Chapter 9: Departure To Another Dimension

Recess was nearly at its end. The day had been good so far for the boys. Although the previous lesson had been boring as usual, it didn't bother them – they had minds set on other things too much to care – especially Kyle. That message Sarah had left had been super glued into his head through the night and right into the morning rise.

I've got a little……surprise waiting for you tomorrow at school. Which would then be followed by his favourite little message: you cute and cuddly little Jew.

The other three boys had no idea what had made Kyle so happy and giddy with positivity. Kyle had been like that for the whole morning and they couldn't explain why he was like this whatsoever. But Kyle knew…he was on the verge of having something he thought he would never have…a true and proper girlfriend. His mind tried not to agree, but deep down his heart couldn't agree anymore.

The recess bell rang- indicating the end and that it was time to return back to class. The boys had just finished tidying up and picking out a few things from out of their own lockers.

"Come on dude, bell's gone." Stan spoke to Kyle.

But just as Kyle was about the follow the others, he heard a voice crying out for him from directly behind him. "Kyle……Kyle! Wait!"

Stan and the others had already begun to make their way towards the classroom. Kyle turned around and saw Sarah jogging up to him – which had suddenly raised a smile back up onto his face.

"Hey Sarah, I was looking for you all recess, I thought you hadn't come to school at all."

"You were looking too?"

"Huh?"

"I was looking for you……Heh, we were looking for one another, and yet we still didn't bump into each other." Kyle laughed slightly. There was a brief pause of silence as they both looked down at the floor and put their hands behind their back like a clash of who could be the most shy to speak. "So anyway, did you get a chance to listen to my phone call last night?"

"I sure did." Kyle replied in a convincingly cheerful tone. Sarah chuckled slightly and looked back at Kyle.

"So, I bet you've been guessing and anticipating what I've been wanting to give you as your little surprise, right?"

You've no idea Sarah "I sure have."

"Well…what I wanted to give you………was this……" Sarah looked at Kyle with a cheeky smile on her face. Kyle was slightly puzzled. Sarah was giving him a strangely cheerful smile, but Kyle hadn't seen Sarah smile like this before. And just when Kyle was not expecting it, Sarah launched her head forward and gave Kyle a huge kiss on the lips – giving a seemingly loud kissing sound as she did so. Kyle's eyes widened and the feelings in his lips ignited with a roaring wave of delight and excitement; the level of which was never ever any higher. Sarah leaned forward slightly – her lips pressing against Kyle's lips and sending Kyle bending backwards a bit. There was only one word that could describe what Kyle was feeling like at this particular moment in time: WOW! Sarah finally managed to let Kyle go – moving back again and standing straight; whilst looking at him again with her usual happy smile once more.

"Did you like your little gift?" Sarah asked in a cheeky and funny manner. Kyle said nothing. The shock on his face was still there and could clearly be seen. "Well, we better get to class." Sarah walked off down the corridor. Kyle turned around and watched Sarah walk down. "Well come on then, you don't want to be late too, do you Kyle? You C.C.J.." Sarah chuckled in a girlish high-pitched tone. She knew that Kyle knew what C.C.J. stood for; it wouldn't have taken a genius to work it out. She found herself re-naming Kyle as it since she thought it suited him best – Kyle Broflovski; a Cute, Cuddly Jew.

Kyle continued to stare and stand in shock. But his shock quickly faded away and was replaced with an even higher level of happiness and delight. "WOW…does she……does she actually 'love' me?" The smile on his face rose even further. "Maybe IT IS true then……maybe…after all this time…after all this time of being alone……I……I actually have someone who I can talk to closely……I finally have a girlfriend……and no one's against it……SWEET!"

Picking up his bag and walking off down the corridor, he finally managed to catch up with Sarah and the two kids had just made it back into the classroom.

Meanwhile, Kenny was in one of his concentrated modes again. Ageliss and Divelia had been talking to him again in his mind.

"So that's basically our plan Kenny, do you understand?"

"W-w-w-wait a minute, all that just like…went right over my head. Can you explain that to me again…but in a way that I'll UNDERSTAND please?"

"Oh come on Kenny, it wasn't that difficult. It's basically just a matter of you guiding them to the location; we merely knock 'em out…"

"Knock 'em out?!"

"I mean put them to sleep and then we take you and the three boys away from this place for a certain amount of time until the time's right to return back here."

"Errrrr…well…that sounds a little bit strange."

"Look, just trust us on this Kenny - we know what we're doing."

"OK, so tell me the full plan, just so that I know what you're actually gunna do."

"Alright, here's the plan. First, I need you to get all three of them out into the parking area of the school round back – make sure no one else is there too. Then what we'll do is……"

Meanwhile, a seat forward, Kyle was talking to Stan.

"Dude…you'll never guess what's happened to me?"

