17 Crimes [discontinued **read desc]

We Could Unfreeze This Moment

Kenny woke up in a daze, rather confused as to why and how he got back to his dorm. He was also confused as to why Craig was fast asleep next to him. He was still in his clothes for the day, yesterday?, so he felt around his pockets for his phone. After a moment of feeling himself up and down, god, this probably looks so weird-, he finally felt it in his back left pocket. Letting out a sigh of relief, he pulled it up to his face, checking the time on the blinding screen.
5:00am.. Why am I, Kenny McCormick, awake at 5 in the fucking morning..?
Running a hand down his face, then back up through his bedhead, he slowly sat up; desperately trying hard not to wake the boy next to him. Ever so slowly crawling over Craig to get out of the bed, please don't wake up, please don't wake up, pleasedon'twakeup, please-
"What are you doing?" Kenny stopped in his tracks, currently straddling the older boy, and his eyes flew wide.
He attempted to form sentences, words, anything besides the flustered stuttering mess he became. Craig snorted, obviously finding this to be very amusing. He put his finger up to Kenny's lips, sitting up in the process with the other still on him.
"Chill out, 'k? I get what you're doing. You need to eat though." Craig mused inbetween stuttered laughs.
As much as Kenny's style and confidence has changed, the only thing Craig can really use against him is how easily flustered the younger gets. Never failing to amuse the clearly sadistic boy. Kenny let out a sigh of relief however, and continued to move off of Craig. Craig got up as well, pushing Kenny towards and out their shared door. Kenny, confused and still a bit light-headed from yesterday, stumbled down the halls to... wherever Craig was, now dragging him.
A wave of dread washed over Kenny when they spotted Clyde at the end of one of the oh so long hallways. Clyde seemed to notice Craig rushing off somewhere and attempted to wave at him, but Craig actually ignored him, only tightening his grip around Kenny's wrist, continuing to drag him along. Oh.. that was a bit weird. Kenny shrugged it off however and just deemed it as Craig in one of his moods. At least they were now away from Clyde, so that at least made him feel better.
Kenny, lost in thought, ended up bumping into Craig's back accidentally, not noticing he had stopped, and stumbled a bit backwards. Craig whipped around and, wasn't upset, no, he looked more concerned than anything.
"You alright?" Craig had asked him. Slowly processing the words, Kenny nodded and hummed a short "yeah" in response.
He straightened up, stretching his arms above his head, making the hem of his shirt ride up a bit in the process. What he didn't see was Craig's eyes darting downwards at the exposed skin for what must've been half a second, then quickly looking back up at his face. Putting his arms back down, he checked his surroudings.
"What're we doing at the cafeteria?" Kenny had looked over to Craig, a puzzled look on his face.
"You need to eat, otherwise your little boytoy will kill me." It took a second for Kenny to figure who 'boytoy' was, but then figured the most obvious answer was Eric.
The dirty blonde rolled his eyes, but grabbed a couple things and sat down on one of the couches, gesturing for Craig to sit as well. The other also grabbed a few things and took the boy's offer, sitting right next to Kenny. Again, Kenny found this weird, since Craig didn't like sitting so close to people, often preferring his own space, but didn't question it, and decided to play it risky and lean his head on Craig's shoulder. He felt him stiffen for a second, and was about to move thinking he had upset the older, but then felt him relax, so he stayed. A comfortable silence forming over them as they ate.
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About an hour had passed, and neither felt like moving after stuffing themselves, so even more time had passed, now putting them at 6:45am. Kenny felt really comfortable on Craig's shoulder, and the older boy didn't seem to mind either, but he knew they couldn't stay long. Going to get up, Craig had grabbed his wrist, quickly getting up as well. Craig looked flushed, which surprised Kenny, who had never seen this side of him before, so it intrigued him.
Craig went to open his mouth to say something when Clyde showed up.
"Hey, Craig! What's up man?" The jock grinned. Craig quickly let go of Kenny's wrist, looking towards Clyde and half smiled, obviously fake, though Clyde was dense enough to not realize. Kenny on the other hand had noticed, which increasingly confused him, as well of Craig's other strange behaviour. He patted Craig's shoulder, walking past the two, as a silent way to let him know he was leaving. He heard Craig say something towards Clyde, and was stopped again. The blonde smiled,
"You can tell me whatever you were gonna tell me later, 'k? You obviously wanted it to be a private matter, so I'll see you after class. Don't worry too much about it." Kenny turned, throwing his hand up and waving behind him as he walked back toward their room.
Craig stood for a moment, watching Kenny walk away. Clyde tapped his shoulder, so he turned around. Clyde's eyebrows had furrowed at this point, confused as to what just happened. The raven haired boy just shook his head as they continued their conversation, silently wishing the jock didn't exist as he told his story animatedly. Truth be told, they weren't actually the best of friends like everyone suspected. Craig loathed Clyde's existence most of the time, either getting in the way, being a general nuisance, or just being an overall dickhead to everyone including Kenny. Though, Craig realized he was no better than him at a very young age, and just stuck with it. He really wished he didn't miss his chance earlier though because of him...
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In which we discover Craig can actually be caring and now we wonder what Craig wanted to tell Kenny...

A/N: Yes hello, I know it's been a while. I've been super busy with everything and honestly haven't had the energy to do much of anything. I pushed myself today and decided to treat you all to this.  ALSO: The next chapter will have a small time skip at the beginning, starting with Kenny's last class.