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It's finally Friday. Redhead approaches the school and all eyes are on her, she does not seem to be in a very good mood.
Classroom door nr 67 slams open as Kylie walks in, with annoyed expression her eyebrows frowned forming a line between her eyebrows. The class is filled with excitement and questions around Kylie but she does not answer anyone.
Erica takes notice,quickly but smoothly she sits on Kylie´s table with a mischievous smirk she asks “So you are back ay?”
If anyone could get word out of Kylie it would be Erica ,she could make anyone speak. A class quiets down all eyes on Kylie and Erica.
Kylie rolls her eyes,and answers bitterly “Not because of you.”
She continues trying to shake the table with no effort “ Get your lard ass off my table”
Erica smirks and hops off her table “I see you are not in a mood for chat,well I think something will change your mind later” the girl smiles.
The class fills with excitement. Majorine approaches Erica whispering to her
eagerly “So Erica,what you have in mind heh?”
Erica as she is taking her books out of the bag puts a finger on her lips,smiles,winks and replies to Majorine “It's A secret,you will see.”
Kylie, who sits just two benches in front, looks back at Cartman with a sour expression,wondering what she is planning after hearing Marjorine´s and Erica´s encounter.
She thinks to herself “Up to no good I bet,maybe Stacey was right…”
Her thought is interrupted by the teacher entering the class.
The day goes by as normal,Kylie had never been talkative or cheerful to begin with, but what was unusual was her lack of encounter with Erica or as matter of fact anyone,even towards Stacey she seemed grumpy.
The reason was simple,her and Stacey had gotten into an argument over the phone,about the events of wednesday. Stacey was mad at her for resolving to violence and didn't understand why Kylie stood up to Erica so much,after all Erica had a highly unpleasant personality- she is pushy,egoistic,loud and mocks anyone for their flaws. Stacey thought that Erica simply wasn´t taken to the team because of her argumentative personality. After all, Kylie was not there to see her performance that day so her talent could had been questioned.
Today everyone annoyed Kylie,the constant questioning by her classmates and strangers in the halls,from Erica´s weird smile to Stacey´s eyes completely avoiding her. She was however the most bothered by Erica´s devious smirk,but she had no time to deal with that,whatever Erica was planning had to wait,today was the big game.
People gathered around the sports hall and the opening ceremony begins, or so everyone thought. The cowgirls theme song plays but cheerleaders are nowhere to be seen. Quickly but awkwardly the DJ shuts the music. Tension is in the air,apparently the cheerleaders boycotted today's game because of wednesdays fiasco with Kylie. Already irritated, Kylie now bosses around her teammates during the game.
“Over here! Keep your eyes on the fucking game Claudia!” she shouts.
“Carrie you fucking slack!what was that?” she passes by Carrie shouting during game. The team is doing terribly, and Kylie's poor temper and insults don't help.
Kylie commands for time off at the first 20 minutes of the game.
“What was fucking that girls? Focus!focus” she slaps her hands together angrily.
At this point Stacey who is also in the team can´t take it anymore,she snaps at Kylie finally.
Stacey snaps “Focus? Don´t tell US! What to do when you were the one who got us banned to practice for this game!”
“Yeah!” agrees rest of the team,
Carrie adds” Not to mention you weren't at the park yesterday like we agreed.All of us were there.”
Stacey continues” Where were you by the way yesterday?” Kylie opens her mouth to answer but is interrupted.
Stacey continues” And don´t say house arrest! I've seen you sneak out plenty of times!”
Stacey walks away from Kylie,her long black hair flowing behind her giving one last angry look to her.
Everyone walks back to the game court,expect Kylie,
Clarissa passes her and adds “Least you could have come up with a game plan,now we are totally screwed.”
Kylie stands there,as the whistle blows and the game continues,but she isn't moving back to the game. In fact she is just standing there mindlessly. Tears fill her emotionless eyes and still face.
The crowd is confused and murmurs but the game continues.
Until a loud music is blasted from speakers and in front of the crowd a short chubby figure appears.
“Erica?” says Kylie out loud when her eyes meet with a familiar figure.
There she stands, a microphone in her hand,her nails are painted green and white the colors of The Cows uniform! She is wearing her usual hair style,a small one sided ponytail(string of hair) tied to a green bow.Her makeup is flashy, pink-blue gradient eyeshadow,bright pink lipstick and bold black mascara. She is wearing a long white sweater.
