Why Not Both?

Chapter One

There was no universe where Craig Tucker was looking forward to the first day of his last year of school. It was going to be such a long year this time because it was the last year. Maybe playing again this year would make the time go by more quickly.

He put on his helmet and straddled his motorcycle. Since he was running early, he decided to just take the scenic route. He absolutely adored speeding his way beside the beautiful sunrise on the tiny hill across town. It was always so gorgeous. He loved speeding on his bike.

Once he arrived at the school building he did not want to go into. He didn't want to deal with stupid South Park kids and more drama. He took off his helmet and put it in the seat thing. Then, he put on his chullo hat over his crazy bed hair that he didn't really care too much about. Everyone was already trying to get his attention and he'd only just got there. All the guys said hi to him and waved at him before running to get their own schedules. It made him a little happy knowing that his friends were happy to see him.

The one thing that bothered Craig that morning was when he saw he had anatomy first period. He pretty much hated having it first thing and not because it was difficult for him, but because he was positive he would fly by with A's in this class. It was stuff he already knew all about. Craig was a wiz with most sciences considering he'd been planning on becoming a doctor eventually.

Rushing to grab only his twelfth cup of coffee, Tweek let out a loud groan. He was already running late and it was only the first day of the year of senior year. He shook so much at the thought of how much pressure today would hold that he almost spilled his steaming coffee on himself. He practically ran out of his parents' shop, having stains even through his apron after he'd taken it off. His parents pretty much had him working every second this summer, mainly in the kind of secret back room mixing the coffee in a big pot thing. Tweek didn't know if he felt mildly relieved to at least be going back to school, but he knew he would pretty much be working for his parents every day after school until he was eighteen. He had been working there illegally since he was in kindergarten.

Once Tweek had walked the seven blocks to school and found his new years' schedule, he practically ran into his first class, not wanting to be late. He noticed that, of course, the only seat available was beside the one and only Craig Tucker. Only the guy Tweek had been totally in love with since they'd fake dated way back in kindergarten. He'd gone through an totally angsty unrequited love thing back then because he was in love with Craig and to Craig it was all fake. Now, he was only a little feeling better about the whole thing, but he and Craig hadn't even shared a class for a few years and now he had to sit beside him as his lab partner this entire semester for anatomy class. He was going to die. Craig would be the death of him. As Tweek avoided eye contact, he sat beside Craig. As far away as he possibly could, which wasn't very. Craig probably didn't even remember his name.

"Ack!" He squeaked with a jolting motion at the pressure of sitting so close to Craig Tucker for the first time in so many years.

One could say it was a little bit awkward of a situation for Craig, sitting beside Tweek Tweak in the first time in so many years. They had had that whole fake relationship back in elementary school and Tweek had pretty much been his best friend by the end of it. It's not that he wasn't on decent terms with the guy. It's more that Tweek and he hadn't even shared any classes for so many years that he couldn't even remember the last time he'd seen Tweek's face anywhere beside the hallways.

"Hey, so looks like we're lab partners this semester, Tweek," Craig said casually as he cleared his throat and wondered why Tweek was on the edge of the desk, so far away from Craig.

"Y-yeah- I guess s-so- sorry-" he mumbled a bit, feeling bad that Craig was clearly disappointed to have Tweek as his partner. "We can probably switch if you hate me that much-"