The school erupted in a wave of panic over the rumors of Kenny being an undead, demonic force was passed from one kid to the next. All because of me, who could have been a best friend but choose not to understand that Kenny was just immortal. I was still puzzled about the fliers, who had made them, and who had let them loose.
Kenny was trying his best to ignore his schoolmates, everywhere he walked everyone would stop and keep a sharp suspicious eye on him as if he were a monstrosity. Friends he had known for years were now mistrustful of him; the ever loyal, trusted, and fearless hero was now seen as a treacherous villain.
I was just starting to come to my senses and realizing how much stress I was putting poor Kenny through. "Maybe I am being too paranoid…" I thought to myself. I wanted to apologize but I wasn't sure if he'd ever even wanted to see me ever. I found him but he didn't see me, for a while I trailed him not quite ready to confront him just yet, and watched as groups of kids would just flee from him in horror.
"Watch out he's coming for us!!!" Bebe shouted her and her group of friends ran screaming.
"O-oh je-jeez Kenny's going to take my soul!!!" Butters joined in and ran off.
"Aw come on Butters not you too, please will anyone come to their senses and listen to me?!" Kenny shouted in a troubled tone. But no body would listen
Even Stan and Kyle were drawn into the chaos. "Watch out he's getting angry he's going to kill us!!! " Stan screamed.
"You think you know a guy.." Kyle added as he tried to hide himself.
Kenny just watched and listened in disbelief "But..but you guys are the only friends I have…We've been friends since forever you can't possibly believe this bullshit."
Kyle and Stan just walked away; everyone followed leaving Kenny all alone in the hallway. As for me I'm not much of a trailer I was slacking so far behind my target I sped up when it was out of my sight and ended up plowing right into him, "Kenny! I found you!"
Kenny just angrily turned to face me "YOU! I already have so much shit to deal with at my poor ass home, it wasn't bad enough to call me an abomination and ditching me yesterday but you also had to make these fliers and turn my friends against me... thanks, thanks a lot!"
I just stood there looking at the ground, Ashamed I couldn't think of anything to say I mean how do you apologize to someone you've accused of being an abomination. "Kenny…I...I…"
"...What, Mutt? What is it!?" Kenny asked annoyed, clearly thinking I had spoken more than enough today.
"Kenny I'm sor…" But before I could even finish my sentence the kids came back with the teachers and principal and every adult in the school.
It seemed in a short period the pandemonium of the kids had spread to the adults as well.
"At first I thought they were being crazy bastards Principal Victoria, but when I realized that he never dies it all made sense to me." Mr. Garrison said as he pointed at Kenny.
"He must be dealt with immediately Mmkay? The parents won't be too happy if they found out their children were with a demon at school." Mr. Mackey joined in.
"But I'm not a fucking demon!" Kenny let out "I'm just a normal kid beside dying and coming back, but trust me I'm not out to eat/take people's brains/souls. Seriously!" He added
"We can't let a demon in our school Kenny you must leave now." Principal Victoria told him straight up. "We can't have you making it a living hell for the other students. With them running and screaming in fear they can't learn anything." She added
"But…I'm not" Kenny was interrupted
"Go we already have the cops on the way!" Victoria threatened
"You can't be serious…" Kenny said in disbelief
That's when Officer Babrady stepped in. "Move along demon there's nothing to see here!"
Kenny was a tough kid with a tough exterior but even these accusations and now being exiled from his friends and the whole school was too much for him. As he turned to leave only I could see him trying his damn best to hold back some tears.
"Kenny…" I yelled as I ran after him. He turned to face me again, with his moistened eyes.
"Get the fuck away from me!" He raged as he left the school.
"You best stay away from that demon Mmkay? He's dangerous." Mr. Mackey warned me.
"But he's not a demon, he was my friend and I screwed it up!!" I exclaimed
That's when we heard an evil laughter coming from the back, it was that fiend Cartman.
"And what is so funny fat ass?!" I demanded an answer from him.
The evil bastard pulled out the fliers. "My idea do you like? I just took your words and printed it on these handouts. " Cartman chuckled
"YOU FUCKING...I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" I yelled ready to kick his ass but was held back.
Kyle always the smartest kid in the school thought it over. "You know if Kenny was ever a demon we would have known by now; I mean no demon has ever been willing to sacrifice itself for other people. He has an unusual power but he's always used it to help us."
"True…he's probably more loyal then any of us. " Stan added "Shit now I feel like a douche."
"I have to go find him!" I said ready to dash out of the school.
"Hey kid, watch your step, there's a demon on the loose!" cried Officer Barbrady.
