Craig Tucker was never a happy child. From the moment he was born, he was silent, only crying and later only speaking when necessary. His parents… well… they were very disappointed in him; firstly, they were hoping for a girl, and secondly, his attitude towards the world and society didn't help. Craig he had very few friends, and rarely spent time with them outside of school.
When he was three, his little sister was born. Craig didn't even blink when he was told he had a sister. Like he gave a rat's ass. When his little sister, named Ruby, was brought home in 2003, all hell broke loose. She was a very noisy baby, and woke the entire family up several times every night. Craig soon lost his temper with his sibling and, one day, walked up to her cot in mid-afternoon, and hit her as hard as he possibly could. Her scream immediately made her parents come running, only to sprint into the room to see their only son glaring at their newborn daughter with anything but sympathy in his eyes. It was actually scary.
Craig's parents decided soon afterwards that he needed to see someone to help with his 'mental issues'. This was in 2005. Unable to find a good psychologist, they entrusted him to Mr Smith, the school counsellor. Mr Smith tried his best to get Craig to talk about his feelings, but Craig just flipped him off. Mr Smith eventually gave up saying 'Craig just wasn't happy'.
Craig's parents decided it was best to move, hoping Craig would be happier in somewhere different than Denver. They wanted to move as far as possible, so they decided the cheapest place to move would be Australia (Yeah, I know, random country). It was 2008 then, making Craig eight and Ruby five. Ruby was very reluctant to move since she'd just started kinder garden and had made so many friends. She cried on the entire plane flight to Australia, but stopped when Craig commanded her to shut up, knowing how scary her brother could be.
The Tucker family moved to a big beach house in the city of Perth. Craig was a bit shocked when they arrived, since Denver was such a cold, eternal winter place, while Australia was a hot place, and it was in the middle of summer when they arrived in October. Craig didn't say much about their new house, but you could tell by his face that he was impressed by how large it was. His new school didn't look very impressive. It was called South Beach Elementary School. He saw it as they were driving to their new house. It was pathetically small.
When they arrived, it was just about sunset, so all they had time to do was look their new home and then unpack certain belongings such as blankets and clothes. Craig had to admit he wanted to go back to Denver to see all his 'friends'. The new bed he was in was very big, and very comfortable, but Craig couldn't manage to fall asleep. The room was very cold, which was odd, since it was summer. The air in his room smelt slightly of coffee, which was even odder, since no one had apparently lived there for at least a hundred years. When he finally fell asleep, unknown to him, someone was watching him, and continued to watch him for the entire night.
"CRAIG! GET YOUR ASS UP FOR SCHOOL!" Damn, his mom was pissed. She wasn't used to the time difference yet.
"I'm coming!" Craig slowly got out of bed and walked up to his guinea pig cage. Stripe was his only true friend that he could talk to, so he always had to make sure he was alright. After checking on the guinea pig, he quickly got ready for school. While in the car, on the way to school, Craig and Ruby looked at each other fearfully, frightened of going to a new school. Thankfully, they were going to attend the same one, so they would at least know someone.
As Craig had seen earlier, it was a tiny school. He could see many kids walking in, chatting to their friends as they held onto their bags, making sure that they didn't fall off of their tiny shoulders. Ruby looked very nervous, probably worried that she wouldn't be able to make friends. Craig wasn't worried about that. He was worried about change. He had never liked change. He'd always wanted to have a boring life, going to a normal school, get a normal job, marrying a normal girl, having a boy and a girl, having them get normal jobs, then dying in his sleep like normal people did. Change was scary for him. It totally ruined his normal life.
Before he could think anymore, they pulled up at the drop off. Ruby looked more scared than ever.
"Ok kids, get out and go to school." Craig stayed silent but Ruby shouted.
"But MOMMY! You're meant to walk us in!"
"You'll be fine Ruby. Besides, Craig will be there for you. Now, GET OUT!" She pushed them both out of the car and sped off.
"Some mom she is." Craig said dully, watching her disappear from the horizon. Ruby sighed.
"Will you show me to my class?" She looked at him hopefully.
"No." He walked away, leaving her standing there in shock. She slowly lifted up her hand and flipped him off.
When he walked by, many children stopped talking to their friends and stared. It wasn't surprising, since he was a new student.
"Craig! Is that you!" Craig turned to see a man running up to him.
"Who are you?" Craig asked. (A/N: remember, he has a really dull voice.)
The man looked surprised at how calm Craig was, but spoke.
"I'm your new principal, Mr Malcolm. I thought I would welcome you to the school."
"Doesn't seem like I'm very welcome." Craig gestured to a small number of kids who were staring and snickering.
"Oh, um… don't mind them; they're just not used to new students. Let's… let's get you to your classroom." He led Craig down the hall. They stopped next to a door that said 'room 8'.
"This is your class. School just started, so go inside right now. G-good luck." The principal walked away quickly, trying to get away from him. Craig flipped him off. He stared at the principal walking away, then sighed, turned around, and opened the door to his new classroom.
