"Annnnd cut." Craig said turning off his video camera, Clyde rose out of the tub fake blood running down his face and staining his shirt.
"Did we do good this time?" Clyde asked wiping the fake blood off of his lips.
" yes you did actually, we can finally wrap this up." Craig replied.
"So now all you have left to do is the edits and then we'll get to finally see it?" Token asked.
"Yep."
Clyde sighed "finally, I'll be honest this whole acting thing isn't really my favorite thing, I know what I don't want to be when I grow up, thanks for opening my eye's craig."
" whatever clyde."
The brunette gave both token and craig a smile before standing up.
"Now since we're done can you guys leave so I can get cleaned up?"
"Sure, I need to get home and edit this anyways,no point in hanging around." Craig replied walking out of the restroom with token.
"You need a ride home?" Token asked while they were walking downstairs.
"Thanks for the offer but I think I'm gonna walk home."
"Suit yourself." Token replied walking over to his car.
Craig made his way down the side walk. He was quite exhausted the only thing he wanted to do when he got home was rest, but he also wanted to get done with his editing, him and his friends were working on this little film for months now and he was real excited to complete it. This would be his first film he actually made since he first got this camera.
Craig has always love filming since he was a kid, it was always his passion, for as long as he could remember. He even hoped that one day he would be able to become a professional movie director, he had the talent and he surely did have the passion for it. His friends token and clyde once told him that they could see that in his future.
And that was the type of motivation he needed to try harder.
When he got in his house the first person who greeted him was his little sister. She was going through her little goth faze with her friend karen. Her hair was dyed jet black with the tips painted a dark red , she had a black shirt with black jeans and black fish net fingerless gloves and a small silver necklace in the shape of a bat that Henrietta gave her.
"Oh so finally you decide to come home?"
Craig didn't really answer her instead he flipped her off, she did the same.
"I'm going to my room so don't bother Me at all." He said walking upstairs
"Make sure you lock the door, don't want mom and dad walking in on you!"
"Shut up!" Craig yelled out
He walked into his room closing the door behind him before making his way to his computer so he could get started editing his movie.
The next day at school craig sat at his desk. His head resting on his hand, he was trying to stay awake but his attempts to keep his eyes open were failing badly.
It wasn't until he heard a loud thud on his desk causing causing him to jerk back startled.
"Someone's tired." Clyde spoke sitting down in the desk in front of him.
It took a few seconds for craig to calm down and realize the situation. Clyde dropped the books on Craig's desk to try and scare him on purpose.
"Did I scare ya?" Clyde asked removing his things off of Craig's desk
Craig was completely pissed at Clyde for doing that but he wasn't gonna show it instead he did what he did with everyone else. He just simply flipped him off.
Clyde didn't think much of it though.
"So what's got you all tired, i mean no offense dude but you look like a fucking zombie."
Craig yawned "I was up all night working on the movie."
"Damn, all night? Did you sleep at all?!"
Craig shook his head "nope."
" you should of done that like over the weekend instead of on a school night that would of been better."
"Yeah, yeah." Craig answered
"You better hope you can stay awake during class."
"I'm not worried, besides I already have an A in this class, what's one bad grade?"
"See that's how people fail they see themselves already passing but as soon as they stop trying their grades start slacking and before you know it you're begging the teacher for make up work to keep you from repeating the grade."
"It's just one assignment clyde."
"That's what they all say." Clyde replied.
Craig rolled his eyes slowly drifting back into sleep.
During lunch craig had gotten his tray and sat by his friends at his regular table. Craig never actually ate his food, he'd take at least three to four bites before giving the rest of his food to clyde.
He was zoning in and out of the conversation Clyde and token were having but mostly he was just in his own little world.
"So craig?" Token said
"Yeah?"
"How's the movie coming along?"
"Oh it's um, it's good."
"When can we actually be able to watch it?" He asked
"I'll try to get it done by friday, maybe you can come over Saturday."
"Alright." Token said before taking a bite out of his chicken sandwich.
Craig went back into his own little world his eyes unconsciously scanning through the sea of students in the cafeteria.
Eventually his eyes stopped on one person in particular. It was a boy sitting by himself, it was weird craig knew all the kids in his school but he never saw this kid before, was he new?
Craig sat zoned in on the blond boy he wondered why the boy was sitting by himself but the more he stared the more he realized why the boy was such a loner he noticed the random ticks the blond let out and the very noticeable twitching, not only that but the boy was a mess his hair was all over the place and he missed some of the buttons on his shirt.
It was safe to say that the boy was a loner for a reason.
"Dude who are you staring at?" Clyde said.
Craig looked at him before looking back over at the blond.
"I'm trying to figure out who that is." Craig said
Clyde scooted closer to him trying to see who exactly he was talking about.
"You're talking about tweek?"clyde asked
"Tweek?"
"Yeah dude."
The name kind of sounded familiar to craig but he couldn't for the life of him remember where he heard it.
"Is he new or something?"
