What Double Dee had walked in on was enough to send shivers down his spine. It would appear to be a handful of the cheerleaders (or 'in' crowd) spreading make-up at random across Maries' little sisters' face. Her face was essentially a moshpit of combating hues of lipsticks, eyeliner, and foundation. After regaining his composer, and getting the shrieks out of the youngest sister out of his mind, he decided to intervene.
"Just what do you think you're doing?! Let her go this instant!" Edd demanded, forcing the leader of the group to let go of her hair.
"Ohhh but we're just making this freak pretty! What are you even doing in this bathroom loser?" the leader, or Jessica, replied.
Jessica was a newer student who lived in the central melopolitan area of Peach Creek. She was born from a well off family, and was a star cheerleader. Just two months after moving to Peach Creek, she replaced the much friendlier Nazz on the cheerleading team. She was a rather tall girl; she had layered brown hair and wore various school spirit shirts, skin tight bell bottoms, and ugg-boots on most days. Essentially the definition of "popular chick".
"What you're doing isn't human! Look how terrified she is! Do you not see what you're doing?!" Edd replied with a tone similar to an angry father.
"Okay geez, she's not worth our time anyways. Come on girls, we have routines to drill." Jessica said snapping her fingers to her cliché.
Double Dee went over to the sniveling blonde girl to help her up.
"Well, I suggest you wash your face bef-" he was caught off guard by a spontaneous hug.
"Thank-you Double Dee, I don't know what I would have done!" shrieked May in her usual squealing voice.
"Well, I was just performing my duty as a fellow student to stop bullying." he said as she was washing her face. "What's your next class?" he poised.
"Study hall, but I think I need to find one of my sisters." May responded.
"I can assure you that Marie is in the lunch room, maybe you could go talk to her." Edd suggested, smiling a bit for coming up with a good scape goat.
"I think I'll do that, thanks Double Dee!" she exclaimed.
With a goodbye, Edd made his way to the lunch room to find almost all of the seats had been taken. He finally settled with sitting on the end of the table closest to the lunch room exit. After a few moments of relative peace, he was shaken out of his studying daze with a load bang on the table. He looked up to find Marie Kanker had dropped her book bag on the seat in front of him.
"Why h-hello Marie. Can I help you with something?" Edd stammered.
"May told me what you did for her, and I just wanted to say thankyou for standing up for her. I know not many people aside from my sisters and I would have." Marie replied in an unusually sincere voice.
Double Dee was caught off guard a bit by her grammar. He was so used to hearing random utterings and misused pronouns when listening to her.
"It really was no issue, Marie. I was just doing my civil du-" he was once again cut off, only this time with a finger to the lips.
"Just accept the thank you, pumpkin." Marie whispered in a more than sultry voice.
Double Dee whimpered as she grabbed his collar and pulled him in. He was expecting the usual sloppy kiss, but instead was met with a soft, gentle peck on the cheek. And even more surprisingly, he didn't even feel like washing his face after wards.
"I'll see you in third block." Marie said on a high note as she began to walk off towards the shop.
Double Dee continued his lunch as usual, only thinking of the little intervention he had with the blue-haired Kanker.
Marie had just left the lunch room for the shop. About halfway towards the shop, she decided to pay the gym room a visit to see about this 'Jessica' who had tormented her sister. When she opened the door for the gym, she was greeted with the domineering voice of the captain yelling at her squad-mates.
"Mimi! What did I say about bending your knees that far? C'mon! Our first practice is tomorrow!" Jessica practically shrieked through a megaphone.
Marie had at this point reached their position, and placed a tap on Jessica's shoulder.
"What do you want? Can't you see we're practicing here?" Jessica interrogated.
"What the hell do you think you were doing to my sister in the bathroom? You think you're cool picking on the only one of us who won't fight back?" Marie shot back.
"No, we just had an anonymous agreement that your…sister needed a makeover." Jessica replied with snort.
"Oh, you'll get yours, sister." Marie hissed with a pointing finger at Jessica.
With that, Marie walked away from a visibly catatonic Jessica. Everyone, by this point, had learned that it was not wise to mess with the Kankers. It wasn't Marie they feared necessarily, but the wrath of her big sister; Lee. Jessica would soon realize the error of her choice.
After that bit of business was out of the way, Marie found her way into the shop, and although she loved metal working, she couldn't stay focused as the thought of Double Dee coming to the rescue of her sister repeated itself in her head. She had known Double Dee to be a sort of chivalrous man at times, but actually intervening and stopping an act of bullying is something of triumph in her eyes. To her, it just made Double Dee even more lovable. And love she did. What would appear to be just a girl chase boy crush was actually a deeply romantic vision of Maries'. She had long given up the hope of Edd returning the feelings, or even befriending her, but maybe if she appealed to his softer side, and stopped terrifying him she could win him over. Although she does enjoy chasing him down and kissing him, she regrets her and her sister's first impressions on the Eds. Maybe if she wouldn't have had such a bad first impression they would be friends. As the thoughts corroded her mind, she managed to cut herself on a metal grinder.
"Ow! Dammit!" she exclaimed as she kicked the machine. "That really hurt…" she whimpered.
By this time, lunch had ended. She decided to head to the nurses and get a bandage for the rather deep seated cut in her hand. Little did she know that Edd's second block was that of an office assistant, and would be seeing him instead of the aging school nurse.
"Hello again Marie, what can I help you with?" asked Double Dee with enthusiasm, knowing she couldn't pull any stunts this close to the office.
"Double Dee..?" she mused aloud, a bit surprised to see Edd in a nurse outfit. "Well, I cut my palm on a metal grinder." she said while presenting her palm to Edd.
"My, you really did manage to cut yourself." He thought aloud as he examined the wound.
He gathered some gauss and bandaged her hand with caution, as to not aggravate the wound further. As he was wrapping her hand, he couldn't help but notice how soft her pale skin was. He reveled in the fact that he kind of like to hold her hand, and quickly dismissed the thought. Soon after he was done wrapping, and gave her the green light to leave.
As he was about to dismiss her, the second block dismissal bell rang, signaling the students to move onto their third block, of which Edd shared with Marie.
"Hey Double Dee?" Marie said a bit high pitched.
"Yes Marie?" Edd responded whilst taking off his apron and gloves.
"Could you walk me to Ancient History? Since we both have it?" she asked while haplessly kicking her legs back and forth.
"I suppose it wouldn't hurt anything to accompany you." Edd mused.
"Alright, just try not to make me look bad catnip." Marie replied with her trademark smirk and a hand across Edd's chin.
As Edd was cleaning up ad getting his supplies ready for next block, he had time to think about how the day had been treating him, weighed his odds, and decided it wouldn't hurt anyone for him to accompany Marie to History.
Or would it?
-Authors Notes-
Spoiler: It won't.
Also, sorry I had to name a character not from the original show, the thought came to me last night in bed, and I decided Nazz would never do that, she's too nice. Let it be known that Jessica won't be an integral piece of the story either, so no worries.
PS: Thinks might get mushy soon, I might hurl just from writing it!
As always, feel free to write a review, all the feedback I can get helps. Thankyou for reading, and hav a grand day