It was a slightly overcast day, the result of a day of rain in the quiet suburbia. The recess bell rang, and the once virtually empty hallways of Peach Creek Elementary are now swarmed with students running to the open space of playtime freedom. It was a slightly overcast day, the result of a day of rain from yesterday.

Among this sea of children was a little redhead first grader in a red baseball cap. The little boy raced to the ball rack to get to his favourite kickball. But suddenly, he tripped on a jumprope that was entangled on the floor. He landed torso first, lucky that his arms broke the fall protecting his face.

"Ugh. Stupid girls." Kevin muttered, and felt a pain on his elbows.

"Need a hand there fellow?" He heard in front of him.

Kevin looked up. His eyes met the blue eyes of a little boy in a...black sock? Kevin reached his arm out and the boy helped him up.

"Thanks." Kevin said. "...Who are you?"

"Oh! I apologize for not introducing myself! My name is Eddward, and It's my first week here." The sock headed boy replied.

Kevin looked at the boy quizzically "I'm Kevin...How come I've never seen you around if you've been here for a week?"

"I believe we aren't in the same class, I presume." Edd replied.

"...Why are you wearing a black sock?" Kevin questioned, staring at the hat.

"Oh! This is a beanie, It's my favourite thing to wear, and I don't feel comfortable if I'm not wearing it." Edd replied.

"Choice. It's like me, but with this red hat my dad gave me!" Kevin said with a grin, pointing at his hat.

"Hey Double Dee! We need to get scam set!" They both turned around to see two boys. Kevin's expression turned extremely annoyed. How he disliked those dorks wit a burning passion, scamming kids out of their lunch money.

"C-coming, Eddy!" Edd replied, and started heading his way. Kevin stood there, watching the sock head go over to the group of nuisances.

'Great, he's with those dorks? What a loser, I thought he was cool too.' Kevin thought. He saw his group of friends gathering at the Kickball field, and Kevin realized they were waiting for them. He raced over there as fast as he could.


The lunch bell rang, and all the kids started to empty out the recess field and went to their classrooms to get their lunch boxes. Kevin picked up his shiny metal lunch box from the lunch bucket. His mom made him his favourite, peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Kevin walked there with two of his friends, but needed to tie his shoe really quick, so he told them to go ahead and he'll catch up.

Kevin put his lunch box down and tried to figure out which loop he had to go over on his shoe until he heard footsteps behind him. Right when he turned around, he was attacked by Ed and Eddy, who tripped over Kevin and kicked his lunch box away.

"HEY! What was that for?!" Kevin yelled at the two dorks. He could feel himself getting more and more red from anger. The two boys looked at Kevin, scared out of their wits, but regained control of their bodies to run away from him before he could throw a punch.

Kevin looked for his lunch box, and saw that it has been kicked open into a puddle, the water seeped through the napkin cover; his sandwich no longer edible. Kevin slumped over, "Those dorks" He hissed.

Suddenly, he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and saw the sock head boy from earlier, with half a sandwich in his hand.

"I'm terribly sorry about that, Kevin. You can have a part of my sandwich if you'd like!" Edd handed Kevin his half. "Now I have to find those two before they start causing more ruckus. I bid you adieu!" Edd ran to where the dorks headed and turned the corner.

Kevin watched him once more walked away, then looked down at the half sandwich. Peanut butter and jelly. Kevin took a bite, it tasted so good. He couldn't help but smile.

'Poor kid. Nice guy with bad taste in friends.' Kevin thought to himself. He stood up, took his lunch box and shook it from the water puddle, and headed to the cafeteria.