"Message In A Ed"
by AmarieC.
I wrote this a while back, I am sure you will never expect what happens in this story. It is rated T for gore, violence, angst, self inflicted violence, and just a little kissy-kissy.
Chapter One: Many Things
It was not one thing, it was many things that triggered it. Starting with the death of Eddy's older brother. Nothing seemed different that morning, Ed was the first to know, he had gone to the airport for Eddy's parents to pick him up. They were paying him five bucks. Ed had just received his license and he was a little excited and unstable. It would have been easy for him to forget which pedal was the break and which was the gas, especially with his brain capabilities. And that day was when Eddy's parents received the call. They did not even tell Eddy, they just left for the hospital crying. Eddy was sitting in his room on his bed moping, he had grown to hate his brother because he tormented him and forgotten he existed outside the mold of 'baby brother', inferior and unimportant. Edd and Veronica were in the room with him. They sat waiting for Ed's return with the not-so-missed Eddy's brother. Eddy sat wishing he was dead. Hours passed when Ed came into the room, he was fine, except for a few scratches and that look on his face. Eddy's friends knew something was wrong right there but he ignored it.
"Ed, what's the matter?" Edd asked. Ed's face was full of dread, real, serious, dread. Something his friends had never seen.
"I stepped on the wrong one."
Present Day
Eddy sat in his room with the knife. It was not one thing, it was a bunch of things. No more scams, no more wishful thinking, no more fantasies, no more peaceful suburban days. He missed them more than his brother.
At least he thought.
His friends stayed away some days. Others to comfort him, but he drove them away. They knew what he was doing and tried to stop him. But they could not stop him from mutilating, from hating himself.
"OW!" he screamed slicing. Tears fell, mixing with the blood.
Veronica had not looked in the mirror until Edd came in and said something. White squares of perfectly cut paper in her hair. Hundreds of them.
"What did you do to your hair, Veronica?" Edd asked touching it.
"What? Nothing," she looked into her mirror. What she saw was beautiful pieces of white paper, stuck in her hair. Her hair was not snarled for the pieces to stay in her strands, they just stuck. Edd stared at her and picked one out.
He studied it in amazement, "Veronica, this is a perfect square." He was impressed.
"I..." she took one out of her hair, "I don't know how they got here."
"Pardon?" Edd stared at his brunette friend, not quite understanding what she was pleading.
"I didn't do this, I wish I could say I did but, man, they're beautiful." The pieces of paper shimmered in the light.
"That's uhmm, creepy."
Edd and Veronica walked up to Eddy's house and to his door. Veronica knocked on the door.
"Eddy, it's us," Edd said plainly. The boy opened the door and stared at his two friends.
"Hi."
"Hi there Eddy, did we wake you?" Veronica asked following Edd in. Eddy shut the door and yawned.
"No, I'm just tired." He had not slept at all last night, just long enough for a nightmare to creep to the front of his mind.
Edd sat on Eddy's bed, "Eddy, what do you want to do today?" He knew that he most likely was not going to get a legitimate answer. It had been a month since their last scam...
Three weeks after Eddy's brother's death.
"Step right up all you folks and get your very own kingdom of ants!" Eddy yelled. He stunk allot and his hair was bent and that is what made Edd hold his nose. Eddy sat down on the ground and sulked.
"Maybe people are busy mister Eddy," Ed said soberly. Veronica barely noticed Ed's presence most days, she had noticed so many changes in her two friends. Edd suspected that it had to do with Eddy's brother's death.
"Stupid people, they're always busy! They have things to do1 They have a life," Eddy complained in a shout.
"Eddy please don't..." Edd was interrupted by Veronica's regretfully disagreeing look. She shook her head slowly.
"Don't." Eddy scratched his wrists and arms. Edd noticed them but did not say anything, Ed did.
"Eddy where did you get hurt?"
"What are you talking about?" Eddy set his arms on his legs.
"Eddy," Edd grabbed his arm and studied the underside of it, "Eddy what happened?" Eddy stood and stepped back.
"I, I got caught on the fence by Mr. Aerosol's yard, he was chasing me out of it because he saw me borrowing some walnuts from his tree. I ran into his bobbed wire fence, stupid man, does- doesn't he know trees are public property?" Eddy was defensive and delirious. They stared at him worriedly. "What! It's the truth! I can't ever get anything! Nothing! Everyone's so greedy and selfish! Trees are public property, and so are cows!" Eddy screamed. Kevin and Sarah had come over after hearing all the yelling. Of course they had not heard him shouting when he wanted them to come. But now... now he wanted everyone to leave. Sarah looked worried.
"Eddy are you..." Veronica stopped.
He began to sob, "Yes! Is that what you want to hear? I WANT TO KILL MYSELF! And anyone can go ahead and do it, I've already started!" he said showing them his wrists. Multiple slices on each arm, some scabbing, others blue, the cuts had inched up his elbows. He ran off and Kevin laughed.
"The dork's crying!" Sarah looked at Kevin disgusted.
"I don't want to do anything," Eddy said, he really wanted to die.
Edd sighed in disappointment, "Then what are WE going to do Eddy, what are you and Veronica and I going to do. We cannot sit here all the time silently. Eddy, you don't even talk to us anymore. We have to do something, why don't we go get Ed and make up a scam, or go to the creek and relax. It is a hot day. Or why don't we all go to the dump and play 'Robot Bounty Hunters'?" Eddy was silent. Veronica's head hung.
"Eddy, I understand how upset you must be because of your brother. If one of my brothers died, I would... I don't know what I'd do. But this is different, Eddy just because you wished your brother to die, it's not your fault. Eddy, Eddy look at me." Eddy's eyes met hers slowly. His eyes were full of anguish and awkwardness. Veronica barely believed he was even listening to her. "Eddy, it's not your fault, it was an accident," She sighed and walked out the door.
Edd frowned, "Eddy stop this! You're brother might be dead, but you are not! Stop this never ending sulk, you are hurting us. Ed is so scarce and now you're trying to get rid of us! That's what you're doing Eddy. I know you Eddy, and you don't want to do that." Edd went to the door, "Well, I used to know you." He walked outside.
Eddy got up, "Double D! Wait!" Edd turned around and looked at his friend. "I'll go," he said, "Where ever, what ever you guys want to do." Edd smiled and hugged his friend.
"Double D, Double D that's to close!"
end of chapter one. Please review. I'll update soon.