I did it! Finished this chapter and I might actually work on another story next haha but its fine I'll try my best for you all! This chapter isn't going to be very suspenseful haha but the next one is I can assure you that it kinda hurts me to wright it ;3;
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Ed Edd n Eddy characters, assuming I did though I think I'd be on the moon by now.
Club-house
"Ughhhhh!" Eddy rubbed his head hard and quick to get the sleepy feeling out of him, like if he shook hard enough he would wake up all of a sudden. It didn't work at all. "School sucks so much!" He had been suffering this much for about two weeks now. Being a sophomore sucked too.
He walked to the bathroom, taking a ceremonial shower, if there was one thing that always woke him up it was that. With a little more energy in his step he shuffled to his room again and looked through his closet, he would need a new look every year to change it up. He put on a red tee-shirt and a light yellow track-shirt. Perfect, then again when wasn't he.
He walking to the fridge, picked up a hot pocket and heated it up, he fumbled with it for a while because of how hot it was and opened the door as he blew on it.
"Have a good day at school." He turned around to see it was his mother at the top of the stairs looking down at him. He stopped in his tracks and looked at her with confusion and then anger.
"Why?" He questioned her; there was no sentiment in his voice. He kept the angry undertone there. He wasn't asking why he should have a good day; he wanted to know why she said anything at all.
He heard someone outside calling him. "Hey! Can't be late anymore, the teachers will have your head if you are!" It was Kenzie, she had told him that she would try and walk with him more often but he really didn't think that it would happen; it was a nice surprise for him.
He smiled at her and looked back at his mother, he wanted to hurt her, show her how much she let him go through. "Go away; I don't need ya ruining my mornings too." He slammed the door before she could say anything else, her saddened look would haunt him for a while, but then again, the neutral face she had whenever he was beaten would be with him for the rest of his life.
Eddy walked outside next to Kenzie without saying much, he was grumbling and sulking a little more than she enjoyed.
"Are you ok, what happened back there?" She asked while she nudged him, everyone had family problems, but then again they always complained about it, Eddy hadn't so far.
Eddy looked at her and rubbed his hair, smiling like he usually would. "Oh, ya I'm fine." He left it at that and then pointed off towards the bus stop. "Ugh, I don't want to go to school today, how long do you think Double-D would yell at me if I skipped?" He asked with a sly smile, he was actually considering it.
"He'd probably write a report about it and revise it just so he could yell at you formally." She laughed, just because she could actually see that happening, Eddy followed suit with his own laughter.
They snickered and giggled when Edd came over; he gave them a confused stare and looked over himself. "Do I have something on my shirt?"
It went from giggling to full blown laughter after that, with Edd unfortunately being on the other side of the joke as he scratched his head under his hat and shrugged.
When they got to school they each went off to their own classes, this year the Ed's didn't share all of their classes together, they had three with and three without each other. Which meant that tutoring became more difficult for Edd, but then again it wasn't like Eddy or Ed had learned nothing from him last year, so far in the first two weeks of school they had been doing very well.
Edd sat near Allen in the classroom, someone who had been instrumental last year for them and also a close friend. "Hello Allen, how are you today?"
Allen leaned his head on his fist and looked up at the board. "Nothing much, I hung out with Kenzie yesterday, she and Eddy seem to really be hitting it off." Edd couldn't read the emotion he was displaying there so he didn't answer. "Then again, how are you and your little girlfriend doing?" He gave him a coy look; Edd's insides seem to squish together.
Nazz was still a sensitive subject to him, even after she kissed him he still hadn't asked her out, even after they had hung out almost every day during that summer, and had done a lot more kissing. He felt like she was starting to get a little restless with his inability to ask her out, but every time he tried his tongue seemed to stop working.
"I can't really call her my girlfriend until I actually ask her out…" He mumbled, twiddling his thumbs as he talked.
Allen shook his head and smiled. "Eddy's going to kill you if you don't ask her out, heck Nazz will kill you if you don't ask her out." For some reason that made them both laugh.
"I'm trying trust me, I just can't seem to find the words, the moments have been perfect though, so I envision myself asking her soon." Edd said.
Allen shook his head and shrugged as the teacher started to talk, ending their conversation at that time.
How long would he chicken out before he was able to ask her to be his girlfriend? It wasn't like he had ever had one so he didn't really know how to ask someone like her, someone who was just so perfect.
He'd figure it out later; he basically always said that before he chickened out. School had ended way too quickly for him because before he knew it he was walking with Nazz home, alone...again.
