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[alienates]

DAVE
YOU ARE MAKING THIS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN IT NEEDS TO BE.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS COME TO MY ROOM AND EVERYTHING WILL MAKE SENSE.
I DO NOT WANT TO GIVE ANYTHING MORE AWAY OTHER THAN THAT.

[parodeity]

people tell me that a lot
but
fine can we just get this over with super quick

[alienates]

OK SO
SEE YOU IN A BIT THEN?

[parodeity]

yeah whatever
ill be there
but im not going in your room

[alienates]

[ ohhhh my god

karkat isn't even going to bother to correct him until he is. actually here. because why!!! troy and gabriella give him strength. ]

[parodeity]

[ like he'll be here but way on the opposite side of the observatory with his arms crossed and looking very reluctant. ]

[alienates]

[ fml

anyway karkat is gonna walk over and like... hold out his note... it is nicely folded. he only decided to give up on the gossip girl quiz book idea because hsm made him believe in communication and not giving up on your love and all that although it SEEMS TO BE GOING REALLY FUCKING BADLY RIGHT NOW ACTUALLY ]

Okay here it is.

[parodeity]

[ it was two times without i love you!! coming after the whole, you know, dave sharing thing. he doesn't want to break up in person? he'd rather this be done online??? ]

What is it.

[ like he's pretty sure he knows, but also, he is wrong ]

[alienates]

It was what was in the stupid Gossip Girl quiz book.

[ that answers nothing... karkat is just still annoyed dave didn't open the damn book. ]

So just. Read through it, preferably not right in front of me? It might be awkward.

[ he's really not helping with the whole "it's a breakup" confusion here ]

[parodeity]

[ nope, no he isn't. laughs. at all. dave doesn't want to read that? that makes it like real and shit. ]

I...don't have to. It's, we can just leave it. Let's just leave it?

[alienates]

Oh my fuck, no. Read it. It's really, really important to me.

[ ugh he's getting anxious. ]

It's not what you think it is so... please?

[parodeity]

If it's not...that, why can't I read it here?

[ welcome to the club dave was already there in the vip section. he does at least finally uncross his arms and hold out one hand. ]

[alienates]

[ because even though it's not a breakup karkat has no idea how dave will react to all of these Feelings dumped on him so he like. did not want to be around in case dave reacted super badly to it. ]

Ummm. You can, if you want.

[ he hands him the note. ]

[parodeity]

[ ok great dave has the note now he just has to like.

open it.

shit he really wants to grab rose and make her read it to him but that is probably not a thing he can do.

also oh my god karkat it's a huge ass note so this will take a while and of course dave's expression will be the studied neutral it usually is when he's censoring himself. ]

[alienates]

[ THIS IS WHY KARKAT DID NOT WANT TO BE HERE FOR THIS OH MY GOD

he will just like..... stand here.... wondering if he can like, go and hide underneath his bed or something.... ]

[parodeity]

[ WRITE SHORTER NOTES, THEN, KARKAT.

ok shit dave should...have something to say. right. mostly he pretty much wants to reiterate that karkat doesn't have a reason to apologize since he still thinks his feelings were Pretty Bullshit despite rose insisting they weren't, but. the note says not to say that? even though he thinks it. also he needs to work on his brain to mouth filter by just. not saying the immediate thing.

shit what the fuck does he say. ]

Did you mean to say I always look like a model, or did you just do that on accident like with your lip obsession?

[ i guess that works whatever ]

[alienates]

I was insulting your ill-fitting pajamas and you goddamn know it.

[ yeah he

isn't sure what to say either since he was not expecting to be like. around for this part. fuck. ]

[parodeity]

They're magically perfectly tailored to me.

[ so therefore, they cannot be ill-fitting, obviously ]

[alienates]

Wow. I'd ask for a refund in that case.

[ .............so ]

[parodeity]

The point is, they're not ill-fitting by nature, you just don't want to cop to that shit.

[ he rolls his eyes. ]

I don't think you think being happy means we don't fight and everything is always perfect. I think your definition probably means we fight less than we have been and I mostly think y'all think happy should involve being happier than I usually have been recently. I...

[ he starts folding up the note, matching the creases perfectly. ]

...Won't argue about the shit you said not to, I guess, so. Yeah. Thanks?

[alienates]

Oh, Uh, no problem.

[ he kinda just kicks at the ground, embarrassed. ]

Also I thought I made it pretty clear that I have no intention of breaking up with you? So. Next time don't leap to that conclusion even if I'm angrily seething over the fact that you wouldn't open the fucking quiz book.

[parodeity]

Oh. Uh, sure.

[ he has no idea what to do with this note. is he supposed to keep it? he kept john's birthday note years ago though it wasn't on him when he got here. but this is different.

after a moment's deliberation he drops it into his sylladex to worry about Later, whenever later comes. ]

I'll...go back to decorating then?

[alienates]

Right. Yeah you should go and do that since that was a. Thing. You were doing.

[ karkat's brain right now is basically just a siren noise as he tries to figure out all the ways he managed to fuck this up since

he definitely fucked this up?? yes ]

I'll just go back to my room. I guess.

[parodeity]

If you aren't doing anything, you can help by putting up like, decorations in other locations. Dirk gets all judgey if I do the loop thing, so. Rose is supposedly helping me but I'm not sure if she's actually helping or just flirting with Kanaya.

[ and he is not asking because rose can do what she likes tbh as long as she seems content. ]

But ok. See you later.

[alienates]

Wait no I'll help!

[ he says it a little too quickly which makes this all the more embarrassing? but he is still pretty sure he did something very badly here( other than making dave think he was getting dumped), so. helping decorate might help make things a little better. maybe. ]