*Knock knock* "Sarah, breakfast is ready." Sarah and Ed's mother says knocking on her daughter's bedroom door.
Sarah ended up falling asleep while thinking over her situation with Jimmy and she rolled off her bed when her mother woke her up.
"Ok mom." She says shaking her head and yawning.
She knew if she walked out of her room in the clothes she wore the past two days it would only spark questions from her parents. So after she quickly changes into her pink pajamas and tossing her dirty clothes onto the pile in her closet she walks out of her room.
"Good morning Sarah." Ed says greeting her as she walked into the kitchen.
Sunday morning breakfast was a family transition, they would stay in their pajamas and all four members of the family would sit down and spend time with each other and talk about what's been going in their lives. But this time Sarah didn't want to talk about her week. How could she tell her parents, let alone her brother, that she's been sad over Edd dating Marie and that her best friend had confessed that he was in love with her?
So when her father turned to her and asked; "So how's little Princess been?"
She just told him; "Good Daddy." But she, and secretly Ed knew otherwise.
But she needed to talk to someone about it, she needed an option on what to do. And being a preteen girl she didn't think her parents would understand her, that left her brother as the only person she thought she could talk to.
So after an hour and half of dad jokes and Ed and her mother laughing at all of then she follows her brother out of the kitchen and stops him at the door to the basement.
"Ed ca- can I talk to you for a minute?" She asks grabbing the sleeve of his green pajama shirt to stop him.
The tone of her voice caught Ed off guard. "Um yeah, what's up?" He says turning to face her.
"What do you, um think of Jimmy?" She asks a little afraid of what he might say.
Unfortunately for her Ed had no comic book or movie quote to help her, so he just says; "Oh, well he is a nice guy."
Sarah knew of her brother's secret enjoyment of using quotes from movies or comics in situations and expected something more from him. "I- I don't know what to do Ed, last night HE confessed to me that he loves me." She says telling him more than she originally planned as she leans up against the wall.
Ed tried to act surprised by this information. "Wow... what did you tell him?" He asks knowing full well that she didn't give him a proper response.
"I didn't tell him anything, hell I didn't even think he like girls let alone ME. He just confessed and then left." She says putting her head in her hands.
Still having no good idea what to say. "Well, um... do you like him?" Ed asks getting nervous from not knowing how to handle the situation.
"I don't know. I love him like a brother, but more than that? I don't know."
He decided to try and give her advice, pulling all his brain power he pats her on the shoulder and says; "There there little sister of mine, love finds its way into our lives in the most mysterious ways. Sometimes it could be right in front of us without us knowing, others could take just the right random happenstance to ignite it."
Sarah was amazed by what he just said, it was like nothing he's ever told her before. It felt like something he actually said, rather than a quote he used. But it didn't quite help her with her situation.
"Thanks Ed, but it doesn't help much." She says taking her head out of her hands.
"I'm sorry Sarah. Umm… all I can think of is to just talk to him and be honest with him." He says scratching the back of his head.
"You're right Ed, thanks for talking to me." She says then turns to walk to her room. She already knew she needed to talk to Jimmy, but she wasn't going to tell Ed that.
'He's a big idiot of a brother, but he always try's when I need help.' She thinks. 'I should be nicer to him, he is my only brother.'
After changing out of his pajamas into a blue striped shirt and jeans Ed grabs his jacket off of the back of his armchair and makes his way out of the house.
"Bye mom bye dad, I'm going out for the day." He says to his mother and father who are sitting on the couch together.
"Have a good day son." His father says.
"Be home for dinner Ed." His mother says looking over to him.
Ed walks down the street to the corner comic book shop. He frequently visits this comic shop and it is almost a second home to him.
"Hello Mark." He says greeting the guy in a Flash t-shirt behind the counter.
"Hi Ed." He says not looking at Ed.
Mark is normally a very friendly person so Ed thought it was a bit odd that his greeting was short worded.
"Something up?" Ed asks him.
"It this girl in the shop. She's been standing in front of the Dark Horse section just staring at them for like ten minutes now." Mark says still looking down the row of shelves.
"That is strange." Ed says looking into the shop.
"I know. I'm wondering if she's planning on stealing so I'm keeping an eye on her, just in case." He says crossing his arms.