"I don't understand how you are already in such a high math class Double-D!" She was looking over his schedule again to see when she could come and visit him, since they had different lunches.
He nodded slowly but said nothing as she pointed to his science class. "I can see you before this class it's right next to my English class." She smiled at him and his heart slowly sped up.
"T-that would be great." He said, trying to make eye contact with her and failing miserably.
She groaned and pinched the bridge of her nose, something that he himself did as well. She was smiling though, which meant she wasn't too mad. "You don't have to be nervous around me anymore Edd." She grabbed his arm and pulled him until she was wrapping her arms around his neck and he was staring right into her eyes. "What's on your mind right now?" He could feel it, her warm breath lingering on his lips, her body pressed closely against his, he couldn't think straight.
"How beautiful you are right now." He always said the first thing that came to mind when she did this, it was her way of messing with him but also getting the truth out of him as well. She raised her eyebrow like she wanted more, and he couldn't help but give it to her. "H-how much I would like to kiss you."
Her sensual smile was what killed it for him and he kissed her without delay, she let out a squeak of surprise and that only led him to kiss her more until he could collect himself again. "I-i'm Sorry!" He blurted and she groaned again, this time with a blush.
"Double-D, you don't have to say sorry." She held his hand and they started to walk again, he was wobbling slightly, still trying to get his legs back.
Without knowing it he had inadvertently missed his chance to ask her out...again. He let her lead him to his house where Eddy and Ed had found their way in the refrigerator.
Eddy not only had chips in his mouth but also some soft cheese, Ed had a turkey leg in his mouth and a soda in his other. "Mphargha!" Ed joyously yelled, Edd could only guess that he was saying hi.
Nazz looked a little disgusted but she was completely used to this behavior after hanging out with Double-D for as long as she had. "Looks like you guys were hungry."
Eddy gulped down his food quickly and took gasps of breath. "Ya...Your mom left them for us...was even on a sticky note and everything." He scarfed down more chips and sat down at the table, writing something for his paper.
Nazz quickly scanned over his paper and pointed to a spot. "Why are you drawing schematics for a building?" Eddy covered up his drawings and glared at her.
"Hey! I'm not done with it yet!"
Edd raised his eyebrow and walked next to her, it wasn't like Eddy to hide projects like that, he always liked bragging about them. "I'm actually pretty curious myself now, you should show us Eddy." He tentatively tried to peak over his friends shoulder but Eddy wasn't having any of that.
"No! Wait till I finish it, until then you guys can't see." He swat Ed's prying hand away. "What did I just say lumpy?!"
Ed retracted his hand and sucked on his stinging fingers. Double-D pat his fuzzy head and looked at Nazz.
"Well it looks like he's adamant about not showing us, let's go watch some television then and wait for him to finish." This was a usual trick that Edd would play, feign disinterest and then when Eddy didn't get the attention he craved, he would run over and explain to them what he was doing.
This plan had worked many times in the past, so much so that even Nazz got the hint and they started to watch some of Ed's cartoons for about an hour. Eddy still hadn't budged from the table; he hadn't even given them a second glance after they left. He sat there, drawing something, or chewing on his pencil when he looked confused.
He didn't even say anything when Emma and Kenzie came over, they also tried to get him to share to no avail, he just kept drawing, erasing, and grumbling to himself. If anything, the fact that he wasn't seeking their attention made Double-D even more curious to what he was doing.
"Is he always this much of a jerk when he's planning things?" Kenzie huffed after she had tried to make Eddy share his plans.
Double-D shook his head and folded his arms. "Not usually, he's actually very open with his ideas…when he has ones." He couldn't help but throw that last part in.
Nazz giggled and looked back at Eddy. "Back in the day he used to have these things that he called scams to trick us out of our money." She pointed to Ed and Double-D. "And these two were like his workers."
Edd scratched under his hat and smiled meekly. "I'd prefer associates." He tucked his hair under his hat, which somehow still felt a little snug on him.
Kenzie pointed at Eddy, who was still not paying much attention to them. "You're telling me, that guy used to scam money off of you?" She shook her head slowly. "No. Way."
"Actually, you should see him in our metalsmithing class; he can make some really great things." Emma said as she looked up.
"There's no way Eddy could come up with plans like that, I just can't beli…" A ball of paper hit Kenzie on the head and Eddy jumped on the couch.
"Its official, I'm done with my master piece!"
He laid out the piece of paper on the coffee table, putting some drink holders on the edges to hold it down. The other kids crowded around the table to look at it, to their amazement it actually looked pretty darn good.
