"Edd... Wake up sweet heart." Spoke the sweet voice of Edds mother.
he simply moaned in responce and rolled over, he was never the kind of kid wanting to get up early, expecially today because today was the day that school started for him.
"five more minutes..." He whined making his mother chuckle "Ill make you pancakes for breakfast~" she said in a sing song voice. She always used pancakes as a trap to get Edd out of bed or to make him happy if he was upset over something.
Edds eyes suddenly opened wide and he jumped up in his bed smiling up at his mum "Pancakes?" He beamed and his mother nodded and Edd bolted out of his bed and to the kitchen. By the time his mother got there he was already sitting at the table waiting making her sigh happily and started to make Edd breakfast.
Once Edd finished his meal his mother told him to go brush his teeth and get dressed. Edd did his teeth first since he had learned from past accasions that toothpaste doesnt come out of shirts that easily. His variety in clothes was very limited, he dressed himself in the usually dark green long sleeve shirt and light green t-shirt over it and just any pants that he saw first in his cuboard, this was what he dressed in every day.
"Edd! Time to go hunny!" His mother called out and Edd ran to the frount room seeing his mother waiting with a green backpack in her arms.
"This has your lunch and pencil case and a few books in it for class." She said handing it to Edd
"Is my drawing book in there?" He asks quickly about to open the bag and check but him mother stops him with a reasuring smile "Yes sweetie its in there."
Edd smiled in relief. His mother stared down at him almost on the edge of tears. Edd notices and looses the smile and his expression changes to a serious frown "Whats wrong, mummy?"
She laughs quietly "I just cant believe how fast your growning up." She bends down and kisses him on the forehead making him giggle.
"Ill get a photo to send to daddy since hes not here, smile!" She pulls out her phone and takes a picture of Edd, sending it to his father.
"Why does he have to work?" Edd said sadly.
"Hes doing it for us Eddie, not for himself. Hes the one who is getting money for us to live in this house!" She smiled placing her hands on his shoulders making him smile lightly.
"Come on, you will be late to school." She stands back up and takes Edds hand walking out to the car.
*timeskip to the school*
Edd had said his farewell to his mother who had almost cried sending him inside but Edd wasnt sad, upset or afraid. 'how hard could school be?' He thought to himself as he looked around his surroundings.
There was a load of kids his age and maybe a few years older running around the building and the playground. He attempted to talk to some but they didnt really seem to notice him. He shrugged it off and gave up and ended up sitting down, leaning agenst a big tree and got his art book and pencils out and started to doodle away. Little did he know there was a small boy behind the tree nervously looking over Edds shoulder and down at his drawings.
After a few minutes the boy had gained enough courage to actually speak "I-I like your drawings." He said softly.
Edd looked up seeing a boy, about his age who was a tiny bit shorter than he was but the size of his spiky hair made him look taller than he really was. He had no eyes which made Edd curious but he didnt ask about them thinking he may take it rudly, he was wearing overalls and a yellow shirt underneath. He was half hiding behind the otherside of the tree and half standing out for Edd to see him and was hugging a little teddy bear.
Edd blushed from embarrassment but it slowly went away "Thanks." He said shyly "Im Edd." He introduced himself to the other.
"M-My names Thomas, but you can just call me Tom." Stuttered out nervously seeming just as shy as Edd.
"Wanna be friends?" Edd said suddenly, taking Tom back a big'Maybe taking tips from mum wasent my best idea' Edd thought but to his suprised Tom giggled happily and responded with an excited "Okay!"
Edd sighed in relief and put his book and pencils away and moved over, patting the ground beside him encouraging Tom to sit down beside him.
"Do you recognise anyone from your pre-school?" Edd asks with Tom nodding
"Yeah, most of the kids here were from my pre-school."
"Same, I never made any close friends in pre-school either... Hey... Whos that kid?" Edd pointed to a kid looking Toms hight backing away from everyone, hiding the corner of the school yard.
Tom shrugged "I Dunno, iv never seen him before, I thought you would have known him."
Edd turned to Tom and Tom looked at Edd
"He looks lonely. Should we go see if he wants to hang out?"
Tom shrugged and they both got up and made their way over but before they could do anything a slightly taller, ginger jumped up out of no were and facing the shorter, shyer boy.
"HI! IM MATT!" He says excitedly making the other boy scared "WHATS YOUR NAME!?"
The other child gulped sweating slightly "T-T-Tord." He sputtered and the ginger slowly looses his smile "Are you okay? You seem really sad, thats why I came over to see if you were okay." Matt seemed to calm down quickly and practically change his whole attitude as fast as lightning. Tord nodded again.
