Love is Blind- Chapter 3 Karezi

"KK! You ready to go?" Sollux's voice called out from the living room.

Karkat was currently still in his boxers after a nice warm shower staring into his closet, no idea what to wear. Sollux had said it was a pretty relaxed party and he could wear whatever, but honestly, that didn't help Karkat at all. "No. I'm still trying to pick out a fucking outfit!"

Sollux opened the door and Karkat turned to look at him. "Come on, KK. Fef will kill me if we aren't the first ones there." He grabbed a few things and shoved them at Karkat. "Pick from that." Sollux then turned and headed out of the room.

Karkat sighed and looked down at it. For random grabbing, Sollux had pretty good taste. Karkat sighed and slipped on a pair of black jeans that were ripped at the knees, a faded British flag shirt, one of his many black studded belts, and his Converse. He slipped on a gray jacket and ran his hand through his hair one last time before heading into the living room.

He walked up behind Sollux who was texting Feferi and smacked him on the back of the head. "Come on. I'm ready now."

Sollux rolled his eyes and shoved his phone in his pocket and opened the door. "After you, Princess."

Karkat took a kick at Sollux and growled. Sollux simply laughed as they left the apartment.




If you opened up a dictionary and looked up the word "wall flower" a picture of Terezi at this party would be there. Normally, Terezi wouldn't hesitate to go out and socialize, but this wasn't exactly the case. She didn't even know the girl throwing this party. Nepeta just invited her along. It would have been a much less awkward situation if it had been a party Gamzee or Vriska was throwing. At least she would know more people.

As she leaned against the wall, a Pepsi in her hand, Terezi could feel the vibrations and pulse of the lou upbeat techno and dub step music. Nepeta had said there were lights flashing and a fog machine too, but that really had no meaning to Terezi.

Since Terezi didn't know this girl or know what she was like, she had brought a messenger bag with a few cans of Pespi and a few granola bars. Last time she came to an unknown party Dave got high and tried to sleep with her. Terezi left almost immediately afterwards and has since then started bringing her own stuff she kept to herself.

Terezi had her bangs pulled to the side by some bobby pins and a little teal ribbon clip in her hair. She had a teal string tank top and a black cover jacket over it; a red skirt and some black leggings, accompanied by her red Converse. Nepeta picked it out for her and said she looked "suprr cute", so Terezi took her word for it.

Apparently, Nepeta had seen some guy she had a crush on and took off to go talk with him, leaving Terezi by herself. She was fine with it, because she didn't want to have to force Nepeta to stay with her all night.

After a while, Terezi pushed herself off the wall and headed outside. She had brought Lemonsnout along, mainly for security reasons, and he was sitting outside. She walked down the steps and knelt down next to him. "Having fun boy?" Lemonsnout had been given a bone by Nepeta, so he was happily gnawing away at it.

"I should be asking you that question, Pyrope? What are you doing out here?"

Terezi turned as Vriska walked out from behind the side of the building. "Don't tell me your little boyfriend is here and he made you mad?"

Terezi rolled her eyes. "No, Vriska. I haven't seen Dave. And you know very well we broke up months ago."

Vriska sighed and leaned against the wall, looking down at Terezi, who was now simply petting Lemonsnout's head. "Hey, Tez. I know that Dave hurt you, but that's no reason for you to mope around and not get on with your life."

Terezi turned to her. "What do you mean, Vriska?"

Vriska sighed. "Nepeta told me that when you and her talked this morning you said you were never going to have another boyfriend in fear of getting hurt. Don't let Dave be the end of your life. Get out there and find a new guy. Or forgive and forget and get back with him. Tavros forgave me for what happened in the car accident. Now, he loves me. Maybe you need to do the same thing. Give Dave a second chance."

"Just so I have the chance to be hurt again by him? No thanks. And besides Vriska, you also got hurt in the car accident. You lost your eye." Terezi sighed.

Vriska shrugged. "Tavros was paralyzed. You were blinded. Aradia was in a coma for a long time. And Kanaya was actually pronounced dead, but somehow miraculously came back. I know. But that has nothing to do with it." Vriska stood up and held her hand out. "Come on. Let's go back in."

Terezi sighed and nodded and took Vriska's hand and stood back up, heading back inside the party with her old friend.




