Kyle chapter 4

Over the next two weeks things started to settle down about Kyle being gay. People didn’t gay bash him anymore or whisper behind his back but they still treated him differently, although once the shock of it was over more and more girls started hanging around him and started treating him as one of the girls. The boys of the town resented him for it so the only males he talked to that were his age were Stan, Kenny and Cartman. Even though his predicaments improved Kyle was still depressed because he knew he could never have the one thing he truly wanted so he continued to take the pain killers. He found himself taking more and more because after awhile his body started to become resistant to them so he now took four at night and two before school, he had become addicted in the short time and couldn't stop even if he wanted to. No one noticed though as he took more and more or so Kyle thought but unknown to him Cartman saw his growing weariness and guessed correctly as to what he was doing.
When the second week was over his parents and Ike finally came home from the convention that they went to. Kyle was nervous when he heard the keys rattle outside because he decided that he would tell his parents he was gay before the rest of the town could. His parents and brother walked in and closed the door.
“Hello bubby how was it here while we were gone?” Kyle’s mother asked.
“Fine mom but I need to tell you and dad something.” Kyle started but Kyle’s mother continued as if he hadn’t heard him speak.
“The convention was nice and Ike won the IQ bowl. It was nice until we got back and it was the strangest thing, it seems the second we got off the plane everyone started whispering when they saw us, I wonder why. Kyle has something unusual happened while we were gone?”
“Well as a matter of fact, something did happen.”
“What happened Kyle? Is anyone hurt?” Kyle’s father asked, joining in on the conversation.
“No, but I have to tell you something,” Kyle bit his lip and then continued, “Mom, dad, I’m gay and that’s wh-“He was cut short by his mother.
“WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?!” Shelia Broflaski exclaimed. “My child a fagella? This isn’t happening, its societies fault, I’ll just have to…” But Kyle stopped her before she could continue because he knew what this path would lead to and he had grown a back bone against his mother since he was eight so that they wouldn't have another war with Canada type of fiasco ever again.
“Mom its no ones fault, I was born like this and I have known I was gay since I was twelve.” At this his mother burst into tears, his father wrapped his arms around her, comforting her. Ike just walked upstairs because the news wasn’t a shocker, he had guessed many years ago as to what Kyle was and this was just confirmation but something seemed off about Kyle to him but he just shrugged it off, thinking it was nothing, at least at first.
Over the next few days things at Kyle’s house were frantic because Kyle’s mother broke into tears every time she saw her biological son and his father was always silent but didn’t do anything else to show his discomfort with his son being gay. His parents eventually got over it in a month or so, but they would never bring up the subject so when they brought it up the day before winter break began he was shocked to hear his mother ask him, “Kyle, do you have a boyfriend?”
“Umm, no why?” Kyle replied.
“Well your father and I decided to go to see my sister for Hanukah this year and have agreed that you are old enough to stay home alone if you want.”
“What about Ike?”
“He was invited to go skiing in Aspen and we decided to let him go.”
“Cool, but what does anything have to do with me having a boyfriend or not?”
“Well we wanted to know if we could trust you by yourself and we wanted to tell you that you’re not allowed to do any funny business under our roof and no wild parties.” His father interjected.
“I promise I won’t, not like I have many friends anymore any way.” Kyle muttered the last part to himself.
“Oh good, well we’ll leave you some money for food and we are leaving tomorrow at noon.” With that Kyle’s mother got up and left the room, his father following close behind. Kyle was going to go up to his room to take his meds when Ike came in. Kyle paused at the door upon catching Ike’s look that was out of place.
“What?” Kyle asked as his brother continued the look that looked like he was trying to enter Kyle’s soul.
“I’ve just noticed we’ve got a stronger brand of aspirin than normal even though we just had a full bottle of the stuff less than a week ago. You know why that is?”
“I don’t know, maybe mom’s PMSing hardcore or something.” Kyle said calmly but in his mind he was freaking out, hoping his brother hadn’t figured out his addiction.
“Yeah, maybe.” Ike sounded like he was trying to convince himself out of something and continued, “Well mom and dad are dropping me off when they leave so I just wanted to say good bye before I leave, so bye.”
“’Kay, good bye Ike.” He gave his brother a hug and whispered to him, “I’ve covered so much of your shit up for you, if you find anything, not that there is anything to find out but if you happen to find something you better let it go,” Kyle squeezed Ike hard enough that Ike couldn’t breath any more, “or else I will inform our parents who stole and wreaked the car three years ago and who decided that last year the Goth kids had the right idea and smoked with them for over a year before that someone quit, oh and we must not forget this one individuals trip to downtown for prostitutes and takes starving Marvin’s space ship when he visits Earth and goes to Canada to se his biological parents, that would just kill mom and dad and you know it, so silence is key, got it? You won’t find any thing but if you find something out about me there will be consequences.” He let go of Ike and looked him over and sounded normal when he said, “I hope you understand, have a fun time in Aspen with your friends.”
