Chapter 35
Double Dee was walking down the sidewalk, on his way to the basketball court to meet up with his friends. He was peacefully strolling down the cross street, alone with his thoughts when he was suddenly grabbed and pulled into the lane.
As he was slammed up against the fence by his assailant, he looked into the suspects face.
Her freckles and beautiful green eyes made his face light up.
"Hey love dove." said Marie, "I hope you're excited to see me."
"I'm always excited to see you my angel." replied Double Dee.
"You're so cute and sweet." said Marie smiling, Marie grabbed him by his collar and pulled his face into hers, "Why don't you kiss me you sexy stud?"
Double Dee quickly pressed his lips into hers, as Marie wrapped her arms around his neck. Double Dee placed his hands around Marie's hips and pulled her closer to him.
They kissed in the manner for around five seconds, before they were interrupted.
"HEADS UP!" yelled the voice of Eddy.
Double Dees vivid daydream was broken as he was forced back to reality.
Double Dee found himself doubled over in pain, as a basketball that was chest passed to him by Eddy hit his stomach with full force. The boys all began laughing.
"Geez Double Dee, ya gotta get your head in the game." said Eddy, as he walked over and grabbed the ball.
Double Dee caught his breath and regained his composure, joining Eddy and Ed where they were standing.
"It's our ball, the Double Dork touched it before it went out of bounds." said Kevin.
Eddy reluctantly passed the ball to Kevin, who began dribbling it.
"Come on, what'cha got big chin?" said Eddy, taunting his friend as he tried to steal the ball from him.
"I got this dork!" yelled Kevin as he passed the ball behind his back, and easily outmaneuvered Eddy. Kevin charged the net to attempt to make a layup.
"Double Dee get him!" yelled Eddy, as Kevin ran towards Double Dee.
"Curse my un athletic nature." said Double Dee under his breath as he attempted to get in front of Kevin to stop his assault. Kevin easily plowed through the untrained Double Dee, knocking him down by mistake. Eddy was quick to take notice.
"FOUL!" yelled Eddy, "He gets a free throw."
"Whatever" said Kevin.
Kevin passed the ball to Double Dee, who was able to at least catch it this time. He was completely confused as to what to do.
"Get behind the foul line." said Eddy as he pushed Double Dee into the correct position.
"But Eddy, the probability of me making the shot is almost nonexistent." said a nervous Double Dee.
"Relax Sock Head, it's just a simple free throw." said Eddy.
All of the boys watched as Double Dee dribbled the ball on the ground while sweating heavily.
"Come on Double Dee, we ain't got all day!" yelled Kevin.
"Hey, don't heckle my players!" yelled Eddy.
Double Dee placed his hands underneath the ball, positioning himself to take the shot. He knew that it was very unlikely that the ball would even make it to the net. While Double Dee was preparing himself for his shot, none of the boys have taken notice that the sky had suddenly become overcast with black clouds. As Double Dee was about to release the ball, nature showed its wrath in the form of a torrential downpour.
"Oh man, I'm out of here." said Kevin as he began walking toward the exit of the court, the rest of the boys minus Eddy began following him.
"Come on sissies, it's just a little rain!" yelled Eddy, "What is everyone afraid of a little wah-wah?"
"Eddy, the idea of taking part in any activity in these conditions is absolutely preposterous!" yelled Double Dee, who's shirt was already soaked. "I'm going to play it safe and seek shelter! I will see you gentleman later!"
In the blink of an eye, Double Dee had ran out of the court, and was on his way down the cross street toward his home.
"I'm goin home too, see ya dork!" yelled Kevin as he began running out of the court as well, with Rolf directly behind him. Ed was having the time of his life, running around in circles while the cold rain drenched his clothes.
Eddy had decided that it was time to put his perfect plan into action.
"Hey guys wait up!" yelled Eddy. Kevin and Rolf turned to face him. "Let's all go back to my place. I got some crazy stuff to tell you guys." said Eddy grinning.
All of the boys ran after Eddy back to his house via the lane.
Meanwhile, a rain drenched Double Dee had just made it to the inlet of the cul-de-sac. He ran across the street and onto his sidewalk. As he was about to step onto the path to his house, he heard sounds as if leaves were rustling. Double Dee didn't have any time to turn around before he felt a pair of soaked arms wrap themselves around him from the back. The arms quickly forced him to turn around, and he came face to face with Marie. Her clothes were soaked, and her black hair drooped over her face due to being wet.
"Surprise!" said Marie.
"Marie!" said Double Dee, "I didn't expect you to be here!"
"You don't want me here?" asked Marie, frowning in a joking manner.
"No, of course I want you here," replied Double Dee, "Let's get out of this rain and take shelter…."
Marie cut Double Dee off by placing her finger over his lips. She walked closer to him, touching her body to his.
"Ya know Double Dee," said Marie in a slight whisper. She now had her arms wrapped around him, and her lips were centimeters away from his. "I think it would be the most romantic thing ever, if we kissed in the rain."
Double Dee had no intentions of staying out in the rain, but he absolutely couldn't deny Marie of this moment. Not only that, but he in the bottom of his heart, wanted to kiss his girlfriend.
"I suppose I have no choice." said Double Dee jokingly.
"You never have a choice with me." Said Marie jokingly as she leaned in her lips and began kissing Double Dee.
Not more than two seconds after they had first touched their lips together, the sound of loud thunder filled the air, as a large lightning bolt streamed across the sky. Both teenagers jumped at the sound of the thunder. Double Dee and Marie pulled away from each other slightly and smiled.
"A tad cliché, don't you think?" said Double Dee jokingly, as the lightning strike seemed to almost correspond to the moment when the couple touched their lips together.
