The first night in the apartment was one of the best nights Marie has ever had. Holding Edd and listening to his heart beat as she drifted off to sleep filled her dreams with thoughts of him and all the things they could do in Lemon Brook together. Like finding all of those little hole in the wall shops that always have good food, waking up late on the weekends and not getting yelled at by her sisters, and the one thing she liked the most was the fact that every day she will be waking up next to the boy she had spent years chasing.
But now that she was thinking about Edd she realizes that she is alone in the bed. She snaps her eyes open and quickly sits up and looks around trying to find Edd. As she looked around for Edd she hears the sound of running water coming from the bathroom and it clicked in her mind that Edd must have woken up before her and went to take a shower.
"I should have known he'd be the first one up, he never really sleeps in." She says pulling the covers off herself.
Standing up Marie stretches and looks out the window and see that that sun was high in the sky. "Damn, how late is it?"
"About eleven I believe." Edd says walking out of the bathroom fully dressed with his toothbrush in hand.
Edds' sudden appearance surprised Marie a little. "Damn, we did sleep for a while." She says turning to face her boyfriend. "Good morning Double Dee by the way."
Smiling at the love of his life with a severe case of bed head so bad Edd could see both of her blue eyes he says; "Good morning to you too Marie, the shower is all yours."
She quickly walks over to Edd and stopped him from putting the toothbrush into his mouth and leans up to give him a deep kiss.
When she finally broke the kiss Edd felt the usual light headed effect from Marie's more aggressive kisses. "That is going to be a daily thing isn't it?" He asks barely stopping himself from dropping his toothbrush.
Smiling and hugging him she says; "Yes it is"
"Then it's a good thing I enjoy it." He says before hugging her back.
Inside the bathroom with the black towel she took as hers from the trailer and the bag full of bathroom things she prepares for her own first shower in the apartment. The bathroom was bigger than the one that was in the trailer, it has a sliding glass door for the tub in the corner and a wall blocking the toilet from the sink and mirror and a small linen closet on the far right side of the counter. As she puts her things away she starts to smile again, it was a little one at first but it would grow little by little as she put her things next to Edds. Back at the trailer she didn't care for any organization in the bathroom, but now here with him she took her time putting her toothbrush in the stand next to his, setting her hair brush besides his on the counter and putting her stick of deodorant away in the medicine cabinet. Though she just dumped her few pieces of makeup into one of the empty drawers figuring Edd wouldn't care that much if she took a drawer for her makeup.
When she finished her shower it dawned on her that she didn't bring a change of clothes with her. "Crud." She says as she finished drying herself off. "Only one thing to do really."
She wraps the towel around herself and tucks the corner in so it would stay up, and once she was sure it would keep her covered on the few feet walk to the bedroom door she grabs the door knob. 'This is going to shock him.' She thinks before opening the door.
In the main area of the apartment Edd sees Marie walk out of the bathroom in just a towel and he quickly turns around to face the wall of the kitchen to give her some privacy. "Forgot to bring cloths with you?" He asks feeling his cheeks turning a little red from the sight of Marie in nothing but a towel.
"I did." She says quickly walking to the bedroom.
Still not turning around to look at her Edd says; "Well I'll warm up the leftovers when you are finish getting dressed for breakfast."
"K." He hears Marie says before she closed the door to the bedroom.
As Marie got dressed Edd finished setting up what little they had for kitchen things. He put the other four of the six plates away in one of the empty cupboards with the six blows next to them and the six mugs on the shelf above the plates and bowls. Despite all of his OCD's Edd likes that all of the plates, bowls and mugs are miss match, adds a little character to the kitchen. Next he takes the new microwave out of its box and sets it on the counter against the same wall the fridge was against.
As he worked on unwrapping the glass turntable plate for inside Marie walked out of the bedroom fully dressed with her shoes in hand. "That carpet must be new in the bedroom." She says walking over to the mattress on the floor.
"What do you mean?" Edd asks closing the door to the microwave.
