Left Hand Coffee

Tweek awoke startled by a loud noise. He quickly sat up and looked around barely recognizing the room he was in. The hospital room that he shared with Craig after the fight where they first became friends. Looking over to the empty bed next to him hoping for some reason there would be a Craig in it. "Augh! Where are you Craig." he mumbled pulled his knees up wrapping his arms around them noticing the white cast around his right hand. It felt oddly numb, must be painkillers he thought.

"Oh good Tweek your awake." A man with a white coat said and he walked towards him. "My name is Dr. Johnson I've been looking after you during your stay with us Tweek." He dropped a clipboard in his hand into a tray at the end of his bed.

"Oh, thanks... I feel really tired." Tweek said yawning. "Do you have any coffee?" he asked the doctor with a smile.

"Tweek... You had an adrenaline rush that caused you to black out." The doctor said as he went to grab some pills of the side table next to Tweek. "I don't think you should drink coffee for a while." He held a glass of water in one hand and two odd colored pills in the other. "These will help you relax, they might not..."

Tweek smacked the glass and pills out of his hands hearing it crash on the floor. "Leave me alone if you're not going to give me any coffee!" he yelled before burying his face into a pillow and sobbing softly.

"Fucking brat." he heard the doctor mumble as he walked out of the door.

Tweek hated change, and he couldn't handle the thought of giving up coffee. He loved his coffee. The smell of coffee made him smile, the bitter taste he couldn't live without, and of course dark black color of a full cup of coffee always made him feel better.

"Tweek honey," His mother said from across the room.

"Mom!" Tweek got out of the bed and rushed over to hug her. "The doctor tried to tell me coffee was bad!" Tweek exclaimed still very much upset.

"Yes Tweek." His mom hugged his son back. "That's why were leaving, lets go home and get you that cup of coffee." She smiled at Tweek.

He knew his mom wouldn't let them take coffee away from him. Coffee wasn't just important to Tweek. It's the Tweak family way. They all drank coffee as well as made their living off a coffee shop. No way his parents would ever let anyone tell him coffee was bad for him, and whether this was good or bad for Tweek he didn't care. He'd always have his coffee, and for that he loved his parents.

He closed his eyes on the ride home picturing the full pot of coffee waiting for him. Instead thoughts of Craig's soft black hair filled his mind. Craig's warm smile made feelings stir inside him. Tweek opened his eyes "Augh!" he panicked and looked out the window instead. Tweek never really had much interest in girls. This had always worried him because it made him feel different from his friends. He closed his eyes again, Craig filled his thoughts. Maybe he'd always been interested in something else entirely. That thought oddly didn't cause him to worry at all.

Craig waited anxiously by the front door of the school. He clearly blamed himself for letting Tweek get hurt. It was impossible to balance the thought of Tweek being hurt, with the thought of not seeing him for a month.

"Boo." Clyde whispered into Craig's ear from behind causing him to jump forward.

"What the fuck man!" Craig said as he turned around trying to hide his embarrassment.

"Sorry man couldn't help it." Clyde said while still laughing at him. "Man so lost in thought about Tweek you jumped like him!"

"Shut up Clyde!" Craig said back taking a step forward and raising his middle finger at him make his point.

"Hey calm down Craig." Clyde now done mocking his friend said in a serious voice. "Listen, I don't really get how Tweek doesn't see that you have a thing for him." He said placing his arm around Craig. "But man, Cartman's an ass yeah but he's not the only one who will use that secret your keeping from him against you."

"Shut up and get off!" Craig punched Clyde in the side hard enough to make his point.

"Ow man, I'm just trying to help you out here." he said pretending to be injured.

"What would you know about any of this anyways." Craig mumbled.

"Dude, ever since that list came out about the cutest boy's I've been dating girls left and right man." He bragged proudly. "You start to learn a few things when your this big of a stud..."

"Tweek isn't a girl!" Craig interrupted.

"So what man it's all the same in the end, and guess what if you don't tell him by the time his hand gets better I will." Clyde said calmly.

Craig glared at his friend, he knew he wasn't threatening him. He was promising to out him as his friend. Which further annoyed Craig cause he knew Clyde was right. "You tell Tweek and I'll beat the..."