"And so, my vet class helped this dog have puppies. And they were so cute! And there was a yellow one, and a brown one, and two spotted ones, and a black one. The mom was a mixed and we don't know who the dad was. Oh! And she let us hold the puppies. And then we were allowed to give some kittens some shots. And this little black kitten with blue eyes was blind. And his name was Lucky because he escaped a dog attack. And one of the vets took him home because she has a lot of cats already. Also, our vet class is going to a zoo next week, so my friend Dave is watching my dog, Bec, and-"

"Jade! For the love of all that is holy! Shut the fuck up!" Karkat growled, putting his hands on his head and groaned.

Jade pouted and started giggling. Somehow, Jade and Feferi knew each other and she winded up at the party too. Karkat had been almost immediately cornered and annoyed by Jade. She giggled and hugged his arm. Karkat sighed. "This is going to be a long night."

A small, perky girl walked up to the two of them and smiled. "Hey, Karkitty!"

Karkat looked over at her. "Oh. Hey, Nepeta. Mind getting Jade off me?"

"But Karkat! I thought we were having fun!" Jade pouted and hugged his arm tighter.

"Jade Harley, let me the fuck go!" Karkat snapped.

Jade pouted and turned around and stormed off into the large crowd of dancing college students.

Karkat sighed and turned to Nepeta. She was kind of like Jade on the aspect of crazy fan-girl, but at least she knew about personal space and wasn't quite the level of crazy Jade was. "So, Nepeta. What the fuck did you want anyways?"

"I want you to meet someone. She's a friend of mine and she's really nice. And she's not at all like Jade. She's been feeling down lately and I thought maybe you and I could cheer her up!" Nepeta grinned and purred a little, a blush lighting her cheeks.

Karkat rolled his eyes and sighed. "Fine. Let's go cheer up your fucking friend."

Nepeta giggled and grabbed his hand, dragging him through the large group of people and over to were Terezi had been. "Hey! Terezi!"

Terezi turned and looked over at Nepeta. Vriska was beside her, leaning against the wall, a red solo cup pressed to her lips. "Hey, Nepeta. Where did you run off to?"

Nepeta giggled and pushed Karkat up in front of Terezi. "Terezi, this is Karkat. Karkat, this is Terezi."

Terezi couldn't help but blush when Karkat was basically pushed on top of her by Nepeta. "H-Hi." Her voice cracked a little, but it was mainly from the nervousness.

Karkat rubbed the back of his head and looked the other direction, taking a step away from Terezi. "Hey."

Vriska gave laugh and smiled. "Hey, Karkat. I thought Sollux said you'd be at home with your face glued to the TV watching romance movies. Why the sudden change?"

Karkat rolled his eyes. "Well, Vriska, apparently Sollux didn't tell you that I was fucking dragged here against my will. If I didn't come to this party and Feferi got upset, then Sollux would never let me live that shit down."

Vriska rolled her eyes. "Whatever."

Nepeta quickly drew Karkat's attention back over to her and Terezi. "So, Karkat. How is your acting thing going?"

Terezi was a bit shocked by Nepeta's comment and turned to Karkat. "You are working to become an actor? That's pretty impressive."

Karkat smirked. "Yeah, and when I'm famous, all you fan girls can swoon over me and watch me on the big screen for hours, eating your heart's content in ice cream wondering why you can't have me."

Nepeta giggled, a dreamy look on her face. "Yeah.~"

Terezi rolled her eyes. "Sorry to bust your bubble, Karkles. But I'm afraid I won't be able to swoon and eat ice cream over you."

Karkat raised an eyebrow. "Why, you think you're too good for me?"

Terezi scoffed. "You wish. I'm blind."

Karkat immediately regretted saying what he had. "Oh, gosh. I- I'm sorry. I guess I didn't realize... I mean, I thought your glasses were part of the party or whatever."

Terezi shook her head. "No, I need them. Apparently the doctor said the lenses do something to my eyes that even though I can't see, it prevents them from getting aggravated or hurt. Something like that."

Vriska suddenly chimed in again. "To bad they couldn't help you see your boyfriend cheating on you."

Terezi growled and squeezed the can in her hand, making it crumble. "Shut the fuck up, Vriska."

"Do you even know who Dave was cheating on you with? I'm sure if you knew you would die."