Marie drops down onto the mattes to put on her shoes. "The carpet is all soft and fuzzy, it felt good on my bare feet walking around on it."
Edd lets out a little laugh. "Maybe it is, it would make sense to replace it for new residents." He says as he plugged in the one addition he did known that Marie had brought for the apartment.
Marie had gone to a thrift store and bought a second hand, thought by the looks of it they may be the third or even fourth owners, coffee make for the apartment. One thing the both of them had grown quite fond of, besides spending as much time as they could with each other, was coffee. Marie wanted there to be a coffee make available to use as soon as they were moved in despite how "mainstream" coffee drinking had become, something that Lee would give her a hard time about whenever she would see Marie drinking coffee. But Marie nor Edd cared what people said about them drinking coffee, they enjoyed it and really enjoyed drinking coffee together.
"You think that old thing will be the death of us? You know starting an eclectic fire and all." Marie asks crossing her arms on the island counter of the kitchen.
Opening the fridge door to retrieve the leftover Chinese food from the previous night he says; "I doubt it, but if it will make you feel better I can disassemble it later today to make sure that everything is in proper working order."
Watching Edd take out the white boxes and then dump the contents onto plates Marie responds to his request. "Is that you solely wanting to keep us from burning down our new home, or do you also want to take it apart for the sake of taking it apart?"
"It wouldn't be the first coffee make I have disassembled, but you know that I could never turn down the opportunity to take something apart." He says being honest with her as he closed the microwave door.
Marie lets out a laugh. "I knew it. Go ahead Double Dee, take that old thing apart to keep us safe and have fun doing it." She says as a smile crosses her face as he turned around to face her with his own smile on his face.
"Before I even think of taking it apart, there is one serious thing we need to take care of first."
Curious as to what he was talking about she asks; "What do you mean?"
"We need to find a local supermarket to acquire food, and a lot of other things as well." Edd says as a list of things form in his head.
Marie knew Edd was right. "Yeah we do need to pretend to be adults and do the grown up thing." She says hoping that she still had a little more time before she'd have to set foot inside of a grocery store.
As they sat eating the leftover food they worked together making a list of things they knew they needed to get for the apartment on Edd's phone. The bulk of the list was food; bread, fruits, milk and other things but they also needed to acquire things that were not food items.
"We are also going to need to get some cooking stuff." Marie says as Edd typed on his phone.
"True, we'll need a couple of pots and a frying pan." Edd says adding them to his list.
"And spoons, forks and knifes."
"And cooking utensils as well."
Once they were done naming off everything they believed they needed to find at the store they cleaned up the kitchen and gathered up their pocket things; phones, keys and wallets.
"Damn that list got long fast." Marie says picking up the empty plate from the counter.
Edd saves the list on his phone then puts it away. "It is, but a lot of the things on it are one time buys."
She lets out a sigh. "Yeah, this is going to be a long trip isn't it?" She asks already dreading going into a grocery store.
Edd knows how much Marie hated her old job. "It is, but it's not your old work so won't see anyone you know." He says trying to reassure her about the trip to the store.
"I doubt they would let me back into that place." Marie says remembering the less than peaceful last day she had at her old job.
It took them about thirty minutes of driving around Lemon Brook to find a grocery store.
"Damn this place is freaking huge!" Marie exclaims as they walk through the sliding double doors of the large building.
Looking around at the store Edd says; "It must be one of those super stores, you know they have groceries on one half and then the other half has everything else you would need to buy from a store."
"It must be, looks at the size of these carts." Marie says as they walk further into the store.
The shopping carts were almost twice the size of normal shopping carts Marie remembers from her old job. "Oh my, you could fit a full grown adult in one of these." Edd says pulling one of the super carts out of the row of them.
"That an invitation?" Marie asks as they walk past the cart stall.
Grinning Edd steps to the side of the cart. "If you want to take a ride I won't stop you." He says cuping his hands together to give her a help up into the cart.
Marie giggles the whole time she steps on Edd's hands and into the cart. She hadn't expected Edd to run with her joke, but she never passes up the opportunity to have fun with Edd, regardless if she looks silly doing so.
