Yeah sorry that it has been a while, I had no ideas but then one came from somewhere. Review please. I own nothing not even this computer.
May, Marie and Lee hiked towards the school. May wasn't entirely certain why she was going but she was. She and her sisters had played hooky from the school multiple times before for absolutely no reason. And yet now that she actually had a good reason to avoid other people and not engage in the merry-go-round that was high school, she was going to it.
She considered herself lucky on two accounts. Her maw had not been in when they got up and got ready. The three sisters had woken up to complete silence in the trailer. As they prepared breakfast they found a note from their maw. It was quick and to the point.
We're gonna talk tonight. Serious talk.
Do Not Blow This OFF.
Maw
And that was all. Of course they would follow her orders, but until then they would just be in school. She might not have ordered it but they didn't have any other plans for the day.
High school was vastly different from middle school. For one thing the three of them didn't have as many classes together, when they were younger it used to be great. The three of 'em against whatever the curriculum tried to toss at them. Now though they had a lunch period together and a beginning class together, besides that May saw Lee in her math and Marie in her wood shop course, that was the only interactions that they had during the school day.
For another there seemed to be many more students, all of them crushing in and around them at all times, before it had maybe been thirteen kids overall, now it seemed as if they were just a drop in the educational ocean.
The rush of other students had already entered the school, the Kanker sister's were always late, because really should they care about what the other kids thought of them? Or what the teachers taught? They would never use it, why should they bother?
The three of them got to their first class and took their reserved seats in the very back, the teacher marked down had they had arrived seconds before the very last bell. She shot a disapproving look over her glasses at them before launching into the history lesson.
May allowed her mind to wander, she wasn't interested in history, old dead guys did something stupid, then some other stuff happened. Really she just wanted to kill time until the day was over. Lee nudged May on her left and Marie nudged her on the right, they both passed notes to her that she quickly opened and looked over.
How ya doing?
Was from Lee written in her long looping chicken marks. May looked at her sister and gave a little grin and brought her hand up where she shook it as if to say. 'Not bad, but not great.' Lee nodded and looked over her shoulder as she read Marie's short aggressive writing style.
Whattya think Maw wants?
Lee and May exchanged glances before they both shrugged. May quickly wrote something down and passed it to her sisters so that each could look over it.
I think I'm fine. Could we just get through this day though?
Lee looked a tad put out from the abrupt stop from their all too brief conversation. She gritted her teeth before nodding. Marie glowered before leaning back in her chair, closing her eye and drifting off to sleep. No matter how many hours she received she still felt the need to get more at school.
May continued to look straight ahead. She balled the notes up in her hands and shoved them into her pockets. She didn't want to think about her sisters, or her mother, or big Ed. All she wanted to do was sit and look at the teacher who was just muttering on and waiting for her next paycheck.
Absentmindedly May reached down and touched her stomach. Right where the school seminars said that your baby grows. She probably should have listened to those seminars more, she probably should have done a lot of different things. Now though, now all she had to do was get through this. She didn't even want to think about what came afterwards. She might break down and start crying if she did. She had done a lot of work to break that habit of being overly emotional, and she didn't want to begin to backslide now, no matter how dire the situation was.
Ed continued to alternate between looking at Double D and looking at Eddy. He was sweating nervously and a thing haze of nervousness came from all about his person. He had snuck out of his house super early to avoid his parents. They had both been unconscious on the coach. Neither had changed from last night and neither had gone to bed it seemed. Ed worried about them whenever they did that.
Sarah was big enough to take care of herself at this point so he let his baby sister prepare her own lunch and breakfast. Ed just grabbed a couple of slices of pre buttered toast from his secret stash and hoofed it over to Eddy's house. He patiently sat beside Eddy's glass door and even managed to sleep a little while longer.
Now that he was in school with his best friends in the whole wide world he didn't really know what to do. He was uncertain if he should tell them because his parents had been so angry at the news, who knew how they might react!
Well the all seeing time baby at the end of the universe might but that was unimportant now.
Ed could merely sit beside the other two and stare stoically ahead into the blank space above the teachers head.
Double D was concerned with his friend. Ed seemed to be much more skittish today. He only got to be this agitated when he was holding something back, something important. He had done this when they were much younger and he had expected that his taller friend would have moved on from this little personality quirk. But if anything it appeared to have merely laid dormant inside of him until he became very stressed such as today.
