A/N: Hey guys! Thanks for reading the first installment and thanks for coming back for Part 2! We hope you continue to enjoy The Beginning of Forever and The Continuation of Forever!
~One year later~
"Kevin, have you seen my hat?" Edd asks worriedly, throwing the contents of a drawer on to the floor.
"Probably under your shirt from last night" Kevin answers dismissively from across Edd's bedroom.
Edd runs over to the pile of clothes on his floor and shakes them out. His hat and Kevin's boxers both fall out and land in a little heap. "Oh god! Kevin, I can't go to school! Not like this! My hat is going to smell like your... I'm going to miss the big test!" he whines sadly.
"Babe, I got you three for Christmas. Use your Invader Zim one" Kevin offered.
"No! I want my regular one!" Edd pouts like the two year old he truly is.
"Well, guess I can give it to you early..." Kevin got up and pulled out a slim box from his drawer, brightly wrapped. "Happy anniversary, baby!"
Edd takes the box and carefully unwraps it. "Another hat?!" he asks excitedly.
"An exact copy of the one you love so much. I finally found one!"
Edd beams brightly and jumps into his boyfriend's arms. "Thank you, Kevin! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
"You're welcome. I'm glad I was able to find it for you" Kevin lifted Edd by his thighs, letting them wrap gently around his waist.
Their lips crash together as Edd pulls Kevin into a thankful kiss. "I love you!" he grins happily.
"I love you, too" Kevin kisses him sweetly once more before letting his legs go and land on the floor gently. "Come on, time for school." Kevin grabbed both of their bags and headed downstairs, Zoie and Shira following close behind.
Edd happily follows Kevin down the stairs. "Good morning mother!" he grins as they rush past Miriam. "Good morning boys! Have a good day at school!" she calls after them. Edd quickly dons his hat before putting his personal helmet on and taking a seat behind Kevin on his bike. "Lets go!" he giggles.
Kevin just grins and takes off, enjoying his boyfriend's good mood and taking full advantage. About halfway there, Kevin stopped at a light before movement caught his eye. Eddy and Ed were walking straight towards them. Kevin was happy that Edd was facing the other way and before Edd could notice them, Kevin turned off and sped away. Edd and Eddy had not talked since their confrontation at the mall all those months back and every time anyone mentioned Eddy, Edd would get quiet and sad. Edd was in a fantastic mood today and Kevin was not about to let that little shit ruin it.
They arrive to school and Edd hops off the motorcycle, happy to death of the way the day has been unfolding so far. "Kevin, I can't believe it's been a whole year already!" he grins.
"A year ago today is when I asked you to help me with my studies... we still got about a week before our actual anniversary" Kevin grinned and grabbed Edd's hand as they walked to class. "And now I have to get you another present because of someone..." he playfully nudging the smaller teen.
Edd gives his signature giggle as he clings onto Kevin's arm and nuzzles his cheek against the large bicep. "Who?" he asks innocently.
Before Kevin can answer Edd's obvious question, Nat appears out of nowhere and tackles the two from behind. "Hello my Captain, Double Delish. What are you two love birds doing strolling through the hall like this?"
"Salutations Nathan. We're just spending time together until first period begins. Isn't that right Kevin?" Edd says.
"Yup... I don't see him until lunch after all. What's up, Nat?"
"I heard something about the both of you..." Nat smirks lewdly.
"From who?" Kevin asked skeptically.
"Peeeeeoooppplllleeeee..." Nat grins.
"Nathan... I really don't care..." Kevin sighs, starting to pull Edd away.
"But they say that you two are planning on doing the horizontal tango after school today~" he giggles as he wiggles his eyebrows.
"W-what?! Wh-who said that?!" Edd blushes.
'''Twas I, dearest delicious D. 'Twas. I." Nat says boldly.
Kevin reaches over and cuffs Nat in the temple "Shut up before I leave you bleeding in the hallway!"
"Why must you bother people this early in the morning, Nathan?" Rave asked behind Edd, holding a large coffee.
"Kevin! Don't hurt him!" Edd exclaims.
