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Y todo va a pasar,
Hoy es un día raro,
Cadena Nacional…
Nos vamos de paro cardíaco.
-Supermercado, Mon Laferte.
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Kyle Broflovski is wondering to himself how he got himself in this situation.
A few weeks ago he was married to a woman he once loved (or something close to that) with a complete family of four and now he was going through a complicated divorce since his now ex-wife decided to run away without even making an effort to stay in contact with her children. It is easy to say that the past weeks have been rough.
Suddenly being a single father of a 12 year old boy, Natan, and a 6 year old girl, Seraphina, with no warnings hit him like a truck. Making a lot of calls to his lawyer to help with the divorce and custody of the children, while continuing his work as The Principal of South Park Elementary School and trying to be there not only for every student but his own children that now were missing half of their parents attention since he was now alone.
Well, he was not that alone at the moment.
Currently, Kyle found himself at 4 am, resting on his bed in between the arms of two of his favorite people, Stan, his super best friend since forever, and Wendy, his sbf's wife and also a close friend of his.
They got married after finishing college, moved to Denver and even had a daughter, Sammy, but the distance never stopped their powerful friendship. So powerful they did not think twice and went to South Park a few days later when Kyle told them Deborah, his ex-wife, left the house.
Stan, Wendy and Sammy have stayed with them since then, helping Kyle with the house, the chores and the kids while he was trying to recollect his life. He was so grateful for them and it helped him realize how much he missed them the last few years.
They were starting to worry because since they arrived, Kyle has been only focusing on work, the divorce process and the kids not giving time for himself at all, and Stan noticed how this was affecting not only him but everyone. They tried to talk about it with him, reminding the redhead that his feelings and emotions are as important as his kids', that it was ok to just relax and think about it because no matter how busy you keep yourself to avoid those thoughts, they were going to stay there and they would get worse.
Kyle's response to those concerns were "Natan and Sera just lost their mother, what they need it's me, and if they see that I don't have control, then who is left for them?".
"That's why we are here, Kyle" Wendy said.
But Kyle pretended he did not hear that. Letting his emotions bottle up until he exploded that night.
It was around 10 pm, the redhead had been working from his office at home all day and was already in his sleeping clothes (which consisted on just his underwear) because he’s been planning to rest after finishing his work, but the amount of paperwork was impressive especially since it was near the end of the school year, he was stressed enough and the fact that their vice-principal had a medical emergency recently did not help at all, leaving him to do all the documents by himself.
What finally broke him was getting a text from his lawyer in which they tell him that Deborah was asking for child support, She was asking for child support. At first he just pinched his nose while laughing softly at such a ridiculous request. The woman that left unannounced the house, the same woman that explicitly asked for no custody of her children, THAT woman, wanted child support. She doesn’t show interest in interacting with them… His kids have no idea, they still have the hope that their mother would call and tell them she is coming back soon! He doesn’t have the heart and the mental strength to tell them what is really happening… GOD, Who the fuck did he marry all those years ago? This can’t be a real person, no sane person he knows would act like this… When did everything change? Was it really worth it? All these years he wasted with a woman that he can’t recognize now.
He thought for what it felt like hours, (but it's been like 10 minutes) tortuous hours that left him shaking and sobbing. When did that happen? He hid his head between his arms and kept crying quietly, he could barely breathe but did nothing about it. Kyle was so tired, wanted to disappear and teleport into another world where everything was ok but it felt like finding an alternative life where he was fine was impossible, he was doomed to live in pain and he could not have the control to resolve.
Powerless, he was powerless.
It didn’t take long when Stan and Wendy entered the room without knocking, they heard from outside the red-head’s cries and got concerned.
Kyle can barely recall what happened and has been said during the next 2 hours.
He remembers Wendy making him stand up and get away from the desk, all while holding his hands and Stan locked the door so the kids don’t see what is happening if they happen to wake up. Then, they were sitting by the side of his messy bed, Kyle being between them. Wendy asked him softly if she could hug him, he nodded, his cries were not stopping and having his face pressed against her chest apparently made it worse as he started sobbing loudly while holding tightly to his friend’s arm. Stan hugged him from behind and started whispering comfort words.
Kyle finally let everything out, his emotions, thoughts and fears for the future. The couple held him close to them and let him talk. He expected to be judged, to be told ‘I told you so!’ because he ended up breaking down after his friends warned him this might happen but none of that happened.
He forgot when it was the last time he was held like this and the feeling, he didn’t want them to let go even though he already stopped crying and now was breathing calmly. So they didn’t separate.
Now, with a clearer mind at 4 am, Kyle thought of the last few hours and how weird everything that's going on is.
He broke down in front of his best friend and his friend’s wife; He cried on her chest for two hours in only his underwear and his friend was apparently not weirded out by that, he was also not weirded out with laying his head over his shoulder and whispering directly into his ear. Neither of them were weirded out or stepped back when he pathetically begged them to not leave them alone that night, how desperate for human affection was he?
But they stayed with him even after he fell asleep on Wendy’s chest.
