Craig's POV

Ah, Monday morning. Ever since Saturday, my gang and Stan's gang have been hanging out a lot. Hell, we're even all skipping school together today.

Kenny promised me he'd bring some weed and some alcohol, possibly some other drugs too. I'm always up for drugs, it always takes away the pain for me. It's the same with smoking. I'm bringing cigarettes.

Of course, Tweek is coming too. He has a sick obsession with me and it's not healthy for him, just because we dated when we were younger doesn't mean I want to date him again. I'm 16 now and I don't want to go back down that path. It wasn't even my decision to date him. If I'm honest, Clyde and Token forced me into it because Tweek seemed depressed. They thought I could fix him. I need to stop reminiscing..

Of course.. my parents are away again and Ruby's skipping with her friends too. I'm home alone and I've only just woken up, I'm reasonably sad already. Thinking of what I did to Tweek.. I can't stand it. It was horrible. At least he can still stand to be around me.

It's 10 o'clock in the morning. I'm meant to be meeting up with Kenny in 15 minutes. I roll out of bed and throw on my casual clothes, a blue hoodie, some black jeans and my blue hat. I then race down the stairs and out of the door, not being bothered enough to lock it.

I begin my walk down to Stark's Pond, where we've planned to meet. However, soon as I exit the house, Tweek runs straight into me. He's out of breath and shaking and seems to be having some sort of panic attack. "Tweek?" I ask, and he throws himself onto me, wrapping his arms around me tightly. "Craig, I'm s-scared.." He sobs, and I place one hand on his back, the other in his vibrant blonde hair.

"What's wrong?" I ask in concern. "Heidi.. Heidi T-Turner went missing last night and I-I'm so scared! What if i-it happens to me? Craig, I'm s-so horrified.. w-what if she's dead? What if she was m-murdered?" He cries into my hoodie as I twirl his hair around my finger. "Tweek, you're okay. You'll be okay. She probably just ran away, you know how fucked up that girl was after she broke up with Eric for the 30th time." I state, pushing him away from me gently.

"Hey." I hold his chin and point his face up to look at mine. I'm quite taller than him. "You're okay. Stop crying." I rub his cheek with my thumb and he smiles lightly. "It's stupid. I'm s-stupid and I'm s-sorry.." Tweek laughs nervously and turns away. As he begins to walk off, I catch up and put my cold hands up his green shirt and onto his warm chest. I then pick him up and hold him by the chest, in a sort of 'bear hug'. He starts laughing and trying to attack my hands.

I then put him down and turn him to face me. "See? Life is for fun, Tweek. You were laughing just then! You're happy. I know you are. You just worry too much." I declare and hug him. He's still shaking but not as much, probably just from the cold now. "C'mon. We're going to meet up with the others, remember?" I take his hand and lead him in the direction of Stark's Pond.

"What are y-you guys gonna d-do? We should be in s-school." Tweek mumbles. "Lighten up, Tweekers. We're just taking a day off today, ain't we?" I reply simply. Tweek walks in silence for a moment before replying. "But w-what if we get caught? I d-don't wanna get in t-trouble!" He panics, clutching my arm.

"Hey, if you stay with us, I'll carve our initials into things. Like couples do, you know?" I offer, and instantly catch his attention. "Y-Yeah.. I'd like that." He smiles weakly. His tears are mostly dried now so there's just a few red tear lines running down his face. I'm used to it by now.

When we arrive at Stark's Pond, all is silent. I don't see Kenny or anyone anywhere here and Tweek is still clung to my side. Suddenly, I hear a loud gagging noise and look over to the pond, seeing Kenny with his head hung down over the edge. "God, Kenny! I didn't even see you there, man! What the hell are you doing?" I wander over to him as he throws up into the water.

"Craig! Ugh.. man, I'm really hungover from last night.." He giggles, wiping off his mouth and pulling me into a sloppy hug as I crouch down next to him. Tweek stands behind me awkwardly as I laugh to Kenny and hug him back.