"Ready?" Edd asks once Marie was sitting down in the cart.
Pointing in front of them she says; "Onward for food." Causing Edd to let out a laugh.
As they went around the store Edd would pick things on the list off the shelves and set them in the cart next to Marie. Eventually she did have to get out of the cart as it was getting to full.
"Sorry your ride is over." Edd says as he helps Marie out of the cart.
Making sure she didn't step on any of the stuff in the cart while she held Edd's hand she says; "Its ok Double Dee, it was fun while it lasted." She jumps out of the cart and lands next to Edd. "Plus now I can grab stuff I want, like this big bag of tots." She adds opening a door to a freezer to grab a three pound bag of tater tots.
Now that she wasn't in the shopping cart Marie went from just watching Edd push her around and picking up the items from the list to gathering items off it with him.
They had started on the food end of the store and have slowly been making their way up and down every aisle filling the cart. Every so often Marie would stop Edd and give him a kiss or would walk up behind him and start nibbling in his ear.
Edd had learned that public displays of affection was one of the many thing Marie enjoyed doing and even though the store was packed with other Sunday shoppers who would stare at them with questioning looks Edd let her play around none the less, never mind the fact that Edd himself enjoyed her affection too.
While Edd knew of the basics needed to stocks the apartment with food, it was Marie that was making sure they had all the little things they would need, like sugar, salt and coffee filters.
"It's a good thing I have you with me Marie, I could have ended up without the important small things needed for the apartment." he says as Marie looked over the shelf of tin containers of spices.
Marie grabs a few she knows they would use. "It's all thanks to all the times Mom sent me to get stuff for her when I was younger." She says dropping the half dozen containers into the slowly filling shopping cart. "But don't give me all the credit, if it was up to me I would just buy bags of tots and stuff to make ham sandwiches." She adds as they start walking down the aisle.
When they finally reached the end of the side of the store that had food and went into the non-food section the cart was two thirds full of all kinds of food they were getting for the apartment.
"Should we get a big pack of paper or something smaller?" Edd asks Marie as he looked at the shelf full of differ brands and sizes of toilet paper.
"A six pack should be plenty, an answer I never thought I would have to give you." Marie says a little amazed that she just told Edd what size pack of toilet paper they should get.
Edd picks up a six pack of toilet paper and adds it to the cart. "It is a question I never have thought I'd need to ask you myself."
"All part of us being responsible adults huh?" Marie asks as Edd started to push the cart down the aisle.
Edd has always thought of himself as a responsible person and he knew Marie will be responsible too now that they were out of high school and the demands for responsibility was higher. "That it is, I for see that all kinds of silly little questions and requests will be made." He says as Marie takes his right hand off the cart and laces her fingers together and puts her own right hand on the cart to help push it with Edd.
"As long as I'm with you, no question or request is silly." She says before kissing him on the cheek.
"Look at this one Double Dee. It has everything we need and it's blue." Marie says holding up a large box with pictures of all of the cookware it had in it.
Edd takes the box from her and looks it over himself. The set has a saucepan, a large pot, frying pan, a full set of knifes and several cooking utensils all for a reasonable price. "This should do perfectly." He says adding the box to the cart.
"Oh look! Matching cutlery!" Marie adds picking up a four piece set of fork, knives and spoons that have handles the same color as the cooking set Edd just added to their cart.
"Let's get those too then." Edd says finding Marie's excitement over the color of the sets a little funny.
"Yay! Thank you Muffin." Marie says kissing Edd on the cheek as she set the box of silverware in the cart.
With their shopping done Edd and Marie wait in the checkout lines for their turn to pay for everything they filled the shopping cart with. Like she used to do in high school while waiting in the lunch line Marie had pulled Edd's arms around herself and was leaning against his chest. Originally it was just a way Marie would show the other kids in the school that Edd was hers and hers alone, but now it was just something she does when Edd and her are in any line together.
"What should we do for lunch Double Dee?" She asks turning her head to look up at Edd.
