Disclaimer - Although I would dearly love to own any of these charecters I simply don't...

A/N - Here is the promised first chapter of my next short fic. I'm not sure how long this is gonna turn out. I'm looing for 4/5 chapters tops. So, i hope you enjoy this and just to warn you there is slash in here, as well as suggested sex scenes in later chapters and some other nasty stuff like that... enjoy!


Closeted Secrets

Kevin had known that Eddy was different ever since they had been kids. While every other boy in the cul-de-sac lusted after Nazz, beautiful, sexy, feminine Nazz, Eddy had not been enchanted by her as much as intimidated by her. Sure he hid it. Well, tried to hide it, but somehow Kevin just knew – takes one to know one as they say.

He rolled over and stretched, careful not to wake his sleeping lover in the process. Who would have thought it? The neighbourhood jock, coolest kid on the cul-de-sac, captain of the football team and teenage heart throb actually turned out to be gay. He looked at Eddy's sleeping form. His chest lightly rose and fell with each breath. Eddy had changed remarkably in the last five years. He had certainly grown taller, though he was still short in posture compared to the other boys in the cul-de-sac, and his weight was now carried a lot better by his more advanced height. His hair fell about his face, shiny locks of honey blonde that were usually gelled immaculately but where now allowed to brush the top of his cheeks as he slept. Kevin glanced at him and smirked before carefully hoisting himself off the circular bed and slipping quietly out of the back door to Eddy's home.

Eddy watched him leave through slightly parted eyes. This was the way that it was every time that Kevin would come to 'visit' him. He would stay the night and then leave first thing in the morning before anyone else woke up - so that no one could see where he had been for the last few hours. Eddy never bothered to try and make him stay and had learned a long time ago that it was a lot easier if he pretended to be fast asleep while Kevin made his quick exit. Eddy didn't know if Kevin knew he was really awake or not, but he was certainly not going to risk asking. He sighed heavily and rose from his bed leaving his sheets to lie in the tangled mess that had been caused the night before. As he stepped into the shower, tiny, cold beads of water were thrust upon his skin cleansing him of the guilt and the memories that haunted him every time that Kevin paid him one of his visitations, and recently he had been visiting a lot more often than usual. Eddy let the refreshing water run over his body as he tried desperately to remember just how he had ever been thrown into this whole situation.

It had been a year ago now. Eddy had known that he was attracted to men since he had been fifteen and was finally beginning to get used to the whole idea. Of course – no one else knew about it. What would they think if they ever found out? Not even his best friends knew. Ed simply wouldn't understand, and Eddy did not think that he would have been able to handle all of the questions that the large boy fired at him in a vague attempt to grasp an understanding, and Double D, well, Eddy just could not risk letting Double D know in fear that his long time best friend would condemn him. He knew that chances were that Double D would not think any differently of his friend, but that was simply a risk he was not prepared to take. Besides, if Eddy let slip that part of his secret who knows what else he might be tempted to reveal...

And that was the way it was, until one day when Kevin rode up to Eddy on his bike shortly after Eddy's sixteenth birthday and motioned for the shorter boy to follow him where they could talk privately. As soon as they reached the confines of Eddy's bedroom and he looked inquisitively to Kevin in search of an explanation his eyes widened in horror. Kevin knew. Eddy could tell just by looking at him, but instead of the torrent of insults that he had expected to flow toward him, Kevin had calmly told him his own little secret. Eddy looked up at him in shock and saw that Kevin's calm and understanding expression had been replaced by a small, yet taunting grin
"And no one is ever going to know your secret as long as you do exactly what I ask" he concluded.

Eddy reached to shut off the shower faucet and blindly fumbled for a towel. He dried off and tied the towel around him as he headed back to his bedroom feeling a little better than he had before. He looked at the room and noticed the poorly assembled sheets that hung from his bed as he smirked to himself. If only sockhead were here, he'd be horrified if the room had been left in this state. Eddy smiled to himself. As long as his friends were there to stand by him he would be able to survive anything that Kevin put him through. As long as they never found out his secret he would be safe, and as long as he continued to appease Kevin he knew that, for now, his future was secure.


And there we have it. Don't worry if the Kevin/Eddy pairing is not to your liking - there is much much more to come. Please R&R, and thank you kindly for all the lovely reviews I had for 'Dead popular'. I wasn't sure wether that story would hit off, but apparantly it didn't turn out too bad Toodles