Chapter 10:

Stan and I make our way out of the Cartman household. We don’t quite know what’s going on, but we’re going to continue looking for Cartman even if we don’t really know where to start. Just winging it, I guess.

Just as we’re about to pull out of Cartman’s driveway I see a familiar car pull in behind us. Buck… he might know something about that pink room. I step out of the passenger’s seat and approach the man.

“Oh hey, it’s Kyle and Sam,” He greets us and I’m a little thrown off by him calling Stan Sam. Stan will probably correct him on that so I don’t think much of it.

“Buck… is it okay if I ask some questions?” I ask.

“Haha, what, are you a detective?” Buck gives me a playful smile. Normally I would just shrug this off but right now something about that comment brings my blood to a simmer. It’s a little hard to ignore. Buck catches this expression on me and nudges my arm. “Hey, I’m just kidding. What’s up little man?”

I bristle a little more noticeably, but don’t voice my anger.

Stan instead speaks for me. “It’s really Cartman who owes us an explanation. We went into the house looking for him but his room’s completely empty.”

Buck scoffs. “What’d that sleazeball do this time?”

“…It’s personal.” I’ll just leave it at that. Our drama would probably seem incredibly stupid to him. “We just want to know what happened to his room.”

Buck leans back against his car and sighs. “Guess you two wouldn’t know since you haven’t been over in a while. He’s lost his privilege to a room over thanksgiving break. We cleaned out his room and moved the kid and all his things into the basement.”

…

“I told Liane she could do whatever she wanted with that room.” He continues.

Stan blinks and glances at me in slight confusion. “So… he’s in the basement right now?”

But Liane said she didn’t know where he was.

“After he comes home from school he’s supposed to be. He’s been grounded.” Buck explains.

Liane said he could be anywhere…

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