“Okay. I won’t look and I won’t tell.” Ike said in a voice so soft it could be considered a whisper. Kyle walked out leaving a scared Ike standing there with his mouth open, wondering how his brother knew all of this about him.
Kyle was walking upstairs deciding he had to go about this more carefully but was relieved that he knew his brother wasn’t going to squeal on him. His brother keeps his word and a smile quirked on his lips at the thought because it had been him who taught him what honor was and how to always keep your word. There’s nothing to worry about anyway, I promise I won’t go as far as I could go. He shuddered hoping he could keep that promise to himself.
The next day at school was pretty cool because they finished that semester’s finals and today all they were doing was hanging out, waiting for their vacation to start. He told only Stan, Kenny and Cartman that he’d be alone all winter break. Stan and Kenny thought that he was so lucky and made plans to visit him every other day so he wouldn’t get lonely and Cartman said nothing.
Cartman was quite all that day thinking about how Kyle could take as much of whatever he was taking if he was all by himself with out any one noticing. He made a vow to himself to visit him every day so he could check to see if he was all right. Maybe you can get your gay on this break. That voice had been enjoying making fun of him for the last few months but it did hold the truth because he really did want to find out if he could have a relationship with Kyle but knew he wouldn’t actually do anything about it if he didn't do it soon.
School let out and Kyle dropped his friends off at their homes and went home. He already bought everyone’s presents so he didn’t have to sweat going to the mall. He finally arrived at his house and went inside. He stood in the front door frame for a minute revealing in the silence and knowledge he had the house all to himself for the next three weeks.
He decided this was called for a celebration so he went upstairs, grabbed the bottle of aspirin and ran back stairs. He sat on the couch in front of the TV planning to play video games after he took the pills but he never got to play the games.
He popped half the bottle into his mouth and after he swallowed he realized something didn’t feel right and he knew what it was. Kyle got up as soon as he realized, he started to run to the medicine cabinet but never made it and collapsed on the floor, not feeling anything as death approached him about to claim her newest victim.
Cartman decided to confront Kyle about his feelings early so almost immediately after Kyle dropped him off, he threw his back pack into the living room and walked back out. It was freezing out so he decided to jog to Kyle’s house. While he was jogging he thought about how he was going to confess how much he liked Kyle. I bet he’ll just laugh in my face after everything I’ve put him through. It’s so stupid I should turn around. Then I will always do that, I should better get it over with. What should I say? How about, um Kyle you know how I always made you miserable? Well I only did it because I lo-. His thoughts were interrupted when he got to the Kyle’s house.
Cartman was about to knock on the door when he heard a giant crash followed by nothing. Cartman threw the door open looking for Kyle. He ran through the downstairs in less than a minute and was running upstairs when he caught sight of a lump in the upstairs hall. As he came closer to it he saw that the lump was Kyle holding an aspirin bottle with hardly anything in it. Cartman panicked and quickly went to check Kyle’s pulse and counted that it was dangerously low and saw some foam coming out of the side of Kyle’s mouth. He ran to the bathroom to look for ipecac or charcoal would be better but both would induce vomiting. He scanned the medicine cabinet and was in luck; he found a ground charcoal mix and dashed out of the bathroom back to his Kyle who looked like he was crying due to the tears falling from his eyes. He shoved the equivalent to 5 teaspoons in his mouth and rubbed Kyle’s throat so it would go down, it would have been easy if Kyle hadn’t started to seize but he got it in their all the same. Once the charcoal hit his stomach Kyle started to throw up and Cartman carried him to the bathroom and held the red heads hair up all the while.
Kyle felt like winter's chill had him and he was falling deeper and deeper into that chill and knew that this was the end of his rope that he would surely die because he saw the most handsome brown haired angel come and thought it was the angel of death coming to claim him and take him and his pain away. The angel looked familiar yet odd though, he was flushed and had a panicked look but he was still the most wonderful thing he had ever seen and his heart darkened when he saw the angel leave. For a whole minute Kyle thought the angel left him in the ever increasing cold to die without him and tears started to fall from his eyes, lights were starting to form in his vision when he felt something shoved in his throat and rubbed down so he would swallow and he saw that the person shoving was the strangely familiar angel. He would have gladly swallowed it but his body began to seize and couldn't do as the angel wished. Just when death was about to make it's final blow he felt a prick of heat and started to vomit. He felt the angel carry him to the bathroom and hold his fiery curls as he vomitted. When he finally finished he felt as if he just walked through the desert for a week without water and immediately passed out with seeing the angel looking at him in a loving way.
Eventually Kyle stopped vomiting and passed out into a deep dreamless sleep Cartman couldn’t walk him up from. The German boy was alarmed but checked Kyle’s pulse and it was strong so he relaxed a bit and put his love to bed, changed him into clean clothes and went to clean the mess Kyle had made, happy that the Jew was still alive but unsetteled at the thought of not knowing if he would still be alive in the morning.



Midnight Writer