"Vriska, I said shut up!" Terezi snapped. Some heads turned to them and Nepeta grabbed Terezi's arm to calm her down.

Vriska laughed and leaned forward, whispering in her ear. "Dave was cheating on you… with me."

Vriska was suddenly pinned to the floor and Nepeta was knocked back. Karkat's eyes went wide and he pulled Terezi off of Vriska. Terezi flailed her arms, trying to get away, glaring at Vriska and gritting through her teeth. " I thought we were friends, Vriska! How could you do that?"

Vriska grinned and stood up. "Because, Princess. Dave was wasted on you. A cool kid like him? He shouldn't have been dating a blind girl. Let alone you. I mean, have you ever seen yourself? Your eyes are blood red, you are pale as hell. People would think you were a demon or a vampire if they didn't know what happened. And poor Dave was stuck pitying you. If you want the honest truth, he came to me."

"Vriska, that's enough!"

Terezi felt her heart hit the floor. She turned around as Dave walked over to them, his signature shades on and Jade wrapped around his arm. John was a little behind him, waving goofily at Karkat. Karkat rolled his eyes. So this was John's douche roommate.

Dave walked over and past Karkat to look at Terezi. "Tez, I'm sorry. We had a great year and a half relationship. But you wouldn't give me what I wanted, so I went to Vriska. She gave me what I wanted, but you wouldn't. In truth, I'm glad Nepeta saw. It was that much easier to end it."

Tears streamed down Terezi's face. It was true. It was confirmed by Dave himself. Terezi looked to the ground before clenching her teeth. She kicked up and Dave fell to his knees, a harsh kick where it hurt. "Go fuck yourself, Dave Strider." She pushed past the crowd of watching standby's and out the door.

She ran down the stairs and quickly untied Lemonsnout from the pole. "Come on, boy. Let's go home." The dog got to his feet and Terezi ran down the sidewalk, her loyal companion at her side.

Karkat was still up in the party, looking down at the curled up figure of Dave Strider who was now surrounded by people, including John, Vriska, and Jade. He quickly told Sollux he had to go and ran after Terezi.




Terezi never came in this part of town. She didn't live near here and this was past the other side of the college. She had her hands shoved in her jacket pockets and Lemonsnout was sniffing from the end of his leash, trying to find the path they had used to get to the party. Terezi shivered. It was getting late out and she just wanted to go home.

Lemonsnout stopped and pulled her down a road, and Terezi followed, not giving much of a fight. They went down the road for a little while until she heard footsteps following her. She sped up her pace and the footsteps followed suit. She tugged at Lemonsnout's leash twice, which was the signal for him to attack. She counted to three and dropped his leash and ran.

Lemonsnout turned and attacked the followers as Terezi quickly started running. She got down a about a mile before a high pitched whimper filled the air and she froze. "Lemonsnout!"

A hand covered her mouth and she screamed. Her hands were pulled behind her back and she was pushed into a wall, a deep laugh filling her ear. Her heart raced and she was shaking. The air was musky and the person holding her down obviously hadn't bathed in days. The scent was choking her.

"Hey there, little girl. Want to have some fun?" the voice rasped in her ear.

Terezi pulled away from his grip and kicked him like she had Dave, the attacker falling to his knees in pain. "Use the pipe. Teach that little shit a lesson," the man wheezed out.

Terezi backed up into the wall, her entire figure shaking. She slowly slid down and closed her eyes, felling a group of people surround her. The pipe was raised and she tensed up, preparing herself.

Nothing could be heard from her perspective while her eyes were shut closed. The only sound that was heard was the sound of the oppressor's rusted-up pipe hitting something hard but it didn't hit her. She didn't feel an ounce of pain anywhere on her body. She opened her eyes but it didn't matter since she was blind. She couldn't see what was hit. Although she couldn't see, the five men surely saw what was covering her. It was a dark, male-like figure that didn't seem too tall but wasn't short, either. The figure got up and turned around to spot the five men. His face was finally revealed but they still had no idea who he was.

It was Karkat.

His fist were clenched and his face was stern and serious for the moment, his eyes were fueled with a burning rage and he felt as though he was about to snap and let out his anger on them soon enough. Karkat finally straightened and opened his mouth to speak to the five. "What the fuck do you think you're doing to her!?" Karkat screamed out at them.

