salted wounds

18

"alright everyone we will go out there and try our hardest and have some fun okay! focus on doing your best that's all that matters!" stan yelled as the group huddled around him

it was time to play their first match of the winter season it was important for them to start with a winning game a good big bang to set the mood for the rest of the season

"everyone on court to your positions!" the referee yelled as southparks team went on court and the other colorado team on the other side

"play ball!"

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"butters!" stan yelled as he looked back to see the ball heading towards an empty space about to hit the ground by butters came flying in saving it making the ball bounce back up as craig quickly ran to serve to over to kyle who slammed it on the other side giving them a point

"yeah!" kenny yelled as he jumped up to high five kyle mid air as they cheered while the last whistle blew ending the game in victory

"alright we did it!" butters exclaimed as he was jumped by kyle and kenny rubbing his head "that was fun" micheal said as he looked over at pete who nodded with a smile

"all thanks to your hard work captain we pulled through" craig stated as he gave stan a fist bump

"i knew you guys could do it!" wendy cheered as pc coach started tearing up in victory

"now to celebrate" craig yelled as everyone cheered again running over to the net to bid good game to the team and farewells as they went back to their locker room to shower and change

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they loaded back up on the bus exhausted but excited, the game had taken a few hours since they remained to view other matches for future reference

everyone sat back down in their regular seats, almsot all. kenny went to sit with butters, the two goths were together and clyde was alone slumped so tolkien sat with kyle to chat for a bit as craig and stan made their way to the back again

"that was an expierence don't you think" tolkien sighed in relief as it was already over he could relax for a bit now

"it was fun" kyle replied with a smile as he took out his phone for both of them to play games

"is something wrong between you and craig and stan? you guys haven't spoke much so i'm curious" tolkien asked a bit quietly as he waited for kyle to respond "i don't know honestly it's a bit weird right now i guess i'm just being immature"

"why do you say that?"

"i didn't take stan seriously and ended up hurting my bestfriend. i was wrong for judging him and not believing in him"

"so why don't you just man up and apologize? i mean it's stan we're talking about it's not like he's going to hate your guts for all eternity"

"i guess your right"

"stan can i come over to your place when we arrive back in town?" craig lightly said to stan as they felt the bus take off

"yeah" the bus was quiet, calm and relaxing. everyone was exhausted and tired from the hard practicing they were previously doing the past few days. they were all proud of eachother regardless and amazed they really pulled off the game

"why don't you just text him" kenny lightly nudged kyle's arm "i don't know what to say"

"i'm here to guide you" kyle whips out his phone as he opens up his chat with stan

kyle: hey

"someone texted you" craig mumbled as he cracked his eyes open a bit, he was slumped on stan's shoulder trying to nap as stan had his arm over him massaging his arm