Everyone inside stared at him. The kids were all sitting at round tables. There were five people at each table. The teacher was heavily pregnant. Nice first impression. The teacher, who realised she was staring too long, quickly spoke.
"Oh, you must be Craig." Craig immediately noticed she had a strong Scottish accent.
"Yeah."
"Well, let's get you seated. Um, let's see… ah, there's a spare seat next to Eric. Raise your hand Eric." A fat boy raised his hand. Craig slowly walked over and sat next to him.
"Hey." Craig took the opportunity to look properly at the small group of boys. The group consisted of the fat boy named Eric, a red haired boy sitting next to Eric, a black haired boy sitting next to the red head, and finally a blond sitting next to the black haired guy. The black haired guy spoke.
"Dude, where you from?"
"America."
"Well, yeah, I know that. I meant where in America."
"Oh. Denver. You're American too. Where you from?"
"Oh, I'm from South Park. We all are. I'm Stan by the way. Stan Marsh." Stan looked at the red head. The red head took the message and spoke immediately.
"I'm Kyle Broflovski. The Fatass here is Eric Cartman. Everyone calls him Cartman though. And this is Kenny Mccormick." Kenny smiled and gave Craig a little wave.
"That's cool. Why'd you guys move to Australia, of all places?"
"Oh. Well… uh…" Kyle looked down.
"Our whole class was banned from America." Cartman finished for him.
"…What?"
"Well, let's just say… someone took a shit in the urinal and the school counsellor didn't take it well, and then no one owned up." Cartman glared at Stan.
"So who else here is from South Park?"
"You see that table over there?" Cartman pointed towards the back of the classroom. There was a table full of boys. There was a boy with a blond tuft of hair on his head, a brunette, a black kid, a kid with crutches, and a kid in a wheelchair.
"Yeah."
"They're all from South Park. The blonde one's Butters. He's a total fag and wimp, so he's not that exciting. The brunette's Clyde. He's a big player, has a new girlfriend every week. Stay away from him, cause he's a total douche. Same with Token, the black kid. He's totally rich. The crippled one with crutches is Jimmy. He's pretty cool, pretty funny, but he's still a retard. And the one in the wheelchair is Timmy. He's actually retarded, so yeah. That's them. There's a few others from South Park, but they're not anything special."
"Cool… where's the teacher gone?"
"Probably to the bathroom, since pregnant women pee way more than normal women."
Everyone stared at Kenny.
"Whatever you say Kenny." Stan said.
"Hey fellas!" Everyone looked from Kenny to the new voice.
"Butters, what do you want?"
"Well, gee Eric, I just wanted to say hi to my buddies!"
"Butters, we're not your buddies. Not get out of here!"
"Oh, well, alright then…" Butters quickly walked back to his table. Just as Butters sat down, the teacher hobbled in.
"Sorry children, I needed to go to the bathroom. Did you know that pregnant women need to pee way more than normal women do?"
"I cough told cough you cough so." The boys all glared at Kenny. The day went on normally. Craig made friends with nearly every boy in the class. He particularly liked Clyde, Token, Kenny and Stan. The day was soon over and everyone was heading home.
"Bye Craig!" Craig waved goodbye his new friends.
"Bye EMO!" Cartman used his knew nickname for Craig, which earned him the bird.
Craig went to pick up his little sister from her kinder garden class. The kinder garden area was very colourful and full of little kids walking with their parents. Not seeing his sister anywhere, he walked up to someone who looked like a teacher.
"Hey."
"Oh, can I help you?"
"Are you a teacher?"
"Why yes I am."
"I'm here to pick up my sister Ruby."
"Oh, hello, you must be Craig. She's waiting for you in the classroom. She… she didn't do very well today, so she's a bit down. The classroom's over there." The woman pointed to a door that was about 20ft away from where they were standing. Craig walked over and opened the door. The teacher watched him sadly.
Ruby was sitting in a dark corner of the room colouring in her colouring book. She was so engrossed in colouring perfectly; she didn't even notice her brother stand beside her.
"Ruby." She jumped and looked up. "What happened?" She glared and flipped him off.
"Right back atcha." He flipped her off back. "Come on, we need to go home."
Craig grabbed her hand and took her out of the room. After glaring at his sister's teacher, Craig dragged Ruby away. The walk home was about three miles. Since Craig had memorised the way to and from school in the car, his parents said they trusted him to bring Ruby home every day, since they were both working and had no time to pick them up.
When the siblings got home, Ruby immediately ran to her room and slammed the door. Craig sighed.
"Stupid little bitch." He had homework, but didn't really feel like doing it right then. Bored out of his mind, Craig came to a conclusion that the only thing to do to pass time was unpack the rest of his stuff. Just as he'd finished, his cell phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Yo, Craig!"
"Kenny, how the hell did you get my number?"
"I have my sources…"
"Do you stalk people?"
"No, I'm just smart."
"…You scare me."
"I know. Say hi to Stripe for me will you? Bye!" before Craig could say anything, he hung up. Craig was taken aback. How the hell did Kenny know his number? On top of that how did he know he had a guinea pig, and know the guinea pig's name? That was just downright creepy.
