A.N: I'm back, now with more chapters! As you can see, the pieces are falling into place, but will they be jumbled up again? Hopefully I can get an good ending on this, as I said, this is my first fanfiction, so hopefully I can end this one off really well. Anyways, if you want to review, go ahead, I read them all! I may not reply all the time, but on occasion I will reply back. Anyways, onto the next chapter!
I woke up in a strangely good mood, one that I hadn't felt in a long time. It was a good feeling, but it was strange, considering all of the things that happened yesterday. Then I thought about what I realized about Marie, and felt a small blush form on my face. I knew what it was I was feeling now, but I couldn't say it in my mind. As much as I should have been happy that I was feeling good and that this could turn into a good thing, it just wasn't the right time for me to figure out. If it was actually a calm time, I would be elated, but alas, I had a full plate, and now that I had lo-...that on my hands I couldn't put it anywhere. I had to deal with everything else first, like getting back together with Eddy and finding out if I can actually trust him, finally letting all of the other cul-de-sac kids know, and find where Ed went to. As a matter of fact, where has Ed been? I asked myself mentally. I hadn't seen him since the day Eddy talked to me, and I'm surprised that I didn't notice until now. I'd have to go talk to him when I could, and tell him that it's fine he told Eddy. I could just imagine him cowering under his bed covers, feeling guilty, and a small chuckle escaped my lips. I swung my legs over the edge of the bed and got dressed. My parents had come by during the night and I talked with them for a while and enjoyed their company, but it was not to last for long as they had to go off to work yet again. Having the whole house to myself for the millionth time in my life, I worked on my morning routine.
Once I was done with my shower and getting my mess of hair straightened out some, I went to eat breakfast. It was about 9 in the morning, and I always tended to wake up earlier than most of my friends, but it was always nice to have most of the day to yourself instead of lost sleeping in a bed. For the next few hours I watched tv, got my homework done, listened to music, and other things to pass the time. I knew that if I was going to be talking to Ed, Eddy and Marie, I would have to wait until they're all awake. I waited until around one to go out and see how Ed was holding up. I was always glad to see Ed, and I assumed that I would have to get him back up on his feet and not feel so guilty. I was up for a challenge, though, and of course I would be able to be with that lovable oaf for some time, then I'd probably go back home. I walked over to Ed's house and looked through the window that led to Ed's room. I couldn't see anything at first because of how dark it was, so I knocked on the window and opened it a crack.
"Ed?" I asked through the window and I heard shuffling and a crash. No other response. I decided to climb through the window anyways. "Ed? Are you here?" I asked, getting an immediate response.
"No one is at home, please leave a message at the...uh...moo?" I heard the lump in the bed say. I chuckled to myself, it had been awhile since I've heard Ed say something that strange.
"Ed, I know you're here." I said, holding back a laugh.
"I said no one is home, moo." I laughed when he said that, and finally had to get him out from under the covers.
"Ed, seriously, it's ok, I talked with Eddy earlier, we made up...somewhat." I saw Ed's head poke out from amongst the sheets.
"Really Double D?" He asked me with puppy-dog eyes. I smiled.
"Yup, I'll probably go talk to him soon, see what he's been up to." I replied. Ed jumped out from his bed and tackled me to the ground.
"YAY! THE THREE AMIGOS ARE ONCE MORE!" Ed shouted at the top of his lungs, hugging me.
"Yeah, it should be good…" I said, unsure about what would actually come of this. Ed, though, didn't hear the concern in my voice.
"We should go over to him right now!" Ed said, picking me up and running to his window.
"Wait wait wait, Ed," I tried to get him to stop. He stopped right as we were at the window and looked at me in confusion.
"What is it, Double D?" I looked back at him, unsure of how to explain my concerns to him. Then a thought came to me.
"Ed, can we talk first? I have a question to ask you." He set me down on his bed and sat next to me, and while his cleaning habits may have improved, they still needed quite a bit of work. Ed looked at me, eager to listen to whatever I had to tell him.
