Chapter 26

Winter Break ended fairly quickly. The students were all coming back to school, excited to see their friends they haven't seen in two weeks. Stan on the other hand was pissed from it. The last time he went to Aspen it wasn't the greatest time. You think after seven years the place up there would change, but no, Tad was still being a little douche by challenging him every second to a match, while he was hitting on Stan's "girlfriend" up there, who he still has never met before.

Stan was taking out his books from his locker when he was approached by Rebecca. Stan wasn't happy to see her on the first day back from school.

"H-hi Stan"

"Yeah?" he wasn't too pleased to hear her

"I-I was wondering if you could do me a favour"

"What?" Stan said in an annoyed tone, but she didn't noticed.

"Can you ask Kyle i-if he wants to go out for dinner on Friday?"

"Why don't you go ask for him, he is your boyfriend after all" emphasize on the word 'boyfriend'

"I-I would, but Kyle is sick and my father has a-a strict rule about interacting with people who are sick"

"Wow..." Stan said in his head. He was starting to wonder how much of a pussy her father was. The first time he recalled was when he put her brother, Mark in a hamster ball because he was worried about the "Outside World". Another was when her father went to the bar to confront his dad and the other dads to tell their kids to stop picking on Mark. Suffice to say that it sure turned out well for her dad afterwards. Stan was still impressed by Mark when he kicked the crap out of Kyle because with a father like that, you never would have expected Mark to be able kick Kyle's ass, let alone fight.

"Um Stan?"

"Oh yeah, what?" Stan forgot about what Rebecca said to him.

"So can you ask Kyle if he wants to go out for dinner?"

Stan really didn't want to bother with that, he found it a waste of time on his part, but he might as well anyway since he was going to Kyle's house anyways after school.

"I guess..."

"O-ok Stan, Thank you!" she smiled.

"Yeah..." Stan said rather dully. He didn't even care that the smile was towards him.

Rebecca then went on way to her class now. Stan was relieved that she was gone, not wanting to talk to her for another moment. He closed his locker and too went to his next class.

After school Stan went to Kyle's house. He arrived at Kyle's house and knocked on the door. There was no response.

"Yo Kyle, it's me"

A few moments later he heard footsteps coming down the stairs, he was probably up in his room. The door was opened and Stan saw that Kyle was covered by his blanket, he probably had the fever.

"Hey Stan" Kyle said in a weakly voice.

"Man you don't look so good, as always" Stan chuckled.

"Asshole" Kyle said with a grin.

Glad to see his best friend was still the same. "Anyway Kyle, I came to see if you wanted some company"

"Yeah, thanks man, it sucks being in your house alone when your sick"

"No kidding Kyle"

"You want to play some games Stan?"

Stan smiled at the boy. "Yeah, sure man" Stan was glad that it was just the two of them playing games.

"Alright man, but no shooting games"

"Ah fuck..." Stan was kinda hoping to play some shooting games against him.

"Also, you better not used the excuse 'I let you win because you're sick' once I kick your ass"

"Ha, we'll see Kyle"

Kyle sat on the couch, while Stan went to set up the Xbox. Stan plopped in some fighting game that Kyle liked, and took the two controllers back to the couch.

"Here" Stan passed Kyle the other controller.

"Thanks"

They started up the game and went into the versus mode menu, chose their characters and went on fighting. Kyle was enjoying the game very much, on the account that he was rocking Stan very badly. After most matches Kyle would still be at 90% health left. They would throw taunts back and forth at each other as they always do to make things a little more interesting. After about an hour of losing, Stan was done and threw his controller down.

"I'm done, I am not playing this anymore!"

"Come on man, don't be a whiny bitch" Kyle thought Stan was being unreasonable.

"What the fuck are you talking about Kyle? You bitch more about me in shooting games. I at least don't turn off the console when I'm losing"

"Ok fine, your right about that part. How about this, if you beat in the next match, we'll stop playing, and I'll go easy on you, deal?"

Stan thought about it for a minute. "Fine"

"Awesome then"

Stan picked up his controller and they started a new match.

For the first round, Kyle was able to beat Stan quite quickly without putting too much effort. The second round was a bit different, this time Kyle was having a bit of difficulty beating Stan, in fact Stan was winning this round quite a bit and eventually won that round. Little did Kyle know, Stan actually got really good at the game in the one hour of time they spent. Stan didn't show that he actually improved because he knew Kyle and if he consistently beat him in that game then Kyle would have kept playing till he won, and that could have probably been the whole day. The next round Kyle buckled down and went turn on the "No Mercy Mode" on Stan. Sadly it didn't really help him at all, though Kyle was trying his best this time, Stan knew how Kyle played and countered every thing he did, to the point that Stan won the last match with no damage to him.

"WHAT THE FUCK?" Kyle shocked by his defeat

"YES!" Stan was so happy when he won that match that he was dancing on the floor now.

"No way dude, you must have cheated"

"Of course, I cheated with epic skills" Stan found his joke pretty funny.

"Whatever man" Kyle folded his arm, still disappointed by his loss.

"Ah don't worry Kyle, you can practice this later once I'm gone" as Stan pats his friends shoulder.

Kyle ignored his friends taunting.

"Well Kyle what do you want to do now?"

"T.V. I guess?"

"Nah, there's no new episodes of Terrance and Phillip"

Kyle rolled his eyes. "You do know that there's more to tv then Terrance and Phillip right"

"Like what?" Stan placed both hands behind his head, feeling confident about his question.

