Chapter three: Mending the wounds
As Edd entered the trailer park, he began to feel a mixture of both remorse and sorrow. He realized that trying to patch things up with Marie could be like playing chicken with a grizzly bear, but he just couldn't stand life without her.
When he reached the Kanker's trailer, he knocked lightly on the front door and to his surprised he was not greeted by Marie or her sisters for that matter, but her mother who at the moment looked like she was going to kill the poor boy on the spot. Margret Kanker a.k.a Momma Kanker as Eddy called her was a heavy-set woman with a soft spot for her daughters and a double-barrel shot gun for anyone that would try to hurt her girls. Ms. Kanker worked as a guard at the peach creek prison and knew how to scare the piss out almost anyone as the Eds have learned over time.
"Y'a got a lot a nerve to show your face around here kid!" the older women snarled at the boy "gimme one good reason why I shouldn't get the shotgun and blow y'er brains right outta y'er head!"
The scary part of that threat was that it was true. Edward gulped and gathered up the courage to reply.
"I-I'm here to see Marie" he stammered "I came to apologize about my parents behavior"
The mother of the Kanker sisters glared at him for a few seconds before allowing him to step into her home. He then headed to Maries room, where he found the door shut and could hear her crying.
"Marie" he said as he knocked on her door "it's me, Edd"
"Go away!" she shouted from the other side of the door
"Can we please talk about this?" Double-D replied "If I am to be killed by your mother before the day's end at least let me see your face again before that happens"
The room was silent for what might have been a minute or two until Edwards blue haired beauty opened the door two her room.
"Get in here" she said
The young genius entered his girlfriend's room. It had several posters on the wall of such bands as Disturbed, Bullet for my Valentine and Slipknot. The room was still had its dense sag carpet and she still had the bed that her mother got from a garage sale. Marie closed the door again and sat down on the bed while Edd stood.
"Well you wanted to talk" she began "so talk"
"Where do I start?" Edward began "first off allow me to say I'm sorry for what me parents said to you"
"And I'm just supposed to say ok and just take the future insults right?" the trailer park girl replied coldly
"I didn't say that" the hat wearing Ed answered "you being irrational"
"Irrational?" Marie nearly shouted "your mom and dad shun me like a freaking plague and you call me irrational?"
"Their parents Marie, what was I supposed to do?" Edd shot back "just ignore them?"
"You could've stood up to them for me" the middle Kanker sister said meekly
Edward didn't answer with words; instead he sat next to his beloved and kissed her tenderly. At first Marie tried to resist the kiss, but then quickly changed her mind and began to kiss back. The two teenagers began to make-out on the girl's bed until the heard a loud knocking at the door.
"Is everything all right in there?" the Kanker's mother asked through the door
"Yeah were ok mom" the blue haired red-neck answered "there's no need to come in"
"Ok sweety" her mother replied "I'll just go and put the shotgun back"
When Double-D was certain that she had left, he turned his attention back to his girlfriend.
"You are right my blue haired goddess" he whispered sweetly into her ear "if being disowned by my mother and father takes to be with you then I'll do it"
He kissed her again before getting up and was about to leave when his lover grabbed his wrist and yanked him back and pushed him down onto her bed. Marie climbed over him and pinned him down before kissing him roughly.
"I suppose I could stay for another hour or so" Edd thought to himself as Marie switched off the lamp next to the bed
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It's was late when Edd left the trailer park. As he stood in front of his house he took a deep breath and stepped in. when he entered he found both of his parents standing in the living room waiting for him.
"Where have you been young man?" his father demanded "it's eleven thirty at night and you didn't even bother calling us"
"If you must know, I was at Marie's house" Edward replied
Edd's dad clenched his fists and glared daggers at his offspring.
"Why did you go to that girl tonight Edward?" he demanded "she's nothing more than a diseased ridden whore who will only move on to someone else she grows bored of you"
That was the last straw for the boy, he refused to just stand around and listen to his father denim the girl he loved.
"That's Enough!" Edd exclaimed "I've had enough of this!"
Before his dad could shout back, Double-D pressed on.
"Marie is not a whore!" he continued "she's smart, caring and I love her more than any amount of school work and if you can't handle it father, then I refuse to live in a house with you!"
Both of his parents were speechless at their son's outburst. Double-D seized this chance and stormed up his room and gathered what he could carry in his suit-case and without saying a word Edward left his home.
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"I thank you again for letting me stay here Eddy" the middle Ed thanked
"it's cool" the shorter Ed said "just don't expect me to give you a warm glass of milk and massage your feet like last time"
"I've grown out of that" Edd chuckled as he set down his sleeping bag in Eddy's bedroom
As the beanie wearing boy laid down he heard his friend speak again.
"Do really think Maries worth leaving your folks over?" he asked
"To me she is" Edd answered "in the time we've dated, I feel like a whole new person and it's all thanks to her, I never believed in soul mates until I got to know Marie and I will not let anything come between us"
"Yawn" Eddy said
"I should've know better than to try and explain my feelings to you" Double-D mumbled
"Yeah whatever sock-head" the green tongued boy grunted "let's just get some sleep, you can see your 'soul mate' at school tomorrow"
When Edd drifted off to sleep he began to dream of himself and his beloved in an Victorian-Era castle with himself as the king and Marie as his queen; their children were playing in the royal garden with the both of them watching in amusement and within this dream, he felt more content than ever before in his life.
"Ah…nice" he whispered out aloud while he slept