“Now what the hell is she doing here?” thinks Kylie to herself.
Erica grabs the microphone and says “Attention everyone!For today's game I have put together a little song, and a special surprise for the end!” she winks waving her winger in the air. She winks at the DJ and the music gets louder as she holds tight to her microphone.
Erica starts singing:
“I've seen you twice, in a short time
Only a week since we started
It seems to me, for every time
I'm getting more open-hearted”
She seems very focused and sincere,Kylie is filled with pure confusion.so is the crowd but they seem to be cheering. The basketball team also seems puzzled and slowed down. Abba´s “The name of the game “ continues ,
I was an impossible case
No one ever could reach me
But I think I can see in your face
There's a lot you can teach me
So I wanna know
Her eyes are on Kylie now clearly,with sweet sincere look and the crowd growing more excited she raises her voice for the chorus of the song:
What's the name of the game?
Does it mean anything to you?
What's the name of the game?
Can you feel it the way I dooooooooooo?
“Breaking disc sound”
Ton Basil-Mickey starts playing, Erica puts down her microphone, and takes off her long white sweater,under it revealing a handmade shirt written in primary colors “Go Kylie!” surrounded by small self drawn stars and hearts. She is wearing a short blue skirt with red lining and black shorts under it with white knee socks,accompanied with blue yellow pompoms that she also made.
“Hey Kylie youre so fine! Youre so fine you blow my mind hey Kylie!Hey Kylie!”
She starts doing a silly dance,clearly coping the music video of Ton Basil.
“GO KYLIE GO,!KICK THEIR ASSES” she yells from top of her lungs.
Kylie is blushing deep red,speechless,
The crowd starts repeating after Erica “Go Kylie youre so fine,Go Kylie youre so fine!Hey Kylie Hey Kylie”
Deeply flushed, Kylie is speechless but she sees the eyes of her teammates giving her supporting looks and a girl behind her sitting on the bench nods. Kylie ties her hair up in a high pony tail and joins the game, this time fearlessly. The crowd seems super hyped,the game is back on! After all, even the opposite team players had slowed down to look at Cartman's ridiculous but heartfelt performance. Soon after she enters the game the team manages to score,looks like Erica´s performance was effective,confusing the opposite.
Erica keeps doing silly dances and doesn't really seem to follow the lyrics of song anymore she shouts and crowd copies her:
“Go Cows!”
crowd:”Go Cows!”
“Lets roll now!”
“Roll now!”
“Fart Collins!
“Fart Collins!”
“Barf Barf barf!”
“Barf barf barf”
The crowd answers to each insult and replies even more eagerly,apparently The Fort Collins are fuming about the fart joke. And Erica decides to stop the crowd echo with this.
She continues the little she has left of the song and serenades the last part in her loud voice to end her show while throwing a little silly dance
“Oh Kylie, what a pity you don't understand
You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand
Oh Kylie, you're so pretty, can't you understand?
It's girls like you Kylie
Oh, what you do Kylie, do Kylie
Don't break my heart, Kylie”
The crows repeat the last part of the song and Kylie, red as lobster but furious, manages to dock a ball right into the basket, whistle blows, its half time whistle and The cows are catched up,it's a tie!
The next half of the game would be crucial,so Kylie gathers her team and works out a plan to win Fort Collins for good.
Meanwhile the Dj booth had been stopped,meaning Erica cannot pull a show to cheer for the team in the next half. Or so she thinks.
Soonly after the second half begins,one of the cheerleaders,who had previously bailed stands up shyly and starts clapping,then stands another one
and they shout “Come on South Park, green and white, let's go cows, fight fight fight!”
Everyone in the crowd starts shouting it, and so does Erica,she stands up on the bench and starts yelling the cheer rhyme to support The Cows,especially Kylie.
She yells “Go Kylie !!Go!” Suddenly someone grabs Erica, it's the mascot of The Cows,worn down Mooey mascot lifts Erica up and carries her to the court,one of the cheerleaders in the front put out a little boombox putting it to maximum volume.
The Cowgirls theme song “Kerry Harvick´s “Cowgirls” plays and the mascot Mooey and Erica without knowing the dance routine of the cheer squad dance on the side of the basketball court. Erica shouts “Go Kylie!Go!”
