It was the beginning of their sophomore year, all of the kids moved up in grade. Kyle with the highest grades helped a select few make it this far, namely, Stan, Kenny, Tweek and surprisingly Butters. Cartman had only passed through his normal persuasion and scare tactics .The normal groups stayed together; Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman, then Craig, Clyde, Token and Tweek. Butters pretty much just floated from one group to the next. The goths hadn't split either, Henrietta, Georgie, Dylan and Calcifur still hiding away from the rest., yet things were soon going to change for that small group, Calcifur was graduating.
Graduating meant he actually had to try during school. He needed a study group , it had to be small, strict, and well rounded. It couldn't be any of those popstar wannabes either. Then one day as he was skimming the halls he heard a shriek. It was coming from the unused Student aid room. He cracked the door open slowly to investigate. There wasn't anything particularly strange about the room, just five boys sitting together with books, paper, and calculators. He only recognized the black haired boy, he believed his real name was Stanley but he preferred the name given to him by Henrietta and the rest of the group "Raven". He stared un-noticed until the effeminate blonde boy stood up announcing that he was going to buy something from the vending machines. The blonde slowly opened the door the rest of the way and stared at Calcifur as if trying to read his mind. "Are you here for the study group", the blonde asked. Calcifur raised his eyebrow slowly. "A study group, really?" he replied flatly. The boy in front of him nodded. "Yeah, Kyle here started it, he is a really good teacher!" The boy stated pointing to the red head in the center of the group.
As if on cue Kyle stood and waved for Calcifur to come inside. "Butters hurry up and go get your snacks," Kyle said with a bit of an agitated tone. The boy responding to his name hurried off to the vending machines. "Right..." said Calcifur tiredly, "so are you smart enough to help with Senior work?" Calcifur inquired." Depends" Kyle answered. He then took Calcifur's books and began flipping through his work. "Yeah...it is pretty much the basics," Kyle half mumbled. "So you wanna join us?" He looked up at Calcifur's blank stare. 'Really, younger classmen' thought Calcifur. "We're not here to judge" Stan spoke up. "We could all use a bit of help here and there." With a short sigh Calcifur nodded. "Why not. If I don't go with this my mother might match me up with some Posh kids tutor." A light grunt came from the boy with the appearance of Sid Vicious, then a strained voice to match his clothes, "Ungh S-so we are going to have even less time for one-on-one studies?" Kyle paused and thought for a moment. "Well, during regular school study hours I will aid you the best I can, but after school we will start a study buddy system." He looked around the room and spoken again " Stan and I will work together after school, Kenny and Butters, and Tweek you will go with.." he paused waiting for Calcifur to fill in the blank. "Calcifur" Stan chimed in. Calcifur peered up slightly surprised that Stan had remembered his name. "Right" Kyle said, "Tweek you will go with Calcifur, we will stay with these 'buddies' for a week and switch until we find a partner that matches." Kyle nodded and cleared a space for Calcifur next to Tweek. Calcifur sighed, sat next to the tweaky kid and wondered if the others were having as an eventful day as he was.
The first afternoon with the study group didn't go terribly bad. Nobody particularly singled him out, nor call him weird, it was just a pleasant conversational group with random gasps or shrieks from Tweek,but even then he became accustomed to the odd noises. It wasn't until he asked where Tweek wanted to meet up after school did it go badly. Tweek went into complete meltdown mode, he was fidgeting with his shirt and tugging restlessly at his hair." I...gah...'t know man you decide. I can't make that kind of decision!" Calcifur pinched the bridge of his nose and grabbed Tweek's shoulders looking him square in his twitching eyes. "Look, take a breath and tell me where it is that you go after school." Tweek's eyes went wider than he could have imagined, he then swallowed and choked out "I-I work at my parents coffee shop till 6:30." His words came out in a tiny voice which was unlike anything that had happened before. "Coffee shop?" Calcifur mumbled half interested."Y-yeah.."Tweek whispered "Tweak ." Calcifur nodded."Ok then" He stated "We will meet there." He released the firm grip off of Tweek's shoulders and let him shrink off to his house. "Heh" he managed to snicker. 'Odd one that one is.' Suddenly he felt something poke him in the back. It was Dylan with Calcifur's cane. "So are you going to sit there sparkly eyed or what?" Dylan sneered. Tearing the cane away from him, Calcifur pulled out his hidden ciggarettes and lit one up. "Where have you been all day?" The other boy questioned. "Studying." Calcifur mumbled in between drags. With a hair flip Dylan rolled his eyes. "C'mon" he said pulling Calcifur by his arm, "Henrietta has a new diary and we have some poems to be writing." Calcifur shook his head and walked along side Dylan.
