I don't Ed, Edd and Eddy, If I did, I'd know whether a finished episode of 'special ed' really does exist or not and air it on adult swim if it really did. Anyways- this story deals with drug addiction and the difficulty in trying to help someone who doesn't want to be helped, enjoy;
"Eddy! Please, just let me go!", a heavily bruised fourteen year old Edd cried, sat on his bed he stared miserably at the floor, left arm wrapped around his middle as he rocked, his right hand pulling at the hair under his beanie in a disturbed, repetitive manner. Ed stood uncomfortably at the doorway, blocking the door whilst Eddy was stood to the side of Edd, desperately trying to get through to him- it wasn't working.
"Sockhead, stop! This isn't healthy", Eddy gently tried to lay a hand on his friend's bare arm, it was instantly tore back in blind terror.
"No, stay back! You're covered in germs, millions of them!", Double D screamed, drawing up his legs and staring at his right arm as if seeing something the others were blind to, "Oh godd! They're multiplying, I can see them... Can't you see them Eddy?! They're growing, re-generating, observe! ...They're burrowing into my skin, they won't desist in their movement!". Edd gave out a shriek, still staring at his right arm as he used his left hand to tear savagely at it.
"EDD!", Eddy shouted in shock, he put a hand around both wrists, forcibly pulling Edd's hands away from each other. "NOOOO!", Edd's screams seemed to reach an octave higher than before as he struggled violently against Eddy's hands, "Stop it, can't you seem what you're doing? I'm contaminated! Please Eddy, I need more! Please, just let me go for one more... Please Eddy!".
Still struggling with a flailing Edd, Eddy stared down at Double D's needle track mark strewn arms, "Not a chance D".
Edd stopped struggling and began to openly cry, "You're so cruel Eddy! H-how can you be so cruel…?".
Eddy refused to give eye contact, so Edd quickly focused his pleas to the other person in the room, forcing himself to cry more in his attempt to make them let him go, "Ed, Ed we're friends… You care about me don't you? You'll help me?! Please Ed, please!".
Ed, who had been stood silently blocking the doorway, slowly lifted his head, looking at his best friend through red rimmed, tearful eyes, he couldn't take seeing Edd like this but there was nothing he could do, Eddy had said Edd couldn't take being hugged anymore and the only thing that would make him happy was the thing that was slowly making him worse- drugs.
A mixture of Cannabis and Ecstacy were his favourites, they didn't even know where Edd had been getting them from, least of all how Edd was possibly paying for them. All the two Eds knew for certain was that everytime they let him out on his own, he'd come back high, often with new bruises and no honest explanation of where he got them from.
It wore Eddy out the most, who refused to let Edd's parents know, they were barely ever there anyway, Eddy was unsure as to whether they either wouldn't care or they'd just send Edd off somewhere to get 'cured'.
Even with everything they did though, stopping Edd was just proving to become more and more difficult. Edd would disappear from school during lunch break if they didn't keep a close eye on him, he'd even once escaped through the window in the school bathroom just to get to whoever it was who was supplying him.
It sickened Eddy that it had taken him and Ed almost a full year to realise what was happening. Edd had started to become quieter, drawing in on himself, sometimes disappearing overnight somewhere, reappearing the next day often confused, disheveled and bruised.
It was only when the hallucinations, suicidal conversations and screaming fits started that Eddy had realised something was truly wrong, he'd seen the track marks soon after, it hadn't taken long to understand what had happened. Double D, his and Ed's best friend was a drug addict.
Most of all, Eddy blamed himself, it had been his fault Edd had become addicted in the first place...
Please read and Review. ...Also, if anyone could tell me why kevin/edd is such a big thing on this site that'd be great, got nothing really against it, just seems bit of an odd choice there wasn't even any kind of friendship between them two in the actual series?