Disclaimer: I do not own Ed, Edd, n Eddy. This story is of my own original thoughts inspired by music!


We used to rule the world

Every kiss was an adventure

Every night with you was like a holiday

How we used to fly like two birds of a feather

Making promises we swore we'd never break

Why did we say goodbye?

I should've held on tight

Let's go back tonight

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Yeah, You rocked my world forever

I know you still remember

How we felt before

Yeah, We should be together

Cause nothing could be better

Than the way we were

Baby, let's go back to the way we were

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We'd spend the day in bed

Not thinking about the future

We were so in love we didn't even care

And I still can't forget

The way you danced around my kitchen

With a box of wine in your underwear

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Yeah, You rocked my world forever

I know you still remember

How we felt before

Yeah, We should be together

Cause nothing could be better

Than the way we were

Baby, let's go back to the way we were


Kevin walked away from the car that he assumed to belong to Double D. He was beginning to wonder if he should have even left the note. Were the dinner plans given with enough time for Edd? Kevin knew how crazy the genius was for planning and organizing anything.

He hoped Edd would accept the invitation. He had to right? It was rude not to. Kevin could almost hear the genius lecturing him in his head about how he didn't even give Edd a way to contact him so he could have a chance to turn him down or plan for another time. The ravenette would definitely wring his neck for not being more considerate about planning dinner.

Well, either way it was too late and the redhead was desperate. He had to talk to him. Kevin needed answers. Dammit! He had the right to know what happened all those years ago. Edd owed him at least that much.

But Kevin knew that wasn't the only reason why he wanted to talk to the genius. He wanted him and he wanted him back forever. Kevin knew no matter what had happened over the past 8 years his heart still cried out for the raven haired man, his body still ached for his touches, and his lips still trembled whenever he said his name. Edd.

Kevin did not care if he had moved on with someone else. He would make Double D his again. No matter what life was going to throw at him tonight he would stop at nothing to get him back. He had to.

Kevin knew he was still the same old Double D after all these years. Hell, him running away like that just proved he was still the same sexy shy nerd he always was. His Edd was still there. The redhead just knew it. Edd belonged with him and he belonged with Edd, it was just that simple.

Sure Kevin had been upset when Double D left. All throughout college Kevin tried to get over him, but no one ever came close and his mind always went back to the ravenette that slipped through his fingers.


His first summer home Kevin hoped like he needed air to breathe to see the genius return, but when cool June evenings melted into scorching July days without any sign of Double D, Kevin had had enough. He just couldn't believe Edd wasn't going to come home.

Kevin was frustrated, to say the least, and he was on verge of tears for the genius that didn't seem to be coming home. So one July evening he decided getting drunk to numbness and locking himself in his room was going to solve all his problems. He couldn't take it. Why did Edd do this? Hadn't he loved him? What they had was real, too real to have been a lie. Hadn't it?

Staring out his bedroom window at the lonely house across the street Kevin decided that the only way he was going to get answers was to go looking for them himself. He was going to go to the Vincent household and tear the place apart. He was going to find something, anything that told him where Edd was and he was going to get to him even if it meant calling Double D's parents himself. So in his inebriated state he unlocked his door, made his way down the stairs, and across the street to the empty house that the genius used to live in. Before he knew it he made it inside, thanks to the secret key the ravenette had showed him, and now he was standing in front of Edd's bedroom door. He hesitated for a moment with his hand on the knob. He held his breath and pushed the door open. Kevin sighed at the sight before him. Everything had remained the same as it had been almost a year ago. Even the hole he punched in the wall above the desk was still there.

A part of him hoped to see his dork curled up on the bed in Kevin's jean jacket like he always did before. He looked for anything indicating the genius had been home. Something telling him where Double D had gone. But there was nothing.

Kevin broke all over again. It was as if it was only yesterday when the love of his life had left him. As if it was happening all over again.

His feet dragged him to the barren bed. With no other plans to find him, Kevin climbed in the bed and cried. He inhaled deeply as a sob shook him; he could faintly smell him. His dork.

The only one his heart desired, the only one he had ever loved, the only one that left him all alone, the only one that haunted both his dreams and nightmares. And yet somehow being in the room that held so many memories soothed him. Though his heart still ached, Kevin slowly fell into a peaceful sleep he had never known without Edd.

