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Craig and Tweek have met each other twice for the first time.
Or, technically, thrice.
The first time is when Craig's four years old. It’s 2001, summer and he’s trying to open a bottle of coke and fails miserably, until a young man turns up and helps him. Craig doesn’t know it’s Tweek, the man doesn’t tell him his name. He just smiles and opens the bottle for Craig, and after Craig thanks him for it, because his parents taught him manners, Tweek leaves.
It’s not the last encounter Craig has with Tweek in his childhood. He meets him again eight years later. Craig’s hanging out with some friends, listening to his current favorite song, 21 Guns by Green Day on his new iPod Touch he has gotten for his twelfth birthday from his grandmother. His girlfriend and he exchange shy glances and Craig thinks about how they never would’ve gotten together if it wouldn’t have been for MSN messenger. A fat young man approaches them with an angry glare, but another blond man quickly scoops him away. Craig and his friends are confused, about what’s happening, but when the blonde man smiles at him, Craig can see that his eyes are filled with sadness. Something in them was familiar, but he can’t tell what.
He doesn’t think much about the blond man, more about the other one, who seems to know his name. Craig is confused, but for not too long. Only a year later he finds out that he’s a time traveler. He joins the Time Traveler's clan when he’s thirteen, right after their leader died of old age and a new, younger one takes the mantle. He’s only a boy, not much older than Craig and his name is Token Black.
Craig doesn’t see Tweek again for a very long time.