Edd takes a well-rehearsed awkward step forward while still holding Marie "Probably something simple, maybe some sandwiches."
"And coffee, we need to make our first batch of coffee" She adds catching an older gentleman rolling his eyes at Edd and her.
Edd also sees the older gentleman looking at them and tightens his grip on Marie as a way to show that he doesn't care if people see them standing together like they are. "We'll make some coffee too."
"You got the stools Double Dee?" Marie asks as Edd and her finish unloading the cart of everything they had picked out from the vast selection of items the store had to offer.
"I got them." Edd says pulling a pair of boxes out from the bottom of the cart.
When they were walking past the furniture section they spotted some bar stools that you have to put together yourself and they figured a pair of them would be good to pick up for sitting at the island counter in the kitchen.
With the cart emptied Marie and Edd see just how much stuff they had. "Damn, we did some hardcore shopping." Marie says before taking out her cell phone to see what time it was. "Holly balls! We've been in here for almost two hours."
Edd takes out his pocket watch and see that they have in fact been inside the store for the better part of two hours. "Oh my, we were in here for a long time." He says putting his watch away. He then looks at all the stuff on the register belt and makes a quick calculation of the cost of everything. "Hum… I figure its two hundred fifty seven dollars and sixty nine cents in total." He says telling Marie how much he thinks everything will cost.
Marie knows that Edd excels at all things math and believed his guess. "Sticking with that amount?" She asks joking around with him as the clerk started to ring up their items.
"Yes I am." He says catching the sound of sarcasm in her voice.
"And what if you're wrong?" Marie asks still joking around with him.
Grinning with confidence in himself he says; "IF I am wrong, then I will carry everything up to the apartment including you."
Marie likes the idea of Edd carrying her up to the apartment, even if the chances of his guess is almost nonexistent. "Deal." She says as she hopped that for once Edd had made an error in his addition.
"Two fifty seven, sixty nine is your balance." The clerk says totaling up the order.
'Damn' Marie thinks watching her chance of being carried up to the apartment fly out the metaphorical window.
"Told you." Edd says smiling at Marie as he pulls out his wallet.
Smiling back at him while hiding the small amount of disappointment she has Marie says; "I never said you were wrong."
Edd pulls out his bank card and was halfway through handing it to the clerk to pay for everything himself when Marie grabs his hand. "Let me pay for half Double Dee." She says stopping him from handing his card to the clerk.
"I don't mind Marie."
"I know you want to be a gentleman and pay for it all, but this is for our home Double Dee. And we have to share everything, including the cost of food." She says lowering his hand and looking him in the eye with a serious look on her face.
He did want to be a gentleman and pay for everything, but she did have a point about them sharing everything. "Ok Marie, we'll split the cost."
Happy that Edd is letting her help Marie pulls out her own wallet. "Thank you Muffin." She says pulling her own card out of her wallet.
"Put just a hundred and twenty on her card pleases." Edd says before Marie could tell the clerk a different amount.
Marie looks up at Edd. "You have to be the more generous one don't you?"
"I wouldn't be a gentleman if I didn't take the larger part of the payment."
Marie leaded up and gave Edd a quick kiss. "You are lucky that I love you so much."
"And with these two that marks the last of the bags." Edd says setting down the last of the paper bags of their shopping. Even though Edd didn't lose the little bet he still carried up most of the bag to the apartment.
"Never again should we do that big of a shopping trip Double Dee." Marie says laying on Edd's mattress where she had dropped down after she'd set down the last bags she had brought up.
Edd walks over and sits down next to her. "A little worn out?" He asks looking down at her.
She scoots over and rests her head on Edd's leg. "A bit, and I think I have a little PTSD from watching them bag up our stuff."
Petting her hair gently he asks; "Because you never liked your old job, or because they did a poor job?"
With a laugh she says; "Just watching them work. Knowing that I could quit that job was one of the many reasons that I loved this move here."
Edd also laughs. "It is good to know that you have several reasons for liking our move."
"And most of them are right here." She says reaching up and pokes Edd in the chest with her index finger.
