Principle Walrts hated Mondays, he had to get to the school an hour earlier than the rest of the staff to do a walkthrough of the building and to reset the power timer the city had installed to save on electricity. He pulls into his regular parking spot at the school and sighs as he looks at the building.
"Six o'clock is too damn early." He says as he opens his car door and steps out of his car. He locks the door and takes a big drink from his travel mug of coffee then turns to walk up to the front door. Using his master key he unlocks one of the front doors and enters the school, as he walks down the empty hall to the school office and enjoys the quietness of the school. When he reaches the school office he unlocks its door and makes his way to his personal office room. Next to his door is the power timer, he hits a few of the buttons and the lights start to come on throughout the school. He leaves his jacket and briefcase inside his office and starts his inspection of the school.
He walks down the hall checking the doors to the rooms making sure they are locked. "Yep" he says every time the door he checks is locked, but when he gets to the art room he turns the knob he says; "Unlock as usual." As well as when he reaches the Gym door.
But when he sees that one of the janitor closets are open he stops. "This isn't right." He says looking at it as walked up to it. "Oh wait, this is that one that gets stuck if closed. Maybe one of the janitors just left it open." He says walking away down the hall checking the other doors. He turns a corner and sees a door sitting wide open. "Ok, what is this?" He says walking over to the open door. It was the teachers' lounge and he knew that it is meant to be locked at all time to keep the students out of it. He steps inside of it and flips the light switch on.
"What the?" He says as he sees two students sleeping on the couch. He recognizes both of the students, one being problem chilled he usually sees at least once a week in the office, the other was one of the top students of the sophomore class that he is expecting great things from. He snaps his fingers waking the two kids from their slumber. "Eddward, Marie. Care to explain yourselves?" he asks as they sit up.
"Hu what?" Edd says as he wakes up.
"I asked you to explain why you and Miss Kanker are sleeping in the teachers' lounge when school is closed." He says crossing his arms.
"Oh yes, you see… um… we." Edd says not sure what to say to the principle.
"We got locked in the school by accident." Marie says jumping in to explain to the principle what they were doing. "You see Double Dee and I went into one of the janitors closets to look for some paper towels to clean up a mess Ed had made but the door jammed shut on us and it took us a couple of hours to get out and by the time we did the school was locked up and we had no way to get out. Neither of us had a cell phone with so we couldn't call anyone so we had to wait out the weekend here in the school. We found the door to the teachers' lounge unlocked so we decided to crash in here for the nights." She says slipping in a few lies to cover up the few things Edd did that were against the rules.
"Ok, but your parents surely have been wondering where you two are?" He asks not fully believing her story
"I was meant to attend the weekend science lecture with the Junior Scientist Club." Edd says.
"And my mom works double shifts on weekends so she wouldn't normally see me till tonight." Marie says giving her reason for her mother not being worried.
"Uh huh, so why didn't you use the payphone by the office? It gets its power from the phone line itself so it works even when the power is out for the weekend." He says raising an eyebrow.
Edd slaps himself on the forehead. "Why didn't I think of that? It's so simple" Edd couldn't believe he didn't think to look for a phone even when the power was on.
"Look I know you're a good kid Eddward, so I'm going to believe you. You two kids go home and clean up, I think losing a weekend is punishment enough for you. Just be back before final bell, I still expect you to attend school today." He says deciding that they are telling the truth.
"Thank you very much sir." Edd says standing up and shaking his hand.
"Yeah, thanks Principle Walrts." Marie says after Edd thanks the principle.
"You're welcome kids, just get going." He says pointing out the door with his thumb. Edd quickly puts his shoes back on then grabs his bag, thanks Principle Walrts again and Marie and him make for the exit of the school.
"Thanks for the quick thinking back there." Edd says once they get outside of the school.
Marie turns to Edd. "No problem, so I guess I'll see you later Double Dee." She says as she starts to walk away sad that their time together is ending.
