I wrote this quickly and I was just so excited to post it that I couldn't wait any longer. I might need to come back and edit this chapter. I left it at it's basic format of wording. I know I shouldn't rush, but I really just couldn't wait to post it anymore.
Marina shoved her sunglasses on and headed toward Nichole's house first.
As soon as she got there Nichole and Kyle started gathering her stuff, he got out with her and walked toward the front door.
"You think they'll kiss?" She asked Kenny in a whisper.
"I hope they do." He whispered back.
They watched as Kyle and Nichole talked for a second before hugging, as Kyle started to step back, Nichole reached up and grabbed his head, kissing him quickly.
Kenny and Marina both laughed as Kyle ran back to the car, his face blood red.
"Shut up." He told them as he got back into the car.
"My man Kyle has already been through 3 girls and it's only a couple months into the school year." Kenny grinned, staring at the road ahead of them as Marina started heading toward Kyle's house.
"Do you think that might make the biggest shock of the year?" Marina asked.
"I think something more shocking could happen." Kyle laughed, shaking his head.
Around 9th grade, after having many different crazy things happen in South Park for years, the group started keeping track every year on what the most shocking thing to happen was. At the New Year's Eve party, they would make a list of the top 5 things of the year, and everyone would vote. It was stupid, but they all had fun with it.
"I dunno man. It's already September, and I am very shocked right now." Kenny told him.
"I'm pretty sure you guys coming out about losing your virginity to each other was more shocking."
"Not in the slightest." Marina laughed.
"Kyle, I could have lost my virginity to you and it would still be less shocking than you going through 3 different girls within a couple months." Kenny added.
"Well I think Nichole is the last one, really. Lacey was a very stupid mistake."
"So just to be clear here, Lacey was jealous? Of you being in classes with Nichole?"
"She was jealous because Nichole and I would text each other outside of school. She thought I was already cheating on her with Nichole."
"You are positive you're not just her rebound right?"
"He's not her rebound." Kenny spoke up.
"How do you know?" She asked.
"Because, Nichole has always liked Kyle. She told us last night, and I also picked up on it a while ago."
"Why didn't you tell me before?" Kyle asked him.
"Not my business to tell." Kenny shrugged.
"Does anyone else like me that I don't know about?"
"Not that I know of. I only knew of Nichole."
Marina pulled up in front of Kyle's house, he got his stuff and told them bye before getting out.
"So do you want to go sleep at my house or do you want me to drop you off at home? Just make sure you leave the Tux in here so I can return it later today."
"You can just drop me off at home. I don't really want to deal with the comments Cartman would be making later."
"True." She nodded, passing her house and heading over to his.
Kenny started picking his stuff up from the floor. "I had fun last night, before I blacked out."
"I also had fun before I blacked out." She smiled.
"Apparently we had fun after we blacked out as well." He chuckled.
"I hope it was us that had fun afterward. My whole entire body is sore."
"Mine too, so who knows what happened. I'm hoping memories will start hitting me at some point today."
"Thank you for making Homecoming fun and special, it was really nice going and being able to just have fun and be myself."
"No problem! I agree. Anything for you Mar. Really."
"You too Kenny. I'll see you soon."
"Bye." He got out of the car and headed inside.
Marina decided to go ahead and return the Tuxedo before going home, it was about noon and she knew they would be open. When she entered the shop she started checking the pockets to make sure he had gotten everything. She pulled out a pack of gum and the page of photo booth pictures they took. She bent it along the perforated line, shoving it into the back pocket of her jeans. She talked to the guy in the store before walking back to her car. She walked quickly, remembering that she never got to look at the pictures they took.
As soon as she shut her door she unfolded the middle and looked at them.
The first one was cute, just a normal picture of two friends smiling for the camera. The second picture made her heart flutter. She was laughing, Kenny was supposed to be laughing, but instead he was looking over at her with a facial expression she had never seen on his face before. It made her feel butterflies. She tried not to look at it for too long and move on, the next picture was when she kissed his cheek, Kenny had a genuine look of surprise in the picture. And of course the kissing picture. She stared at this one the longest. She didn't know what they looked like when they kissed, she had to admit to herself they looked pretty cute. The way his hand was holding her head made her begin to wonder if Kenny genuinely liked her, in a much more than friends type of way.