"You made a clubhouse?" Ed asked as he looked over the intricate drawing of the schematics.
Eddy slapped his head and pointed to the heading that read 'Cool Clubhouse.' "It says it right here, toast for brain."
Edd looked over the plans again and pointed to the roof. "I don't think that's an accurate representation of what the roof would actually look like."
Eddy smacked his hand away. "This is how it's gonna look whether you like it or not!"
Kenzie leaned over it and smiled. "Wow, looks like you actually can make some pretty cool stuff."
Eddy didn't seem very offended, just kept looking over the paper that his friends seemed to like. "It was easy." He looked at her with a smile that she hadn't seen before, it was new.
"Are you going to build it or what?" She found it hard to look at him when he smiled like that.
He shook his head and ran his hand over it. "I'll need some help from you guys, it's not just gonna be my clubhouse, I can try and share it with some of you."
Edd looked over the plans again for one last skim over, nodding slowly, they could actually do this. "We'll need many different kinds of parts for this one Eddy, you're asking for quite a lot here."
Eddy waved his hand like it was nothing. "Pffft, this'll be easy, anyways I don't do that low maintenance stuff anymore, it's all about the high end things, a place for us to hang out has to be perfect, especially if you want me to come." He smirked and sniffed like he was better than them.
"So when should we go to the junkyard?" Ed asked excitedly, they hadn't been there in a while and he missed it.
Edd looked up to answer but he saw the weird looks Emma and Kenzie were giving him, kinda like he was disgusting. Usually common sense would kick in but it wasn't hitting him just yet. "What, we need the parts."
"You guys went to the junkyard to get parts for your scams?!" Kenzie looked at Nazz who was smiling sheepishly. "You knew this and you still fell for them?" She shivered in disgust.
"To my defense, some of the things they made looked really cool." Nazz wasn't helping herself there.
Kenzie shook her head and buried her face in her hands until she got a good idea. "Actually, my dad works in construction, he has a lot of scrap metal and stuff we could use."
Eddy looked up at her. This was the first time he would actually be using clean parts for once. Well scraps of clean parts, but still.
"That would be great; it would save us the hassle of cleaning them when we get the parts." Eddy hadn't been this excited about building something in a long time. "Sweet! Let's get the parts and build this baby right now!"
Like usual Edd had to object on the idea. "Actually, Eddy we need to find the right location for it first." He pointed to the underside of the building, which hadn't been measured yet. "And we'll need to find out the length and width of the building to see how much space it will take."
Eddy groaned, he was learning about that kind of stuff now in school. "Who would'a thought that I'd actually need geometry in my life…"
Double-D shook his head slowly. "Do you see what I had to deal with for years?" The small complaint was directed towards Kenzie and Emma.
They just giggled while Eddy picked his stuff up and wrapped it all up. "Ok let's go find a place to put this sucker!" Before he could run outside Kenzie grabbed his shoulder.
"Hold on there gunner, I have to ask my dad to use the scraps before we can go and do it."
Edd nodded. "Yes, also I have to help you with the math for that Eddy; we still have work to do."
He groaned loudly and pouted with his hands in the air like he usually did when he was angry and un-patient.
Ed finally turned around from his cartoons and spoke. "Let's not make it pink like the last one, that was icky." He crinkled his face to show his dissatisfaction.
Kenzie turned and looked at him. "Why was it pink?" She turned to Eddy with a small grin. "Is there something I should know?"
Emma couldn't help but laugh in the background while Edd looked away baffled. "Shut up! The Kankers were the ones that painted it, and stole it from us!" Eddy interjected.
The Kankers were now a subject that could be openly talked about seeing as they no longer drank, or at least as much as they had before. Edd couldn't really tell with the way May had been acting, not like before, but more secretive about things, kind of like Eddy had before in the past.
School was the same old same old in Edd's opinion; it was actually pretty stale for once. If only for the reason that he was more interested in the clubhouse than what was actually going on. It was the regular excitement he would get in the past when they used to work on scams, Eddy would come up with the basic layout, Edd would work on it from there, and Ed would help them accomplish their scheme, it was like turning a tune into a composed masterpiece, it gave him a certain accomplished feeling when he saw his plan work. That is until someone blew it up or broke it, mostly Ed on those occasions.
They all met up with Eddy afterwards at Kenzie's house where they were lifting some scrap metal and wood.
"Eddy! I'm lifting more than you are, how weak are you?"
"What are you talking about, you're lifting the wood, and I've lifted all this metal!" Eddy was currently balancing a sheet of metal against a pipe.
