Grip (Excerpt)
This is the intro for the (apparently anticipated) kymanchole fic I promised. I wanted to get this fic out tonight but apparently this is going to be a long one, I'm over 1.1k words in and it's only like a third of the way done maybe. 😭
Something about Nichole and Kyle always drove Cartman crazy. Yeah, it was the obvious – They don’t belong together. But there was something else under the surface. Something that Eric could always feel bubbling up from his gut, no matter how much he tried to swallow it and force it down.
He dealt with it the only way he knew how: He acted out. He was more vulgar around her than he was with anyone else. He tried to get the other guys to place bets on when they’d break up.
Fine. Maybe he had started weirdly fixating on Nichole’s laugh, her legs, or the way she leans into Kyle when she’s teasing him.
Maybe he did get pissed off every time Kyle got flustered because Nichole touched his knee or kissed his neck. It wasn’t jealousy over some doomed teen romance. It was jealousy of the power exchange. Kyle was soft for her. When Kyle talked? Nichole listened. Obeyed. Like he was goddamn important or something.
And it wasn’t like he could talk to anyone about it. They wouldn’t get it. Nobody could ever understand it, because nobody else was on his fucking level. He didn't want Kyle or Nichole. He wanted them broken up, uncomfortable, and aware of him.
The last thing Kyle needed was a pretty girl at his beck and call, his ego was already big enough. And Nichole didn’t need some guy simping for her, or fucking soft domming, or whatever everyone was calling it these days. She wanted to be Queen Bee, but she needed to be put in her place.
Besides, they were so fucking wholesome it made him sick. Holding hands, reading books, Kyle getting all flushed when Nichole complimented him. Nobody was ever that happy in real life. There had to be something nasty lurking underneath of all that.
But whatever. None of that meant anything. So what if Eric got a little hard after he saw a blurry Snap of Nichole sitting on Kyle’s lap? He was a dude. It happens.
He thought about making fake news segment for his YouTube channel titled: “How Kyle Broflovski Sold Out White People AND the Jews.” But his channel was getting less and less views. He needed something better than a 45 minute commentary video.
He needed dirt.
