𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑰 𝑵𝒆𝒆𝒅

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒆-𝑻𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌

Craig was kicked out of his old school. We wasn't like the other kids. He'd always burn extremely easily and feel more attracted to people with puffy veins... his parents knew he was different, and decided to send him to a school with kids who are like him.

Kids who were different.

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One cold winter morning, Craig was walking down the hall, when they bumped into a small boy, with shaggy blonde hair and green eyes

"GAH! W-watch where you're going, f-freak!" the boy said. Craig then realised the boy had a small nametag on his shoulder, reading the name 'tweek'

Craig chuckles lightly, before looking down at tweek.

"Ah, sorry. I didn't see you there." Craig says, before smirking at Tweek's small height

Tweek's face turned a shade of scarlet.

"S-shut up!" he muttered. Craig then noticed Tweek was extremely shaky, he appeared to be having mild tremors, he could barely stand still.

"Your name is, uhh... tweek, is it?" Craig says, staring intently at tweek, yet not enough to scare him. Craig got the impression that the short, scruffy boy was probably as sensitive as an old vase, and Craig didn't want to break any more people than he already has.

"That's... a very perceptive guess..." Tweek muttered, still shaking. He rubbed his hands down his arms, as if he was feeling a chill, though the hallways were very warmed.

"Y-you're... C-craig, right?"

"How'd you know?" craig looked skeptically at tweek, wondering how tweek knew information about him, although he has done little to introduce himself yet.

"I, err... I may or may not have mind reading abilities that I use when I met new people..." tweek muttered nervously, his hands still shaking, and his eyes darting around the hallway.

"S-sorry if I sound creepy, I promise I wasn't trying to spy on you or anything! I-I wasn't even really listening, I swear! J-just a coincidence!"

Tweek sounded like he was screaming at this point, which caused Craig to wince.

"Jeez, tone it down!" Craig said, trying to clear the strangely lewd thoughts from his head after hearing that this boy is a mind reader.

Tweek flinched, looking horrified.

"I-I'm sorry, I just don't really know when to stop..." he muttered, his hands still shaking.

"It's... my nerves, I guess. I wasn't trying to read your mind, I swear! I never even know what thoughts are mine anymore!"

Tweek said in a rush, which made Craig realise something. Tweek was a ball of pure anxiety, and it was probably the whole reason he was shaking.

"Okay, okay calm down..." Craig said, before looking at a clock and only just realising the time.

"Ah... I'm new here... do you have the same first class as me? I don't know where I'm going and it'd be nice to have someone guide me?" craig said, kneeling down to Tweek's height.

Tweek brightened a bit, a little taken aback by the boy's sudden kindness. He had expected a bit more hostility from a 'big, scary guy' like Craig.

Tweek's entire demeanor instantly shifted, he was no longer shaking, though he still seemed like a mess.

"Yeah! W-we have Spanish first! C-come on! Y-you can follow me!"

"Oh, cool. My first language is Spanish" Craig followed tweek closely, looking around the school in awe, as his old one was not as big as this new one.

"Oh wow, really?" Tweek said, surprised. "Spanish is one of my favourite subjects too! We can help each other study!"

"Is there any people I need to look out for in class? Y'know, dangerous people?" Craig said slowly.

Tweek shuddered at the mention of dangerous people.

"It's better to assume there are dangerous people." He explained, "It's usually the quieter ones who are the worst. W-when we get in there, I can tell you more, okay?"

"Okay..."

Craig continued to walk to the classroom along with tweek. Craig tried to avoid small pockets of sunshine as he walked along the tiled hallways, not wanting to burn. Luckily, most of the school was shaded. One thing that wasn't good was Tweek's veins. The veins on Tweek's spindly arm looked full, and very edible to Craig's vampire instincts. Yet, Craig decided to hold back till he knew tweek better.

In a matter of minutes, Tweek and Craig were both standing at the doors to the classroom.

Tweek opened the door and led Craig inside of the Spanish classroom. It was one of the smaller classrooms, filled with about 20 other people. All of the desks were arranged in a circle. Tweek took a seat far from everyone else, and motioned Craig to come and sit next to him.

After Craig sat down, Tweek took a deep breath. "So... you, you wanted to know about dangerous people, right?"

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Words: 729

Date published: 9/1/23