Unravel (Creek)

Chapter 2

Butters was the first to see Tweek coming.
          "Hello, Tweek!" Butters said cheerful as usual.
          "Hey," Tweek said trying to suppress his anxiety. 
             Everyone turned around to greet Tweek, Craig stared but didn't say anything. Tweek wasn't surprised either, it was pretty much like Craig to give anyone a dead stare.  Tweek's heart started beating and for a second, as he slowed down his pace, he thought that maybe his heart would stop. He was so happy to see that Craig was there. Then he remembered something, this isn't real, we aren't real, this relationship is fake, Tweek thought to himself.  Suddenly he felt sad and wish the feeling would just go away.
             Tweek grabbed both straps of his backpack as he walked past everyone and stood by Craig who was staring down at him.
             "Hi Craig," Tweek said trying to sound in control as he stared up at Craig, who was staring back at him. His blue eyes still bright but his face wore a frown.
           "You are drinking coffee again?" Craig said in his monotone voice.  Before Tweek could respond the bus turned the corner.  When the doors opened Craig grabbed Tweek's hand and pulled him onto the bus.
           Butterflies erupted inside of him, taking note on how soft and warm Craig's hand was.  People greeted Craig and the other as they made their way to the back of the bus. Craig stopped when he noticed two new kids a girl and a boy sitting in his usual seat.
             Craig looked annoyed. The boy and girl look around at the other faces on the bus as if they were are already warned not to sit there.
             "Move," Craig said short and they scrambled out of the seat.
            "Did you see how fast they moved?" Eric teased.  "They probably pissed their pants. Check the seat Craig."
             "Shut up Cartman," Kyle said irritably.
             "Did you see their faces?" Eric said laughing louder.
             "Babe, please stop," Heidi asked.
              Eric took a deep breath as if he was trying to control his anger before responding with, "Ok baby, sure."
             Craig moved aside to let Tweek take the window seat. Clyde and token took the seat next to them behind Kenny, Stan and Kyle.
              "Craig, so we heard you are extremely rich now," Stan said looking back.
              Craig turned and stared at his big mouth friend Clyde. Clyde was busy texting someone and didn't know what was going on.
              "Want to invest in our business?"
               "Sure," Craig stated. "When you can pay me back my $100 doubled."
                "You're such a dick, Craig," Stan replied turning away.
                "How does it feel to be rich now?" Eric asked.
                 "I don't get anything 'till I graduate from college so I don't know," Craig said uninterested in the topic.  He then turned to Tweek who's been looking out the window the whole time.
                Tweek can feel him staring but couldn't find the courage to look at him.
               "You need to stop drinking coffee it makes you edgy."
              "I know, Craig," Tweek blurted.
               "Babe relax, I'm not upset, " Craig replied taking his hand and squeezing it softly.

Tweek turned to look out the window where he hide a small smiled from Craig.  It was these little unnecessary things that Craig did like taking his hand, calling him babe and honey, calming him down, making him feel safe that made it impossible for Tweek to not fall for him. Craig continued to hold his hand the entire way to school and all the way to homeroom.
                          ~

After homeroom and receiving their schedule, Tweek was bummed to see that they only had 2 classes together one of them was gym. When Craig noticed how down Tweek was he reminded him that they had the last two classes together which meant they can leave together. Tweek nodded, pretending to be cool with it when deep down he was mess. To Tweek it meant there was more classes that he would not see him in.
            Butter on the other hand was in all of his classes, Tweek was happy for that.
          "See you at lunch," Craig told Tweek after walking him to the end of the hall.
           "Yeah, see you Craig!" Tweek manage to say as Craig walked away.
              Feeling down and as he tried to gather his thoughts, Tweek received a text message and pulled out his phone to see who sent it. The message was among many news notifications from cnn about the president and his radical texting. Tweek remembered when he used to worry when the president antagonized the leader of North Korea.  He remember how Craig helped him work through his feelings. Tweek erased all notifications and then open the message that was from Craig.  It read, "Relax and remember to drink water."
Tweek smiled and then walked to music.

At music, all the girls from their old middle school did while the teacher was trying to introducing new materials, was talk about how cute the guys gotten over the summer. However, the focus of their attention was mainly on Craig, Stan, Kyle and Kenny. Kenny who decided to exchange is usual jacket for a hoodless blazer after both his mom and Dad started making their own beer with some investment from Token's parents.
              Tweek tensed whenever Craig's name was brought back up, he can agree with the girls when they said how even more attractive he became over the summer. Then Red told the girls to talk lower, that Tweek might hear them. A girl named Annie told Red, "So what? They are not really together and if they are Craig's bisexual," Annie said, loudly as if she wanted Tweek to hear.
             "How do you know?" Nichole asked.
             "Remember when Jessie said she was visiting Family in Oregon?"
             "Yes," they said in unison.
              "Guess where Craig was all summer?"
             They gasped.
              "And Esther said she overheard Clyde telling Token and Jimmy that they hooked up over the summer and even had sex many times! So he not gay-fully!"
               Tweek's whole body went numb, his fingers that were resting on the keys of the keyboard sunk down and the keyboard let out a horrendous sound that startled everyone and got the attention of their music teacher.
              "Tweek! Hands off the keys!" The music teacher yelled.
                Tweek lifted his fingers off the keys, but couldn't avoid feeling like he was drowning in his own pain.  Is it true? he thought, placing his hands on his lap. His left hand squeezing his right so hard it was turning red.
               Tweek heard the girls whispering and giggling but he didn't have the guts to turn back and look at them. He suddenly felt like he couldn't breath and could feel his body twitching, he search his bag for his fidget spinner, the one Craig got him years ago and when he found it kept flicking it 'till the bell rang. When it did he darted out of the room nearly knocking students down.