AN: Sooooooooooo sorry this chapter is so short, but i wanted to update to let you all know that I am back, I have a plan, I have a muse, and thing will start getting soooooo amazing in the next couple of chapters! I'm already writing the next chapter as i post this!

Each time I started up my computer to work on this I got reading some great stories and Drarry took over my life... that and Supernatural on Netflix... And of course crippling depression over the loss of my Papaw... So i read to get some happiness back in my life and BAM my muse came back and reminded me why I love to write these stories! Reading is a wonderful gift and i love it so much!

I did not do much spelling check or whatever on this chapter due to my rush to update but oh well, I also hate this chapter and struggled with it like crazy and re-wrote it like 5 times (which is probably why it is so short) but its here and it is important because it leads to the overly dramatic thing that is called my crazy writing style (AKA I LOVE DRAMA!)

Thank you all who reviewed I LOOOOOOOOOVED reading them and for those following this story... I love you and you are beautiful and fantastic people, always remember that!

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Kevin watched and listened to the other male as he told him about how he planned on tutoring him. Trying his best to focus on the words instead of the desire to hug the smaller male that was babbling in front of him. Of course, he was ecstatic because honestly it was not how he saw this conversation going. After the football game and seeing Double-D's reaction to how he spoke to him, he figured he would have to do some major apologizing and eat crow. When Edd had brought up his grades at the football game Kevin had been upset, more so though for the fact that his super smart crush knew he was a dumby, and therefor would never have any feelings towards him other than pity so their "friendship" would be wrecked from this point on. That was why he never wanted Edd to find out, but he never meant to hurt the smaller male's feelings like he did. If he had been in Edd's position he would have used the information as an advantage to whatever means necessary for revenge or whatever, that is how the world worked in Kevin's eyes. Yet, Double-D, the kind soul took it and did the opposite, he wanted to help and not out of complete and total pity but out of kindness and caring for a friend. Why had Kevin ever doubted such things about the other. Edd was not like the others at school, he was different so to expect him to behave the same way any of his other "friends" would have was just stupid.

Though he was a bit amused and shocked at the other's behavior since he seemed so nervous and kept babbling about a reason that he may not want him as a tutor. Which in Kevin's eyes there were a few, like Edd could find out his big secret, and that he had a crush on him. Though after tonight he felt a little more relaxed that if Double-D ever did find out he actually might not ruin him by telling everyone at school. Was he willing to trust that though or was it just him being hopeful that his crush might accept him, that somebody might accept him? After carefully listening and getting interrupted when he tried to explain himself, the crimson-haired male was floored by the end of Edd's admission, that was unexpected.

Now here they both were, only a short distance between them and a bombshell had just exploded in their friendship. Edd looked terrified now, like he was waiting to be pummeled at any second, he was even shaking, though he did not run away. Kevin knew his next action would determine how or if their friendship continued. Without much thinking though he went with his gut, and towards the smaller male, taking and holding him close.

"It's alright Double-D. I am not going to hurt you." He whispered as he held the other to his chest. His instinct was to calm him, to care for him, to make that gap tooth smile reappear upon his crushes face.

No, Kevin did not have time to debate if this was the right thing to do or not, instead he just wanted Edd to know that it was alright, he wanted Edd to feel the way he hoped he would feel if he ever had to make such a confession one day, accepted. At first the crimson-haired male had no clue if it would work, that is until Edd calmed down in his arms, and he felt the frailer arms of the other slowly wrap around him before embracing him back. Kevin smiled at the feeling of the other male's arms around him, glad that maybe this once he had done something right, even if it now meant he also had to keep Edd's secret and his own, it was worth it to feel how the other fit so perfectly against him.

"Y-you're not mad at me?" Came the meek, Double-Dweeb voice he was used to, though it was muffled only slightly from where Edd kept his head buried against the taller male.

Kevin chuckled and shook his head at the others question before responding. "No, if I was then I would be one Hell of a hypocrite." He said apparently deciding to take the risk and put his cards on the table as well.

It only took a moment before Edd pulled back and was looking up at the crimson-haired male with shocked and confused brown eyes. He was about to speak before Kevin interrupted. "And before you ask, yes I know what hypocrite means and I know what I just said. You are not the only one who can have a variety of words in their vocabulary." He shrugged gently as his hold on the other relaxed. He was not yet ready to let him go but he figured Edd wouldn't want to be held by him, not after what he just admitted. Yes, some part of Kevin's brain was still telling him once he told anyone they would hate him, and so now he was waiting for the hate, yet holding on in hopes it never happened.

