A/N: I know the last chapter was very short, therefore, I made this one long to make up for it. Chapter 6 was just to show everyone's reactions towards Edd's new look. Some people liked it and others kind of found it weird, hence why some guys laughed, because they see it as a nerd just trying hard to fit in. I wasn't very proud of that chapter, but eh, not everything can be great. Though I do think I did better on this one. So sit back, relax, and read? lol :)
I have every chapter planned out already. It seems this will most likely be around 12 chapters long. I may come up with new ideas (I always do with every story I write), but so far, I have 12 chapters and a ending figured out.
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Nat belongs to c2ndy2c1d.
Reverse!Edd belongs to asphyxion.
Edd stuck out his tongue in concentration as he carefully listened to his AP English teacher's lecture on rhetorical strategies and how each of them is used. He tried jotting down every word Mrs. Miller spoke, while his classmates just wrote out the main points.
"And I do expect each and every one of you to use these in the next essay," she told the class, receiving a few groans.
Edd smiled wide, revealing the gap between his teeth. He raised his hand and Mrs. Miller called on him. "Is there a limit?"
The girl sitting behind him sat up at the sound of his voice. She adjusted her black-rimmed glasses and smiled. Maybe it was just the new clothes, but she couldn't stop feeling giddy about him.
"As long as it makes sense, Edd," Mrs. Miller answered his question.
Edd nodded and wrote that down. The girl with the glasses looked over his shoulder.
"Hi Edd," she shyly spoke.
Edd lifted his gaze up from his paper and slowly turned his head. "Hello May."
May Kanker smiled at him, her teeth white and straight, especially after she got braces. When they were kids, she had buck teeth. In middle school, she finally got braces, but also had to get glasses when her vision started becoming poor from spending most of her time in front of the computer screen. She and her sisters weren't as close. They stopped taunting other students and the Eds once high school started.
"You look nice today..." She twirled a strand of blonde hair with her finger.
"Oh, um, why thank you." Edd turned his head back to face the teacher.
May sighed lovingly and rested her head on her hand as she stared at the back of Edd's head. That was strange, Edd thought, May hasn't even spoken one word to me since middle school.
"So how are things with you and Kevin?" May didn't really care, but she asked anyway, merely from wanting to speak to the sockhead.
"May, please, refrain from speaking to me at this moment," Edd whispered. "We're in class and the teacher is lecturing."
May frowned and sat back with her arms crossed. Why was she even bothering to talk to him? He had a boyfriend, but she couldn't help herself. He looked so... dreamy. She smiled once again and apologized for distracting him.
"You're not a distraction to me, May," he bluntly said.
May blinked twice, not sure what he meant by that. Either way, she found herself liking this challenge in front of her. After class, she waited for Edd outside. Edd made his way out and gasped at the sight of her just standing there, smiling at him, her eyes wide with excitement.
"May, you gave me quite a fright," he told her and began stepping away.
"I'm sorry, Edd. I'm just curious about your new look."
Edd stopped walking and looked at her. "Wh-what do you want t-to know?"
"Why did you change from your old clothes? Are you trying to be... bad or something?" She raised an eyebrow.
"It's something around those lines..."
"Really?! Well, I could help you." May stepped in front of him and smiled innocently.
Edd sighed. "That's fine, May. I already have Eddy helping me."
"Are you serious? All he's going to do is teach you how to act stupid."
"Excuse you, May. That's my friend you are speaking about." Edd stepped forward and glared at her. "I would appreciate if you wouldn't say such negative things about my friends."
A giggle escaped May's mouth. Edd's eyes widened. She covered her mouth. "I understand, Edd. I'm sorry." She smiled and turned away, but glanced back at Edd, "When I said you look nice, I meant you look really... handsome." And with that, she practically skipped away.
Edd tilted his head. Handsome? Not even Kevin has said that to me before.
During lunchtime, the Eds sat together as Edd waited for Kevin to get there.
"You know," Eddy spoke with a mouth full of his cheeseburger, causing Edd to cringe a bit. "This is the best idea you've ever had, sockhead."
Edd fiddled with his fingers. "Stop doing that," Eddy complained, "It makes you look weak and it's not helping you at all with your new image."
"Do you expect to really be completely different in one day?" Edd asked.
"You could try..."