Edd is hesitant at first but he says; "Marie, wait."
She stops and turns to face him. "Yeah Double Dee?"
Edd wanted to spend more time with her outside the school so he could see how he really feels about her asks; "Well you see I'm off from work today, so I was wondering if maybe after we return to our homes and clean up. You would like to um go to the mall and maybe hang out? You don't have to if you don't want to of course" He says his face running a little red.
'Is Double Dee asking me out on a date?' She thinks as she hears his proposal and walks back to him. Smiling at him she says; "What happen to never breaking the rules?"
Edd looks up at the school and says; "I think I learned quite a lot over this weekend to merit missing one day."
Marie smiles at the idea of spending another day with Edd away from everyone they know. "I'd love to, I'll meet you at your house after I freshen up ok?" She gives him a quick kisses the cheek and starts to walk away.
"Ok, see you then" He says as he watches her walk away.
Edd takes the long way on his walk home to avoid running into his friends, not wanting to explain to them why he will not be at school for the day.
When He gets home he heads straight up stairs to take a shower and change. While he is showering and putting on fresh change of clothing (a black short sleeved shirt and blue jeans) Edd is thinking of all he learned about Mare: How she really cares for his wellbeing, the soft side of her that she hides behind her tough punk rocker exterior, her passion for art, how he thinks its cute that she doesn't like the dark and how beautiful he thinks she is, not to mention the two kisses they shared while in the school.
As he is brushing his teeth he looks at himself in the mirror and asks himself out loud; "Do you like Marie Kanker?" He stares at himself thinking over everything that has happened over the weekend and finally says; "Yes" and smiles at himself.
He is about to pin up his hair to hide it under his hat but stops and looks at his hair. He picks up the brush he never uses and arranges his hair just like Marie had done so when he puts his hat on it hangs around his head like it did before. He pulls on his hat and smiles at his reflection in the mirror just as there is a knock on his front door. He goes down stairs to answer the door, and as he guessed it was Marie.
She is wearing a red sleeveless shirt with a black anarchy A on it and a plaid skirt being held up with her pink belt. She has a skull button pinned to her shirt and a black purse hanging off her shoulder.
"Ready to join me in a fun day of delinquency?" She asks when he opens the door.
Edd smiles when he sees her. "I'm sure if I'm with you it's going to be quite enjoyable." He steps outside and closes the door. "Shall we?" He asks her.
"Lead on." Marie says as they start walking down the street towards the mall.
As they walk down the street a question accurse to Marie. "Hey Double Dee you're sixteen, why don't you have your license?"
"My parents are making me wait till this summer to take a driving school class. They don't want anything to distract me from my school work." Edd tells her.
"Nice, I'm hoping my mom will let me get mine when I turn sixteen. But I think she'd want me to get a job first." She says as they stop at a traffic light.
"Trust me, working is not it's all cracked up to be. The amount of ignorance I deal with every day is astounding." Edd says as the light changes and the signal for them to walk across the street comes on.
"Where do you work?" Marie asks him as they cross the street.
"I work at the Radio Shack in the mall." He says sounding unenthusiastic about his place of work.
"It can't be that bad Double Dee." Marie says not believing how sad his voice sounds.
"If it wasn't for the fact that I can put my electronic knowledge to use to help others I would dislike it even more." He tells her as they reach the parking lot of the mall.
"You really like working with electronics, don't yah?" She asks him.
"Very much so. I know I'm a bit too young to be thinking this far into the feature, but I would love to someday work at Stark Industries in the R&D department." He says cupping his hands together and his face lighting up.
"Stark Industries? Isn't that the place that makes those strange batteries?" She asks him as he holds the door into the mall open for her.
"They do a lot more than make Arch batteries Marie, they do all kinds of things." He says as they walk along inside mall. "They do computer software, advance robotics, clean energy and not to mention all of those cool little gadgets they make, just to name a few." Edd says.
"Wow, that does sound kind of cool. Hey, let's go in here." Marie says pointing at one of the shops.
