Stan's POV
The door opens revealing Wendy walking out of the room in a bathrobe and lingerie that I've never seen her wear but it had clearly seen some action. I don't see Cartman in there and I can't tell if it's for the better or not. I'll deal with the fatass later, right now I need to talk to my girlfriend.
We sit in silence at the dinner table as Bebe and Clyde are clearly peeking from their room.
"You know after all those years of dating, I wondered how we were going to end up." I start. "I guess this is it."
Wendy says nothing. She just has her hands on her lap with her head down, preventing me from seeing her face.
"Well." I prod, trying to get some kind of reaction from her. "Don't you have anything you want to say?"
"If you'd just paid attention, it wouldn't have come to this." She says, barely sounding like a whisper. If I hadn't been looking for an answer, I wouldn't have catch it.
"Yes, I've been sleeping with Eric." She says with a cold, emotionless tone. "For over 3 months now. And for those 3 months, he's cared about me more than you ever did for the past 2 years we've been together."
"I rarely see you outside of your recording room and the times I do see you, we always fight." She continues with a sigh. "I'm so tired of it, Eric helped me feel wanted and loved again, he took me out of dates and all those times I stay out late, I've been spending nights in his place."
"Hell, we weren't even that subtle about it!" She starts raising her voice, aggression slowing building as she stands up to get into my face. "We've been texting all the time and I'm all he ever talks about. If you had just cared about anyone else around you for once, you'd notice. You'd notice and maybe then you'd realized the mistake you made."
I take it all in, everything Wendy has said to me. I take a deep breath before calmly saying to her. "You're right. All this time if I had just paid attention, I'd noticed my mistake. And that was getting back together with your cheating ass."
I walk out of the apartment, ignoring Bebe and Clyde's awkward attempts of a goodbye and marching straight to my car. I sit in the driver's seat with my hands clenching my steering wheel in a death grip.
I can't believe it, Wendy and I haven't been on the best of terms but she's still my girlfriend. I've never think that she'd be fucking Cartman behind my back, they probably fucked on the bed we've slept it… God that makes me sick. The two pieces of familiarity from my old life finally crumbling away together.
I see Cartman's fucking car sitting in the parking lot. I really want to take my frustrations and put it all out onto that red hummer there.
No… It's not worth it going to jail for that backstabbing son of a bitch. That asshole betrayed me, I'm not letting him put me down too.
I start my car and start driving, I don't know where I'm going and I don't care. I just want out, I just want one fucking moment of peace to keep my sanity in check.
Kenny's POV
Soon night comes around and we finish setting up the place for our private little party, personally I'd still prefer if we could have a few boozes tonight but Kyle's a stickler for the rules and he'd never let me go if I break that promise.
Charlie comes back a few hours before Sue does, first informing us about her visit to the hospital.
"I checked the hospital and they told me that she was on leave. Her husband, Dexter has asked her to take some time off to relax from the stress. I asked the staff to call them. We talked a bit and she's so happy that I got away from my fucked up family. I got their numbers and they said I can move in with them when they return next week."
"That's awesome!" Kyle says and Charlie nods in agreement.
"I hope you guys don't mind me staying the week." She probably feels bad for asking. She really shouldn't.
"Hey you're welcome to crash here anytime, princess." I assure her, she smiles at me again. I'm really starting to like seeing her like this, so happy and relaxed.
"So what's on the agenda, Lil' Red?" Sue turns to Kyle and ask him with this smirk.
"Don't call me that, Sue." Kyle groans, Charlie and Tweek snickers at their interaction.
"Lil' Red?" I raise my eyebrow. I must've missed something when I walked away to order the pizza.
"She started called me Red for obvious reasons" Kyle explains in a deadpanned tone. "I told her to stop calling me that because there was a girl in our school that's called Red and-"
"So I called him Lil' Red, I mean look at him," Sue then pinches Kyle's cheek."Ain't he just the cutest thing?"
Kyle pulls her hand off of him and warns her, "Girl or not, Sue. I will kick your ass if you call me little or cute again."
"Alright then, Red." She replies with a wink, clearing disregarding Kyle's threat.