"Eddy!"
"Okay, okay." Eddy raised his hands in defeat. "Relax, sockhead."
Ed pouted as he stared at his sock-wearing friend. "I like your clothes, Double D, but I don't want you being mean."
"He's not going to be mean, Ed!" Eddy told him. "He's just going to be less... uhhh..." He looked up at the ceiling, trying to find the right word.
"Fragile," Edd helped.
"Uh yeah, sure that." Eddy nodded and smiled as he took a sip of his chocolate milk.
"Promise, Double D?" Ed asked.
"Yes, Ed." The sockhead offered his tall friend a reassuring smile. He faced Eddy now and sighed. "May Kanker talked to me today."
"Gross." Eddy stuck out his tongue in disgust.
"My point is, she hasn't bothered talking to me since middle school, and the day I change my wardrobe, she suddenly has an interest."
"Along with everyone else. Face it, Double D, this change is the best thing that's ever happened to you!"
Edd scowled and shook his head. "I highly doubt it is. To be quiet honest, the best thing that's ever happened to me is-"
"Hey babe." Strong arms wrapped around Edd's small waist.
A wide smile spread across the sockhead's face. "Kevin," he finished his sentence. The redhead kissed Edd's cheek before sitting down next to him. He didn't want to acknowledge Eddy's presence, but Edd squinted his eyes at him until he did.
"Hi Eddy," Kevin mumbled. Edd crossed his arms. "Oh, and hey Ed." The sockhead smiled and nodded in satisfaction. The redhead inched his face closer to Edd's ear. "Come on, babe. Let's go somewhere else."
"I will have to deny your offer, Kevin," Edd answered. "I'm perfectly content where I am at this moment and I would like if you'd stay." Eddy groaned and rolled his eyes at that. Kevin snarled at him, but Edd gently slapped his shoulder.
"Fine, I'll stay," the redhead mumbled. He wrapped his arm around the blue eyed teen and tried ignoring Eddy's new idea of a scam. Will this guy ever grow up? When is he going to realize that his ideas are stupid, Kevin tried not rolling his eyes, but Eddy was making it hard to play nice. When Kevin and Edd started getting close, Eddy went out of his way to separate them. Well, that was only when Eddy assumed Kevin was just trying to take away his best friend. He didn't know they were getting romantically involved.
The moment Eddy figured that out, he did what any good best friend would do, he threatened Kevin, saying that if he hurt his sockhead, Kevin would have to deal with him. Of course the redhead just laughed at the short guy, confident that he would never, ever hurt Edd, and he had proved that to Eddy countless times. That still didn't change Eddy's views on the jock.
"I'm tellin' you guys," Eddy said, "This'll make us stickin' rich!"
Kevin shook his head. "Can I offer you some advice?" Eddy scowled at the redhead, but allowed him to talk. "I suggest you... get a new hobby, you know, something that's not stupid and makes you less of an idiot, considering you're already one of the most hated guys in school." The redhead chuckled.
"Kevin!" Edd shouted in defense of his friend. Kevin immediately frowned and looked at his boyfriend. "That wasn't very nice."
"I didn't say it was going to be." Kevin shrugged and smirked at Eddy.
"Put a sock in it, shovel chin!" Eddy shouted across the table.
Kevin's smirked turned a little lopsided. He leaned his head closer to Edd's and bit his beanie. Edd stared at him, questioningly.
"What?" Kevin asked. "He said put a sock in it." He pursed his lips together, holding in his laugh. Edd noticed this and began giggling, covering his mouth as he did so. Kevin let out his loud laughter.
Eddy just stared at the two, clearly not amused. Ed didn't understand what was so funny, but he started laughing with them, leaving Eddy to sit there in silence with an annoyed expression planted on his face.
"My two favorite people." Eddy looked up to see a grinning Nat standing there. He groaned loudly and put his head down. Nat ignored this and said, "I've been hearing a lot of people talking about you today, Edd."
The sockhead halted his laugh and gulped. "Is that so? What are they exactly saying, Nathan?"
Kevin sighed and looked up at his best friend.
"That you're even more of a cutie now than ever," Nat answered.
