Creek (Craig X Tweek) || You're My Savior and Song

Chapter 8- Are We Friends?

Chapter 8

Tweek's P.O.V

The school went by fast and before I realized it the people around me were beginning to get up and leave. Another thing came to my mind in that moment. Winter break was coming up in two weeks! This meant that I would have time off from the gossipers around here.
That also meant I would have to spend more time with parents... unless I went to some more classes more often...
"Hey Tweekers!" A girl greeted as I walked to the grassy area where my bike was locked to a fence.
"H-hello." I greeted back and I recognized her immediately. This was that Annabella girl who was staring at me at lunch time.
"Listen, this might come as odd but... I would really like if we could go to the dance together." She said and my heart sank with stress.
"I-I'm sorry... I c-can't go." I apologized. It was true, the idea of dances were too scary for me and were all too loud. I learned that from the dances in middle school that I had to attend.
"Oh..." She sighed sadly, "That's too bad. Well, I just want to say that I really like you and if we could be more than friends..." She suggested and I knew this wasn't a question. She batted her eyes at me and parted her lips. This was an obvious sign of flirting.
"Tweek?" A voice from behind me said and I turned around to see Craig.
"Hi." I answered and I was hoping that he caught my pleading glance for help.
"Could you leave us alone please?" Annabella snapped rudely and I stared at her in shock.
"No, I won't." Craig growled and flipped the girl off. The two were staring at each other like enemies.
"Ugh! Anyways my little Tweekers~ do you want to be more than friends or not?" She insisted and my head began to stir with things to say but not reject her in a mean way.
"He can't be in a relationship with a person like you." Craig said as he walked towards her.
What is he talking about?
"Oh yeah? Who can?" She retorted. Craig stopped talking and could just stare at her.
"Can't you see from his expression? He doesn't want to be in a relationship with someone he just met. Especially someone who is obviously giving the worst first impression by snapping at somebody." He explained and I saw her eyes begin to tear up. Oh no...
Annabella ran away with tears in her eyes and I was standing alone with Craig. He put his hands in his pockets and began to walk away. Did that just happen right before my eyes?
"C-Craig wait!" I called and he turned around to look at me, "Th-thanks."

***
"He can't be in a relationship with a person like you."
Those words kept ringing in my head. Whatever he meant by that I didn't know... but I really wanted to know.
"Tweek." My mother said from the doorway and I turned around, "Classes are about to start, we don't want to be late."
Right! I almost forgot about my classes.

Craig's P.O.V

Today I felt like taking a long walk around downtown to think about the recent events.
This place was like walking down memory lane. The ice cream shop was replaced with a small restaurant that smelled like seafood; and the park was replaced with a large statue and an open field.
I wasn't able to take a walk around here when the construction took everything away. My parents still don't let me come here because of how unsupervised I was. I could just tell them that there was a hold up in class again.
Everything was so different around here I didn't know where to go to find some peace. There were a few benches but they were already occupied by other families and couples. It wasn't very surprising that most people were out today. Today is one of those odd days where it's warm in the winter time.
After searching for a while I finally came across a quieter part of the area and began walking around the block. This place seemed like a very run down and old part of downtown that hadn't been taken down yet.
I let out a long sigh of relief now that my thoughts and I could be alone...
"And nothing seems the way it was before," Somebody sang and it took me aback at it's beautiful sound. Something about it was so melodic that I wanted to chase after it and see who was singing.
Two buildings down was a vocal teaching class that was in a rather small building with its door and windows wide open. I peered inside the window to the building and saw two people in a room. One person was sitting in a chair in front of a piano while another was had their back facing towards me.
The person at the piano was instructing the other on something and the other began to sing again.
From what I could hear it was a boy singing and his voice was like no other.
"Okay, we've fixed that problem... but I would like to do a few touch-ups on the whole notes before moving on." The pianist instructed and it was another boy.
The singer nodded and began to sing again. I wanted to see his face but it was covered by a shadow.
"Please excuse me." The pianist said and he got up and left the room. The singer paced back and forth and I caught a glimpse of his face in the bright sunlight that spilled across the room from the the large glass window that lined the wall.

