The Creature He Is

CHAPTER 16

Songs:

THROUGH FIRE - All Animal

Starset - CARNIVORE

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Monday comes and Craig finds himself wanting to get to school fast as he can in order to see Kenny. Feeling much better today, after resting a whole day almost and his legs no longer tired. He arrives early, maybe too early, and figures he won't see him till class so he heads to his locker, where he's met with a pleasant surprise. The orange clad figure of Kenny waiting by it.

"You're here early," Craig says with a smile, when reaching his locker.

"Yeah, but I had a feeling I should be," Kenny says.

"And why's that?" Craig asks.

"Just a feeling," Kenny replies and looks at him.

Craig snorts to himself as he gathers his textbooks for his morning classes, then shuts his locker and heads off with Kenny where the two exchange some small talk before the day starts.

The day passes by pretty smoothly, aside from Craig having to push down the occasional memory from last night, every time Kenny touched him somewhere. Other than that, it's a pretty tame day and he now currently found himself with Kenny and his group of friends hanging out at a local fast food place.

"It's been a while since we've been here, huh?" Token says.

"Y-yeah," Jimmy replies.

It had indeed been a while since Craig and his friends had last been here. The last time being when he thought he saw Kenny outside the window and when he didn't really know anything about him, other than his eyes. Now though, he sat next to him in a booth, knowing and having experienced many things with him.

"What should we get?" Token asks.

"I-I'm good for anything," Jimmy replies.

"Same," Craig says.

"As long as we don't get anything sharp! I don't want to choke!" Tweek exclaims.

"Oh that might be hard with 'Mister Taco lover' over here," Token says and gestures to Clyde.

There's a pause as everyone looks at him, before he catches on.

"What?" he asks.

"You're not going to say anything?" Token asks.

"About what?" Clyde asks.

A concerned look crosses Token's face.

"You okay man?" Token asks.

"I'm fine, why wouldn't I be?" Clyde tells him before getting up, "We going to get food or not? Cause I'm hungry. I'll meet you guys at the cash while you decide," and he walks away.

"Clyde's been acting strange lately," Tweek says.

"Yeah," Token agrees.

"Strange how?" Craig asks, despite having a suspicion as to why.

"I don't know, just... he doesn't seem the same as he was before," Token replies.

"Yeah, i-it's al-almost like something i-is bo-bothering him," Jimmy adds.

"Mhmmm," Tweek nods.

"You don't have any ideas do you?" Token asks Craig.

"No... none that I can think of," Craig replies.

"Hmmm," Token hums before getting up as well, "well, hopefully it's nothing. For now, let's get something to eat," and he heads off, Tweek and Jimmy following soon after.