This story is for anyone who feels my other story is not fluffy enough. This will be short, probably only a handful of chapters, mostly fluff with a tiny touch of angst, but it should also contain a little smut, eventually.

This is something I started a while back, but I abandoned because I figured that this may have been done before, since it's a pretty simple idea, but if so I hope my version will be unique enough to warrant your time and attention. Please read below for notes regarding future updates.

Liars & Love

Chapter 1: Prologue

I'm sooo happy today, as Craig would put it. These days, I pretty much always feel like this. I'm happy, I'm confident, and I'm blissfully calm. I don't even need coffee anymore, much to my father's great disappointment. Coffee is the thing that used to calm me down, but now I have Craig for that.

Craig Tucker is my long term boyfriend, over the years he's become the center of my life, and my special place is by his side.

He's been my boyfriend since childhood, and did I mention that he's the hottest boy in town! Well, he really is, and that's saying a lot, since South Park has a whole bunch of handsome guys; there's also Token, Stan, Kenny and Kyle, oh and I guess that Butters Stotch is good looking too, since he gets a lot of modeling work around town, but to be honest I just don't see what the attraction is with Butters, he looks like a little kid if you ask me. I don't know why this tiny mountain town breeds such handsome guys, it simply does, must be something in the water I suppose.

Regardless, Craig is still the hottest of them all, and that isn't just my opinion. I've lost count of the number of times he's been hit on by some chick who was too stupid to care that he's already with me; as if the fact that we're pretty much always attached at the fingertips didn't make it obvious enough.

For some reason the random chicks never worried me too much, since Wendy and company does a pretty impressive job of keeping new students informed about the fact that Craig and I are gay, which usually scares them off pretty quickly. However, the guys that occasionally hit on Craig are a bit more troubling, as I'm sure you can imagine.

Even when we were kids Craig was good looking, except that he used to wear this ugly blue hat to hide the fact that his ears are sort of big. Luckily, he's grown into those ears now, and he's grown in other places too.

'OH, GAH-NO! GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!'

I just mean he's really tall now, and he gets a lot of exercise and stuff, so he's got these really sexy muscles, the lean kind, not the ugly bulky ones that you see in the body builder ads. Craig's body is perfect! His face is really nice too, he's got these amazing blue eyes, and he wear's his hair sort of long now, though that could be to hide his big dumbo ears.

'OH, JESUS! THAT WAS A JOKE! DON'T TELL CRAIG I SAID THAT, PLEASE!'

Now where was I? Oh yeah, about Craig being my boyfriend, it's kind of pretty great. I've changed a lot since we first started dating, I'm much more stable now, and healthier, and stuff like that. Dr. Norris claims I still need to see him, he's worried that I've traded one addiction for another, but Craig isn't a drug, and besides Craig thinks Dr. Norris is a quack!

My parents call my relationship with Craig puppy love, my dad even has a ridiculous song that he likes to sing sometimes when Craig comes to visit, but although Craig is certainly cute and cuddly, Craig is not a puppy, so I don't know what the hell my father is going on about.

Me, I don't really know how Craig managed to change me, nor do I really care. What I do know is that I can sleep through the night now, I'm not jittery all the time anymore, I smile pretty much constantly, and in case it isn't obvious, I'm desperately in love with Craig Tucker.

The only problem is that I haven't been able to tell Craig yet. I want to, and I've been trying to figure out how to do it for a while now, but it's sort of scary, because well... and this is sort of a secret but... Craig isn't 'really' my boyfriend yet.

'OH GOD NO! BUT WE DIDN'T MEAN TO LIE ABOUT IT! PLEASE, DON'T REPORT US TO THE AUTHORITIES!'

Okay, I'll admit it, we totally lied. It wasn't a malicious lie, and like I said we didn't really mean to lie. In the beginning, we were just two confused kids who were simply going along with what the town wanted from us; I guess it still counts as a lie because even when we got a little older, and we discovered that the town folk are wrong, and Asians don't actually make people gay, we still continued to lie.

The truth is we pretended to be a totally in love gay couple, but we really weren't in love or gay. The only thing is, eventually, the lie changed into the truth, or at least for me it did.

I'm just not certain how Craig feels about it, because he's never really been much of a talker. I mean sure he can go on and on about things like Red Racer, or Game of Thrones, or spaceships, but except for that time in 4th grade where he told me he was straight, he's never really spoken about how he feels about all of this.