"Ed, how did you react when Eddy...blamed you for the scams?" This was a question that never occurred to me, as I had been too caught up in my woes. Ed seemed to think it over for a minute, before coming up with a response.
"I just forgave him." I gave Ed a confused stare, but he didn't seem to know what that meant, so I asked him to elaborate. "Well, Eddy is like a brother, I will always forgive him, even if it's something really bad. My parents don't want me to be with him anymore because of all the things he's done, but I'm still friends with him, that's not gonna change." I sat, staring at my feet, trying to understand how Ed can be so forgiving toward Eddy.
"But, how can you forgive him so easily? How can I forgive him so easily?" I asked, not expecting Ed to answer.
"We were like brothers, Double D. He made a mistake, and he wants you to forgive him. You just have to give him a chance." He replied, patting me on my back. I was surprised by his answer, and how quickly he went from confusing the words "moo" and "beep," to giving me this kind of advice.
"But what if he tries to do the same thing again?" I asked, still unsure about this decision to trust Eddy.
"That's up to you, Double D." Ed replied. It was true, the decision was mine, and I knew that if he tried to do something like that again, he would regret it. I made that clear to him in conflict mediation.
"Alright, thanks Ed." I said, standing up. I took a breath, mentally getting myself ready for talking with Eddy. "You want to go over?" I asked Ed. His eyes lit up, and he shot up, picked me up, and was already trying to go through the window with both of us, getting us stuck in the process.
"Going to Eddy's! Going to Eddy's!" He shouted, still not realizing we were stuck.
"Ed, calm down, please, we happen to be stuck." I said, trying to release myself from his grip. Once I got out, he shot out and tumbled across the yard. We both went over to Eddy's house and Ed knocked on the slider to Eddy's room.
"EDDY! Me and Double D are here to see you!" He shouted. I felt nervous, anxious about how Eddy and I would be around each other. Most likely, it'll be awkward for a while, and some things might not fix, but I don't expect them to. A few moments later, Eddy shows up at the door, a little annoyed.
"Ed, you don't have to shout." He says to Ed, and then sees me, and looks away quickly. "Come in," he says as he motions for us to walk into his room. Ed runs in at full force, and I walk in after him. Ed jumps onto Eddys bed, and I stand in the middle of the room, unsure where to sit. Eddy closes the door, and sees Ed jumping on his bed.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't jump on my bed, Lumpy. You're gonna have to buy a new one if you break it." Eddy sounded as if he had just woken up, his voice scratchy, but he was completely dressed, so that wasn't the case. I saw a chair, so I decided that I might as well sit down in it. Eddy sat down in a chair in the corner, and there was a small silence before Ed decided to break it.
"Eddy, did you hear the news?! We are the three amigos once more!" Eddy gave Ed a strange look, and Eddy gave a small smile.
"Yes, Double D talked to me yesterday, I'm pretty sure I heard the news." Eddy said with a small chuckle. It was weird to be in this situation again, one that I haven't been in in about four years. Not only that, a few days ago I wanted to kill Eddy. It was best for me to give him a second chance, I knew that much, but hopefully it would turn out well. There was an awkward silence that hung in the room for a few moments, until Eddy spoke to me.
"Listen, Double D, I'm really sorry about everything that I did in the past. I shouldn't have blamed you for that, and it was all my fault, I just-" I cut him off with my hand outstretched in a stop motion.
"It's fine, Eddy, really. We both acted immaturely, and we can both make up. I'm not gonna get roped into helping you do these things. We're not gonna get back to normal in a day, it's gonna take some time. Don't worry, we can get through this." I told him, and I could see a small bit of hope in a face of doubt and guilt. "Besides, we have Ed here to help us." I said, gesturing to Ed, who gave a wide smile. I smiled back, and the tension in the room dissipated. We moved on to talk about some topics, dancing around talking about anything too close to what we should have talked about. Whether it was from the weather, how Sarah was annoying Ed, but after a while I became bored of the conversation and became curious for an answer to a question.