The next morning Kevin awoke to a man with jet black hair that was graying faintly on his side burns and gentle chocolate eyes behind a pair of black framed glasses shaking him awake. The man looked familiar, but he couldn't quite put his finger on where he recognized the man from.

Kevin blinked a few times before he realized he wasn't in his home and that the man was talking to him.

"Young man, I said could you remove yourself from my home before I notify the authorities to remove you forcefully," the man said sternly.

Kevin bolted upright and his head started to spin. He was going to be sick. He jumped out of the bed and ran passed the man holding his mouth and stomach. He ran into the bathroom forgetting to shut the door behind him. He barely made it to the toilet as the memories of the previous night came rushing back to him.

He finished emptying his stomach's contents when he looked up to the doorway where he saw the tall man standing there impatiently tapping his foot with his hand on his hip and his face all screwed up in a sad attempt at a scowl. Why was that look so familiar to him?

Oh wait. This must be his dad.

Kevin stood up and attempted to straighten his clothes out as he reached his hand forward to shake the man's hand who he assumed to be Edd's dad.

"I apologize for the intrusion, sir. My name is Kevin," he said trying to sound completely normal.

The man reluctantly grabbed Kevin's hand and returned the firm shake. "I'm sorry, but should I know who you are, young man?"

The redhead thought for a moment pondering what he should tell the man. The only thing that made the most sense to him was the truth. If he wanted answers he should be honest.

"I'm your son's boyfriend," he said boldly, as if it should have been obvious to the tall man in front of him, "Well, uh, used to be? I'm actually not sure anymore."

The man stared back at him speechless and utterly confused.

Kevin cleared his throat as he rubbed the back of his neck in his typical nervous fashion, "See the thing is, sir, your son and I were dating last summer. That is until he just disappeared one morning and I haven't seen or heard from him since then."

The redhead looked up at the man whose eyes seemed to filled with something akin to sympathy and suddenly Kevin was having a hard time keeping his emotions in check as he fought the tears that wanted to come forth.

The man sighed, avoiding Kevin's gaze as he removed his glasses and rubbed his eyes. "So you're THE Kevin?"

Kevin nodded.

"Eddward mentioned you before. But that doesn't explain why I found you passed out drunk in my son's bed."

Kevin swallowed hard as an embarrassed blush started to creep across the apple's of his cheeks, "Uh, well, I was hoping to find him here and when I didn't I-I-I just kinda didn't know wh-," Kevin's voice trailed off as he avoided the man's line of sight that seemed to be burning holes through his very being.

"I'm afraid Eddward will not be returning. You see he has informed us that he has taken on some sort of internship and plans to remain near campus until classes resume in the fall. So he won't be coming home this summer. And again I ask that you leave our home." The man looked down at him and saw him drop to his hands and knees as the redhead started to sob.

Edd's mother Isabel had been listening in on the whole conversation from the hallway and could hear the heartbreak Kevin was feeling as he shook with the sobs that echoed off the tile in the bathroom.

She pushed her way past her husband who was standing in the doorway and knelt down next to Kevin to comfort him and she knew how much he loved her son.

Isabel shot her husband a glare that clearly told him to back off and that she would take care of the redhead that had invaded their home.

"Uh, Kevin was it?" she whispered.

He nodded.

"You said Eddward just disappeared one day, correct?" Another nod. "Well you see dear, he left for school. Didn't he at least tell you that much?" she asked quietly.

Kevin tried to silence his sobs as he cleared his throat and attempted to wipe away the tears roughly with the palms of his hands before he sat on his knees and looked up at the woman. Kevin felt like he got the wind knocked out of him when he saw her eyes and he quickly realized they were the same shade of blue. They looked exactly like his eyes.

He hadn't noticed how long he was staring until the woman said his name and he quickly gathered his thoughts again. "You see ma'am, we both knew what was coming at the end of the summer, but we j-just never talked about it," Kevin sniffled and sighed before he began again, "I thought maybe it would all work itself out and w-w-we would just keep going even if it had to be a long distance thing. I thought that's what he had wanted. It's what I wanted. I didn't want to let go. God, I'm such an idiot! He probably didn't love me like I loved him and s-still do love him. How c-could he just walk away like that? H-how could he leave me? How?" He couldn't control his emotions anymore as everything came bubbling back to the surface.

