"H-Hey- ARGH- Craig. T-There he is." Tweek Tweak says, pointing out one, orange-clad Kenny McCormick. Craig feels his blush growing on his face.

Shit. This was a fucking mistake.

Yeah, this morning he felt confident, but holy shit it was real now. He was actually gonna ask Kenny McCormick out.

Like, right this second.

Fuck.

"Oh no! You're not chickening out, now! Not after 5 whole weeks.!" Clyde Donovan reprimands around a bite of a Doritos Locos Taco from Taco Bell, shaking his head all the while.

Craig does little more than flip him off.

"W-Well C-Clyde h-h-h-h-as a p-p-p-point, Craig!" Jimmy Valmer agrees. Traitor.

"Would you all keep it fucking down? He's right there!" Craig whispers harshly to his asshat friends. Tweek gives him an apologetic look. Clude grins sheepishly, and Jimmy stutters out a 'sorry'.

"Well, they're not wrong, Craig. It has been 5 weeks, and we're not getting any younger." Token Black summarizes, crossing his arms resolutely. Craig groans.

"Fine, fine, fine. I'm fucking going." Craig deadpans, the movie tickets burning a whole in his fleece, blue hoodie pocket.

"Y-Yay- AAH!" Tweek tries to cheer, but he shakes instead.

"G-G-G-Good luck." Jimmy nods. Clyde waves, and Token shoots him an encouraging smile.

Turning away from them, Craig lets a nervous breath out before he starts over to Kenny.

"Hey, uh, Kenny!"

OK, maybe saying 'uh' like an idiot wasn't the best way to go about asking Kenny Mc-fucking-Cormick out, but Craig was already head-first, so why bother backspacing?

Kenny turns with a tooth-gapped smile. "Oh, hey Craig! What's up?" Kenny asks, shoving his hands in his pockets with a bright smile.

Craig opened his mouth to say something, but Kenny's friends' laughter interrupted him. He snapped it shut.

"Hey, Kenny! We're gonna get ice cream; You comin'?" Stan asked, one arm around Kyle's shoulder. God were they gay.

Of course, Craig was trying to ask Kenny out, so he couldn't say much.

"Nah, Craig wanted somethin'. I'll see ya guys at Kyle's house, though." Kenny laughed, waving at them. Stan and Butters nodded, Cartman laughed, and Kyle winked at Craig.

'Don't you fucking dare' Craig thought, glaring at the redhead. Kyle smiled innocently, as if he could hear Craig's thoughts.

"Haha! You fags gonna make out or what?" Cartman laughs loudly, punching Butters in the arm to punctuate his laughter, which Butters winced at. They then walked away, Kyle giving Craig a not-so-subtle thumbs up from behind Stan.

Thankfully for Craig, Kenny was too busy rolling his eyes to the back of his head to notice.

"Anyway, what was it you wanted to ask me, Tucker?" He asked with a smile, turning back to Craig. Craig blushed lightly.

"U-Uh...I...uh...well...I wanted to ask you if..." Craig stuttered, cursing himself in his head. What was he doing? He sounded like an idiot.

Kenny nodded along with his nervous babble with those cute bright blue eyes before a toothy grin spread across his face again. Craig blushed again.

Goddamn, was Kenny McCormick's smile cute.

"Well...I-I wanted to ask if you wanted to see Ghostbusters with me." Craig asked, scratching the back of his head nervously. Kenny blinked, confused.

"But I thought you said you hated Ghostbusters?" Kenny asked, tilting his head to the side. Craig flushed brighter.

"Y-Yeah, but...I heard that you wanted to see it, and I had tickets, so I wanted to know if you wanted to go. With me, that is." Craig explained, scratching the back of his neck nervously. Kenny blinked before a smile spread across his face again.

Now, maybe Craig was fucking hallucinating, but he thought he saw a hint of pink dusting those freckled cheeks.

"Um, when did you wanna go?" Kenny asks, and his body language seems nervous now. Huh.

"W-Well...I wanted to go tomorrow a-after school, like 6-ish. I-If you're not free I get it, though." Craig responds, not even meeting Kenny's eyes again.

"N-No! I'm free, don't sweat it." Kenny assures, waving his hands to stop Craig from assuming he was saying no, because he definitely wasn't.

Craig nods. "Got it. 6 O'Clock." The noirette nods. Kenny laughs nervously.

"Y-Yeah. 6." The blonde nods. The space between them is awkward, and neither knows what to do now.

Luckily for them, Craig's phone cut them off.

It was his sister Ruby, asking if he was going to be much longer asking his boyfriend out.

Ah, shit. He had to pick her up from the park because she was hanging out with her shitty friends. Right.

"Uh, I gotta go. I'll see you tomorrow." Craig says, shooting Kenny an easy smile. Kenny nods with a smile of his own.

"Y-Yeah, I gotta go, too. See ya." Kenny says before saluting Craig and turning away.

Once Kenny was gone, Craig let a wide smile slip onto his face...

Even as he caught sight of his friends running the fuck away.