"Alright." Edd says as he follows her into the shop.
Inside the shop there is loud rock music playing and the walls are covered in mostly black clothing with shelves on the floor with various knick knacks and accessories of all kinds. "We are inside Hot Topic aren't we?" Edd asks her.
"Yeah, why?" She asks him raising an eyebrow at him.
"I just never would have thought of you to be one of the people that shop here. This place just seems so, commercialized." He says looking around the shop.
"Oh I don't buy clothes from here. I just come here for accessories sometimes. I make most of my clothes from stuff I find at thrift stores, it's more fun if you do it yourself." She says as she looks through a box of buttons. After a quick look around the store Marie says; "They don't have anything new, let's blow this popsicle stand." and leads him out of the shop.
Edd was enjoying his time spent with Marie so far, they've been walking around the mall making small talk and looking around the various shops for a few hours and he was happy with how the day is going. "Would you care to get something to eat Marie?" Edd asks her as they continue their stroll in the mall.
"As long as there is no junk food I'm game." Marie answers as they walk.
"I was thinking of that new place that just opened up in the food court that claims to have all healthy meals." Edd says suggesting a place for them to eat at on their day together.
"After eating vending machine food all weekend I would even eat grass." Edd laughs at her statement as they walk over to the food court to eat.
The place Edd wanted to eat at was in the far corner of the food court and almost no one was eating there.
"I guess this place isn't that popular." Edd says as they approach the counter to look at the menu.
"Yeah, but here we can hear each other talk." Marie says as she looks over the menu.
They make their decisions on what to eat and place their orders with the guy behind the counter.
Marie was reaching for her purse when Edd grabs her hand stopping her. "No need to pay for your food, it is a gentlemen's duty to pay for a lady when out on a da-"Edd stops himself from almost saying date. "Da day out on the town." Edd says correcting himself.
Edd had hoped that Marie hadn't noticed his almost slip up, but she was too clever for that. 'Aww he does think of this as a date. This day is just getting better and better.' She thinks. "Thanks Double Dee." She says thanking him for his generosity.
They get their trays of food and sit down at one of the tables to eat. Edd being the extreme neat freak that he is when it comes to eating carefully folds out a napkin onto his lap and uses a plastic fork and knife to carefully cut his sandwich as he ate. Marie wanting to impress Edd minds her table manners as she eats her own sandwich. Though she does still finish her food well before he finishes his, so she just sits and watches him eat.
"You know by now we would probably be going into gym class had we gone to school today." She says looking out the window.
"That is one blessing of the day. I can't stand gym class." Edd says in between bites.
"I like gym class." Marie says looking at him.
"May I ask why?" He asks curious as to her reasons for liking his least favorite class.
"Honestly? Its cause it's the only class I have with you." She says smiling at him.
With a little laugh Edd says; "I should have known."
"Ha ha, yep, any time I get to see you is a great time." Marie says as he finishes his last bite.
"So does that means today so far had been great?" He asks her as he folded up his napkin.
"Of course it has, I get to miss school and spend the day with you, this is a fantastic day." She says as they stand up to return their trays.
"Would you um, be interested in catching a movie Marie?" Edd asks her after they place the trays on a pile of them.
'So the plot thickens.' She thinks guessing that this was part of his plan for their secret date. "Sure as long as it's not some sappy romantic movie, I hate those." She says as they walk out of the food court.
"I am not fond of them either, but let us see what is playing and go from there?" Edd suggests.
"Sure why not." Marie says trying to not sound as excited as she is about seeing a movie with Eddy.
The Peach Creek Mall's movie theater wasn't very big and only showed three movies at a time. The three movies currently playing were: The Dark Knight Rises, one just called Tinkerbell, and the third was The Notebook.
"A unique selection as always I see." Edd says as the look at the movie selection.
"A kiddy one, an action one, and a sappy one. Well I know what one I want to see." Marie says crossing her arms in front of her.