The idea of someone stealing comics bewildered Ed, comic books are not that expensive so stealing them just seemed kind of pointless to him. But Ed didn't think much on it after that, there is only one door to the building and Mark is right next to it so if this person was going to steal they would have to get past him.
It was a few days till new comics would come out but Ed still enjoyed browsing the shop and seeing what compilation books are available and maybe find a new series or two to start.
When he turns the corner at the end of one shelve he freezes. Ed had unintentionally walked to the Dark Horse section and there stood May Kanker looking very confused as she stares at the shelf. Terrified from seeing her Ed starts to back away from her as carefully as he could, but he's never been a graceful person and his heel catches the corner of the shelf and he stumbles backwards and hits the metal shelves behind him.
The noise catches May's attention and she turns to see what the cause of the noise was and smiles when she sees Ed.
'Crud.' Ed thinks as she starts to walk over to him. He knew it was hopeless to try and pretend he didn't see her, he just hoped this interaction with her would be a short one. Seeing her at school and occasionally around the cul-de-sack was one thing, but the comic shop was a place he thought he was safe from her.
"Hi Ed, what are you doing here?" May asks as Ed straightens himself.
"Um, this is the comic shop I always go to." He says getting nervous.
"Oh yeah, ha ha. Silly question them, oh maybe you could help me." She says grabbing his jacket and pulling him back to where she was looking at the shelf of comics.
"I was looking for Batman comics, but I don't see any here." She says pointing to the shelf.
Again his love for comics over rode his shrinking fear of May. "That's cause Batman isn't Dark Horse."
"It isn't?" she asks looking up at him with a look of surprise on her face.
"No, it's a DC comic." He says pointing to the far wall where the shop keeps the DC comics.
"Oh, show me Ed." She says grabbing his sleeve again and pulling him over to where he was pointing.
When they reach the DC section May quickly spots two separate books with a black caped and pointed hooded man on the front. But one of them also had a man in a blue suit with a red cape.
"Wait, are both of these batman ones?" May asks looking from the comics to Ed.
"Yes and no." He says forgetting that it was May he is talking to. "This one is a crossover story of Batman and Superman, while this one is just Batman alone."
"Batman and Superman? Wow that sounds amazing." May says getting excited over the comic.
"This one is a really good series, but I wouldn't recommend starting on this one though." He says pointing to the Batman Superman crossover book.
"Aww why?" she says frowning.
"Cause it's the sixth book in the series." He says a smile crossing his face.
"Oh." May says and starts laughing.
Ed started to laugh with her and he ended up helping May pick out a few books that he recommended for her to start on. They even ended up walking back to the cul-de-sack together talking about comics.
Ed was telling her about how comics and movies have great quotes in them. "I love finding all these cool lines in them that I can use."
"You have any you could tell me?" She asks hiding her excitement from spending the past half hour with Ed and talking to him like two normal teens would.
"Humm." Ed says as he thinks up a good quote for her. Snapping his fingers his says; "I got one! It's one of my favorite lines ever."
"Tell me tell me!" May says her excitement starting to show.
With a quick little cough to clear his throat he says; "The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you the dawn is coming."
"Wow Ed, that was… deep." She says amazed by the quote.
"Thanks." He says feeling proud of himself that his quote had that big of an effect on her.
"Where is it from? If you don't mind me asking."
"It's something Harvey Dent said before he became Two-Face."
"Who's that?" May asks.
As Ed explains who Harvey Dent is he started to think that May isn't as bad as he thought she once was, and when she agreed with him that Superman seems too powerful he smiles and thinks she's becoming a comic fan like him.
Opening him bedroom door Edd lets out a sigh of defeat and as he stepped into his room he tosses his messenger bag next to his desk. After his long day of work he was happy to finally be home. He pulls his black tie off of his white dress shirt as he gives his door a push to close it. He walks over to his bed and falls face down onto his pillow letting out another sigh.
He was just about to close his eyes and rest for a while when he hears a knock on his window.
"What the?" He says lifting his head off the pillow and looking at the window. "Marie?" He says when he sees her kneeling on the roof outside his window.
She smiles when she sees him look at her and waves at him to come over to her.
Edd gets up off his bed and walks over to the window. "What are you doing here Marie? And how did you get up here?" He asks as he opens his window to let her in.
