A/N: Well look at me finally getting the 2nd chapter in. I'm really sorry for taking so long to get the chapter in and I promise that I'm already working on the 3rd chapter as we speak :D. I hope you guys like this one and I will continue the story x3.
Disclaimer: I obviously do not own Ed Edd and Eddy or any of the other characters associated with the cartoon.
Chapter 2: New beginning
The bus ride was uncomfortable to say the least for Edd. The bus had picked up so many kids that the whole thing was filled by the time they had gotten to school, and the relentless noise of kids talking amongst themselves almost gave him a headache. When he was finally able to get out of the bus he got a good look at the giant school he now found himself at. It was very large to say the least, it made his older school look very small in comparison.
Walking up to the school gave Eddy some kind of weird feeling that he couldn't place. He knew he hadn't felt it before.
Anger, with some fear maybe?
No. It was mostly anger. He could feel it spread across him like a disease. It made him want to just run and never come back to the place. Yet here he was, walking with his best friends to their shared locker inside the school (the school was so full that the 3 had to share) it didn't bother him that much, he wouldn't put much in it except all the A's he was going to get this year. He started to get his walk down and his smile up. He walked with confidence, if anyone would have looked at him it would have seemed like he was the king of the world and was only going to school was to gloat about it (which is kind of what he felt like he was). All three of the boys went to the locker and started packing it with their things. For Edd it was an array of calculator's, dividers, and a ruler was in there somewhere, for Ed it was just some disturbingly cold gravy, which made both Eddy and Ed just exchanged weird looks before Ed spoke up.
"Ed, you can't put gravy in the locker it's just not sanitary."
"B-but Double-D," Ed whined giving him puppy dog eyes. "I wanna!"
Edd sighed, when it came to Ed's gravy, it was almost impossible to get through to him.
"Ed," Double-D started, going into parent mode. "I don't want something that's supposed to go on mashed potatoes in my locker. I'm sorry Ed, but it must go" He did feel bad for him, it was like Edd going on without his hat, or Eddy without his witty responses. It made them who they were the norm so to say, but in this case it made insects and other vermin want to come into the locker.
"I'll take away my gravy…if you give me your hat."
"O not this again!"
"Don't be a Mr. Stinky hat."
"Eddy!"
Eddy, quickly thrust his hand inside the locker. Pulling out the big gravy pot and dumping the contents into the trash closest to them, before either of the party could say anything Eddy reached back into the locker and pulled out a ruler, throwing it over to Ed.
"There," He sighed, slowly giving into his impatience nature "now go make it a sword or something, but you're not keeping your gravy in this locker, or ill ship you off to another school!" Eddy walked away towards their first period class.
Ed had successfully been distracted by Double-D's favorite ruler (he had tried to tell Eddy but he only got a glare in reply). When they walked into their 1st period History class, Mr. Rogers greeted them. Eddy could already tell what kind of teacher he was by his goofy tie, weird shirt, and funny glasses. He was one of the teachers that wanted all his kids to like him. Eddy was perfectly fine with that, as long as he could pass the guys class he didn't care if the guy wore a clown costume every day.
Almost everyone was in the class, except for Kevin and Nazz. Sarah and Jimmy still went to the middle school so it was just Rolph, Jonny and the Ed's each looking at this weird teacher and thinking about how they could manipulate the guy into just letting them all get the grades they needed.
A student that Eddy didn't know raised their hand, asking questions about what they would do throughout the year, and what kind of things they would be learning. Eddy already knew that the kid must be a teacher's pet; he was about to yell that out when Ed lightly tapped his elbow, stopping him, and giving him a stern look.
Eddy didn't really pay attention to what the teacher was saying. It wasn't that he didn't care. It was just he didn't need to know about the guy. All he wanted was to get through this class in one piece, that's what he wanted with all his classes, and knowing that the guy used to ride a motorcycle didn't really help that (even though it was still pretty cool). It was time to really get serious and crack down on his grades, not like he did when he was in middle school or elementary, he was finally going to get serious about it.
Even Edd found it harder and harder to pay attention to the man. He was talking about something that didn't have anything to do with the subject he was supposedly, supposed to teach. Edd had all his appropriate school supplies out and ready for use if the teacher should ask of it, but all he was explaining was how he played on the x-box 360. Edd was perfectly fine with a teacher who wanted to establish a good relationship with the other students, but he just got the feeling that he wouldn't do much in the class, then again it was the first day and Edd couldn't judge a teacher by the first day.
Mr. Rodgers seemed to finish up his talk because he turned back to the class "So that's my life in a nut shell, does anyone have any questions to ask?"
"Do you read any cool comics like 'gorgon the rabbit head'?" Ed asked, looking forward towards the teacher and practically jumping out of his seat. It was one of the most out of placed questions of the day, and it earned him the attention of all the other kids, but that's just who Ed was, Random to no end.