Marina found herself conflicted, hoping he did, but also hoping that he didn't because she wasn't ready for another relationship, she wanted to have fun. The freedom he had all this time that she wanted to get to have as well. She honestly didn't know if she wanted another relationship again after the way the last two went. If all relationships would need that level of control she wanted to steer clear. She liked having fun with him and a part of her did like him. A part of her always had liked him, since he stood at the end of her driveway with his little orange parka and walked with her to the bus stop. Did she find him super attractive? Of course! But did she want to date him? Was he even dating material? She knew he wasn't a cheater, but he got bored with all of his girlfriends before and broke it off with them. He wasn't a one girl type of guy.
She tossed it into the seat next to her and started driving home, ready to go sleep for the rest of the day.
Kenny PoV
Monday morning Kenny had woken up late. He was running to Marina's house to get there before Stan did, he luckily was just in time as he was pulling up.
"I feel like I am still hungover." Kyle sighed.
"Dude I bet. I have never seen you drink that much before." Kenny chuckled.
"I haven't."
"You were making up a ton of cheers and it was hilarious." Marina added.
"I barely remember that. The alcohol was talking." He laughed.
"You and Nichole admitted you liked each other when you were younger." She continued.
"I actually remember that. And I remember you two admitted you liked each other when Marina first moved here."
"What is the last thing you guys remember?" Stan asked.
"I remember brief things, but the last full memory I have, I was trying to help Bebe and Wendy go to the bathroom to pee." Marina told him.
"I was playing Beer pong with you, Kyle and Clyde." Kenny answered.
"I also remember doing that last." Kyle agreed.
"So you don't remember anything significant after that?" Cartman asked.
"No." Marina shook her head.
Stan and Cartman shared a look.
"What?" Kenny asked.
"You guys were making out so much we thought you were going to straight up have sex in front of everyone." Stan told them.
Marina started laughing, Kenny chuckled.
"Then later you fell asleep making out on the couch." Cartman added.
"That's why I woke up on Kenny's lap then."
"Yep." Stan nodded, "And Kyle and Nichole went off somewhere for a very long time, so we are pretty sure they banged."
"I am about 90% sure they did." Cartman added.
"I don't remember anything really. I am going to be so pissed if I was blacked out when I finally had sex with Nichole." Kyle groaned.
"Well you were off doing something." Stan shrugged.
"Hopefully just making out or something." Kyle sighed.
"Have you heard from her since?" Kenny asked.
"No."
"Hopefully she isn't remembering something you're forgetting."
"Don't put that thought into my head Kenny." Kyle ran his hand over his face.
"I'm sure it's fine Kyle. She was probably just tired yesterday." Marina reassured him.
"I hope so."
Kenny was already in his seat when Marina walked in.
"I talked to Nichole." She told him as she dropped down into her seat.
"What happened?"
"She also blacked out. But! She said she had to do something sexual because she was sore the next day."
"Oh no. Do you think they were safe then?"
"She said she's on the pill and she knows it would have been Kyle if she did. But she said the same as he did, that she would be upset if she missed it."
"I hope they start dating, they would be the cutest couple in South Park." Kenny smiled.
"They would!" Marina agreed, giggling.
The bell rang and they started working on their essay.
"Hey, did you get the pictures out of my pocket?" Kenny asked, remembering again that he forgot them.
"Yes. I have yours here." She pulled it out of her notebook and handed it to him, before quickly going back to writing.
Kenny looked over it, he tried not to look at it too long but he couldn't help it. He tried to pass over the picture of her laughing, the face he had made, he knew what it meant. Once he saw the last picture he felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up as goosebumps covered his body. He had never seen a picture of him kissing a girl before, the feeling it gave him made his stomach feel light and he quickly folded the picture, shoving it into his pocket.
He liked her, really really liked her. Probably more than he's ever liked anyone before. He felt good and scared at the same time.
Kenny felt Marina looking over at him, when he glanced over she hurried to look back at the paper in front of her. He swallowed hard, noting that she wasn't sitting as relaxed as she usually was.
"You okay?" He asked quietly.
"Hm? Me? Yeah I'm just fine. You?" Her voice was higher than usual, and she wasn't taking her eyes off of the paper.
"I'm okay." He nodded.
The rest of the day went by pretty quickly, and after they all got done with practices, they piled into Stan's car. Marina was missing.
"I have no idea where Marina is. I have tried calling her multiple times." Stan sighed.
Kenny tried and it also went to voicemail.
Stan got a hold of Wendy, "Hey babe, is Marina coming with us? Nobody can get a hold of her...Oh okay...No problem, tell her ass she needs to let someone know next time...Sounds good...Okay, love you too...bye."