Double-D just stared at him for a few moments, never backing out of his grasp or really moving at all. Shocked was not even close to the way he was felling right now. Never, ever had he thought that Kevin would be like him, nor did he think he would ever be here being comforted and accepted by the other male for being gay himself. He tried opening his mouth to say something, anything really, since he could feel the other male beginning to tense up, could see the worry in his eyes and Double-D understood where it was coming from. Yet, he could find no words that seemed right, nothing at all so he just blurted out something so the silence would not consume them both. "Are you sure?" He said dumbly and felt his cheek begin to warm up for how stupid of a question that was.

Though thankfully Kevin just grinned that crooked sideways grin before nodding. "Yeah, been pretty sure since the 8th grade really. Just been good at hiding it. You have as well, though." Kevin said glad that Edd was not showing the hate yet, glad they were still talking, and also a little proud that he had fooled the smartest kid in school.

"Oh" Was all Edd could think to say at the moment. With that he let the other go and just was floored, needing time to wrap his head around the idea that Kevin was gay or at least bisexual.

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Two weeks had passed since Edd became Kevin's tutor but more importantly two weeks had passed since the two male teens found out that the other was gay. It was funny how Kevin use to think his biggest fear was telling someone and them voicing it to the whole school, because after the first couple of days and no rumors being heard about his sexuality he was happy that he trusted the right person, Edd was keeping his secret and it was nice for once to have someone to trust. It took Edd a couple of days to wrap his head around the idea, and though Kevin did not take much time though, he was stunned to find out that Edd actually already had a boyfriend. Yeah, so his crush was already taken by some college douchebag that Double-D only saw a couple times a month if he was lucky, but then again, the dweeb said that did not bother him. It was irritating to the crimson-haired male to think that after all this time he finally found out his crush was gay like him but already taken!

Kevin groaned as he stared at the mess being created by his fellow team mates and other students of the school, who were celebrating yet another win of tonight's game. Nazz was throwing a party like normal when they won and had invited nearly all the football team and the volleyball team and hell, just anybody from the school who wanted to celebrate. Kevin normally would be fine with celebrating but right now his mind was on his last tutoring session and how it did not go so well, he had not even really got to speak with Edd since then either! This was not fun at all, because he did not want to come off as a jerk who did not respect the idea that Double-D was taken and therefore "off-limits" but at the same time with all this tutoring, his crush was not dying out. Hell, it was getting even worse, and he really did wish Edd would just dump the other guy and go out with him or hook-up or something. Though Kevin knew that Edd would not be the "hook-up" type, no he was more the relationship type, maybe that is why Edd never responded to any of Kevin's advances, since the whole school saw Kevin as nothing but a flirt and "one-night" type of guy. Edd rarely spoke of the competition other than to remind Kevin from time to time that he was taken so the flirting or the playful advances were not needed. At first Kevin barely put a thought to it thinking that Edd was just lying so he wouldn't try anything but no the dweeb had pictures of him and the average looking guy on his phone he shown him to prove a point, that he was in fact in a true relationship and had been for a while apparently. In looks Kevin knew he was the better looking of the two, so there should be no competition there at all, and Kevin was so use to having what he wanted that this all felt extremely weird.

Honestly, this just sucked balls. Or well at least Kevin wished it did. A good lay, that is what he needed, some cheap girl to fuck or something. Yeah, he was gay but he was still able to do the girls out of pure need and not much more. He saw them as a means to an end and that was one thing Edd did not seem to understand and still doubted in the fact Kevin was gay and not just bi-curious or whatever since the football star had a number of ladies he had been with. This apparently was Edd's biggest hang up when he was trying to wrap his head around the idea of Kevin actually being gay. Kevin tried to explain the best he could, that at times it was just sex he was after with the girl but he truly was attracted to men, in fact most of the girls he was with were not the girly girl type but more athletic build and such, with flatter chest and everything. Again, though, since Double-D was logical, he had to nearly overthink everything and it took until Kevin finally said screw it and kissed him breathless before he changed his opinion. Oh yeah that had been great, finally being able to kiss the one he has had a crush on for couple months now, even though Edd did not appreciate it, since he had a boyfriend, it did shut him up on the idea of Kevin lying about being attracted to other men. After that though things were just so stagnant between them in a way.

