Author's Note: This story is inspired by Tell My Mama by Christina Grimmie. My mom told me about this song and even showed me the video. Check it out if you get the chance! This is a KevEdd tale.

Edd walked into his AP US History class and took a seat in the front row in the middle. It was his go to spot for all his classes. Dead center in front of the teacher and gave him a full view of the whiteboard. Even though his peripheral vision was damn near perfect, he had trained himself in freakin' kindergarten to not get distracted by his classmates. Then he held his breath.

He knew that despite his best efforts the chance of him getting to keep that seat was very much dependent on the teacher. Some teachers let students chose their own seat and for some students it was to their own detriment, of course. Others had their own methods of reseating people.

His AP Calculus teacher did it by height. His AP English teacher did it by birthday. His AP Biology teacher did it by last name like you should. But his Music Appreciation teacher did it by last name starting from the end of the alphabet.

So here he was in a new class hoping it hold onto his prime seat. And then he walked in.

Kevin Anthony Barr

The only reason Edd knew his whole name is because he heard many a teacher use it to admonish the redheaded athlete over some offense over the years. They'd had known each other their whole lives, but something had changed about him in their senior year of high school.

Edd hadn't really seen much of Kevin as Edd was on the honor's tract freshman and sophomore year and then the AP tract starting last year. He had gym with him freshman year and health sophomore year. Then nothing last year. So to see him in the same classroom had the ravenette genius a bit on edge.

Since high school began, Kevin had been aloof at best and downright unapproachable at worst. Double D knew when to leave him well enough alone. Despite the cul-de-sac and Kankers growing closer after the throw down with Eddy's brother the summer between seventh and eighth grade, by the time they got to high school, Kevin had kinda just took a step back from everyone else. Edd's mother said he was growing more and more into the strong, silent type, not unlike his own father.

When Kevin spotted him, he gave him as sly grin as he walked up to him and...pulled his beanie over his eyes.

"What's up, Double Dork?," he asked, grin still in place.

Edd put his hat back in place as his cheeks went pink. Now, Kevin was one of the hottes guys in school. 6'3, hair as red as the sunset, eyes as green as fresh cut grass, tan freckled skin, a smile that did things to the ravenette scholar and a body that looked like some Greek god statue come to life. To say that Edd had a crush on the guy was an understatement.

"H-Hello, Kevin."

When the redhead took the seat behind him, Edd did his best to conceal the squeak that came out of his mouth, but failed. Naturally. Then he sighed. With Kevin thisclose to him, Edd knew he'd be rolling ones all semester.

"You alright, D?," Kevin asked, brow cocked and was that concern in those green eyes?

Edd coughed and cleared his throat.

"Yes," he said with a squeak. Again. Naturally. Clearing his throat, he went on. "I'm fine, Kevin," he said with a smile.

Then it was Edd's turn to cock a brow. Was Kevin blushing?! Edd didn't want to stare, lest people think things, but he was saved by the bell and breathed a sigh of relief as the teacher walked in to start class.

"Ok, kids! Welcome to AP US History!," Mr Ames said. "You can all keep your seats, for now. If I see or suspect that you aren't actively participating in class because you're too busy messing around with your classmates, I will move you. Now look at the person behind you. They will be your study buddy and your project mate when we get to midterms. We'll discuss that more in the next few weeks. Get your books out and turn to page 10 and let's talk about some Pilgrims on a pilgrimage to destroy the Brave New World that they were so eagerly hoping for."

A few kids giggled and Edd was willing his heart rate to slow down. When he turned around as Mr Ames instructed, Kevin had turned around to look at Tisha Washington, who gave him her best side eye.

He feigned offense until he turned around, propped his elbows on the desk and put his head in his hands and gave Edd a wide smile. Edd went red. Kevin snickered and pulled out his textbook which made Edd snap back to reality and do the same.

When the bell rang, Kevin tapped Edd on the shoulder.

"Hey, are you free after practice? I want to set up some study time now before our seasons get too busy."

Edd nodded as he put his note and text books away. Kevin played baseball during the spring semester and Edd ran track. But he also knew Kevin worked at Target and he worked at local library. Their schedules were bound to clash.

But he always used his job as the thing to get his project mates and people he tutored to still work with him. He had access to plenty of study material and space that would make it easy to put a project together.

"That's a good idea, Kevin. We get done around 515. Where would you like to meet?"

Kevin sighed as he thought, worrying his lower lip in his teeth. Edd wanted to kick himself for wishing he could nibble that lip.

"How about the library? I gotta run by there anyways. Heard y'all got the new Star Wars books and I need to check them out."

"Library is fine. I will say, though, that you might have a hard time getting your hands on those Star Wars novels. With everyone seeing the new movie, we had to create a waiting list for the books because so many people wanted to get caught up before they went to see it."

"Who do you think suggested the waiting list?" Kevin said with a wink as he started to walk out of the room. "I'll see you at 730" he called over his shoulder.

Edd couldn't wait for 730 to come.


"Mother, I'm home," Edd called out into the house as he came in and shut the door.

"There's my little Einstein!," Lorraine Vincent said as she came out of the kitchen, cup of tea for Edd in hand. "How was school?"