"I came to see you silly." She says taking ahold of his hand to help her into his room. "And I climbed up the drain pipe, it's really not that hard to do."
"Why didn't you use the front door?" He asks her as he closed his window.
"Cause it was more fun to surprise you." She says looking around his room.
This was the first time Marie has ever been in Edd room so she looks around taking in everything there is in his room. To the right of the window was Edd's twin size bed with a nightstand next to it that had an alarm clock and a lamp on it. Against the same wall as the nightstand was a book shelf overflowing with books. On the far wall was a dresser with Edd's ant farm and fake human skull and next to that was his closet where his clothes are hung in an organized manner. In the corner was a few shelves hanging off the wall that held momentous from his past, a few Marie recognized like the Hypnotizing disk and his award he got last year for finishing freshmen year with a perfect 4.0 GPA. Against the windowed wall opposite of his bed sat his desk. It was an L shaped one that held his computer on one side and a mess of different projects Edd was halfway through working on. And hanging on the wall above his desk next to a framed periodic table was the picture she had given him. Seeing the picture on his wall made her smile and happy that he liked it enough to hang it on his wall.
As Marie looked around his room Edd took in the sight of his girlfriend, she had a black zip up hoodie on and a pair of tight black jeans. As he looked at her he felt his heart swell with emotion and smiled as he let the feeling wash over him. Edd didn't know it now and wouldn't know or even tell her till several months down the road, but he is already starting to fall in love with Marie Kanker.
"I like your room Double Dee." Marie says snapping him out of his day dream as she turned to face him.
"Thank you Marie, it's not much but it is my own little safe place."
She sits down on his bed. "It is the only place I could never get to you, not that I would need to worry about you hiding from me anymore." She says her wicked smile appearing on her face.
"I always thought it was a bit odd that you never came up here in the past." He says sitting down next to her.
"Couldn't tell ya why I never thought to come and see you up here till now, but I'm betting you're happy to see me now." She says leaning over to him and running her index finger up and down his chest.
"You know I'm always happy to see you Marie." He says taking her hand and lacing their fingers together.
"Good." Is all Marie says as she pulls him down onto the bed and climbed on top of him.
Edd had expected her to pull something like this so he was not surprised by her actions, but he was a little amazed that she was able to do so while still holding his hand. Smiling she leans down to him and quickly brushes her lips against his before kissing him on the noise.
"Tease." Edd whispers to her.
This surprised Marie. "Tease am I?" She asks leaning up from him and raising her eyebrow.
"Only a little." He says wrapping his left arm around her, his right hand still entwined with Marie's.
"You don't know what real teasing is Muffin." She says leaning down to kiss him. Edd was curious as to what she meant by that but wasn't going to stop kissing her to find out. As they kiss with her free hand Marie pulls his hat off his head and runs her fingers through his hair playing with it.
A good amount of time later Edd and Marie are lying on his bed cuddling. Marie had stopped kissing him when she felt him get too excited, she thought it was funny when it happened last Saturday but she doesn't want their relationship to move too fast. She's just not ready for anything more than kissing, she is only fifteen after all. Marie is resting her head on the left side of Edd's chest while he held her in his arms. Listening to the sound of his heart beat while drawing shapes on his chest a question comes to her that she's never thought of before.
"Hey Double Dee, what did I do to get you to fall for me?" She asks looking up to him.
"Gosh, that's a tuff one. I'm not sure where to begin." He says looking up at the ceiling.
"Well start with what about me you like."
"Besides you being the most beautiful girl I've ever met?" He asks smiling and looking down at her.
Laughing she says; "Yes other than that silly."
"Ok well there is your love of art, your soft caring side that you hide from the world and I guess I've also come to enjoy your aggressive side too. I think its cute that you're not very fond of the dark, not to mention your smile is something I could get lost in. Just to name a few things." He says naming off the first few things he could think of.
"Good to know I can bewitch you with just a smile." She says tickling his chin with her finger.
Edd lets out a little laugh. "Just don't use this knowledge for evil."
"I won't, so have you figured out what I did right?" She asks still wondering what she did to get him to fall for her.