The teachers smile seemed to widen before he answered. "Ya actually I have a huge comic collection from when I was a kid," He tried not to jump up and down from excitement, and was failing miserably "actually that's one of my favorite comic as well as 'cornrall the flying zorback' that's pretty cool too."
The rest of the class consisted of the 2 of them talking about their collection of comics, and bragging of how many they had. When the bell finally rang Edd tried his best to get out of the class as fast as he could, while Eddy had to practically drag Ed away from the class room.
Second period was science with Mrs. Snider, one of Edd's most favorite classes. A lot of the kids whispered that her name sounded like 'spider' and because of that it meant she was a mean teacher. Edd tried not to follow their example; instead he sat in the front row with his 2 best friends. When the teacher walked in Edd knew she meant business with a capital B. She oozed a certain strict trait that made all the kids quiet down instantly. The women seemed to stare down at all the kids, taking each one in as she crossed the threshold from her door to her table at the front of the class.
Eddy visibly flinches when she stared at him. "Did you see that Double-D?" He managed to ask while she looked through her desk. "It's like she's trying to look at our souls or something."
"Let's just hope that's all." Double-D gulped.
Ed was too scared to talk. He just let the teacher stare him down and tried his best not to look scared but he's failing pretty badly.
She wrote her name down on the board, then the date, then the assignment she was going to give to the class.
"By now you all should know that my name is Mrs. Snider," She said, looking around the class, her brown eyes not stopping on a single student this time, they just glanced around at everyone. "I'm glad that I've got a lot of students this year, the more students the more I teach." she turned around and drew 2 symbols on the board.
"Can anyone tell me what these are?" She asks, pointing to the elements.
"Aren't you going to tell us about your life?" One of the students asked, she looks at her clip board before answering him.
"I would really like if you raised your hand before you interrupt my teaching."
"Well I was just saying, my last teacher explained who he was before he started teaching."
She stared at the poor kid a moment before answering him, "Jon I told you to raise your hand and you disobeyed me again, so I would appreciate it if you waited out in the hall while I teach." It sounded so calm and menacing at the same time. Edd could practically feel the hate off her words attack the boy.
He looked shocked at first, but he said nothing as he walked outside of the room, letting the door close a little loudly, it seemed to echo in the now dead silent classroom.
"I am here to teach, and you are here to learn, I don't like it when people interrupt what I'm doing, so I would very much like it if you all had enough respect to wait before blurting something out."
Edd raises his hand, trying to both stop her from lecturing the class, and to answer the question, "those are the tin and iron symbols from the periodic table." He put absolute respect in his answer just to show that he meant just as much business as she did.
She smiled, and went on with her lecture.
2 more kids were kicked out of the class when it ended. Somehow Eddy stayed quiet and listened to the lecture, so did Ed.
They started walking to their third period English class, some kids bumped into Edd to show that they weren't happy with him answering the questions, but Eddy and Ed didn't notice. He counted himself lucky for that, he didn't want some big fight to happen on the first day of school.
The teachers name was Mr. Karter and for Eddy he seemed like a cool guy.
"Hi guys and gals," He greeted, walking into the class room like he was walking into his house "I know it sucks that your back in school and all, but I promise my class won't be one that you dread the whole year." the man went to talk about the schedule of the year and how they could get some extra credit points. He was the exact opposite of Mrs. Snider, which is exactly why Eddy liked him.
Nothing much happened after that, the boys were introduced to their Spanish 4th period teacher Mr. Jenkins (Eddy made fun of his name and he shied away), 5th period Math Mrs. Ronan and for Edd Mr. Clark, and last but not least Info-tech with Mr. Larson. None of the teachers made an impact on the boys as the first 3 but all of them had lucked out this year and gotten really good teachers. Luckily all of them had the same lunch time as well which added to the 'luck in school' list.
When the final bell rang, Eddy was practically running out of the classroom.
"E-Eddy wait up," Edd called, packing his things quickly, he didn't want to get left behind by his best friends, but mid-way through packing Ed ran away as well. "Ed, not you too!" Quickly packing his things, Edd ran after his friends, but something stopped him at the door. A very nice looking, blond beauty, something.
Nazz stood in-front of him looking as good as ever. Everything about her was flawless, the way her white blouse made her look more mature, how her smile showed perfectly white teeth that seemed to shine in the room. Nazz practically acted the same as she had when they first did. She was still mature and very kind, still having the same 'baby sitter mind set' with many of things in life. Like Edd had noticed before she wore a white sleeveless blouse and black crop pants.
She looked at him.
He looked at her.
They looked at each other.
But he didn't do what needed to be done. He didn't say anything to her. His entire being was shaking slightly at the mere sight of the girl, if only looking at her made him this nervous then talking might just kill him.
Luckily she did the talking.
"Hi Double-D," She greeted, giving him a small smile and a little wave (which made her look o so cute to Edd).
His voice threatened to give way when he finally tried to talk, "Hi…um Nazz,"
"What are you doing here?"