"What?" Stan hardly looked interested.

"The girl I'm sat next to…she kissed me properly…it was awesome."

Stan's eyes shot to life. He looked at Kyle in disbelief. "What? She kissed you? You mean Sarah- THAT girl?"

"Yeh!"

"Woah dude!"

"I know, I was shocked – she actually kissed me; out there, right in the middle of the corridor…" Kyle suddenly went into flash-back mode – head leaning on one hand and his eyes half-open. "Oh Stan, you have no idea how much that felt good."

"Dude……honestly……do you like her…as in…LIKE like her?"

Kyle turned back to face Stan. After looking down at his seat table for a second and thinking about it, Kyle finally gave Stan an answer. "Yeh dude…I do. And I think she feels the same way about me too."

"Well…good for you dude." Stan looked away. Though he was happy for Kyle at the fact that Kyle had finally found a girlfriend, there was a certain feeling in his mind that made him uneasy – something wrong that he didn't want to exist in his head – it almost felt like jealousy.

"Pssst." Sarah grabbed Kyle's attention and passed him a note under the desks. Kyle opened it up and looked at it. It was a message of some sort.

XPVME ZPV MJLF UP DPNF BOE XBUDI NF BOE NZ GBNJMZ QFSGPSN BU B DPODFSU HJH BU UIF TQPSUT DFOUSF JO EFOWFS PO UIVSTEBZ? (QMFBTF TBZ ZFT!)

Eye-brows raised and mouth open, Kyle had no idea what that message meant – it was certainly not English.

"Hey Sarah, is this like in Chinese or sumin?"

"Nope, I've coded it."

"You've coded it?"

"That's right. There IS a message there, all I want you to do is try and crack the code. If you manage to figure out what that actually says, then you'll be able to read what it says. What do y'say; will you give it a try?"

Cracking codes was not one of Kyle's specialist subjects. But since it WAS from Sarah, his mind and heart said different. "Sure, what the hell."

"Great…if you can't decode it by tonight, then I'll ring you up and tell you what it really says."

"Cool…thanks." Kyle got straight to work in trying to crack it – scratching his head and looking down at it in deep focus.

To the other side of Stan, Maxwell was looking over at Kyle once more. What on Earth are those two doing? I hope HE isn't causing any trouble! Maxwell looked forward again – keeping a close eye on Kyle now and again as the lesson passed.

An hour and a bit later, lunchtime had come and Kyle was still trying to figure out what the heck the message was saying. Something so simple to understand was staring him right in the face, yet he couldn't decode it and work it out. Unaware to Kyle, Sarah was a huge fan of puzzles and code-cracking. There was never a time where Sarah wouldn't be trying to attempt a crossword or word search at home – maybe even trying an odd game of sudoku now and again. Like her mother, Sarah had such a keen interest in Maths and Problem solving. Sarah's mum was a Maths teacher at a college in Manchester and her skills with numbers, symbols, formulas and mathematical problems had been passed down genetically to Sarah. One of Sarah's highest and most proudest moments was winning a National Mathematics Competition – only a few days before that saddening day outside the cinemas. Sarah said on winning the award she wanted to thank her mum for helping her gain this great skill and dedicated the award to her mother for everything she had given to her over the years – and now all those thanks meant so much more now that Sarah's mum and dad were no longer with them. But Sarah would always remember her mother whenever she saw something mathematical or code-related – it never made her sad; it always brought a smile to her face. And writing out her own puzzles, codes and maths problems allowed her to remember the happy times she spent with her mother back home in Manchester.

"Dude, are you still trying to work that thing out?" Stan asked as he, Kenny and Cartman sat down with their lunch at the same table Kyle was sat at.

"Yeh, it's so confusing – I don't know where to start."

Sarah came walking over to the table with her tray in her hands.

"Hey guys…mind if I sat down with you four?"

Stan, Kenny and Cartman looked at Sarah in confusion. They never would have expected that a girl would ask to sit next to them. Cartman knew exactly how to respond.

"Yeh we do actually!" He replied – scoffing his face with a fattening sandwich.

"CARTMAN…" Kyle yelled in an annoyed voice. "Sure Sarah, of course you can sit with us."

"Cool, thanks." Placing her tray down on the table, she sat down next to Kyle – something which slightly surprised Kyle but surprised the others a little bit more. "So…I see you're still trying to crack that little code I gave you?"

"Yeh…you sure have made this one tough."

Cartman suddenly butted in. "You see guys, this is why Jews can't be Computer Programmers, they can't even crack or even make simple codes like this."

"SHUT UP FATASS!…" Kyle yelled back. But just as he was about to hand the code over to Cartman and try and get him to decode it – knowing he obviously wouldn't and would make a complete idiot of himself, Sarah butted in.

