I Shall Believe

By: esmtz

Eric Cartman and especially everyone who knew him knew that Cartman was not the kind of person to get emotional. In fact all Cartman was about was making other people suffer especially if it benefited him and enjoying the fact that his life was way better than everyone else's by trying to constantly rub it in their faces whenever he got something that was brand new that other kids had wanted but couldn't get. The only kids who were able to really put up with him were Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Butters who Cartman grew up with and was closest to but even then they never had really considered him a friend and Cartman in return only stuck around them because he had no one else he could hang out with plus he was picky about who hung around him. Kyle in particular was always the one who ended up arguing with Cartman the most because Cartman hated him mostly because he was Jewish but for other reasons as well that even Cartman himself never really thought about. Today for Cartman had started off like any other normal day; going to school, trying to pay attention but failing miserably at listening to what the teachers were talking about and finally once school was over the same normal routine like always happened.

"Dammit Cartman! I'm not going to let you copy my notes! We've been through this way too many times for you to not get the message by now!" Kyle yelled at him as both he and Cartman made their way outside of the school.

"Ay! It's not my fault that the stupid ass teachers keep talking for so long that I just can't pay attention. I would ask Stan or Kenny for help but they're not even in the same class as us Khal!" Cartman replied back making Kyle roll his eyes.

"Dude it's called focus and don't let anything else distract you. I can't believe you're still too damn lazy to take notes yourself fatass!" Kyle said as they headed towards Stan and Kenny who were already waiting for them, "Freshman year in high school and you still haven't changed asshole."

Cartman snorted.

"Look who's talking Mr. 'I'm too good to help my friends out'."

"First off fatass we're NOT friends and second you need to start being responsible for your own work!" Kyle told him getting agitated with him already.

"All I'm asking for is for your notes you fucking Jew so that way I know what I'm doing! I always knew you were greedy Khal otherwise-"

Kyle looked at him already his face red with anger.

"Are you fucking kidding me?! You're the one whose always made me do the work by myself whenever we were paired up on a project fatass! Every single damn time and not once did you bother to help me so why on earth would I bother to help you now?"

Cartman sighed.

"Jesus Christ Khal that was along time ago get over it already."

Kyle gritted his teeth clenching and unclenching his fists.

"Oh boy they're at it again." Kenny said just as Kyle and Cartman made their way towards them, "What's up dudes?"

"Take a guess Kenny." Kyle replied angrily already knowing that he didn't have to give an explanation as to why he and Cartman were arguing.

Stan sighed pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Dude just let him copy your notes. It's not like he's asking to copy your actual homework." Stan told him.

"Stan how many times have you heard me tell him that he needs to start taking notes of his own?" Kyle asked looking at him.

"Way too many to count dude."

"See? It's not my fault that once again he wasn't paying attention."

"Ay! I would pay attention Khal if it was something interesting not just boring shit that puts me to sleep every time I come to class!" Cartman replied completely annoyed.

Kenny started laughing and to Cartman's surprise Stan smiled at him making Cartman's face turn slightly red.

"He does have a point Kyle. You're the only one out of all of us that takes schoolwork seriously. Even I have to agree with Cartman that what they teach is completely dull." Stan admitted.

"I can't believe you're siding with Cartman, Stan." Kyle said looking at him.

"And I can't believe how much of a nerd you are Kyle I mean seriously who other than you has more than three binders filled with notes?" Kenny said grinning at him.

"I'm sure Wendy can give Kyle a run for his money I mean you wouldn't believe how well prepared she is everytime we have a test or a quiz or something." Stan replied as he put his hands in his pockets.

"She sounds like she's perfect for you Kyle." Kenny said looking at him before turning to face Stan, "Sorry Stan you know I never really thought that you guys-"

"It's alright Kenny. Truth is I never really saw myself with her after having been broken up by her so many times. I guess I just liked the attention she gave me." Stan admitted.

"So you don't have any plans on getting back together with her Stan?" Cartman asked nervously.

"Not really why Cartman?" Stan asked looking at him curiously.

Kyle snorted.

"You can't tell me you're interested in her fatass."

"Fuck no! It was just getting annoying seeing them together all the time." Cartman said wondering why he was suddenly feeling very jumpy and nervous.

Kyle was about to say something but Kenny interrupted.

"It's true! Stan we missed you! You hung around that girlfriend of yours way too much!" Kenny replied as he threw himself at Stan making both of them fall to the floor.

"It's great that you missed me Kenny but could you get off me? My dad's here to pick me up!" Stan said as he hurriedly got back up.

