As predicted, between not taking her eyes off of them all period and using every available chance there was to post updates on Facebook - which the teacher seemed hellbent on giving that day - Bebe had used her head-start to alert the entire online world that Kenny McCormick and Hunter Bloodworth were an item, all before they could even sit down. On one hand, Hunter had to give it to the blonde that she could work her thumbs that fast, but on the other, she was annoyed that the other girl was even putting it out there. Kenny had to agree with the cross look on Hunter's face - it was their place to confirm their relationship on the internet, not a third party's. If she kept it up, Bebe could have a promising career as paparazzi.

What they didn't predict, however, was Stan bailing halfway through his fifth period class, which they didn't find out until practice, when Kyle filled them in on the details. That troubled all three of them immensely, since they had seen a marked improvement in their friend's attitude all morning (Kyle since the night before, beginning with the whiplash). If Stan had bailed with a second person, it wouldn't have crossed anyone's mind to care, but ditching by himself? Either he had gotten sick and had to go home, or something was up... Something that most likely involved Wendy...

Once they were free to go home for the day (practice brutal but free of intentional groin injuries), both Kenny and Hunter volunteered to go check on Stan with Kyle, but he reminded them that they couldn't; Kenny had to go to work, and Hunter was probably stuck on baby-sitting duty again. It was probably worse than that for her, since it had taken several hours to send a message explaining that the car had run out of gas and that they had to rent a couple of rooms at some cheap motel. So from the delay of the lie alone, it was safe to assume that she was grounded, but Hunter didn't bring that to light, not even to Kenny as they parted ways for the day.

Up the street from Stan's place, the house already in sight, Kyle's pocket had begun to buzz; on vibrate from class, he had almost missed the text message from his little brother, appropriately marked as 'plastered'. Is it true that our lovely friend has been swept away by that spunk-master you call a friend? It's been plastered all over the internet. I thought that Hunter wasn't dating.

Damn, Bebe moved fast. They had all been too preoccupied with the mystery of Stan's sudden disappearance to bring it up themselves, but it was only obvious who the culprit was; even if he hadn't seen her lurking in the hallway, Kyle would have surmised as much. It was almost as easy to figure out who had posted the information as it was to see that Ike was jealous. Seriously, he really couldn't have possibly believed that he had an honest chance scoring with Hunter? Ike had already had more partners than himself, and the last Kyle knew, was already working up in the grades, but a fellow senior? Sure, some of the girls might have gone for it, but Hunter wasn't the kind of girl to just give it up like that. Was he the only one that saw that?

Shaking his head at his phone as he walked up the Marsh's driveway, Kyle sent a reply back to his brother. It might be a while before she is available. I'd advise careful consider8tion and at least 10 gallons of Purell.While there was the biting edge of sarcasm to his comment, there was also concern and genuine brotherly advice.

Choosing to ignore any further texts but not daring to fully turn off his phone lest he face his mother's fury for doing so (again), the teen raised his hand to knock on the front door only to freeze up, a chill that had absolutely nothing to do with the weather running up his spine. The living room light was on, so he knew right away that Stan was inside, since Shelly was off at college (thank God) and his parents at work, but what he saw... What he saw had no human description for how bad it it was... Standing opposite him but not looking out of the window at that exact moment was none other than Wendy Testaburger herself...

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Unable to focus and thinking only of what Wendy had told him earlier during lunch, nothing else mattered but to figure this thing out, so Stan had stood up in the middle of class and had just walked away. Sure he knew that there would be hell to pay for that choice later, but this was so much more important than getting called into the dipshit principal's office to get scolded in front of his parents. This was a baby. His baby. His baby with Wendy...

Seeing Stan come home early didn't surprise her in the slightest, so she tried to curb any comments she had about his ditching class, and for the most part, she felt as if she had done a good job in that department. In fact, Wendy felt as if she had done a really good at holding as much composure as she possibly could while discussing her recent situation. Or she had, until they got to the part about what came next.

"I did a lot of thinking while I was gone, and I know that it's still early, but it's what's best for me." Before they got into anything about the baby, she had to make it clear that there was no chance of them getting back together, not ever. "I know that you don't want to hear that Stan, but we have to move on with our lives."

Devastating a blow as that was to hear - one that would bleed later and scar over after years, if it ever mended - he supposed that it would have been a bit better on their child than having two parents who went back and forth in divorce and marriage, because he had no idea what that was like. "Fine, but I want to be able to see him on holidays. Every holiday, even the gay ones. And weekends, and whenever possible." He naturally assumed that Wendy would fight for and receive primary custody, so it would be better on everyone to just accept that fact going in.

And then that brought her to the second thing she had decided before seeking him out at school. "I wanted to give it up for adoption."

"Adoption?!" He watched Teen Mom and that movie Juno, so he knew how that one ended.

Wendy might have lost her path on the way through life and school, but this was the wake-up call that she needed, the one that was there to re-motivate her to pursue her dreams. But she had also seen the same shows and movies as Stan, so that altered her initial opinion somewhat. "I'm not ready for this responsibility, and even if you think you are, I can tell you that you're not." She thought back to a class they had had in fourth grade, of how much they had matured from then. "That's why I'm giving it up for a closed adoption, so I don't have to think about what I'm giving up."

He just learned that he was going to be a father, the fact only hitting in theory and not yet reality, and already she was trying to take that away from him?! "Don't you care at all?!"

Of course she did! It might have seemed at the surface that she was only thinking of herself in her decision, but really she was thinking of the thing too, of what life could have been. If she kept it, Stan would have undoubtedly tried his very best, but ultimately he would be filled with resent and loathing, and if Cartman ever knew... Well, better that Stan be stuck a single father than Eric having any part of the child's life. "I care more than you will ever know Stan!" If she didn't care, Wendy would have just gotten an abortion, even if that was against her beliefs.

The line about Bebe being paparazzi was not meant as a nice one. Such a hard time getting the ball rolling on this one! Well, after the opening paragraph... But when I got unstuck, it kind of just wrote itself. Oh, and since you've stuck around this long, you'll probably want to hold on, since I have like eleven other chapter out now.

I do not own South Park, that's all on Matt and Trey, but I do own Hunter and Avery!