"Well I guess it started with you showing that you really do care for me and that I wasn't just a plaything for you. And when you got me to play around with you was the first time I ever saw you laugh and smile that didn't have any ill intent behind it, again I could get lost in the smile. And when you kissed me it felt like I was kissing a whole different person that I thought you were. I don't really know how to explain it, but I finally saw the real you and I am extremely happy that I got locked inside the school with you and that I didn't let you break us out." Edd says trying to find an explanation for why he cares for her.
"You did just fine Double Dee, I'm really happy we got locked inside the school too." She says rolling over onto her stomach to look him in the eye as her heart swell with her own growing affection for him. She was about to crawl up and give him a kiss, but she froze when they hear someone knock on his door.
"Eddward, are you still up?" She hears a woman's voice through the door.
Edd see her mouth the word: "That your mom?" and he shakes his head.
*Knock knock* "Eddward?" his mother asks again.
He looks down to Marie and puts a finger over his lips "Shhh" he says letting her know to stay quiet. "Yes Mother I am still awake." He says looking over to the door.
"There is some dinner left if you'd like to come have some."
"Ok, thank you Mother I will be down in a minute."
Neither Marie nor Edd moved for a few minutes to give his mother plenty of time to walk away from his door.
"I guess it's time for me to make my escape." Marie says getting up from the bed and walking over to the window.
"I completely forgot that Mother and Father would still be awake." Edd says sitting up and looking over to Marie by the window.
"It's fine, I'll see you tomorrow Muffin." She says lifting up his window.
Feeling a little bold Edd gets up from the bed and walks over and turns Marie around and pulls her into a kiss.
This surprised Marie, and she like it. Wrapping her arms around his neck she return the kiss.
"I'll miss you too Double Dee." She says when they break the kiss.
"I'm not sure where that came from." He says letting her go.
"I'm not complaining, you go enjoy your dinner and I'll climb out your window." She says turning to climb out the window.
Once she is out on the roof she turns and leans on the window sill. "Bye bye Double Dee."
"Bye Cupcake, be safe on your walk home." Edd says leaning down to her.
"I will, remember us bad girls are creatures of the night." She says grinning.
"Who is scared of the dark." He says getting down on his knees to be on level with her.
"That's what street lights and flashlights are for." She sticks her head back through the window and gives him a quick kiss. "Later gator." She says then starts to climb down the roof to the drain pipe.
Edd watches her climb down the roof with a skill that shows she's done stuff like this before in the past. Just as her head was about to disappear behind the roof she looks up at the window and sees Edd watching her and gives him a quick wink then finished her climb down.
When Marie got home she made sure to keep quite because her mother was supposed to be sleeping. So quietly opening the front door she made her way into the house and she made sure not to let the door slam shut. Tip toeing into the living room she spots her sisters, Lee is sitting on the couch watching the TV with the volume down to a pint they she could barely hear it and May was sitting on the floor with her back against the side of the couch.
"Yo." Marie says greeting her sisters as she sat down on the couch.
"Where did you sneak off to?" Lee asks her.
"You really have to ask?" Marie says looking at her sister.
"She went to Double Dee's Lee." May says turning around.
"I should have known you'd be with your man." Lee says.
"Yes you should have Lee, Any chance I can get to spend time with my dream boat I will take it." Marie says smiling.
"You are a lovesick fool." Lee says giving off a little laugh.
"I'm the fool? Wasn't it you May that went looking for Ed at that comic shop?" Marie says poking May with her foot.
"Shut up." May says turning a little red.
Marie lets out a laugh. "That's a yes, so did you run into him?" She asks still poking her.
"I did." May says smiling at Marie.
"And?" Marie says sliding off the couch to sit next to May.
"And he explained a bunch of stuff about comics and he even gave me some suggestions on books to buy." May says her smile growing.
"Good for you May, I told you could do it." Marie says giving her sister a playful punch in the arm.
"That's not the best part, after we left the comic shop he walked with me all the way to the lane and we talked the whole way." May says boasting about her time with Ed.
Lee watched her sisters talk about May's interaction with Ed and a smile crosses her face as she thinks; 'May is just as dopey as Ed himself.'
"I'm going to bed, you two don't stay up too late gushing over your men." Lee says getting up from the couch. 'We are going to have to have a talk, the three of us.' She thinks as she started her climb up the stairs.