Edd couldn't help but blush. "I highly doubt they said that. No one finds me-" he stopped mid-sentence as he realized Kevin was glaring at him. "What I meant was, I have never-"
"Just stop talking, please," Kevin said as he gently placed a finger on Edd's lips. Nat squeezed in between Eddy and Ed, smirking at Eddy when the shortest Ed scowled up at him.
"Did you happen to bathe in your own cheap cologne this morning?" Nat asked him, sniffing the short guy's neck.
"Shut up," Eddy told him. He shoved the green-haired teen away from him in disgust.
"I don't have to take orders from someone little."
Eddy hissed through his teeth, "Get out of my face before I pull out those gold earnings from your freaking ear." Instead of coming up with another comeback, which would have been no problem for the smart aleck, Nat just laughed at Eddy and patted the shortest Ed's head. Eddy swatted the green-haired teen's hand.
"Aww, is Eddy and Nat flirting?" Ed teased, his mouth wide open in the form of an excited smile as he leaned closer to Eddy.
"Gross, no!" Eddy protested. "That's disgusting." He gagged.
Nat crossed his arms. "Please, I have better taste, and you don't even deserve me."
"Tell me again why we can't leave?" Kevin asked Edd in a whisper. The sockhead smiled at his boyfriend before saying, "Everything was going fine until your idiotic friend joined us." The redhead's eyes opened wide. It wasn't just that Edd actually said that, but it was how he said it, like Nat's feelings didn't matter or even existed. He didn't even want to look Nat in the eye, knowing his best friend would be stunned and offended by Edd's statement, but Kevin turned his head anyway.
"Idiotic?" There wasn't much of an expression on Nat's face. He softly sighed and said, "You know, when you called the guys 'imbeciles', I couldn't understand why they got so mad about it, because at the moment, I agreed with you, but now, I don't know why I did. Yeah they were wrong to judge you, but I don't think that gives you the right to call them dumb. I see now that you call anyone who isn't being mature," Nat air quoted the word 'mature' and went on, "stupid because you think you're better than all of us, don't you? Just because you have AP classes and all straight A's."
Kevin blinked. This was the first time he has ever heard his best friend sound so serious. The redhead looked over at Edd, who had nothing but fiery in his soft blue eyes.
"I do not think of myself as any better than anyone," the sockhead responded, his voice low.
"Then how come that's always your only insult?" Nat questioned, glaring back at him.
"Believe me, Nathan, I can think of many other ways to insult you."
Nat scowled and jumped up from his seat. "You know what, Edd. I don't need your bullshit." He stepped over the bench and glanced back at the sockhead, "Talk to me when your new stupid attitude isn't in the way."
Kevin was dumbfounded. He scooted away from Edd as he watched his best friend walk off in anger. Edd blinked and looked down at his hands. The redhead could see how much the small teen regretted his words. The sockhead covered his mouth. Eddy burst into loud laughter and banged his fist on the table.
"What the hell was that all about?" Kevin finally asked Edd.
Edd, distracted by Eddy's laughter, took a moment to answer. "I-I-I... Kevin, forgive me. I-I-"
"Don't apologize, sockhead!" Eddy said through his laugh.
Kevin was ready to attack Eddy when his teammates walked over.
"Hey Eddward," Mark said through clenched teeth. "Did I just hear that you said shit to my friend? You better watch that smart ass mouth of yours."
Kevin slowly stood up and slapped both his hands down on the table. "Well maybe Edd wouldn't need to be a smart ass if you guys would have just left him alone."
"I get it, Kevin. He's your boyfriend and we were dicks to him, but that doesn't mean he can just treat us like we're stupid."
"Just like him being smaller than us didn't mean you guys had to pick on him, right?" The redhead raised an eyebrow as he waited for one of them to answer.
"Well why is he bitching at Nat?" Andrew joined in. "What did Nat do to him?"
Kevin glared down at his boyfriend for a moment, and then turned to face Andrew again. "On that, I agree with you, but he's only acting like this because of you guys."
"Kevin-" Edd tried speaking, but Mark cut him off.
The brunette grinned at Kevin as he said, "So this is his way of crying about it?"
"Excuse you!" Edd shouted. He quickly stood up and sneered at the guys. This caught the attention of students around them who turned to see what was going on.
Kevin could see they were starting a scene. He placed his hands on Edd's shoulder. "Come on, Edd. Let's just go."