Anger and rage.

Depression and hopelessness.

The heartbreak.

The love he lost.

Isabel Vincent just held onto the redhead as he let all of his emotions out.

Kevin told her everything. Well, everything that was appropriate to tell his old boyfriend's parents. In turn for his transparency about their son, they told him what they knew and what they knew was that they weren't entirely sure where Edd had gone to school, only that it was somewhere abroad. The Vincent's admitted to Kevin that they had been wrong in leaving their son to fend for himself. It was what they believed to be best for him at the time. They came to realize the irony of the situation - Edd had done the same to them as they had to him. Sure, Edd had kept in contact with his parents, but it was always brief conversations that were merely generic exchanges of pleasantries. The Vincents felt they deserved the punishment Edd was giving them and they respected that.

So even they weren't sure where Eddward was. Now, how was he supposed to find the love of his life? How was he supposed to get him back if he couldn't even find him? Isabel and Robert informed Kevin that they were only home to sell the house and move closer to their jobs. They decided after they discovered that Edd wasn't returning home for his first summer that it would be best to sell the house. No one was going to be living in it anyways. Now there was going to be no chance of Edd coming back. Kevin couldn't let them sell the house. He needed Double D to be tied to Peach Creek. He needed that slim chance that he would come back to him one day. It was all he had left to hope for.

Kevin begged the Vincents not to sell their home. He promised to mow the grass and keep the house in shape if they didn't sell it. He even offered to pay rent. Isabel knew what this house meant to Kevin and quickly hushed his begging. She and her husband decided to let Kevin take care of the home. If this boy loved her son like she saw he did, Edd would return home one day. He just had to. Maybe this redhead was capable of fixing the damage she and Robert had done as parents to their brilliant son. Maybe Kevin would be their son's saving grace and could love him ten fold of what they had given him as parents.

So every break Kevin got he spent across the street taking care of the Vincent home. He shoveled the snow, mowed the lawn, trimmed the hedges, vacuumed the carpet, dusted the mantle, kept all of the home's appliances functioning, and even decorated for every holiday. Kevin took care of that home in such a way that Edd would have been proud of him. The Vincents even made more attempts to visit Peach Creek and saw Kevin as a son. They had to know more about the young man whose heart belonged to their son. They kept him close like they should have with Edd.

They even shared Christmas together almost every year having dinner with Kevin and his mother like they were all old friends. The only thing that was missing was Edd and then it would have been what it should - two families joined together for the love their son's shared.

But Edd never came.

The Vincents thought it was best not to let Eddward be privy to their arrangement with Kevin. Not that Kevin asked them to pass along any messages, but they all believed it was better for Edd to come to his senses on his own and come home when he was ready to. It was a silent agreement between Kevin and his want-to-be-future-in-laws. If Edd made the decision to leave like he did for whatever reasons he had at the time, then he would have to come home of his own accord as well.


Kevin thought back to what happened that day when Robert Vincent found him passed out and hungover in his son's bed and the arrangement that had been made that day as he got ready for his dinner with Double D. He wondered if it was the best choice. Should he have been holding on this whole time?

He let that question simmer in his mind until it was time to leave. He locked the front door to his apartment and walked down the path to the parking lot. He made his way over to the spot reserved for his bike and hopped on as placed the helmet on his head. The redhead put the keys in the ignition and revved the engine to his bike and all he could think of on the drive over was, "Yes."


A/N:

So this will probably my last update for a few weeks (unless I get some time to write). I'm leaving the country next Friday for 12 days! I'm going on the dream trip; Spain, France, and Italy! So point being, I'm not sure when I'll have access to the interwebs, therefore I'm not sure if I'll be able to update while I'm away. I will continue to write during any down time I'm going to have so, there's a plus. I can't wait to see what inspiration hits me and what I'll have for you guys next! (Any updates or information regarding updates will be posted to my tumblr first. Go check out my blog! Same name.)

Again thanks to everyone that read and reviewed the last chapter. I love reading what you guys have to say. It just makes me giddy all day long!

Oh and I apologize for the weirdness in the beginning. I couldn't get the lyrics to format the way I wanted. (Song: The Way We Were by The Summer Set (obviously, hehe))

Well, I guess that's it. Ta-ta for now!

Hazel Out!