"Please he is NOT a demon; I was paranoid and said all that crap. I thought he was demonic but now I know he's not, he's a normal, if immortal, human with feelings and I have to go apologize." I told him walking towards the door
"Little boy, it is VERY important that you move away from here," Barbrady blocked him, "It isn't safe out there anymore! Demons twist your mind, distort your memories..."
"Um…what part of NOT demon is getting through your brain?" I asked him
"Dude give it up Barbrady's a complete dumb ass, we'll distract him for you though. " Kyle whispered to me.
"Little boy, I am the POLICE CHIEF, I know what I am talking about!" Barbrady yelled.
"He's probably at home right now, if you don't know where his house is it's the very last house past the bus stop. A very run down ghetto house you can't miss it." Kyle whispered again as he was getting ready to distract the cop.
"Umm….ok" I responded
"Hey Barbrady there's a box of doughnuts in the staff office!" Kyle shouted
"Oh wow! Nothing to see here! " Barbrady said running for the office.
"Now Mutt!" Stan ordered me.
With the cop's back turned I ran out of the school like a fugitive. "Whoot I got out of school!! Freedom!!!" I yelled "It'd be so awesome if I didn't have to find the person pissed off at me."
I began searching around South Park for Kenny's house. "Kyle said past the bus stop…right?" I asked myself as I reached the bus stop and began walking down the street of houses. "Hmmm did he mean all the way down?" I continued on walking down the lane but didn't find the house and then I came upon the railroad tracks and there right next to them was a run down one story house. "Holy hell is this it?" I asked as I walked up to the house, the lawn was littered with trash in the middle stood a pick up truck that appeared to not have been used for years.
Slowly I approached the door. "Damn it what do I say….just sorry? Um…crap…here goes nothing." I said to myself as I knocked on the door which just fell on the floor with a thud. How embarrassing, "Ooh shit…"
That's when a middle-aged looking woman with red hair came to the um…"door"
"What the hell? Is that a kid?" Carol said, lowering her voice, "Must be on of Kenny's little friends"
"Uh hi…um…that door was like that…" I lied.
"Yeah, don't remind me." she replied sternly, "What brings you here today? Trying to lynch my son?"
"Lynch? Oh no um…are you Kenny's mom?" I asked
"Yes ...Carolyn Susan McCormick. Everyone calls me Peggy or Carol." She replied.
"Hi…I'm Jake new to town, is Kenny home I need to talk to him." I asked her
"Oh, he's home, he said he didn't want visitors, but someone needs to knock some sense into that boy. He's in his room right now." Mrs. McCormick told me.
"Ok thanx." I said as I walked in to shabby house and towards Kenny's room.
"Who the hell is that?" Stuart asked Carol. "Is he the one who called our boy a demon?!" he asked demandingly
"You're drunk again, aren't you?" Carol raised an eyebrow.
"What else is new?" Stuart asked her
Carol thought for a moment "Nothing."
I approached Kenny's door which seemed to have a waiting line. His older brother and younger sister (in best friends forever there's a young girl with the McCormick's assumed to be Kenny's sister) were at the door trying to get in.
"Hi….you must be Kenny's siblings…" I said
"Oh boy..." Karen rolled her eyes, "Karen McCormick. Pleased to meet you. You are?"
"I'm Jake but you can call me Mutt." I introduced myself
Kevin just hopped a bit, "Kevin!!! I Kevin, me I Kevin!"
"Um…hey…having any luck talking to Kenny?" I asked
"No, he's locked himself in there. Doing his normal ritual of looking at porn while thinking the day's events over and refusing to look anyone in the eye without being an asshole." Karen responded
"Ok..then..let's see if I can get in." I said and knocked on Kenny's door. "Kenny?"
"Who is it? Karen, Kevin I told you to stay out!" Kenny yelled from inside his room.
"It isn't us, douche bag! We gave up!" Karen yelled.
"D-d-douchebag!" Kevin raised his arms and yelled.
"Shut up Kevin." Everyone else said.
"Then who the fuck just knocked on my door?!" Kenny asked
"Some kid from your school who has some kind of fetish for the color blue." Karen replied
"Hey I don't have a blue fetish!! Uh anyway yea that was me…Mutt..." I responded hesitantly
"Oh that little fucker." Kenny grumbled. "What the fuck do you want?!" He raged so loud the entire house could hear him.
"I came to say that I…I.." My shame was much and again I was stuttering.
That's when Kenny threw his door open. "IT WASN'T ENOUGH FOR YOU TO CALL ME AN ABOMINATION YOU HAD TO FOLLOW ME HOME TO MAKE IT EVEN WORST??" Carol & Stuart hearing this.
"Kenny no it's not like that I.." Stuttering once more.
