The Beast Within

Chapter 3

Craig woke up a couple hours later from his phone notifications going off. He groaned lightly, lazily reaching over to grab his phone from the nightstand on his side of the bed. He opened it up to see the message he got from Token.

Don't worry about it, dude. Tweek deserves to know and I know it's been eating you a lot lately. Take it easy and let me know how it goes.

In some ways, Craig would have bit surprised at his response. Token and Craig spent nearly their whole life hiding this secret, Token being all too serious about it. He was strict, never going in public whenever there's something odd happening. He constantly went out at night and begged Craig to do the same, but Craig hates going out at night. All he wants to do is sleep in bed with Tweek. Since Tweek reached that level of friendship with him and his gang, Token must have thought he'd deserve to know too.

Craig gave Token his response just as Tweek sat up in bed. Craig set his phone down and rolled over to face Tweek. The messy haired blond stretched and yawned before turning to look at Craig.

"Good morning, darling." Craig smiled, leaning forward and wrapping an arm around Tweek's waist.

"Morning, Craig. Did you get sleep?" Tweek asked, leaning down to kiss his forehead before prying his arms off his waist and getting out of the bed to put clothes on. Craig groaned tiredly.

"Yeah I did." He huffed, sitting up in the bed and watched Tweek get dressed.

"You look like you haven't gotten any. You sure?" Tweek yawned again. Once he was done dressing, he stood in front of the body mirror that was nailed to the wall of their closet door.

"Yeah, babe, I'm good." Craig responded as he got out of the bed himself to get dressed. "Token got back to me. I finally don't have to come in tonight. I can spend it with you."

Tweek smiled, running his hand through his messy locks to figure out what he should do with them. "I definitely can't wait. You have any ideas on what we should do?"

"Well, I have plenty. But since it won't happen till later, what do you got planned today?"

Tweek stopped messing with his hair to look up at the ceiling to think. "Hmmm, I know Dad only needs me to bring the delivery later. Then I need to run to Clyde's place for some reason. He said he found something super cool and wants to show me."

Finishing up getting dressed, Craig frowned. "Clyde wants to show you something? Normally he'd beg me to come."

"He did say he wanted you to come if you were home." Tweek glanced over at him. Craig stared back, then chuckled when he saw the marks on Tweek's neck. Luckily Tweek didn't notice why.

"Then we can go." The dark haired teen shrugged his shoulders. "But we gotta eat."

Having given up on his hair, Tweek nodded and began to walk out the room, Craig now trailing behind him. The two made breakfast and chatted each other up with their stories before heading out to Clyde's house.

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Reaching Clyde's house, the two knocked in the door once. Not a second later, Clyde opened the door. He looked excited, almost too excited. He grabbed both their hands and dragged them inside.

"I'm glad you guys made it!!" Clyde burst out, shutting the door. The boys noticed he was in clothing he doesn't usually wear. Clyde wore a white buttoned up shirt tucked into grey slacks. It was like he was in the middle of dressing up to go to some meeting or something. "And you!" He shouted, pointing at Craig, "I'm even happier you're here! This is good news!"

"You only wanted us over for news." Craig frowned, his hand now intertwined with Tweek's. "What news."

"Not just news. Good news." Clyde pulled out a clipboard from the desk nearby. "Since you're here, I've got a lot going on."