AUTHOR'S NOTE – Okay, I know it's been a while since I posted and to be honest I need to get back into fanfiction. To anybody following me, I promise that I will revisit the Corpse Bride fanfic, maybe even repost chapters and I will finish both that and the Adventure Time series. To kick back into the Fanfiction world, I have decided to dig back to my roots and write an Ed, Edd, N, Eddy fanfic, one that I wanted to do since the episode A Twist of Ed. This fanfic will be following Edd and Marie (My favorite ship of all time) and with that I will start my fanfic. This fanfiction takes place first in the Ed universe at the A Twist of Ed setting (2003 episode) and then I will be taking the mantle from that.

DISCLAIMER – I don't own Ed, Edd, N Eddy nor the characters nor the episodes in which they were created upon.

Edd's eyes squinted as the summer heat began to drain sweat atop his beanie covered head. Rolls of sweat began to pour down toward his eyes as he blinked three times to try to avoid the sweat going into his pupils. He was staring at his wood finish on his mother and father's table, in which was now glistening in the summer sun. His shoulders relaxed as a smile creeped over his face, feeling the sweat fall almost endlessly down the back of his neck. The rag in his hand began to show a reflection of his own hand and arm as he finished his work on the table. "Nice." Edd told himself and looking at the table to see his cheerful expression. "Putting one's shoulder to the wheel certainly has its rewards." Edd again told himself while going back over the table with his brush that had wood finish on it. "There! Refinished, rejuvenated, and reusable! Edd exclaimed. He put the paint brush back into the large can and looked over at the other pieces of work he had done. Four chairs to be exact to match the table with the same number of layers of finish put on them, three hanging up to dry, and one sat in the grass as it was already dried. Edd nodded at his work and began to take off his gloves when he noticed a peculiar shine of light catch his eye. He ran over to the source of it and frowned down at the fresh patch of grass. "What's this?" He asked himself. Edd bent down and picked up the object which immediately revealed itself to be a lipstick dispenser. "Strange." Edd told himself. He thought about his mother's lipstick dispenser but she was at work and father wouldn't have anything to do with as well and he too was at his work. "Now what could a lipstick dispenser be doing in my yard?" Edd again asked himself, hoping that magically the answer would appear.

He thought about if it was Nazz, but she would never walk into his yard mainly because she was always hanging out with Kevin or Rolf. So Nazz couldn't have left the dispenser so maybe it was Sarah. Edd thought about Sarah always having a weird obsession over him but she's too young to have a lot of lipstick on, especially dark red lipstick on that looked like it belonged to an older girl. "Oh my." Edd said freezing at all his thoughts racing in his head. 'Older girl? Dark red lipstick? Somebody obsessed with me!?' His thoughts raced as the sweat on his neck transferred to his forehead, side of the head, and down to his back when he looked around very securely for someone around that had blue hair.

Just when he thought he was safe, a large sound came from behind him sounding like someone going down a large slide. "Yahoo!" She shouted tackling him from behind. Helpless, Edd landed on the ground and then was turned over to face the blue haired girl that now had his arms locked on her knees. Hiya Dreamboat!" She shouted with a large peculiar grin on her face. Edd still held the lipstick in his right hand, practically squeezing it to it's breaking point before she released his right arm. "No Marie! Y-you don't have t-to do this!" Edd shouted as his free hand tried to push him away from Marie's strong grasp. She laughed and grabbed Edd's fisted hand with the lipstick in it and opened his hand by sliding her four fingers into the clasp of his fist. Her fingers locked with the sweaty metal in Edd's hand and she was able to pull it out of his hand to only twist the knob on dispenser. Edd screamed and used his now non-fisted hand to try to push himself again out of her grasp but instead accidently pushed her breast up making Marie moan a bit. Edd yelped and his hand withdrew from her chest, curling up with the other one trembling hand. "Aw Double-D, anxious, are we?" Marie blushed. Edd could only profusely shake his head in a fit of his own discrepancy. Marie applied the lipstick to her puckered lips and smacked them together for a dramatic effect. "Pucker up Ovenmitt! Marie shouted drawing close to Edd's own lips. "No please you wouldn't dare! He shouted as Marie's lips locked with his. Marie made a closed lips sound as Edd tried to squirm out of the kiss. Marie moaned into Edd's lips and pushed her knees down further into Edd so he couldn't escape. She wrapped her arms around his neck and slipped a little bit of tongue into his mouth. Edd's eyes widened and he blushed as Marie took full advantage of him not being able to escape. His legs kicked and his head boggled around but still Marie got what she wanted and gave him kisses and tongue like they were going out of style.