Kylie who is just passing by them very closely yells blushing “What the hell are you doing?GET OFF THE COURT” as she runs by.
Erica shouts happily “Fuck you Kylie,I do what I want!”
This frustrates Kylie as she is handling the ball but you can see a small smile,she speeds and docks another score. The crowd cheers. The whistle blows. And the game has ended .
The announcer yells “The Cowgirls win 3-2 “
Everyone cheers and people gather around Kylie lifting her up in air cheering.
Kylie is still blushing but happy,she looks to the crowd where she sees girls hugging Erica and cheering together,Kylie smiles sweetly. After all, it looks like Erica´s plan wasn't so devious at all but to cheer on her.
After the victorious game Kylie feels guilty about her behavior and apologizes to her teammates and Stacey who all forgive. The only person who she doesn´t get to talk to is Erica. Kylie feels bad about thinking that Erica would do something bad to sabotage her game or had some other devious plan,when in reality Erica is big thanks to why Kylie and her team got their motivation back and won.
Everyone left the school,only Kylie stayed longer,she prefers to shower alone,dressing in girls locker rooms make her anxious. Usually on fridays no matter the occasion she likes staying a little longer than anyone else in the school .School is so peaceful on friday nights the library is still open. After shower,dressing herself and drying her hair she decides she wants to go to the library as per usual to grab some new books she has been meaning to borrow.
Walking down the hallway she feels extremely dizzy and heart is beating really fast. Kylie grabs onto wall,her vision starts to get blurry as she is out of breath. Everything goes black and the girl faints.
Erica who this whole time had been sitting in the hallway for some odd reason gladly notices the girl in need of help.
Erica runs to Kylie- She shakes her and yells her name. Unresponsive Kylie lays there, Erica mumbles out loud “Quick,Quick! think think what do I have to do”
Suddenly Erica notices Kyle´s turtle neck and remembers something,
She says “Remove tight clothing”
She sees that Kylie´s collar neck looks tight and starts to remove it, taking it off Kylie´s orange turtleneck sweater. It's quite the struggle because of Kylie´s voluptuous long hair getting in the way.
Once the sweater is off ,it reveals Kylie's pink lace bra with a very flat freckled chest.
Cartman is red staring at Kylie's girly bra,she didn't expect such girly underwear from Kylie who is very much of a tomboy. She once again shakes her.
Kylie wakes up and instantly she feels chilly.
“ WHY AM I NAKED? “ yells Kylie blushing
Cartman smiles awkwardly and says
“ Hehhh I took it off “
She sticks out her tongue. Kylie punches her in the face and grabs her sweater to cover her chest fast, she yells “Perv”.
Kylie grabs her turtleneck covering her chest as fast as possible.
Cartman's nose is bleeding and she gets up quickly without saying a word
and leaves somewhere while Kylie sits in the corner and quickly puts her
sweater back on.
Soon Cartman comes back with something in her hand.
She slowly and awkwardly sits next to Kylie who sits there with her arms around her knees curled in a ball avoiding eye contact besides hearing the girl coming back.
Erica sits next to her and gets on her knees sitting down in a leg crossed position.
Erica coughs to get Kylie´s attention
“Ahh look about your sweater… I just read it somewhere you should do it” she gathers her words and continues awkwardly
“I wanted to help you so you can breath better”
Kylie mumbles "Peeping tom"
Cartman mumbles "Not like there was much to see anyways"
This gets Kylie to raise her head and curl out of the position she yells
“ WHAT DID YOU SAY? “she punches Cartman's hand.
“ Ouch Ouch “ Erica says still holding something her other hand,
Erica softly touches Kylie´s shoulder to get her attention she says softly
“ Ahh... I got you this - for vitamin C n shit I heard its good for.... ughh amnesia”
Kylie looks surprised and corrects Erica while rolling her eyes "Anemia".
Erica now replies more irritated "Tsk whatever the hell it is that you have.”
She hands an orange to Kylie” Here... you should take it, I don't eat that crap anyways, dad always packs it for me"
Kylie takes the orange and starts to peel it and eats a piece.Silence.
Kylie finally says "Thank you".
Cartman tilts her head towards her as Kylie speaks
"Thank you Erica, for everything… I appreciate it"
Erica smiles "Heh anything for a friend"
“Friend huh…” Kylie thinks to herself.
