[ She's not prone to swearing. Really, she's not. But if she was now would be the perfect time to put a Strider to shame.
Everything goes awfully still as Karkat practically crows in victory. She'd whipped around to stare the second it started and now can't tear her gaze away, frozen in growing horror-fear-joy no wait not that last one. There's nothing to be happy about in this, why is she still weirdly happy to see him. She'd dealt with this years ago for a reason. Just bottle it up, shove it away, go back to being calm and it's okay. She's okay. Crisis averted. She can just stand up and go on with her unlife, pretending that this never happened, right?
Except that thought fails miserably and it's too much and there goes one of the shitty fluorescent lights on the roof, damnit she was doing so well-- ]
--Karkat? [ So maybe it's not okay. She'd been so careful to cover her tracks, painfully avoiding all the places she knew her friends would haunt, and now it's all ruined. ] I- What? Knew what?
[ She should leave. She needs to leave. Why isn't she leaving. ]
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Everything goes awfully still as Karkat practically crows in victory. She'd whipped around to stare the second it started and now can't tear her gaze away, frozen in growing horror-fear-joy no wait not that last one. There's nothing to be happy about in this, why is she still weirdly happy to see him. She'd dealt with this years ago for a reason. Just bottle it up, shove it away, go back to being calm and it's okay. She's okay. Crisis averted. She can just stand up and go on with her unlife, pretending that this never happened, right?
Except that thought fails miserably and it's too much and there goes one of the shitty fluorescent lights on the roof, damnit she was doing so well-- ]
--Karkat? [ So maybe it's not okay. She'd been so careful to cover her tracks, painfully avoiding all the places she knew her friends would haunt, and now it's all ruined. ] I- What? Knew what?
[ She should leave. She needs to leave. Why isn't she leaving. ]