I have you too. You’ll back me up, right?” Gog, Karkat was one of her best friends, but he was really annoying sometimes! Of course she’d support him, just from a distance so she didn’t scare Dave off.
“Yes Karkat, I will support you. No let’s go so you can confess!”
“Yeah! Let’s go, I think I’m ready” Karkat pushed the door open and strode out as confidently as possible and called for terezi to follow him.
It’s 10:05 pm and Karkat and Dave are in the same room. Vriska and Terezi are standing off to the side so that they don’t scare off one of the boys, it’s time to get this shit show on the road.
“Hey Karkat” Dave nods to him, he’s totally prepared for this and is totally not shitting his pants at the thought of Karkat rejecting him. His heart is also totally not pounding out of his chest at the possibility of Karkat liking him back.
“Hi Dave, there’s something I want to talk to you about” shit, shit, shit, shit! Oh god, had he heard that Dave liked him? Was he here to let him down easy? Thoughts swam in Dave’s mind but he tried to push them down when he responded.
“Oh, same here dude, you want to go first?” Hopefully Dave wouldn’t have to go first.
“Um, no you can go first if you want.” Fuck. Why was this happening? Okay, he can do this, he can do this.
“Oh, alright. Well uh, I kinda wanted to talk to you about something important”
“Go ahead, I’m listening.”
“Well, I wanted to tell you that I, um, I have feeling for you. I know it’s weird but you’re really nice and I like you a lot. D-do you want me to put this is quadrant terms? That might make this easier, I guess in your terms I want a matesprite relationship with you. N-not in a weird way though! I just-“ Karkat cut off his word vomit by laughing, he was laughing so hard that he clutched his sides. Dave’s face was flushed pink and he felt so stupid, he had word vomited so much that it ruined what he had wanted to say, this is why he wanted to practice more! Karkat tried to pull himself together and spoke to him.
“I’m sorry Dave, it’s just, I was worried about this! I even practiced what I was going to say and everything! You just fucking said it though, nice job on your directness” well this was confusing, what the hell was Karkat talking about? He just poured his confidence into this in hopes that Karkat would give him a clear answer, so his brain was a little fried when he spoke.
“W-what do you mean? What were you worried about?”
“I like you too Dave. I was going to tell you, but you did first. Though On the topics of quadrants, you don’t need to try to put this into one, I believe the human term you’re looking for is ‘boyfriends’ right?”
Holy shit, was this real life? Did he need to pinch himself, was this some weird ass dream bubble that had a Karkat that liked him back? No it couldn’t be, he could hear Vriska squealing from behind him, she would’ve at least dropped to the floor or something if they had suddenly hit a bubble.
“Y-you do? Oh thank god, I was so worried about this man, you have no idea” Karkat snickered a bit again, his face was red and he was smiling, which was a sight to behold on a boy who was so angry all the time.
“I figured. So, do you agree to be your human boyfriends things?”
“Oh hell yeah man!” Dave went and hugged Karkat, he stiffened at Dave’s touch but warmed up quickly and hugged him back. It would’ve been the perfect moment if Vriska didn’t ruin it.
“You two are so cute! Go ahead and touch lips or something, I think I’ll dip out now, you don’t look like you’ll need me any longer Dave.” Dave really hated that girl, and he was going to yell something at her when another voice called out.
“Yeah I think I’ll head out too. Do you want to grab something from the lunch room Vriska?” Was that Terezi? this was fucking wild.
“Sure, you two have fun! Don’t get into any trouble!”
God, he hated those girls, but right now he was too busy with the sweet boy hugging him and spitting insults at the two girls to care.