[This is an AU btw: trolls and humans and all the little chess people all live on earth with regular jobs n whatnot :D]

Your name is Karkat Vantas.

There he was, standing right in front of you, with a box of chocolates and some dumb rap playlist he made for you. He looks nervous for once in his life, finally dropping that cool-kid facade and allowing himself to be a little bit vulnerable. He wanted to do this a bit later, but he couldn’t help it.

Dave has always been your friend, pretty much. You hated him on first, but slowly and surely, he grew on you like a non-life threatening tumor.

And you grew on him more than he wanted you to.

So much to the point of asking you out in the most corny way he could imagine.

“So, yeah, I wanna be your boyfriend,” He admits, pushing his shades up to hide his eyes.