Chapter 2: A Year Later

Cartman stood next to Stan. He fubbled with his black tie as he listened to Stan say something about homework and school and girls but hs mind was other places. He fell backwards onto the couch and sighed before looking up at Stan who had his hands on his hips and a annoyed look on his face.

"You look like my mother." Cartman said. Kenny walked into the living room of Stan's house and stared at the two. "Oooh Cartman pissed Stan off...kick his over large ass." Kenny said as he flopped down onto the couch. Cartman glared and kicked Kenny. "Shut up white trash." Cartman growled. Stan sighed, clearly he didn't want this. He walked out of the room as he heard Kenny and Cartman go at each other.

Stan walked into the kitchen, only to hope that Kenny and Cartman would soon leave. They were only here because their mothers thought it would be nice to have them all together on Kyle's birthday. The only problem was there was no Kyle. Why in gods name would his mother would want him to remember Kyle's birthday if he was trying to forget?

Stan leaned against the wall as he heard the kitchen door open. Kenny, who was dressed in a black suit with a orange tie (That boy loved orange), walked over to Stan.

"Its time to go to school."

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It was like a bad movie of men in black. Well kick out Kenny for wearing a orange tie but Stan and Cartman both wore black suits with a white shirt under the jacket and a black tie. Stan's hair was sleek and pulled back along with Cartman and Kenny. Cartman thought of them as the Godfathers but Kenny didn't want to be a gangster. Stan didn't join in with their stupid talk about movies. He kept his eyes glue to the ground and his hands in his pockets. He felt empty. But it wasn't like for the first time. No. Stan had felt empty a lot of times. Wendy, Wendy, Wendy and Wendy. Now it was Kyle, Kyle, Kyle and Kyle. He wondered if he could join the high school gothes. Most likely not. They still hated him when he called them fags, Oops.

Stan watched his feet step over cracks, small holes and tiny plants. Cracks. His mind twisted and turned as he remembered the cracks cracking over the ice sending Kyle down into the dark blue waters. The sound echoed in his mind. The sound of breaking ice. The sound in his own mind would have drived him crazy if he had not already had gone crazy.

Stan felt someone grab his arm making him slowly look up. Kenny smiled as he pointed up the stairs to South Park High. Stan sighed. They were already at school. That was sad. They both walked up the steps as Cartman complained about breaking his ass by falling down stairs.

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Kenny poked at the of Stan's head with his pen.

"Your hair is yucky." Kenny said. Stan turned his head to get a nasty surprise. Stan let out a small yelp and covered his left eye. Kenny dropped his pen, "Oh shit!" He cried as he jumped from his seat. Cartman howled with laughter from his seat next to Stan.

"Shut up fat ass or I'll have to super glue that over large mouth shut for you!" Kenny snapped angrily and Cartman stopped laughing. Kenny pulled away Stan's hand and held his chin with the other hand.

"Well...I have good news and bad news Miss Cartman . Your nice slim son does not have ink in his eye! But he will be blind for the day." Kenny said with a goofy smile as he turned to the red face Cartman. His little eyes were throwing daggers at Kenny. "Oh funny! I AM NOT A WOMAN!" Cartman yelled angrily. "You sure look like one." Kenny said as he turned back stan who was whimpering softly as he rubbed his eye.

"You'll be fine." Kenny said. At that moment the door opened and a girl in a nice light blue parka came in. Her blue eyes glared around the room until it landed on Cartman.

"Yof!" The girl's hand shot up and pointed at Cartman. Cartman suddenly turned pale and grabbed his bag to protect himself. "Please! I didn't do anything, I swear I didn't!" Cartman cried as the girl towered over him. He was shaking in his seat as the girl leaned down onto his desk and pulled off her hood. Brown sleek hair fell out of the hood past her shoulders. Her green eyes glared into Cartman's.

"Oh, don't acted like a stupid pig. You know what you did fatass!" The girl snarled angrily. Cartman hid his face on his bag as Kenny stood up and Stan removed his hands from his eye.

Kenny smirked as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Liegh...what happened?" Liegh glared at Kenny, "Shut up prick." She snarled, Kenny's mouth fell open. "P-prick?" Stan couldn't help but chuckle. Liegh grabbed ahold of Cartman and somehow (almost by magic) She pulled him out of the chair. She dragged him out of the classroom and down the hall to the sicence lab. She pushed him threw the door and tugged on his ear pulling him over to the small island table. She pointed to two sicence tests. Cartman's and Liegh's name writen on the papers. They both had the same thing on there...the same thing. Kenny walked behind Liegh and stared at the papers. Both of them had F's. Liegh turned to Cartman and glared at him, "You cheated! Now I have a F on my fucking paper because of you! YOU! I should kill you, you son of a bitch!" Liegh screamed angrily.

Suddenly as quick as her anger had controled her, she threw herself onto Kenny and started to cry. "I failed because of the fatass!" She sobbed. Kenny was confused at first but wrapped his arms around the girl. "Erm." Stan walked up behind Kenny and smiled slightly. "Awww..." He looked at Cartman who had tears in his eyes, "Haha." Stan looked at the two papers and sighed. "Aw shit."

"Now I won't be able to be a doctor!" Kenny only had a few seconds before Liegh almost leapped at Cartman to sratch his eyes out.

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Stan couldn't help but stare. She was beautiful. She had long red hair that fell past her shoulders to her mid back. She had bright green eyes at seemed to hold the sun itself then reflect it. She wore a turquoise skirt and a sunset orange tank-top. She also wore a forest green bucket hat that was pulled down so it could cover her eyes. Stan couldn't help but notice that she seemed to be a loner.

Stan thought about calling her over to eat with him, Kenny, Cartman and Liegh but she seemed to vanish into air right before he got the courage. The only other person who seemed to notice her was Kenny. That was a good to know. At least Stan knew he wasn't going crazy. Stan would search for the girl all over the school. He would find nothing. But unknown to him, The girl was watching him.

The first day he had ever seen her was when he had dumped into her in the hall way. She had fallin backwards and her hat had fallin off. Her hair suddenly fell on her shoulders, giving her such a lovely look. Stan was thrown into a trance as he stared at the girl on the ground.

"Erm...Im sorry, I wasn't looking. Its all my fault." Stan said as he bent down to help her up. The girl stared at him for a moment. Her face was shocked in a pained way. She looked at Stan's at hand and suddenly a small smile crossed her face. She slipped her hand into his and Stan felt his heart flutter to heaven. Her small smile and the feel of her skin was soft. He felt his face redden as he pulled her up.

"Thank you." Even her voice was soft. To bad she only said those two words. Stan watched her pick up her books and walk out of sight. He felt her take his heart with her.

Ever since then Stan had gone to Kenny and told him about everything. He only had that annoying kind of smile on his lips the hole time.

"Her name is Kyelia. She's new." He said. Kyelia. Stan sighed. It sounded beautiful. Stan then shook his head and stared at Kenny. "How did you know?" "She's my friend." Stan almost fainted. That was until Cartman pulled Kyelia into the friend group. Her new name from the group was Kyle. That pissed Stan off. How dare Cartman and Kenny replace Kyle! Well Stan was not going to stand for this...no. Kyle was not going to be replaced by some girl. No. Stan would fight this to the end. Even if that ment ruining everyone elses life. Especially if it was Kyelia...she was going to pay.

TBC