Meanwhile Tweek hurried inside his house locking all the locks behind him. 'W-w-what was that' He thought to himself. Placing his hand on his racing heart he whispered 'it wasn't all that scary'. He looked at the clock and noticed that it was 3:48. With an agitated gasp he quickly changed into his forest green polo shirt, and white apron, then quickly made his way down the street and into the shop."S-sorry I'm..uhg late." He grunted "We had someone new join the stu.." before he could finish his heart began to beat faster. "...Gah..."He paused and sat in one of the near by chairs. He tried again,"uh..we had someone new join our study group." He looked up to see that there wasn't anyone there to pay him anymind.'Great' he thought.' Left alone with the shop again.' He sighed and began stocking cups, and filling coffee pots.
Hours went by before a single person came in, it was Craig. "Why don't you close up for tonight it is already nearly 8:00" Craig stated. "Eight!" Tweek squeaked out. "but..unh..we were supposed to meet up here at 6:30." He stared at the floor in thought. "Maybe I was wrong! Maybe we weren't supposed to meet up at all." Tweek set the broom he was holding down. Craig made his way around the counter and poured himself a cup of tea. "Who were you meeting?" He questioned, not really wanting to know. Tweek sighed and sat down in a chair. "One of the goth kids, we were supposed to be studying.." He trailed off in thought. Craig snickered "What was he supposed to be teaching you? The right way to slitting your wrist!?" He erupted into laughter. Tweek didn't listen what-so-ever to Craig's slur. Craig bored by Tweek's lack of interest took this as a sign to leave, doing so rather quietly.
Tweek continued to stare at the floor until the front door's bell chimed. This time it was his parents. They were back from some possible coffee bean convention. "Tweek dearest." His mom said quietly while patting on his shoulder. "Gah!" Tweek threw his head up in surprise. Tugging on his shirt he looked back and forth from his mother to his father. "I...ungh..watched the store. It..wasn't very busy!." His parents looked at each other and chuckled. "Of course not dear" his mother said tenderly "we posted that the store would be closed today. Did you not get the letter we left you on the counter?" Tweek thought back. He didn't remember a letter of any sort, but of course he didn't look for one sadly grunted and made his way back home, not quite understanding why he was so sad. It wasn't as if he were actually looking forward to him coming. It wasn't like he was the first person to make him calm down. It wasn't as if he.... Tweek cleared his mind from silly thoughts.
The next afternoon Kyle walked into the study room to find Tweek sitting alone. "Tweek you are about thirty minutes early man." He said placing his bag near his seat. "I-I know...I didn't ugh get much studying done last night." Tweek choked out. Kyle gave Tweek a concerned look. "Did something happen?" He questioned worriedly. Tweek looked up at Kyle with a confused face. "N-no nothing really." Kyle placed his hand on Tweek's shoulder. "Did you meet up with Calcifur?" Tweek frowned and shook his head. Kyle stood and walked out of the room and into the cafeteria which he knew would be empty except for the slacker goths. Kyle semi-marched, brow furrowed, up to the group and plucked Calcifur up by his arm. "You had plans with Tweek last night didn't you?" Calcifur sighed. "Did he come crying to you or something?" Kyle gritted his teeth and pulled him into the hallway. The rest of the goths sat by and quietly goth-giggled. "When you came to us you needed help right, and the first assignment that you were given you completely turn it down. Do you really want help?" Kyle's voice was slightly raised at this point.
Calcifur placed his hand on top of Kyle's hat and spun it around. "Yeah…I'll make it up to him ok?" Kyle pushed his hat above his eyes and nodded. Calcifur took a drag off the cigarette he was smoking. "What does he like?" Calcifur mumbled. Kyle raised one eyebrow. "Uhm... Coffee, and uhm…you know I really don't know…He really doesn't talk about himself." Kyle took Calcifur's cigarette away and put it out on the bottom of his shoe before throwing it away. "C'mon." He said. "Tweek is already in the study room." He began to drag Calcifur by his arm, a small smile on his face. Calcifur didn't look to pleased. Tweek jumped at the sound of the door opening and closing behind the two boys. Calcifur half nodded in Tweek's direction." So uhm…Mini-Vicious," he somewhat joked "what do you want to do this afternoon, I am all yours." Tweek stared at Calcifur not knowing what to say, 'was this a date? Was he picking on him?' Tweek shook his head." I-I am uh not good with coming up with...plans." Tweek said twitchingly. Calcifur found somewhat amusement in this. "So are you saying you want me to chose? I mean, there is the South Park Autumn Fair in town. With all of their creepy, old, broken rides, I am sure you would have a fun time." He chortled. Tweek threw his hands up as if to defend himself from all of the images of rides breaking apart, or carnies dragging him off behind their creepy carnie booths. Kyle stared at the two and chuckled, this was becoming kinda cute. "So it is settled" Calcifur stated. "We are going to the fair." Tweek shuddered and gasped trying to form words for his rebuttal. Kyle slinked off to find Stan to tell him that the study group had new plans.
