Christophe had never been the one to cuddle. Or rather, he had never been one for intimacy at all. To Christophe, intimacy was stupid. It was a completely useless thing for people who couldn't be happy with a life on their own. Of course, that was before he had met Gregory. Gregory was the complete opposite of Christophe. He loved physical contact and other people. And Christophe was sure that God had put Gregory in this school just to spite him.
Gregory and Christophe had met the same way every other foreign person had met in South Park. Through the ESL class at the local high school. Gregory of course shouldn't have ended up in those classes because he was from Great Britain and his first language was English, but the South Park schools had messed up and landed him in there anyways. Christophe on the other hand was from France. And though he was relatively fluent in the English language his accent had given him away and he was sent to those classes as well.
Their first meeting hadn't been the best. That however was expected. As countries the French and British had always hated each other, and these boys were no exception. From the first day they met there were sparks between these two. Before they had learned to warm up to each other a little more you could always find them in a constant argument as to whether France or Britain was better.
But these two did eventually warm up to each other. They were still found sometimes making remarks about why their country was better than the other's but for the most part they just kept to themselves. That's when the rumors had started.
Christophe was not a fan of other people. It was a wonder at all that Gregory could talk him in to hanging out half the time. But something about Gregory had convinced Christophe to actually make contact with him and that's why the students of South Park high had made them the main discussion when they weren't looking. Thinking about it now it was most likely Eric who had started these rumors, seeing as to hide his own little secret it would be best to call someone else a faggot. Of course, being as there was nothing else to do, the other students latched on to spreading this.
The first rumor wasn't that bad. It was more of a simple, "maybe they're gay and that's why they hang out" and, "everyone needs someone to confide in right?". But as time wore on they got a bit more complicated. Someone even once spread a rumor saying that, "Christophe is obviously from the moon and he need to tell someone that he was an alien or else he wouldn't be able to stay here". That one was traced back to Cartmen as well.
However, there was never any solid evidence shown as to whether or not these two boys liked each other. Or at least, not in public.
As mentioned before Christophe did not like cuddling. He didn't like it when he had to come in to contact with other people and he wasn't exactly sure he wanted to make Gregory and exception to this. Gregory however was more than ready to wrestle Christophe into submission every time he got to see him outside of school. Physical contact was one of his favorite parts of being in a relationship after all. And he was determined to make it one of Christophe's too.