"EXCUSE ME…but just to let you know, I'm half-Jewish myself and I find that VERY offensive!" She yelled at Cartman in an annoyed tone of voice.

"What a crime." Cartman replied in his usual non-caring sarcastic tone.

"Just ignore him Sarah, he's an asshole when he talks about Jewish people like me."

But Cartman wasn't finished yet. He aimed his voice at Sarah once more. "So you're a Jew too huh? Well I guess not all Jewish people are hopeless at confusing things like that then. But I wouldn't be surprised if your mam and dad are hopeless just like my friend Kyle is…pure Jews I guess wouldn't be able to do this at all. You should consider yourself lucky you're not like your parents."

But it was at that point that Cartman had gone way too far with his comments. Sarah sat stunned and shocked at what she had just heard. Her face suddenly started shaking slightly. Her eyes squinted and without warning, she burst into tears and began to run out of the lunchroom and down the corridor. Shocked at Sarah's actions, Kyle turned to Cartman again with an angry look in his eyes.

"YOU ARE ONE F---ING ASSHOLE CARTMAN!"

Kyle was the only one to realise why Sarah was crying. For it was Sarah that told ONLY Kyle about why they were here in South Park and about their parents' sad deaths. Cartman had gone too far and had blindly upset Sarah dearly by saying cruel things about her mother and father – something that Sarah didn't ever want to hear since negative comments and the cruel fact that they were now both dead didn't mix well at all when Sarah had heard it.

Kyle stood up and tried to catch up with Sarah who had already caught the attention of everybody in the room. "SARAH…WAIT!"

And right at this specific point, Maxwell had just come out of the lunchroom collection area and had spotted his sister in tears running out of the lunchroom. He knew his sister Sarah all too well to know that only something deeply depressing could have upset her. But all he saw was Sarah standing up and running off in tears – along with Kyle running after her shouting 'SARAH……WAIT!' – wrongly making it look like that Kyle was the one that had upset Sarah. Maxwell clenched his fist, placed his lunch tray on a nearby table and walked out of the lunchroom – following Kyle.

Maxwell stopped and hid behind a corner of the corridor – out of sight from both Kyle and the people in the lunchroom. Kyle had stopped in the corridor. Sarah was nowhere to be found. The school corridor fell silent. Kyle walked back to the lunchroom – now slightly saddened by Sarah's upset condition. But just as he was about to step into the lunchroom and back into sight of everyone else, he was pulled back and forced onto a nearby wall by the might of Maxwell's overpowering strength. Maxwell grabbed and barged Kyle's arms up against the wall and looked him straight in the eye with an angry look on his young face.

"Let's get ONE THING STRAIGHT. No one and I mean NO ONE…ever upsets my sister – especially someone like you."

"No no wait, please, you don't understand."

"DON'T I? I know f---ing well what you just did, don't lie to me Kyle. You may look all nice and caring on the outside, but I've been around people for too long to realise that you should never judge a book by its cover!"

"But you don't understand…I didn't upset her."

"Sure you didn't…that's what the last one said when he first met her."

"The…the last one?"

"Boyfriend…the last BOYFRIEND! If I knew where that f---ing prick was now, I'd smash his face in. If only I knew that he would eventually take advantage of Sarah and do what he did…"

"Do what? What did he do?"

"Does it look like any of your f---ing business?!"

"No, I'm sorry…I'm sorry for asking…please…let me go."

"Why?"

"Because…because……"

"Because what?!" There was a brief silence. "SPIT IT OUT!"

"BECAUSE I LOVE HER!"

There was shock on Maxwell's face. He had realised Kyle and Sarah were close like friends, but not this close. Could it be true that this kid really DID have a crush on his sister AND vice versa? "You……you love her?"

"YES"

Maxwell's face quickly returned back to anger. "And you think I'm just gunna let you get on with your little GAME?"

"Game? What game?"

"You know dam f---ing well what game I'm on about – taking advantage of Sarah and then doing something awful to her in the end. That's what the last one did – he made us think he was nice and caring and then right at the end, he stole the one thing that Sarah cherished the most…her priceless family heirloom pendant and then disappeared from the area completely. You could never guess at the level of depression and shock Sarah was in when that happened. And because of what's happened just now in the past………but that's not any of your concern."

"But I know……I know your parents died…and I'm sorry!"

Maxwell was in even more shock. The shock froze his arms over and he let go of Kyle. He turned around and leaned over against the wall. A few tears trickled down his face. Kyle could hear and sense that Maxwell was upset about it all – he was everything Sarah could ask for as a brother. Maxwell would never let anything happen to his sister – even in the most difficult of situations like this.

"I…I suppose she told you DIDN'T SHE?"

"Yeh…yeh she did Maxwell. She told me the whole story. To be honest, I was on the verge of crying too."

