It was fourth period math class now. As per usual, Saskia took her seat next to Cartman since it was empty. The two were casually talking about the latest Xbox game unaware that they were being watched from a distance.

Bebe and Red were amazed that anyone would be talking to Cartman so casually. As if they'd been friends forever. Who the hell would enjoy Cartman's company? Bebe watched closely as Cartman ruffled the new girl's hair and she pouted, causing the boy to laugh. The blond raised a brow and looked over to her friend. "Can you believe this girl? How can anyone talk to Cartman? Cartman for god's sake! And he's being super nice to her... what the fuck?!"

"Maybe it's his girlfriend?" Red replied.

"Eric Cartman has a girlfriend?" Bebe giggled. "No way! I mean really... if she is then she MUST be a total bitch if she gets along with him this well... I have to tell Wendy about this!"

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Finally the last class of the day. P.E. For Eric it meant football practice with the guys and for Saskia it meant regular boring P.E. Saskia had Eric's notebook and water bottle in her hands. She was determined to return them to him. He had forgotten them at the end of math class but she picked them up. She had hoped he didn't need them during 5th period since they didn't have that together.

The girl scanned the hallway leading to the boys gym lockers for Eric. When she spotted him she tried to flag him down but he didn't see her. He was talking to a boy wearing an orange parka and Stan and Kyle were with him. As she neared the boys, she overheard their conversation.

"C'mon fat ass just tell us what you're planning." Kenny crossed his arms over his chest.

"Nothing. Why is it so surprising to you guys that I made a friend? Or is it that you're jealous Kenny? Finally a girl that actually wants to talk to me instead of you?" Cartman was beginning to get annoyed as he glared at the blond.

Kenny chuckled and shook his head all the while rolling his eyes at the bigger boy. "Jealous? Really? Of what? Zack's sister?" He chuckled again. "Maybe if she was hot sure, but she's not. She's so plain and average. No, you can keep her Cartman, she's not my type."

"Oh right I forgot you're into easy whores." Cartman spat.

"Listen, we're just trying to-" Kenny was cut short by Kyle elbowing him in his side. "Ah what the hell?!" He turned to Kyle only to see Saskia standing behind them.

Saskia squeezed Eric's water bottle slightly trying to distract herself from the tears forming in her eyes. "H-hey Eric... you forgot your water and your notebook in math class so I... I brought it to you um... here." The girl diverted her gaze from the boys to the floor as she gently handed Cartman his stuff.

Saskia tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and turned around. "I better get going... wouldn't want you to catch my ugly." She awkwardly chuckled and quickly walked away towards the girls locker room.

"Great fucking job Kenny." Cartman pushed the blond aside so he could get through the hallway.

"What the fuck did I do?" Kenny looked to Stan and Kyle.

Stan sighed. "You hurt her feelings... she thinks you insulted her looks. You know looks mean everything to girls man."

"Aww shit..." Kenny felt bad. He didn't mean what he said to Cartman sound as bad as it had. And he especially didnt intend for her to hear it either.

"You'd better apologize dude. You wouldn't want Zack to come after your ass." Kyle said as he and Stand headed to the boys locker room.

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P.E was Saskia's most hated class. She didn't want to participate in anything especially after what happened earlier. The girl was sitting on the bleechers watching Eric and the other boys go through their football practice. She averted her gaze to the other side of the field where the other students were playing basketball. Saskia was wearing simple P.E shorts with a simple grey T-shirt with a cow picture on it.

Saskia hugged her knees to her chest and tried to bury her face in her hands. She sighed heavily. She couldn't wait for school to be over in an hour... she just wanted to get out of here.

A light hand on her shoulder jolted her from her thoughts. She looked up to see Stand sitting next to her. A soft, sweet smile playing on his lips. "Hey." He greeted kindly. Saskia remained silent but looked at the boy with a surprised expression. "I'm on break at the moment." He sighed and sat down next to her while he stretched out his legs. He was still in his football uniform and was kinda sweaty but Saskia wouldn't comment on his stinky-ness. "I just wanted to apologize for my friend earlier. He didn't mean what he said. He sometimes speaks without thinking."