As Marie rose up and smile as Edd's lips were covered in her dark red lipstick, some of the other neighborhood kids began to notice the two of them. The first one to notice was Jimmy, who was exiting his house to meet up with Sarah. As soon as he turned to face the street, he noticed Marie on top of Edd. Jimmy let out a piercing childish scream as he ran with his arms and hands up in the air, back into his house, slamming the door and peering through the shades of the house to watch the horror occur even longer. The next Cul-de-sac kid to notice the two was Rolf, wom was more confused to why Edd was squirming and trying to get out of the hold from the blue haired girl. Half the time, Rolf believed that he was living in a stubborn place and nobody understood anything that he believed in. Rolf smiled and waved at the two, making Marie rise up in full position. "Ed boy! Congratulations!" Rolf exclaimed as he remembered when he was held down by a girl in his own past place of dwelling. Edd shook his head and grunted being able to free his hands from Marie's now loose grip. His hands slipped away from Marie's knees making her fall back with a shocked expression. The last neighborhood kid to notice the two was Kevin, who went to the end of the road to circle back on his bike. "Ha! Dork and Mrs. Dork!" Kevin shouted as Edd began to run. He looked back at Marie, who was still on the ground after Edd escaped so he tried to make his non-athletic body run faster than ever before. Marie got up from her position and smiled as she saw her 'boyfriend' run in terror, knowing that she would see him again sometime soon, she started toward the forest part of the area so that she may return to the Park N Flush.

Edd continued to run and could feel the now endless amounts of sweat, tears, and salvia exit his body and onto the ground behind him. He looked continually back at his yard to notice that there was no sign of Marie anywhere. He looked to the left to notice that there was no sign of the blue haired Kanker and neither to the right other than a light brown fence. 'Lost her.' Edd thought to himself as he wheezed in and out. His arms were tired of going back and forth from running, his breaths were increasing as his chest was about to collapse, and the feeling of the summer heat radiating itself onto Double-D's entire body was killing him. He looked back again to notice that he wasn't being followed so he took a turn to the left toward the fenced alley in the Cul-de-sac, which led to the junkyard site. 'If Marie went after me, then I bet Eddy and Ed would have gotten the same treatment.' Edd thought as he continued to tiredly run toward the site.

Edd was overly exhausted, sweat dripping endlessly with pit stains and back stains, and constant amounts of wheezing that seems very abnormal for someone his age. His legs practically gave out trying to jump over a half-buried tire in the dirt of the junkyard. The wind didn't get knocked out of him though, so he got back up and continued to barely even run toward the van in which he believed his two best friends would be in. The van was sanctuary from the Cul-de-sac drama half the time and most of the time it was a good hiding spot from their 'girlfriends'. So Edd opened the door of the passenger side of the van and crawled in the seat, slamming the door, and looking out the window for any sign of a blue haired Kanker sister. As he peered through the window, he noticed two other boys doing the same beside him with lipstick marks on their cheeks and lips, knowing they had been gotten too. "What you too!?" Eddy questioned Edd. "A ball of yard in the claws of rapture I'm afraid!" Edd smartly remarked. Ed looked out the windshield and didn't pay any attention to what was being said rather just looking or May, whom attacked him in his own kitchen eating Chunky Puff cereal. "What's with those stupid Kankers! Why can't they just leave us alone!?" Eddy shouted as he walked into the back of the van which had a water bed. He sat with his arms crossed while feeling the water wave back and forth, readjusting his body with him doing so. As Eddy sat in the back of the van, Edd slowly noticed a smell radiating from somewhere in the van. "Good golly ole mighty! What is the horrible odor!?" Edd exclaimed grabbing at his nose. Edd looked around and noticed Ed blindly sitting in the driver seat, looking out the windshield and then looking at Edd. "Ed!" Edd shouted at his dumbfounded friend. Ed let out a little chuckle and looked back at Eddy, who still had the same angry annoyed expression on his face. "Not I Double-D, talk to Mr. Stinkpot. Ed said pointing back to Eddy. Edd still held his nose shut from inhaling any of the foul stench up his nose when Eddy rose from the back of the van and opened his mouth. "Hey, I had a Kanker hairball stuck in my shower!" Eddy screamed at the doofus sitting in the driver seat. Edd leaned up against the door of the passenger seat and tried to talk some sense into the angered Eddy. "Calm down Eddy, I'm sure if we put our two and a half heads together, I'm sure we can think of some-." Edd tried to reason but was cut off by Eddy's loud mouth. "You think of something smart guy!" Eddy shouted. Edd shushed Eddy for a second and looked out the passenger window to make sure nobody heard them.

