"The Jock and The Nerd always get together." DIRKJAKE HIGHSCHOOL AU

A Spider Saviour

Both Jake and the elder Strider turned their heads in shock.

"You mean Marquise's kid?" Dave spoke, wondering if that's why he'd heard the name Aranea before. "I swear that's her mom's name. She was in some legendary pirate movie."

Dirk rolled his eyes, looking at Jake, who simply shrugged. "Whatcha lookin' at me for, chap?"

"I really don't know."

"Should we still go through with the whole poster-picture crap?" Dave asked, looking at either boy in front of him who nodded furiously. Of course, they were.

~~

Roxy made her way up to the Vantas household, knocking on the door lightly. It was soon opened astonishingly quick, shocking her slightly. Kankri tugged her in, mumbling apologies for the triggering behaviour and sights. Before stood an angry Cronus and a scared little Aranea, who dangled by the hands on her shoulders.

"HEY, EX-WIZARD BOY! PUT DOWN ARANEA AND CALM YOUR NUTS BEFORE I SNAP YOUR WIZARD WAND!" Roxy screeched, having known Cronus through his awkward stages.

Ampora looked down at her, dropping the blue spider girl in an instance. He gave her a death stare that told Roxy, "The fuck, shut up!" That was easy. Aranea thanked Roxy for saving her backside before bolting out of the front door. (and grabbing her shoes that were neatly placed by the door)

"Thank y9u, R9xy! I d9n't kn9w h9w t9 thank y9u the way y9u deserve t9 be thanked, th9ugh! Hashtag appreciative, hashtag sh9cked." Kankri grinned, embracing the blonde for a moment before taking a seat and pulling his boyfriend down with him.

Roxy stood in the doorway, smiling brightly like always. "You could thank me by not using hashtags when talking in real life, I guess??" She giggled, fiddling with a strand or so of her hair.

"Sure thing, R9xy." Kankri smiled civilly, snuggling up with his calm boyfriend, who had a small thankful grin on his face. She took this as a sign to leave the couple alone, saying a goodbye and exiting.

Aranea stood right there as she stepped out of the house, scaring Lalonde out of her wits, which she soon collected. "What the fur- fuck Aranea?! You scared me!" Roxy complained, to which Aranea responded with an eye roll. "What even happened? How did you get into a fight with him in the first place? Did you seriously not think that he is waaaaay more stronger than you will ever be?"

Serket looked around awkwardly, trying to dodge the question before opening her chatty gob, "Well... I may have tried to get Kankri to ask Cronus to throw party of the year, since you know Cronus doesn't like me," She spoke as they walked down the sidewalk together, "and I guess it wasn't getting through to Kankri that I need this party to happen so I can use it to my likings to ruin Jake, but, um, anyway, I thought that maybe if I kissed Kan, his feelings for me would 8e rekindled and he'd do whatever I said, understand?"

"I kinda understand what you were trying to do, but kissing him with Cronus there was really inappropriate." Roxy shrugged her shoulders, waiting to ask another question.

"No, no, Cronus said he'd leave for an hour 8ut he never did!!!!!!!!" Serket exclaimed, throwing a stroppy attitude in with the sentence.

"Ok, ok, look, what could you possibly do at a party to ruin Jake if he doesn't turn up? He probably won't, but if he does, what's going to happen?" Roxy questioned, looking at Aranea with a curious and serious look in her eyes.

"Oh you'll see, Lalonde, it'll completely kill him. His ego. It will completely kill his ego." Aranea said, "I promise I don't want to murder him, he just needs putting in his place with a little 8ANTER, I guess you could call it."