Saskia didn't reply. Instead she went back to the position she was in earlier but she turned her face away from him. She was blushing in embarrassment and didn't want him to see her that way. In fact, she was still so embarrassed that tears started forming in her eyes again.

Stan placed a gentle hand on her shoulder once more and said, "He will eventually come apologize to you. He's a good guy Saskia. Just hear him out. Listen..." He removed his hand from her. "We are just trying to look after you. We warned your brother about Cartman and we're trying to warn you too. He's the school bully... your brother is a cool guy and you seem like a sweet girl. We just don't want you to become his next victim."

As Stan stood up to walk back to practice, Saskia grabbed his attention. "Eric told me you guys are his friends... what kind of friends are you to him if you talk about him this way?" Without looking at him she quickly stood up and walked away.

Stan watched her walk towards the basketball courts and sit down by the other bleachers where the goth kids usually hang out. He thought about what he said and it made him feel bad. She was right... even though Cartman was a bully and all, Kenny, Kyle and him were still the only friends Eric had. For him to be talking about him this way to Cartman's new friend was wrong. He could see how it could be viewed as if the three boys were trying to sabotage a potential friendship Cartman was trying to form. He was going to have a talk with Kyle and Kenny about it later.

Saskia was aware of the goth kids that were beneath the bleachers smoking. She didn't care to be honest. As long as they didn't bother her she was fine with it. But the girl couldn't hold it in anymore. She started to let the tears fall from her eyes. She could feel her heart quicken and her blush deepen. Her eyes were becoming puffy and she tried to force the tears back. As she wiped the tears from her eyes with her arm, a basketball hit her atop her head. Needless to say it hurt like hell.

'What the fuck?!' Saskia thought. She grabbed the ball and looked towards the basketball court. Three girls were making their way towards Saskia. One had long, straight dark hair, the other had long, straight red hair and the last one had long, blond curly/frizzy hair.

Saskia figured it was an accident. She held the ball in her hands and was making her way towards the girls. As she handed them the ball, the one with the dark, long hair slapped it out of her hands.

"Listen up bitch because I'm only going to tell you once!" She yelled. "Stan is MY boyfriend so you'd better stay away from him." The girl pushed Saskia hard causing her to fall down.

Saskia looked up at the girl as she and the other two glared at her. "Yeah you tell her Wendy!" The blond one spoke up.

"My name is Wendy Testaburger, head cheerleader. And Stan Marsh, captain of the football team, is MY boyfriend. You think you're being cute by trying to cuddle up to my man? If I ever see you getting close to him again..." She walked up to Saskia and pushed her down again as the poor girl tried to stand up. "You'll regret it." Wendy sneered.

"You think you're hot shit... but your ugliness seeps through the façade you put up." Saskia gritted her teeth and had her fists clenched. She was one second away from punching this girl out. No one, except her brother, knew that Saskia took MMA fighting classes on the weekends. She didn't do it for sport or to become a champ or anything like that. Saskia took it because her brother wanted her to be able to protect herself. He wouldn't always be around, and if push came to shove, Saskia would be able to hold her own in a fight.

Just as Wendy was going to push Saskia down a third time, A very tall boy all dressed in black and sporting a curly pompadour, stood between the two girls. "Beat it you conformist bitch." He took a long drag of his cigarette and puffed the smoke in the girl's faces. They coughed and tried to shoo the smoke away.

"Oh what you got the goths to help you now? Well don't get so comfortable bitch! We'll be back!" The red headed girl said as the three started walking off.

Saskia remained on the ground. She was mortified... it was just the end of the day and she had bullies already...

The tall boy looked down at her and offered her a hand to help her get up. She took his hand in hers gently and proceeded to stand. Saskia brushed herself off but said nothing. "Don't let those conformist bitches treat you like shit new girl." Saskia looked up at him. He was rather tall. She was only 5'4 and he seemed to be about Eric's height though much, much thinner.

"My name's Micheal." He said. His face was stoic and he held his cigarette between his fingers.

"T-thank you Michael... My name is Saskia..." She replied in a whisper.

