Disclaimer: I don't own Ed, Edd, n' Eddy.

Author's notes: This takes place years later when the Ed boys are teenagers and in high school. What will be in this story are some ideas about the life style of the characters, mainly one in particular. Please read and review. I need your words for support to help me continue this.

Warning: This story may contain harsh violence, blood, weirdness, adult situations, abuse, horrible images, and even slash. Please be open-minded. If you don't like any of this. I refer you not to read this. Thank you. Consider this, the rating, and the genre.

Genre: Suspense/drama/romance/horror/comedy

Notes: Italic-ized words mean that a character either said it in the past or are thinking it at that current moment. It serves as subtexted, in a way, yet also can be someone thinking, too.

Nailed

By TABIL

A warm day, clear and calm blue ocean above, the bright yellow star's rays shining brightly through every bit of chemistry that formed it. In fact, everything was made out of some form of chemistry. Even the wind is made from something, something called the solar cycle, in which is created by it and through the uneven cooling and heating of the earth's surface, and the solar cycle is created by the very sun itself that earth revolves around.

A lover of knowledge and especially that of the sciences, Double D marveled at this.

He had been reading an intriguing book called "Friends: Earth and The Sun", although the title might seem a bit cheesy, over all it still was a good book and he had finished reading all of the two-hundred-eighty-two pages of that book just last night, the very afternoon his parents took him to the book store and bought it and many other books for him. Plus, he needed something to do last night since Ed was dragged home early by Sarah and while Eddy, afterward, decided to head home and off to bed. And being a speed reader, it didn't take long for Double D to read all of the book contents right just before time for bed. Double D always had a curfew, not set by his parents mind you, but by himself so he could achieve all of the eight hour sleep required for the human body and get up bright and early as the sun began to kiss the morning sky.

That morning, after eating a well balanced breakfast of whole wheat toast, eggs, along with juice, he took a shower, got dressed in his daily gear, kissed both his father and mother on the cheek before leaving the house, and then merrily set off to Eddy's place.

After striding over there, he knocked on Eddy's door with much enthusiasm, wondering what activities they'll be involved in today, or should he say "scams"? Not that he liked scams, it just provided him a chance to use his intellect more often than he would if he just used it in school.

Much hasn't changed since he first met Ed and Eddy almost thirteen years back, he knew them since he was four, Eddy being three at the time, and Ed being almost the same age as Eddy, pretty much you can say things are the same. Well, with Eddy anyway. He still was the money hogging piggy bank he'd ever been, wears almost the same style of clothing, only more preppy, his hair done the same, brushed back and sticking up as usual, and still as arrogant as ever as well as quick-tempered. Yes, nothing has changed about Eddy, still bossy as ever, too. Bossy, bossy, bossy.

And nothing had changed much about Double D either. He still wore his geeky, yet sort of ghetto attire, as in the word "ghetto" it means he still wears his trademark beanie hats. He has been known to wear hoodies as well, of course, still never taking his hat off any given moment except when it comes to acts of cleanliness of one's self, but even then he usually has a shower cap resembling one. He also has been known to wear jogging suits. Sometimes he'll just wear his exercise pants with other clothes, even though he was never the sporty type, he just liked wearing them because of how comfortable they are and he mainly wore all of those on cool days and mornings, which he had ran out of by now. Now, he's wearing his normal jeans, the expensive brand named ones that his parents happily bought for him not too long ago as well as name branded shirts. Over all, he'd sometimes looked ghetto, other times he looked like a groupie, sometimes both in the mix, only wearing his geeky clothing to some places that were important, like school. Not much of Double D's personality had changed either, still the suave, charismatic, intelligent and witty person he'd ever been.

Eddy had let him in after waiting for what seemed at least five long boring minutes in the outside heat. Eddy and his slow mornings, tsk. Eddy never was a morning person, in fact, he always despised mornings, but Eddy told Double D to come early, so he did, no matter how much the sixteen year old groaned about it. Not his fault Eddy didn't like getting up in the mornings, nor was it his fault that Eddy had trouble keeping up with schedules.

Speaking of that...

Double D had hoped Eddy had woke up earlier and had gone to retrieve Ed before he came so they could already begin, but unfortunately for him, that became unlikely. One of them had to fetch their slow, weird-minded friend.

Nowadays, as years have past, Ed had grown away from them, or was it them away from him? Double D did not know. Perhaps, it's because Eddy and Double D always made constant contact with each other, not only because of friendship, but also because of the scams and other plans they had, while Ed eventually attended extra curricular activities, which none of them knew of at all. In fact, Ed had always been a question mark to them, they could never nail him as anything but different, far much different than even Johnny was when he was a little boy, even he grew out of having a imaginary friend when he obtained real friends when he had entered high school.

Ed was just...strange. In fact, he seemed very much insane to a lot of their fellow peers. But that's all they knew about him now, that and the fact that he still resides in the basement of his parent's house.