Tweek stood next to Calcifur in line to the ticket counter. "I ugh didn't bring ungh...any money for tickets or food." He whimpered out. Calcifur shook his head "No, I ditched you yesterday so I'm going to treat you today." Tweek looked around the fair, fear filling his eyes. Clown faces painted on the side of haunted houses, rides tilting and turning, spinning and rocking. He couldn't take it anymore, he turned to run but was caught by Calcifur. He tisked Tweek a couple of times before buying two unlimited ride bands. "No, no Tweek, let me be a good host." He smiled devilishly. He pulled Tweek in line for the Kaze-Extreme, a ride that rocked back and forth like an amusement park pirate ship but then turned completely over, and suspended you upside down for roughly 15 seconds before going the opposite way. Tweek squeezed Calcifur's upper arm without realizing. Calcifur took the shaking Tweek to the front of the "boat" and helped him buckle in. "You know" Calcifur began, "you can hold my hand." Tweek stopped, everything stopped. It was the first time anyone wanted to help him when he was scared. His eyes lined up with Calcifur's. "Thank you." Tweek said more calmly and smoothly than he had ever done before. His body was no longer shaking, twitching or spazzing. He was at peace. Sadly this peace didn't last long, the ride started and was barely rocking when Tweek let out his signature "OH JESUS" said almost like a prayer. Calcifur actually laughed, his head tilted back letting the wind go past his face. Tweek was somewhat flailing when Calcifur grabbed his hand and held it high in the air. Tweek gripped his hand as if it were his only life line. Once the ride finished Tweek remained in his seat. Numb, paralyzed by fear. Calcifur looked around at all the spectators. "Tweek get up." He mumbled near his ear. "People are staring." Tweek didn't budge. "He is going to start the ride again." Tweek flew out of his seat and collided with Calcifur. "Oh gosh, oh geeze." Tweek managed before collapsing on his bum.
Kyle, Stan, Kenny and the tag along Butters, watched from behind one of the prize booths. All of them erupted into laughter as they saw Tweek's reaction to the Kaze-Extreme. Kyle calmed his laughter into a series of short giggles and throat clears. Kyle nudged Stan and whispered, "Let's go ride the spinning bears." He and Stan tiptoed away from the still laughing Kenny and Butters.
Calcifur pulled Tweek up and led him to a bench.. "It is fine" he told Tweek calmly. "You are off the ride." Tweek looked up at Calcifur, tears lining the bottom of his lids. Calcifur pulled out his handkerchief and dried the tears. "It's cute." Calcifur whispered. Tweek lowered his head. "I ungh…Thank you." Tweek gripped Calcifur's hand. "Thank you for...I don't know...everything." He stood up and turned away. Calcifur once again pulled him back onto the bench and put Tweek's head onto his chest. "No problem" he whispered and petted Tweek's untamable hair. Tweek felt his cheeks become hot, his breath caught in his throat, and his body shaking. It was his heart beating ridiculously fast that actually grabbed his attention. He placed his hand over it and smiled. He knew what was wrong. It was the person who scared him most, yet it was the same person who seemed to care for him most. Tweek felt now that he could do just about anything with this person. Calcifur looked down at the mess of hair that was Tweek and smiled. "Tweek," he whispered. "Are you alright? Can we grab a funnel cake or cotton candy." Tweek was ripped out of his fantasy world and thrust back into reality. "D-don't you know! Carnival's are dirty, who...ungh.. knows where the food has been!" His voice was back to it strained, scared self. Calcifur nodded. "Yeah I know." He replied. "But it is good, and we only live once." Tweek shuddered and nodded. "Okay. As long as the attendant washes his hands." Calcifur sighed. "Okay, okay. What do you want to eat?" Tweek's eyes grew. "I-I don't know! I'm not good with making those kinds of decisions!" Calcifur led Tweek into the food line and looked at the menu. "They have; pretzels, nacho's, hotdogs, caramel apples, cotton candy, and funnel cakes. What do you think that you would like most?" Tweek thought about it for a while, he didn't like extremely sweet things, in fact he liked bitter and salty foods and even more bitter drinks. Finally he answered "I guess....I want a pretzel." Calcifur grinned and ordered a pretzel and a funnel cake. Then a lemonade to share. Calcifur paid the attendant and gathered their food then returned to the bench. He took a drink from the lemonade and handed it to Tweek. Tweek blushed as he thought about Calcifur's mouth being on the straw. His face going from a soft pink blush to a nearly crimson burn. Calcifur elbowed Tweek playfully, "are you going to drink it or not." Tweek took a drink and tried to shake the blush away. It was sour and sweet, two of his least favorite things. Calcifur mentally awwed at Tweek's grossed out face. "I like sweets." Calcifur admitted. Tweek looked up at Calcifur questionably." But y-you drink coffee." Calcifur rolled his eyes and sighed. "I only drink it because Dylan and the group does." Tweek looked puzzled, trying to see the logic in being a non-conformist yet doing everything that the others do. "I..I like salty and bitter things." Tweek said shyly. Calcifur took a mental note. 'Salty and bitter...' He grinned only one thing came to mind really. After they finished their snacks they made their way around the fair. They spotted Kyle patting on Stan's back while he vomited in a trash can. Kyle looked up at them, waved and went back to comforting Stan. After a good couple of hours and white knuckled grips on Calcifur's arm, the two of them decided to head to get some real food in their stomachs.
