The wall of pure uneasy tension stayed strong between them. Kenny Drifted next to Craig at the bar and order himself a drink.
"You enjoying being back in town?" Kenny asked with no sense of hostility in his voice. This threw Craig off a bit but he decided to play nice for now.
"Yeah, it's nice to see everyone again." Craig answered still on his guard.
"Well you couldn't have missed everyone that much. You got out of town as soon as you could. No call not even a letter." Kenny said with a smile. Craig eyes lowered.
"Yeah I was eager to go enjoy my life. But then again I think we were all busy in our college years being selfish and figuring out who we are." Craig tried to be eloquent as Kenny was. "But don't feel too bad Ken, I actually wrote you a bunch of letters. There waiting for you." Craig taunted.
In the end Craig wasn't eloquent. He was a smart ass and didn't really enjoy being passive aggressive.
Kenny took a big gulp of his drink. His eyes still on Craig. Craig could see the gears in Kenny head moving trying to pick his next words carefully.
Kenny cracked a big smile and let out a low chuckle. "Well I look forward to reading them then. But to tell you the truth I actually didn't even notice when you left."
Craig took a sip of his drink. Craig wasn't good at going back and forth like Kenny, Craig instinct would rather just punch Kenny right in his mouth.
"I'm glad you cared so much about me." Kenny began. "But it's like you said we were all busy back then. With ourselves, careers… Relationships." Kenny had a smirk on. Craig tried to remain cool he shifted in his spot uncomfortably.
"Oh yeah that doesn't surprise me that you dated, Ken." Craig said trying to sound friendly but there was clearly bitterness in his voice. "Did you break your record and manage to keep a poor soul for longer than a week? Or till the next play boy came out?" Craig felt his emotions turning inside him.
Kenny stared at Craig with a stern face. Kenny down the rest of his drink and slammed the glass down on the bar. Kenny then moved closer to Craig, making him back up into the wall. Kenny cornered him.
"I'm going to tell you about me and Tweak. Mainly so you can know about something. And not for me but for Tweak sake." Craig eyes where wide. He couldn't see around Kenny he was stuck in his spot. Kenny began his story quickly with resentment in his voice. "In my beginning days as a cop, I was getting off work late. I decided to grab some coffee to keep me up so I could do paperwork. I was the only one there in the coffee shop. I called out but didn't hear anything I ended up going into the back room where I saw Tweak. I found him on the ground, having a panic attack."
Craig knew Tweak had gotten panic attacks before when he was super stressed out. Yet the last time Craig remember tweak getting one was in freshmen year of high school. He thought he was over them.
"I stayed with him the whole night. The next night I came by to make sure he was okay too. It became a nightly ritual. Before I knew it we became a couple, and I was able to help him over come all of his shit. Twitches, spasms and paranoia." Kenny said with a smile of accomplishment. He was watching Craig the whole time like a hawk. Studying him.
"So then what happened? Trouble in paradise?" Craig wanted to fight, he wanted to fight Kenny and take that smug smile off his face.
"Careers." Kenny said with a breath to refresh himself. Kenny back away from Craig and turned to the bar to get another drink. "We had to go our separate way at that time. "
Craig shook himself and turned to Kenny. "Why did you tell me that?"
Kenny turned back to Craig about to go on another tirade. Kenny though was interrupted.
"Gah! Isn't there any coffee here that doesn't taste like dirt?" Tweak walked to the bar and grabbed a beer. He looked at Craig and Kenny.
"What's up?" Tweak asked twitching slightly.
"What was that phone call?" Craig asked changing the subject.
"I had to check on my parents down in Phoenix."
Tweak looked at Craig. Craig looked at Kenny and Kenny watched Tweak.
"You okay Tweak?" Kenny asked.
"Yeah, uh just…" Tweak scratched his head. "Tired is all."
Kenny didn't seem satisfied with this answer but before he could go on they were interrupted by Stan Kyle Cartmen, Token and Clyde. They became a small group all talking about the wedding which lead to them ripping on each other which lead to them bringing up old times.
"It's great to see the school most popular couple back together." Stan joked winking at Craig and Tweak.
Craig flipped Stan off.
"Gah!" Tweak uttered.
The group busted out laughing.
"We haven't heard a Tweak spasm or seen Craig flip someone off in a long time. You guys haven't changed one bit." Kyle snickered.
Craig looked at Tweak, he was surprised to see the light blush on his cheeks. Was he really that embarrassed. He seemed so calm and collected before.
Before anymore could be said Kenny pushed in between Craig and Tweak. "Well I think the reception about to start." Kenny interjected. Then Kenny grabbed Tweak arm and lead him toward the main room where the ceremony was. Kenny looked back at Craig. Kenny eyes were threatening, but Craig didn't care. He downed his beer and headed straight after them.
Craig thought, 'This isn't over, not by a long shot.'
AN: So i can go a couple different ways with the next chapter. Not exactly sure when the next chapter will be out but hopefully soon :-)
bye 4 now ;-)