Cartman looked at Kenny slightly annoyed as they saw that Randy was indeed pulling up to the school. This made Cartman frown slightly as Randy NEVER picked up his son before at least not since they were in elementary school. It was usually his mom who did or Stan got a ride home with Kyle and his family.

"Why is your dad getting you today Stan?" Kyle asked.

"I have a doctor's appointment that I have to go to and my mom's too busy at work to take me so she sent me a text saying that my dad was going to pick me up and take me. Apparently he has the day off today." Stan told him as Randy pulled up.

Cartman suddenly couldn't shake this feeling that something wasn't right. He knew about the drinking problems that Randy had before seeing as he witnessed it himself and then to top it off Randy and Sharon's marriage wasn't doing to well and he wasn't exactly sure what was going on but he knew Randy well enough to know how easily retarded he could be at times. Stan even mentioned before that his dad was going through something at work as well which only made Cartman surprisingly worry more. Before he even knew what he was doing Cartman grabbed a hold of Stan's wrist stopping him from leaving.

"Stan wait." Cartman whispered.

Kyle, Kenny and Stan looked at him in surprise wondering why Cartman suddenly stopped Stan from leaving. Noticing the look on Cartman's face Stan frowned slightly wondering what was going on with him.

"What is it Cartman? You alright?" Stan asked a little worried from the way Cartman was looking at him.

"Hey Stan you ready to go?" Randy yelled out having already parked the car and waiting for Stan to get in.

Cartman looked at Randy trying to see if he had been drinking or not. It was hard to tell from where he was standing and to be honest it was scaring him how nervous he felt when in reality he most likely had no reason to be not that it mattered considering he wasn't the type of person to care about what happens to his friends or at least that's how he always thought of himself to be like so why on earth would he suddenly be afraid that something could happen to Stan?

"Cartman I uh kinda need to get going now." Stan said still surprised at the frightened look Cartman had on his face.

Very reluctantly Cartman let go of Stan's wrist and watched, with a very worried look on his face, as Stan got in the car and looked back at Cartman worriedly before Randy started to drive off. As soon as they were out of sight both Kyle and Kenny simply looked at Cartman like he had suddenly gone insane.

"What the fuck was that all about Car-" Kyle started to say but cut himself noticing the look on Cartman's face, "…Cartman?"

Kyle had never ever seen a look on Cartman's face like the worried one he had right now and he didn't want to admit it but Cartman was starting to freak him out.

"Why do you look so damned nervous Cartman?" Kenny asked also starting to worry simply because of the way Cartman looked.

Cartman kept clenching and unclenching his fists as he kept trying to tell himself that he had nothing to worry about.

'Stop being a fucking pussie. Stan is going to be fine nothings going to happen. You never cared about him before so there's no reason to start now.' Cartman thought to himself.

This did nothing however to silence the feeling in the pit of his stomach that was telling him that he made a huge mistake letting Stan go with his dad.

"Cartman?"

The sound of Kyle's voice snapped him out of it and made him look directly at Kyle who for some reason seemed to look nervous.

"Did you still want to copy my notes?" Kyle whispered.

Cartman only stared at him making him wince.

"Ok Cartman you win you're kinda scaring me here." Kyle reluctantly admitted.

"Same here dude." Kenny told him, "What's going on?"

Cartman sighed shaking his head.

"It's nothing." Cartman told him, "Listen if my mom shows up before you guys leave just tell her that I decided to walk home."

Without even waiting for either Kyle or Kenny to respond Cartman started making his way away from the school not even noticing that it was slightly starting to rain. Kyle and Kenny didn't know what to say as they kept looking at each other completely worried out of their minds.

Author's Note: I'm totally surprising myself by making another story when I haven't even finished my second to the last one yet. Either way this story isn't going to be very long. Originally I planned on having it last only one chapter but since I don't like to write very long chapters its going to end up at least a couple of chapters. I don't plan on going past 5 chapters so yeah and this IS a tragic story so unfortunately not really a happy ending. It's sort of a StanxCartman fic but it's going to end kinda bad. I'm also probably gonna put KylexCartman in here as well though like I said it's not a very long story. It'll most likely be the shortest story I make so far. Hope you guys like it anyway and please no gay haters. I had to delete a review from the other story I was working on simply because they didn't like the fact that it was two guys. They should have read my summary because it did say it was a certain guy with another guy (sighs). Also might put an alternate ending on this story I'm really thinking about it.