Edd takes her hand and kisses it. "Your most of my reasons too Marie."
Marie felt her cheeks turn a little red from the gentle kiss he gave her hand. "You are so freaking adorable Edd." She says sitting up on the mattress.
Still holding her hand and looking at her with a loving smile Edd says; "You are adorable as well Marie."
Feeling her love for Edd take over Marie jumps at him and quickly has him pinned to the bed. "I love you so damn much Edd." She says before giving him a long and deep kiss.
Edd was shocked by the attack but didn't try at all to stop Marie, he just relaxed and kissed her back.
After several minutes of laying on his mattress kissing Marie Edd rolls her off of on top of him. "As much as I hate to stop you Marie, we need to stop and put away our perishable grocers before they spoil." He says sitting up.
Marie lets out a long sigh disappointed that he was right and their fun needed to end so they could put the food away before the cold items became too warm and go bad.
"I'm sorry Marie." Edd says as he pulls his shirt back into place.
Marie sits up herself and adjusting her own clothing. "Its fine, we do need to make sure our food doesn't go bad."
Together they worked on putting away their shopping, which was taking longer than it should because Marie kept distracting Edd with kissing him and other acts of flirtation. After all this time Marie is still a little forceful with Edd, but not as much as she used to be.
"Can you put these on top of the fridge for me pleases Muffin?" Marie asks holding out two boxes of different cereal to Edd.
"Sure." Edd says taking the boxes from her.
"Thank you Double Dee." She says folding up an empty paper bag. She hasn't noticed it herself, but Edd has noticed that her manners have improved a lot since they started dating, leaps and bounds in comparison to her sisters.
Once the food was put away Edd made them some sandwiches while Marie brewed a pot of coffee.
"Here we are Double Dee, our first batch of coffee made with PF." Marie says holding a mug of coffee out to Edd who was closing up the bag of deli meat they had gotten at the store.
"PF?" He asks taking the mug curios as to what Marie meant.
"Potential Fire hazard. It's what I chose to name the coffee maker." She says before taking a drink from her own mug of coffee.
"Oh." Edd says with a laugh. "That is a fitting name for the coffee maker." He takes his first sip of the coffee. "Mmm, that is pretty good." He says enjoying the coffee.
"If I know one thing about coffee, it is that the Swedes know their coffee."
"You were right, it was definitely worth buying that Swedish brand of coffee." Edd says before taking a full drink of the coffee.
Setting down her mug and picking up her sandwich Marie says; "Thanks for making the sandwiches by the way Double Dee." Before taking a bite out of the ham and cheese sandwich.
Picking up his own sandwich, cut in perfect triangles, Edd smiles and says; "To our first official homemade meal." Holding up the peace of sandwich as a toast.
"To our first meal." She says taping her own sandwich against his.
After they finished their lunch they worked on moving boxes and other various things to where they need to go at start the unpacking process. Edd's desk stuff and both of their books in the far left corner next to Edd's L shaped desk and bookshelf, the rest of their clothing and the pieces of Edd's bed in the bedroom.
As Marie set the last box labeled "Edd's Desk" down on the floor next to his desk she sees "Marie's coffee cup" on the list Edd had written for the contents of the box. Curious she opens the box up and sees the paper coffee cup she had given Edd when she had gotten him to ditch school for the first time. She honestly didn't think Edd would have kept the cup with the drawings on its back when she had given it to him.
She picks up the cup from the box and smiles. "This must be what he meant about me not being the only one keep reminders." She says looking over the drawings she did on the cup.
As she looked at the cup covered in her drawings an idea comes to her and she takes a marker out of the box and quickly adds "Love you Muffin, don't work too hard" to the inside of the cup.
"Heh heh, that is going to confuse him." She says putting the cup and marker back into the box before closing it back up.
Just as she closed the box, Edd walked out of the bedroom. "Where do you want to put your painting shelf?"
Marie turns around to face Edd hoping he didn't see her. "Oh, uh I dunno. Where can we put it?" She asks looking around at the empty walls.
