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Time to face the music?

Sheila and Gerald Broslofski Pulled into the Marshes drive way, got out of the car and knocked the door. Randy answered the door "Hi guys. Come in"

"Where's my boy, Randy? I want a word with Kyle!" Sheila asked, sounding slightly angry

"Shiela, Clam down." Gerald comforted her "I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation as to what happened" He said as they walked into the kitchen

"Please, sit down" Randy smiled, motioning towards the table in the middle of the kitchen and picking up a mug of coffee from the kitchen counter

"Sharon? You sounded terrible on the phone" Sheila said To Sharon, who was looking and feeling a bit better, now she'd had time to absorb the situation.

"I'm fine, thank you, Sheila"

Gerald Sat down opposite Randy "The question is, what do we do now? I mean, this can't be a recent thing, and from what Sheila told me, something's been going on for a while now."

"Beats me. This is the first I knew about it" Sharon replied.

"I think that goes for all of us, Honey" Randy said. They all nodded in reply. "I think a better question is 'what can we do now?' I mean, their our boys, and we found out in what has to be the worst possible way for them as well as us"

"Should we separate them?" Sharon asked

"I don't think that's the answer. I know my Kyle. If I tell him that he can't see Stan again, he'll only find a way to defy me" Sheila said

"Stan too." Randy added.

"Ok, so splitting them up isn't the best option, Should we keep them together?" Sharon asked

"Well, what ever we do, I think we need to show our support. Gay or not, They are our boys" Gerald said

"Yes but the least Kyle could have done was tell us this was their plan!" Sheila sounded annoyed again

"And what if it wasn't the initial idea? We don't know for certain that it was." Randy responded

"Good point" Sheila said

"So what, we should just…accept it?" Sharon asked

"Yeah" Replied Randy. "I think that's about the best thing to do. Look at it this way, we can't change who or what they are, nor can we help it since it's their life choice."

"If we try to stop them from seeing each other, they'll just go behind our backs, and it wouldn't be that hard, considering they go to the same school." Gerald added

"I think we ought to make our opinions known to them though. Just tell them that it's a bit of a shock to us, we might not like what they do, but they are still our boys, no matter what." Randy said.

"Well, what do you suggest we do right now? They must be getting pretty stressed out up there." Sharon asked

"Go up and talk to them." Randy replied

"What, right now?" Sheila asked

"No time like the present" Gerald replied. He and Randy were already heading out the kitchen door

Sheila and Sharon got up and followed their husbands upstairs

Kyle and Stan were sitting on Stan's bed, holding hands and shitting themselves.

"Oh god, dude. I can hear them coming upstairs. They're going to kill us" Kyle's voice was shaky

Stan put his arm around Kyle to comfort him "Calm down" He kissed him on the cheek "We've got each other. They can't take that away from us"

Sharon put her head around Stan's door "Stanley, sweetie?"

"Oh god" Stan said quietly

"Don't be worried. We just want a word with you boys is all" Sharon said softly as she and the others entered the room, Stan's parents sitting by Stan, and Kyle's by him.

"W-what did you want to talk about?" Kyle's voice was still shakey

"Well, it's pretty obvious that the basic talk about the birds and the bees is completely irrelevant right now. So lets go with something a bit more adult" Gerald said

Stan and Kyle chuckled nervously.

"Look boys" Sheila spoke "What you were doing was perfectly natural."

"Whaa?" Stan didn't understand. He was expecting them to all pull out knives any minute and cut his balls off

"Yes, boys. And we're glad that you were at least doing it in private." Gerald added

"But please remember, Boys. You still need to do the basic things, including use protection." Sharon said

"You mean you don't hate us and want to disown us?" Kyle asked

"What on earth gave you that idea bubbie?" Sheila asked

"Well, we just kinda assumed you would" Stan replied

"Look Stan. You and Kyle are our babies. Nothing will ever change that. We may not like the situation very much, but we all think it's best to just….you know, carry on as we did before. Nothing's changed except we learned something new about you both today. Admittedly, we learnt it in a shocking way, but we learnt it." Sharon said

"Yes. But please, boys Remember, We're not always going to be comfortable with certain aspects of your relationship. Not to mention there's all the homophobes in the world. Please, keep your displays of affection to a minimum outside of your own rooms." Said Randy

Much as Stan and Kyle didn't want to admit it. Their parents were right. "Ok" They replied in unison

The parents looked at each other before Gerald spoke "We'll talk more about this some other time. I think we should leave the boys alone now." Gerald smiled and with that, the adults left Stan and Kyle sitting there, Amazed, confused and over the moon.