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Stan Marsh is notorious for being late CONSTANTLY. Hanging out with friends? He’d show up almost an hour late. School? He’d leave the house 5 minutes before his class started.
Surely he wouldn’t be late TODAY out of all the days, right? Kyle pondered.
Boy was he so wrong.
Kyle opened his messages with Stan
loml💙: should we meet up at 1 or 1:30?
- 1:30 works for me!
loml💙: okay! Can’t wait to see you tmr!
It was almost comical how Stan himself had set up the designated meetup time, yet it was damn near 1:20 and still no sign of him. Typical.
Maybe he was stuck in traffic? Kyle cued up Life360. Nope, still at home. Fucking bastard.
Kyle could excuse being late on a regular day BUT VALENTINES DAY?! Yeah no, it felt personal now.
Don’t get him wrong, Kyle loves Stan, absolute love of his life, but his time management is ACTUAL shit.
It wouldn’t be the first time Stan does this. There’s been other instances where Stan is late to their dates, and Kyle had excused him, just because he knows Stan doesn’t mean it in a bad way.
But today? On the literal day of love and romance? Kyle felt aggravated.
He had opened up Life360 once more, looking for any indication that Stan’s stupid little icon had moved, it had not. It was now 1:40.
Self awareness hit Kyle in the worst possible way. He realized he was sitting alone, with a gift bag CLEARLY FOR VALENTINES DAY…to the outside world it looked like he had gotten stood up.
Hell, he might’ve well have been with how late Stan was.
Kyle had even had the decency to text Stan that he was going to show up early to turn in some documents for his job here in the mall. Turns out he didn’t even need that heads up.
Life360: *Stan left The Batcave*