The next morning, Edd startles awake when he hears a loud CLANK. He looks around, a bit confused by his surroundings, until he notices Nat and Kevin in their kitchen, attempting to make breakfast, and arguing in sharp, hushed voices.
"Um… Good Morning, Kevin, Nathan."
Both boys jerked their head towards the source of the voice in the living room and Nat visibly relaxes. "Oh, thank goodness you're awake! Now I don't have to hold back."
"What do-"
Edd got his answer before he could even ask his question. Nat put a second frying pan down on the stove, making the same loud CLANK sound as earlier. He then proceeded to start singing loudly as he placed what appeared to be bacon into a frying pan.
Kevin just sighed heavily and walked over towards Edd. He sat on the edge of the coffee table, bumping his knees against Edd's, who was trying to sit up.
"Sleep alright, man?"
"Yes, I did. I'm so sorry for falling asleep here."
"Dude. Don't worry about it."
"Alright…" Edd looked at Kevin for a moment until Nat tried and fail to hit the same register as Whitney Houston. "Um, Kevin? Is this typical of Nathan?"
"Yeah, when he's drunk."
"Drunk? But it's…" Edd checked his watch. "It's 8 am!"
"Yeah. I know. Apparently, he stayed up all night gaming and drinking to see how long he can make it. I heard him rummaging in the kitchen a few minutes ago and came in to try to stop him. But it's hard to come between drunk Nat and his breakfast food, especially when you have to be quiet about it."
"Sorry you had to stay quiet in your own home," said Edd, looking embarrassed when his sentence was punctuated by his growling stomach.
"You want in on this?" Kevin said, gesturing towards Nat who was now singing into a spatula while caressing the pack of bacon strips.
"The serenade or the breakfast?"
"Breakfast of course. Pretty sure that the serenade is against the Geneva Convention or the Nuremburg Code or something like that."
Edd just giggled behind his hand and nodded.
"Yo! Nat! Make extra for Edd here!"
Nat spun around and faced them with a giant grin on his face. "Coming right up!" Nat quickly started rummaging around in the freezer, this time singing showtunes.
While Nat was making everyone breakfast, Kevin asked Edd about his schedule and his upcoming plans for the week. As Edd was making it down his mental calendar, he mentioned that he was going to stop going to Graphic Novel Book Club. He felt like the readings for that particular book club were becoming quite the chore, and by dropping it, he could also have more open weekends to do other stuff.
Before Kevin could inquire about the "other stuff" Edd was trying to do, Nat announce that breakfast was served, as he slapped down a baking sheet on top of an extra oven mitt on the kitchen bar. Kevin and Edd both got up and went into the Kitchen to join Nat, who was already loading up a plate. When Kevin got into the kitchen, he froze for a moment, analyzing the food.
"Hey Nat, did you cook all the waffles we had?"
"Yup!"
"And all the turkey bacon?"
"Naturally! This shit's sooo good!" Nat managed to say before his mouth was too full of turkey bacon strips.
Kevin decided to ignore Nat's awkward moaning in favor of figuring out this breakfast menu. "But you only used one egg to make scrambled eggs for three people?"
"No. I used two. Is something wrong?"
Kevin just shook his head. "Nope. Nothing at all. But you're going to be so mad at yourself later."
Nat just shrugged and started eating a strip of turkey bacon soaked in maple syrup.
After breakfast, Nat went straight to bed, stumbling the whole way while thanking Kevin for "being such a good wife." Kevin just rolled his eyes as he continued to put the dirty dishes in the sink and pack away the leftover food.
As Kevin was playing Tetris with all of Nat's Tupperware in the fridge, he asked Edd, "Do you need to go home soon?"
"I suppose not, though I do need to shower at some point before I go to work at 1 o'clock."
"Cool… Want to finish watching Logan?"
"Sure! But I must warn you, I only remember the first ten minutes or so."
Kevin laughed. "We can just start it over then. I have no problem with that."
They resumed their position on the couch and restarted the movie. At a particularly dramatic scene, Edd scooted closer. At the extremely sad scene that had Edd choked up, Kevin put his arm around Edd. However, something inside Kevin was making him hesitate on asking him out. Fucking nerves.
After the movie, Kevin drove Edd home. He walked him into the dorm and up to his room to continue their previous conversation about the movie. At Edd's door, Kevin kept inching closer to Edd, making Edd stutter and forget what he was saying about the final fight scene. Kevin placed a hand on Edd's arm and started leaning in very slowly, only stopping when his phone started ringing. Kevin sighed and threw his head back before taking two steps back from Edd and pulling out his phone. He groaned when he saw who was calling.
"What is it, Nat?... No… No, I swear… I didn't! You did!..." Kevin gave Edd a pained look, who was now turned around slightly and unlocking his dorm room door. "Yes, you did! You made breakfast for us and Edd and for some reason you though that you needed to cook all of the-"
Kevin suddenly grimaced and pulled the phone away from his face as Nat shouted, "WHY DID YOU LET ME DO THAT?"
Kevin sighed as Edd mouthed "I need to go shower," as he pointed to his dorm room.
Kevin nodded in acknowledgment, still holding the phone away from his face as Nat continued to rant quite loudly. Edd started to turn towards his room when Kevin suddenly grabbed him by his arm and pulled him into a hug. When Edd hugged him back, Kevin kissed him on the top of his head and said, "See you around, dork."
Kevin then started walking back towards the stairs as he put the phone back to his face, saying, "Nat, chill, it's not like you won't eat it all before the weekend's over."
He looked back and saw Edd still standing in his doorway, blushing fiercely. He grinned to himself and practically skipped down the rest of the hall.
