Hey readers. Here's Chapter 6. Hope you enjoy although I have to admit, there's nothing too interesting in this chapter… but I hope you enjoy anyway! XD
Kyle had mixed emotions at that moment. He was shocked, surprised and for some reason, a little scared. He was completely frozen by the larger boy's words. He just stared back at him, unblinking and motionless.
Cartman drew back a little, completely freaked out by Kyle's zombie-like expression.
When Cartman dropped his gaze from the Jew's face Kyle finally blinked. He stared at the ground, deep in thought, and then looked back up at Cartman. "Are you serious about this, Cartman?" he asked softly. "Or are you joking? Cause if you're joking it's not funny, fatass!"
Cartman stared back at the Jew beside him. "I'm not joking, Kahl. I'm serious."
Kyle gazed at him and knew by his face that he was telling the truth. "How long?" he whispered.
Cartman leaned forward, not hearing the question.
"How long have you felt this way about me?" repeated Kyle, louder this time.
Cartman sighed. "I told you I wasn't going to say anymore after I told you the reason, Kahl," he said. "And I meant it."
Kyle groaned in annoyance. He had to find out more about this. He couldn't simply just forget about it now and pretend everything is normal. He had to find out everything.
He edged closer towards the larger boy and laid a hand on his arm. "Cartman, please tell me," he pleaded, smiling brilliantly, trying to dazzle the brunet boy into telling him.
Cartman stared at him and swallowed, confused at Kyle's reaction. But then he realised what the redhead wanted. "Dazzling me will only make me want you more but it won't make me tell you any more than I already said," he said, grinning.
Kyle sighed and gave up dazzling him. He just lay back on the freezing cold snow and glanced at the watch on his bad arm. It was getting really late. He knew he'd get another round of smacking and yelling at by his mother when he got home. He was so not in the mood for that.
He sat up again and gazed at Cartman who was staring ahead of him into space. "Cartman?" The brunet boy glanced at him. "Can I go back to your house with you?"
Cartman raised an eyebrow at him, surprised. "Why?"
Kyle sighed. "I don't wanna face my mom again. She'll kill me again and she might be worse this time since it's my second time home late."
Cartman seemed to return to his evil self again and he smirked. "Oh? So you now realise your mom is a god damn bitch?"
Kyle frowned angrily, but wasn't in the mood to start a fight. "Just say yeah or no, fatass!" he snapped.
Cartman hummed quietly to himself and raised his fingers of his right hand under his chin and gazed up at the sky, in a thinking position. "Ok fine, Kahl. You can come over. But only for a short while and only if you promise not to mention our earlier conversation again. Promise?"
Kyle thought for a moment. He knew it would be hard to not mention that since he was dying to know more about Cartman's feelings towards him. But he decided to promise Cartman he wouldn't talk about it but he really would when he got there. Cartman broke promises all the time so he could too, right?
"Ok I promise," he replied.
Cartman stared at him for a moment, searching for signs of dishonesty on his face. He wasn't sure if the Jew was telling the truth or not but he decided to just believe him and see how it went. "Alright then, Kahl. We better get going. I'm gonna ring my mom and tell her to pick us up."
He searched in his pockets for his mobile phone before remembering Kyle still had it. "Give me my phone back, Jew," he ordered.
Kyle grinned and handed it back to him without saying a word. Cartman dialled his mom's number and told her where they were and if she could pick them up. Then he hung up.
"Well?" asked Kyle.
"She's on her way," answered Cartman. "She should be here soon."
The two boys sat in silence for the next fifteen minutes until Cartman's mom parked her car near them. She hopped out and rushed towards them, her arms outstretched. When she reached them she threw her arms around Cartman. "Hun, are you ok? Did you fall? Do you need a plaster or-"
"Mom, shut up!" interrupted Cartman, feeling embarrassed. "I'm ok. Just help us up and get us in the car."
His mom nodded and helped him to his feet. He winced as he felt the pain on the side of his stomach coming back to annoying him again. It had subsided for a while while he and Kyle were talking earlier. Now it was starting to bug him again.
"Ow!" he groaned as he clutched his stomach tightly.
"Oh sweetie, are you alright?" asked his mom after she helped Kyle to his feet.
"No I'm not alright!" snapped Cartman. "Just get us in the god damn car!"
His mom did as she was told and helped them both to the car where they both sat and sighed with relief.
"It's so good to get out of the freezing cold," commented Kyle, leaning his head back and relaxing.
Cartman nodded in agreement and shut his eyes as he leaned back also. He was exhausted and felt he could fall asleep right there in the car if Kyle wasn't there.
They reached Cartman's house soon enough and Liane helped Cartman inside since he couldn't walk very well because of his sore stomach. Kyle could walk fine but he had to hold his arm up as he walked. He had already called his mom in the car, telling her where he was.
As they walked in Cartman's cat Kitty came rushing over and greeted Kyle by circling his leg and brushing off of him. Kyle smiled and petted the cat's head with his good hand.
"Kyle, did you hurt your arm badly?" asked Liane. "Come over here and let me check."
Kyle did as he was told and walked over to Cartman's mom and let her examine his arm.
"I don't think it's broken but I'm not entirely sure," she said. "I think I'll take you both to a hospital right away, just in case you have serious injuries."
"Aww but meeem," complained Cartman in his whining voice he always used on his mom. "I don't wanna go to the hospital!"
"Well you have to, Eric. Just in case you're seriously hurt. Come on. Back in the car!" she replied.
Kyle let out a long sigh as he and the other two made their way back to the car. They were silent the whole way to the hospital except for Liane who was singing along to songs on the radio.
