This chapter is them at school. We're gonna establish some more relationships. That's about it, really.

Also a quick note. Much like Fire in the Sky, I thought of the ideas for this story before the season 21 episode "Doubling Down." So, basically Heidi is still a nice thin girl with Cartman and doesn't have a thing for Kyle. Also in this she's the one who keeps Cartman in line.

Chapter 8 – School Sucks for Introverts

Most of the classes were quite standard for the first day of school. A lot of introductions took place, with the teachers not really realizing that South Park was a small town and all the students knew each other already. The only class that actually made them do work on the first day was math class. All the other teachers just handed out pamphlets about what they would be learning over the semester and then ignored their students for the rest of class.

This trend kept up for the first half of the day until lunch time, when Craig and his friends, along with Stan and his friends, and Wendy, Nichole, Heidi, and Bebe all sat together at the same lunch table to talk about their day so far.

"I got in trouble for singing during class," Craig informed the others as they sat down. Clyde sighed and shook his head.

"Oh Craig, why do you do this to yourself?" he asked. Craig shrugged.

"It's not my fault," he insisted, "I wasn't even aware I was doing it. I was just thinking of one of my made up songs for Tweek during the opening lecture, and I guess I just started singing out loud."

Tweek blushed at his words. One of Tweek's favorite things that Craig did was sing for him. Whether it was singing an existing song or one he totally made up, Tweek loved to listen to Craig sing to him, even if he wasn't really that good or forgot the words. Sometimes, when things got quiet, Craig would randomly burst into song at the top of his lungs, causing Tweek to cover his face in kisses.

Stan gave Craig a weird look. "You weren't aware you were singing?" he wondered.

"No," Craig replied, returning his look with one of his own.

"So, how's everyone else's day going so far?" Wendy asked to diffuse the tension. She too, was in many of Craig's classes. Which was annoying to him because that meant she and Stan got to make goo-goo eyes at each other all class.

"It's fine so far, I guess," Clyde said, "I wish I had more classes with you guys, though."

"You'll get over it," Craig assured him.

"No, I won't," Clyde whined.

While he was listening to his friends bicker, Tweek suddenly felt a dark presence behind him. Trying to be discreet, he turned around and scanned the cafeteria. Everyone was chatting happily, discussing their summers. But there was one person who was sitting alone. And she was glaring right at him. Shuddering, Tweek turned back around and tried to ignore her.

"Something the matter, boo?" Craig asked him, noticing his unease.

"No," Tweek lied, "Everything's fine." Craig gave him a skeptical look but didn't press him any further.

"I was getting some nasty looks from Lola in class today," Wendy was explaining, "Just because I was sitting next to my boyfriend. It's probably why I only have three girlfriends anymore."

Even years after the whole "Skankhunt" incident thing had ended, most of the girls were still bitter about what happened, which the boys (and Wendy) found ridiculous. Finally, when they were thirteen Wendy finally asked Stan to get back together officially, and he accepted. When all the other girls found out what she had done, they were outraged and immediately demanded that she break up with Stan. Wendy's reply to them was "fuck you."

Needless to say, she was no longer friends with any of the girls except Bebe, Nichole, and Heidi. She preferred to hang out with Stan and his friends now. But on the plus side to all of this, Wendy asking Stan out did encourage Nichole to get back together with Token.

"Lola needs to go fuck herself," Craig noted, swirling a fry around in some ketchup. He cast a glare over to where a group of girls were sitting. More than half of them had hit on him at some point or another.

The rest of lunch was rather uneventful before it was time for the next class. Tweek pressed himself to Craig's side as they walked, keeping an eye out for Jess in case she thought about trying anything. He felt Craig gently take his hand and he felt himself calm down substantially.

As school progressed, nothing new was really learned. There weren't any students or even teachers really that any of them didn't know or have before. It made Tweek hopeful that maybe senior wouldn't be nearly as stressful as he had always pictured it would be.

His first class he had without Craig, Fine Arts II, was the first class Tweek had after lunch. He was a little surprised to see Henrietta and Pete in the class. He thought the goths just skipped class all the time. But maybe they were finally starting to take their school work seriously.

Seeing no where else to sit, Tweek cautiously went over and sat down at their table, seeing as there were no desks, only tables. He gave them a weak smile.

"Is it all right if I sit here?" he asked.

"Yeah, it's fine," Henrietta replied, "Just as long as there's one open seat still."

Tweek was about to ask why when the door opened and Kenny walked in. He watched as Kenny looked around the room briefly before spotting them. His face lit up and he went over to sit with them without bothering to ask permission first.

"Hey guys," he greeted, sitting down next to Henrietta, "Didn't know all of you had this class as well. That's awesome! I'll actually have someone to talk to!"

"Just as long as you don't talk to me," Pete muttered.

Tweek muttered something under his breath as he focused on taking out his notebook so he could write down everything he would need for this semester. He heard the door open again and looked up to see who it was. He held back a hiss of fear when he saw Jess step in.

"GAH! I didn't know she was going to be in this class!" he whispered. He felt his heart starting to pound. She was going to destroy him! He had to get out of here!

Just as he was about to dart out of the room, someone gently touched Tweek's hand. He flinched slightly and saw Kenny giving him a concerned look.

"Are you all right, Tweek?" he asked, "You look a little freaked out."

Tweek shook a little. "GNN! I didn't know Jess was going to be in this class," he replied nervously, "She doesn't like me! She's going to try to kill me!"

"Who's Jess?" Pete wondered.

