"Do I Know You?" [K2]

Chapter 12 | I Guess It's A Three Person Date Thing..?

Kenny's POV

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I was curious as to why Stan wanted to meet me after school. Probably something unimportant or stupid, so I just went with it. Either way, kept it out of my mind for most of the day, thinking about what kind of stupid bullshit Cartman was going to pull at the dance. True, he did still have the tape recorder, but that was either confiscated, destroyed, or hidden by now. Plus, it didn't really contain a lot of information necessary for his 'findings' or whatever.

I doodled on my paper, waiting for the final bell to ring so I could leave this hellhole- I mean school... yeah... that's totally what I said. 

Glancing around the room, I noticed Kyle reading, something I observed to be one of his favorite pastimes during class when we weren't learning anything important, such as... well... a lot of things that we learned. It was a book I knew we read in one of the higher grader, knowing Kevin (somehow) read it last year, I think. 

Everything's been weird these past few weeks, mostly between the four of us. Six, if you count Cartman and I as our hero (or villain) personas, which makes everything even more complicated than it already was. Just even trying to process some of the memories from the past few weeks gave me a headache, having two different people to control the memories of making it even harder. One thing that does help is remembering that Mysterion is fucking awesome while I'm trash and quiet, having the occasional outburst and fair share of me being a little bit too cocky in the classroom. 

"Dude, you okay? You seem stressed about something," Kyle asked, looking up from his book. I was expecting him to fold the page he was on, but he claimed it "ruined the book" or something. I did it in front of him once with one of the school's book and he went all off about it, almost hitting my on the head with his own copy of it.

"No, I'm good, just trying to think about what Stan was going to talk to me about after school," I quickly replied, at least a somewhat good excuse coming into mind. True, I wasn't lying about that, but in a way, I kinda was. Oh well, what happens in my mind stays in my mind

"Well you don't have to think about that now, he's coming right over," Kyle whispered, focusing back on his book as I watched Stan walk over from chatting with Clyde, which was pretty unusual for the two. They never talked unless it was for a group project/they are forced to, so it was unusual to see the two interact without a force making them.

No, I was not jealous, and I do not have any attraction towards Stan. The only thing I was with him is friendship and nothing more. Hey, being pansexual doesn't mean I have to be attracted to every damn person, so don't just assume that about me. Lost in thought, I heard someone clear their throat right in front of me, snapping me out of my trance.

"Hmm..?" I hummed, focusing on Stan, who held a paper behind his back. I groaned internally, thinking this was some stupid trick or joke thing. Glancing at he paper then back to his face, he started laughing nervously, quickly looking at some of the others nearby. Kyle was looking at Stan also, a confused look on his face. 

Stan took a deep breath as he handed me the paper, Kyle trying to look over and read what it said without being noticed. Of course, he wasn't as subtle as the thought he was, a playful smirk appearing on my face as I shoved his chair away, making him almost fall over. Stan and I laughed as Kyle regained his balance and turned back to his book, his face red from embarrassment. 

Anyways, aside from that, I turned back to Stan, who directed me towards the paper. I somehow forgot about that and quickly scanned it, realizing it was the official flyer for the dance. I briefly looked at Stan, the room fading as he talked about how, "I really want to go to the dance with you, but I understand if you don't, especially if you think this will ruin our friendship somehow. It's... it's just that... I've been having feelings towards you, and I thought this would be the best way to tell you and stuff-"

I stopped him as I talked to him about this, explaining my personal feelings towards him. Basically, I told him that I was a little confused myself, saying I didn't really know how to feel about this whole situation. It's like my mind froze and I was just spitting out random words that told a lie I was probably going to regret later. He understood, a little upset, but kept pushing me until I agreed.

"I'll go with you, but you have to take Kyle along also," I started, Kyle looking up from his book from me mentioning his name. I guessed he tuned us out, considering he had no clue what the hell was going on. I filled him in, his reaction being how he was only going to be a third wheel. I continued with what I was saying before, "And we can't make Kyle feel like a third wheel or anything like that, got it?"

"So it's kinda like a polyamorous date, right?" Stan asked, looking between the two of us. A smile came on his face as I nodded yes, Kyle still a little confused about the whole situation. He asked how it would work (Stan did a little while after that), and I explained to a certain extent on what it was and how we could do it.

"It's basically up to us on how we want to do it, so we could just go as a group of friends, not including Cartman, and just hang out," I finished, adding one more thing at the end, "unless you guys want to be all romantic and stuff." I winked as we all laughed, me obviously joking.

Well... to a certain extent.

As the final bell rang, we continued talking as we walked out of the class, not waiting for Cartman, who was getting scolded at from the time he got back from lunch to the end of the school day about what he did, also getting his missed work (which he probably wouldn't do either way).

But I still felt as something was off... just slightly.

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