As Arnold gave Edd the tour, Marie, Helga, and Phoebe were done in the kitchen making tea. It was the perfect time for Helga to get information out of Marie about her, her sisters, and the Ed's. "So," Helga began her question, "how long have you and…" She paused for a moment. "What's his name again?"

"Edward," Marie replied, "but most people call him Double Dee." As she said this, Phoebe's face turned red, and Helga stared at her blankly. "What?"

"Criminy!" Helga said after a moment. "Why would people name a guy after a bra size?"

Marie let out an exasperated sigh. "They call him Double Dee because he spells his name with two Ds."

"Oh," Helga said, finally getting it. "That makes sense, I guess. Anyway, how long have you and Double Dee been dating?"

"We've been dating since we were fourteen." Marie said proudly.

"Impressive." Phoebe said.

"Not bad." Helga smirked as she grabbed some cups out of the cupboard. "Arnaldo and I have been dating for nine years."

"Wow," Marie said in surprise. "How did you manage to do that?"

"Trust me," Helga replied as the kettle began to whistle, "it wasn't easy." Placing the kettle on to the back burner so that it could cool, she turned off the stove. "You see," Helga began to explain, "I was his tormentor since we were five years old, all because I didn't know how to show my feelings for him. It was during a class trip to San Lorenzo that I had almost lost Arnold for good. You see, he wanted to stay with his parents in a small jungle village, leaving me heartbroken. A year later, he shows up at my door, without any warning what so ever mind you, and begins to kiss me." Helga sighed dreamily as she remembered that day. "Can't really say what happened next. I happened to be on Cloud 9 afterwards, but according to Pheebs here, I had been acting all lovey-dovey the rest of the day. Even the Princess of Hillwood, Rhonda Lloyd, began to notice." Helga began to laugh as she plopped a tea bag into each cup and began to pour the hot water. "Everyone made a big fuss about it later, but I didn't care. Arnold and I were finally together, and we were happy." With a sigh, she turned back to Marie with the three cups in her hands. "So, what's your story?" She asked as she handed out the tea.

Taking a sip, Marie let Helga's story set in before she told her own. "You could say our stories are kinda similar." She explained. "My sisters and I were the bullies of Peach Creek, our home town. We tortured everyone, the Eds the most. But, unlike my sisters, all I ever wanted was to be accepted." After a moment of silence, where just sat there, looking into her tea, she continued. "When I met Edd, I know that this was my chance. He was such a kind hearted person, always accepting people, even with their faults. So when he asked me on Valentine's Day to join him to a carnival that the school was having, I couldn't help but say yes." Marie paused for a moment. "We never went, though. We just sat on his couch and talked for hours. It was at that moment that we started our relationship. I mean, yeah, at first we kept it a secret, but we were happy."

"But?" Helga urged Marie after a moment of silence. Realizing there was more to this story than Marie was letting on.

"But," she continued, "our relationship took a turn for the worst. You see, a couple of days before it was revealed, I had given him some pictures of myself so that he wouldn't get lonely."

"How lonely are we talking here?" Helga said with a Cheshire smile.

Marie's face began to grow red. "I'll admit, one of those pictures were in case he got extremely lonely." At that point, Helga and Phoebe tried to hold back their laughter. "Anyway," Marie interrupted them, "one night, Eddy snuck into Edd's house and took two of the pictures I gave him. A couple days later, he plastered them all over the school and blamed the whole thing on Double Dee." Helga and Phoebe were shocked into silence as a single tear ran down Marie's cheek, brought on by the memory. "For a while, I believed Eddy, and was too stubborn to believe anything else. Enough that I almost lost the one person that truly loved me."

"That's harsh." Phoebe said.

"Thanks to my sister," Marie continued, "Eddy realized his mistake and tried to fix everything."

"Hope you don't mind me asking," Helga continued questioning, "but how bad were these pictures?"

"Well," Marie replied in a small voice, "one was of me in a swim suit, while the other was of something really embarrassing."

"What do you mean?" Phoebe pried, which was usually against her nature. But she was really interested in this story. Marie hesitating for a moment, gently brushed her bang behind her ear, revealing her right eye, her lazy eye.

"Oh my god," Helga said as she took a good look.

"I don't really like showing it," Marie said as she covered it again. "It's really embarrassing."

"You wanna talk about embarrassing?" Helga remarked with a smile. "Back when I was ten, I had a unibrow." Marie looked towards Phoebe, who just gave a slight nod. "At least you could hide your embarrassing flaw. I had mine out for all the world could see."

"Couldn't you have removed it?" Marie asked.

"I could have." Helga replied. "But back then, I didn't really care about appearances. It was only until Arnold and I started dating that I got rid of the dang thing." After she said this, she began to laugh. Which lead to all three of them laughing.

"What's so funny?" Arnold said as he entered the kitchen. He had just finished giving Edd the tour, and went to stand over by Helga, wrapping his arm around her waist.

"Oh nothing," Helga replied. "Marie here was just telling us how she and Double Dee here started dating."

"What a coincidence?" Edd replied. "I was just telling Arnold the same thing."

"Did you get to the part were Eddy stole the pictures from you?" Marie smiled mischievously, making him realize what she meant by that.

"Ah… N-no," Edd said, getting very nervous. "I seem to have forgot to tell him."

"Then why don't you tell it now?" Marie teased. When he did not answer, Marie turned him so that he was looking at her. Giving him a kiss, she stared into his eye with a puppy dog face and said, "Please, for me." Not being able to refuse such a look, he let out a deep sigh.

"Very well," he replied, to which Marie gave her best impersonation of an anime victory pose. "You know, I sometimes regret even telling you that story." As he cleared his throat, he began to tell the story. "As Marie may have mentioned, she had given me a few pictures for when I wouldn't be able to see her. As I looked through them all, I saw that the last picture was of her in a two-piece swim suit."

"Which she gave you in case of emergencies." Helga said taking a sip of her tea.

"Correct," Edd continued, his face growing redder by the second. "Anyway, as I was," he paused for a moment, trying to find the right words, "'using' the picture for its intended purpose, my friends, Ed and Eddy, happened to climb through my bedroom window and caught me in the act." As Helga and Marie laughed, Double Dee grabbed Marie's cup and took a sip. "For Eddy, as the saying goes, what was seen cannot be unseen."

"Wow," Helga snorted, "that was something." Suddenly, she smiled mischievously again. "At least it wasn't as bad as what happened to Arnold." This made Arnold look at her.

"Helga," he pleaded, "I'm begging you. Don't."

"Arnold," Helga said officially, "Edward was willing to share his embarrassing story. Now it's your turn." Taking another sip of her tea, she told the story. "You see, it was Arnold's 15th birthday, and my sister wanted to take me to New York to see William Shakespeare's Mid-summer's Night Dream on Broadway. Wanting to see the play, I decided to give Arnold a few pictures of myself as a gift." As the story progressed, Phoebe began to snicker. "Now, who was it again that caught you, 'using them for their intended purposes,' again?" Helga smiled as she copied Edd's words. "Was it Gerald? Your dad?"

"It was my mom." Arnold said defeatedly, making everyone, including Double Dee giggle. "Talk about embarrassing." As he said this, the front door opened and slammed shut.