kevin walked into edds house and set his shoes on the mat next to edds. they had been doing the tutoring and hanging out for almost two months now and even though it was obvious edd was still scared of upseting kevin they were starting to become really good friends.
Edd was extremely happy about their new friendship, their freshmen year Edd decided if he wanted to get into a good college he needed to have some kind of sport under his belt and decided to join the swim team. He was already fairly good at swimming and often went to the creek late at night to swim alone. he felt at home in the water and apparently it showed, he was the fastest swimmer on the whole team, they even gave him a nickname "the shark" and the more he practiced the more lean his thin body got. Edd built muscle quickly and was becoming a very handsome young man, allot of girls took notice. he had a fan base even who went to all his swim meets, they loved seeing him without his beanie on(although he switched his old beanie for a much needed new one. all black and knitted witch let more of his hair be seen). he had long black hair and it fell over his face framing it perfectly. to say it simply he was a teenage heart throb. But he had been spending so much time at practices and his club meetings that he and the eds started to drift apart. he had a few friends on the swim team but they didn't share to many interests so they didn't hangout outside of school.
when summer came along edd was glad for the release, he would have some practices later in the summer but for the most part he could be free to hangout with his friends. but eddy didn't seem to like the way edd had changed or how more people liked him now and eddy was treating him differently witch stung, so having kevin, someone who understood the challenges of being in sports and also didn't mind edd talking on and on about his vast knowledge and what interested him, was refreshing to say the least.
"smells good dee, whadda I owe ya?" Kevin sat down at the table set for two and eyed the chinesse food practically drooling over the shrimp fried rice.
"nonsense Kevin, you are my guest you owe me nothing" Edd sat down as well after setting two glasses of water down at the table. "besides i suggested chinese the least i could do is pay for it, i do hope you liked what I've ordered... i forgot to ask you before you left so i just got my favorites. shrimp fried rice, white rice, and Mongolian beef."
kevin stared in awe at edd "dude, no way? these are my favorites too. its like all i eat. but i bet you don't eat it how i do, i mix em all together and poor the beef juice over my rice." kevin started to serve himself taking about half of everything and licking his lips.
"my Kevin, i would have never guessed we had so much in common" edd took the rest of the food onto his plate and set it up the same way Kevin had, beef juice and all.
Kevin laughed "i can't believe you let your food touch let alone mix." he shoved a big spoonful of rice into his mouth and smiled at the taste.
"well Kevin, i suposse there's allot you don't know about me. and I, you. maybe while we have this time, we could get to know each other better" edd smiled wide showing the ever present gap in his teeth and picked up his chopsticks to eat as well.
As they ate the talked about all their interests, favorites, and hobbies. it turned out the two were not that different at all, while yes oppisit in some ways; Kevin liked red while Edd liked blue, the two were actually quite similar. They both enjoyed rap music and hip hop although for different reasons (Kevin felt the music spoke to him and Edd liked the base tone and the cultural aspect of it all),both liked hiking through the woods, sci-fi movies, gaming channels on YouTube as well as specific video games and Kevin found out Edd designed his own gaming system that takes all gaming discs.
"dee thats choice! can we use it tonight? id love for you to show me it. what is it anyways, like waddya call it?" kevin had almost eaten all his rice, sucking it up like a vaccume.
"actually Kevin i have not named it yet" he picked up for food with his chopsticks and took his time chewing. unlike Kevin, Edd still had about half his meal left to eat.
finishing the last of his rice Kevin stared at Edd "can't think of a name or what?"
"no on the contrary i could think of many names just haven't been able to decide witch sounds better and suits it." edd continued after taking another bite " for a while i thought "jarvis" would be suiting but i wanted something more original. then i thought maybe name it after myself, but the edd sounded off and the double d sounded sexist at best."
kevin thought for a while and then jokingly said "why not name it the kevedd heh or the eddin?"
edd laughed and pulled the hand holding his chopsticks over his mouth, then he smiled big "you know eddin or eaden maybe doesn't sound to bad, actually i quite like it. hah how clever a mixture of our names. i would have never thought about that."
Kevin blushed and looked down. edd was going to use the combination of their names for his gaming system. it sounded like what they would be called if they were a power couple. And even though it shouldn't have, the fact that edd said he would have never thought about that kind of hurt. but why? kevin tried not to think about it and continued talking to edd about what games they'd play and what movies he brought with them.
the two looked very happy, sitting a table set for two at 8:45 eating chinese and talking fondly. To anyone else it may have looked like a date. And to two suspicious best friends it did.