Terezi's eyes began to widen as she heard the voice scream at them. She recognized it and knew exactly who he was. "Don't you assholes have lives to get to!?" Karkat was yelling louder than he had ever thought he could.

It was beginning to freak out most of the five men but, one of them eventually manned up and stepped forward. "We have way bigger lives than a punk like you who is trying to act like a hero." All of them snickered at his comment.

Karkat snarled and tried to hold back his temptation to beat the out of them. "Well, apparently not if you're trying to harass a blind girl!" The five of them froze a bit and didn't speak. "And don't give me that bullshit that you didn't know she was blind. Can't you dumbasses see that she is clearly wearing glasses that don't seem to fit with what she is wearing? Or can your puny mind not comprehend basic shit like that?" He was insulting them with full form and was hoping it would make them run off but, he was dead wrong.

They were starting to get angrier with him and was walking toward him slowly as they began to speak. "You better watch you're saying, kid, before we are forced to have to teach you a lesson in respecting your elders." They all laughed in surprising unison.

Karkat scoffed and raised his arms up, swinging his fingers back in forth as to make them come closer. "Come and try me, ass hats."

They all grinned wickedly and ran towards him. One of them charged at Karkat with his rusty pipe and aimed it at his head, swinging it down. It was a predictable move that he had seen in many movies and was able to dodge to the side, soon throwing a punch to the guy's stomach and hitting him with a rather hard blow, knocking him to the ground. Karkat rubbed at his fist afterward. He wasn't used to fighting and wasn't all too strong, anyway.

As he was thinking to himself, one guy snuck up from behind him and hit him on his back with a baseball bat they had. Karkat winced and held on to his scream from the pain of the impact, the hit almost causing him to fall on his knee but he quickly regained his balance. He growled and turned around, punching to guy with the bat in the face. The guy fell to the floor and the bat landed in front of Karkat.

He picked up the bat and decided to use it for the time being, for another person had been walking toward him as he picked it up. This time, the guy was bare handed and aimed a punch to Karkat. He dodged the punch but didn't expect the guy to aim another fist to his stomach, his fist impacting there and causing him to arch his back forward, coughing out a bit of blood. He fell on his knees and continued coughing for a bit before the same guy who hit him punched him again on the top of his head. He sprinkled out more blood from his mouth as more of it sprayed down from his forehead.

He was panting a bit heavily as he tried to get up from his kneeling position. One other guy hit him on the back with a hard kick and he fell to the floor, groaning and in serious pain. The remaining people were laughing at him as he lay. He tried getting up again and the men decided to give him a fighting chance and try it. He got on his feet again and that surprised the men.

Karkat was breathing heavily and his legs were shaking but he couldn't just stop. He picked up the bat again and surprise attacked one of the guys quickly, landing a heavy blow with his bat to the guys face. He turned around to face the other guy and this time, the guy was scared. He didn't want to bother with Karkat so, he ran off like a coward. Karkat snorted a bit but realized something. That was the fourth guy. There were five in total. Where was the other one?

As he was thinking, Karkat soon felt a sharp pain arrive to his back. His eyes widened and he couldn't do anything but yell in pain. The last guy was right behind him, stabbing him in the back with a razor sharp pocket knife he had. Karkat gritted his teeth and tried to hold back anymore screams, soon using the back of the bat to hit the guy in the stomach. The man released the handle of the knife and that gave Karkat the chance to turn around and quickly smack him with the bat. The last man fell to the floor and didn't move. The hit knocked him out like most of the guys here.

Karkat dropped the bat and was breathing heavily, wincing from the sting of the blade piercing his back. He reached for his back and grabbed at the handle of the blade, counting from 1 to 3 in his mind before pulling out quickly and without thinking. He yelled out again but stopped it, throwing the blade to the side. He turned around to face Terezi.

She was shaking a lot and didn't know what just happened. All she could hear were screams and noises of people hitting something. Karkat looked at her, panting heavily. "A-Are you...okay, Terezi..?"

Terezi heard his question and looked in his direction before nodding slowly to him, not able to say anything to him.

Karkat smiled. "Good..." After he said those words, he fell back and laid there on the ground, unconscious now.

It seemed Karkat falling unconscious made her snap back into reality. She quickly pulled her phone out of her pocket and called 911, sitting next to her hero and gently running her hand through his hair.