Sunday Afternoon

"Oh my god, you're totally into him!"

"Am not!"

"You so are! You want little Double Delicious all to yourself! You want to romance him and-"

"Shut it or I'll pound ya!"

"But you just said you were intrigued by-"

"No, what I said was that he was… interesting… that's all… Quit trying to read into shit."

"So, have you tried to make a move yet?

"Nat. What the fuck!? I'm not even really into him…"

Nat gave him a long, knowing stare before Kevin sighed and caved in.

"I can't. I hardly know him… and I can't really get to know him."

"Dude. Don't lie to me. He's literally across the street right now. I saw him when I pulled up."

"Yeah, and did you see who else he was with?"

"Oh, so you were looking, too?" Nat teased, waggling his eyebrows and elbowing Kevin.

"Cut it out man!" Kevin scooted further down the couch and threw a decorative pillow at him. "He's always with those other two dorks. I wouldn't mind getting to know him, but I refuse to do anything involving them."

"But Ed's on the team, and you seem fine with him."

"Yeah. He's fine then, but when he's with Eddy… it's different… and Eddy's a flat out 'no,' no matter the situation."

"Okay… You just have to find some other way to get to know Double D. Wait… don't you have classes with him?"

"Yeah, two, but we sit on opposite sides and they're the type of classes where you don't really get a chance to get to know anyone."

"Okay… and I'm guessing you have separate lunches?"

"No. It's at the same time, but he always dips out so quickly and I don't know where he goes. I never see him in the cafeteria, but he's probably with dork and dorkier anyways."

"Ah. Well what about study hall?"

"Different time than mine… but it doesn't matter since he's doing the nurses assistant thing or whatever."

"For someone who claims he's not that into him, you sure do know a lot about his schedule."

Kevin just gives him the side-eye.

"I'm just saying. It sounds like you already put some thought into getting to know this 'he's only interesting' cutie," Nat sassed with a smirk and exaggerated air quotes.

"Shut the hell up, man."

"I would, but then you wouldn't be able to hear my brilliant solution to your dilemma."

"I'm fine with that," Kevin said, unpausing the video game they were playing. "It was probably a stupid solution anyways."

They continued to play for about five more minutes until Kevin suddenly paused the game again. "Okay… so what is this solution of yours?"

"You said Double D was the nurse's aide this semester, right?"

"Yeah."

"There you go!"

"That was an already known fact. Not a solution."

"It is a solution if you take a little pit stop by the nurse's office when he's working."

"But I don't know when that is… so yeah… stupid solution," Kevin said, unpausing the game once more. But this time he immediate pauses it again and sits upright. He stays there, motionless, deep in thought, for a little while before sitting the controller down and turning to face Nat. "Okay. So, I know he's not playing nurse when we have class together."

"Obviously."

"And it can't be first period because I see him go into the class across the hall… Shut it, Nat!"

"I didn't even say anything!"

"Your face did!"

Even after being called out, Nat couldn't stop grinning over Kevin really knowing a lot about Edd's schedule, regardless of how much he was trying to downplay his feelings earlier. "Whatever… so you know three periods where he's not being the nurse's aide…"

"Yup, so I just gotta figure out the rest by trial and error."

"Are you really going to do that?" Nat asked before biting his bottom lip and clutching the pillow that was previously thrown at him. He looked eagerly at a disturbed Kevin.

"Dude. Chill…. And maybe… I don't know, yet."

Nat just nodded and picked up his controller, resuming the game.

After a few minutes, Nat spoke up, "You're totally going to try to figure out when he's in the nurse's office, aren't you."

"Yup."

"Sweet. Just do me one favor, will you?"

"What's that?"

"Let me be the first to know when the wedding is."

Kevin didn't respond, but within a few seconds the "Friendly Fire!" message appeared on the screen. Nat just shrugged at his injured character. "Fair."