"Batman I'm guessing, seeing as one is a "sappy romantic movie" and the other is meant for children." Edd says guessing her choice.
"You guessed it."
Edd buys both of their tickets for the movie as it is "another duty of a gentlemen" to pay for movie tickets. Marie again enjoying him playing the gentlemen accepted his offer to buy their tickets. 'This date is going great, hell its going better than I would ever have imagined it would have.' She thinks as they walked away from the ticket window.
"Would you like some refreshments?" Edd asks as they walk into the theater lobby and spots the concession stand.
"Na, I'm good, thanks for offering." Marie says not wanting anything to come between her and Edd alone in the dark movie theater.
Inside the theater Edd and Marie find it to be almost empty say for a few moviegoers that looked to be in there twenties sitting all the way in the back. The two teens take seats in the middle of the rows of chairs just as the film starts. Marie not normally having money to see movies in the theater or means to watch them after they come out on DVD had yet to see the first two movies of the trilogy so she didn't quite understand a few plot points. But the action scenes were enjoyable and being with Edd made the confusion of the plot line all worth it.
Edd however was confused about a different matter, he was dealing with yet another mental battle over Marie. He had already determined that he does in fact like Marie but he was unsure how to show it, let alone tell her that he likes her. 'Ok Double Dee, you're a smart young man. You can figure this out, how hard can it be to show a girl you like her. Flowers? No where would you get flowers in a movie theater? And I can't do candy or a greeting card. What is wrong with you Eddward? This is Marie Kanker not some girly girl that would want that kind of stuff. Just do something that shows how you feel and that isn't so obvious that the rest of the moviegoers will see.' He thinks as he tries to figure out what to do to show Marie that he likes her. 'A ha!' He thinks when he finally comes up with, in his mind, the perfect way to show Marie he likes her. He had decided that just simply putting his arm around her on top of her shoulders was the best way to show his affection. But as he goes to raise his arm his stomach fills with butterflies. He is nervous about performing his chosen act of affection and starts to sweat. 'Damn it man, you can do this.' He thinks as he takes a deep breath to try and calm the butterflies and slowly places his arm around her. When his arm touches her the butterflies explode in his stomach but soon dissipate after she doesn't do anything from his touch. 'See, I knew you could do it. Now relax and enjoy the rest of this movie Eddward.' He thinks as he takes another deep breath.
Marie was on the verge of squealing when he placed his arm around her. It was the one action she had hoped at the very least to get from him, and now that he had done it she had to stop herself from jumping onto him and kissing him. 'Calm down Marie we need to play this cool. Double Dee scares easily and we don't want to blow this. Just casually rest your head on his shoulder and watch the movie.' She does just that and slowly and carefully lays her head on Edd's shoulder and sighs a happy sigh as she smiles. 'Perfect.' She thinks as Edd makes no move to react to her actions. The two sit like that for the rest of the movie, Marie grinning that she is being held by the object of her years of aggressive affection and Edd himself smiling at the fact the he has his arm around the last girl he ever thought he would have fallen for.
When the movie ends and the credits start to roll Edd starts to realize that the lights will come on soon and have to face Marie and potentially have to explain his actions to her. 'Oh dear, I hadn't thought about what to do after the movie.' Edd thinks as the panic sets in again.
But when the lights do come up it is Marie that makes the first move. She leans up and kisses him on the cheek causing him to blush and smile. "I need to use the restroom, wait for me ok?" She says getting up and leaving before he could say anything.