The things they had collected seemed to be more than enough for a clubhouse; so far the equipment was ready for it. Now all it would take was Edd's knowhow and Eddy's apparent metalsmithing prowess, oh and of course Ed's strength.
There was a new piece though, one that was looking up at him with sparkling blue eyes, she was a key piece even if he had just gotten her.
"Do you want me to stay, or do you need to be alone for this?" There wasn't a concerned or sad tone in her voice. "I mean I know it's been a while since you've built something with them and it must bring back memories."
Edd checked over his shoulder to make sure that the others were busy before he kissed her cheek in a sweet peck. He was blushing more than her when he had done it. "I want to make new memories, with you."
The way she smiled just made him want to do something else sweet, but nothing came to mind. She nodded and they got to work, each going to their respective positions. Eddy and Edd started to argue over the schematics with Kenzie watching and yelling as well whenever she had the chance. Ed and Emma were playing with a plank and some metal sheets as they tried to make a makeshift house. Nazz was organizing the other sets of materials that weren't being used.
Edd drew over a side of the clubhouse that somehow defied the laws of physics on the schematics as Eddy yelled at him for being a killjoy and Kenzie snapped at him for being an idiot to draw the thing in the first place. As taxing as making this treehouse was it surprised Edd how different it was now than it was when they used to make scams together. They always made them as a team but it felt lonely sometimes, as if they were alone together, a strange feeling that he never explained to them because it never made any sense. Now though, there were new people that had new ideas and different ways of helping the building process of it all. He liked having the fresh ideas, the quick distractions and the good laughs with them. He finished the corrections and laid it on the table for them to see, it took no time for them all to crowd around them and he was pushed back.
Eddy was the next person to squeeze his way through. "I could work with that I guess, I mean, kinda sucks that the floating table isn't included." Somehow he sounded serious.
Edd just shook his head and rubbed his scalp under his hat. They continued their work in silence until it was too late for them to keep going.
"Ok, I think it's about time we throw in the towel for today." Kenzie was siting against a wooden plank that had been set up so it stood straight up and high in the air.
Eddy smiled as he heaved a metal wall up and against two support beams. "This aint nothing, we used to work two times harder than this. Then again you do look a little spent, maybe I should take you home."
She looked very tired and didn't complain when Eddy reached over and pulled her up. They walked off while Ed and Emma smiled and went the same way, talking about how awesome the clubhouse would be when they were done with it. Double-D watched as they walked away and picked up the rest of the tools, placing them neatly in a toolbox he had taken from his house. It was amazing how new building something was with them around.
"What are you thinking about right now?" Nazz wrapped her arms around his midsection and kissed his cheek; he leaned his head against hers and smiled.
"About how great it is to have everyone working together, it feels so, different. In a good way though."
He could feel her warm breath against his neck, but he was too tired to blush as much as he usually would. "What you said today, was really sweet." He felt her lips press against the nape of his neck.
She hadn't done that before, he didn't care if he had to row a wooden boat through lava to be sweet again, he would find a way.
Eddy was the last one to get home that day, he walked into Double-D's house, sneaking in and laying down on the spare sleeping bag that by now, had his name written on it. It was silent for a while as he stared up at the ceiling; he couldn't really see anything but he wasn't really trying to. It was times like these that he was actually able to think about things, about people, his family. When he heard Edd rustle in his bed he knew he was awake, the guy practically never moved when he was asleep.
He didn't it ask for a while but he knew the question was coming. "Why did you want to build a clubhouse?" Most of Eddy's ideas usually came out of the blue, just a thought that he had and wanted to make reality, but this one, it had a reason.
"I did it because I wanted a place to go, when there was nowhere else to go I guess." He was too tired to sugarcoat things or try to dance around the truth.
"You know you always have a place to go, you always have my house, or even Ed's. Any of the other cul-de-sac kids would let you spend the night by now." Edd sat up on his bed, this conversation was always hard between them but if there was a time for it to happen it had to be now.
Eddy did the same, leaning on his elbow to look at Edd, it wasn't like he could see him though. "No I don't and you know it, if your parents come home I'm not taking that time away from you, Ed's parents hate me and would only ground Ed if they ever found me." He was silent for a second before he spoke. "Same with everyone else's parents actually, anyways I can't risk them getting in trouble for me."
"There isn't anything wrong with needing help and in this situation it's perfectly warranted, you were the one that taught me to take risks when it was necessary. You should live up to that yourself as well." He clenched his blanket and he could feel tears welling up in his eyes. "Do you know how hard it is to watch you get hurt and not be able to do anything about it, see you in pain and stand aside while you bare it in some impossible way."
