Right Here Waiting

By: esmtz

"Stan, we've been going around in circles for at least an hour now! Are you sure you know where you're going?" Kyle asked sighing.

"Well yeah, Kyle, this is where Kenny told me to go." Stan said as he looked around.

"Looks to me like we're lost." Kyle said crossing his arms and looking at Stan with an annoyed look.

"We're not lost! I'm pretty sure we have to make a turn around here somewhere…" Stan replied not looking at his best friend.

Butters sweat dropped as he kept on watching them argue.

"You said that like 20 minutes ago, dude." Kyle told him.

"Well, now I'm positive that we need to turn here!"

"Stan, we went this direction already! I recognize the buildings that we passed by before."

"Uh, fellas? Why don't we ask someone for directions?" Butters asked.

"Sounds like a great idea! I'm going to ask someone where the stupid center is!" Kyle said as he turned away from Stan and immediately found someone to ask.

Stan sighed and shook his head. Butters looked at him.

"Did you really know where you were going or no?" Butters asked.

Stan shook his head.

"I wasn't the one who was dead and found Cartman at the adoption center so I have no idea where it could be."

"Ok according to that guy back there…we ended up passing by the center a few blocks back." Kyle said as he walked back to Stan and Butters.

"Aw, hamburgers. This means we have to walk all the way back doesn't it?" Butters asked.

"Yeah, Butters. See, Stan? I told you that we were going in circles," Kyle told him, "Follow me, guys. I don't want to end up getting lost again."

"Hey, I'm sorry ok, Kyle," Stan sighed, "Kenny was the one that was supposed to get us there, but he decides that it's more important to flirt with girls then to help out his friends."

Kyle sighed.

"Sorry, dude. I'm just stressing right now that's all."

Stan nodded.

"Don't worry about it. Let's just hurry up and get to the adoption center."

Once Cartman and Ron had finished up eating breakfast they, along with the rest of the kids in that room, went into the room with the TV and a few couches and they sat on the couch furthest from the entrance to the room.

"Sorry about earlier, Eric." Ron said as he started blushing.

Cartman frowned as he turned to look at Ron.

"What do you mean?"

"You know….when I was clinging to your arm. I was just nervous as hell, dude." Ron said looking down at the ground.

Cartman looked at him for a few seconds and then smirked as he saw Ron's red face.

"Eh, don't worry about it, Jew. I wouldn't expect you to be ok with all of this anyway. It breaks people especially Jews easily."

Ron's face turned redder as he looked at Cartman angrily.

"I did not break, fatass! I was just nervous!"

"Ay! I'm not fat I'm big boned you fucking Jew!"

Ron rolled his eyes and looked away.

"Boy does a certain Jew have sand in their vagina!"

Ron turned to glare at Cartman, but once he saw Cartman's smiling face his face turned brighter red and he felt like butterflies were in his stomach making Ron turn away again. Cartman chuckled and looked at the other kids and at that moment his eyes went wide.

"Uh, Ron?"

"Yeah, Eric?"

Ron hesitantly turned to look at Cartman and had noticed that he was looking at someone. Ron saw that one of the adults who had come to adopt some kid had been looking in their direction. Ron felt his heart skip a beat.

'Please don't let her be interested in one of us already.' Ron thought to himself slightly scared as she approached them.

"Hello, little boy. My name is Emily."

Ron's eyes went wide as he saw that she was looking at Cartman. Cartman slightly raised an eyebrow.

"Uh, hey. My name is Eric."

"It's nice to meet you." Emily smiled at him.

Ron felt like he couldn't breathe. There was a lady here who looked and sounded like she wanted to adopt the only friend that he had.

"Hey, lady. You're not adopting my friend here without taking me too!" Ron blurted out.

Cartman looked at him in surprise just as Emily turned to look at him.

"Oh, I'm sorry, but I really only came here to adopt one." Emily told him then went back to look at Cartman who was now starting to feel extremely nervous.

Ron looked on horrified, unable to do anything, as Emily got up and went to tell someone that she wanted Cartman. Cartman and Ron looked at each other, but didn't say anything for a few seconds.

"Well…what do we do now? Looks like your friends never showed up." Ron said quietly, but loud enough for Cartman to hear.

Cartman didn't respond and finally after a few seconds he nodded.

"Looks that way…"

There was an awkward silence.

"I wish you were coming with me." Cartman whispered to Ron.

"I know…me too." Ron replied as he looked at Cartman with teary eyes.

A few minutes passed by and finally Emily came back with one of the adults who was working there. Cartman and Ron looked at each other before standing up and Ron hugged him.

"W-What was that for, Ron?" Cartman asked surprised and slightly blushing.

Ron thought of telling Cartman how he really felt, but he knew all that would do was cause both of them pain and he knew that Cartman was in love with somebody else.

"Nothing. I'm just going to miss you that's all. Can't I hug my best friend?" Ron asked.

Cartman's eyes went wide surprised that Ron considered him his best friend. He smiled slightly and nodded as he hugged him back.

"Yeah. I'm going to miss you too you stupid Jew."

Ron laughed slightly choking on a sob.

"Fatass."

As soon as Ron and Cartman let go of each other, Cartman walked away with Emily and Ron burst into tears as he quickly followed behind them. Ron stopped near the entrance of the center and watched as Emily started filling out the paper work. Ron's eyes went wide as he saw someone outside of the center. Kyle was there and had a horrified expression on his face as he saw that Cartman was already getting adopted.

Author's note: Man I feel like crying now lol. The song that inspired this chapter was "Never Say Never" by the Fray. It's on the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen CD and I LOVE this song. I've been listening to this song the entire time I was working on this chapter. This has now become my favorite chapter in this story of mine. ^_^ I promise as always to update again soon. More than likely that will be next weekend. I've been busy watching my Gilmore Girls DVDs during the week so yeah. Also I got votes on all the couples I posted last chapter and they all got one vote so it's a tie. This means I'll decide what I want to do with my next story.