Chapter 1
Sometimes Kenny made Butters very, very angry. They weren't together, and Butters was well aware of that. But, he'd just assumed there was some sort of implied loyalty factor in their relationship. Butters hadn't been with anyone else since they started having, for use of Kenny's term, "a thing"; he didn't even want anyone besides Kenny. The same could not be said for the heartbreakingly good-looking boy, apparently, or, at least, that was what Kenny wanted Butters to think.
Really, and Butters was pretty sure about this, Kenny was trying to make him sad. That was why the golden blonde's large hand was inching its way into Tweek Tweak's back pocket. It had nothing to do with Kenny being attracted to the poor twitching boy (if Butters drank half as much coffee as Tweek, his parents would ground him for sure) and it had nothing to do with Kenny no longer being attracted to him (he hoped). Butters watched Tweek skitter nervously as Kenny's hand was finally enclosed in the pocket, his long fingers slightly curving around the small blonde's-
Butters didn't want to think about that. Those weren't proper thoughts at all. There was a reason Kenny was flirting with Tweek so close to Butters' locker and there was a reason he was flirting specifically with the neurotic boy. And both of those reasons stemmed from the fight that had happened in Kenny's dad's truck two days prior. A situation which, since its occurrence, Butters had referred to as "the situation".
"The situation" was, in hindsight, kind of dumb. It started off simple enough. Butters and Kenny were kissing in the front bench seat of the truck, having just driven home from watching Stan play in the football game, and then, as these things usually went, Kenny tried to touch Butters' bottom. Butters was well aware that it wasn't all that big of a deal; it was just a butt, after all. He just wanted to keep Kenny on a short leash because he was afraid the blonde would ditch him if everything went too quickly. The faster Butters let Kenny do more than kiss him, the faster the boy would be out of his life and onto romancing some other poor soul.
So, as usual, Butters stopped Kenny from touching him and Kenny groaned. "You're seriously killing me, Butters," Kenny had muttered, his tousled blonde hair pressed against the headrest.
Butters had nodded, "I know."
That was when everything went downhill, if Butters could pinpoint an exact moment. Kenny went on to inform Butters he could always find some other butt to touch, and Butters had made the mistake of more-or-less daring him to do so.
Kenny McCormick never turned down a challenge. And so, the gorgeous boy that had previously belonged somewhat to Butters was scaring the crap out of Tweek Tweak in the hallway by touching him in inappropriate places. And, on top of that, Kenny hadn't even so much as looked in Butters direction since the smaller blonde had stumbled out of the truck Friday night.
At the sound of Kenny's slow, easy laughter, Butters slammed his locker shut. Immediately, he felt bad about it, running his hands over its green paint, as if to comfort the metal contraption. If enough people slammed a locker, it would surely break. It wasn't even really Butters', the school was just letting him use it for this year.
He wasn't sore with the locker anyway; Butters was sore with Kenny. Mad at him for touching Tweek's butt and for taking his joking words to heart and simply for being able to make Butters this upset. For someone who was pretty easygoing in nature, Butters was extremely distraught. And he didn't really like that.
It wasn't the first time something like this had happened. Considering Butters and Kenny weren't, for the use of Kenny's word, "exclusive" (even though Butters kind of wanted to be and Bebe referred to the pair as "Bunny"), Kenny often flirted with other people. Mainly because he knew it made Butters upset and Kenny was kind of a jerk sometimes. Normally it ended with Butters crying or shyly and apologetically crawling back to the lanky blonde. Then, they would kiss and the world would be set right again.
Except it was Tweek this time. That shouldn't have made a difference, but it did. Butters was nice, and he prided himself on that fact. Nobody else even pretended to be nice, except Cartman sometimes, but his idea of being nice was wearing a nice sweater. Butters wore nice sweaters and acted nice, which he figured was some sort of double whammy. DesApite his overall niceness, he'd never particularly liked Tweek. His tics were distracting in class and then there was the fact that people often compared him to the twitchy boy. The blonde hair, nervous nature, smallness. It drove Butters slightly crazy, and nobody knew about it except Kenny.
He realized telling Kenny this had been a mistake because now it was being used against him. Butters sighed. Kenny was much smarter than everyone thought.
Butters turned around and pressed his back against his locker. He should've been on his way to class, but he couldn't really focus on anything except that hand, enclosed in a pocket that wasn't Butters'. Truthfully, it peeved him a lot less when Kenny flirted with girls. That seemed weird, but it made sense to Butters. No matter how many girls Kenny had, Butters would still be his favorite boy. And the small blonde knew that Kenny would never be able to have a successful relationship with a girl, he simply didn't care enough.
Normally, this would be about the time when Butters would apologize to Kenny, regardless of whether or not he actually did anything, and they would go kiss in an empty classroom. Except, Butters had no desire to apologize this time. He wasn't sure if it was the whole Tweek thing that pushed him over the edge, or if Kenny had used him one time too many, but all Butters wanted to do was make Kenny mad back.
A strange, small smile spread across Butters' cute, round face and he marched off to English class, knowing exactly who he needed to talk to.
A/N: I'm excited about this fic...so you should be too. Seriously, I'm kidding though. Well, not about me being excited, because I totally am. This should be...fun, more than anything. Butters is going to be a little different here than he is in most fics...but I do think he has occasional moments of ballsiness in the show. So I think I'm good.
Yeah so, this'll be a multi-chap...probably around like 5 chapters or something? Don't take my word on that because I tend to be wayyyy off :) I'd love to know what you guys thought!
