*BRRRRIIIIIING*

1230PM

"Thank God," Amber thought as she left the library and headed to the cafeteria.

She had third lunch period with her friends and was looking forward to their last lunch together as high school students. She was looking forward to her post lunch nap more, though.

When she caught sight of Double D, though, her heart sank. She and Kevin had AP English together and he had gotten done with their final before her and left his sunglasses in the classroom. She grabbed them before she left because she knew he'd want them back. He treated them with the same care he treated his ballcap. Mrs Gaines hated it that he wore his ballcap inside, especially since there wasn't a rule against it, but she wasn't going to let him get away with not looking her in the eye. So the sunglasses had to come off.

Amber had suspected that Edd gave him the sunglasses last summer when Edd picked them up on a Target run with her and Jessie. Tuesday Edd had the glasses. Kevin was riding his bike with them with a sly as smirk on his face by Sunday morning. She had also had seen the hurt and yearning look in his eye when they were in the hall before school started and he caught Kevin's cocked brow at his friends acting like idiots in the hall. But, everyone is entitled to a moment of stupid when they bust Edd's curve setting grades.

She knew there wasn't a chance she'd see Kevin after today except at graduation. She really was going home to sleep for the next three days. So she had to give them to Edd because she knew he'd make sure Kevin would get them back. But if it wasn't for their breakup, she'd be more willing to hand the shining specs over. Now, not so much. Still, she had a sandwich to eat and a nap to take so Edd had to get the glasses.

"Hey, Double D! Can you make sure Kevin gets these?," she asked pensively when she saw him approach their table in the middle of the lunch room.

He pouted when he saw what she had in her hands.

"I guess."

"I'm sorry, E."

He waved her off.

"It's ok. I'll make sure he gets them," he said as he put the sunglasses in his messenger bag and opened his blueberries.

Amber made a face. If he was eating his blueberries first, he was stressed.

"I'm real-"

He waved her off again and looked her in the eye.

"I'm fine."

His blue eyes said otherwise, but she nodded.

Soon they were surrounded by their friends and everyone was having a good time. Summer plans were made and everyone had an invite to Sy and Ang's joint graduation party at Ang's Sunday afternoon.

They thought the biggest surprise of the day was Lance and Jessi Anne announcing their engagement. Their very long engagement if Jessi Anne's Momma had anything to say about it, but the young couple wasn't going to let that bring them down. They were in it for the long haul.

Sy did whine, though. She'd been proposing to Ang since Valentine's Day. When she crawled on her knees and begged her to marry her in front of her parents, her mother had gotten in on it. Ever since they started dating, the Jackson parents considered Sy their kid, too. They never questioned Angela's sexuality, but told her to be safe. When Sy's dad all but threw her out of the house after she came out as trans, it took everything in David Jackson to not go pound the man's head in. Sy moved in with Edd for about a month while DFS investigated. They got family counseling, and Sy made a plan to make sure her brother stayed in school and stayed safe. The Kankers, Eds and the rest of the cul-de-sac was added to Miles' emergency contacts as well as Ang's parents. Ang went from being an only child to a girlfriend with a kid brother between St Patrick's Day and Memorial Day. And she loved it. Still, she wanted to wait til they graduated from college to get married. After she said yes when Sy asked her out, Sy was on Cloud 9 for a week. She flunked three tests and was so out of it at baseball practice it took Kevin shaking her to get her head back in the game. Ang took notice. She couldn't risk Sy losing her focus over her of all people, and lose her future because she was a lovesick puppy. Together or not, Sy deserved her own bright future, but she had to get it for herself. Ang would make sure she did.

"But you do like her ring, right, Babe?"

Ang smirked.

"I've seen your designs, Sy."

Sy bit her lip and blushed.

"Dude, I saw this huge Princess cut diamond on Tiffany's website the other day. So gorge!," Eddy squealed.

Sy just whined some more. Ang threw wadded up napkin at his head.

"I hate you."

"You love me!"

"LEE!"

"Be nice, Sampson."

"Or what?!"

Lee shot Eddy a look. He snapped his mouth shut and grumbled as he went pink. Edd snickered and Kevin heaved a huge sigh. And Edd's demeanor changed. Then the warning bell rang. They all looked at the clock.

1250PM

Edd sighed as he stood and went to throw his trash away. Amber still had half a sandwich to get through, but she never got to finish it.

When Edd came back, he walked up to Kevin as he pulled his sunglasses out of his bag and said, "I believe that these belong to you."

The lunch tables at Peach Creek high weren't long bench picnic style. They had individual seats that spun around so you could easily sit and get up and still converse with your neighbor without being rightnextto them.

When Kevin looked up, what happened next became a defining moment in Kevin and Edd's friendship and relationship.

Edd spun Kevin towards him, straddled himself in Kevin's lap, put the glasses on his face, and said, "There, much better."

Kevin smirked and Edd kissed it away when he drew him into a long, hard kiss that had the redhead swooning, Princess screaming, Nat squealing, and Amber. dropped. her. sandwich.

The lunchroom as a whole was stunned into dead silence.

Edd ran his fingers through his hair as he tossed Kevin's precious ballcap across the room and groaned slightly as the sound of a Harley Softail motorcycle was heard in the distance. As the sound of the motorcycle grew louder, he rolled his eyes said, "Fuck, I gotta go."

But he said it so casually, Kevin distantly wondered if what just happened could happen again, even though he knew it wouldn't.

Edd stood and threw up the peace sound with his right hand as he sashayed out of the cafeteria. When he made it to the main doors, he cast a look over his shoulder and snickered at the looks on the faces of the people he was leaving behind. Some for the moment, some for forever.

"Later, bitches."