It might turn out that this is all just a one-sided crush on my part, or one of those unrequited love things that the Asian girls at school talk about whenever Butters and Cartman are nearby.

'OH JESUS CHRIST! I HOPE I'M NOT LIKE BUTTERS!'

No, no, no, it isn't like that, because Cartman treats Butter's like crap. I mean he's really a bastard to the poor little guy. You've got to give Butter's his props though, because he takes all of Cartman's abuse, and he just keeps coming back for more. Not sure if that is called stupidity or devotion, but we all kind of pity Butters. I certainly wouldn't want to be like that...

Ah, no! I am positive, our relationship is not like that! I admit that Craig does have a pretty serious mean streak, and when he gets riled up he can be a bit nasty to the people he doesn't like. He also loves a good practical joke from time to time, and he did a lot of shitty things when he was a kid, but Craig isn't like Cartman, not at all! Hell, nobody is like Cartman, and that's a good thing, because I don't think this world could handle another Cartman.

Actually, Craig's pretty sweet to me most of the time. Sure, we had a few fights when we were kids, and we occasionally have little disagreements, or what my mother refers to as 'lover's spats'.

In middle school I almost broke up with him during one of these lover's spats, because of a rumor going around that Craig had went on a date with somebody else, but we made up pretty quickly, because Craig assured me that Thomas was only a friend who had come to town for a visit. He told me I could check with Kyle if I didn't believe him, because Kyle was the person Thomas actually came to visit.

At any rate, what I've been trying to say is I'm in love with Craig Tucker, and today is Craig's sixteenth birthday. I've figured out both the perfect gift and the perfect way to show him how I feel. The box is sort of small, but they were really expensive, because I didn't want to go cheap on this. I even paid for the premium wrapping paper, and yes, now all of my savings are gone, but I've never really cared much about money anyway, not like I care about Craig.

Anyway folks, wish me luck, because I'm on the steps in front of Craig's house now, and I'm knocking on his door. His party isn't supposed to start for another hour, but I wanted to be the first to arrive since I wanted to be the first one to give him his present.

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"Hello, Tweek, come on in." Craig's mother welcomes me warmly, as she always does whenever I visit. I accept her hug, and the kiss on my cheek, and I manage to resist the urge to wipe away the red lipstick mark that I'm certain she has left on me.

"I'm sorry about showing up so early, but I'm really looking forward to today." I explain and my hands fumble against the elegantly wrapped present as I pull it out of my pocket.

"That's lovely wrapping paper, Tweek." She compliments me, and it's just what I wanted to hear, because I'm very proud about how nice the little box looks. I feel certain the other guys will give Craig cheaply wrapped gifts, but I wanted mine to stand out, so I chose an ocean blue wrapping paper, and a thin white ribbon tied into a tiny bow tie, because I wanted something both mature and masculine.

"The boys are up in Craig's room." Mrs. Tucker tells me with a smile and starts heading back to the kitchen. "You can put your gift on coffee table with the others if you'd like."

"Boys?" I say in disappointment, as I realize I am not the only one who came up with the brilliant idea of arriving early. Glancing at the coffee table I see two other presents already sitting there. As expected, one is cheaply wrapped in childish Red Racer gift wrap, but the other is really cool looking. A medium sized square box wrapped in light brown paper, tied with a piece of twine, and a small photo frame is used instead of a bow.

"Oh yes, Thomas and Kyle arrived a little while ago." She tells me, and my eyes go wide with shock... did she just say Thomas?

I walk over to take a closer look at the present on the table, and it's just as I had feared. The small photo is of Craig as he looked in 4th Grade, complete with his favorite blue hat, and he's standing next to a cute blond boy dressed in a light yellow shirt with green stripes and dark green trousers. Craig has one hand behind the boys head with two fingers pointing up bunny ear style, and with his other hand he's flipping off the camera. Both boys look really happy, and Craig has a rare smile on his face that makes my heart ache just looking at it. So this is Thomas...

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Okay, so that is chapter one. As I mentioned this is multi-chapter, but expected to be relatively short, but here's the thing. Since I am also working on my other story, which I am rather fond of, I am not certain how often I will be updating this one. If I feel like this story generates enough interest, I will make it a priority, but if not I will update whenever I feel like taking a break from the other story.