Hey everyone! This is my next update :) Just letting you all know I really appreciate your love on this story and thanks for sticking with it. Also, this story is almost completed. I will be ending this on 35 total chapters. BUT if I get enough feedback to support this next proposition, I MIGHT end up writing a sequel. I haven't fully decided but your feedback will definitely help the decision process, so please let me know if you are down for that and any ideas you may have for it. I have a small idea now but not sure how far I can take it. If there is a sequel it will definitely be a lot shorter than this story.

Chapter 33

I'm still in the hospital with tubes all around me. They say I only have to be here another day but they also said that yesterday and here I am. I don't think I've ever been so bored. Tweek's parents made him finally go to school. A few days were apparently plenty according to them. It's not like the love of his life nearly died but whatever.

I'm not really all that mad at them. I guess I get it. My parents would probably make me go to school too. I just miss him so much already. I know he misses me. He hasn't been away from me for more than half an hour since I woke up. I really hope he's able to come straight here after school. He told me he would.

Kenny and Butters were here this morning to see me and walk Tweek to school. I'm really glad that they're ok. I mean Kenny got banged up a little and won't be completely ok for like another month but Butters seemed fine. Gah, I just really want to see Tweek. I feel so bad for him. I know he was trying to hide it but I could see the tears brimming up in his eyes when he had to leave.

"Hey son, how are you doing?"

I must be out of it. I didn't even hear my dad come in.

"I'm ok I guess." I don't really want to tell him the truth. He'd probably laugh at me if I did.

He sighs, "Tell me how you really feel. You can't be just fine. I mean you got to at least be in a little pain, yeah?"

"I mean a little but they've got me so drugged up I don't really know. I mean Tweek, Kenny, and Butters left hours ago but it felt only like half an hour ago. Shit, I guess I'm just really bored. I don't know." I rub my face with my hands, "I'm also tired of being in such a sterile, nasty place. I just want to go home."

"I get that. Your mother and I are just glad that you're ok." He says looking down at his hands.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen." I can feel myself getting emotional. Fuck. I'm not going to cry in front of my dad!

"It's not your fault. That drunk bastard ran a red light. He's in custody now."

"I still feel guilty about it though. I mean I was driving. I should have noticed someone speeding through an intersection."

There's a silence spread around us. It's not really awkward but I can tell he doesn't know what to say to me now. I mean I know it's technically not my fault but if I hadn't been paying attention to what everybody else was doing maybe I would have seen him not slowing down or something. Anything? I don't know.

"Don't think too much about it. It'll eat you up inside. None of us want that for you Craig. I don't, your mother doesn't, Tweek doesn't, and I know your friends don't either. Nobody blames you. Nobody in the car with you blame you, so for your own sake…try to let it go." He stands and pats my shoulder.

"I'll try."

He nods, "Think about what I said. I got to get back to work. I'll be back for ya later."

Tweek and Butters come in a few hours later just like promised. I'm really glad. I hadn't seen anyone in a couple of hours. Not even the annoying nurses came in. I'm kind of hoping that will mean that I can go home today.

Tweek immediately runs up and hugs me being mindful of the wires all around me. I run my hand over his hair a few times before kissing his temple.

"School was awful! I couldn't focus at all. The teachers kept getting mad because I wouldn't stop staring at the clock." He says with a pout.

"He sure did! I thought for sure he'd get sent to PC Principal." Butters chimed in before sitting down in the chair next to the bed.

"Hmm…I was stir crazy too. I'm glad you're here now though. Oh? Where's Kenny? I thought that asshole was coming to see me too?"

Butters jumped in his seat, "Gee! Yeah, that reminds me! Ken said I needed to talk to you for him. He had to cover a shift at work."

I sit up a little in the bed and make room for Tweek to get comfortable, "What about?"

Butters pulls out one of his school notebooks, "Well Ken wanted to talk to you guys about living arrangements this summer. It's coming up real quick and we got to be close to the school by early August. He said he found this place like 10 minutes away from our campus and its close to a couple of garages that he could find work at."

Tweek and I exchange glances, "Why couldn't he wait until Craig was home and tell us all himself?" Tweek asks with his brow raised.

"I'm supposed to ask you now and call him with your answer while he's at work. Apparently, one of the guys he works with knows someone looking to rent out this house starting mid July and wants to know ASAP." Butters says shrugging.

"Ok well what are the details then?"

Butters flips to the next page of his notebook, "Well, there's 3 bedrooms, 1 and a half bathrooms, and decent sized backyard. We'd each have to pay $350 a month and then whatever utilities and internet stuff would cost. Has space for 2 cars to park in the garage and has road parking too."

Tweek claps his hands together excitedly, "That sounds perfect!"

Butters rubs the back of his neck nervously, "There's just one catch…"

Fuck of course there is…

I sigh, "What is it?"

"Depends on how you look at it really to say if it would be a catch. Um…fellas Karen is moving in with us too. She's going to be in the third bedroom. But uh…so there's two rooms that share a wall and one across the hall. Ken and I will be in the room next to hers that shares a wall. If that helps at all?" Butters looks at us nervously.

I mean having a freshman in high school in our house is a little weird considering we'll be college freshmen but it's hardly any different, than living next to Ruby and, I mean, its way better than living down the hall from parents. As long as she knocks before coming into rooms and doesn't eat my snacks I don't give a shit.

"Why would we be mad about Karen moving in too? I mean, we all know what Kenny's parents are like." Tweek smiles reassuringly.

Butters physically relaxes back into the chair, "I knew you wouldn't mind but Ken was real worried. It wasn't apart of the plan but he just doesn't feel comfortable leaving her alone with them now that Kevin left town."

"Wait when did that happen?"

"Oh, while you were still here. I guess he got himself a girlfriend on the other side of the mountains and ended up getting her pregnant. He just moved in with her a few days ago so he could help her take care of the baby." Butters replies.

Butters calls Kenny at work and we sit around a few hours together before my mom comes in with the doctor.

"Hello Craig, how are you feeling?" The doctor asks looking over a clip board.

"I'm fine. Do I get to go home now?"

He chuckles, "I was getting to that. Yes, with how you've improved in such a short time I've decided it is safe for you to return home. I wrote a note for the school saying you shouldn't be back to school until next week. I've let your mom know the at-home care needed. I'll be seeing you at your check up ok?"

The doctor walks out, while a nurse walks in. She begins to remove my tubes and IV before unfolding a wheel chair, "There's some crutches waiting for you at the door. You can change into your clothes and leave the gown on the bed. Keep pressure off your leg and have someone help you in the chair. I'll be waiting in the hallway to give you some privacy."

After I get the clothes on my mom brought with her, Tweek sits me down in the chair and rolls me to the door. The nurse is waiting for us and escorts us to the out to my mom's car.

And for the first time in a week I'm finally free.

Again, thank you for reading and let me know what you thought. Hopefully it wasn't too boring for you. Also, keep me posted on what you think of a sequel. Love ya :)