Now | Kenny McCormick x Reader

Chapter Twenty-two

Kenny left early the next morning before my parents could see him. 

He was already at the bus stop when I got there. He stood beside Kyle and Stan, while Cartman was nowhere to be found. 

I walked right next to Kenny, who put his arm around me. 

"Where is he?" I ask, breaking the silence. 

"I don't know." Kyle shrugs. I couldn't tell if they cared about the situation or if they were finally glad to be rid of Cartman. 

It was silent again. "Don't you want to try and fix this? Craig doesn't even have any idea what happened?" 

Kyle looks at me. "Yeah, so?" 

I look back at him, trying to see if he really didn't remember or not. "Sooooo Clyde paid Craig to help him! Who knows what kind of drama this could cause? I don't really want to be arguing with Craig, or Tweek or even Butters for that matter." I said, crossing my arms. 

"Don't worry y/n." Kenny said, joining the conversation. "This isn't the first time something like this has happened. Cartman has done a lot worse." He looked at Stan and Kyle, who were nodding in agreement. 

"Yeah y/n, we'll figure it out." Stan adds.

"Alright." I sigh. 

* 

As I waited alone for one of my classes, Butters approached me. "Hey y/n! You look a little down, everything alright?" 

I smiled at his cheery attitude. "Hey Butters. Yeah, I'm okay." I said, considering if I should ask him if he had heard anything yet. 

"Well okay, you can always talk to me y'know." He smiled. 

"Thanks." I said. "Have you seen Craig around?" 

He shook his head as our teacher entered the classroom, allowing for us to go inside after her. 

"AGH! I don't want anyone to fight!" I heard from behind me. I went to investigate, letting Butters know I would see him later. I went around the corner to where I know the words came from. 

"Y/n." Craig said, holding an anxious Tweek's hand. 

Tweek's eyes were twitching as he couldn't keep himself still. "Is it true? Everyone really fought?" He asked. 

I sympathized with him. He was always so panicky, and I couldn't imagine how all his friends fighting would make him feel. 

"Yes, but don't worry." I said, then turning to Craig. "Helping Clyde was low." 

"At least I got my money back from the fourth grade." He said. 

"What?" 

"Nothing." His expression stayed blank. "Look y/n, it's over. I had no clue Clyde would make that account and Kenny already beat the shit out of him anyway." 

"WHAAAT!" Tweek yelled, pulling on his hair. "Is he okay?" 

Craig sighed, glaring at me. "Yes honey, he's okay. Just banged up is all." 

"Kenny did that because he's my boyfriend and he wanted to protect me." I said before they could leave. "If someone was calling Tweek a slut, you'd want to protect him too." 

Craig became confused for a second, then turned back to his normal stoic state. "Yeah. You're right y/n. I didn't know you were dating or that he was calling you that. I'm sorry." 

I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or not, but I decided to accept it anyway. I knew that Craig's gang and The Boys were frenemies, but I didn't know if something like this had ever happened before. 

I went to class, hoping this would get solved soon. 

* 

After the lesson, I walked outside to see Kenny and Craig across the hall, talking. I smiled a bit, hoping he would feel better. Out of everyone in the group, I knew that Kenny got along the most with everyone else. He cared for pretty much everyone at this school. 

I decided to approach them. 

"...but he's being overly jealous, I have no idea why." I heard Craig say. 

Kenny quickly kissed me. "Hi babe." He said. 

I returned his greeting. "What's going on you guys?" 

Before Kenny could answer, Craig said he had to go to class and left. Kenny then explained to me. 

"Craig just said he didn't know anything about what Clyde was doing, he just wanted $100. He said he was sorry." 

I hugged him. "I'm happy to hear that." I then remembered that Cartman still wasn't here, so I asked Kenny about it. 

"He'll probably be here for lunch, we'll see what he decides to do." He said. "I'm okay with not talking to him for a while." 

He was quiet for a second. "Y/n, let's say the two of us go on a date tomorrow night. We can relax and have a good time, just us." 

I blushed a bit. "Of course we can." I had class with Kyle next period, and I would talk to him about what Craig said. I knew things would really be fixed. 

As for Cartman, no one really cared. He had done horrible, much worse things in the past. I was certain that he would show up and no one would reaction in any way. 

That's exactly what he did, he came during lunch just like Kenny said. He sat down with us, but this time everyone was ignoring him. For all the bad things he had done, they just completely acted like he didn't exist. He was pretty mad about this, and left in the middle of lunch. 

I wasn't paying attention, I was excited for my date.