"Do you like Italian" Calcifur offered. Tweek thought about it for a while and nodded. "I-it's ok I don't eat very much so..." Before he could finish he was cut off by Calcifur's normal group. Dylan shoving Tweek out of the way strolled up to Calcifur."Where have you been, we had plans." He scolded. "I am not bound to your rules Dylan." Calcifur said helping Tweek up. "I don't have to report where I am and where I am going. I don't put up with it with my mom and I won't do it with you." Dylan looked surprised. "So you are ditching us for this insane asylum nutcase?" Tweek felt his cheeks flare up. Dylan had a look of shock on his face as Henrietta knocked him a good one to the back of the head. "He doesn't have answer to anyone." She said flatly. "Let's go catch a midnight release of something stupid" She added before pulling Dylan and Georgie with her. Calcifur half-smiled and looked towards Tweek who by this time was on the verge of tears. "Don't take what he says to heart Tweek, Dylan is just...just upset that I won't be in school for very much longer. "Tweek looked up at Calcifur and sighed. "I...unh..I can't just keep it from bothering me." He turned and continued to walk. Calcifur was cursing himself under his breath, then quickened his pace to catch up to Tweek. They made their way into the restaurant where the hostess asked if they would like non-smoking or smoking. Calcifur not thinking chose the smoking side. Tweek made a slight face. "What?" Calcifur questioned. "Oh" he gasped face palming. "Miss put us in non-smoking." He corrected himself. Tweek blushed slightly. 'Ungh! Stop it' he told himself. 'You have no reason to be doing this.' He patted his cheeks and fanned his face. Trying to hide his scarlet cheeks, Calcifur looked away to hide his smile." So" Calcifur started, "what do you like to listen to." He said trying to start a conversation. Tweek fidgeted with his hands. "Uhm…loud music scares me…I don't listen to it alone." Calcifur frowned. "Why are you so nervous about everything Tweek?" Tweek looked at him in surprise. "I-I don't really know, nobody has ever really asked me that…UNGH...before. My parents believe that it is ADD or ADHD...Maybe it is. I don't know." he sighed tiredly. Calcifur put his hand on top of Tweek's head. "Nah, I think you may know more about things that people would like to admit." He gave Tweek a reassuring smirk. He lowered his hand to Tweek's cheek and gave it a pinch. With out thinking Tweek nuzzled the warm hand, and then froze. "OH GOSH, OH GEEZE! I'm so sorry!" He buried his face into his hands. Calcifur also sat frozen in his seat. A slight tickle in his throat and slight warmth in his face. He pulled the menu into his face and began to read it. "Uhm…uh...well they have some really good soups." He choked out. Tweek only nodded behind his hands. 'Why are you acting like this!?' Calcifur screamed into his head.' You have been with many people male and female before this. Why are you acting so childish?' He took a few breaths and lowered the menu. Tweek slowly looked up with his green eyes. Calcifur's eyes widened and he threw the menu back up. "Uhhh, well...uhm w-what do you want." he asked somewhat angrily. Tweek whispered something inaudible. "What?" He demanded. Tweek jumped and spoke up," I said I'd like the Cannelloni." His eyes were wide with fear. Calcifur still looking at the menu waved the server in their direction. "I'd like the potato gnocchi and he'd like the cannelloni." Calcifur ordered somewhat sternly. Tweek caught a hint of his blush as the server took the menus. Tweek looked down at the table cloth and began fidgeting with it."S-sorry if I've made you angry." He stammered. Calcifur sighed and tugged lightly at Tweek's mane. "No I am fine." He said, his calm stoic voice was back.
I apologize for the walls of text….I am not very good at spacing things out. T^T