"KIDS! WE'RE HOME!" Craig heard his dad yell. Fuck. They were home.
"Craig, sweetie, how was school?"
"Like you give a shit mom." He pushed his mother out of his bedroom. Downstairs, he heard his dad and Ruby yelling at each other.
"I wish I could just have a normal, boring life." Craig went up to his desk and sat down. He might as well do his homework. As he worked on his math homework, he spotted a note on his desk.
It said 'Hi'. The writing was messy, like it was rushed, and the letters weren't written very well. Whoever wrote it wasn't very experienced when it came to writing. Who did Craig know that wasn't good at writing?
Ruby.
The Tucker family ate dinner in silence. They were all somehow pissed at each other. Craig was pissed at Ruby for messing with his stuff. Ruby was pissed at her father for their argument earlier. Their dad was pissed at their mom for not walking them to their classes. And their mom was pissed at Craig for kicking her so rudely out of his room.
Ruby looked up cautiously, to see her brother glaring at her.
"Dad."
"What Craig?"
"Did you know, in her free time…" Craig still kept his eyes on Ruby. "Ruby likes to use my stuff to write me notes." Ruby's jaw dropped open. Mrs Tucker looked up.
"Ruby, leave your brother and his stuff alone." Thomas Tucker said.
"But I didn't do it!"
"Ruby, don't be dumb, who else has bad hand writing in this house!"
"Leave your sister alone, Craig. She's had a bad day. She didn't even make any friends!"
"What! How could you not tell me about this!"
"Mommy doesn't have to tell you anything dad! It's my life; you don't have to know all of it!" (She's talking like that cause she's only five.)
"Shut up Ruby!" Craig shouted.
"Leave your sister alone Craig!"
"He can say what he wants!" Thomas shouted.
"No one cares dad!" Ruby glared at him.
"Screw you, Ruby!"
"CRAIG, FOR THE LAST TIME, LEAVE YOUR SISTER ALONE!"
"LEAVE THE BOY ALONE!"
"SHUT UP, DAD!" Ruby lost her temper.
"FUCK YOU RUBY!" Craig swore.
"CRAIG, FOR GOD'S SAKE!" his mom finally snapped.
"HONEY, LEAVE HIM ALONE!"
"NO ONE ASKED FOR YOU TO TALK, DAD!" Craig sighed, knowing this argument was going nowhere, left the room. In a way, he knew Ruby wasn't lying about the note. But, if she didn't write it, who did? Craig suddenly got an idea. Running to his room, he grabbed his phone.
"…Hello?" the voice sounded groggy.
"Hey Ken. Sorry if I woke you, but I need a favour."
"…What is it Craig?"
"Do you have a video camera?"
"No, but Cartman does. Why?"
"I'll tell you later. Could you give me his number?"
"Sure, I'll text you." Craig's phone rang a few minutes later, with Cartman's number in the text. Craig dialled it.
"What!"
"Cartman…"
"Craig! How the fuck did you get my number?"
"From Kenny. Now listen, I need your video camera."
"Are you seriously! I'm not gonna give it to you this time of night!"
"I'll piss off Kyle for you tomorrow."
"…Done. Where do you live?" Craig told Cartman his address and then hung up. Craig grabbed a piece of notebook paper and wrote on it; 'Who the hell are you?'.
Cartman arrived about 15 minutes later. He glared at Craig and handed him the camera.
"Why do you need this anyway?"
"I'll tell you later."
"Well fine then. I'm leaving."
"Wait, where do you live?"
"About a quarter of a mile down the road from you."
"A quarter of a mile and it took you 15 minutes to get here."
"I couldn't see well in the dark ok! Now, screw you, I'm going home." Cartman walked out of the house. Craig flipped him off.
Craig struggled to switch the camera on, since he wasn't very good with electronics, but finally managed. He'd left a pen and some notebook paper for, whoever was leaving him notes, to write on. Just as he'd set the camera so there was a perfect view of his desk, Ruby decided to be a bitch and scare the crap out of him.
"Craig."
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Jesus Ruby, don't do that!"
"Sorry. What are you doing?"
"Why should I tell a little brat like you?" Ruby smiled.
"Face it, Big Brother, we're siblings. We can't keep secrets from each other."
"Bullshit."
"Fine then, don't tell me." She flipped him off and walked out of the room.
Craig stared after her for a second, shook his head, and went to bed.
Beep
Beep
Beep
Craig's turned off his alarm clock and stretched. Second day living in Australia. Damn. Craig remembered the video camera. He reversed the tape and put it 50 times as fast as normal. When it reached about midnight he put it on normal speed. What he saw shocked him. The pen… lifted up on its own, then it… it started writing on the paper. When it had done writing, it put the pen down. That was it. All that happened.
Craig rushed to his desk to see what the note said. Under where he had written 'Who the hell are you?' it had written, in messy writing 'Tweek Tweak.'
Holy crap.