"Well I have already asked the landlord if it would be ok to hang it and your paintings and he said that so long as we don't damage the drywall with an excessive amount of holes we can hang them anywhere." Edd says also looking at the walls.
"Humm…" She says as her gaze falls on the wall next to the window. "How about here?" She asks putting her hand on the wall. "Your desk is going to be in this corner and we can put your bookshelf next to it and with my painting things next to that this whole corner will be like a work place corner." She says picturing how the corner of the apartment could look in her mind.
Edd also images what the corner of the apartment would look like. "That would work quite well."
Happy that he likes her idea Marie grins at Edd. "Awesome, but did you bring any tools to put it together and hang it?" She asks taking her hand off the wall.
"I did bring all of my tinkering tools, I'll put the shelf together if you want to keep moving stuff." Edd says walking over to the stack of his boxes already next to his desk.
Marie grabs Edd as he passes her and gives him a kiss. "Thank you Muffin." She says giving him a hug after the kiss.
Hugging her back he says; "You are most welcome Marie, I did promise your sister that I would do anything and everything to make you happy."
As Edd worked on putting the shelf together and then hanging it Marie moved the last of the boxes and Edd's dresser into the bedroom. Across from the door into the bedroom is a window and a walk in closet to the right of it.
Pushing Edd's four drawer dresser against the same wall the door is in Marie wipes the sweat off her brow with the back of her hand. "Whew." She says turning to lean against it. "This thing was heavy."
She looks around the room at the boxes of her and Edd's things, the pieces of Edd's bed frame and their clothes. Were Marie had just thrown all of her clothing into trash bags for the move, Edd had packed up his in a duffle bag and a pair of black and white plastic laundry baskets. When she had changed into her pajamas the night before and then in the morning after her shower she had just thrown her things out of the bags onto the floor looking for article of clothing, while Edd had carefully taken things out of his bags and baskets and had them neatly organized on the floor.
Looking at Edd's cloths Marie see all the black in his wardrobe. 'I wonder if that's my doing?' she thinks curious if it was her and her bad girl ways that have influenced Edd to wear more black clothing or if he's always had a little bit of bad in himself and she just awoke it. 'Eater way, he looks good in black.'
Back in the main room of the apartment Edd had just finished hanging the shelf on the wall.
Taking a step back he looks at the shelf on the wall carefully looking at it to make sure it was level. "Hum." He says squinting at the shelf.
"It looks amazing Double Dee." Marie says warping her arms around Edd from behind him and standing on her tones to be tall enough to rest her head on his shoulder.
"Thank you Marie." He says as she kisses him on the cheek.
Marie lets go of Edd and he turns around to face her. "I got most of the stuff put away in the bedroom. I didn't hang any of your clothes in the closet cause I don't know how you wanted them, but everything else is basically done."
"Thank you for doing that Marie, I'll take care of my things later."
"We've gotten a lot of stuff done today." She says feeling a little hungry.
Looking over at the mattress on the floor and the box spring a few feet away still leaning against the wall Edd says; "That we have, shall we move the box spring and mattress into the bedroom next?"
"Sure. Then I'll make us something to eat, all this working has burned away my lunch."
"And there we go, bed all made." Edd says setting his green pillow down on the left side of the bed next to Marie's black one.
Marie wanted to jump onto the bed any lay across the green bedding, but she knew Edd likes having a well-kept bed so she held back that urge for the time being. "Now that that's done." She says as her and Edd walked out of the bedroom. "I'll get to work on wiping up some dinner."
"While you work on that I can hang some of your works and maybe put some books away." He says looking at the painting of Marie and him she had given him for their first Christmas and the drawing of him she'd made when they were trapped in the school and a few others sitting on his desk.
"Where you going to hang them?" Marie asks pulling a blue box of elbow noodles out of the well-organized cupboard.
"Well I think the drawing of me and the painting of us are a bit too personal to have out here, so I guess I'll hang them in the bedroom and the other two…" He says looking around at the empty walls.
