Dirty Little Secret

By: esmtz

Later that evening after Cartman had finished having dinner he felt his cell phone vibrate in his pocket. He pulled it out and looked at his phone to see who was trying to contact him and to his surprise it was Stan sending him a text.

"I wonder what he wants." Cartman whispered as he checked the text.

"Just letting you know that you're going to have to have your mom take you to school tomorrow because Wendy mentioned earlier that she needed a ride tomorrow for school so I'm going to go pick her up and take her." Stan's text read.

Cartman sighed not totally surprised since this usually happened at least twice a week as he responded.

"Alright fine. Did you tell Kenny and Khal?"Cartman asked.

Cartman waited a few seconds before Stan responded.

"Yeah they know already dude. Listen if it's not too much to ask I need to talk to you in person. Can you meet me tomorrow during lunch in front of our classroom?"

Cartman froze when he read those words.

"Aw crap he's probably wondering what was up with me today unless Kenny told him, but I don't think he did." Cartman said to himself frowning slightly wondering if he should go or not as he started to reply.

"I don't know dude. You do realize you'd be making me skip the one part of the day that actually is alright."

Cartman's phone dinged when he got Stan's reply.

"It won't take that long, Cartman. I just need to ask you about something. If you don't want to do it I'll just come over tomorrow after school."

Cartman sighed as he replied.

"Ok fine tomorrow during lunch is ok."

"Great I'll see you then."

Cartman put his phone back in his pocket and went upstairs to his bedroom.

'At least chances are someone will most likely interrupt us while we're talking.' Cartman thought to himself as he felt himself get nervous about being alone with Stan even if it was just for a few minutes.

Once Cartman entered his room he sat down on his bed and stared at the floor wondering what on earth he was going to say to him. After that conversation he had with Kenny earlier even he was starting to wonder if he actually had feelings for Stan. The way Kenny made it sound it seemed as though it was completely obvious or at least to those who bothered to pay attention like Kenny anyway. Cartman continued to think about it for the next few minutes.

"I guess I can see how I can possibly like Stan, but what's up with accusing me of liking Khal too?" Cartman whispered frowning slightly, "I mean we HATE each other so how…?"

The situation back in 4th grade during that whole smug storm had definitely proven to him that he needed Kyle in his life and Stan was even the one who told him that. Of course this only confused him more since he realized that if he hadn't had done what he did Stan would have been heartbroken and Cartman winced when he saw the image of Stan crying come into his head.

'So looks like you were worried about both of them.' A random thought crossed his mind.

Cartman rolled his eyes as he laid down on his bed with his hands behind his head.

"Aw shut up." Cartman said to himself.

For the rest of the night he couldn't seem to stop thinking about how much Stan and Kyle has influenced his life. For Kyle he even remembered that whole imagination land incident where Kyle practically died. Cartman winced still remembering exactly how that happened and he felt when Kyle did die that even to this day he didn't even know why he cared that much about him especially since on more than one occasion before he kept telling himself and the others that he wouldn't care if Kyle did die and even wished that he had AIDS. Cartman was becoming more disturbed when he even remembered when Kyle saved him from drowning and also saved him from being raped by that thing that came from Jersey. Even the idea of it raping him sent shivers down his spine.

"What the fuck is wrong with me? He's just a fucking Jew!" Cartman said trying to convince himself that he hated him, but it was hard with all these memories that came back up when he thought about his relationship with Kyle.

With Stan there was one time that he remembered so clearly and was amazed that Stan didn't tell Kyle right away about it. Both he and Stan had stolen someone's boat and drove it into the dam, breaking it, and flooding an entire town. Stan of course was freaking out and Cartman was all like don't tell anybody especially Kyle and Stan had a few opportunities to do so, but didn't until the entire town of South Park thought the world was ending. Cartman snorted thinking 'fricken idiots.'

When Kenny mentioned the Christmas story Cartman honestly had no idea how to answer that one. Thinking back on it now even he was surprised that he wrote a story based on Stan and not on himself taking over the town and having every present to himself and no one else and making fun of the fact that his friends can't have any because they're all his. He knew he could write a story based on himself but why he didn't he had no idea and it was bothering him to realize that he did something without really knowing why. There were most likely other memories that had shown that he had liked Kyle or Stan but Cartman was too tired to come up with another one so before going to bed he decided to play his Xbox for a little while.