After parking the car, she helped Cartman in and Kyle walked in beside them. Liane talked swiftly to the woman at the front desk and soon a nurse came along and told the two boys to follow her.
"Wait, isn't my mom coming?" asked Cartman, glancing back at his mom over his shoulder. He sighed when he saw her chatting to a tall, handsome guy with her flirty face on. He knew what that meant. That guy would probably be going back to the house with them…
Kyle saw too and then looked back at Cartman. "I guess not," he added softly, answering his question.
He and Cartman followed the nurse to a room where a doctor was waiting to check on them.
"Hello, boys," greeted the doctor, smiling kindly. He was a tall man with dark brown hair and brown eyes. He was quite good looking and Cartman guessed that his mom would flirt with him too if she was there.
"I'm Dr. Quinn," he said. "Come in and sit down."
Kyle and Cartman obeyed and sat on two chairs next to each other.
"Ok, now what are your names?" asked the doctor. Then he frowned. "Are your parents not here?"
"No. My mom is downstairs flirting with some guy and she's probably gonna bring him home and fuck him all night," replied Cartman casually, as if this was everyday conversation.
The doctor raised an eyebrow and stared at the brunet boy for a moment, shocked and surprised to hear that, and then he spoke again. "Um o-k then… Well, will you both tell me your names and then one of you can tell me what's wrong with you?"
"I'm Kyle and this is Cart- Uh.. Eric," said Kyle, remembering he should probably tell the doctor Cartman's first name.
Cartman glanced at him in surprise. That was probably the first time in years Kyle called him by his first name.
Kyle didn't notice the surprised look Cartman was giving him and so he then started explaining about them falling on the path after running at top speed and that he fell on Eric, at the side of his stomach where it was hurting and he landed awkwardly on his arm.
The doctor examined Kyle's arm first and Kyle winced as he held it firmly.
"Well it's not broken," said the doctor as he leaned back in his chair. "It's just badly sprained. I'm going to put a bandage on it and it should be fine for a few weeks."
As he bandaged Kyle's arm he spoke softly to Cartman who was shaking nervously in his chair. "There's no need to be afraid, Eric," said the doctor comfortingly. "Everything's going to be alright."
No matter what the doctor said to reassure him Cartman still quivered with fear.
When the doctor was finished bandaging Kyle's arm he told him he was allowed to leave. Kyle glanced at Cartman and saw the fear in his eyes. He was obviously terrified of hospitals. He sighed and told the doctor he'd stay.
The doctor smiled. "Alright then." He turned to Cartman. "Come here, Eric. Stand in front of me please."
Cartman slowly did what he was told and stood in front of the doctor as he knelt down on his knees so he was eye-level with the large boy.
"Now can you take off your top please, Eric?" asked the doctor. "I need to examine the sore part on the side of your stomach."
Cartman's eyes widened. "Can't I just hold my shirt up so you can check it?"
The doctor shook his head. "It would be a lot easier if you just took it off altogether," he said. "Don't be embarrassed. There's no one else here."
Cartman quickly glanced at Kyle and then back to the doctor, motioning him with his eyes.
"Oh, well if you want your friend to leave then why don't you just ask him nicely?" said Dr. Quinn.
Cartman's eyebrows nearly shot up into his hairline in surprise. He heard a chuckle behind him and he shot a glare at the laughing Jew. "I am not asking him nicely!" he snapped, facing the doctor again. "I'll force him to leave if I have to!"
"Now now," said the doctor trying to calm him down. "I'm sure your mother is waiting downstairs at the front desk so we will have to be as quick as we can. Come on. Your friend won't mind, right Kyle?"
Kyle was still chuckling to himself and he shook his head, unable to speak without laughing again.
"See? Your friend doesn't mind," said the doctor. "So come on, take it off."
"God dammit!" muttered Cartman as he carefully took off his jacket and shirt.
Kyle couldn't help staring at Cartman's bulky body. He looked even fatter without any clothes on his upper body but for some reason it made him look more like a kind of teddy bear. He felt a smile unwillingly spread on his face.
Cartman noticed him smiling and raised an eyebrow in puzzlement. Kyle quickly snapped the smile off his face and looked away. He felt Cartman's eyes still on his face for the next while and then he finally looked away when the doctor was finished examining him.
"You seem to be alright," said the doctor smiling. "There's just a lot of bruising and it will hurt when you walk for the next few days but soon you will be perfectly fine."
He handed Cartman his shirt and coat and the large boy shoved them on quickly, embarrassed that Kyle could see him shirtless.
"Hope you both get better soon," said the doctor as they started to leave the room. "Bye bye now."
The two boys waved and then left without a word. They had nothing to say.
"I'm so glad you're both alright," said Liane at the front desk. Both Kyle and Cartman were surprised to see the guy she was flirting with wasn't there.
"He's probably already taken," Cartman whispered to Kyle.
Kyle grinned and nodded.
"Well come on now. Let's head home," said Liane and she and the two boys headed out the door.
"I'm going to put the dinner on now and I'll call you both down when it's ready, ok?" asked Liane when they were inside the house.
"Ok," the two boys called back.
Cartman hung up his coat and walked awkwardly up the stairs, clutching the side of his stomach in pain.
Kyle stayed as close as he could to the wall so if Cartman fell he wouldn't fall on top of him!
Cartman made it to the top of the stairs fine, without falling, and he walked into his bedroom. Kyle followed behind.
"So," began Cartman as he sat down on his bed and gazed up at Kyle. "What would you like to do now?"
Ok this chapter wasn't very interesting but I promise the later chapters will be better =)
Please review anyway! =D