Tonight, was a Friday night and there was never any tutoring planned on these nights due to Kevin's football, and there was rarely tutoring the night before unless it was late because Double-D had cross country and Kevin had a light practice. Thursdays and Fridays were hard days to get any work done, but soon the sports would be over and hopefully both would have more time. Though unless Kevin could convince Edd that he was a better choice than that "boyfriend" of his, then it would not matter what time they spent together, he could tell Double-D was not the type to cheat. So, during the other night at tutoring was just painful, Kevin did his best to respect the other's relationship and all that but at the same time could not help but flirt when he saw the chance. At one point Edd had groaned in annoyance at something on his phone, and it had sounded too inappropriate not to say something to, so of course the football start had to say "Keep making noises like that and even I won't be able to control myself." He had teased, innocently of course but the look he got back was nothing close to pleased and he instantly held his hands up in mock defense. "Just teasing." He would say almost after every flirty thing. Most of the time Edd would just roll his eyes or blush and move on but near the end when Kevin mentioned something a little more adult rated, just teasing of course, well Edd did not take too kindly to it and ended their session saying there was not much more for them to study for the test tomorrow. So right now, his hope was to just remain friends and hopefully win the other over with sweet determination and proximity.

With the first nine weeks also coming to a close and Kevin having these last few weeks to play catch up with the help of his new tutor, his grades had improved already. The Dweeb even convinced some of his teachers to let him retake old test or redo old assignments to improve his grades! Kevin guessed the teachers all loved the smart helpful student and Edd had used that to get him those second chances and that had done a lot to improve his grades. Edd was great when it came to tutoring, that and Kevin really did want to try hard to at least prove to the other he was not stupid or anything. He was glad the threat of being kicked off the team was gone, and that he had picked up a few vital note taking skills that were helping him out in his more difficult classes. Apparently, writing notes in a color-coded way was awesome when you are a more visual learner, which apparently, he was as Edd had found out. Made sense though after Kevin figured it out, since many times he could be told how to do something and struggle but if it was a hands-on type demonstration or he was shown it came more easily, which is probably why when he wanted to learn a new wrestling move or how to fix something on his motorcycle he would always look up videos. He appreciated Edd for what he was doing to help him and the teen even agreed to stay his tutor the next nine weeks coming just to be helpful and supportive. Kevin tried too to be supportive now for the other, without the school finding anything out though. The locker room situation with Mathew and his goons had calmed down some since Kevin stepped in, but every now and again Kevin would catch the bulkier teen pestering his friend and would have to find some way to play it off and not be too obvious about how it upset him. Hell, even though he could not be there he always made sure to even send Edd text to wish him good luck before a cross country meet and after to ask him how it went. Edd always replied to, and Kevin enjoyed the fact that though they lived right across the street from each other, there would be nights that Edd would stay up late and just text and talk with him over the phone.

Kevin smiled at himself and how stupid he could be at times but he really did not care, maybe deep down he couldn't help but be a hopeless romantic. He did want to make sure Edd knew he was cheering him on, even if it always seemed he was unable to be there due to his own sports. Hopefully, he would get to catch something the dweeb played in this year though, it couldn't always be that their schedules were polar opposites, could it? Hell, even Nazz and Lily found time to go and support each other! Yeah, those two were beginning to be something else, they were inseparable, well until recently.

Kevin had wondered if it was such a good idea to invite the wildly outgoing girl who seemed to have made herself right at home in the group of Ed's and yet not invite the three stooges in the first place, and turned out he was right and still wished he had recorded her going off on Nazz, it was amazing. Apparently, when Lily found out that the cul-de-sac kids never invited the three Ed's anymore to the parties Nazz threw, she went into a major fit about how wrong, childish, insensitive, and a lot of other cruel things it was. Nazz tried to explain that the last time the Ed's had been to a party, year and years ago, that they had done some stupid crap which had just crossed the line and so from then on, no one from the block would invite them to anything anymore.

Lily of course was able to point out all the flaws in their master plan of isolating the Ed's. Saying stuff like "they were kids, it was even before high school." Or "I've been around them and they are all pretty chill now, you just are being a childish brat." After that a lot of name calling ensued and the argument seemed to spill over into the weeks, where Lily would have nothing to do with Nazz or Kevin for that matter and poor Edd just kept giving both of them apologizing looks, which then made Kevin feel even worse. Why should Edd feel sorry, in a way Lily was right and making Edd feel the need to apologize seemed so wrong when he was one of those being excluded from parties on purpose for something he did as a kid. Which made Kevin also wondered if it was such a good idea to not speak up for his crush, or if he did what would happen, would Nazz question him ruthlessly about their relationship, or what if he went and Double-D decided that it was a cruel thing to do.