The next morning once both he and his mother were finished getting ready they got in the car and she drove him to school. Once Cartman got out of the car and walked to the entrance of the school he saw that Kenny, Kyle and Butters were waiting for him.

"Why hey there, Eric." Butters said smiling as soon as Cartman had reached them.

Cartman sighed before looking at him.

"Hey, Butters. What are you guys still doing here?"

"We're waiting for Stan to get here fatass!" Kyle said glaring at him.

"AY! How many times do I have to tell you I'm not fat you stupid Jew!" Cartman yelled at him before frowning, "Stan's not here yet?"

"Well actually he's pulling up right now, Eric. Look." Butters pointed out making Cartman turn his head to see Stan driving up and parking his car.

Cartman watched feeling jealous as both Stan and Wendy exited the car and Stan immediately put his arm around her waist making her giggle as they made their way towards them.

"Hey there, Stan. Wendy." Kenny said once they reached them.

"Hey guys." Wendy smiled at them.

"Yeah, hey." Stan replied immediately making eye contact with Cartman before turning his attention to Kyle who was shaking with anger making Stan frown slightly, "Something wrong, Kyle?"

Kyle gritted his teeth before turning around and walking away mumbling something under his breath. Stan raised an eyebrow figuring he'll ask him about it later.

"Ok well I better head to class then. See you guys later!" Butters said before making his way towards the school.

Kenny looked at Cartman for a few seconds before following after Butters. Stan sighed and turned to face Wendy.

"Go ahead and go to class, Wendy. I'll catch up with you in a few minutes." Stan told her.

"Ok try not to take too long class starts in less than ten minutes." Wendy said before giving him a kiss and walking away, but not before giving Cartman a dirty look.

"Whore." Cartman mumbled under his breath glaring back at her.

Stan watched Wendy leave then turned his full attention to Cartman.

"It's good to see that you came today, Cartman. I thought that most likely you would have skipped to try and avoid me."

Cartman waited a few seconds before responding trying hard to not look him in the eyes with his hands in his pockets.

"I'm not avoiding you." Cartman said.

Stan folded his arms in front of him and looked at him with a serious expression on his face.

"Only when Kyle and Kenny are around you're not. Seriously dude you've been acting really weird lately care to tell me why?"

Cartman started feeling really uncomfortable as he started shifting restlessly.

"I thought we weren't going to talk until lunch." Cartman responded.

Stan raised an eyebrow as he started to get just a little bit worried.

"You're not even looking at me. Did I do something to get you mad at me? Is this about Wendy? Do you like her?" Stan asked.

That made Cartman look at him with a horrified look on his face.

"Hell no, dude! I hate that fucking bitch! She's nothing but a slut, Stan and I can't see what on earth you see in her!" Cartman yelled.

Stan didn't say anything which really surprised Cartman since Stan would always defend her when Cartman said something bad about her.

"…So it's about me then? If it's not about Wendy then what did I do?" Stan asked feeling hurt.

Cartman winced at the look Stan was giving him. He always knew that Stan was the emotional one and didn't like it when his relationship with his friends started to go bad, but Cartman technically was never really considered a friend of Stan's was he? Cartman felt his face heat up at how close they were to each other and everyone else already seemed to have made their way to class already.

"I gotta go!" Cartman said before turning around and running towards the school.

Author's note: Yes I know there's not a lot of Kyle in here but I will try to put more of him in later chapters. I'm actually liking how this is coming out so far and here I thought it wasn't going to be that good since I really don't know how to end this and I usually know how to end a story before beginning it or at least know what specific part I want to put in the story and make it head in that direction. Anyways I appreciate any follows, favorites or especially reviews that you give me. It really helps to keep me interested in continuing this story as soon as I can whereas if I didn't have the support I would still update just not at a fast pace as I did these first three chapters so once again thanks for the support it means a lot!