"So Eddy, I heard that Lee still bothers you, how's that been going?" I asked, failing to keep a straight face as I saw his twist into disgust.
"Ugh, her? She's so annoying now, she won't stop bothering me. It's even worse than when we were in middle school, I swear." Eddy's comment made me burst out laughing, and some of the memories came back to me. "No, seriously! I think she just likes to bully me now, She doesn't try to kiss me or anything, just annoy me. At least you guys are lucky with your Kankers. May is pretty hot, Marie is cute, but Lee is...ok...like I still don't like her, and she doesn't like me either, but she still won't stop annoying me. I wish I had better luck…" he said as he slid down in his seat. I was still laughing, and so was Ed at this point, but I had to agree with him on what I knew. May was a good fit for Ed, Marie...well...I can talk about that later, and yet I still have yet to see Lee. I wasn't about to judge on looks from someone else's opinion, but I had nothing else to go off of right now.
"So it doesn't sound like things have gone well for you and Lee have they?" I said, just trying to rub in Eddy's predicament.
"Well has Marie found out about you yet?" Eddy asked, with a devilish grin on his face. I knew what he was thinking, that she didn't know yet and that he would tell her, but unfortunately for him, she did know.
"Yeah, we've actually been hanging out a lot lately." I said, with a grin on my face. I watched as his smile dropped, and his eyebrows lifted up in surprise.
"Wow, well good for you, I guess. Have you been doing anything with her, huh?" He asked, waving his eyebrows. I had to turn away and laugh, but a small blush formed on my face, even though we still had never actually "done" anything.
"No, God, I have other things to take care of, but…" I trailed off, and I could see Eddy start to smile again.
"But what, Double D? You have something on your mind for later?" Eddy asked, leaning closer to me and jabbing me lightly with his elbow. I started laughing again, and we spent the whole next hour laughing at each other, making fun of each other, and then talking about my past. We never really talked about what Eddy had been doing for these past four years, and he seemed reluctant to talk about it. Either way, I was happy just to get back with our old group of friends. For a moment there, it felt like it was back in middle school where we acted like nothing could go wrong for us, and I loved it. I hoped that we really could become like that again. It almost felt too easy to get back into that rhythm, but I was not about to complain. I got back to my house at around three, and I knew that I would have the house to myself...or so I thought…
I walked into my house, and made my way toward my room, but I heard something moving around in my room. I froze, and feared that someone was robbing our house. I left the back door unlocked, and some of the windows were left unlocked too, could someone have seen I left and took advantage of this? I heard feet shuffling in my room once more, and heard someone lay on top of my bed. I decided to walk a little farther away from my door, just to be safe, before calling out "Hello?"
"Double D?" The familiar voice asked.
"Marie?" I asked, walking up to my door and opening it. She was laying down on my bed, reading one of the many books I had scattered about in my room.
"Sup?" She asked casually.
"Marie, may I ask you how and why you're in my room?"
"I was gonna talk to you, but you weren't home, so I let myself in." She said, gesturing toward the window to my room.
"Remind me next time to lock the windows when I leave next time." I said, half teasingly and half seriously. She smiled, and went back to looking at the book in her hand.
"Oh, I will, but I would have already been inside at that time."
"You still never answered me why you just decided to break in." I told Marie.
"No, I did, I just wanted to talk and hang out for a while." She replied, flipping through the pages and not even reading the book.