"I guess you can say that." Token said "I mean he was here during fourth grade but then moved, I think he came back like last month."
'Fourth grade?' Craig thought to himself, that's why that name sounded so familiar to him.
And. Of course it was so easy to forget who tweek was he left during the fourth grade.
" does he take any classes with us?"
"Yeah dude, he's in our first period class."
"Seriously?" Craig asked shocked
"How come I've never seen or heard his name being called?" He asked clyde
"Maybe because you're off in your own little world most of the time." clyde replied before taking a bite out of his food.
Craig sat there a few more minutes now observing the teen.
there was something about this boy that craig couldn't quite put his finger on,but craig knew he needed to stop looking at him before he looks up and catch him staring. Craig didn't want to seem like a creep or anything. Besides he's far from being a creep.
After that encounter craig started to see tweek more often. It was weired because one day he didn't know this boy even existed and now it felt as if this boy was everywhere around every corner. A person who once blended into the background so well was Now everywhere.or maybe craig was just reading to much into it.
And soon craig had managed to forget about tweek all together. He didn't see the kid anymore although he knew tweek was always there he managed to actually keep tweek in the background. The blond wasn't his top concern anymore.
Or so he thought.
Craig was in the restroom stall one day. And he could hear the door open and someone stepping in he could hear grunts coming from the person who stepped in and he automatically knew who it was coming from.
Craig flushed the toilet before stepping out of the stall.he noticed tweek slightly move his head trying to see who just stepped out of the stall but it was obvious that he was trying to avoid any kind of eye contact.
Craig walked over to the sink beginning to wash his hands watching tweek out of the corner of his eyesm he noticed tweek quickly grabbing his things and darting out of the restroom at top speed.
Craig didn't really think much of it, this was probably normal for the kid who always acted weird. Once done craig made his way out of the restroom and made his way to his first period class.
He saw tweek sitting down with a notebook it looked as though he could of been drawing something but craig wasn't able to actually get a good look at it.
After school craig and his gang decided to hang out at the coffee shop.
Craig's never been there but clyde and token loved to actually hang out there from time to time.
Stepping into the shop craig went to take a seat while clyde and token both went to order themselves a cup of coffee from the lady at the counter.
After the two got their coffee they made their way over to the seats craig picked out.
"I don't see why you didn't want to get any coffee here it's really addicting."
"Not really a coffee person clyde." Craig replied "never was and never will be."
"It should be something you like since you're basically always up working on shit,this is made for someone like you."
"Shut up and drink your coffee clyde." Criag replied.
Craig heard the bell from the entrance. Ringing and automatically he looked to see who had entered to his surprise it was tweek. Craig watched as the boy walked behind the counter.
'He works here?' Craig thought to himself,but then he realized where he was. This place was called tweaks coffee for a reason. This must of been
His families shop.
He watched as he walked over to the woman working at the counter, the two exchange words and the woman took off her apron before handing it to tweek.
Craig noticed there was a change in this boys demeanor when speaking to customers, he wasnt as twitchy he barely even had his random high pitch squeaks that Craig heard during class which Craig found to be a bit amusing at times and for some reason a little cute.
'Cute?' Craig thought to himself.
Why the hell did he find that cute? What the hell?
No it wasn't cute it was just interesting, cause finding something or someone to be cute was just to gay. Besides the only thing he would even ever call cute is his pet guinea pig stripe.
The next day at school while craig was making his way to class he decided he needed to make a pit stop at his locker and get a few books for his class. He opened his locker getting his books out for his first two classes which was history and math.
Just like any other normal individual Craig hated math, but history wasn't as bad learning about certain parts of history was interesting to him,but it wasn't fascinating.
"Gah!" Craig heard someone yell right beside him startling him for a moment. He turned to look at the source of the noise and lo and behold it was none other than tweek making the noise.
The blond was struggling with his locker he let out little groans of frustration every now and again whenever he attempted to open it.
"Do you need any help?" Craig asked, Tweek looked at him,his eyes widdened as if he just seen a ghost or was just threatened.
"Wh-oh um no I'm jus-" without letting tweek finish craig walked over laying his hand on tweeks locker.
"Combination?" He asked.
"Um erm,it's 12 34 10." He replied Craig put in the combination opening the locker with ease.he turned to look at tweek who was still standing behind him.
"There you go." He said going back to his locker.
"T-thanks." Tweek said hurriedly getting his things out.
Craig got the rest of his things before closing his own locker making his way to class.he spotted clyde leaning back in his seat eating from a bag of Cheetos.
"Why is it that whenever I see you you're always eating something?"
Clyde shrugged tossing a few more Cheetos in his mouth "I'm human craig and us humans get our energy from food, unlike certain people I know who barely eats."
Craig sat his books down on his desk behind clyde. "I do eat Dumbass, I just don't really eat the shit they serve here as food."
"Well if you don't like the food here you could always bring your own lunch."
"Then I wouldn't be able to give your greedy as some of my portion."