"Well…I was just…um t-this is my class," Edd mentally slapped himself for stuttering as much as he was, it wasn't just that he was looking like a fool in-front of Nazz but his grammar was going to shame.
She looked surprised, "Really? I'm thinking about switching into this class," She sounded excited, which meant that she wanted to be in the same class, or at least that's what Edd hopped for.
"Well I hope to see you in the same classroom as I am," Edd politely exclaimed trying not to sound too excited about seeing the girl of his dreams in the same class as himself.
Her smile seemed to widen, but before they could continue Kevin came from behind Nazz and put his arm around her. Edd knew he hadn't done it on purpose, but his heart still seemed to crack when Kevin had done that simple gesture. He gave him a cool smile that seemed genuine.
Kevin had gotten taller during the summer as well; he was now an inch or two ahead of Edd. He had switched his red hat for a black one and wore a blue muscle shirt to show off how much he had worked out. Edd understood why he was so confident with Nazz now. While the Ed's had been running away from the cul-de-sac kids, Kevin and Nazz had their own little personal time together. He knew when it came to looks Kevin beat him easily, and in his mind it was only a matter of time before Nazz and Kevin got together in more than a plutonic relationship. But it still hurt to see how intimate they were getting even at the cul-de-sac they would sit a little closer to each other, and Edd's heart would come closer and closer to breaking.
"Hey Double-D, what's up?"
Edd didn't want to talk all of a sudden. "I'm fine Kevin. Thank you, but I have to go now. My apologies Ed and Eddy are surly waiting for me to walk with them." He hurried off, before they could say anything else.
Before his heart broke even more.
Like he knew. Both his best friends were waiting for him in the front of the school. Eddy looked impatient while Ed was chasing a butterfly and running over all the school flowers.
"What took'ya," Eddy impatiently voiced. "We were waiting out here for forever. What, did the teacher already tell you that you passed his class?"
"I'm sorry I had a run in with Nazz, and Kevin." Edd tried his best not to sound somber.
Of course Eddy picked up on what Edd truly meant; Eddy had given up on Nazz a while ago. After they had gotten back from Eddy's bro's place. Ed never really liked Nazz, she was just the only other girl in the cul-de-sac and he had figured this out the same time Eddy had. Double-D thought he had gotten over it as well but the wall of his love was too high to get over. Eddy walked over to Edd and slung his arm around him, his way or being comforting.
"Double-D, we've been over this," Eddy started, pocking Edd in the chest a little hard for the easily bruised boy, "if you're going to get sad whenever Kevin and Nazz get together, then you have to fight for her." Eddy made his statement more powerful by pocking him again.
"You know that's difficult for someone like me Eddy," Edd sighed, they had been through this a lot lately and it always went right back to him feeling bad for being shy. "It can be quick unnerving to express ones feelings of love."
"Na, it's easy Sock-head," Eddy moved away from Edd and walked backwards and in front of him. "You just walk straight up to her, look her in the eyes, and give her a big wet smooch." Eddy gave him a wink, telling him that he was picking on him just a little.
"It's not that…" Edd paused, thinking about what he was going to say next, but to Eddy he seemed to be beating himself up. "I don't want to go and fight for Nazz, because I truly think that if I did that my newly earned relationship with Kevin and Nazz might disappear and be replaced by the same hatred from before."
Ed came from behind Double-D and looked at his sad face. He started to mirror it. "It's ok Double-D, cause even if that happens you'll still have me and Eddy, we won't ever hate you." Ed put on his best smile for Double-D.
Double-D pat Ed on his head. "Thank you Ed." He smiled, more for Ed's sake than his own, but sometimes Ed would say the nicest things to put him to a slight ease.
Eddy lightly slapped Ed across the shoulder and gave him a thumb's up.
They walked for some time in silence before Eddy spoke up, changing the mood of the previous conversation.
"Why are we walking home?" Eddy asked lightly changing the subject for Edd's sake. "We took the bus here so shouldn't we take it back?"
It took Edd a minute to realize that they were, in fact. Walking to Edd's house, it was in sight now and he could make out some of the cul-de-sac kids playing around. Jimmy and Sarah were playing ball by Ed's house, Rolph and Jonny were playing around with Rolphs animals, and Kevin and Nazz were sitting on the sidewalk watching everyone fool around. Even with the talk from before, Edd's heart seemed to lurch at the sight, but Eddy lightly pushed him.
"Your time will come," He smirked, looking over at Nazz. "Just give it a while."
And again the look of confidence in his eyes made Edd believe him. They looked so sure, so absolutely positive, that it seemed like he had already seen into the future and knew what would happen.
This time Edd's smile was genuine. "Thanks Eddy."
"Don't mention it lover boy."
Showing some best-friendship there x3. I wanted to show how much the boys have matured and how much each mean to each other and o think I've done pretty well here.
So Please Review so I know I'm pleasing my readers :).
