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IMPORTANT NOTE: This chapter will contain sparring dialogues-a technique that will not mention who is the speaker. So readers, just don't be surprised, I gave clues as to who is speaking anyway.

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Chapter 9: Undecided

Time was swift; seconds ticked, minutes ran, hours faded to days, then nights. In a blink of an eye, a whole month was out of the calendar. Only two weeks remained.

Two weeks to complete the murderer that was once an idea of revenge. Two weeks to be a good student and be rewarded. Two weeks more...

"Hey, you haven't updated this calendar yet."

"Huh?" Kevin was awakened and his placid reverie collapsed as the words reached him.

"There, I fixed it."

"What?"

The ginger put down the paintbrush; the raven put down the marker.

A calendar, with the face of June, was shoved right in front of him. Red rows of x-marks were dotted along the weeks... and stopped on a Thursday.

"Holy Asimo!" A big letter O was plastered on Kevin's face. "This Saturday... is already graduation?!"

He began to pant hard, panic coursed through his veins. His requirements were piled up, he had the robot to paint, he had to test the robot, he had to study for a couple of make-up tests... he had so much in his hands! But Edd was calm. As a matter of fact, he gave a smile, a knowing smirk that stiffened Kevin. He was frightened to know what his small one-sided smile meant.

"That reminds me..." Edd's voice sounded hoarse. Then he patted at his clothes and adjusted his jacket. "Just make it quick," he pulled down his black cap and covered his face. "A big knife would do the trick." he muttered.

"What's all this, Eddward?"

"Please," he suddenly peeped out. "Call me Double D for my last moment."

But Kevin was paralyzed to do anything at all. "A-a-are you serious? Kill you now? Right now? Are you even serious? It's cool if I don't kill you as long as your friends leave me alone!" he stammered some more words out of astonishment. Heat slapped his face and sweat formed into beads that trickled down his skin.

"I'm just being true to my words, pumpkin. A deal's a deal."

"Listen, I... like you... and..." he paused and tried to fish out a good excuse. "Don't you want to graduate, Valedictorian?"

"Oh, so you're backing down from your words, Salutatorian?"

A thick cloud of tension circled around the two inventors as their green eyes bore on one another.

"I blurted that out of impulse, Edd! You provoked me!"

"Ahem, Double D."

"Whatever, DD. I was angry at you but now... I'm not. So that's that, I won't murder you. Period."

"Fine," the taller boy huffed and eyed the robot on the desk. "I know how to operate it anyway."

Kevin quickly took a sidestep and blocked the path to the table. His thin arms were outstretched, with green sleeves hanging loosely. "You're planning to suicide in this basement? In my house? How could you torture me like that? You'll make me a notorious murderer in no time!"

"Well, if you would be so kind as to lend me the robot, I'd gladly kill myself elsewhere!" The sarcasm in Edd's voice only began a spark of annoyance in Kevin.

"What's gotten into you?" he barked at the raven.

"I got issues, troubles, problems... I'm an ordinary person who made mistakes and the only way to erase and correct them is to be reborn."

"Edd... Double D, please, you can start by not pondering about suicide, right?"

"NO!" he roared. "I have to die. I have to..."

"Who said?"

"I did. Because what I did to you... unforgivable-"

"I forgave you for every time that you made my day shittier than what my parents could do."

"I don't want to live in guilt! Just kill me already and I'll eternally leave you alone!"

"I DON'T WANT YOU TO LEAVE ME!"

"I DON'T WANT TO HURT YOU ANYMORE!"

"DON'T BE SELFISH, KILLING YOURSELF BECAUSE OF YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS AND LEAVING BEHIND EVERYONE WHO LOVES YOU!"

"I GOT NO ONE TO LEAVE BEHIND IF I DIE!"

"WHAT ABOUT ME?" A fist crashed down Edd's jaw. The force sent him down on the chair. "What am I to you?" he choked. "We can talk about this, Edd. I'll talk you out of suicide all night, I'll-"

"IT'S YOU!" The loud words emitted out of the swimmer's mouth. "It's about you! I'm guilty for all the crap I've done to you and your kindness is killing me!"

"Regretting something that you enjoyed, huh?"

"Maybe because I didn't enjoy being a bully?" he cockily responded. He made a sigh and hesitantly shook his head. "I wanted to belong to a cool group and Jimmy... I thought he was cool. He liked my style, but not my nerd side. He told me to drop it or else... blackmail for all eternity. So I acted cool, I was cool! The student body loved me! Believe me, I almost forgot that my real name was Eddward. And..."

Kevin leaned in and the melancholic words were replaced with soft moans and tender kisses. Another monologue, disrupted by a kiss that healed the heart for a beautiful moment.

"Please end my pain," Edd huskily whispered in between kisses.

"Come back tomorrow." he replied. "I'll be ready."


The following chapter will contain smut scenes. I will put a border if you're disturbed by that so that you can still read it safely. Thank you!