Edd crawled into the back of the van so that he could rest on the water bed to think of a solution to their Kanker problem, however, Eddy began to grow impatient after only a few seconds and watched over Edd laying down on the two red pillows for the water bed. Edd crossed his arms and buried his head into the pillows so that he could start processing information, however Eddy had enough of waiting, once again after a few seconds. "Think, think, think." Eddy started to repeat and nudged Ed to chime in. Unthoughtfully, Ed began to drum on the driver seat and shouted consecutively with Eddy. "THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK!" The two shouted at the sock head in the back. Edd put his hands up to his ears and tried to block his friends' voice's away from his train of thought but couldn't get their voice's out so he rose up from the water bed and lost his patience. "Very well then!" Edd shouted grabbing onto both the driver and passenger seat. Edd went back into the back of the van just as Eddy began to open his mouth to speak back to his smarter friend. "And it better be good." Eddy stated crossing his arms.

Double-D opened the doors to the back of the van and exited the vehicle to relieve himself to as his friends put it: think. Edd walked, patting his fingers together to progressively think about something that could work for the Kanker dilemma, not realizing that he walks away from the junkyard, also away from his friends. Eddy poked his head out of the van and saw that his friend was walking away, still with his fingers patting together. "Where you going!?" Eddy shouted. Ed noticed that Eddy flew out the back of the van going after his friend, so he went through the van and fell out the back face first to the ground. He rose up from the ground and watched Eddy run after Edd, who had stopped at a random rock at the junkyard. Eddy shouted at him, words that Ed couldn't hear from a distance or in general and looked around, noticing that something felt odd. The wind either caught him off guard or the smell other than himself. His eyes glared around till he noticed that something had moved from the front of the van to the side. Ed squinted, looking back at Eddy shouting at Double-D, who was studying now a smaller looking rock. Ed gulped and put on a 'the big brother' face, walking over to the side of the van. To his surprise, it was his blonde Kanker girl, who was watching his every move.

Ed stood still, didn't move a muscle, and watched as May Kanker, the girl who had obsessed over him for a little over four years squatted on the ground and rose up, smiling with her two front teeth sticking out. To Ed's surprise, she wasn't wearing any lipstick and was wearing a silver beret with a pink rose on it. "Hiya Ed." She blushed almost running toward the big doofus.

Eddy's patience began to wear out as he watched his smart friend look at small pebbles, compared to the bigger pebble. "Looks to have been broken by hand, who would be doing this kind of work? To break a bigger rock for no intended purpose other than to make it nothing." Edd admired as Eddy sighed. "I thought we were going to fix the KANKER problem rather the ROCK problem!" Eddy shouted feeling the three hairs on the back of his head stand up. "I'm working on it Eddy." Edd declared as he looked at the smaller rocks. "Where's Ed at? We need to see if Rolf is around." Edd ordered. "Rolf? Why does he matter, that blue haired-?" Eddy began but Edd's hand interrupted him from saying anything further. "Don't mention that hue of hair and Rolf is the only one in the Cul-de-sac who would do anything as this for a specific purpose." Edd explained. Eddy frowned and looked around, realizing that Ed wasn't anywhere to be seen.

May pushed Ed up against the purple and regular flamed patterned van, grinning at the teen. "You think you can just escape from me mister Ed." May said almost letting out an impeccable laugh. She began to quietly laugh, as she knew Ed's friends would surely hear her as she began to coat her laugher with a kiss on Ed's lips. Ed's hands pressed up against the van, not expecting her to kiss him so quickly. May pressed her tongue into his mouth as Ed began to slowly raise his hands to May's hips. Ed grabbed onto her backside and pulled her further for a longer more closer kiss. May released, drawing a bit of breath before wanting another kiss, this time just pecking. "You've gotten better big Ed." She said blushing. Ed only let out a subtle laugh as May put her lips up against the gentle giant once more, till Ed's name was begun to get called from Eddy, the loud mouth Ed. "Shoot!" May said as she released her lips from Ed. "Gotta go!" May continued. Ed held onto May's hand though before she could run off to only be pulled back from the sly 14 year old doofus. She was wrapped into his green overcoat and the smell delightfully encouraged May to want to dig herself into his embrace more. "You're giving me a rash big Ed." May blushed as Ed put his cheek up against her top of the head. "ED! Where are you?!" Eddy shouted drawing closer to the van.

May released herself from Ed's strong grasp and ran past the van, noticing that both Edd and Eddy were walking up to the opposite way from where Ed was staring off at her. He waved at her as she ran off and laughed as she did. "I'm in love with a big doofus." She said to herself continuing to run faster back toward the Park N Flush.

AUTHOR'S NOTE – Notice a twist? Well let's put it like this: they're made for each other. I thought it would be nice to have a secret Ed and Kanker relationship intertwined in this fanfic. This will be further delved into the next chapter. I hope you all liked this as I am liking it right now. I'm watching the episode in another window as I'm doing the writing for this to make it as accurate as possible to the original episode. For all of you who have read my Adventure Time fanfics and would like A Second Encounter to be continued: Private Message me, Review it, or Review this fanfiction and tell me to do so. It's a series I would like to finish but I want to make sure all of the people who have read it would also like it to continue. As for this fanfiction, like, review, and follow for more continuous updates :D.