The hallway buzzed with the chaos of the first day—lockers slamming, overlapping voices, hurried footsteps echoing across the polished floor. It felt louder than it should've, like the entire building had been holding its breath over summer and was finally letting it out all at once.

Amid the noise, Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman moved together through the crowd, their small group a rare constant in the middle of it all. Kyle kept his eyes glued to his schedule, already complaining, already fed up.

He doesn't know you're about to walk up to him. He doesn't know who you are yet.

Rival. Friend. Enemy. Stranger. New student. Boyfriend. Ex. Or something else entirely.

Who are you going to be in Kyle's complicated life?