"We could hang the Spider web one on the other side of the window and the robots dancing one could go on the wall in between the bedroom and bathroom doors." He says picking out places that they could hang Marie's painting.
Turning on the water to fill the pot in the sink Marie says; "Cool, just be careful with that hammer." Smiling at him as he pulls his hammer out of a box.
"Trust me." Edd says spinning the hammer around his finger. "I have been hammering nails for a long time."
"That could be taken very wrong." Marie says holding back a laugh at what Edd said as he picked up the two pictures he was going to hang in the bedroom.
After hanging the two in the bedroom Edd hangs Maries other paintings on the walls of the main room of the apartment. The two paints were some of Maries best works, both getting her A's in art class, which Marie said she didn't care about but Edd had a feeling she liked getting recognition for her hard work. The one he hung on the wall next to the window was of a large spider web made with a lot of different colors with an equally large black spider with a skull on it and the one on the wall between the doors was of two retro looking robots dancing the waltz.
"How's that look?" Edd asks stepping back from the painting of robots.
"Looks great." Marie says looking at her painting carefully hung on the wall. "So dinner will be done soon and unless you want to stand or sit on the floor you might want to get working on those stools." She adds pointing with a large plastic spoon at the two boxes that the stools they bought are still in.
"Not even a please?" He asks cracking a smile at her.
Returning the smile and pointing at him with the spoon. "In a Kanker's kitchen there is no please or even thank you." She says playing around with him.
"I've never heard this rule before." He says opening the box to one of the stools.
Her grin grows. "It may or may not be a rule I just made up on the spot to tease you."
"It is a good thing that you are beautiful and that I love you." Edd says pulling the metal legs for the stool out of the box.
"And what if I wasn't this sexy, would you still be in love with me?" Marie asks leaning on the island counter chewing on a noodle testing to see if it was cooked.
Edd looks up at her with the warm and caring smile she has enjoyed since the first time she ever saw it. "I would still love you regardless of how you looked."
Feeling her cheeks warm she says; "Jesus, Lee was right, we are still in the honeymoon phase."
"What do you mean?" Edd ask tightening a bolt with an allen wrench on the stool.
"Oh when you called yesterday I was with my sisters going through our cloths and she said we were still in the honeymoon phase of our relationship even after over two years of being together." She says as she dumped the water and noodles out of the pot into a straining bowl sitting in the sink.
Edd sets the first stool up on its legs and pushing down on the seat to see if it's assembled properly "Honeymoon phase? You mean the silly little flirting and teasing we do all the time?" He asks pushing the stool over by the island counter.
"Yeah I guess that's what she means." Marie says before ripping open a packet of yellow powder and pouring it onto the noodles she had already dumped back in the pot.
Opening the second stool box Edd says; "I like our silly little flirting and teasing we do, I just assumed that's what all couples did."
Marie opens the fridge and pulls out a container of milk. "I like it too. I can't say if everyone does it, nor do I care if they do. It's our thing and we will do whatever we want to do."
"That is another thing I love about you. Your lack of caring of what others think." Edd says as he assembled the second stool faster than the first one having the assembly process still in his head.
"You want to know another thing I love about you?" She asks adding another reason to her "Why I love Double Dee" list she keeps in her head.
"Always."
"Look at this place Double Dee, we got a whole lot of work done today and it is all thanks to your planning and thinking ahead. If had been up to just me I wouldn't have even gotten our stuff sorted into the proper places."
"I didn't do that much, I didn't even get to putting any books away." Edd says thinking he didn't do as much work as Marie was giving him credit for.
"Don't sell yourself short Double Dee, you are an amazing planner and coordinator. Its cause you thought ahead and we got all the stuff we did at the store that I was able to make a Kanker specialty, cut up hot dogs in Mac n' Cheese." She says setting the pot down onto the island counter telling him what she had made for dinner.
"The first meal I ever had at your house as your boyfriend." Edd says remembering when he had helped Marie cook dinner for her and her sisters.
Marie pulls out a pair of bowls from the cupboards. "Almost, didn't have to use grated cheese this time." She says as Edd finished assembling the second stool.