"Sooo?" Kyle asked.
"She told Wendy she had a ride home already."
"Well she could have let us know." Cartman rolled his eyes.
"Right." Stan sighed as he backed out of the parking spot.
Kenny looked out of the window, afraid it was him that was the issue.
It was a few hours later when someone rang the doorbell.
"Who the hell is it?" His dad yelled.
"I don't know!" His mom yelled back.
Kenny was watching a movie in his room when someone started knocking on his door.
"Come in." He spoke slowly, figuring it was just Karen.
Marina stepped in and shut the door behind her, she locked the knob.
"What are you doing?" Kenny asked, looking her up and down.
"You need to see this."
"See what?" He sat up on his bed, putting his feet over the side so that he could face her direction.
Marina unbuttoned her jeans, Kenny raised an eyebrow, unsure what she was showing him. He was definitely intrigued.
She slid her jeans down her legs and turned around. Kenny jumped off of the bed, "Holy Shit!"
He crossed the room and leaned down, "How the fuck did you get this?" Kenny put his hand on the side of her butt as he examined her. She had a dark straight line going across both cheeks. "Does it hurt?"
"It feels sore, yes. I knew my butt felt sore but I just assumed I fell at one point, and I may have but I don't know what I could have fallen on. I never thought to actually look at my butt. In fact I didn't think to look at a lot I guess." She slowly pulled her shirt off and her back was covered in random bruises. She had a perfect circle on her right upper back, and hickeys all over her shoulder blades.
"How did you miss these?"
"Honestly, my entire body has been sore, I assumed it was just from dancing so much and probably falling a lot while drunk. I have only taken one shower since getting home, and I hadn't really looked at myself naked in a mirror yet." She turned around, putting her shirt back on.
"What do you think it's from?"
"I'm going to assume I was sitting on the edge of something that I'm guessing you were pushing me against, at some point." She pulled her pants up.
"What made you find them today?"
She stood up straight and gave him a look.
"What?" He asked.
"Really? I was about to have sex with someone and they asked me why I had a whole shit ton of bruises and hickeys all over my back."
"You were already about to sleep with someone else?" The words were out of Kenny's mouth before he could even think about them. And his tone was snappy, as if he were jealous.
"Excuse me?" She laughed.
"I thought we were sleeping together?" He felt really angry, and kind of betrayed.
"Are you serious Kenny McCormick?" Her smile fading.
"I mean.. yea? I thought we had a thing going."
"Yeah. We have a thing going. We are friends who are fucking.."
"We went to homecoming together, and openly made out at a couple parties. I haven't even been sleeping with anyone else."
Marina's eyebrows were raised and she gave him a wide eyed annoyed look, "Kenny, I thought this was just fucking around."
"Well.." He swallowed, "I don't really want to share you.. I think I don't want to just fuck around anymore. I think I want something more."
"I really thought that you would be the last person I'd ever have to worry about catching feelings. I bang the biggest man whore of the school and he's mad at me for going to have sex with someone else." She shook her head, "I knew I should have been worried after those photo booth pictures."
"This is the first time in my life that I don't have any desire to sleep with anyone else.. I only want you." His voice was soft, he hated how weak he sounded.
"I can't be that girl right now. I don't want just one person at the moment."
"I am so confused right now. I thought you were giving off vibes that you liked me?"
"I do like you Kenny.. I really like you a lot. But.. I'm trying to finally live a single life. I want my hoe phase that you have got to enjoy and I haven't. I feel like I've been in a relationship ever since I can remember. I want to have fun for a while."
"So I don't have a chance at all?"
"Maybe in the future..but right now, I'm not dating anyone. I'm not going to be exclusive with anyone right now."
"But you do feel it right? I'm not the only one who feels something here. I can't be."
"Kenny." She sighed, looking away from him, "I don't want to talk about this right now."
He nodded slowly, taking a step back. He couldn't believe that he just admitted all of that. He wasn't even expecting that, or to feel all of that all at once.
"I'm so sorry Ken." Tears filled her eyes.
"I'm really sorry too. I don't want to make anything awkward. Can we just pretend that didn't happen?"
"Yes. I'll um... see you later." She nodded before turning around and quickly left his room.
Kenny sighed loudly, running his hands down his face, rubbing his eyes. He didn't understand what came over him. He was so mad at himself. He wasn't even really trying to date her, but now it looked like that.