"No!" Eddy got up from his seat. "If Double D wants to defend himself, he can!"
"Eddy, stay out of this!" The redhead shouted. He began to gently push Edd away.
And the whole time during, Ed just sat there, watching all of them with worried eyes and chattering teeth, hoping they wouldn't presume to violence.
"Edd, this isn't you, okay?" Kevin whispered to his blue eyed boyfriend. Edd stared back with furrowed eyebrows, but he listened, "Just relax. Don't let them get to you. I'll handle them."
"No, I want to," Edd answered in a hushed tone. "I want to take care of myself."
The baseball players stood there, waiting for something to happen. Eddy ran over to Edd's side, quickly joined by Ed.
"I know you do, babe," Kevin continued to whisper, "But not here, not now. Please." He stared deep into the other's eyes.
Edd finally sighed and nodded. "Let's go." Kevin smiled at those words. The four of them walked out of the cafeteria, leaving the guys to stand there in confusion. They rolled their eyes and went on their way as well. What a waste of time.
"I think I'm going to quit," Kevin said to Edd as he lay on his back on Edd's bed.
Edd used to despise having people lie on his bed, because it would just wrinkle the sheets, but after seeing Kevin lay on it a few times before they started officially dating, Edd's feelings towards it changed, seeing how lovely the sight was.
"You aren't talking about baseball, are you?" But the redhead nodded. "Kevin!" Edd whined. "You can't do that. It's your passion."
"But I can't be on a team filled with guys who can't respect you."
Edd gulped. "Nat is one of them." He sadly looked down at his feet. "I hope you do forgive me for saying what I said to him-"
"I'm not the one you should apologize to." The redhead sat up and sighed. "To be honest, it did tick me off a little to hear you talk like that to him. I hope you know that he didn't do anything to deserve it."
"That is the very reason why I'm sorry." Edd sat down next to Kevin. The sad expression on his baby face tugged at Kevin's heart. The jock placed a hand on Edd's thigh and gently rubbed it. "Do you think he'll forgive me?"
Kevin chuckled. "Edd, it's Nat. He doesn't hold a grudge. He'll be fine, I know him." His hand trailed up and stopped at Edd's cheek. "Let's just not talk about Nat right now, okay?" Edd nodded and smiled as Kevin's lips inched closer to his.
It started with a soft kiss, their hands on each other's faces, until Edd began to deepen the kiss, wrapping his arms tightly around Kevin's neck. The redhead smirked against his boyfriend's lips. He held the small teen close as their kiss ended. Emerald and blue eyes stared at each other for what felt like forever. Edd took a deep breath before grabbing hold of Kevin's head and pressing his lips against the redhead's neck.
"Mmm," Kevin murmured, smiling at the soft touch at his neck. Edd's cheeks start feeling hot. He shut his eyes tight as he gently sucked on the skin. "Damn, Edd-" but Kevin didn't say anymore from being taken aback by Edd pushing him, causing the redhead to fall on his back.
Though his hand was shaky and his heart was racing more than usual, Edd straddled Kevin, his dogtags clinking together as he adjusted himself. He looked down at the redhead and swallowed the lump in his throat. A smirk formed on Kevin's face with a look of lust in his eyes. Edd tried shaking away the nerves inside him. Without hesitation, he threw off his jackets and tossed them aside. Kevin grabbed the sockhead by the dogtags and pulled him down for a kiss. Edd's hands traveled to the hem of the jock's white shirt and quickly pulled it up. Kevin helped by yanking it over his head. The shirt joined Edd's jackets on the floor. Oh dear, Edd thought as he looked at them, but blinked and focused his attention on his boyfriend.
Kevin had a nice shape to him. Edd couldn't stop himself from kissing down the redhead's toned stomach. Kevin laid his head back and smiled when he felt his jeans being unzipped. They had never done this before, but Kevin had imagined it over and over, and now it was happening, and even crazier, Edd was in charge. This caused a shiver to go down the redhead's back. He was very much annoyed, afraid, and amazed of Edd's new behavior.
A/N Part 2: I just wanted to say that the idea of May needing glasses because her vision got bad from being in front a computer screen a lot came from my real life experience, lol. Okay, have a nice day. Stay tuned for chapter 8, sweeties. Follow me on tumblr if you want updates and such. :)