Trapped between arms that are embracing him. Delicate arms around his shoulders and stronger ones around his waist, his own arms wrapped around her torso.
Was this normal?
A normal friend group of a couple and their friend would not get this close. Well, they were never normal from the start, they always cared for each other deeply.
Kyle wished they were a normal group sometimes, he wished Stan would get possessive over Wendy’s affection like “the man” he is supposed to be; he wished Wendy would push him away because being close to you best friend’s wife is creep behavior. It would make everything less… confusing.
This feels weird yet so… familiar? Almost like when they were-
He tenses when that thought goes through his mind.
No no no! That was a long time ago and he already got over those stupid feelings!
There is no way these feelings are coming back, he did everything to forget about them.
This means nothing, they are just friends looking up to someone that it’s going through a rough situation. Nothing more, this feelings are so illogical-
“Ky… Are you ok?” a whisper interrupted his thoughts.
The red-head looked up, his tensed body had woken up Wendy.
“I’m fine… Just woke up and started thinking… I really shouldn’t, I’m still so tired… Sorry for waking you up”.
The raven haired chuckled softly and shake lightly her head, she started caressing his hair.
“Don’t apologize… Clear your head and go back to sleep… Here, just lay here and feel my breathing, it will help…”.
He did as he’s been told, and it did help because minutes later he fell into a deep sleep once again, being free from the memories for hours.
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Kyle slowly woke up with his face against a slightly flatter chest, still he was so comfortable and did not want to leave so instead he got closer with no care about the real world at the moment, doesn’t care about the time or responsibilities, at peace finally after such complicated weeks.
Something was missing, he noticed.
“Wendy left for work a few hours ago…” Stan whispered to him as he felt how the redhead shifted to look behind him.
That’s when he realizes he was not hugging her anymore, but instead was snuggling with his best friend who didn’t seem uncomfortable with that at all, quite the opposite, his arms were also around him and his head was laying on top of his.
“Oh… Oh! Wait, the kids!” Kyle tried to break free but there was no use, his friend was stronger.
“Don’t worry about that! Wendy took care of that, you still need to rest… Let’s stay here, ok?”.
The redhead stayed quiet as he felt how the noriette held him close and buried his face in his hair. And he was worried Stan would be upset with him for cuddling with his wife.
Man, what a night. Kyle thought and started chuckling softly.
“What’s so funny?”.
“Don’t you find this weird? Hours ago I was sobbing on your wife’s chest and slept in her arms… How are you so calm?”.
“I was also hugging you, I’m hugging you right now”.
“Exactly, we ARE hugging right now, do you REALLY don’t find this weird? At all??”.
“No, Kyle, I really don’t. I actually like it a lot… Don’t overthink, dude”.
They don’t talk for a few minutes.
“I feel so pathetic right now… Letting you see me like that…” Kyle breaks the silence.
“Don’t talk about yourself like that, dude, you are not pathetic.” a hand was slowly going up and down against the redhead’s back “you are not feeling ok and that’s why we are here for you.”.
Kyle let out a sigh, this was killing him.
“... Sometimes I wonder why you do all of this for me?”.
The noriette stayed still for a bit.
“We care so much about you…”.
Oh…
“You have no idea, Kyle…”.
Oh God.
Kyle really felt like he was going to die internally at any moment now, all this past and new thoughts about his best friend and wife he had since high school were slowly getting back ever since they’ve been living with him and he promised himself that he would not acknowledge it but it was getting harder everyday. He deep down knows that one of the reasons his stress increased over the past weeks was because having Stan and Wendy by his side made him rethink about his choices in the past, living with them felt so natural and now sharing a bed for the first time (besides the previous circumstances) made Kyle’s chest feel so warm and wonder about how different life would be if all those years ago he did something about his feelings and by miracle they loved him back, never meeting his ex-wife and be happy; but that was so selfish from him, that only meant his kids would never have existed and he loves them too much even though their mother caused him so much pain for the past years.
Once again, his thoughts were interrupted by the person hugging him by his side and he stopped shaking, again, when did that start happening? and froze.
Kyle froze as he felt how Stan was leaving small kisses against his temple. For a moment all he could do was stay still while he processed what his best friend was doing. This has to be a cruel joke…
“Stan… Stan…” Kyle whispered.
“Hmm…” He kept kissing, now his hair.
“Stan, please, stop… Don’t do this.” He begged, he couldn't take it.
“Right, I’m sorry…”.
Stan slowly pulled himself away from the red head, leaving bed. He kept staring at him tho, all Kyle could do was avoid his gaze. He felt so cold now.
“I’m gonna… Hm… Prepare breakfast for us, ok? But leave bed whenever you are ready.” Stan said, stretching his arms and getting into his slippers.
“... Ok…”.
Silence, it was like Stan was waiting for something but he just sighed an “ok” and started walking to the bedroom door.
“Stan…?”.
The other was already leaving, but quickly turned his head back to Kyle and stared at each others eyes.
“Yeah?”
“Just… Thank you for all of this… You two are helping me so much and I don’t think I thanked you enough before…”
Stan smiled.
“We’ll do anything for you, dude”.
And with that he left the room.
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