"Argh!" Kyle groans in frustration again, much to our amusement.
Kyle decides to change the topic, after looking around the room he asks, "Where's Stan? He finished his session, right? He should be back by now."
"Chill, he told me he went to see his girlfriend-" Sue says with her arm over his shoulder in a very bro-like manner. "-and if I didn't know any better, I would've guessed it was you by the way you're acting." She smirks, Kyle rolls his eyes and throws her arm off of him.
"Stan will come back when he's good and ready." I say, then I stand up andd walk to the front of everyone. "Now we've got Rock Band and Kyle's old Okama Gamesphere set up, we'll also picked a fine selection of movies for you ladies."
"And pizza?" Sue asks.
"Already ordered under Kyle's credit card."
"Wait, WHAT?!" Kyle shouts, his eyes wide with shock and disbelief.
"Dude, find a better place to hide your wallet than your top drawer." I fold my arms in front of my chest and smirk with pride.
"DUDE!" He screams again, face now red with frustration and anger. It's a dangerous game but it's way too much fun pushing Kyle's buttons.
"Relax, I'll pay you back later." I promise the fuming redhead." Now, what's first tonight?"
Charlie and Tweek shrug and Kyle turns his face away, clearly not ready to talk to me again yet. Sue says, "Meh, none of them seem fun now. You guys got Karaoke?"
"Actually, yes. Let me go set it up."
I go and dig up a Karaoke machine that I won in a bet last month. Some retard decided to challenge me to a shot drinking contest and I won, I guess when you're immortal, alcohol poisoning becomes less of a concern than getting drunk as fuck.
But the guy passed out before I could get my prize so I took the guy's machine as my prize before leaving, we didn't set any terms so sucks for him.
Tweek and I set everything up and hand the controllers to Charlie and Sue to pick their songs.
"S-Sue, Let m-me -agh- show you a song I like." Tweek says after the girls pick their songs.
"5 bucks says he's gonna choose a love song." I say to Kyle.
"20 bucks says he ain't."
"You're on, Broflovski." We shake hands behind Tweek's back and wait for him to make his selection.
At the end, Tweek picks some song we don't recognize so it's up for debate who wins. We drop the bet and start selecting our playlist with each of us picking a few songs to sing, the first one goes to our guest of honor, Charlie. She picks the song 'This Will Be the Day'.
Hearing her sing her heart out to this song is amazing, she could have picked any emo song to scream her frustrations out but instead she's singing something powerful and inspiring.
A song warning those who doubted her that she will come back stronger to face the real world and anything that it can throw at her.
She pulls me in half-way through the chorus and hands me one of the microphones on the table. I follow her lead as we finish singing the song together, loud and proud. After it ends, I feel so pumped that I could probably take on the world if I had to.
"You guys were awesome!" Sue says in awe"I didn't know you two could sing."
"I took some singing classes when I was a kid." I shrug and Charlie just giggles at the praise.
"Man, remind me to get you guys to come on the show one day." Sue says with a gleam in her eye.
Kyle's song is next and of course he picks some daft punk songs, we start egging on him to dance to it. Hey, when you pick a song with not that many lyrics you gotta do something else. He still can't dance for shit but man is it fucking hilarious to watch him try.
He finishes his song with a burning glare shot right at me, to which my response is a smug smirk and a shrug.
It doesn't matter if you're thinking of 20 different ways to kill me right now, Kyle. You cut my boozes so I gotta get my entertainment somehow.
As I'm singing 'Do You Wanna Know?', I start strip-dancing on the table with my hips thrusting at them. I see Kyle fighting Sue for the remote, probably to turn it off. Sue is cheering me on while somehow managing to keep Kyle away from his prize, Charlie's looking a little red and flustered. Tweek's used to this so he just sits with mild amusement, and with a small hint of jealously? Oh man, I didn't mean to steal Sue's attention.
Just as I finish the song, Stan enters the house, looking annoyed and frustrated. He grabs a slice of pizza from the dinner table before joining us. By this point, we've been having so much fun, we don't really acknowledge Stan until Sue greets him.
"Hey, rookie. Nice of you to finally join us. You can pick the next song."
"Fine."
