Title: A Lifetime of Style
Disclaimer: I do not "own" South Park or any of its characters. The lucky bastards Trey Parker and Matt Stone do, however. I only own this plot idea.
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Chapter 8: Communal
With Wendy and Bebe out of the picture, and with only one non-mutual class- Advanced Creative Writing- Stan and Kyle's lives start to merge, practically uniting as one. Their food and possessions are communal, although Stan knows to leave some Cheesy Poofs for Kyle, and Kyle knows that Stan likes to play with the Xbox One after a burst of inspiration writing something. Their clothes start belonging to each other, and any boundary between their sides of the room vanishes.
Kyle still reads Stan's writings, and Stan starts keeping a special box of the works Kyle loves most.
Kyle makes a couple of friends from his economics classes, mostly girls that had hoped Kyle would ask them out before they met Stan and realized that it wasn't in the cards. While Stan and Kyle would occasionally go out with them, Kyle spends most of his time and nearly all of his Friday evenings in his dorm with Stan. In the beginning, it's because Stan is too depressed about losing Wendy to do anything at all; and Kyle would be damned if he lets Stan fall into some sort of self-destructive habit on his watch. After a while, however, it becomes routine.
That summer, they pay the summer housing fee and stay in their dorm, wanting to disassociate themselves from South Park any way they can. Stan buys a hotplate, figuring it's time for them to "rough it" like real college students do, making simple dishes like Ramen and mac and cheese.
Kyle gets a summer internship at a law firm, and Stan ends up becoming his creative writing professor's research assistant. Stan opens up his first savings account and puts a portion of his research assistant compensation in it along with his writing contest winnings.
On a Saturday night in mid-June, a severe thunderstorm arrives in Boulder. Stan and Kyle rent a bunch of movies and order pizza. They sit on Stan's bed, lying down when their backs get tired of hunching over.
A crack of thunder echoes through the room loud enough to burst eardrums. Stan jumps, and his and Kyle's bodies are mere inches away from spooning. Kyle tries to move away when he feels Stan's chest against his back, but Stan's thrown his arm around Kyle the moment of the thunder boom and hasn't let go. Kyle carefully lies against him, and thinks that they're too close.
They make sure to schedule their movie viewings for dark and stormy nights that summer.
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