My twitchy friend looks jealous, angry and almost worried. I guess it's because Kenny is undoubtably pansexual - he'd smash anything that breathes. Men, women, transgender people and gender fluid people. I don't wanna think about animals.. but I wouldn't put it past him.

"Craig.. I have something to tell you." Kenny suddenly looks incredibly serious, his arms latched onto my hoodie as he stares into my eyes. I look down as I raise myself slightly, somewhat shocked that Kenny McCormick is being serious for once. "Uh.. sure." I say, lifting him up with me. "In private." He says, taking my hand and leading me away behind some trees, leaving Tweek stood alone.

"Dude, what's gotten into you, why're you being so.. weird?" I say to him as he slams my back into a tree and practically pins me to it. "You can't tell anyone this.. but you know last night? When we hit the town and got all insane, but then you had to leave early to walk Tweek home?" He bombards me with questions incredibly quickly and quietly, his face only centimetres from mine.

"Uh.. yeah?" I reply simply, not too sure where he's heading with this. "Well.. me and Stan were wandering out behind Skeeter's and we found Heidi in the snow. She was passed out and clearly very drunk. But then she woke up.. and Cartman and Kyle found their way over to us with Token and Clyde. We started making fun of her and I think a few of the boys threw some snow on her but I'm not sure.. I don't remember all the details.

But I do remember that when Heidi got up, she started picking a fight with Cartman. She started swearing at him but all her words were slurred so.. I don't remember exactly what she said. Man, my mind was spinning but I do remember a few.. more important things.

She lunged forward and pounced on Cartman, probably in an attempt to attack him. She got him to the floor and.. there was blood. I know there was blood. And.." He took in a sigh, still pressing me tightly to the wall and glaring down slightly with a worried look on his face. "I.. I was the one who pulled the trigger. I killed her, Craig. And I didn't intend to. I was.. I was so drunk and I.. I was trying to defend Cartman. I shouldn't have done it.. but I did it anyway. And now the body is buried back there in the woods and the police are on us and we're done for."

I stand in silence, my thoughts becoming jumbled and strained as I try to take in the information. Of course Kenny would get into all this fucked up shit. Of course, he's Kenny McCormick. He'd do this. But I wish I didn't know about it. I can't say I miss Heidi personally, but murder is murder. I've never imagined myself to be ever associated with murderers.. but it does sound pretty thrilling. But I'd still never kill.

"Craig? Craig. Listen to me." He cups my cheek with his hand and closes my wide-open jaw. "Craigy, I told you this because I trust you. Now shut your mouth and don't tell that twitch over there. He can't know! He'd throw us in it! But he does love you a lot.. it's obvious. Maybe he'd keep it a secret.. for you.." He moves closer to my face with a slight smirk. "But you love me more, right?" He says, kissing my neck and making me roll my eyes.

"Kenny, stop being a hooker for, like, five minutes. This is serious." I say, my eyelids drooping half way over my eyes. "I know it's serious.. but we've got away with it, haven't we? Right now.. at least.. and we didn't leave any evidence. It's just the chance that maybe someone saw us.. but everyone in that bar was too pissed to care about one, single gun shot. We might be fine."

I try to push him off of me, thinking that the conversation is over. However, it's clearly not when he grabs me by the hood and yanks me back over, slamming me back into the tree. "Craig.. listen to me. Promise you won't tell anyone." He looks into my eyes with desperation and I sigh deeply. "I promise." I say begrudgingly, somewhat tempted to hand him in. But at the same time, I couldn't do that to them. Not after all that's happened recently between us.

"Good." He smirks, kissing me on the cheek almost suggestively and watching me cringe in his grasp. "Okay. Let's go back over to twitch now. Remember what I said.. and maybe I'll reward you after.." He winks at me, taking my hand and leading me out from behind the trees.