"Red like Roses Part II? You sure?"
"Just start the damn song.
I couldn't take it, couldn't stand another minute
Couldn't bear another day without you in it
I listen the lyrics and immediately stiffen, I recognize this song. I look over at Tweek to see him with the same expression. Sue and Charlie just look uncomfortable, seeing Stan act this way. Makes sense I guess, they don't know Stan and Kyle's history.
I wasn't dreaming when they told me you were gone
I was wide awake and feeling that they had to be wrong
How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?
Now I'm trapped inside a nightmare every single f'ing day
I see Kyle starts tensing up too, feeling every word cut him. I understands why Stan chose this song but he's acting like Kyle never regretted his actions, like Stan was the only one suffering the aftermath. I really want to punch him for that
I know you didn't plan this
You tried to do what's right.
But in the middle of this madness
I'm the one you left to win this fight
After the chorus, Kyle suddenly stands up and takes the extra mic on the table, clenching his fist tight on the base of the mic. He looks Stan in the eye and starts singing the next verse.
(Kyle's singing will be in italic, Stan's will be underlined)
I know you're broken down by anger and by sadness
You feel I left you in a world that's full of madness
Wish I could talk to you, if only for a minute
Make you understand the reasons why I did it
It hurts seeing Kyle like this, I know why he's singing this. He's doing exactly what Stan's doing, using this song to show his frustrations to his former best friend but it hurts seeing him so overwhelmed with frustration and grief, so broken that he looks like he's gonna break the second he stops singing, and so desperate for Stan to listen to everything Kyle wants to say to him.
I never planned that I would leave you there alone
I was sure that I would see you when I made it back home
And all the times I swore that it would be okay
Now I'm nothing but a liar, and you're thrown into the fray
This bedtime story ends with misery ever after
The pages are torn, and there's no final chapter
I didn't have a choice, I did what I had to do;
I made a sacrifice, but forced a bigger sacrifice on you
I know you've lived a nightmare
I caused you so much pain
They sing the chorus and it's almost physically painful to watch these two, they might not notice it but I do, they have the same expression. They both have something they need to say to each other but they don't say it, whether it be out of petty anger or pride is beyond me.
They reach the bridge and it is heartbreaking how into it they are, like they want to use the song to send the message they desperately need to get out to each other.
You're not the only one who needed me; I thought you understood
You were the one I needed, and you left me as I always feared you would
Would I change it if I could?
It doesn't matter how
The petals scatter now
Every nightmare just discloses
It's your blood that's red like roses
And no matter what I do
Nothing ever takes the place of you
Red like roses
Fills my head with dreams and finds me
Always closer
To the emptiness and sadness
That has come to take the place of you
The song ends and the screen of the television goes back to the selection menu. The room falls into a tense silence as all of our attention now focuses on Stan.
Kyle looking at him, catching his breath from singing his heart out. I can tell Kyle's looking for some kind of response on Stan's stoic face.
Stan says nothing and just drops the microphone onto the table, walking away with Kyle trailing right behind him. The rest of us in the living room continue to sit in that awkward silence.
It started off as such a fun night but where could we go from here?
Sue take the initiative and stands up. "Well guys, I'm gonna head back. BC Live is gonna need their leader bright and ready."
We nod and follow her lead. We clear up the trash and clean the place back to its pre-party state. Charlie excuses herself to get ready for bed while me and Tweek show Sue to the door.
"Just… Take care of those two." Sue says "I don't know what's going on with them but they'll need it."
We both give her a reassuring smile. Tweek responds, "Don't worry, Sue."
I continue, "We always have."
A/N: Stan's being kinda a dick now but if you went through what he did, you would be too. I'm not saying he's right to do that to poor Kyle but he's letting his emotions get the better of him now. Next time we'll see what Stan and Kyle get past this.
If you haven't noticed, I'm a huge fan of RWBY. The two songs here are part of the RWBY soundtrack, I recommend watching the show if you haven't and listening to these two songs.
Sorry for the delay, you can blame 's stupid inabilty to format properly on mobile for that.
As always, feel free to check out the drama this story is based on, "It's Okay That's Love" by SBS.
Take care, Loves.