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“Fuck.”
Second day of school and he had missed his first class. He managed to make it to the second half of his Bee-keeping class, but the prof was so put off she nearly made Sollux leave anyways.
“If you're not going to take it seriously, I don't want you here.” Is what she said when she pulled him to the front at the end of class.
“I do want to be here, I swear! I just... Got myself in a bad situation and...”
“I don't want to hear it! Be here on time tomorrow.”
“Yes ma'am.”
Sollux left the room in the huff, ashamed of himself for letting himself be so late. After the awkward interaction that morning, Sollux had found his brother passed out with Latula and pulled him up, into some clothes and out the door. Mituna was sent home in one cab and Sollux scrambled home and then to school in another. Barely managing to gather all his books.
While walking towards the food court, he caught sight of Karkat and tried to find somewhere to hide before-
“Hey asshole!”
Goddamn it.
The other boy was shorter, but he was pretty good at looking like he was going to chew off your flesh. He looked like he hadn't had much sleep and his glare was weak but effective as he stormed up to Sollux.
“What the fuck are you doing? Second day of school? Seriously? I didn't peg you as the skipping type.”
Sollux let out a heavy sigh and tightened the scarf around his neck.
“Look... I got... Well... I slept in, okay? Its not a big deal. I don't skip. Never. I slept in.”
Karkat wrinkled his nose.
“Oh really? Because you stink like booze.”
Sollux blanched and too quickly smelt his sleeve and then his breath.
“Fuck, you're kidding, right?”
“No way man you reek like a hooker.”
Suddenly Karkat was pulling at Sollux's safety scarf, despite his protests.
“And you look like one too. What the fuck happened last night? Get drunk and laid? A+ for effort you stupid shit.”
Sollux yanked his scarf back and hissed.
“Why the fuck is it any of your business? I went to a party okay, I went to protect my brother and that hipster from yesterday got me drunk and-”
He broke off. One look of the grin that was overtaking the shock on Karkat's face and Sollux knew he had said too much.
“Fuck- just- forget I said that. Nothing happened.”
“What happened?”
“Nothing!”
“Bullshit.”
“Okay he might of made out with me a bit but no more than that he started it okay it wasn't me shut up.” Sollux felt like a gossiping teenage girl and he hated it.
“You made out with a kid you don't even know! A guy you don't even know!”
“If you say one more word I will rip out your tongue and shove it up your ass.”
A flash of purple caught the corner of his eye, and he glanced away from the shorter boy.
It was Eridan, taking a seat at a nearby table with a book. He wore a thick purple scarf which was tightly wrapped around his neck and as he sat down, he turned his head.
Sollux looked back to Karkat. It had only been an instant. He couldn't have noticed.
Karkat's attention followed where Sollux's gaze had been only seconds before and landed on the very same hipster-glasses equipped boy.
There was a heavy moment where Sollux swallowed down his nerves. He wouldn't say anything, would he? What if he approached Ampora? He'd punch the runt in the throat thats what.
“What was it like?”
“Huh?” Sollux's mouth was dry.
“Making out with a guy, what was it like?”
The question caught him off guard and he pulled back, adjusting himself. It was... amazing. Eridan was cold and warm at the same time. Though, maybe it had been the alcohol, or maybe Eridan was just great at kissing but... It was... different.
He hid the color that rose to his face.
“I don't fuckin know I was drunk.”
“Yeah well next time, don't get drunk and then answer my question.”
Next time?
He glanced at the boy with the purple streaked hair once more.
He wasn't sure he could handle a next time.