Wanting Something Real (A Twyle Story)

Chapter 26

Tweek's POV

The game had just ended. Butters and I were just about to leave with Kenny. At the corner of my eye I saw Craig push Kyle with a lot of force. Craig looked really intense and I was afraid he was going to have a fist fight with Kyle over losing their game. If only that was the case.

"How long are you going to keep this act of liking Tweek going Kyle?" He had put air quotes around liking. Where the heck was this accusation coming from? Kyle looked genuinely offended. He knew I was close by and I was assuming he was going to play dumb. Not Kyle though, he doesn't like to come off as looking stupid. Everyone had all of their attention to Kyle and Craig.

"It's not an act." That was the most serious I've heard Kyle sound. Craig looked at him with his arms crossed. Obviously not going to believe anything that Kyle says.

"Psshh, yeah right. The only reason you pretended to like Tweek was to mess with our sports team." Once again Craig had put air quotes around pretended. This lit a fire under Kyle. He got real close to Craig's face.

"I don't pretend about anything when it comes to Tweek." Kyle looked back at me to see the worry on my face. Was he really going to lay it all out on the table? He had no shame and wasn't done getting his point across. "Tweek is much too important to me. No way would I risk anything to lose him." Craig was glaring into Kyle's eyes, trying to find any sign that he's lying. Craig stepped back quickly. Glancing over to me with panic in his eyes.

"Whoah, hold on here. He's actually serious? Tweek, why are you hooking up  with this poser?" I couldn't understand what Craig was insinuating about Kyle. Sure Kyle had the tendency to be a bit show offish at times but he was never fake about anything. Kyle blocked Craig so we wasn't able to intimidate me anymore.

"Tweek doesn't need to explain himself to you or anybody. It's nobodies business but his" I took notice that everyone from my school was staring Kyle down. My intuition was right, no one would be defending Kyle. David would have but he was too busy watching Heidi's game to catch all of the drama happening now. Everyone's eyes slowly shifted to me and I didn't have the courage to speak up. I just wanted to shrink away from everyone and my problems. Kenny wasn't afraid of breaking the silence though.

"Seriously Tweek, out of all of the guys in Colorado you had to fall for the best player on our biggest rival team? I did not see that coming." Kenny's statement wasn't said with anger but more as a joke, however it did make me feel embarrassed. This is what I was afraid of. I knew no one would understand the side of Kyle that I grew to love. Butters looked at me with shock. He is most likely going to agree with Kenny and not give Kyle a chance. I ran away from the field as fast as I could. I could hear Butters calling my name in the distance. I wasn't ready to face him after all of the stuff I had been keeping from him.

I ran and didn't stop until I saw something comforting, Kyle's car. I crouched behind it trying to catch my breath and figure out how I was going to make my way back home to South Park. My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of footsteps. I looked up to see Kyle. How he was able to catch up to me so quickly with all of his sports gear will always remain a mystery. I sprang up to throw my body into his arms. I was trying really hard to think positive but my worst fear had become a reality. I thought South Park would be upset that I moved on from Craig to someone else when all anyone seemed to care about was that Kyle was enemy number one at our school. If it had been anyone else no one would be making a mountain out of a mole hill. I couldn't hold in my frustration anymore. I was a blubbering mess. Kyle was trying his best to calm me down by caressing my head by his heart. Every once a while kissing the top part of my head telling me how sorry he was that everyone found out this way. I heard more footsteps approaching and tensed up. Kyle assured me that it was ok and he lifted my face up so I could see that it was his mother hesitantly approaching us. I totally forgot she was there at the field when everything went down. She's going to meet her sons boyfriend under such strange circumstances. I've met her before but she didn't know Kyle and I were going out at the time. I tried my best to clean up my face. 

Kyle brought me over to his mother. He whispered in my ear how it'll be fine. Turns out his mom was eager to properly meet me after she found out I was dating her son. "Hey mom, this is Tweek, my boyfriend, could you give him a ride home?" His mom seemed happy to be so helpful.
"Of course sweetie, we should leave pretty soon before Tweek gets ambushed again." Kyle held my hand as he guided me to his mom's car. He planted a long kiss on my lips and in a hushed voice told me that he's not going to let anything bad happen to me before I got into his mom's car.
At this point I could only hope for the best. Tomorrow at school will be the true test of that.

Sorry if that was cringe worthy. I know it's not realistic for Tweek's school to act this way but it fit with the direction I wanted the story to go. Was anyone else like Kenny and didn't see this coming?