Once inside the ladies room she checks to see that it is empty, and when she sees that there is no one in the room she releases her joy she's been holding in. "Oh my god this is so amazing!" She says jumping up and down hugging herself. "I never thought this would be happening to me! Double Dee and I are on a date together. May and Lee are never going to believe this." She was lost in her excitement that she barely heard the door to the restroom open. A blond girl wearing a shirt signifying that she works for the theater started to walk in and Marie shoots a look of pure evil and hate at her for interrupting her. The girl sees Marie and starts to back out of the room slowly with fear on her face. When the girl is out of the room Marie laughs. "Shows her for interrupting me." She says turning to look at herself in mirror. She pulls out a tube of lip gloss and applies some to her lips, "Drop dead as always." She says admiring her looks in the mirror. "Now best not to keep Double Dee waiting." She turns and walks out the door. The blond girl is standing with her back flat against the wall by the door to the restroom and when Marie steps out she quickly runs in avoiding Marie's gaze.
"Dare I ask what you did to that poor girl?" Edd asks standing a few feet away from the door.
"I'm a bad girl remember? I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't strike fear into the hearts of the masses." She says smiling.
"How could I forget? So I was thinking, would you like to get some ice cream before we return to our homes?" He asks her scratching the back of his head and looking off to the side.
"I'd love to get some." She says to him.
"Good, well then shall we?" He asks holding his arm out to direct her on the way they need to go.
As they walk Marie makes sure to keep her had free in hopes of him taking it with his, but the confidence Edd had had in the theater was gone and he was back to being nervous around her.
'I guess I'm going to have to take the initiative if I want him to show some affection to me.' Marie thinks as she brushes his hand with hers but getting no reaction from him. She was just about to take his hand with hers when he stopped walking and Marie realizes they are standing in front of the Dairy Queen inside the mall.
"Any idea what you would like?" He asks her as she quickly hides her hand behind her back.
"Oh, um a cone of chocolate will be fine." Marie says sounding guilty.
"Ok, I think I will get a vanilla one myself." Edd says stepping up to the counter to place their order.
'I'm not giving up on that hand of his.' Marie thinks watching him place the order.
They get their cones and are walking away from the shop. "Want to start walking back home?" Edd asks as they approach the doors of the mall.
Thinking that this is her last chance to spend time with him Marie says; "If you want to we can." 'What the hell? I don't want to leave yet, mouth what are you doing?' She thinks unsure why she had said what she just said.
"Alright then." Edd says feeling sad that she ready to leave.
They are still eating their ice cream as they walk down the sidewalk, Edd being right handed has his cone in his right hand and Marie sees this shifts her cone into her left hand. Not wanting to make him drop his cone she waits till he is not taking a bite from it to slide her hand into his and laces her fingers with his. Edd was surprised by her taking his hand, barely bending his neck he looks down at their hands joined and feels his heart start to race. He looks up at her face and sees her smiling as she looks forward like nothing significant had happened.
'We are holding hands! Ok Eddward this is no big deal, it's what all couples do when they walk together. Wait did I just refer to us as a couple? I can't make that assumption without even asking her how she feels about me. Come now Eddward you very well know how she feels about you, she likes you and you like her. Don't make this more complicated than it needs to be, just enjoy holding the hand of the girl you like.' Edd thinks as they walk down the street. Lost in his thoughts Edd hadn't noticed that he had started to squeeze Marie's hand, not hard but genital enough to make her think he wants to hold her hand.
Feeling him squeezing her hand made her feel like her heart was going to jump out of her chest. But she keeps control of her emotions (a lot better than Edd has been doing) and just squeezes his hand back as they walked down the street in silence.
After almost an hour of walking in silence, ice cream eaten and hands still together they reach Marie's trailer and she lets go of his hand to turn to face him. "I had a lot of fun today Double Dee."
With a smile Edd says; "I did too Marie." He starts to feel nervous about what he is about to ask her. "I was wondering, if you'd like to that is, maybe want to walk to school together tomorrow?" He asks rubbing the back of his neck with his hand.
"Are you asking as friends or something else?" She asks back wanting to hear him say what she wants him to say.
Edd looks away from her, his embarrassment starting to rise. But he takes a deep breath and pushes it down knowing he needs to "man up" for this. He looks back at her and says; "If you want it to be Marie, it can be as more than just friends."
Her eyes light up. "As in like a couple?" She asks her joy reaching the boiling point.
