Wanting Something Real (A Twyle Story)

Chapter 18

Craig's POV

*Time-skip to Valentines Day*

So it's been over a month since Tweek and I 'broke up'. To be perfectly honest, I kind of sort of miss him. We used to hang out with my friends, play video games, and do all of our school projects together. Now Tweek always has excuses for being more antisocial and he does all of his school projects by himself. I've had to do mine with Thomas. It's normally that he's to busy working at his family's coffee shop. To go from spending more than half of my day with someone to barely any time at all is really difficult. It also hurts because Tweek doesn't seem to notice or doesn't even care. Also Valentines day is today and I feel like the biggest loser at school. I wouldn't feel so bad being the only single person among my group of friends but I thought Tweek would be in the same boat I'm in; sulking around and wanting to be in a relationship.

I have this theory that he might be asexual. When he was my boyfriend he would only kiss me on the cheek and hold my hand. Not a lot of physical body contact beyond that. Looking back now I think it wouldn't have been the worst thing if we had done more couple type things together. I didn't realize how much I enjoyed Tweek's company until it seemed like he wanted nothing to do with me. That might make me sound like a wuss but I'm only human.

I was outside waiting for my car to heat up with my younger sister. Her eyes were glued to her phone so we didn't have to talk to each other at all. Fine by me. Our town got hit with a bunch of cold wind last night and all of the cars on my street were frosted over. Tweek crossed my mind again. I used to pick him up and drive him to school everyday. I wouldn't mind taking him to school but he would rather get a ride from Butters instead. I thought he wouldn't like to ride with Butters because they pick up Kenny as well. You think Tweek would be tired of being the third wheel but once again, he doesn't notice or doesn't seem to care. I've hated being the third wheel when I hang out with Clyde, Token, and their girlfriends. Most of the frost was gone off my windshield and I could see out of all the other windows in my car. The drive to school was quiet but fast. Ruby exited my car grumbling about something but I couldn't catch anything she was saying so it wasn't that important I guess.

The school campus was very small. The elementary (Preschool-sixth grade) and high school (7-12) were within walking distance from each other. With Ruby being in the seventh grade she had some of her classes in the main building and the rest was in the old middle school building that was right next to the high school. The high school consisted of one long hallway of lockers and classrooms. The only other section of the school was the tech building which held a few classrooms for woodshop, science, and yearbook. The student parking lot lead to the south end of the hallway with the band room and the gymnasium being the first rooms you pass before you venture to the left to get to the cafeteria. I go through the breakfast line real quickly picking up a juice and whatever hot food is available. Today is breakfast sandwich, my favorite. The whole serving line is set up as 'grab & go' so all of the food items can leave the cafeteria and are allowed to be eaten in class. I punch my student lunch number into the keypad and head to my first period class; U.S. history with Ms. Schweitzer and Mr. Rood.

All of the juniors were required to take this history class and this was the only time so there needed to be two teachers who taught it. We were seated in round tables that could fit up to five people. My table consisted of Clyde, Token, Nicole, myself, and Tweek. The groups would only help each other out when we had to fill out packets of information that was going to be on the test. Tweek would mostly keep to himself filling out his packet without help from anybody. That's the way he's done it since the beginning of the school year. Clyde and I would mostly copy off of Token. Even though we had the packets filled out Clyde and I would not normally study off of it. Our grades we got on our tests would always be average with everyone else at the table always getting A's. Hate to say it but Clyde and I brought down our groups average from our poor test scores. Not that we got graded as a group but that put us out of the ranking for the smartest group. That honor went to the group of Butters, Kenny, Scott, Heidi, and David. Everyone was smart with the exception of Kenny. He gets a lot of help from Butters though, lucky guy.