"Gah! Tell me what?!" Tweek said behind him.

"Nothing Tweekers." Clyde said as he walked by and patted him on the head. "I was just messing with big bad Craig is all." He said smiling that cocky smile of his.

"Augh!" Tweek exclaimed,

"Don't call me that!"- "Don't call him that!" Both Tweek and Craig yelled at Clyde.

"Sorry man." Clyde said as he started to walk away laughing to himself. "You two are just too much fun to mess with!"

"How are you feeling?" Craig said as he flipped Clyde off hoping to also move the conversation away from his secret feeling for Tweek.

"I'm fine..." Tweek looked at Craig thinking how he never noticed just how handsome he was until now. "What was Clyde gonna tell me?" he said said looking at the floor to avoid his obvious staring at Craig.

"Just some stupid present don't worry about it." Craig mumbled. "We better hurry class, don't want to be late." He said changing the subject quickly.

"O-okay Craig..." Tweek wasn't convinced that is was something small anymore, but he hated it when people pressured things out of him. He sure wasn't going to do it to Craig He knew he'd tell him when he was ready.

They walked into class together and took their seats apart from each other. Tweek looked at Cartman who now had a bandage that covered his entire right cheek. Cartman made obvious efforts to avoid making eye contact with Tweek. Likely afraid he'd really get his ass kicked then. Tweek was relived that at least no one would mess with him for a while.

Three weeks had gone by in a blur. Tweek had just gotten his cast off and Token was throwing a small together to celebrate. Tweek was walking through the cold having declined a ride from his parents earlier. Craig had asked him if we wanted to walk there with him, and that he had something important to talk to Tweek about. Tweek always enjoyed his time when it was just the two of them so he quickly had agreed to walk with him. Tweek saw Craig sitting on the stairs in front of his house waiting for him. Craig was wearing slightly more stylish blue jacket tonight. It was odd seeing Craig dress up for anything unless forced by his parents. "Hey Craig." Tweek called to him from the sidewalk.

"There you are Tweek," Craig said smiling back at him. "Lets hurry its freaking cold out here." Craig got up shivering a bit.

"Augh!" Tweek took off his light green jacket. "Here wear this, your shivering Craig!" Tweek explained with panicked tones.

"I don't want you to get cold." he declined politely.

"My parents made me wear this it's to warm for me." Tweek said pushing his jacket into Craig.

If it was anyone but Tweek they'd be lying about being cold. It was snowy and windy here but Tweek was like a thermos himself always contained his heat no matter how cold it got.

"Augh! I don't want you to die on the way there!" Tweek persisted.

"Okay, okay." He gave in, feeling that Tweek would never give up anyways. He put it on quickly, it smelled of coffee and Tweek. As well as being insanely warm, Tweek must just radiate heat he thought to himself.

"So what did you want to talk about before we got there?" Tweek asked while looking at his feet.

Craig knew the walk wasn't long and that asshole Clyde was likely waiting by the door, and if he didn't tell Tweek now he'd regret it. "I got asked out by this girl..." Craig started.

Tweek twitched and tried not to look hurt from that, it was ridiculous to feel like that Craig wasn't his anyways he thought to himself.

"I told her I already had someone I liked and wasn't interested." Craig continued. He looked away from Tweek knowing if he'd chicken out of he saw those green eyes. " She demanded to know who it was... I told her I wasn't interested in girls and..."

Tweek didn't need to hear anymore, he grabbed Craig's hand and squeezed it tight. "I'm not into girls either!" He exclaimed shaking.

Craig was shocked, he hadn't fully noticed that suddenly they weren't just friends anymore they were together just like that. "Really?" He asked Tweek not doubting him, he just wanted to hear it again.

"Yeah man I didn't really understand it myself at first but..." Tweek smiled at Craig now. "Your always there for me, always calming me down when no one else can. You're just like coffee!" Tweek yelled startled by the fact that he used a cheesy metaphors like his dad always had.

"Just like coffee..." Craig laughed at the silly metaphor. If anyone but Tweek said that, it'd probably just mean that the person was always a pick me up for them. For Tweek though it meant that he couldn't handle being away from him, and he loved that he felt the same way.