'Member? (Kenny and Butters)

1 - Coming Back

-Kenny's POV-

It's been so long since I've been here. It's just nothing ever changed in this town. It just got boring after awhile. I left to get my act together, and I succeeded. I left my family, I felt really bad for leaving Karen especially. But I wanted to make things right for my life after high school so I left. I got a pretty good paying job, got a small apartment and saved up. I'm coming back for a year then I'm gonna go to college. I hope the guys and Karen will understand that I left for a good reason. It's been a long bus ride. I feel like I'm never going to get there. Well it might feel like that because I'm just excited to come back home.

I looked out the window with music blasting in my ears from my headphones. Swing Life Away by Rise Against was the song. It's one of my favorites. I see the old sign "South Park" was written in the same font I remember it as. The thing about South Park, nothing ever changes and when any kind of big thing happens around the world we usually get blamed most. But these knew things are like all over South Park that I never heard of until I was talking to this one guy on the way here. Something about Member Berries and how people are getting addicted to them. They "talk" to people and say how things used to be and get them remembering about old things. I don't think I want to remember old memories but at the same time, most of my favorite memories happened when my parents were drunk, when I was poor, and when I was with my old buddies. But I don't need no Member Berries to make me remember my memories. They're freshly grown in South Park but this happened once before. And I'm not going to let Member Berries take over people anymore.

The bus comes to a halt. I get off the bus with my backpack and suitcase. I take my headphones off my ears and let them rest around my neck. I can still hear the song, blaring through the black headphones. I take a huge deep breath in and smell the South Park air that as never changed. I've changed as a person, some people say I'm not as perverted anymore but that's just because I grew up. I found out that there's more to life then just growing up and being my parents and that I had to do something about it. I mean I don't think any kid wants to grow up exactly like there parents.

I was thinking to myself on where I should go first. Then I thought well Stan and Kyle usually hang out all the time at Stan's so I started heading there. Rolling my suitcase along the sidewalk, with my backpack on both shoulders. I still had the same jacket I had as a kid on, I finally grew into it's oversized value. It's just ripped up and dirty. I'm afraid to wash it because it might just fully rip to shreds. I had my ripped up skinny jeans on as well, it's like I never changed. Hey some people are just like the place they grew up at. I smiled at the thought. Looking in front of me and seeing the houses my old friends lived at. They probably live there now, since most of my friends parents moved out of this place and left it here for their now grown up kids.

I made it to Stan's house and it looks the exact same. I roll up to the front door and smile. Before I knock I hear making out noises. Yep it's South Park. I knock a couple times.

"Oh shit, Stan." I heard someone say behind the door. I hear someone get up and walk over to the door and open it. I see the kid with the brown jacket and blue hat. I smile and his eyes light up.

"Hey dude! Long time no see! How've you been?" Stan said, happily as he pulled me in for a hug.

"I've been great! You know Denver is pretty sweet." I said, as we let go or the hug. I see Kyle run up behind Stan and jump on his back.

"Hey, Kenny!" Kyle said, in his shy voice like I remember. I smile and remember when Stan told me he liked Kyle before I left, maybe he ended up telling him.

"Come in! I'll text everyone to come over." Stan said, inviting me in with his hands. I come in with my stuff and set it down by the coat rack and walk back over to the couch. Stan shuts the door with Kyle still on his back. Kyle crawls up his back more and kisses Stan on the cheek as he's getting out his phone to text the guys. I smile, I'm happy for them. It's so weird seeing them grown up now too, it's been way to long I still feel like we're all still kids in high school.

"Okay, most of them said they were coming. Butters is really happy you came back. I'm pretty sure he missed you the most out of all of us." Stan said, sitting down next to me on the couch. Kyle gets off his back and sits on his lap.

"Yeah, he even got kinda depressed when you left. He never talked to anyone about it though. He just isn't the same old Butters you remember, Kenny. He changed, a lot." Kyle said, in an upsetting voice.

"What do you mean?" I asked, really concerned of one of my best friends. Butters always brought the best out of me, he was just so innocent and I was just such a pervert.

"Well he attempted suicide a couple months after graduation. It was something about his dad. And now his mom won't let him go anywhere without someone. He won't tell anyone, anything. And we think he's getting worse." Stan said, in a sad voice.

"Well, maybe he'll tell me. I hate seeing Butters like that. He was seriously one of my best friends here in South Park. I don't want him to hurt." I said. That was seriously bad. And Butters seems so pure and innocent. I don't see him doing anything like that, it's just weird. A couple seconds later Butters barges in and jumps on me and pulls me into a giant hug, his mom comes rushing behind him and stops one step in front of the opened door. He starts crying.

"Butters don't cry." I said, in a calming voice. He started crying more and doesn't let go of me.

"Okay, I'm going to leave him here for the night. I'll pick him up tomorrow." Butters mom said, shutting the door and walking away.

"I can't believe you're back, Kenny!" Butters yelled, with tears falling down his face, onto my shoulder.

"Yes, it's me Butters." I said, as he pulled away from the hug to look at my face. I wiped the tears off his face with the sleeve of my jacket. Stan must've got up to go in the kitchen and Kyle was sitting on the couch, just watching Butters. Butters slowly got off of my lap.

"Sorry, I was just happy you were here." Butters said, embarrassingly. I smiled and laughed a little.

"You're fine." I said, laughing as I patted the seat next to me. He sat down as Stan came back into the room with Pizza. We just sat around and joked and it was just like old times.

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Thank you guys for reading! I'm not going to make too many Author's notes because I know nobody reads them and just skips to the story so... lol. But hey I love you guys, you're just the best! I love suggestions for stories and things so feel free to comment! Thanks!

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