Carefully and slowly turning in his seat and making sure she wasn't watching, Tweek pointed towards Jess, who was sitting by herself in the far corner of the room. Pete and Henrietta studied her for a moment.

"Looks like a typical conformist bitch to me," Henrietta concluded, "But why does she hate you?"

"NNG! Because in sixth grade she briefly dated Craig, but then he dumped her to get back together with me," Tweek explained nervously, "At least, that's the short version."

"Do you need me to beat her up?" Kenny wondered.

"N-No," Tweek muttered, turning back to the table, "I'll just try not make myself noticeable. Shouldn't be too hard."

After that, the teacher finally came in and started class. In order to assess their skills, she started by having each of them draw the person next to them. When Tweek turned to Pete to start drawing him, he wondered why his cheeks seemed a bit redder than usual and why he looked to be having an internal war with himself.

When the bell rang, Tweek was about to get up and dart out the door, but he saw Jess get up first, so instead he sat back down and waited for her to leave, shrinking back in his seat, and hoping she didn't see him. After she had left, Tweek quickly fled into the hallway. He carefully looked around to make sure Jess wasn't still around and he was surprised to see Kenny talking to Henrietta. As he watched, Kenny leaned in, giving the goth girl a deep kiss before the two separated for their separate classes.

"Um… what did I just see?" Tweek wondered out loud.

…

"Hey Kenny," Tweek said as he made his way towards him on the bus. It was the end of the first day of school finally, and everyone was exhausted. Craig was a little confused why Tweek would want to sit anywhere near Stan and his friends, but he followed him anyway.

"Sup, Tweek?" Kenny replied, giving him a somewhat crooked smile.

"Are you and Henrietta dating?" Tweek asked, deciding to get straight to the point. Kenny blinked at him with surprise.

"How did you know?" he wondered.

"I, er, sort of saw you two kiss after art class," Tweek replied.

Kenny grinned slightly. "Yeah, we're dating," he answered. Cartman, who was sitting next to him and sipping a soda, spat it out.

"Wait, when did you start dating?" he questioned in an outraged voice, "and a freaking goth no less?" Kenny turned and blinked at him.

"The end of last school year," he replied calmly.

"Really?" Stan exclaimed, "Why didn't you tell us?"

"Why didn't you ask?"

"I knew he was dating Henrietta," Kyle told them all in a relaxed manner. They heard a snicker from Craig. Stan glared at him but turned to Kyle.

"How did you know?" he wondered.

"Because unlike you and fatass I actually take an interest in our friends' lives," Kyle explained somewhat snidely. Stan and Cartman both cast a glare at him.

As those four got into their own discussions, Craig and his friends took the seats behind them and talked about their own first day of school. When they sat down, Craig put an arm around Tweek and pressed him against his own body.

"So, Tweek, how were your art and drama classes?" he asked.

Twitching slightly, Tweek gave him a small smile. "They were fine," he replied, "We did a few acting exercises in drama and Kenny, Henrietta, and Pete are in my art class."

"Pete's in your art class?" Craig repeated, "I'm so sorry."

"He's not so bad, Craig," Tweek giggled, "Only you hate him." He was still debating with himself whether or not to tell Craig about Jess. He didn't want Craig to worry if he didn't have to. Maybe he should give it a few days, pretend he didn't see Jess at first.

"I'm glad Token is in all of my classes," Craig was saying when Tweek came out of his thoughts, "We can work on our homework together and we can share books."

"Working on homework together does not mean I'm going to let you just copy all of my answers, just so you know," Token warned, over hearing Craig. Rolling his eyes, Craig stuck his tongue out at him.

"You guys are lucky," Clyde sighed, "I have Bebe in most of the classes I don't have with you. Do you know how awkward it is to have so many classes with an ex-girlfriend whom you've slept with?"

"How awkward?" Tweek asked.

"Pretty awkward!" Clyde exclaimed.

"You'll get over it," Craig deadpanned. Clyde sighed and folded his arms but said nothing more on the topic.

Tweek and Craig got off at the same stop along with Clyde, deciding to stay the night at Craig's house and Clyde lived right next door. They bid good-night to Clyde before walking down the path to Craig's house, fingers enter twined. When they got in the house, they kicked off their shoes and dropped their back packs before Craig dragged Tweek up the stairs to his room while shouting a greeting to his parents.

"Ugh, I already hate being back in school," Craig muttered as he flopped down on his bed. Tweek smiled gently at him before walking over and sitting next to him.

"Shouldn't we tell your parents how our first day of school went?" he asked.

"Ah, they'll hear about it at dinner tonight," Craig dismissed, "I just want to relax right now. Come here and snuggle with me."

Smiling even wider, Tweek lied down and wiggled over until he was pressed against Craig's body. He felt his boyfriend wrap his arms around him and press him even closer. Yeah, school thoughts could wait. Now was snuggle time.

I had no idea how to end this chapter. Could you tell?

Anyway, ever since the Casa Bonita DLC for the Fractured but Whole came out I am a hard core shipper of Kenny and Henrietta, so I thought I'd get some of that in this story. You'll see more of it as the story progresses.

Also, SEASON 22 IS HERE! AND THE FIRST EPISODE DIDN'T AT ALL ADDRESS ANYTHING FROM THE END OF LAST SEASON! AND IF THE NEXT EPISODE DOESN'T ADDRESS A CERTAIN CLIFFHANGER FROM THE FIRST EPISODE OF THIS SEASON I WILL BE SO PISSED!

That is all. Sorry this took so long to get out.