"Get that candy-ass pussy out of this fucking house. That means you, fucking retard and short shit." Kevin and Karen looked hurt.
"Woa…Kenny relax don't take it out on your siblings it's not their fault. "I said trying to calm him down.
Karen mouthed, 'Whoa' to Kevin, who nodded.
"Not their fault? The little fuckers should know what 'Fuck off' means, and more importantly, how to keep people away from me, especially bastard traitors!" Kenny yelled in my face.
Both Karen and Kevin watching wide eyed
"I've never seen him so pissed before Kevin, what did this asshole do?" Karen asked
"Kenny…please listen to me…" I pleaded
"NO, you listen to ME! Remember I said I don't trust people often? THIS IS WHY! Because people try to befriend me, and then they think I'm a weirdo, ABANDON me, and tell everyone to stay away from me, RUINING all my chances of ever getting any more friends! Normally, it's just, oh, ten people, but now, oh now, you've got the whole town against me! I FUCKING HATE YOU!" Kenny raged.
"Yikes…" I said with a gulp and now even more nervous. "Well I…I…. crap…" I groaned as I just looked down at the ground in shame. "I…ugh.." I said not even knowing what to say anymore, I knew that sorry just wasn't going to cut it and I didn't blame him for being so angry with me.
"What's wrong, nothing to say to me?" Kenny turned back to his room, "Do me a favor and just fuck off."
I started to turn to leave, thinking perhaps it was the best thing to do but I didn't want it to end this way it was weird despite being a tad fearful of him I still wanted to be his friend. So I tried my best. "Look I know sorry won't be enough but I can't think of anything else to say except that I am truly sorry. I can't take back what I said; I can't take back what's happened but I regret every bit of it, I'll resolve the chaos somehow. And I understand if you'd never want to see my hide again…I'll go now." I sighed as I began leaving.
Kenny kept his back turned to me, all my "apology" did was soften him just a tad but he was still steaming mad.
"Well then…I should be on my way. Bye. "I hesitantly said as I began walking out of the house.
"So you are the one who called my boy an abomination! Go home ya little asshole!" Stuart yelled after me.
"Stuart, he's leaving already, control yourself." Carol said.
"But he called our son a demon, he didn't even give him a chance…"Stuart grumbled "I'm going to go get another scotch."
"Stuart!" Carol grabbed his arm, "Don't do this to yourself, please!"
"Why the hell not?" Stuart asked
"Because, honey, you're hurting yourself! You can't keep drinking to solve your problems, it's destroying you!" She replied.
"Fine what am I supposed to then?" He asked
"I don't know, just please not drinking!" Carol pleaded
"Fine..." he sighed
For awhile I a part of me didn't want to leave the McCormick household, knowing things had yet to be resolved. I just sat on the steps wondering what to do next, the door was still on the floor meaning I could still be seen from the inside. "Damn it Mutt you just had to mess things up didn't you?" I began talking to myself.
"Hey kid get off our porch!!" Stuart yelled
"C'mon, Stuart, let's go do..." there was a pause as Carol seemed to think, "I have an idea..." And they walked off
For a moment I continued to sit on the porch before finally leaving hoping I could come up with some way to fix what I had done, even though the fliers were never my idea. I strolled into the town maybe a walk could freshen my mind so I could think more clearly but I couldn't come up with anything.
Eventually while deep in thought, I walked right into a boy and we both fell. He got up in a red coat, adjusting his tan bow tie, a worried look on his face, blond hair falling out of an over-sized hat.
"Oh sorry I didn't see you there." I apologized as I got up and dusted myself off. "Damn it seems everywhere I turn I have to apologize to someone." I groaned
"It's quite all right, chap." the boy said, "I haven't seen you here before, although I haven't been around in quite sometime myself." he said.
"Yeah I don't remember seeing you in school. Although with all the pandemonium going on it's hard to pick any individual from the crowd. My name's Jake, however you can call me Mutt." I introduced myself
"Pleased to meet you. My name is Phillip Pirrup, but everyone calls me Pip because they hate me. We actually, it originated because as a baby whenever I attempted to say Phillip my infant tongue only rendered' Pip'..." The boy introduced himself.
"Which do you prefer?" I asked him, since I couldn't hate a guy I just met.
"...Mm... either is fine." Pip sounded as if he'd never been asked this opinion before.
"Ok…then I'll go with Phillip then..if you want. I don't want to end up insulting someone I just met…again." I replied with a sigh.
"Again? What's the matter chap?" Pip asked with genuine concern, despite not knowing Mutt well.