"Well um, yes. If you want it to be." He says asking her out in his own way.
She squeals and jumps at him wrapping her arms around his neck. "Yes Double Dee yes! You have no idea how happy I am!" She says then kisses him answering him.
Edd himself was happier than he's ever been as well. He wraps his arms around her holding her close to him kissing her back. Gone are any uncertainties he had about Marie and himself, he knows without a doubt that he likes this girl and she likes him back. Sure he didn't know all there is to Marie Kanker, but that is part of being in a relationship with someone. You learn things about them you didn't know before, strengthening your bond with them.
They finally broke their embrace but kept their arms around each other.
"You know Double Dee, this is also a great way to stop me from casing and stocking you." Marie says as smiling at him.
Edd laughs. "I assure you Marie that was not my intention when I asked you out on a date this morning."
"I had a feeling that you meant today to be a date." She says moving her hands from behind his head to on top of his shoulders.
"Was it that obvious?" He asks.
"You forget Double Dee, I've been chasing and stalking you for about four years now. I know you and how you word things, plus why else would you want to spend the day with me instead of going to school?" She says leaning back in his arms and keeping her hands on his shoulders.
"And I thought you were just chasing me around, but here you were studying me. I have to say I'm flattered." He says amazed that she knows things like that about him.
"I wouldn't say I studied you, more like I paid attention when I was around you." She says admitting what she really did to learn about him. "I can't wait to tell May and Lee that we're boyfriend and girlfriend, they are going to freak."
"I'm sure Ed and Eddy will be completely shocked when I tell them."
"I can be there with you when you tell them if you'd like?" Marie offers.
"It couldn't hurt for them to see us together when I tell them. And if they can't accept us being together, they will just have to learn to live with their unhappiness."
Marie giggles as she stands up straight as she takes her skull button off of her shirt and starts to attach it to Edd's hat.
"Why are you doing that?" He asks watching her atach her button to him.
"I'm showing the world that you are starting to go against the status quo and becoming a little bit of a bad boy from me corrupting you." She says when she finishes with her button.
Edd laughs. "I'd like to see you try and take me off my gentlemen's path."
Marie hugs him and rests the side of her head on his chest. "I never want you to stop being a gentleman Double Dee, you wouldn't be you if you did."
"And I wouldn't want you to stop being a bad girl." He says as he hugs her back.
"I really don't want to, but I think it's time I go and face the music." Marie says picking her head up from his chest.
"I should be getting home as well, Mother and Father are most likely home by now and are wondering where I am." Edd says not wanting to leave Marie but knowing he should.
Marie kisses him once more. " See ya Double Dee." She says and they let go of each other. She turns and starts walking up to her trailer and stops right at the door and turns back to face him. "Bye bye boyfriend! I'll see you tomorrow!" She yells loud enough for her neighbors to hear.
Edd laughs at her yelling goodbye. "Goodbye my girlfriend."
Marie blows him and kiss and turns to open the door. Edd turns around smiling and starts to look forward to the next day of school, but not because of learning anything new. As he start his walk home he hears her door close followed by Lee yelling; "Where the hell have you been?" and laughs at the thought of what the conversation will be like between his girlfriend and her sisters. On his way back home Edd thinks of how much has changed over this one weekend and all he has learned about Marie.
"This weekend turned out better than I ever thought it could have." He says as he jumps the fence into the lane next to the cul-de-sack.
AN: And there you have it, the end of their weekend alone together. But its not the end of this story, I have eleven more chapters planned out (you can thank getting to the midnight premiere for Transformers almost an hour early for that) so more will come. I reread the past three chapters and I did see all the spelling and grammar errors and I do apologize for that. I edited this one in Google Doc's in hopes that I wouldn't miss any. At the moment of writing this the story has almost 950 views and I have to say thankyou to everyone that took the time to read this, it gives me a boost in my confidence in my writing skills knowing that people are enjoying this story.