"Well, Kevin is in my AP History class, and I have to meet him at work tonight because Mr Ames made us study buddies," Edd said with a pink blush quickly coming to his cheeks.

Why in the world was that the first thing out of his mouth!?

Lorraine cocked a perfectly arched brow.

"Guess the quarterback is smarter than he looks. Or the helmets they got protect their heads better," she snarked.

"Mother."

"Don't you Mother me, Eddward! I remember how that boy used to treat you and your other little friends. I know he's done better since you all started high school, but a mother never forgets."

"How could I forget?," Double D said as he gently gave his mother a kiss on the temple.

She just batted him away.

"Well, there's lamb chops in the fridge for dinner. I'll be back tomorrow morning. I expect to see you for dinner tonight, alright?," she said as she headed out the door.

"Yes, Mother."

Edd made the lamb chops with mashed potatoes, steamed asparagus and Hawaiian dinner rolls. He cut out two pieces of blueberry cheesecake for dessert and packed everything up in his mini cooler and headed to the library.

Kevin was already there when Edd got to the library. And he managed to get ahold of one of the six Star Wars novels the library had. Edd was impressed to say the least. Because Mr Ames hadn't told them what their semester project would be, the two boys built a tenative study schedule.

Monday's, Tuesday's and Thursday's after practices and every Sunday afternoon they would meet at the library to review for quizzes and tests. Extra time to meet would be fit in whenever they could, especially after they got their project assignment.

"How about we meet at your house or mine sometimes, too?," Kevin suggested.

"I don't see why not. I know there will be days the library will be closed for the federal holidays, so we'll have to meet somewhere," Edd said as he went to look up federal holiday dates on his phone.

"Rad. So what are you doing later?," Kevin said, a damn near seductive smirk in place.

"I-I have to go to the hospital. I'm having dinner with my mom there tonight," Edd replied, mentally cursing his pale skin because he knew his face was on fire as he could feel the heat down to his collar.

Kevin gave a slight pout, but nodded. Edd's mom was the Chief of Nursing at Peach City Hospital and Edd had spent many a dinner there growing up as it was the only place the busy single mom could get a moment in with her son most days.

"Understood. I'll see you in class, Double Dude," Kevin said as he stood and gave Edd's shoulder a quick squeeze before walking out of the library.

If Edd wasn't so myosophobic, he'd swore never to wash his shirt or shoulder ever again.


Edd's mother grilled him over dinner about his quick study session with Kevin. But considering that they had to go to school together because neither Lorraine nor Kevin's parents were moving anywhere anytime soon, and the schedule gods put them in the same class, she reluncantly accepted her son's fate of having to spend extra time with the cul-de-sac's resident bad boy and the school's King of Everything. But she was not above telling her son her suspicions.

"He's dangerous, Eddward. You be careful around him."

"I'll be fine mother. Honestly, the only thing dangerous about Kevin is his Harley."

"Exactly," she said with a knowing look in her blue eyes.

Edd gulped and turned pink.


As school trudged on, Double D and Kevin got together to study whenever and wherever they could. There were a few times Kevin offered to buy Edd a new phone because his had a habit of calling Kevin and only Kevin at various times during the week after school, but whenever Kevin would answer it and try to get a response out of Edd, the line suddenly went dead. But Edd would always go on a technology isn't perfect spiel and pray Kevin would buy it. Thankfully, he did.

Or did he?

One night, as they were going over the rubric for their midterm project, Kevin grabbed Edd's phone. Edd protested fiercely, but Kevin was stronger and held him at arm's length as he looked through Edd's call list.

"I'm just trying to figure out why your phone likes me so much!," Kevin said exasperatedly.

Edd bit his lip as he turned purple.

"Oh, you know how technology is, Kevin!"

"Yeah, it's only as good as the user," Kevin said as he gave the still blushing Edd a narrowed eyed smirk.

"I can use my phone just fine, Kevin," Edd said as coldly as he could muster, willing his skin to return to it's original tone.

"Uh huh."

That night, like most nights since the beginning of the semester, Edd didn't sleep well. He tossed and turned with nightmares of the school finding out about his crush on his cross street neighbor. But he always woke up when he got to the part where Kevin found out.

And that was worst than him knowing because he couldn't get a read on his reaction. The unknown was finally becoming something that scared Edd. At least when it came to dealing with his feelings for Kevin.

But when daylight came, Kevin was still Kevin. Still aloof to the general student populace. Still too cool for his friends. And still flirting with Edd.


"Isn't Prom in a couple of weeks?," Edd's mother asked over dinner one night.

Edd nodded.

"Do you have a date?"

Edd shot her an incredulous look.

"You know I don't, Mother."

"Why not?"

"I just don't."

"Eddward, you have not because you ask not."

Edd cocked a brow. His agnostic mother was quoting Bible verses at him over not having a date to Prom?!

"Just ask him. But you're not taking that motorcycle. It's too dangerous," his mother said as she got up from the table and set about cleaning up the kitchen.