"Well you see I've only been in South Park for a few weeks now with no friends, I finally found a would be friend but I had to go and get paranoid because he could die and come back to life. I set the whole school in a panic ,thanx to a certain fat ass who decided to print my words on fliers and put it in everyone's locker, and now his friends and the adults think he's a demonic abomination and banned him from the school. I went to his house and tried to apologize but he is PISSED the fuck off and sorry just won't cut it. So now I have to try to fix what I did but I don't know how." I explained in one breathe
"Oh, you mean Kenneth. He's quite a queer chap, but he's very kindly." Pip said, "I understand your predicament."
"You do? So what do I do now? "I asked him
"You must address the people, chap. Gather them together, make them listen and explain your problem and mistake and ask for their apologies, and most especially Kenneth's. It may not work, but it could wipe away the bulk of the Demonic idea." Pip advised
"Ooh public speaking...not my thing.." I grumbled
"I'm afraid it's your safest bet, chap." He replied
I thought about it for awhile and realized that Pip was right. If I wanted any piece of mind I'd have to deal with the problems I caused head on. "You're right Phillip, I'll do that.. thanks."
"You're very welcome." Pip said, seeming a bit surprised."I do wish you good luck. As much as me, Leopold and Douglas would love an additional comrade, we do realize people do not like to hang out with us, er, Melvins." He added
"That sux but you gave me the best advice ever." I replied "By the way any idea how I could get the whole town together for this?" I asked
Pip thought for a moment, "I'm afraid, not."
"Crap…got to be something that'll draw em in," I said thinking to myself "I got it" I said as I walked up on City Hall "YOU'RE ALL UGLIER THEN A WARTHOG'S SHIT COVERED ASS!!" Amazingly that trick worked and everyone in the town crowded around the stage. "Awesome I got everyone's attention ok this was something I had to do. "
"HEY YA LITTLE BASTARD THAT'S MY PODIUM!" Mayor McDaniels yelled
"I just need it for a quick bit, chill. " I told her
Kenny had his arms crossed in the crowd, eying Mutt skeptically. Pip on the other hand, was very close to the front of the crowd, giving Mutt an encouraging look.
"What the hell's going on?" Stan asked Kyle.
"I have no idea, dude." Kyle responded
"Oh no, it's a riot! I need backup!" Officer Barbrady yelled as he proceeded to get into his police car and... backup
"Crap I hate talking in public….*sweating bullets as I eyed the crowd as it waits for whatever I was about to say. With a gulp and a sick feeling in my stomach I started.
"Anyway in the past hours not even before school started a very terrible rumor was passed around that Kenny McCormick is an undead, demonic, abomination bent on eaten/taken over your brains/souls and he was banned from the school. The truth is that is NOT true those rumors pretty much came from my own paranoia when I witnessed him die and come back to life for the first and second time. I realize Kenny is NOT demonic and he is NOT an abomination. Despite his immortality he is a normal human being with feelings like the rest of us, demons do not have feelings, and what I've heard from his friends he uses his ability to help others when ever he can something a demon also would never do. And if Kenny is listening I can't tell you how truly sorry I am for not accepting you for who you are and to put you through all of this. I can't apologize enough and I know it maybe too late to ask for your forgiveness but if you're willing to give me another chance I'd like to start over on a better note, if you don't then I understand. Oh and one more thing though I did come up with some crazy ass thoughts about Kenny being a demon I did NOT make those fliers and stuff them into every locker that was the work of fat ass Cartman who pretty much admitted himself. Thank you that is all. "
I was pretty much shaking when I got down from the podium, as I said public speaking is a true weakness of mine but I gave it all I had. The rest was up to the crowd to decide.
"Do you think it worked?" I asked Pip as I heard the crowd murmuring to itself.
Pip nodded, "splendidly."
For a moment the crowded was talking amongst itself when finally the mayor came up to reclaim the podium.
"Thank you for that heart felt if gay speech. Through much thought and talking we have decided to drop the rumors that Kenny McCormick is demonic force and he can return to school immediately. That being said we will no longer enforce such regulations on rumors, our town has a bad rap already it doesn't need anymore shit like this."
"Mayor you can't say shit in a public meeting." An Aid advised her
"Hey it's my podium it's not like they care if I said shit. " The Mayor replied
"The Mayor said shit! She is a terrible role model for children!" Sheila Broflovski cried.
"Ugh calm down Mrs. Broflovski we don't need this now. Everyone can go now show's over and the next person who takes my podium will be arrested. Thank you." McDaniels replied and left. The crowd began to disperse
"Well I'm glad that's over with…I guess it still wasn't enough. Want to go for a milkshake or something Phillip? " I asked Pip.
"Sure." Pip replied
(to be continued….so does Kenny forgive Mutt? Will this fanfic ever end?? Find out in Chap 5 please review thank you)