"Dont lie, whats the Matter... Hehe Matt-er" he says quietly with a small giggle.
"I-I dont understand much English. I moved here from Norway-home, a-an mm scared." Tords voice grows softer as he continues small tears visable in his eyes talking about Norway.
Matt notices this and gave Tord a much needed hug. Tord jumped at the sudden hug but hugged back a small tear rolling down his cheek. Matt pulled away and wiped the boys tear away "Better?" He asks his head tilting slightly with a tiny smile on his face.
Tord sniffled and nodded "T-takke you."
Edd tapped Matt on the shoulder and the boy jumped up happily "Edd!" He cheered
Edd giggled "Hey Matt!" He said happily with Tom hiding behind him as he talked to Matt.
Tord did the same but was hiding behind Matt.
Tom and Tord were exchancing glances
"I didnt know you were going to this school!"
"Matt, I told you that I was going to this school everytime you asked me"
"Oh, now I remember!" Matt pulled a goofy smile.
Edd chuckled and pulled Tom out from behind him "This is Tom!" He said introducing Tom to Matt for him.
"Hello." Tom looks up at the ginger and gave him a small wave.
"Hello Tom!" He smiled reaching his hand out for Tom to shake and Tom smiled, shifting his bear to the other hand and returned the hand shake. Matt wiped his hands after and pulled out Tord
"This is Tord! Hes from North yay!"
"Norwa-"
"Hes from Norway!" Matt cut Tord off making him growl quietly
"Ooh! Thats why I havent seen you around!" Edd smiled "Did you just move here?"
Tord took a while to answer but he nodded his head after a bit, he was to focused on Toms strange eyes. They left him puzzled.
"He doesnt know english very well, you will have to excuse him." Matt chuckled.
The shorter child shot a glare at Matt but Matt doesnt seem to notice.
The bell suddenly rang making the four children jump. A woman came outside and started to call the children into the building
"Come on kids! Class time!" She smiled brightly. Edd looked at the others and they all started walking towards the enterance of the building.
"What do you think our teacher is like? Do you think shes mean?" Matt gasped "Do you think shes a witch?!" He whispers his last words carefully making Tom and Edd giggle "She wont be a witch Matt, dont be silly!"
"Im sure shes nice." Tom finished as they walked into the kindergarten room which had children their age running around happily playing with the toys that were scattered across the floor. The walls were painted baby blue and the room had a big chalk board at the frount of the class with the ABCs printed above it, and it also had some posters printed around the room, nothing too special about the room, it wasent too crowded, it was perfect.
"Okay children, take your seats." A woman said in a sweet voice. Edd assumed that she must be the teacher. She fixed up her sunglasses that were resting on her head and carefully directed students to the seats.
Edd sat down and Tom sat down next to Edds right and Matt on Edds left. Their was no more seats left in that isle so Tord had to sit behind them making him slightly annoyed that he was pushed out of the group.
The teacher wrote her name on the chalk board and introduced herself but Edd wasent paying much attention, he was too busy drawing in his art book. When the teacher started to announce what they were doing today, Tom nudged Edd to get his attention off of the book. Edd blushed with a tiny giggle, looking up at the teacher.
That day they had been resisting the alphabet and numbers up to 20 with a few colouring in sheets Tord looked confused most of the time but did his best to follow along. He was learning quickly which was a start. The teacher would acasionally come over to him and help him out which he appreciated.
Tom was listening but was also playing with his tomee bear on the tabel, the teacher didnt mind since she new in her years of teaching that sometimes just because they look like they arnt paying attention, they really are, and she was right, everytime she walked past Tom he was doing his work.
Matt didnt understand the work that was set and would constantly need help from the teacher.
Once the final bell rang, Edd said goodbye to his friends and got into his mothers car. "How was your first day, sweetheart? Did you make any new friends?"
Edd beamed sitting up in his seat. "Yeah! I met Tom, Tord and Matt! You know who Matt is but you havent met Tom or Tord before! Tom has spiky hair, likea pineapple! And-and he has a teddy bear that can fit in his pants pocket! Its at the front like a kangaroo! And Tord has this cool accent but its kinda weird because he sometimes says things we dont understand but he cant understand us most of the time coz he doesnt speak english well. And-"
"Whoa, whoa.." His mother chuckles "You dont have to tell me the WHOLE story silly." She smiles "Are they nice?" Edd giggled and nodded "Yeah! Their nice!"
"Well im glad you liked your first day of school, babe." She turns her attention back to the road and started to drive home.
"I cant wait till tomorrow!"
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