Edd sighed. If his mother was anything, she was as perceptive as Ed, if not more so because of that whole woman's intuition thing. Thing is, Edd knew she had to know more than she was letting on, considering that every conversation they had involving their redheaded neighbor concluded with her only requesting that Edd stay away from his motorcycle. But he knew better than to pry for more info. She was very keen on him figuring things out for himself.

But figuring out how to ask Kevin to the dance was going to be something that was going to take all of Edd's everything because while his logic centers were saying NO, everything else in him was screaming YES!


Two weeks before the dance, they were studying in the library for a series of quizzes and a big test that would come a week after the dance. As they were leaving, Edd decided that now was as good a time as any to ask Kevin to the biggest dance of their lives.

"So, what are you doing the 21st?"

"That's Prom, right?,"

"Yeah."

Kevin's brows furrowed in thought.

"You asking me to Prom, Dorky?," Kevin asked, brow cocked and something like mischief was dancing in his green eyes.

Edd swallowed hard before responding.

"Yes."

"Cool. Pick me up at 6. Wear something cute. And we're having dinner at Ray's Pizza before we go," he grinned as he booped Edd on the nose with his keys.

Edd just nodded.


The night of the dance, Edd decided to forgo his hat. He didn't want any pictures that included the dorky version of himself to sully this night. And Kevin was floored.

"Hair!? That's all that was wonder that damn sock!? HAIR!?," he asked when he met Edd in his living room for pictures before the dance.

Edd blushed and ran a hand through the mass of wild curls that made up his hair.

"Stop harrassing the boy about his hair and get in here for some pictures, son," Mr Barr said as he led Kevin by the shoulders to the fireplace next to a still very pink Edd.

They took their pictures and then ran across the street to Edd's house for pictures with his mom. And Lorraine did something that floored Edd.

Pulling out a gift bag from the coat closet and handing it to Edd, she said, "I know my Eddward asked you to the dance, Kevin, but I think you guys should ride in style.

Edd pulled the tissue paper out of the bag and gasped at what he saw inside.

A blue motorcycle helmet.

"It's top of the line and has all the safety features a mother could ask for," she said as the two boys gaped at her. "I know my Edd wouldn't blatantly disobey me, but you're a charming young man, Kevin, and I know fate has a way of making things happen that no amount of prevention can stop. I'd rather he be safe then sorry."

Kevin hugged her.

When they went back across the street to get Kevin's motorcycle, Kevin examined the helmet thoroughly. Deeming it fitting, he put his spare on the shelf and turned to Edd and asked with a cocky grin, "Ready for the ride of your life?"

"Are you?"

Kevin's eyes went wide. Edd just winked at him and hopped on the back of the sexiest motorcycle he had ever seen. When Kevin fired up the engine and felt Edd's arms slip around his waist, he knew that whatever ride Edd was offering was going to be worth all the waiting he had done in getting the genius to respond to his advances.

"So, what made you finally ask me out?," Kevin asked over their pizza dinner.

"My mother, oddly enough."

"Really!?"

"Yes. And I quote, 'You have not, because you ask not.' I figured there'd be no harm in asking conisidering you've been flirting with me all semester."

"Can't be helped," the jock smirked. "You're too cute to not flirt with."

Edd blushed. Kevin snickered.

"But why me?," Edd asked. Kevin's flirting was unexpected to say the least.

"Like, I said, you're cute. And smart. And nice. And fun. You're a pretty cool guy, Edd. Why not you?"

Edd tried to think of a response to that, only to have Kevin slide over to his side of the booth and wrap him up in a hug.

"Look, we both know that we shouldn't be a thing. In some parts of the universe, we can't be a thing. But if you're ok with it, I'd like to make us a thing."

"Really?!"

"I've been wanting to ask you since freshman year, but I just couldn't figure out how."

Edd bit his lip as he thought about how since high school began, Kevin may have been brooding and aloof, but he always went out of way for him. And only him. He couldn't help but wonder what having all of Kevin would be like. He had to have him.

"Ok," Edd said, grin wide and then giggling at Kevin's very pink cheeks.

"Choice."

"I do make good ones," Edd smiled as he brought Kevin in for a sweet first kiss.


They went to the dance, danced and hung out with their friends who were stoked for them, even if a few of their classmates weren't. Edd had the time of his life. Later that night, Edd took Kevin for his own ride as the ravenette genius took them out for a spin in his go cart through the junkyard.

"Not what I had in mind when you asked if I was ready for the ride of my life," Kevin said as they hung out on Edd's front porch after they put the go cart away.

"We all get our thrills in our own way," Edd smirked.

"Yeah," Kevin said as he drew the genius into his lap. "I'm going to have my hands full with you, aren't I?"

Edd shrugged as he cheeks went pink.

"Full hands means a full heart, Kevin," the genius said sheepishly.

"Then I'm stuffed," Kevin said as he drew Edd in for a kiss.

When Lorraine asked him how everything went the next morning, Edd told her all about it. And she smiled her knowing smile the whole time. She still thought Kevin's motorcycle was dangerous, but she didn't mind her seeing her baby boy on the back of it because she knew that overall, Kevin was a dream come true for her Edd and that was more than she could ever hope for.