What Kevin found out when he got to the party was actually what was making all of this monolog happen, Nazz apparently had broken down just to get her newest best friend back, and the Ed's were invited and Kevin wondered if he would see Double-D here at the party or not. This weekend the party was about having a big bash before the end of the sports season, after that it would be about celebrating the end of the sports season and was one of the largest parties Nazz threw and Kevin always enjoyed it greatly. There would also be another party at the end of this month to celebrate Halloween, which was apparently one of Nazz's favorite holidays, fitting right behind Christmas and New Years. Since her parents were traveling for business all the time it made her house the go to place for parties and the fact that even when they were in and found out about the parties they were cool with it and would even help clean up. Kevin wondered if it was because they felt guilty that there were never around so they figured their daughter was just throwing parties for attention or for company so she was not spending holidays alone, either way it worked out great for the cul-de-sac kids and any other party goer because it gave them a place to sleep it all off without the worry of a stuffy adult coming to bug them.

With a sigh Kevin grabbed the control to the music and turned on his music as loud as possible to drown out his own inner thoughts and pity party he could feel coming along about his crush problem. He did not want to think about it any longer, it was just starting to hurt, to be so close yet so far from what he wanted, and he had promised himself tonight he would have fun and no go home and let his imagination run wild. There had already been too many nights where he had come with the others name being groaned out so desperately, Kevin was not proud of those nights. As the Guns N's Roses started to sing about a sweet child (Sweet child O' Mine) Kevin smiled knowing the song was before his time but sometimes those were the best. Listening to the guitar play Kevin finally came up with a game plan, hide. If Edd showed up then just ignore it and go to the other side of the room or outside or anywhere to stay away from him so he had one evening where he could just not think about it. That was a good plan until he turned and there were those beautiful stunning blue eyes watching him.

Edd had arrived with Lily and the Big Ed nearly 5 to 10 minutes ago and not being one to join parties, since he had been banned due to Eddy being rather stupid about fireworks once, he did not know much other than to hang to his friends. However, that was clearly not going to happen when Lily saw Nazz, and being the brat she was lately, decided to avoid her and drag big Ed around to go dance with her. Double-D had already declined to do such a thing, not beign one for public displays of the sort, any sort any ways. Though when he had heard the music go from pop dance music to something like Gun's N Roses he absolutely had to know who was controlling the play list, and low and behold who would he find except for his tutee who was now looking at his with startled emerald eyes.

"Geesh, dork! Don't sneak up on me like that! Nearly give me a heart attack!" Kevin said looking a bit rattled and Edd just grinned.

"My apologies, Kevin." Edd said giving Kevin the best, 'I'm sorry but it was still funny to see your reaction' look he could muster.

Kevin just shook his head and knew his plan to avoid the other was just out the window, if he left now Edd was smart enough to figure out he was avoiding him, so now he was stuck. How to make the best of a bad situation, if you could call hanging out with unavailable crush such a thing.

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Again sorry this chapter was sooooo short but the next should be back to what you all are use to! I am super excited to continue to update hopefully soon if I can get the next chapters pounded out and then read and correct and reread a few more items and blah blah blah! BUT IT WILL BE AMAZING!

Read and Review (no about my terrible messy writing b.c like I said I hate this chapter it was the whole thing holding me up so I finally said screw it and belted it out so I could update and get to the GOOD STUFF! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I'm literally bouncing in my chair at the stuff i have planned!)

Review and let me know though how many of you want drama, angst Edd or absolutely hopeless romantic Kevin who any guy would be proud to call boyfriend OR ALL OF THE ABOVE! b.c the only thing holding this up will be my apprehension of how much drama is too much and how to balance it!this is Kevedd so don't worry we all know Kevin is who Edd is meant to be with so this boyfriend he ahd has gotta go, how is the question. *grins wickedly* Would you all like it to be a big dramtic event, a simple text/breakup or Kevin being Edd's knight in shining armor~ let me know people! I have a chapter or so before that happens sooooo I figured I'd ask what you all like.

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