"If you don't stand up to them, they're going to keep pushing you around because they'll know they can." Michael turned around and started to walk behind the bleachers where Saskia noticed his friends were waiting. There was a chubby goth girl, another goth kid with red and black hair and a very scary looking middle schooler goth. "We're the goths." Micheal continued. "If you get tired of hanging with those conformist bastards, come to the back of the school early morning or late after school. We hang out there. Maybe you've got what it takes to join our clique."

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Eric was taking a break from football practice. As he was taking off his helmet, he noticed Stan walking up the bleachers. He saw Saskia sitting up there looking lonely and Stan started striking up a conversation with her. 'The fuck?' he thought. But his wondering would be cut short. The football coach called him out to continue his practice, so he had no choice but to try and ignore Stan.

A few minutes later, he saw Stan return to practice. As his gaze wandered around for Saskia, he saw Wendy pick up a basketball and toss it towards the other side of the bleachers. A second later, he saw it hit he back of Saskia's head, hard. That really pissed him off.

Stan walked past him a moment later and Cartman harshly grabbed his arm. "What the fuck?!" Stan glared at the bigger boy.

"Keep your bitch in line Stan!" Stan gave Cartman a confused look but then the boy pointed towards the girls. Stan saw as Wendy, accompanied by Bebe and Red, were saying something to Saskia. The next thing he knew, his girlfriend had pushed the curly haired brunett to the floor.

Cartman pulled Stan by his collar. "If you don't do something now, I swear to god Stan... I'm gonna make Wendy regret this and I don't give a fuck if she's your girlfriend." The bigger boy let go of Stan but his glare was intense. He knew just by looking at him, Cartman was not fucking around. And everyone knew if you pissed Cartman off, there was a good chance you'd be eating your parents at the next chili carnival.

Cartman continued to stare at the confrontation the girls were having getting angrier and angrier each passing second. Suddenly, right when Wendy was about to push Saskia down again, and Cartman about to unleash hell on her, he saw one of the goths stand in between them. He couldn't hear what exactly was going on but whatever that goth kid said or did, at least he managed to get Wendy and her pack of bitches, away from Saskia. He was grateful for that but at the same time a little annoyed. He wanted to be the one to save her. No matter. It was too late for that bitch Wendy anyway. Cartman had already begun to devise a plan to fuck with her and her stupid friends for trying to hurt Saskia.

He was going to go see if Saskia was alright but the coach called out to him to continue practice. Just as he turned to see where the girl had gone, he caught a glimpse of Kenny heading inside the gym after her. 'Oh great. There goes that fuck-tard to make matters worse.' he thought.

Stan made his way towards his girlfriend and her friends. She was laughing and making fun of Saskia. The girls were poking fun at her how she wasn't pretty or popular and how she just sat there taking Wendy's abuse. Stan became irritated and confronted her.

"Wendy what the fuck was that all about?!" His glare scared the girl.

"What?" She casually asked, as if she didn't know what he was talking about.

"You know what! The way you were bullying Saskia!"

"Oh that girl? Oh I wasn't bulling her Stan, I was just playing with her and well, she's just really sensitive." Wendy and her friends giggled.

"Cartman saw what you did Wendy. You really pissed him off and he's gonna be looking for revenge." Stan gave Wendy a worried look.

"Oh please! I'm not scared of that idiot! Don't you remember in elementary school I kicked his ass? And I'll do it again too." She was being very smug.

"Things have changed since then Wendy. I don't think you should be messing with Cartman's friend."

"Oh please Stan. I told you, I was just playing with her. And don't worry about Cartman. He's a fucking pussy, he wont do anything." Wendy and her friends began to laugh again but Stan felt very uneasy about the whole thing.

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Kyle saw as Cartman was being overly aggressive with the training dummies and grew concerned. "Hey man... you ok?" Kyle placed a gentle hand on the larger male only to have it swatted away in anger.

"Get the fuck outta my face, you fucking jew." Cartman replied as he tackled another training dummy at full force.

Sighing, Kyle came up to Cartman again. "Don't worry, Stan is talking to Wendy right now. He'll make her leave Saskia alone." The slimmer boy was amazed at how protective Cartman was being towards a girl he just met today. Sure she seemed nice and all but they only knew each other for a few hours... was that really enough to have Cartman care so much about her?

"Stan's a fucking pussy when it comes to Wendy and you know it." Cartman replied as he started wiping the sweat off his brow with a towel. "She won't listen to him and he will just let her have her way as usual."

