"Good job Stan!" Cartman was rooting for Stan.
"Dude, what happened?" Kyle asked.
"Well Craig and I are being sent to a different class to learn to become friends." Stan explained.
"You can talk to your friends after the orientation." The principal said and escorted Stan and Craig to the classroom.
Stan sat down next to Craig because the principal was really strict on this. He needed to teach these boys a lesson about friendship.
"Alright boys, this is your new classroom. You will be assigned to be partners for group projects and when the teacher believes you have succeeded in the class, then you can leave the class."
Both boys sighed as the principal walked out of the classroom.
"Hello Stan and Craig. It seems that you are the only two in this classroom. Most don't fight like you guys did." The teacher was speaking.
"Well Craig started it. I was trying to be nice to him with my other friends but he didn't care about it." Stan explained.
"Well I never asked for your help." Craig said.
"Enough! You two need to learn to get along. Now my name is Mrs. Hamilton and this will be your only class for the first semester. I know all of the subjects so I will be teaching you everything. Until you learn to get along is when you will be able to spend the second semester like you would normally." Mrs. Hamilton said.
"Alright fine. So what is our first lesson?" Stan asked.
"Well we will be studying English first." Mrs. Hamilton said.
Craig was pretty smart in school; he just didn't really care enough to try. Stan on the other hand was trying super hard to pass. His best subject was History though. Mrs. Hamilton went about the day teaching the two about English, then Math, followed by History and then it was lunch time. In between classes, Mrs. Hamilton gave them 5 minute breaks to take a breather and calm down. Mrs. Hamilton wasn't so bad; in fact, she was probably the best teacher they ever had. At least they could agree on something.
Stan and Craig were always like this; getting into petty fights and not liking each other. They were always competing against each other even when Craig was dating Tweek. Tweek never liked it when Craig was mean, so Craig never spoke to Stan. Craig hated it when he made Tweek upset; Stan always wanted to win against Craig though.
"Alright boys, you can go to lunch now." Mrs. Hamilton said and waved them goodbye.
Finally, Stan can go talk to Kyle and all his other friends instead of Craig.
"Kyle! We are back from the class." Stan announced.
"Dude! How long do you have to be in that class?" Kyle asked.
"The teacher said basically the first semester of the year." Stan said.
"Lucky you Stan." Kenny said with a laugh.
"It's not funny you guys. Now I spend all my time with Craig. This is all your fault Kyle." Stan was getting upset.
"Me? How is it my fault?" Kyle asked.
"If it wasn't for your plan to go say hi to him, none of this would happen." Stan said.
"But you went along with the plan." Kyle said.
"Because that's what friends are for Kyle. I never wanted to say hi in the first place." Stan said.
"Well sorry dude, but you are the one who fought him." Kyle said.
"You guys, stop being retarded, you both are at fault here. I am the one who tried to stop you guys." Cartman said.
"Shut up fatass." Kyle said.
"You stupid Jew, when will you learn." Cartman said.
Craig was actually listening to the conversation with Stan and Kyle. Why now of all times did they want to be friends with me?
"Craig, I'm sorry you have to be put up with Stan now." Clyde said.
"It's okay. It will be over with soon." Craig said.
Lunch time was over and it was time to start heading back to class. Craig and Stan walked in at different times. Mrs. Hamilton was now going to talk about their relationship.
"So guys, now let's talk about why you are so angry at each other." Mrs. Hamilton said.
"I'll go first." Craig said.
"This should be good." Stan mumbled under his breath.
"Well, Stan has always tried to beat me at everything and always was trying to start a fight. When I was dating Tweek, he would be upset with me when Stan and I argued so I stopped talking to him. But recently, Stan and his friends tried to talk to me when I didn't want them to." Craig explained.
"That is because you always thought you were better than me! Kyle was just trying to be kind to you because of some dream he had of Tweek!" Stan said.
"What? What kind of dream?" Craig was now interested.
"Well apparently, Tweek wanted us to help you not be so sad all the time. Tweek knows you are depressed and wants you to be happy and move on! Which by the way is something you should do. It's been two years since Tweek passed away man. All we wanted to do was help you but you didn't even care. You were just so stubborn like always and didn't want us to help!" Stan said.
"You better not talk about Tweek like that to me. He was my only lover and he understood me like no one else did!" Craig said.
"I'm sorry man but you have to get over it. There are plenty fish in the sea." Stan said.
"But Tweek was my only fish Stan!" Craig started to cry.
Stan patted Craig on the back and told him it was going to be okay. Stan tried to comfort him but Craig was still crying.
"I see Craig. So your significant other passed away. I am very sorry to hear that. Stan, you have to understand that this situation isn't easy to get over. It's not like a breakup or anything. This is serious and it takes time for someone like this to heal. Sure it has been two years, but it can take up to five years for Craig to feel like there is more in the world." Mrs. Hamilton explained.
"I I didn't know how serious this was." Stan said and sat back down at his desk.
"So now since we have that out of the way, Craig, I want you to relax. I didn't know you had so much pain before. As for you Stan, I want you to understand Craig and how he feels from his point of view." Mrs. Hamilton gave them their first group assignment.
"Alright Craig, so maybe I don't understand how you feel, but why do you have to be so mean to me in the past and try to be better than me?" Stan asked.
"Because you were trying to be better than me!" Craig said.
Stan and Craig were walking home together towards Stan's house. Craig had to explain how he felt to Stan to understand how he was feeling for this assignment. They entered the house and walked up to Stan's room.
"Alright so let me take some notes." Stan took out a notebook and pencil and began jotting some notes down.
"These feelings aren't something you can just write Stan. Here, I wrote a poem about how I feel." Craig gave a poem to Stan.
Stan read the poem and it was one of the most beautiful things he ever read. Craig felt so much pain and he was making himself suffer. Maybe this is why Tweek didn't want him to suffer anymore.
"Wait a minute Craig, why are we together in my room?" Stan was feeling weird.
"What do you mean Stan?" Craig was confused.
"We are supposed to hate each other, why are we hanging out? How did our differences just suddenly leave us?" Stan said.
"I'm not sure. That teacher is really good with whatever she did." Craig said.
"It just seems too weird you know?" Stan was saying.
"Yeah well, I'm leaving then. See you tomorrow Stan." Craig said and left for his house.
Stan was feeling strange, he never thought that Craig and him would share such an intense moment. And just like that after Stan fell asleep, he forgot all about the feelings towards Craig and kind of started hating him again.