Mint Black Tea

A new classmate walks in. She is elegant in her way, jet black hair with green painted lips. She looks around, meeting your eyes and giving you a soft smile. Your heart is instantly struck.

She's also an alien from another world, but you consider that detail rather minor at the moment.

Her home world, like all trolls, was Alternia. The planet was currently undergoing a brutal civil war, which you had learned about when it was added to your school curriculum years ago. You were utterly unsurprised to learn that yes, there was other life in the universe, and were confused when people around you acted shocked at the fact. As if humans were ever special. Just a nature of the human condition, you suppose.

They were akin to humans, yet at the same time very different. Their grey skin, yellow eyes, and candycorn colored horns stood out in any crowd. They also all sported the same hair color, unless dyed. They also had a somewhat strange emphasis on their blood color-what they based their societies caste on-and would wear clothes that reflected it. Often, they had their astrological symbol worn right on their shirts.

She-the troll who just walked in-certainly wasn't human. Yet her pointed fangs and jet black hair was attractive to you nonetheless. You don't think being attracted to another species is very weird considering you're both sentient, and humanoid. And in this trolls case, very very pretty. Being female helped, too.

You follow her with your eyes all the way to her seat. She sits in the row in front of you, not quite in front of your seat, but to the left of another troll you know who went by the name Terezi. You're still starting when you feel a finger poke the side of your head. You turn to see your brother look at you with a look you find very knowing. He tilts his shades down, his eyes going to you and then the troll a few times. He then wiggles his eyebrows. You swat his hand away and push his shades back. He just smiles. You look to the front of the room as the professor starts the class.

With psychology over, you get up out of your seat to leave, making your way to the door. As you go into the hallway, a voice behind you says "Yo, Rose. Rose."

You turn, and lo and behold, it's Dave. "What is it, David?" you say, knowing full well he hates his full name.

He takes it in stride. "You were definitely eyeing that troll chick like Terezi at the teriyaki bowl."

"Dave, she can't even see."

"Oh yeah, bad example."

"Are we talking about the blind girl behind her back? Can I join in, too?" Terezi appears next to you both, smiling as she says it. "I'm disappointed in you, coolkid, I thought you were better than this."

"Hey, you do so well without your eyes I forget sometimes. Not my fault you have superhuman scent and taste. Or I guess, supertroll? Nah, that doesn't sound right. Do all trolls just have better scent and taste then we do? Am I missing out?" Dave says, speaking more than necessary per usual. Terezi rolls her eyes behind her glasses-you guess her eye muscles still work-and puts her arm around your shoulders. "So, what's this about eyeing a troll girl?"

"She was looking at the chick in front of us. I think she was sitting next to you, Rezi." Dave tells her. "Never knew you had a xeno thing going, Rose."

"Thank you, David, that will be all." you say, getting all of your irritation across. What else does he do but smirk at you yet again?

"Ohh, Kanaya!" the troll girl with the glasses pipes up. "Well, I can't say you have bad taste, for an eye seer. I think half our friend group is either flushed or pitch for her. And the occasional caliginous here and there. You have some competition, Rosie." She chuckles. "That may or may not include me." At that her smiles shows all of her sharp teeth.

You sigh and take her arm off. You all talk about what to eat, as it is lunchtime after all. You reach the exit when a voice calls for Terezi.

Coming right up to you is Kanaya, walking quickly yet somehow keeping an air of elegance. Her skirt bobs up and down as her face breaks into a smile, fangs softly pressing her bottom lip as she approaches her friend and you're staring again.

Terezi brings the girl into a hug and looks to you and Dave.

"Rose, Daaave. This is Kanaya." She has her arm around the girl as she introduces her.

"Pleased to meet you both." she says. Her voice is soft and high, her words having a certain inflection to them, almost as if every one were the start of a sentence. She shakes Dave's hand first, him tipping his shades to her, which get's a soft chuckle. Then she turns to you.

"You must be Rose," she says, taking your hand in her clawed yet soft one. "I've heard very much about you, and I must admit I have been anticipating our meeting together."

"Is that so?" you say, oddly confident despite how flustered you feel. "And who has been telling you so much about me?"

"Why, another human. I believe his name was John?" she says questioningly.

"Woah, how come you know John?" your brother asks, incredulous. "Has my dorky best bro been hitting up all the troll girls lately?"

She looks slightly confused. "As unfamiliar as I am with the phrase 'hitting up', yes, we have spoken before. Vriska was the one to introduce us." She paused. "I got the impression that humans were rather unintelligent from our first conversation."

You see Dave trying not to laugh while Terezi does anyways. "O-of course, I was certainly wrong. You both are likely very competent, er, sentient beings." She blushes, and it's a jade green. Her sheepish smile is doing things to your blood pressure. "Are you quite alright?"

It takes you a moment to register that she's speaking to you. You clear your throat. "Yes, I'm fine. I'm just...anxious to eat, is all."

"Oh, of course. I feel quite anxious to eat as well. I haven't tried any human food as of yet. Shall we go?"

Dave steps forward and puts a hand on his heart. "Kanaya of Alternia, I, Dave Strider, would be honored to introduce you to the most kickass food our planet has to offer. If I may?" He offers her a hand. She takes it and smiles. "I would be honored, Dave Strider." He smirks and starts leading her outside. Terezi raises her eyebrows and looks at you. You follow him, glaring at him from behind. It seems he senses your cold stare from behind, and turns his head slightly. You see him still smiling. He shrugs.

You can't believe how much you love this troll and hate your brother at this moment.