Of course Double D had picked up on the signals immediately but it appeared as if Eddy was still naive to their comrades inner turmoil. It was Ed so it could probably be settled easily and the entire issue put to rest with little resistance. On the other side of the spectrum of course was the fact that it was ED That they were dealing with so it could be a complicated conspiracy against all of them.
Double D was snapped from his musings by the bell that signaled the start for second period rang. Standing Double D began to make his way to his intro to physics class. He stopped once he noticed that Ed was not moving. Taping Eddy on the shoulder in order to slow him down Double D turned to get Ed's attention.
"Ed? Are you alright?" Double D said standing in front of him and waving his hand in his face. "Fascinating he appears so deep in thought that it is like he is comatose!" Double D began to snap his fingers in front of Ed's nose still to no avail.
Eddy walked over grumpily, the first day of the week was always a poor one for the smaller boy. Leaning into Ed's face Eddy opened his mouth and screeched into it.
"YO LUMPY! WAKEY TIME!" Ed seemed to jump from his fugue state and quickly gathered up his papers and other assorted things he shoved into his decaying backpack.
"Sorry Eddy! My mind wandered and did not come back."
"Lumpy you lost your mind a long time ago. Get the lead out though we gotta get to the next torture chamber." With that Eddy turned on his heel and began to walk out muttering under his breath.
Standing Ed sighed and rubbed his eyes. Double D was alarmed, it was odd, it was human, it was so utterly not Ed to do that.
"Hey are you alright Ed?" Edd said grasping his friend by the shoulder. Ed looked down and gave his typical goofy grin.
"Right as cotton candy clouds I am." He smiled that appeared forced. Double D put down in his mind to confront the boy after school. It really did not due for them to be keeping secrets from each other.
Ed kept the smile on his face and walked with his head held high. It was expected of him so of course he must do it.
The halls were slowly emptying of people. There were still enough students out and about that if you wanted to talk you had to hug the lockers on either side of the hall. That was exactly what Nazz was doing. She stood by her locker and looked out at the rush of bodies. She continued to people watch. She was looking for the Kanker sisters. From what she saw last night something was up and she wanted at least a little tidbit of the gossip.
She saw the three girls exit their classroom and move around. Unconsciously the rest of the student body made room for them, parting like the red sea so that they would not have to come into contact with the Eurotrash. Nazz slowly walked through the crowd, occasionally pushing people out of the way, or giving a nudge here or there. She got to just behind the trio of girls without being spotted.
Lee and Marie were looking their younger sister up and down.
"Ya sure you're gonna be okay?" Lee said to her. May was making as much eye contact as she could, it was difficult with the wall of hair in the way. She nodded.
"One of us could hang with you." Marie offered, she appeared distracted and continuously looked off into the crowd searching for something. Responsibility maybe, or an excuse to wash her hands of this matter.
"I'm fine, really." May said to her older sisters. This seemed good enough for Lee who nodded her head and began to head off.
"Thanks." May whispered to Marie who nodded stiffly and started to wander off.
Nazz was just within reach of the blonde Kanker, she was preparing to reach out and tap her on the shoulder when she felt one on her own. Yurning around she came face to face with her boyfriend.
"What's up Nazz?" Kevin said grasping her hand tightly, frightened that she might realize how weird he actually was and leave.
"Oh sup Kev?" Nazz replied smiling up at him. He had forgotten to shave this morning and a few wisps of red hair were on his chin. Rolph constantly made fun of the lack of testosterone in the Cul-De-Sac, Kevin always countered with the fact that he at least had a girlfriend.
"Nothing much. You?"
"Oh just y'know...right?"
"For the sake of Rolphs earholes! Would the bubbly blonde Nazz or the shovel headed Kevin please be having the conversation without ending gin questions!" Rolph screamed from beside the two of them. Somehow the foreigner had the uncanny ability to appear from nowhere, much like Johnny or Ed.
"Sorry dude." Kevin said rolling his eyes. His friends were so weird. At least his girlfriend seemed normal enough. "So seriously what's up? You look distracted?" Kevin said looking her in the face.
"Guess I am just a lot going on today."
"I feel that." Kevin said. He looked up at the wall clock and then cursed under his breath "I gotta go Nazz, catch you at lunch!"
"See you guys there!" She called after them. Nazz began to wander off to her own class. The interruption notwithstanding her interest was still piqued from what she had seen last night, and also from just seconds ago.