"Alright, well I'm here now, so what do you want to talk about?" I ask. Marie sits up on my bed and looks at me with a grin. She looks down at the seat next to her and makes it obvious she wants me to sit next to her. Once again, that feeling came over me again like a cascade of water, and I felt embarrassed that I would do something wrong and humiliate myself, but then again, what did I have to worry about? Marie had already humiliated me in the past, so what made this time any different? I think I know why… I thought to myself as I sat next to Marie. We both looked at each other's eyes for a few seconds, and then I realized that we have yet to say something to each other,
"So, you still haven't said anything Marie." I said, confused as to why there was a silence in the room.
"You know, you can see someone's feelings behind their eyes for the first few seconds you look at them, and then it flickers away…" She said as her eyes narrowed and small grin tugged at her face. God, she looks so cute right now, I thought as I felt a blush come on, and I looked down for the quickest of moments to regain myself.
"Is that so, Marie?" I asked, looking back up at her. She still had her eyes narrowed, and then she tilted her head back, still locking her eyes on mine.
"Do you know what that feeling was when we were messing around yesterday?" She asked, a slightly devilish smirk, as subtle as it was, crept onto her face. My eyes widened out, just a little, surprised by what she had asked. Did she…? No, no there's no way she figured it out that fast, I thought in my head. Normally I could keep a clean facade, but could I not with Marie? I played it off, just to see if she was just joking around.
"No, I still can't place a name to it…" I said as I looked up, as if I was trying to find a word. She didn't respond, so I looked her back in her eyes, and that look was still on her face. Her face moved closer, and her grin grew wider.
"Are you sure?" She asked yet again. I could feel her breath on my lips, and it took me back. I didn't expect this to happen. "Because that's not what I saw in your eyes." I let out a nervous chuckle.
"And what did you see?" I asked, trying to outwit her. Unfortunately in my situation, she had the upper-hand.
"Oh, you know what I saw…" She said. She was just trying to get me to say it at this point. I crumbled.
"Yeah, I know...How did you get it that fast though?" I asked, She smiled, and leaned close to my left ear.
"I have my ways," Marie whispered, with the smallest hint of seduction in her voice. She leaned back so that we were sitting normally again.
"I have to say, I'm impressed." I said, looking down at the ground, blushing. Marie wrapped her arms around my side, and I blushed even harder.
"What can I say, 'oven mitt,' I have my ways." That was a nickname I hadn't heard in a long time. But Marie surprised me, once more, by grabbing my head by the sides and turning it to face hers. She butted our foreheads together in the slightest, and as I looked into her grayish-blue eyes, I heard her whisper. "But I won't make it easy for you…" She said. I got lost in her eyes, but she pulled away and sat back, looking at me with a devilish grin. I smiled back.
"Is that so?" I asked, smiling even wider now.
"Yep." She said and nodded her head. It was my turn to surprise her as I hugged her and got close to her ear.
"I don't mind a challenge." I whispered in her ear. She playfully shoved away my arms away and laughed.
"Get off of me, Edd," She said laughing and laid back down on my bed. I still sat on my bed, and we both talked for the next hour, teasing each other and other such subjects. Eventually, she had to leave, and as she walked out the door she told me yet again, "I'm still not gonna make this easy for you!"
"Have you ever made it easy for me?" I asked her as she walked down the walkway. She laughed and left without another word. I closed the door and leaned my back up on the door, surprised by how the day had gone. I'm starting to really like Saturdays, I thought as I chuckled to myself. Ecstatic about how the day had gone, with getting a little closer to Eddy and having that whole...interaction with Marie, it was one of, if not the best, days I had had since I moved back to Peach Creek. I went to my room, and went about doing my normal activities, ate dinner, and eventually went to bed. No matter what happened in the future, this was a day I would remember.
A.N: So things sound like they're wrapping up by now, and in a way they are, but I'm still planning more things to come! Hopefully you all enjoyed this installment, and be sure to leave a review if you did! I'm starting to get into the writing process yet again, so hopefully the next chapters will be really good! If I made a mistake on grammar, spelling, or punctuation, do not hesitate to point it out and I'll get right on it. I'll see you all in the next chapter, and hope you all have a lovely day!