Chapter 25:

"Come on Ruby, we have to get home. Mom made me pick you up while she was running late for work." Craig said making his way near his sister where he waited for her to finish talking to her friends. He was currently looking at his phone realizing he spend five minutes waiting beside her elementary school.

Ruby rolled her eyes then told her friends she'll see them tomorrow, "Gotta go guys, don't forget the writing assignment we need to finish. Okay Karen?"

"Yeah I know, Ruby."

Ruby nodded then noticed something, "Wait a minute, Karen where's Kenny? Doesn't he usually pick you up?"

Craig also realized that, and furrowed his eyebrows, 'Don't tell me he went straight towards Clyde's house and forgot to pick up his sister. Nice work McCormick.'

Karen shifted her backpack and answered with a shrug, "I don't know, sometimes I take the bus or I walk home if he's late to get me. But it's usually like five minutes after the bell rings he's out here, I guess he's running late."

Looking around, Craig saw there was hardly anyone still at the school. Sighing, Craig interrupted his sister's conversation by grabbing her hand and then knelt down to Karen's height holding out his other hand for her to take.

"We can take you home, Karen. If that's fine with you? I'm pretty sure your brother might have forgot and just went home."

Karen hesitated a little bit, but then nodded smiling shyly and grabbed his hand seeing as he was probably right about her brother forgetting to pick her up after school.

"That's fine, thank you Craig."

"Dude, what the hell?"

"Wha? Oh, hey Craig, what are you doing here?"

Craig stepped aside showing Kenny his sister, Karen. "Dumbass, you forgot to pick up your sister. She's been waiting outside with Ruby and their other friends when I got there."

Kenny rubbed his eyes but then blinked after processing what Craig just told him and face palmed, "Aw man. I'm soo sorry Karebear. I totally forgot, heck, I don't even know how I got home. One second I was uh, I think around somewhere and the next, I'm home sleeping."

Craig gave him a confuse stare until Karen spoke, "You don't know how you got home? But Kenny, you always pick me up after school."

"I know, I know. And yeah, I hardly remember. Anyway, at least you're home. Do you forgive me Karen?" Kenny asked giving his sister a goofy looking grin.

Karen couldn't help but giggle at her brother and nodded with a smile, "Of course Kenny."

Kenny chuckled relief that his sister would've gotten mad at him.

He turned back towards Craig seeing as the raven was telling his sister that they'll go home in just a few minutes.

He shook his head when he saw them flip each other off, which was really normal for them.

"Hey Craig, thanks for bringing Karen home."

Craig shrugged after seeing their sisters go outside to let them talk,"Sure, no problem. By the way, are you still going to head to Clyde's house to talk to him like you said earlier?"

Kenny froze and remembered what happened earlier.

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"I don't think either of them will ever understand. More importantly neither can you."

He furrowed his eyebrows unaware he was near the middle of the streets, "What?"

Before he could ask another question, his eyes widened when he heard a screeching noise coming towards him.

He turned around seeing the speeding car coming towards him and cursed, 'Shit.'

He glanced back to the brunette a few feet away and could have sworn the other gave him a smirk and his eyes change from emerald to brown.

"Bye, Kenny."

That was the last thing he heard before everything suddenly turned dark.

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Kenny stumbled back slightly when that flashback came back to him. He turned to look at Craig with a look of seriousness, "Dude, something is really wrong with him."

When Craig heard him, he gave a confuse expression, "...What?"

The blonde sighed, "Something, I don't know what. But something is going on with him. Craig, the reason I forgot to pick up Karen was because I died from a car accident when I was at Clyde's."

Craig frowned at that, "Did you at least talk to him?"

"Yeah, I told him how everyone was relieved that he was okay after he fainted and he just smirked at me as if it was nothing important. Craig, talk to him. This is starting to get really serious. I noticed he has bags under his eyes, he seems to be losing weight, and I think the same thing that happened to Twe-"

"Shut up. I told you never mention what happened that time." Craig gritted out as he clenched his fists.

Kenny raised his hand to the raven's shoulder, "Craig...It wasn't your f-"

Craig pushed his hand away and narrowed his eyes, "I said shut the hell up. We're done talking about that. And no way the same shit is going to happen to Clyde."

Kenny nodded watching him walk out the door telling his sister that they were going home. When he saw the two Tucker siblings start to leave, Craig glanced back at him and spoke with a determination tone, "I'll talk to him tonight. I'm not letting him push me away. Not by a long shot. "

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He was running...

His heart pounding in his ears, as he did so.

But the question is...Why was he running?

He looked around his surroundings when he skidded to a stop.

Before taking his time to have a good look around, he realized he was at his old elementary school and it was currently recess.

Confused, he looked down upon himself and saw that he was in his ten year old body, "Why am I-"

His ears perked up when he heard little kids laughing in the distant, almost as if they were coming behind him.

He turned around just in time seeing younger versions of his friends laughing and pointing at his direction.

Furrowing his brow, he took a step back when all of them started to come closer. As he took a step back, he didn't notice there was a small rock on the ground making him trip which resulted him to sit on the cold snow.

His eyes widened when he glanced back up, seeing them all line up as they started to approach him one by one laughing along the way.

"Um-"

"Shut up fat boy." One of them replied.

He stiffened and retorted back, "I'm not...I'm not fat!"

"Yes you are. Tubby!" They teased in unison.

His eyes started to water, "No I'm not!"

"Aw! Is Clyde gonna cry? Haha, what a crybaby!"

Clyde shook his head and raised his hands to cover his ears, "N-No...Shut up!"

"You guys! Aw he's crying because he's fat!" All of them started laughing.

He bit his lip trying to fight back a sob thinking in his head when he tried to block out their voices, 'They're lying! I-I'm not fat!...I'm not! I'm not!'

"Pft! Who wants to be hanging out with a fat boy like you? We already have Cartman as the head fatass! We don't need two fat boys!"

"...Stop it!" He whimpered when they laughed again.

"No wonder you weren't voted cutest, because you're stupid, unpopular, and fat!"

His lip started to quiver at their words.

Suddenly, their laughter stopped and they all vanished except for the ones he was familiar with, he saw a couple of them walking up to him and grab his arm then started pulling him towards the restroom.

Instant fear started to erupt him after they pushed him inside.

He raised his head and was met with his own reflection and behind him was an opened stall.

He trembled at his reflection then turned around in realization, '...T-They were right...'

Blurred by the salty tears sliding down his cheeks, his shoulders started to shake and he let a choked sob escape him.

"I don't w-want to be fat..."

With that being left said, Clyde stepped closer towards the stall.

All he had to do was sit on his knees and...

...

...

...

...Throw up.

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"Obesophobia-Fear of gaining weight...Check." Eddy snickered, still in control as he was in the teen's own bathroom staring at the toilet with an amused expression.

A/N: Sorry about Eddy's behavior in the last chapter '^^. Anyway, I updated~(not sure if there are any mistakes on this chapter, if there is, I'll fix them when I can.) Now I gotta figure out what will happen on the next chapter. If I update this week that is. (I have to finish the other half of the state testing we are doing at my school. orz. Pretty sure I did bad on the math part last week. Oh well...)

Reviews keep me motivated, just letting you all know~

(Even if some of you don't review. At least let me know who's actually reading this story? I'd like to know :].)