Kylie continues now facing Erica “Look,I'm sorry about…”
Erica asks “About what?My dance?Well I'm not apologizing for that!”
Kylie speaks louder “NO! I mean that I AM sorry….what you did was…” she blushes deeply and puts her hands again around her knees
She continues “..sweet”
Erica blushes,awkward silence fills the air.
Erica coughs “So ?What are you sorry for?Well besides for punching me in the face?”
Kylie continues sadly “I'm sorry for being distant and…mean,I thought you were going to do something devious…with your smirk” She looks at Erica.
Erica looks puzzled but smiles smirkingly again
and says playfully” Hu hu I guess it's just my natural face, little devil” she puts two fingers above her head forming devils horns and smirks.
Kylie nods and Erica replies “But I guess you are forgiven,and you are welcome.”
Kylie smiles and replies” Thanks”
Suddenlyshe asks “By the way…how did you know I had anemia?I never told anyone” Kylie looks a bit sad and mumbles “It's a little embarrassing…team leader who faints easily…”
Erica smiles “Well it's no biggie! Anyone would faint after game like that” she smiles and puts her hand on Kylie's shoulder for comfort and continues now with more devious smirk “Besides,I keep track of everyone's medical records”
Kylie asks “How did you- “ she looks concerned “Thats fucking creepy-” and suddenly she giggles “I mean looks like you got the DJ at your paws too”
Erica winks “You won't believe what 10 dollars can do.”
Kylie smiles and blushes now looking back at Erica again “Thanks Erica, your dance really helped us..” she snorts “I'm not sure about the singing but, the rest really got us hyped”
Erica gets closer to Kylie and nudges her shoulder “Hey I had it originally planned for wednesday,just don't delay the games again okay?” she winks.
Kylie smiles and nods. Both girls feel happy and Erica suddenly puts her head on Kylie's shoulder to lean on, Kylie gives her a quick look but doesn't move.
Erica blushes as she repositions her head more comfortably against Kylie,
she says “I'm just tired ya know,your shoulder just happens to be the closest pillow.”
“Alright,alright” giggles Kylie sweetly.
Kylie asks quietly “Well…what were you doing so late at school anyways.”
Erica blushes and looks away,she speaks “Well..I was just…reading”
Kylie raises her eyebrow “Reading?really? I didn't know you could read.”
Erica pinches Kylie´s arm softly,Kylie says “HEY!”
Erica continues and seems frustrated. “Well…It wasn't for school..its ahmm..comics”
Kylie snorts “Comics?You mean Kelly´s weird japanese porn?”
Erica now gets off her shoulder and yells flushed “NO!”
she pauses “Well they are from japan but nothing like that…” she seems frustrated and now not facing Kylie anymore with arms crossed.
Kylie asks” Manga?Right? Well some of those are pretty cool.”
Erica turns back to her “Yeah..”she mumbles “Nerd…”
Kylie replies back looking at her “Right back at ya!”
Kylie smirks and now taps Erica´s shoulder “So it's a secret?”
Erica nods and replies “Well,not really I just don't want anyone to see what I read…its private”
Kylie smirks “So it really is porn huh?”
Erica yells “NO!” she blushes and continues while looking away nervously playing with her hair “It's just …dumb romance”
Kylie smiles and blushes softly “I see,quite the romantic huh” she teases Erica.
Her voice softens “ Don't worry Erica. I won't tell anyone.”
Erica smiles looks at Kylie for moment and her eyes stare at the ground once again, still playing with her hair in silence.
Kylie thinks it's weird, somehow cute and amusing to see Erica like this,who knew she was so interested in romance. A side of Erica Kylie never seen.
On a whim of a moment suddenly Kylie leans closer to Erica and kisses her cheek. Erica looks at Kylie beet red.Kylie only now realizing what she has done gets up quickly trying to avoid eye contact and grabs her bag from the ground and rest of the orange she didn't finish eating yet.
“See you later” yells the girl as she runs away. Her long red hair flows on the back of her shoulders, as the speed of lighting ,she disappears from Cartman's sight. Beet red Erica sits there still thinking what had just happened or if any of it was real,she touches her cheek where Kylie had left the peck. Speechless and red. Once again Kylie had left her helpless.