May sat by the door of her chemistry classroom. She was usually really interested in the sciences, she couldn't really explain it but there was just something to them that caught her attention, and oddly enough she could remember most of what she learned. Today however was the exception. She continuously looked out the door to avoid seeing anything else. Now that she was away from her sisters all she could think about was babies.
Wherever she looked, the globe in the corner, a pregnant woman. The clouds out the window, a child crawling. The light fixtures looked like something from a hospital. Even out in the hallway the weird wood kid had a watermelon that he was carrying down the hallway, grinning stupidly. May felt herself breathing heavily. She felt faint and her eyes watery. She needed to get out of there.
Standing she quickly left the room. No one said anything and if anyone did no one stopped her. Why would they? It was only May Kanker leaving. She walked, almost ran down the hallway. She came to the bathroom and flung herself inside. Going to one of the stalls near the back she sat down on the toilet and brought her knees to her chin.
Her buckteeth sat over her lower lip and gnawed at the jeans over her kneecaps. She sniffled. It was not fair, nothing was fair. She and always originally thought that, life hadn't been fair to her or her sisters, or her maw. And now it was being just as unfair as usual but just a billion times crueler.
Sniffing and beginning to tear up May let loose a sob. She let the tears start to run down her face and felt hot and gross.
"Stupid hormones." She muttered, she could not wait to be done with this, done with everything.
Nazz was going to get a drink of water. She felt parched and her physical education class could probably be able to function without her watching them, that was the great thing about being a teachers aid, she could come and go as she pleased. Getting to the water fountain Nazz grabbed her pony tail and lifted it to the side so that no hair would get in the water. Slurping up the water Nazz heard something from the adjacent bathroom.
Nazz stopped drinking and listened hard. It was sniffling and a sob. Crying, some one was crying. Nazz liked to think of herself as someone who helped others, and here was chance to showcase that little skill. Quickly but quietly she entered the bathroom and walked inside, no one appeared to be in the stalls. Until she heard the crying again, from the one near the end.
NAzz walked over slowly, aware of ever movement, every breath, every sound. She got to the stall and slowly pushed open the door. It was unlocked and creaked. Gazing in Nazz locked eyes with a stunned, red-faced, embarrassed May Kanker. It was certainly a sight to behold. Nazz couldn't even think of a time that she ever saw a Kanker cry, and they had undergone some pretty tear worthy traumatic incidents.
"Hey. Ah Sorry. I just heard you and..." Nazz trailed off. Really what was the protocol here? It was a Kanker and she hardly knew the girl. Still though, she was still a person. Nazz walked in, it was a big stall, one of the kinds used for people in wheelchairs, not that they had any ramps or anything.
"What do you want? Go away." May said curling around herself tighter and looking away.
"I will if you tell me what's wrong."
"I'll sock you in the freaking mouth you blonde bimbo! Leave me alone!" May said. It was loud but not shouting, just emphasizing, the threat sounded hollow, practiced from repetition.
"Look I will leave, but not while you're like this. Just tell me what's the matter." Nazz looked at her a little longer, she squatted down and tried to regain eye contact. "Come on May, it's okay."
May looked up shocked. "You know my name blondie?"
"Well yeah, we have been in the same grade for a few years now." May looked down ashamed. She knew most of the other kids names but she and her sisters usually just used nicknames to describe them. The weirdo. The brat. Butch. and so on. They really only learned the Ed's from weeks of stalking.
"I-I gotta problem okay blondie? And it won't be able to be fixed."
"My name isn't blondie, it's Nazz, Nazz von Bartonschmer. And I'll try and help you with-" May cut her off with a scowl.
"You can't help me blon-Nazz. It's impossible...it's big Ed ya see and well we...we..."May's voice shook and her eyes filled with tears, she bit her bottom lip and gave a hiccup.
"I screwed up. I screwed up so bad." She put her face in her hands and began to bawl. Nazz uncomfortable went beside her and wrapped her arms around the girl in a hug. She gagged at the strong smell of cheap perfume and deodorant, just the tiniest hint of nicotine. She hugged her anyway. May moved her head around and whispered her secret into Nazz's ear. Nazz tensed up for a moment processing, and then spoke.
"Oh man. Oh man dude."
Ed Edd N Eddy belong to Danny A. I own nothing not even this computer. Like I said it has been a substantial amount of time but I am over my writers block and I think I know where to go with this. Please read and review as I appreciate that.