When Edd awoke, he didn't get up.
He lied in bed for another thirty minutes, stuck in the limbo between awake and asleep. He'd been up two hours later than usual. Eddy's phone call hit him hard and he couldn't stop thinking about it. At least it was something to distract him from..
He groaned and sat up. His body ached and the house was cold. Colder than usual anyhow. He shuffled out of bed and shivered on his way downstairs to turn up the heating. He realized that he hadn't even turned it off and sure enough, when he reached the thermostat, it read 60 degrees but it felt like thirty.
"What in sam-hill?" He shivered again and realized that either the power was out or they were out of gas. "Father never lets the house run low on gas." he said aloud to himself. Edd plodded into the kitchen and flipped the swith to test the electricity. The light didn't come on. Not even a flicker. He was struck by denial and went from switch to switch, testing them, but nothing came on. Surely his parents hadn't forgotten the electricity bill, had they?
With a growl Edd marched over to the phone and picked up the receiver. He held it up to his face and turned the dial but there was no tone. It occurred to him then what he was doing. He blushed and laughed to himself. "Oh..right." Then set it back on the phone hook.
With a sigh, Edd plodded back up the stairs and got changed into some pants, a sweater and a jacket to go see if Eddy was having any luck.
After a few knocks he could hear hollering something to his parents. "Yeah yeah yeah, I got it! I got it!" the door swung open and the annoyed Eddy lit up. "Sockhead! Er..I mean. What do ya want?"
Edd surprised a laugh then asked, "Did you power go out last night?"
"Yeah. The whole neighbor hood is screwed."
"From what?"
Eddy motioned past Edd. "Didn't cha notice anything?"
Edd looked around and it hit him. An extra few feet of snow had fallen during the night. Of course he hadn't noticed, snow was very quiet. Out of curiosity, he glanced over at Rolfs house. Even he had the sense to stay in, he work was completely buried with fresh snow.
"So I guess you ain't got power, huh?" Edd shook his head, "Space heaters?"
"No. Father says they're a fire hazard."
"Bogus." Eddy rolled his eyes. "Well hey, why don'tcha crash here till the power comes back on?"
"I dunno..what about your parents?"
"They aint gonna letcha freeze to death in your house. Let's go pack up your junk." Edd just nodded. Eddy hollered to his parents that he'd be right back then shut the door. "C'mon before my junk freezes off."
"Not much better at my house."
Eddy didn't say anything so they plodded silently to Edds.
They got his stuff prepared and headed back to Eddy's which was slightly warmer thanks to the fire place and the space heaters. As they headed to Eddy's room, Eddy stuck his head in the living room and updated his parents on the situation. To Edds surprised, they agreed then went back to what they were doing. Eddy rejoined Edd and they entered his room.
"Got my own space heater. My dad got a great deal a couple years back when the toy factory went out of business. Turns out they were just as cheap as us!" he laughed. "Couldn't bother to actually heat the place with their industrial sized heaters." He flopped on his bed. "I think my dad has a cot somewhere.."
Edd forced a smile. Cots weren't particularly comfortable, but at a time like this, he didn't have the luxury of complaining.
Eddy propelled himself from his bed and crashed into a chair holding a small, dying poinsettia but he simply climbed to his feet and exited as if nothing had happened. Moments later he was dragging something cumbersome down the hallway. Edd opened the door and was surprised to find that Eddy was hauling a rolled up air mattress down the hall. He yanked it into his room then collapsed on it.
"Who'da thought an AIR mattress would be so stinkin' heavy?"
Edd laughed then stepped near to help Eddy inflate it with the pump he'd shoved in the rolled up mattress. They took turns pumping it and deflating it to Edds liking, until he found it suitable. Eddys mother brought in bed coverings and some little sandwiches with milk. Eddy became embarassed, especially when his mother began to coddle him before she left.
"Sheesh..no respect." Eddy muttered.
The two stayed up most of the night, sandwiches and milk gone, reading comics and watching movies. Their minds were distracted from all worries for a long while until Eddy was searching for another movie and came across one Ed had lent to him. They both fell silent. The rest of the house was also quiet since his parents had gone to sleep hours earlier.
"Who'da thought.." Eddy began but he didn't finish. He drew his legs to he chest and ran his hand through his three hairs.
Edd was quiet. He looked out of Eddy's sliding door into the darkness, the snow right up against the glass was tinted blue from the snow on the television.
"Let's go to sleep." He finally said as he flopped down on his air mattress and pulled the covers over his body. Eddy watched him for a moment then settled into his bed too. After a few minutes he heard Edd sniffle. He remembered nothing after that since he'd fallen asleep.
-A/N-==
I never thought it would get this long! And to think it started off as a one shot :,)
Anyway, just thought I'd add something a little lighter to ease up all of the tumultuous events in the past eight chapters. I got another lulzy flame from somebody crying that I ruined EEnE. Newflash, I'm not the only one writing EEnE slash so if you're trying to get us to stop then I hope you have hours and hours of free time.
Funny how they hate it yet the read it knowing what it is only to whine about it in the reviews.
Flame all you want..seriously we aren't going to stop because of a couple of crybabies. You're in over your head.
Hope you enjoyed this lighter chapter. :D