"Owwww! What was that for?! You're both are mean!"
"I shouldn't have let you anywhere the general public today" Rave says casually as he sips his coffee and a roll of his eyes.
"Look, what D and I do has nothing to do with you or anyone else. You know we had a rough start but we're going at our own pace. Butt out, Nat, and if you hear anyone saying shit, shut it down" Kevin wrapped an arm around Edd's waist and pulled him close.
"Kevin, calm down, he was only joking" Edd says quickly trying to diffuse the situation.
"I got it! I got it! Sheesh!" Nat grabs rave by the hand and pulls him close.
"Ugh! Let go of me Goldberg!"
"What say the both of you join us for a double date?" Nat grins.
"That sounds nice" Edd says with an adorable smile.
"Text me about it. Time for class! I'm gonna walk Edd to class before my own. And I'm not going to be late because of you, Nat" Kevin sassed while pulling Edd away towards his first class.
"I'll see you both later!" Edd calls as he scurries behind Kevin. "I'm sorry Kevin, I kind of agreed on going on that date without consulting you first. Did you want to spend our night with them?"
"Yeah, I have you to myself all the time, it's okay. As long as our anniversary is just us, I don't care otherwise" Kevin whirls Edd around and kisses him quickly on my lips before he could protest. "See you at your locker after class!" and takes off down the hall.
Edd sighs as he watches Kevin run off. A large smile spreads across his face as he takes his seat in his desk. "I love you, behave today" he texts his boyfriend.
Kevin's phone vibrates in his pocket as he sits in his desk. He pulls it out and smiles, texting back a response before putting it on his desk with his notebook and book. To his right was a fellow football teammate while to his left was Eddy. Ignoring the shortest Ed promptly, he turns and starts to talk to his friend about getting reservations at Edd's favorite Italian restaurant. "Yeah, man. Just let me know the date and time and I can get ya in. Your anniversary is coming up right?"
"Yeah, almost been one whole year. Kind of hard to believe at times" Kevin mused.
"Well, I'm glad for ya! He makes the best snacks for after practice!" on and on until class started. It took all of Kevin's will power to keep a straight face with Eddy glaring at him.
"Fucking faggots" Eddy says loud enough for Kevin to hear just as the teacher begins the lesson.
Kevin stiffens but refuses to let him ruin his grade. How bad will it look if the school's resident genius' boyfriend failed a general math class? So, Kevin ignored him but made a mental note to "speak" to Eddy about it after class briefly.
Class finally ends after an excruciating forty-five minutes and Eddy slowly begins to pack his things. "Disgusting…" he mutters as he catches a glimpse of Kevin out of his eye.
"You got any other slurs you wanna throw my way before I beat the shit out of you?" Kevin snaps.
"I can think of a few hundred more, cocksucker!" Eddy snaps back.
"You should watch you tongue, Sampson!" Kevin's teammate interjects.
"Ya know, out of respect for Double D, I'm going to walk away but I'm warning you, you so much as stress him out and I'll leave you bloody. Now, move!" Kevin shoved Eddy to the side and he walked by, high fives his teammate as they walked out.
Edd waits by the lockers for his boyfriend. Once he has the ginger in sight, he brightens up and scurries over to him. "I love you more!" he giggles before placing a kiss on his cheeks as Kevin wraps his arms around him. "How was first period?"
"Eh, Mr. Anderson is boring but I wrote down everything. Hopefully I won't need your help as much this year" Kevin shrugged.
"Aw, I was looking forward to tutoring you" Edd says with a mock pout. "It's not often someone like me gets the privilege to spend time with someone like you."
"I would much rather spend our time doing 'other' things" Kevin smirked. Leaning down and kissing his neck, he whispered "... and so do you..."
"Next period is my free period..." Edd whispers back with a lewd grin.
"Oh really now? Is Eddward Vincent suggesting that I miss P.E. to have a steamy makeout session in the library again?"
"I would -never- suggest such a thing!" Edd says, playfully offended. "But I wouldn't turn down such an offer from the sexiest boy in school."