Clyde chuckled "I can always get something from token, he's generous with his food." He balled the now empty bag of Cheetos up tossing it into the trash bin in the corner of the room.
"And speak of the devil." Clyde said looking over at token who had just entered the class room
"Hey token." Clyde said
"Hey clyde, What you two over here talking about?"
"Oh nothing really,craig was just complimenting me on my eating habits." He started licking the cheeto dust off of his fingers.
"Wow didn't know craig tucker gave out complements,you must be feeling rather generous today." Token joked.
Craig rolled his eyes deciding not to say anything at all.
It was a cold walk home from school, craig on days like this Craig wished that he had his own car to drive, his parent's car would of been fine too but since his dad decided to straight up crash the car and ruin his only good means of transportation he was stuck walking home. He wasnt able to hitch a ride with any of his friends either since clyde didn't have a car and token was staying behind at school to take clyde home after football practice,and craig definitely didn't feel like waiting for the damn thing to be over to get a ride home he had things to do.
He popped in his headphones listening to music, listening to music made the walk seem a lot less boring and always made the walk home seem quicker or at least less lonely
Before he even realized he was shaking his head to the rhythm and as soon as the chorus started he couldn't help but sing along
"I said, hey girl, hey girl
I'd like to stay here for a while
Just you and I
Far from the places we can't get away from
She said, hey boy, hey boy
I like your style
I'll let you play me for a while
Play me 'till the sun rises
Play me like a violin"
He made his way twords tweaks coffee and saw a middle aged man sweeping the entrance. It was already apparent that the man worked there since he was in uniform.
The man looked up at craig giving the raven a big toothless smile before waving at craig And gesturing for him to come over. And craig to his annoyance did so.
He removed his earphones getting ready to listen to whatever this man had to say.
"Wow Craig.." He spoke examining the boy up and down
"My have you grown."
Craig stood there confused,why was This man adressing him like they were long time friends?
"Boy I tell ya,if it wasn't for that hat you had since elementary I wouldn't be able to recognize you."
"You're mr.tweak right?" Craig asked
"Yes I see you remember me."
'Not really.' Craig thought too himself
"Say how's your father been?"
"Uh...he's been good I guess."
"That's great. Haven't spoken to him since the day we moved away, so how's school been treating ya'?"
This was now starting to feel like it was gonna go on forever a man that craig barely remembers is now asking him a thousand and one questions and all he wants to do is just go home.
"It's alright."
"You getting good grades?"
"Uh,yeah."
"That's good."he leaned forward resting his chin on top of the broom.
"Tweeks grades could be a little better he's been doing horribly in school since we left, but I know it's probably because of the constant moving I know how much of a toll that can take on a child,but hey when you're constantly trying to find a good place to sale coffee well..." He stopped mid sentence his gaze wondering to the ground beneath him.
"You wouldn't mind being tweeks tutor from time to time right?"
"It depends,what subjects does he need help in?" Craig asked immediately regretting the question that just left his lips.
"Well I know he's failing in his chemistry class and also history and math."
"I uh guess I can help with those." He answered now mentally punching himself, the last thing he wanted to do was help someone In their studies.
He already has enough things on his hands to being with.
"That is if he wants help though." Craig quickly said.
"Thank you craig I'll let him know that, oh would you like me to fix you some coffee? It's on the house."
"No thanks I'm alright,I should get going anyways."
"Suit yourself, and tell your father I said hi and that he should visit whenever he had the chance."
"Will do." Craig quickly replied walking away as fast as he could popping his earphones back In his ears,hopping mr.tweak didn't have anything else to say."
Craig stepped into his house, no one was to be seen,although he knew that someone was home since there was random footsteps upstairs.he closed and locked the front door before making his way up to his room.
He spotted his sister tricia sitting at the desk where his guinea pigs cage sat up on. He cleared his throat gaining her attention.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm Watching stripe."
"Why?"
She quickly stood up "I'm not touching him or anything I just wanted to see him."
"Can you get out now."
"Why?"
"Why? Because stupid,this is my room and I would love it if you get out."
"Fine whatever, dick." She raised her middle finger walking out of the room.
Craig closed the door as soon as she left. But after a good 3 seconds there was a knock on the door. Craig growled before cracking the door open seeing his sister standing on the other side with her arm's crossed.
"What?"
"I forgot to tell you dad said to shovel the driveway."
"What the hell for? It's not like they have the fucking car or anything."
"They got another dumbass and They got it today, that's why he said he wants it cleared before he gets here."
"But it'll be dark soon."
"Well I suggest you hurry up and get a move on I know how scared you are of manbearpig hoping out and attacking you in the darkness,I'll let you know that if you did get snatched by a stupid monster you won't be missed or anything,but I guess I'll be nice enough to take care of your guinea pig for you."
"Gee thanks."Craig answerd She gave him a half smile before walking away
"And even if a monster decided to take you there's a good possibility that they'll bring you back because they'll find you too annoying!" She yelled out walking down the stairs.
"Thanks that's reassuring." He yelled back before slamming the door.