Tweek's P.O.V

Someone or something was looking at me from somewhere outside one of the windows that looked into this room. It's a sense that I have when danger is near. Sometimes it wasn't even danger that I was sensing.
Everything seemed to change when I met Craig a while ago... why? The only thing that would satisfy this confusion ringing in my head would be to become friends with him. This was exactly the same feeling I had for... Deon.
I knew where the eyes were lurking now and I grabbed a rod from the edge of the room as the unfamiliar presence became stronger. I swung the rod around and pointed it right at my stalker.
"Woah there!" The boy with black hair and a blue hat said in surprise and I lowered the rod at the realization that I knew him.
"C-Craig? Yo-you're stalking m-me?" I questioned and he shook his head in denial.
"No way man! I just heard someone singing and came over here to see who it was..." He admitted.
I looked around the room and heard my teacher coming back, "Wait o-out there... d-don't come o-out." I ordered and he got down from the window and went elsewhere.
"Tweek what are you doing?" My teacher asked suspiciously as he looked at the rod in my hand and I could feel my heat up.
"Uh... oh Jesus... I-I'm ju-just paranoid a-again." I stammered and he shrugged and sat back down in front of the piano.

***
I waved goodbye to my teacher and went around to the side of the building to see if Craig was still there.
Nobody.
I let out a sad sigh. I thought Craig would stay and wait but I guess not.
Rain drops began to fall and I bit my finger nails because I knew that the rain would probably get worse and I would be in trouble if I came home soaked.
Suddenly, the rain stopped and when I looked up the sky was replaced by the bottom part of an umbrella. Wait- an umbrella? I felt a warmth from behind me and turned around only to find myself extremely close to Craig.
He towered over my small figure and was so close to me it felt as if we were brushing against each other when we actually weren't. My entire face felt as if it were on fire and he had obviously seen it because he tilted his head in confusion.
I took a few quick steps back and tried to hide my face with my sleeves.
"Is something wrong?" He asked and the idea that he was so close to me and how my body became so still and my heart raced rapidly in my chest for no reason made my face burn more.
"N-no!" I lied.
"Are you blushing?" He asked and I knew I was in a pickle now.
"No..." I said and he just shrugged.
"Do you want to walk back home with me?" He continued to question and I nodded.
What just happened?
We were silent for a while as we stood under the dark blue umbrella and that left me alone with my own thoughts. I started off thinking about something but that something turned into something more extreme and everything went downhill from there. I guess the confusion really was getting to my head nowadays.
"Sorry about all that's happened today." Craig apologized and the silence was broken.
"Y-you don't need to ap-apologize..." I said weakly and he smiled in amusement.
"I'm sorry for not taking better care of you in nurses, I'm sorry for my other friends being jerks, I'm sorry for making that girl cry, I'm sorry for spying on you, and I'm sorry for everything that's happened lately." He continued and I wasn't too sure what to say.
"Most of it isn't your fault, b-but I fo-forgive you." I said and he nodded in approval.
"So..." He began, "Singing..."
"Oh r-right, singing." I laughed nervously, "It's th-the on-only other thing I do."
"You have a nice voice." Craig said, "I mean, no homo or anything but you get what I mean."
"Th-thanks." I thanked him.
Another long silence came but not in my head. A new question lingered there and it wouldn't stop coming up.
All I wanted to do was ask Craig if we could be friends... but how do you ask someone that? Usually when I make friends I let it take course but this time I wanted to make sure that this was going to be a real one.
Soon we were standing outside of my house and I knew that this was going to be my only chance before Monday.
"Hey-" We both said at the same time and we both blushed slightly. "Sorry." We apologized in sync again.
"You go first." Craig said in his monotone voice.
"This may s-sound strange..." I began and suddenly felt extremely shy, "Are we f-friends?"
There, it was out of my system finally.
"Of course we are." He answered and I felt a part of my confusion slip away.
"O-okay... I was j-just wondering." I said shyly. "Wh-what were you going t-to say?"
"Nevermind." He replied and he averted my eyes nervously.
"Sure, w-well, bye!" I said and waved to him as I ran up to my doorsteps and went inside to go watch some T.V to calm myself down. That's when I realized that when I was Craig... coffee never even crossed my mind.