Kevin smirked and pulled Edd towards the stairs to go down to the library. "Well, we could always go into the bathroom..."
Edd's smile grows as he dashes ahead of Kevin. "Hurry up!" he says over his shoulder. Kevin follows Edd into the mostly abandoned boy's bathroom. It was on the far end of the school so no one really used it unless they wanted to be tardy to class. Kevin quickly shut and locked the door before grabbing for Edd and catching his lips with his.
Edd moans softly and closes his eyes. Once they break apart, he peeks through lidded eyes and grins. "I've waited all day for that…" he whispers.
Kevin grins and lifts Edd up on the sink before settling between his legs and leaning in for another kiss. His hands roamed over Edd's thighs, curving around before coming to rest on his adorable ass. A moan escaped Kevin's thrust as his tongue fought a battle of dominance with Edd's. Edd fights back and tries his best to win the battle but loses. He concedes defeat with a heated moan and wraps his arms around Kevin's strong neck…
"I'm telling ya, Ed, he's got Double D completely brainwashed! Don't you miss hanging out with him? And doing our scams? If we get that ShovelChin out of the way, we can all go back to how it used to be!" Eddy growls.
"But Eddy, Double D said that we can still hang out with him. We just can't talk bad about Kevin" Ed retorts scratching the back of his neck. "Double D really loves him and we should try to get along with him!" he concludes happily.
"Edd's just confused! We don't need to hang out with him while he's still gay. What if he tries to touch us? Do you want that Ed? We need to get him to come back on our side, then we can hang out with him again" Eddy says as he taps his pencil against a desk in irritation.
"I thought you didn't care if he was gay or not, Eddy?"
"I don't. But you see he won't even talk to us when that asshole's around. Don't you want to be friends with him again?"
"He talks to me, Eddy... maybe if you tried to get along with Kevin you would see that" Ed quickly turned away and refused to pay attention to the shortest Ed. Eddy grumbles under his breath then turns his attention to his phone.
"We should get going Kevin, the period is almost over..." Edd says with a satisfied grin as he pulls away from his boyfriend and straightens his shirt.
Kevin groans but agrees and sets to make himself look like him and his boyfriend didn't just make out in the bathroom for an hour. Once they were put together, they exited the bathroom, hand in hand, Kevin walking Edd to his third class of the day.
Jonathan was leaning against the lockers talking with some members of the basketball team when he spies Kevin and Edd walking down the hallway. He scoffs "That's disgusting..."
"Tch, you're telling me" Jameson says, suddenly appearing next to him as they watch Edd and Kevin reach Edd's next class and release each other's hands. "See you for lunch?" Edd grins.
"Yup, I'll meet you in the court yard. Gotta talk to my teacher after class for a minute" Kevin leaned down and kissed him before taking off down the hall towards his class.
An hour later, the bell rings and Edd jumps up and hurriedly walks to the courtyard to set up their lunch. In an abandoned hallway, three figures were striking a deal. "I don't see why you even want to be friends with him" Jameson sighed.
"Yeah, once a faggot, always a faggot." Jonathon growled out.
"I'm telling ya, he's not really gay. ShovelChin just has him brainwashed. That's why I need your guys' help to fix it."
"So, do you want us to take care of the jock or the nerd? It will cost you for Kevin since it will take more to take him down but we can do it. We can also do both but the price would go up from our original number" Jameson professionally negotiated. They could take any kid in school down, after all, they had some of the strongest kids in their pockets.
"Both. Get Double D first since he'll be easier. Don't kill him, just rough him up and knock the gay out of him. I really don't give a fuck what you do to the asshole. How much is it gonna cost me?"
"$2000 for both" Jameson took a drag from his cigarette and blew the smoke out. "$1500 for Kevin and $500 for Eddward. We will only go after them after you give us the money. Whoever you want first, pay them off first."
"Alright. I can pay Double D off first. But I want you two to wait until I can get Jockstrap too. The second D is down, he'll be after everyone in the city."
"Kevin would level all of Peach Creek, we should take him out first..." Jonathan suggested.
