Hi there!

So this is a story I wrote and published on a different website quite a while ago. I decided I was so proud of it that I wanted it on here for more people to see. Enjoy chapter 1!

Kyle Broflovski thought he had his life all planned out. He worked at a brokerage firm in downtown Denver, a job he mostly liked, respected, and took seriously. He was one of the youngest employees, and he felt proud of that fact, of their trust in him, and the knowledge that he was good at what he did. At twenty-five years old, he was making decent money, and living with a boyfriend who also happened to be his life-long best friend.

He and Stan finally got together in college after dancing around the issue since they were fifteen or so. They went to the University of Denver, while Wendy chose New York; she and Stan had tried to make it work for a period of time but eventually things fizzled out and died. By sophomore year, Kyle found himself spending more time in Stan's dorm room than his own, which was nothing unusual except instead of playing videogames they were making out in front of the TV.

By junior year, they'd gotten a single room together, and everything was exactly as it had always been, minus Stan's fucked-up, angsty period. Only now they were having sex with each other on regular basis. After graduation, it was silently decided they'd live together. They both had money saved from part-time jobs, and rent was rather reasonable in Denver, especially for two roommates.

Thanks to two internships during college, Kyle got placed in a brokerage firm not long after graduating. Stan, meanwhile, found his dream job: an environmental group who lobbied for green energy and funding for the local aquarium.

After nearly five years of living together, he and Stan had fallen into patterns; Kyle supposed they went through cycles like any other couple. They had their share of fights, but they were tame, uneventful, and usually solved before dinner or bed. Their parents would come out to visit them, mostly as an excuse to get out of South Park, where Stan and Kyle rarely went back. Kenny worked at a local garage in town and had a different girlfriend every few months, all of whom he invited to live with him. Stan joked it was just for the rent, and Kyle would say that's not a bad reason, which would lead to a fight about living together just for convenience. This was usually their main fight, along with Kyle being too into his work or his computer.

For the past few months, Kyle had been incredibly busy with work. He'd also become rather obsessed with Twitter and Tumblr, but Stan hated all things social networking; he'd come home and find Kyle on the couch with his laptop on his legs and look at the machine as if it was the plague, which would piss Kyle off.

"Can you plug my power cord back in?" Kyle would say.

"I'd like to throw your cord in the fish tank," Stan would reply. Kyle just rolled his eyes.

He didn't really take any of it seriously at first. But eventually Stan started to complain, "Is it too much for you to get up when I come home?"

"Dude, I totally said hello."

"Whatever, Kyle, I might as well not even be here."

And that wasn't fair. So Kyle had different interests. So he loved posting film posters to Tumblr and reblogging photos of awesome bookcases. So what if he had a few "online friends" he liked to talk with about film and music. Kyle always liked seeing things, knowing things, and he thought Stan understood that.

A few times after that, Stan flat out said to him, "Can you just... pay a little more attention to me while I'm here." Kyle had been on his headset at the time with a client, trying to convince the man to invest in some stock while multitasking on Twitter.

"This is business, Stan," he whispered.

Stan mumbled back, "It isn't always business."

Afterward, Kyle made a promise to not stay online all the time. He knew he definitely succeeded a few nights. He closed his computer down before Stan came home. He didn't multi-task when they watched their shows together or a film. Stan was appeased but then he lapsed back and Stan complaining again. He'd tried again, more recently, nearly deleted his Tumblr account too. He'd thought he was doing better. So he gave it another go and thought he'd been doing a little better recently. He was apparently wrong.

Sorry its kinda short but it's hardly started. It's mainly Kyman so get ready for that to kick in very soon!