The horn blew and the ship began moving under everyone's feet.

"That smoky round role is mad, guys!" Ed said grasping Eddy after the mighty noise happened.

"It's called a smokestack, Ed." Edd corrected his friend. "They always go off before a ship begins its journey."

The ship filled with kids sailed off into the sea for New Year's Eve.

"Get ready for a night of partying until we drop, boys. It's about time we got to go on this sea ride." Eddy said wrapping an arm around both his friend's shoulders. The ship allowed on children from thirteen to eighteen. Younger siblings could come if they wanted to, but only if they were under close supervision.

"Eddy, are you sure your parent's gave you permission to go on this boat ride? Your mother said quite a few times..."

"I finally got them to say yes, thanks to the ol' puppy dog eyes. Now would ya shut your yap and enjoy this night?" Eddy said giving Edd a hard pat on the back.

"Eddy, come look at the ocean!" Nazz said pulling Eddy through the crowd of kids. She pulled him to where Kevin and Rolf were. "Isn't it beautiful?" she said wrapping an arm around him and putting her head on his shoulder./

Eddy turned his eyes a smidge to look at Kevin. "Yes it is, it's beautiful like your hair."

He slightly snickered when he saw Kevin roll his eyes. The previous summer Nazz and Eddy started dating. After the whole fiasco with Eddy's brother, The Ed's made friendships with the kids. Eddy slowly adjusted because all the kindness was so much to take in. The news about him and Nazz caused so much talk to go around in school that fall, that eventually he liked the attention.

School was so much better, better yet, life was so much better. He never thought he'd say it, but finding his brother loosened some marbles. He was going to make his teen years something worth living for after his messed up childhood.

Rolf suddenly gripped the railing of the ship. Everyone looked at him to see sweat drip from his forehead. "The hairs on the back of Rolf's neck stand up."

"Uh... is this your first time on a ship, Rolf?" Kevin asked.

"Don't you feel it?" Rolf asked shaking Kevin by his shirt. "Death is looking at us with both of its eyes! It's-It's the end of the world for us all!"

All the kid's who were near Rolf were silent as he held his arms up to the heavens.

"Dude, you must have milked too many cows before you came here. Just relax."

"Rolf only have one cow, are you seeing double, Kevin boy?" Rolf shoved his neck in front of Kevin's face. "Aren't these the standing hairs of an omen?"

Kevin bailed inside, leaving Rolf to shake his fist at the sea. "You aren't fooling Rolf you blue allusion of mediocrity!"

"I think Rolf's weird too, Plank. You're right, I think his blue hair is seeping into his brain." Jonny laughed.

"Someone tell me why he had to come again?" Eddy asked as Jonny walked by.

"Jonny's parents wanted him to come, Eddy. He spent his whole summer with Plank." Edd pointed out.

"All his summer's were spent with Plank, so what?"

"Plank is only Jonny's imaginary friend and without real human interaction, Jonny's brain will rot." Ed pointed out.

Both his friend's looked astounded at him. "Very good, Ed. So you see, Eddy, Jonny is now thirteen. How many thirteen year old's go around with imaginary friends? Eventually he has to give up that hunk of wood."

Eddy still didn't see the point, but he decided to let it slide. Jonny forgave the Ed's a long time after the kid's did. Eddy didn't accept it because he knew he was still bitter about the scam that made him need stitches for his head.

"Jimmy, look! They have hot fudge sundaes!" Sarah pointed out.

"Wait, Sarah, mom said I had to keep an eye on you at every second." Ed whined.

"Can we change it to a minute if I get you one? They got gravy flavored ice cream."

Ed started salivating all over the deck. "Deal!"

The two kids went off laughing

"Um, Ed, I don't think there is gravy flavored ice cream."

Ed's eyes went dog eyes. "But she wouldn't lie. That's like the old days. She changed."

Ed's home life was beginning to turn around since the summer. Sarah stopped telling lies about him to their mother. His parent's also sat down and had a nice long talk with him. His mother started treating him more like her son. The less fighting their was made it better for their father to come home from work.

"That's siblings for yah, Ed." Eddy said going inside the ship with Nazz.

Edd slightly frowned. Eddy really wanted this to be a new year so he could just forget about all the bad stuff that happened in the beginning. He had so much trouble coping after seeing his brother again. Edd could tell how he liked his new self, but sometimes he would flip back to his old personality.

But this was a new year, so now they were going to sail into it.