Kyle didn't want to admit it, but he knew that what Cartman was saying, was true.

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Saskia decided to distract herself with the punching bag inside the gym. There was still 30 minutes of P.E left so why not? It had been a few days since she last went to her MMA classes, so might as well get some training done now. As she was punching the hell out of the sand bag, Kenny came up behind her.

"Damn... you hit pretty hard." He was admiring her stance and the power behind her punches. After being Mysterion for a while now, Kenny definitely knew how to fight. He would even go to Token's house from time to time to use his home gym.

Saskia ignored the blond and focused on the punching bag. She imagined it being Wendy's face. Each punch she threw became harder and more violent.

"Hey... I wanted to apologize about... well you know..." Kenny was finding it hard to say he was sorry. He really did feel bad she had heard him say those things about her but truth is, he just wanted to get under Cartman's skin, not hers.

At the mention of the previous events, Saskia grew increasingly angry and with one last punch, she placed all the force she could muster up and punched the sand bag. It caused a rip, not a very large one, but enough to where the sand started seeping out and the bag toppled over.

"Oh shit..." Kenny stood in awe of this. And a little frightened too. He stared at the girl but she had her back to him.

"I don't need nor want your apology..." She started. "Thanks for showing me the kind of person you really are." With that, she simply walked out of the gym and headed to the lockers. She wanted to be dressed and ready to go home before Wendy and her bitches came strolling in.

Kenny wanted to stop her. To force her to listen to him but at the moment he thought it was better to leave her be, lest she punch his lights out. With a heavy sigh, Kenny walked away towards the boys locker room.

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The bell rang, signaling the end of school and Saskia couldn't have been happier. The brunette patiently waited for her brother by his car. Her emerald eyes scanned the school grounds for any sign of the rocker boy. Still nothing.

Finally, after about 15 minutes, she saw him running towards her. "Sorry Sas but I can't drop you off home. I had to stay after school to help the teacher with some crap but now I'm gonna be late for work."

"It's alright I know my way home." She smiled up at him. "Go. Hurry or you'll be fired!" She started to walk off but Zack called out to her.

"Wait!" She stopped and turned to face him with curiosity. "We need to talk about your new found friendship with that Cartman kid." He gave her a serious look.

"Yeah, yeah..." She waved goodbye and turned to walk away. A moment later, she heard his car turn on and speed away.

Just as she was going to cross the street, she heard her name. Saskia turned around and noticed Cartman flagging her down. He was in a nice red sports car. It was definitely something fancy she noted. He pulled up by the curb and motioned for her to get in.

Once she was strapped in, the boy wasted no time in asking her about what happened with Wendy. Saskia explained to him what the girls had said to her and about how Micheal, the goth, had saved her from it. She explained how grateful she was to him and she was thinking about getting him, and his goth friends, a gift to show her appreciation.

"You're too nice Saskia." Cartman began. "A simple thank you should be enough for that emo kid." The boy glared as he drove Saskia home.

"Yeah I know... but when I moved here, I was lucky enough to land a nice job at Tweek's coffee shop. I get paid tomorrow and I don't know I just... I really wanted to show my thanks to Micheal... he really saved my ass when he didn't have to." She sighed.

"Damn I didn't know you worked with Tweek... So I assume you've met that asshole Craig too?"

Saskia laughed. "Yeah and the first thing he did was flip me off." She laughed harder. "He's actually pretty cool once you get to know him."

"Pfftt... whatever." Cartman said as he pulled up to the house Saskia pointed at.

"... Well... home sweet home I guess..." Cartman noticed Saskia's happy face quickly changed to that of fear and sadness.

"... What's wrong?" He thought maybe she was thinking of Wendy and those bitches and perhaps that's what upset her.

"Nothing it's just... you shouldn't be scared to go home you know?..." At that second, Saskia realized what she had said and quickly unbuckled her seat belt. She managed to gdt out of the car before Cartman could ask her what she meant by that.

The boy wanted to ask her but he figured he shouldn't. After all, he just met her today and he was sure she wasn't comfortable sharing personal info. It was fine though. He would get it out of her sooner or later.