Right Here Waiting

By: esmtz

"This sucks, dude. How much longer is this gonna take?" Kyle asked starting to get annoyed.

It was an hour and a half or so later after the boys left with the man when the tire on the front passenger side busted open. Luckily the man was able to steer the car to the side of the road so they wouldn't get hit by any other cars that would be passing by them. He had gotten out and went to take a look at the tire. Fifteen minutes later he was working on taking off the busted tire and replacing it with the one he had in the trunk of his car.

"Isn't this just our luck…" Stan sighed shaking his head.

"Don't worry, boys, I almost have it…." The man told them reassuringly, but from what they were seeing, they knew that he wasn't getting anywhere even near close to taking off the tire, "Son of a bitch…" he said to himself.

"Thanks for the ride, but we'll just go it alone from here. We're kinda in a hurry…" Stan said as he and Kyle looked at each other and nodded.

"Yeah, thanks."

"W-What?! We're walking now?! Oh Jesus…" Butters cried; his eyes wide.

"Yes we're walking, Butters, unless you have an idea that will get us to Denver right away." Kyle looked at him.

"Uh….no."

Kyle rolled his eyes and began walking; Stan and Butters quickly following him.

Cartman and Ron had fallen asleep on the bus; Cartman was leaning against the window and Ron was leaning against him with his head on his shoulder. Suddenly the bus went over a bump in the road startling Cartman awake.

"Ugh…are we there yet?" Cartman asked yawning and stretching as he looked out the window.

Cartman's eyes went wide as the bus passed a lot of different buildings and he knew that they were there already. He looked at Ron and shook him slightly.

"Ay, you stupid Jew, wake up! We're here…"

Ron yawned and rubbed his eyes as he sat up and looked at Cartman.

"Man…how long have I been out?"

Cartman shrugged.

"Eh, I don't know. I fell asleep too. Maybe an hour or so."

Ron looked outside.

"Well, we're here in Denver…but apparently the bus driver still needs to find the adoption center…which ever one it is."

"There's more than one?" Cartman asked surprised.

Ron nodded and looked at him frowning.

"You didn't know that? The only reason I know is because I heard my parents talk about it with the lady back in the adoption center in South Park."

Cartman sighed and put his head in his hands.

"Goddammit…well I guess I can always go back once I turn 18…but what's the point if those guys aren't going to be there…especially Kyle."

Ron looked at him.

"Do you really believe that your friends are dead, Eric?"

Cartman didn't answer him. After awhile the bus came to a stop and the bus driver was telling everyone that they were at one of the adoption centers. Cartman and Ron got up and followed behind the kids that were getting out of the bus. As soon as all of the kids were out of the bus, a lady approached them and immediately showed them around the place and to the rooms where each of them would be staying in until they got adopted by someone.

"Well this place sucks. They don't have video games and they only have one TV. What's next they don't have cheesy poofs either?!" Cartman slightly yelled out getting irritated.

Ron chuckled shaking his head as he looked around. Cartman sighed looking around and his eyes went wide when he saw Kenny's ghost staring at him.

"K-Kenneh?"

"What did you say, Eric?"

Cartman looked back at Ron, then turned back to look at Kenny, but he was already gone.

"I just thought I saw that poor piece of shit friend of mine…"

"Do you always insult everyone, Eric?"

"Hell yeah! Hmm let's see…Stan's a fucking hippie…you and Khal are stupid Jews…and Kenny is hopelessly poor." Cartman grinned.

Ron rolled his eyes.

"Whatever you say, fatass."

"Ay! I'm not fat you fucking Jew!" Cartman yelled.

Ron ignored him as he thought of something.

"Wait…was that one of your friends that was in the car with Kyle?"

"Yeah, but he wasn't here exactly. Just his ghost."

Ron raised an eyebrow and looked at Cartman.

"What do you mean?"

"Kenny dies all the fucking time! After awhile though he just shows up out of nowhere; alive again." Cartman responded.

Ron stared at him in shock.

"Whoa, dude!"

"I know…"

"So he's not here right now then?" Ron asked.

"No, like I said I thought I saw him, but he's gone now."

"Maybe he went to go tell your friends where you are at. It is possible especially considering how you just told me that he comes back alive…" Ron smiled.

"But, that poor piece of crap hates me. I seriously doubt he's going to tell the others where to find me…IF they're still alive and looking for me."

"Eric, you thought Kyle hated you and look what he's doing now. He's coming to get you and so are the rest of your friends. You were wrong about Kyle and now I'm pretty sure you're wrong about Kenny too. They may not show it, but I know that deep inside, they know that they need you around."

Cartman didn't know what to say as they went towards an empty room and sat down on one of the two beds. Cartman looked at the ground while Ron continued to look at him.

"Eric, I know that you at least like Kyle. Maybe even love him. If he does show up and find a way to get you out of here…then you'll have proof…" Ron smiled at him sadly.

Cartman blushed furiously.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Ron…what proof?"

Ron didn't say anything as he looked away from him.

"Dammit what?!" Cartman yelled.

"That he needs you just as much as you need him." Ron said looking back at Cartman.

Cartman's whole face was red as he turned to look the other way away from Ron.

'There's no way in hell that Kyle is going to just come over here and bail me out. There's just no fucking way that's gonna happen. Is he out of his mind?! Plus even if he did come here I wouldn't have a home to go back to! Maybe it's best that I stay here with Ron…besides I know I don't deserve Kyle. He's better off with Stan or Kenny…' Cartman thought to himself sadly.

Ron smiled blushing as he kept on looking at Cartman.

Author's note: ok I kinda know what I want to do with this last part of the story considering when I want Kyle to save Cartman. It's gonna be very last minute is all im gonna say if at all. (Smiles evilly) of course the boys still need to get to Cartman and yeah ill be bringing Kenny back to life sooner then expected. As for whether Ron is gonna be able to stay with Cartman even after he's saved, im not sure. I still need time to figure how that will work if he's gonna stay with a friend of Cartman's (like Butters maybe) or whatever. Ill update again soon.