"Fine. Do what you have to do. I just expect for them both to be taken care of" Eddy shrugs.
"Don't worry, all will be taken care of. Just after you pay up in full. Bail money is hard to come by if we get caught" Jameson sighed with a smirk. Jonathan looks to some of his friends and cracks his knuckles. "Soon we'll all get a piece of the redhead and his bitch..."
Meanwhile, Kevin jogs to the court yard where he knows his boyfriend is waiting patiently. He smiles when he sees the back of a black beanie. Sneaking up behind Edd, Kevin wraps him in a hug and kisses his sweet spot behind his ear. "Hey babe..."
Edd gasps then gives a relaxed giggle. "Well hello, my love! I was starting to think you'd forgotten about me!" He turns around and kisses his lips before handing him a small sampling of food. "Taste" he instructs.
Kevin quickly opened his mouth and tasted small sample and moaned. "Oh how you spoil me. I'm so glad I get to eat like this all the time" Kevin mused before pulling Edd to sit next to him on the bench.
"I'm glad I get to cook for you like this!" Edd grins. "You know, you're the only one I'd ever do this for" he whispers lovingly.
"You better be... I'd hate to have murder on my record at 17!"
Edd giggles and kisses Kevin. "You wouldn't do all that just for little old me, right?"
"You know I would, I would do anything for you. I already have!" Kevin snickered before shoving more food in his mouth.
They finish lunch and make it through the rest of the day with no incidents. Eventually, it comes time for them to get ready for their double date. "Kevin, where exactly are we going?" Edd asks curiously.
"Some new steakhouse that Nat's been squeaking about for the last 4 months. I just want a New York Strip..." he called from across the hall in the bathroom.
"So, it's not anything fancy?" Edd asks as he gently fingers his new hat. "You know how Rave is. I don't want to go and be underdressed."
"Just a nice shirt and some jeans should do it" Kevin answered as he entered the bedroom with just his jeans on, grabbing his shirt off the bed.
Edd quietly admires Kevin's physique before putting his own finishing touches on his own outfit. "Okay, I'm ready! Do you want me to wait for you downstairs?"
"Nah, I'm ready. Let's go, I'm starving!" Kevin grabbed Edd's hand and lead him down stairs only to be greeted with Michael fuming and pacing back and forth telling Miriam that if that "little shit comes anywhere near his family, he was going to bring his gun out!"
"What's going on?" Kevin asked, seeing all the parents in the kitchen.
"Apparently, someone egged the house and put some poisoned treats in the back yard for the dogs. They didn't get them, they're fine!" Thomas quickly explained, seeing the look of shock and terror cross the boy's faces.
"W-what?! When did this happen? We've been home since the end of school and haven't seen anything!" Edd says worriedly.
"The egging just happened, I'm unsure of when the poisoned meat got into our yard" Miriam muttered with a sad sigh.
Edd looks at Kevin with a worried expression then looks at his parents. "Kevin's father wouldn't egg a house... maybe it was someone from school?"
"Not to mention he is in jail now. God knows, we have no shortage of enemies at school..." Kevin mused irritated.
"Do you want to cancel our date and stay here?" Edd asks quietly, face pale from nervousness as he cuddles Shira close.
"Not especially, I don't want to give them that power over us" Kevin answered with a strong arm around Edd's waist.
"Whoever takes the dogs out from now on will have to go with them and check around the fence and make sure they don't get into anything. That's my suggestion" Thomas claims.
"We've also been getting some random calls on our cell phones too" Kathleen explains "But we've never been ones to back down, right Kevin?"
Kevin grins "Right, Ma!"
Edd frowns at the new information then sighs. "I didn't know about the calls" he says sadly. "So, this harassment is nothing new…?"
"At least it is nothing completely unexpected. Don't worry yourself about it, Eddward. Go out and have a good time with Kevin. Go live a little!" Michael commanded with a smile. "When you get back, Thomas and I will have the new security cameras up and running!" Thomas just grinned before making sure that Kathleen was seated comfortably on the couch with Miriam and the dogs and with her swollen ankles up.
