Class was a bore as usual. The teacher talked and talked about useless shit that Kenny didn't care about. Kyle actually did his work,as did Josh. Cartman slept. Douchebag sat in the back of the class and texted god knows whom. And Butters drew pictures off Butterflies. Really working hard to keep up the act aren't you buddy?,Kenny thought. His heart filled with hate, it crawled inside him like some sort of black goo. The Darkness sends it's regards. That was what he had said. Was this the darkness Butters was talking about?
The bell sounded and the kids bounded off into the hallway. He tapped Josh on the shoulder. "Yes", the boy said, turning to face Kenny. "I heard you saved my sister from a gang of bullies.
Thanks." "Oh it was nothing at all", the boy said in a refined voice "No it was something. Not everyone would take time out of their day to help out a small girl from white trash family like mine. You have anywhere to sit for lunch?", he had never seen Josh at any of the other tables. "No I don't at the moment." "Well why don't you sit with me and my friends.", Kenny said. "Oh that would be grand absolutely spectacular.", a warm smile crossed his face. "Do yourself a favor", Kenny said as he put his hand on Josh's shoulder, "don't talk all fancy like that. We had this one French kid. We used to give him all sorts of shit. If you aren't careful you could end up just like him." "I'll keep that in mind", Josh nodded his head.
Kenny needed to talk to Tammy. Chances were she, like everyone else, didn't remember his death, and thus he needed to inform her that he knew she knew he was Mysterion. He bid Josh farewell and ran for the 5th grade lockers. His heart beat up from his chest like a drum.
She wasn't there. "Shit", Kenny cursed under his breath. He grabbed a peace of paper from his backpack and drew a mouse climbing a tree on it,wrote his cell phone number, he hadn't had one when they were together, and taped it to the side of Tammy's locker. He headed for the cafeteria.
After standing on line for what seemed like an eternity, to receive the gruel the school insisted on calling lunch, Kenny made a b line for his usual table. He made a point to sit as far away as possible from Butters. He was still going to beat the fuck out of him that was for certain, but he had come to the conclusion that if he started beating the shit out of Butters and Douchebag, and justified it to his friends by saying, "Butters killed me, by the way I die all the time and come back to life, but nobody remembers, and Douchebag is some sort of evil mastermind who had ordered Butters to commit said most foul murder, and that all of this could be proven by an old security tape that showed Kenny getting his dick sucked in the parking lot of TJI Fridays", his friends might thing he was battshit crazy. No he would have to wait for revenge, but it would be his, that was certain.
The others ate their lunch and conversed as usual, well except douchebag who said nothing as always, what was he a fucking mime. Hardly anyone noticed Kenny, as was par for the course with his friends. Normally this pissed him off, but right now it was welcome. After a night of brutal action all he wanted to do was eat his gruel in peace godamit. He suspected Craig felt the same way.
He glanced around the lunch room. Tammy was sitting at a table near the back surrounded by her friends. While Tammy had taken their breakup okay, the same could not be said of her friends, who had promised to "claw Kenny's eyes out", if he ever spoke to Tammy again.
"Kenny you should really get your sister under control.",it was Craig. "I was just about to tell you that. Your sister's been going around calling Karen a slut. It's been getting her bullied.", Kenny retorted. "Well your sister did steal my sister's boyfriend.", Craigs voice was as flat and deadpan as always. Kenny leapt from his seat. "That didn't happen. Have you even met Karen? And I'll have you know Ruby is a lying manipulative little bitch who loves nothing more to get other people blamed for her problems." "Yeah and Karen's a slut.", he went back to munching on his sandwich. "Wonder where she gets it from", Craig muttered as he chewed his food.
"FUCK YOU!", he yelled at Craig. "Ch-Ch-Ch ilax bro", Jimmy stuttered. "I know lots of whores, and most of them are p-p-p-p pe-perfectly nice people. "Jimmy shut up." "What's the matter Kenny", Stan said, "pissed that someone is mistreating your sister. I can't begin to imagine what that feels like.", his voice was cold. Cold as that night on the basketball court. "Maybe your all wrong. I mean who would know Karen better than her brother?" This was the second time Josh had come to the defense of Karen, and once again Kenny was grateful. This kid would make a much better friend than all those other assholes.
"Face it dude your sister's a slut", Cartman said between bites of food. "So's your mom!", Kyle yelled at his nemesis. "Hay you take that back or else I'm gonna", "kick you in the nuts.", Kyle finished for him. "They are repeating each others sentences",Token observed, deadpan. "Kyman confirmed",snarked Craig. An awkward silence fell over the table.
"Hey if Karen needs work she can always call up the girls at my old kissing company., Butters chirped happily. Oh that was it. Butters could lead him around on a wild goose chase, take the one means he had to prove he could conquer death, and even kill him. But to do all that and pretend to be the kid with a heart full of magic. And to use that persona to be a concern troll and slut shame his sister. That was where Kenny drew the line. Their would be no caution. No waiting. Now was the time for action.
Words could not express the deep anger, grief,and loneliness, Kenny felt after everything he had been through. But the eruption of sound he made as his fist made contact with Butters's face got the point across well enough.