"Edd! Wait! Don't you think this is a little reckless! Think this through!" Eddy pleaded, barring the exit of Double D's house.

"No, Eddy. I think this is fine." There was a loud revving coming from outside and Double D beamed. "Oh, that's Kevin. I must go, but please go back to bed - it's too early for you two to be awake," Edd said in a worried tone to Eddy and a drowsy Ed that was falling asleep in one the house plants. "Ed, you'll hurt your neck sleeping like that," Double D said with concern as he left.

"Yeah! It's early! What if he's too tired and you two crash and -"

"Eddy! Quit harrassing my boyfriend! Piss off! You're annoying so early in the fucking morning!" Kevin barked.

Double D laughed and took the helmet Kevin extended to him.

"See! He's all pissy! Just drive your car and -"

"I'm pissed cuz I wanted to have a peaceful ride into school with my man, but instead have some squat asshole yellin' at six in the fucking morning," he growled.

"Kevin! You-"

"Ssh! Eddy, please. You will wake the neighbors," Double D shushed smiling too much, getting on the back of Kevin's bike.

"It's seven o'clock!"

But Double D only laughed, waved, and with one more rev the two boys were off into the pink and purple hues of the new day.

The bus chugged to a stop at it's usual drop off. Eddy aggressively shoved Ed awake and the two lumbered off the coach with the rest of the students.

Life was back to normal. It'd been a week since the incident. Everyone agreed it might be better if Double D didn't go to school the rest of the week to let the heat die off. By that Wednesday, though, almost all traces of the incident had vanished.

Kevin and Eddy, the main ones in charge of the damage control, couldn't help but be impressed at how effectively the school had shut that nonsense down. But by that Friday, Eddy had heard whispers of other forces at work on behalf of Double D.

Eddy paused, the wave of students gently bumping into him. He took a deep breath and grabbed Ed by the ear. "Ed. Come on," he ordered and the big Ed followed.

The bell rang but Eddy wasn't going to class right now. There was something he had to get to the bottom of and they headed towards the Fine Arts building.

A battered and dirty door sat almost lopsided on its hinges, glaring back at the two boys as they approached. They were in the basement of the building and he knew the door was locked but that certain students had a key.

He knocked at the door and the backing to the darkened window opened.

"It's Eddy," he demanded. "Open the door."

There was no movement until a woman's voice barked for them to open the damn door already. Eddy sneered in triumph and the door was opened.

The cloud of smoke that lingered in the air made the room almost difficult to see in. A light film of fog filled every corner of the small closet. He coughed and cleared his throat.

"Don't be so damn dramatic," came the voice, as she puffed another billow of smoke out even bigger than the curls on her head.

"That shit's gonna kill ya," Eddy said matter of factly as he approached a lounging Lee Kanker.

"Something's gotta," she smiled. Her wild curls were longer and they puffed around her head in a ball of wildfire. She had a green bow in it that Eddy knew matched her eyes that were constantly hidden behind a curtain of her fabulous red curls.

She wore leather tights with hot red pumps. Her tube top hugged her chest and over it was thrown an oversized leather jacket.

"Hi, May," Ed called, spotting the blonde Kanker just behind Lee. She wore yellow knee high socks, daisy dukes and a cut off t-shirt. Her sneaker pumps were loose on her tiny feet and she bounced the sneaker as she languidly took the sucker out of her mouth and smiled at Ed.

"Hi, Big Ed. Wachu guys up to?" she said winking at him.

Ed laughed stupidly and shook his head.

"Cut the small talk," Lee barked and May giggled. "Whadda ya want?"

Eddy looked down at the arrogant Kanker, fists in his pockets. "That shit that went down with Double D last week . . ."

"What of it?"

"I hear you had something to do with the clean up," he said cryptically.

Lee shrugged. "Maybe, maybe not. What's it to ya?"

"He's my best friend, that's what. What's it to you? Why should you care what happens with us?"

Lee make a fake sound of pain. "Ah, man. You break my poor heart! Do you think I'm that heartless?" she said, dangling the cigarette between two cherry red fingernails.

"What'd you do?"

Lee shrugged, sitting up. "It wasn't me-"

"Shut it!"

The third sister entered the room. Marie Kanker.

Her hair was still short and a vibrant blue. She wore black baggy cargo pants with heavy boots and a dark green tank that showed her sculpted abs and belly button ring. She had a tribal tattoo that hugged her left shoulder and a piercing on her eyebrow that was visible behind her blue bangs.

"There she is!" Lee smiled. "This is the girl that really started it."

Marie huffed and shoved past the Eds to take a seat in a beat up recliner. She was chewing gum, another attempt at trying to kick the smoking habit she'd picked up with Lee, and she put her hands behind her head, her muscular arms flexing.

"What do you guys care?" Eddy repeated.

"Ya know, Marie liked the Ed boy when we were younger. Maybe she just did him a favor for old time's sake?"

She feigned innocence but Eddy wasn't buying it. Lee smiled and lazily took a few more puffs of her cigarette and put it out in an ashtray at her elbow.

Eddy waited.

"His name is Pete," Lee said standing up. She stood taller than Eddy in her heels and he had to look up at her. "Goes to a school the red guy went up against in football. His team beat his school and because of that they didn't go to state. That's where our Kevy boy got scouted for a university and ol' Pete wasn't too happy."

Eddy nodded and she leaned against the wall.

"He'd been following the football guy for a while now and then this led to that then to the lake, and that shit that went down last week . . ." She shrugged her shoulders as if that was the end of the story.

"How'd you find out?"

Lee chuckled. "Come on, short stuff. You think this is the only school I got in? I got eyes in every school in this town," she informed him. "Just cuz it ain't my terf, doesn't mean I don't like knowing what's goin' on."

Eddy nodded. He knew she was well-informed. But he never knew just how well.

"Why'd she care?" Eddy asked, gesturing to Marie who was still silent and glaring at the two of them.

Lee shrugged. "I don't know, maybe she sympathized with the guy? I mean, if he got his happily ever after, maybe she can too."

Eddy was about to ask what she meant by that, but she took out another cigarette and he knew the conversation was over.

"Let's go, Ed."

"Bye, May! I'll see you around?"

May winked and giggled at him. "Maybe, big boy!"

Ed laughed and walked out. Eddy looked back at the queen bee lounging on her throne. The leather, the smoke, and her hot red pumps made her look like a villain in a noir film.

"You're burnin' holes in me, man. Get lost, will ya!" And she blew him a kiss.

Eddy huffed but couldn't keep the smirk from showing under his breath and he walked out of the smoky room.

ALRIGHT! The story has finally come to an end! Thank you to everyone that has followed me. Thank you for all of the R&R! Please! R&R! I love reading reviews of my stories. It really helps me improve! I hope you enjoyed the ride as much as I did. :) I will continue to right KevEdd though I am not sure what my next story is going to be. Still working on it! Otherwise, I will be back soon with a new story (or I might just finish some of the other ones I have going)! Until then! Be safe! Love, moon-bunny15