Eddy shook his. "There's worse pain for me, seeing a functional family is one of the worst pains I think I've ever felt. Hell, it's way worse than the physical crap I have to deal with. As many scars as my dad gives me they always heal, but seeing a kid laugh with their parents hurts a place that can never be healed." The memories of seeing other kids playing in the park, laughing and smiling with their parents sent a chill down his spine. "Sometimes ya know, it surprises me how we're all strangers in my house with the same last name, then I realize just how dysfunctional my family is when I see you guys having yours. I need a place to just be alone I guess." Before Edd could say anything Eddy quickly added. "It's not like I don't think you guys are my family, it's just that my dysfunctional one is still around."
Edd knew if the lights were on Eddy would be smiling, a sad smile that would have hurt him. It would have been a new smile that he wished he never would actually see.
"I wish you would let us help you, Eddy."
A chuckle echoed through the quiet room after some time. "The fact that ya don't think you've helped me is hilarious ya comedian you."
That night was bitter sweet for Edd, and apart of him didn't want to build the clubhouse anymore.
The next day when Ed woke up he was under his bed with a piece of toast in his hand that he didn't remember eating. When he went to the living room his sister was eating her cereal and he sat next to her, rubbing her head. "How's high school treating you baby sister?" It was so strange to think that she was a freshman now.
"Good, it's fun hanging out with you and Double-D during lunch." When she had entered high school Ed had thought she might just leave him alone and think he wasn't cool enough, but she had actually spent quite a lot of time with them. "What about Eddy?" He hadn't missed the fact that she hadn't said his name.
She shrugged while she chewed. "He's ok I guess." He knew she was only joking.
Ed walked out with his sister to the bus stop and watched as she went over to talk to Double-D, who spoke to her with care.
"Hey Double-D! How'd you sleep?"
"Fine actually, how about you?"
"I had this weird dream yesterday, you were in it though it was so cool!"
"Was it cool because I was in it, or because of the events that happened in your dream?"
She blushed at that but he didn't know why. That's basically how their conversations went.
When they all went to school it was Allen who had finally caught the resemblance between the siblings at lunch. "You're related to her?!" He burst out after taking a bite of the chicken nuggets.
They looked at each other like it was obvious; Ed was sitting on one side of Double-D and Sarah the other. "Mhm, she's my cute sweet cuddly little sister."
"Ya think the red hair would have made it obvious!" Jonny cut in, he had been with them more often now.
Allen waved it off quickly. "How was I supposed to know, she just got here and I only saw her in the halls a couple times."
Eddy pushed his lunch tray back into Allen's to get his attention. "Hey! Woop-de-doo they're siblings!" He pointed back to his sheet of paper for the list of supplies. "You in or not?"
Allen didn't take long to think it over; it was a time for them to hang out so of course he'd be in. "I'll help you build whatever it is, as long as I get to hang there as much as I want."
Eddy let out a little yippie and they got back to the school day, even if the clubhouse lingered in their heads for the rest of school. When the day had finally ended and they came back to the skeletal structure of the clubhouse they got back to the work. Allen and Jonny seemed to get along well as they continued to build, each going on their own section until it was basically all done. All they needed was to finish the roof and then add some things inside to make it more comfortable.
"So we need a couch, a punching bag with a Kevin picture on it, as requested by Eddy, and lastly some rugs." Edd left off of the very long list that had been written by everyone.
"Why does Eddy's punching bag above the rug on importance?" Nazz interjected skeptically.
"Cause the clubhouse was my idea." Eddy stuck his tongue out at her and she rolled her eyes at his antics.
Edd chuckled at how his brother and his soon to be girlfriend conversed. If anything it showed how long they had all known each other. "It's because I think that Eddy might be using the clubhouse more, so might as well help him out."
"More like he needs to work his arms out, they're looking a little flabby." Kenzie joked.
Eddy leaned on the wall that had just been built and scoffed. "I could easily break this whole clubhouse with my bare hands!"
The wall he was on on broke suddenly and he screamed out, almost knocking the rest of the clubhouse over.
Double-D looked over at his friends. "Ed, I told you to nail the walls together."
Ed looked from the moaning Eddy back to Double-D. "Oh, I didn't get to it."
Sweet finished it. (: Now onto the next chapter and to work on my other stories, looks like I'm not as busy so they should come just a tad faster than before, some reviews though would really be appreciated! They really do help and make me work so much faster!