"Well there's..." Kyle thought for a bit, but he couldn't think of anything that was actually good on television. The programs were just filled with lots of CSI type shows and sparkly teen vampire/werewolf bullshit. "Ok Stan, you're right about that"

"Told ya" his smile soon turned into a smirk.

"W-wait, I actually do know of a good show"

"What?" Stan was actually interested to know.

"Walking Dead"

"Walking Dead? Never heard of it. Please don't tell me that it involves vampires?"

"No dude" Kyle could understand why Stan said that. "It does not involve vampires"

"Thank god!" Stan said with relief "So what is it?"

"It's a show around people surviving the zombie apocalypse in a more realistic sense.

"Hmm, that actually doesn't sound too bad"

"It's actually more drama than horror"

"Really?" this really caught Stan's attention, a film that has zombies, and it isn't all about horror is something you rarely see. "Alright man, I'll give it a shot then"

"Cool"

After that the two soon were bored, due to the fact that they weren't playing games now and that nothing was on tv.

"Yo Kyle"

"Yeah?"

"Where did you go on the break?"

"Oh, I went to Ottawa"

"Why? You think by now we've been to Canada lots of time"

"Dude! We've only been there once"

"Really?"

"Yeah, when we were trying to get Ike back from his birth parents"

"Oh, well it feels like we've been there a lot. Anyway back to the question why you went there?"

"Ike wanted to visit the capital of Canada, and my parents thought it be a great idea also to visit there. Well my dad did, my mom on the other hand did not. She's still doesn't like Canada after that little war she created against them"

"Damn Kyle, you think after all that time she would forget about it" Stan was quite afraid how his mom could keep a grudge.

"Well Stan, you know how my mom is"

"I guess so" he said. "Psycho Bitch" Stan thought in his head.

"So where did you go Stan for the break?"

"I went to Aspen..."

"Ouch, let me guess" Kyle knew why Stan didn't like Aspen.

"Yep, Tad was there" As he sighed.

"Still being the little douche he is?" Kyle asked

"Yep" Stan responded

"I guess some things never change" Kyle tried to make it sound like it's a positive thing.

"Sadly... and he still tried challenging me again to another race"

"Really?"

"Yep, and I don't even want to go into the details of it. All I can say is it involves even more montages" Stan sighed. "And they weren't even good montages too"

"Wow that sucks ASS!"

"No kidding"

"If this is repeating like the last time then that means you won the race then"

"Unfortunately, yeah"

Kyle let out a laugh. "Well at least you won't have to see him for a while"

"It doesn't really help that much Kyle"

"Oh well, that's your problem"

"You may be sick Kyle, but that doesn't mean I won't kick your ass still"

Kyle knew that it was an empty threat, but he felt like following along with it.

"Ok fine, I'll be more considerate" Kyle pretended to act all friendly like

"Thank you" Stan replied, at least he considerate enough to fake it.

The two later were talking about more of the other random stuff that happened to them during the vacation. The two were talking back and forth about how shitty the airline services were, to the pranks they pulled on the local people at where they were. Stan told Kyle a funny little story about how Shelly kicked the asses of the timeshare people when they commented on her head gear. They almost got kicked out of the condo, until Shelly threatened them to not do that because it be bad to their "Personal Interest". Kyle had another story that was as funny as Stan, about how his entire family was almost banned from Canada because his mother went into a bitch fit to Queen Elizabeth II when she was visiting Canada. His mom thought that the queen called her a name for some reason. Kyle wanted to question her to WHY the queen would call her a name, but he felt that he shouldn't ask questions that will lead him to being exiled from his family. The two were laughing it up quite a bit from the stories that Stan's voice was starting to hurt. It was a really fun time for the both of them sharing the stories. Stan soon checked the time and it was getting late. He had to get home soon.

"Kyle I better get home soon, it's getting dark"

Kyle didn't believe that, he checked outside the window and saw that it was actually dark. "Damn man, we sure were talking for a while"

"I know man" Stan was happy that the two spent the whole day together just chilling and talking. Stan wished that the day was a bit longer, it was great to hang with his best friend again.

Stan got up and walked to the front door.

"Oh yeah Kyle"

Stan remembered the Rebecca wanted him to ask Kyle if he wanted to have dinner with her on Friday.

"Yeah Stan?"

Stan hesitated for a moment. He was wondering if he should actually tell him about it. Today for Stan was a perfect day for him, just hanging with Kyle and having fun. With Rebecca though, Kyle never has any time to spend with him anymore and Stan really misses hanging out with him. If Kyle and Rebecca's relationship progresses even further, what would happen to him and Kyle then? Stan's face was facing the door, so Kyle couldn't see Stan's face and his expression at the moment.

"Stan?" Kyle was worried why Stan hasn't said anything.

"Oh never mind, I forgot, it was probably a good bye diss or something"

Kyle was glad to see that his friend was ok now. "Alright then, see you later asshole" Kyle said with a grin.

"Funny Kyle, anyway see ya" Stan closed the door and exited Kyle's house.

As he was walking home, he was thinking to himself "Am I actually going to do that to my best friend?" In Stan's mind right now, it was a fight between the right thing and wrong thing to do. In the end he thought to himself. "Well what's done is done, I can't back out now..." and to that his mind was made up.

This can`t turn out well for Stan in the future...

Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Back with the best friend duo after winter break.

Again, thanks for reading and for still following this story, really appreciate it.

Oh btw, I implore you guys to watch "Walking Dead", such an awesome show :D