Ed also had changed his clothes, not wearing much color as he use to, now he wore lots of black, a striped black and white shirt, black wide-legged baggy pants with millions of pockets with many unknown appendages hanging from them, a black spiky belt with a skulls buckle in front that you rarely see as well as matching dog collars around his neck and arm bands around his arms, black huge high-heel boots that go all the way up to his knees, buckles aligned down and across them, to top it all off, he wore a matching trench coat that seemed to match everything. Even his physical appearance had change, he finally did grow a chin, not much of one, but it still was there no matter how much Eddy teased him about it. He now wore make-up, usually black eye shadow, black lipstick, and sometimes face pant. He also had many eyebrow piercings, ear piercings, nose, tongue, and lip. He also painted his fingernails, mostly black all of the time, but sometimes gets crazy with it by adding color and making an art out of it by creating images, which also goes for his hair, which he had dyed jet black and he would sometimes add washable color to the ends, his hair now long and spiked up in a crazy fashion. Surprisingly, he also had shaved his uni-brow off completely.

Ed had changed somewhat, yes, but somewhat freakier than they ever thought in their wildest dreams he would ever attended to. Of course, he was strange from the beginning, very strange, but now he also seemed somewhat dark and his love for scary movies and gore sky rocketed. Also, he rarely made much of any conversation with anyone unless they spoke to him first, and even then, his mind would seem like it had wondered off...someplace else. Wherever it was, it wasn't part of this world and to be honest Ed sometimes quite scared the mud out of his long childhood bosom buddies, let alone everyone else around the cul-de-sac. Double D assured Eddy and himself that Ed was merely going through a phase, like all people do, but Ed had turned this way five years ago. So in truth, that was very unlikely. Neither Eddy or Double D knew who their friend was anymore, but it's not like they really knew him much from the beginning, unknowingly to them, they thought they had nailed him down, front, left, right, back, and center. But fate surely can't prove them wrong, could it?

So back on topic, one of them had go get their twisted amazingly tall and dark friend, he's the nail that helps it stick all together. Without him, neither Eddy and most definitely Double D couldn't and certainly wouldn't pull this off. Ed's the brawn of the outfit, let alone the pet chimp of the gang. Amazingly strong since Ed really didn't have that much muscle at all and that was always amazed and even terrified some people. How can someone so scrawny lift up such heavy loads, and what more, have the force to push, carry, and throw it just about anywhere he wanted it to go? Surely there's no such thing as supernatural force. Though it always came up in Double D's mind, he never bothered to ask his long, pale thin faced friend. He didn't have to worry about steroids because if Ed was taking those, he'd be big in size! Maybe it's just one of his many talents, like he has in art...like his..morbid drawings, paintings, and sculptures..

"You go." Eddy said plainly as he slowly downed his morning chunky puffs. Tsk. Double D had gotten onto him about eating sugar-coated cereals.

"W-w-what? M-m-meeeee?" Double D asked, surprised that Eddy would want to send him since it was always Eddy that always got the big guy.

"Yeah, you heard me." Eddy affirmed irritably.

Double D stared at him for a moment, then protested. "B-b-but Eddy! I-I c-can't go there! You know very well, I can't stand going there because of Sarah and her incessant stocking!"

Eddy snorted, a brow lifted up at his friend, "So..?"

Overwhelmed by emotions of the moment, filled with adrenalin, Doubled D burst out like an over filled water balloon, his arm movements wild. "It's about to drive me NUTS, Eddy! NUTS! I can't comprehend why she still likes me after all of these years! After all the many times I tried to set her straight that I DON'T LIKE HER!" He began to hyperventilate, surely Eddy wouldn't send him now...

"So?" He was proved wrong.

"SO!" Double D yelled in confusion. My God, this is absurd, Eddy!

Eddy answered. "I go there almost every day to retrieve the lump."

Double D whined, but then stopped when he saw how twitchy his friend's face was with aggravation, a scowl formed on his lips seconds later. Double D gulped, he didn't like making Eddy mad or seeing him mad for that matter.

Eddy slammed his spoon down on the table, sighing as he squeezed his eyes shut and then reopened them again to look at his smarter peer. "Listen to this, Brainiac." He began under his voice. "I go there every time we have something to do. YOU do it this time. I'm tired of always retrieving Mister Spooky. I constantly not only deal with that and him, but also with his bitchy sister." He took in a deep breath and continued. "Now, you know how much I despise her. How much she despises me. We don't get along, and that's not even the words for it. I don't feel like being punch, hit, or have my hair or any of my limbs pulled on today. And you say you hate going there." He snorted with bitterness. He really hated that girl.

Double D then took in a exaggerated breath and let out a long sigh. He really didn't want to go, but seeing it from Eddy's point of view, it really wasn't fair. Plus, it had been some odd years since he entered and been in Ed's house. And surely, perhaps, maybe Sarah had changed over night... Hey, you can't blame a guy for trying. But one thing's for sure, at least Sarah won't hit him or hurt him in any way, at least he hoped. And maybe if he was lucky, she might not even be there. Ahh, atta boy old chap, that's the way to think. But as hard as he tried to be optimistic about the situation, Double D pushed himself up and said depressingly, "Alright. I'll go."

Eddy smirked, pleased that Double D was going besides him for a change. "Good. And while you are at it, hurry it up! We've got to get done in the next hour or so before everyone notices and ruins my day!"

To be continued

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