Maxwell turned back round. "Alright…I'm gunna let you and Sarah do what you wanna do together, but just to let you know…I'LL BE WATCHING. Don't think I won't be protecting my little sister against anything this cruel, sick f---ing World might bring."

"I know Maxwell…that's what makes you a good brother." Kyle placed his hand on Maxwell's shoulder. But Maxwell looked down in disgust and threw Kyle's hand off – expressing that he didn't want Kyle's or anybody's sympathy. He walked off back into the lunchroom with his usual annoyed look on his face. Kyle stood in the corridor watching with a puzzled but sorry look on his face.

Poor Maxwell, Poor Sarah. I wish I could do something to help them both……but what? I don't want Maxwell to hate me even more…but I don't want Sarah to think I don't care. Oh God…please…give me a sign. "Oh well, back to cracking that code, I guess." Kyle walked back into the lunchroom.

It was now 3 o clock and the school day was over. Stan, Kyle, Cartman & Kenny were walking out the school front doors.

Right, they said I have to get 'em round the back where they're both waiting……I guess…this is it. Kenny readied himself and spoke out loud to the other three.

"Hey you guys. I forgot to mention, I wanna show you something really cool round the back of the school building."

"What?" Stan asked.

"Errrrr…it's a really cool…Ummmm…new driving car…machine……toy…thing." Oh great, that sounds convincing. Good going Kenny. He was already struggling to convince the others to follow.

"What kind of driving car."

"Ummmm, it's one of those new blue racing toy cars. You know, the one on TV."

"How would you know it's blue…your TV doesn't even have colour on it."

God, he knows more about me than I do. "Errrr well, I saw it in a toy shop too. Come on guys, it looks cool."

"Oh alright, but it better look cool. Plus, I don't wanna miss the new episode of Lost on TV tonight."

Kenny guided the three boys around the perimeter of the building. God, I hope this whole thing works. I don't want 'em finding out what's really happened to me……so soon.

There waiting were two adults in black FBI suits and thick black shade glasses.

"Huh…hey Kenny…where's this blue car of yours then…you said it would be here. Hey wait a minute, who the hell are you two anyway?"

But just as Kyle finished what he was saying, the two FBI agents' hands started to glow with black and white light.

"What the……?" Stan spoke – shocked and puzzled.

"KENNY NOW!" One of the FBI agents yelled – allowing Kenny to both pull the draw strings on his parka hood even tighter and also cover his mouth and nose over with his hands. Out of the two FBI agents' hands, came this wave of strange gas-like light that covered the small area where the four boys were stood. As the gas surrounded the boys, Stan, Kyle and Cartman started to feel tired and sleepy and it didn't take them long before they became so sleepy that they all fell asleep and collapsed softly onto the floor. All three of them had got knocked out by some kind of sleeping gas.

The two agents started to glow and quickly turned physical shape. For it was really Ageliss and Divelia who were the two FBI agents – in a smart and supernatural physical disguise.

"So how come either of you never told me you could change how you look in human form?"

"You never asked." Divelia replied at which Kenny rolled his eyes and accepted his answer. Ageliss walked over and knelt to inspect the three other boys' conditions.

"Are they all alright?"

"Yeh, they're all Kenny…" Ageliss happily replied. "They all appear to be unharmed by that light gas. All three of 'em will be safely asleep until we get them back here to Earth."

"Thank God for that. Alright, so where are we heading?"

But before either of them could reply, they picked up each boy. Ageliss picked up both Stan and Kyle and carried the boys on either shoulder. As Divelia picked up Cartman and placed him in his arms, Ageliss grabbed Kenny's hand. "Kenny…we're now heading for Heaven."

"HEAVEN? You mean…the REAL Heaven you guys were going on about last night?"

"That's right Kenny. No human in the history of this very Universe has ever seen or even steeped inside the realm of the true Heaven. You're going to have the honour of being the very first human to step inside BOTH dimensions."

"HELL TOO?" Kenny was more shocked than excited. But he still couldn't wait to be taken to these new dimensions.

"Yep, alright here we go." Ageliss concentrated and a sphere of white light began to encircle and wrap around the three of them. It wasn't long before Kenny, Ageliss and Divelia (along with the three sleeping boys) were completely wrapped within a sphere of pure white light. And within a flash, the big sphere of light vanished within in an instant and Kenny was on his way to Heaven – the REAL Heaven.

And on the ground where Kyle had collapsed and fell asleep, lay the small piece of paper that he had been given by Sarah. He still hadn't decoded that message and thus, unaware to him, it was a personal message from Sarah:

WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME AND WATCH ME AND MY FAMILY PERFORM AT A CONCERT GIG AT THE SPORTS CENTRE IN DENVER ON THURSDAY? (PLEASE SAY YES!)