"There we go, proper sitting equipment." He says testing the stool just like he hand done with the first. "And I'm sure it will taste just as great as the first time we made the dish."
Scooping out a spoon full of the Mac n' Cheese and hotdog pieces Marie says; "Well we are about to find out."
As she server out their dinner Edd moved the stools around to the far corner of the island counter so they could sit next to each other while they ate. "Would you like something to drink?" He asks walking over to the fridge as Marie set the bowls down in front of the stools.
"A can of soda pleases." She says digging out a pair of forks from one of the draws.
Edd grabs two cans of soda out of the fridge and sets them down by the bowls before he sits down on one stool just before Marie sat down next to him.
"Thank you for cooking dinner Marie." He says before taking his first bite of the dish.
Stopping halfway to her mouth with her fork full of food Marie says; "No problem Double Dee, you can do the cooking tomorrow night." Smiling at him.
Returning the smile he says; "fair enough." Before taking a second bite.
"That was delicious Marie." Edd says setting his fork down next to his empty bowl.
Giving him a kiss on the cheek Marie picks up his and her bowl. "Glad you liked it. If you want to go get changed I'll clean up." She says carrying the bowls over to the sink.
"Do you want me to help you?" He asks offering to help her clean up the kitchen.
"Na, I got this." She says wanting him to go into the bedroom so she could execute a plan she's been formulating for a while now.
Edd shrugs his shoulder. "Ok, well if you need anything just say so." He says walking over to her to give her a kiss on the cheek.
"I will." She says turning on the water to fill the sink with hot water.
She listens for the sound of the door closing and when it does she started to quickly wash out the bowls, plates from the morning, mugs from their afternoon coffee and the pot and spoon she used to make the dinner. 'Ok, it's going to take him about ten minutes to change into his pajamas so we have like fifteen to get this done.' She thinks squirting a small amount of dish soap into the sink.
As Marie quickly works on cleaning the plates, bowls, mugs and the cookware Edd changed into his pajamas. After changing he hung up his dress shirts and pants on his side of the closet and then went and laid on his side of the bed to read a book.
Stopping at the end of a page he looks up from the book and out the window to his left at the night sky to the painting of Marie and him on the wall across from the bed to the drawing of him on the wall above his dresser. "I really like this place." He says smiling as he goes back to reading.
Halfway through that page he hears the door open and looks up to see Marie walk into the room.
"Hey." She says with a hint of seduction in her voice as she closed the door.
"Hey." Edd says back a little concerned about the tone of her voice and what was about to come.
Marie swings her hips as she walked over to the bed then climbs onto it and crawls over to Edd on her hands and knees. Looking him directly in the eyes she slowly pulls the book out of his hands before she climbed onto his lap. "We have some unfinished business." She says tossing the book onto the nightstand on Edd's side of the bed.
"Unfinished business?" He asks as Marie runs her fingertips across his chest.
Marie slides her hands into Edd's and holds them down to his side. "From earlier." She says before she starts to kiss him.
Edd tried to pull his hands out of Marie's, but she stops him and grins as they continue to kiss. "Ah ah." She says breaking the kiss. "Your mine mister."
"What do you plan on doing to me then?" Edd asks flirting with her.
Marie lets go of Edd's hands and grabs the bottom of her shirt and pulls it off. "This give you a hint?" She asks tossing her shirt off to the side.
Taking advantage of her letting go of his hands Edd reaches over and turns the lamp off on the night stand. "It does." He says grabbing her sides. "But I think I am going to have to change your plans a little." He adds before he rolled her onto her back and he gets on top of her.
Marie giggle as Edd starts to kiss her, she was unsure where Edd gets his boldness when they would "fool around", but she loved that he would take charge in the bedroom.
"I love you Marie." Edd says breaking the kiss and leaning up slightly.
"I love you too Double Dee, but enough talking." She says pulling him back to herself by his shirt.
Sorry this is taking longer than my other stories did to come out, real life has been taxing. But I have plans for this one, a lot of plans.
