So, shortly after finishing the first story, I give you the sequel. It is four years later, and I wanted them to do a sort of summer long road trip. I was going to make them graduating high school, but I decided to go with entering high school instead. I also wanted to include all of my favorite characters in this. How will that work out? We'll just have wait and see.
Also, the song I'm using this time around is a song from the show Victorious. Just so you know.
"You think you know me…"
Chapter One – The really stupid idea disguised as a good idea
When one becomes fourteen in the states, one realizes high school is upon them, they're about to enter the worst years of their life, and the only reaction one can muster is "God, damn it." But when the last day of school was over and Stan only had a summer vacation and then high school to look forward to, he knew that he had to make this particular summer vacation the best summer vacation ever.
"This is going to be the worst summer vacation ever," Kenny complained as he and his friends sat on the bus after the last day of school had passed. "The entire summer I'm just going to be thinking about how we're going to be going to high school. That place sucks!"
"I'm sure it's not as bad as Shelly keeps telling me it will be," Stan said unconvincingly.
"Besides, we still have an entire summer before high school," Kyle pointed out, looking up from his phone. "I'm sure we can find something to do to take our minds off of it."
"You mean like the last time we tried to do something memorable for our break?" Cartman said, poking his head from around the back of the seat. "Because, you know, we all remember how well your last idea for that went." Kyle frowned at him.
"I thought we already established that that stupid zip-lining thing was Stan's idea," he hissed at him.
"Oh yeah," Cartman recalled before turning to Stan. "Don't think of something stupid this time." Stan's only reply was to roll his eyes and quickly give his friend the finger.
Even though they were on good terms now, there was still a bit of tension between him and his friends, and Stan really couldn't understand why. He felt like whatever they did for summer vacation, it had to be something that would bring them closer together. Although, to be fair, he didn't know why his friends never came up with any ideas of stuff they should do.
When Stan got home, the rest of his family was sitting in front of the TV (he rarely found them anywhere else these days). They looked up when he entered and his father greeted him.
"Hey Stan," he said. "How was your last day of school?"
"Fine," Stan replied, throwing his backpack into a corner. "My friends and I are trying to think of something awesome to do for the summer before we go into high school."
"How come?" his mother wondered.
"Because, we're going from middle school to high school," Stan pointed out. "And we wanted to have as much fun as possible before that happened." Hesitating, he added, "Besides, I don't know why but it seems like my friends have been kind of distant lately and I wanted to bring us closer together again. Like the good old days."
"You mean before or after you dated that girl who kissed your best friend and you didn't believe him when he told you?" Shelly piped in with a smug smile. Her mother scolded her and Stan frowned at her. He was hoping to avoid ever bringing that up again, but for some reason, just when he was about to forget about it, Shelly would bring the previous fan fiction's plot back into the spot light again. He wished he hadn't told her about it.
He went straight up to his room and lay down on his bed. At least things were better with Wendy. She didn't seem to even sort of remember what had happened a few years ago with the new girl. He couldn't decide if he was happy about that or not.
He was interrupted from his thoughts when his father came into the room.
"Hey Stan," Randy greeted again. "Dinner's ready."
"Kay, thanks," Stan replied.
"You know, I thought of something you and your friends could do for summer vacation," his dad said, not moving. Stan looked up at him in confusion. "Well, you know how we've been talking about wanting to take a trip to see all of America's greatest landmarks?"
"No," Stan said immediately.
"Well, I thought it would be fun if we rented an RV and went on a cross country trip," Randy said excitedly. "Why spend your summer going to one fun thing when you could spend it going everywhere in America?" Stan raised his head to look at his father.
"You know, dad," he said after a moment of consideration. "That might actually work! And it might even be fun, you know? I'll call the others and ask them tomorrow what they think about it."
"A cross country trip in an RV?" Cartman said, skepticism dripping from his voice.
"Yeah, why not?" Stan replied. "Why settle on one thing to do that might turn out to be lame, when we can go see everything in America? It wouldn't matter if we went somewhere and it sucked, because we'd just go somewhere else the next day."
His three friends exchanged glances before looking back at him.
"Where are we supposed to get an RV?" Kenny wondered. "And who would drive it?"
"My dad," Stan replied. "It was sort of his idea, after all."
"You know, I think this might actually work," Kyle said after a moment of thought. The other two thought about it as well.
"Yeah, as long as I don't have to pay, I'm all for it," Cartman agreed.
"When are we leaving?" Kenny wondered, his fists clenched excitedly.
"A week from now," Stan replied. "That'll give us enough time to pack and everything. And dad can also pick the perfect RV to rent."
"All right!" Kenny said. "Let's do this!"
And that's that. I hope you guys are just as excited as I am for this sequel as I am. We'll see who gets to go, where they're going and all that other fun stuff in the next chapter, which will hopefully be coming soon, since I already typed it up. Tell me what you think in a comment, and remember, super lazy Tuesdays are just regular lazy Tuesdays, but with a cape.