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Chapter 1 - Feelings

Some things always stay the same. In Leopold Stotch's case, the phrase fit to a 'T'. The small town of South Park seemed to fit the phrase just the same, more or less. Maybe because of the tight knit community, but over the years, things never seemed to change. The same shops stood, same faces lingered, besides the few that left for 'bigger, better' things, they swore. Though eventually, it happened that most of the residents' stayed, and the departed returned at some point or another, even if just for a 'visit'.

Butters was actually surprised at the amount of people in his grade that stayed in the city after graduating. He would have assumed a lot more wanted an out, and gone to colleges' around the country, but to his surprise, only a few went through with the threat. Like Jimmy, he moved to New York for school, aiming to find his place in the light with his comedy. Cartman left without much trace, and hadn't been in contact with anyone as far as Leo knew. Kyle even left for a year to attend Harvard before he switched to online classes with the excuse that he couldn't stand to be away from his family, though we all knew it was because of Stan. As much as they tried to hide it, everyone could see throughout time they had become more than just 'super best friends'. It was cute because they thought they were so good at hiding the fact during high school too. Holding hands pretty much non-stop, and feeding your 'friend' at lunch wasn't very subtle.

Surprisingly, all the people in the town had been very accepting of the mixture of relationships that seemed to form over the years. Probably inspired greatly by Tweek and Craig. Speaking of, they were still together! A few messy break ups over the years, but they always managed to gravitate back to each other again. It was nice to see two people, well.. Three? So committed to each other. (Yeah, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you.) At some point, Leo himself wasn't sure how, but Craig had branched out the relationship, at least on his side of things, and none other than Kenny McCormick joined the picture. It was confusing to Butters himself, though he'd never express so to his eventual best friend Tweek. Most people who knew about it weren't the most accepting of it, as that type of relationship dynamic was so taboo.

Other than that, most relationships among their class were pretty typical. Token was still with Nichole. They went to the same college, and are pretty much inseparable. Bebe tolerated Clyde on the grounds that he submitted to any and all her demands, and spoiled her the way she wanted. Poor guy was swimming in debt. As far as Butters was aware, Stan and Wendy had an on again off again thing when Stan would go through his 'I'm not gay' crisis'. Kyle always resented Stan during those times, and would either seethe venom and block Stan out of his life for a while, or seek vengeance in Heidi out of spite, but that wasn't very often. The boys always ended up making out, or, up though. (Oops.) So, maybe things weren't all that typical.

The shortest blond of the gang, along with several others were still single, which was fine with Butters. He had thought feelings were blossoming between Kenny and him at one point their junior year, but it never went anywhere (Sorry Bunny fans, make room for some Twutters!). Butters had been strongly in denial about his sexuality at that time, and neither he, nor Kenny made a move, or seemed in the place to get into anything serious. Leo had school to focus on, after all. Once he graduated, the blond had opted to take online classes to get the required courses out of the way before he started working towards the business degree he desired. For now though, he was content spending his time not stuck at home working at the local flower shop, or spending time with friends, generally meaning Tweek, when he wasn't grounded that is. 20 years old and still getting grounded to his room like a child? Yes. When things staying the same to a 'T' was mentioned, it wasn't a joke.

Life in the Stotch residence hadn't gotten any easier for Leopold over the years. His parents still abused the authority they held over the boy, which living at home, even though he paid rent, was accepted. Being his age, his father had adapted to more severe punishments though, such as locking him out of the house, or confiscating his car keys and other privileges; even though all were paid for by the blond. It wasn't an ideal living situation, but being accustomed to it for so long, it was just how it was in Leo's eyes. The eye he could see out of at least.