Bromantic (Craig Tucker x Reader)

Deal

I woke up the next morning, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. They must of been watering last night. I looked around at my surroundings. I was in Kyle's room, in his bed. It was a bit chilly, so naturally I was cocooned in his blankets. I sat myself up, noticing that I was alone. 'Weird' I thought. It's not like Kyle to just leave without saying anything. Just then I heard talking coming from outside of his room. I quickly ran over and pressed my ear against the door, hoping to hear Kyle's voice. I'm sure he just left for the bathroom.

"Gerald, Have you seen Kyle today?" I overheard Mrs. Broflovski talking a few rooms away.

"Yeah, he left sometime this morning." Kyle's father answered. I quickly ran back to the bed, throwing the blankets everywhere, looking for my phone. When I finally found it, it read ; 12:11pm. He actually did just leave, without saying anything to me? After he snuck me over last night. Is that normal? I was drawn out of my thoughts with the several text messages, one was from Kyle. He apologized for leaving, I guess Kenny and Stan had an emergency and he thought I needed rest... How sweet.. All the other text messages where from my brother. Most were apologies and asking me where I was. Then there was one text asking if we could talk. Unintentionally I rolled my eyes. So he is finally gonna stop being a dick? Whatever, I guess maybe I should head home now... James does seem pretty worried. I was making my way over to Kyle's bedroom window when I heard the door knob jiggle.

"Gerald, why did you agree to let him put this stupid lock on his door!?" Mrs. Broflovski's voice startled me, causing me to rush out of his room, earning myself the ground in my face.

"Jesus Chr-" I began to mumble, but stopped myself as I looked up from the ground to see Kyle's little brother Ike staring at me. Ike's basket ball fell to the ground as the ringing from its bounce rang through the yard. I was petrified. Surely he was going to tell his parents and then I was gonna be known as some slut, and Kyle.... Poor Kyle. His mother was never going to trust him again. Everyone knew that Kyle's mom was a bitch.. I just hope Ike knew it... I stood up as fast as I could tripping on myself a bit. I didn't have the courage to acknowledge the boy, so instead I just sprinted as fast as I could away from the entire situation.

When I finally made it to my street I decided to stop and catch my breath. Man.. my life is killlliinnnngggg meeeee. Will I ever just get a break? When I caught my breath I started casually walking back to my house, when I finally got to my house I saw my brother sitting on our steps. His head was between his knees and he had his hands resting on the back of his neck. He was shaking his right knee violently. He looked distressed. I have never seen my older brother act this way. He always seemed to hold his composure. Even through last night, he was being an asshole, but he never lost his shit. This is a rare sight.

"James." I said awkwardly. Not really knowing what to do in this kind of situation.

"(Y/n). I'm sorry about last night- It wasn't my place... I didn't mean to embarrass you like that... I've just been really stressed out with college... I found out I wasn't accepted to the university that Dad wanted me to go to so bad.... I was just trying to get the tension off of me last night, and I guess I just took it way to far." My brother stood up. He tried making eye contact as he was talking, but he kept awkwardly looking away from me. I can't believe he wasn't accepted.. But I guess that makes sense as to why he was acting that way last night. Just sucks that he took it all out on me.

"Oh... I'm so sorry.. But, you know you are gonna have to tell them..." As I spoke, one of his hands brushed through his hair. He was obviously not doing to well.

"I don't know... I don't really want to tell them until I get accepted into another school, Lighten the load a bit, ya know?.. Any way, I wanna make it up to you for last night. I was such a jerk and I shouldn't of brought up something you were actually upset over..." He seemed so sincere. But I guess this is how he always was when I was upset.. I let a small laugh escape my lips.

"Yeah, that was pretty fucked up. Besides you shouldn't talk to mom and dad about a situation you barely know. You know how they are." I made my way inside, leaving the door open behind me so James could follow.

"Well, that was kind of the point, have them over react to you so they wouldn't remember that I had news... But uh- do you wanna talk about -things. You seem really upset lately... It didn't really think a lot of it until I saw how you reacted last night. It might help to talk about it." I could tell my face contorted at James's words because when I glanced at him he rolled his eyes while he laughed at me.

"What? You confided in me when you dressed up like a dude for the Craig guy. How is this any different?" I didn't answer his question. Just kept ignoring him as I sat on the couch, turning on the TV.

"Here, will make a deal. You can talk to me and let me help you out. And you can keep mom and dad distracted from the college topic until I get accepted somewhere. Deal?" I thought over what he was saying. Maybe I should talk to someone about everything that has been going on? I know I'm definitely confused about everything. Especially cause I know I like Kyle, a guy who would do absolutely anything for me. But I'm in love with a boy who wants nothing to do with me anymore. Maybe he could actually help. I mean he is a lot older, had his fair share of girlfriends. Maybe he knows kind of what I'm going through right now.

"Alright, whatever. Deal." I reached out and shook my brothers hand.