They arrive to the restaurant a short while later and stand around the entrance as they wait for Nat and Rave. "Are you sure this is-"
"I COULD JUST EAT YOU OUT!" Nat screams as he tackles Edd with a strong hug.
"I'm going to break up with you Goldberg" Rave mutters as he walks up to the group.
"What?! Whyyyyy? I meant to say 'up!' Don't leave me because of a slip of the tongue!" Nat whines.
"I'm going to cut your tongue out! Leave my boyfriend alone you, weirdo!" Kevin cried out.
"But he's sooo adorable!" Nat says as he squeezes Edd in his arms and rubs his cheek against the little nerd's head.
"N-Nathan! This isn't the proper place for this!" Edd yelps as he struggles to get away and back to his boyfriend.
Kevin muffs him and pushes him off Edd, wrapping an arm around his waist. "Go rub off on Rave, ya peacock!"
"But Keeevvviiiinnnn!" Nat whines. Rave appears behind him and grabs him by the ear. "Ow! Owowowowowow!"
"If you don't cut it out, we'll go back home" Rave warns.
"Ugh! FINE, I'll stop!" Nat pouts like a two-year-old with his arms cross stiffly across his chest.
"Well then, now that that's out of the way, shall we go inside and eat?" Edd asks with a rumbling stomach.
Kevin takes Edd's hand and leads him inside behind Nat and Rave. Sneaking a quick kiss to Edd's cheek, they walked in and sat down. They talked about school and home life. Nat wanted to get caught up about Charles' trial. "He's locked away for a long time. Attempted murder on 4 adults, one of which is the Chief of Police, and two gay teenagers carries a pretty hefty penalty."
Edd shifts a little, still uncomfortable about the subject, and takes a long sip of his water. "I'm just glad that it's all over" he says quietly.
Kevin squeezes his hand lightly under the table "We all are and we won't have to worry about him for a long time. By then, we will be long gone from Peach Creek if you want to be."
"Ohhhh, come to Cali with us! I'm taking over my parent's producing company after college and Rave is going to that really fancy acting school! We can all be roommates!"
"I would fear for my well-being if I were ever trapped in an apartment with you, Nathan" Edd jokes, slowly relaxing back into the conversation. "Besides, I want to travel the world for a few years after college" he says with a smile.
"Would Mr. Barr want to do such a thing? Last I heard, he's terribly afraid of flying vehicles." Nat sticks his tongue out at Kevin then bursts into laughter.
"I hate flying, planes creep me out" Kevin mutters, kicking Nat under the table.
"I didn't know that... I'm sorry, Kevin. We can travel around the country then. I don't want you to be uncomfortable."
"Let's not worry about it right now. We still got some time before college is over... we're aren't even out of high school yet after all." Kevin and Nat dig into their steaks hungrily. "Dude, this is the best steak I've had in forever..." Kevin moaned.
"That's why I was so excited when I heard about this place opening here. I had this when I visited New York last summer."
"Umm excuse me Kevin, I believe I cooked you a steak a few days ago" Edd huffs.
"I meant at a restaurant... your food is my favorite at home. Two different categories, babe" Kevin reasoned while popping another piece in his mouth.
"Hmph." Edd pouts. "Aww! Double D is such a cutie when he pouts!" Nat grins and reaches over to pinch Edd's cheeks.
"Nathan, can't you control yourself for more than three seconds at a time?" Rave hisses as he pulls his boyfriend back into his seat.
"Awe baby... don't be like that! You know I love your cooking!" Kevin nuzzles and kisses Edd's cheek in a silent apology.
Edd grins and giggles, not able to keep up his pout with all the sweetness being given to him by his boyfriend. "Fine. I forgive you…"
After dinner, they all gather around the doors and laugh and joke for a bit. Nat lunges for Edd's cheek but Kevin snatches his little boyfriend up into a bear hug.
"Aww! Come on kev! Let me touch him!" Nat whines. Edd giggles but immediately goes silent and still as he looks over to Kevin's motorcycle.