"Just shut up and kiss me!" said Marie jokingly as she pulled Double Dee in once again and resumed their kiss. The couple kissed for around five minutes in the rain, at which point the downpour turned into a drizzle. Eventually the clouds broke, and the low afternoon sun once again shined over Rathink Avenue. Both Marie and Double Dee pulled away and looked up towards the blue sky that was remerging from behind the clouds. Marie smiled and pointed up.
"Now that was definitely clichéd." said Marie with a grin on her face.
Double Dee and Marie shared a laugh as they held each others hands.
"Would the beautiful lady like to come in?" asked Double Dee motioning his hands toward his front door. "I was just about to prepare dinner, would you like to join me?"
"Double Dee," said Marie smiling, "Are you asking me out on a dinner date?"
"Why yes, you could put it that way if you wanted to." said Double Dee, smiling.
Marie grinned at Double Dee and began walking past him toward his front door. She turned around and smiled as she opened the door to his house and walked in.
"Coming love?" asked Marie in a rather cute voice.
Double Dee smiled as he walked up the wet gravel path to his house; the "smell of rain" filled the area around Double Dees lawn. He made his way into the front door following behind Marie.
Double Dee walked through his living room and into the kitchen, where he found his girlfriend sitting at his table. Her hands were folded, and she sat with her legs crossed, her right leg dangling over her left. Double Dee smiled at her as he walked over toward the refrigerator.
"I hope you don't mind, but I was planning on making tacos tonight." said Double Dee.
"I don't mind at all sweetie." said Marie, "After eating hotdogs almost every day since my Poppy died, I can't complain about anything else."
Marie and Double Dee chuckled as he began cooking the taco meet. Double Dee had one question that he had been waiting to know the answer to all day.
"So Marie, do you think your mother enjoyed our surprise encounter this morning?" asked Double Dee.
Marie smiled.
"Don't worry Double Dee," said Marie, "She liked you. She gave you a hug without even knowing you and insisted that you call her Tabby, instead of 'Ms. Kanker'"
"Thank goodness." replied Double Dee
"She's a very friendly person, even though she looks like she'll rip your head off if you piss her off." said Marie as she chuckled .
Double Dee couldn't help but laugh, as he was really intimidated by Tabby when he first saw her.
"I was scared to death when you mentioned I was your boyfriend to her, after what you had told me about her attitude toward men." said Double Dee laughing.
Marie laughed.
"She always tells us not to trust men," said Marie, "But I think I'm going to be the first of her daughters to prove her wrong." Marie snickered at her last statement as she smiled at Double Dee.
Double Dee had finished cooking the taco meat and un-wrapped the tortillas. After Double Dee had finished making the tacos, he joined Marie at the table to begin eating. As the couple dined on their tacos, Marie decided to pose a question.
"So what was with the foreign guy yelling about you 'shaming the soil'?" asked a smiling Marie.
"Oh, you mean Rolf." said Double Dee, "We were performing some yard work and Rolf had asked me to perform the task of laying the soil for Ed's mother's garden. As I was working, I heard the sounds of you and your sister's voices from over the fence. Curiosity got the best of me, so I snuck out of the yard, and traced the source of the sounds I was hearing."
Marie gasped.
"Double Dee?" said Marie, "You were spying on me, how could you?"
Double Dee chuckled, before Marie continued.
"Oh well, at least this time you caught me washing clothes, I wasn't doing it in my tub!" yelled Marie as she laughed.
Double Dee thought about Marie's last statement for a few seconds.
"Marie, I certainly do not recall the moment you have just mentioned." said a confused Double Dee.
"Come on Double Dee," said Marie as she stepped out of her chair and sat down on Double Dee's lap looking into his eyes, "Remember last summer, when you and your friends all of the sudden decided to barge into my bathroom while I was washing clothes naked in the tub?"
Double Dee had finally been able to recall the moment Marie was speaking of.
"Now I remember!" yelled an enthusiastic Double Dee. Marie chuckled as she made a joke.
"I find it funny that all of the sudden you remember what I'm talking about once I mentioned that I was naked." said Marie as she smiled.
Double Dee blushed slightly but smiled back.
"You know what the most hilarious thing about that day was cutie pie." said Marie.
"What was that?" replied Double Dee.
"You thought that wearing a fake mustache and dressing as a construction worker could fool me, Mr. Walter Sobchak," said Marie as she giggled, she pinched Double Dees cheeks. "I could recognize that cute face of yours anywhere."
Marie giggled as she stood up off of Double Dees lap to stretch.
"What were you guys doing there that day anyway?" asked Marie. "We were lead there by Eddy, who was following a supposed treasure map that he had found inside one of his brothers trophies." said Double Dee
"Wait, his brother actually drew a map that led to our trailer, how'd he even know we lived there?" asked Marie. "None of us have ever met him until we followed you guys to the amusement park."
"Upon further inspection of the map later that night, it turned out that I had made a miscalculation. We were supposed to travel in the opposite direction, which would have caused us to end up at the junkyard instead." said Double Dee
"So I take it you never found your treasure then." said Marie giggling.
"No we did not," said Double Dee, "It turned out just to be another one of Eddys brothers childish pranks."
Double Dee chuckled,
"Although by coincidentally arriving at your home, we had thought that he had some sort of kinship with you girls. He had thought that he was clever enough to set us up to be harassed by you as the ultimate prank"
Double Dee and Marie laughed.
"And to take it even further, upon inspecting underneath your trailer, we managed to find that suitcase of wishbones, which we confused for Eddy's brother's treasure." said Double Dee as he laughed. "Speaking of which, why was there a case of wishbones underneath your trailer?" asked Double Dee.
"Ha!" said Marie, "They were May's wishbones. For some reason I still don't understand, she started collecting them and brought a new one home whenever we would have chicken at Colonels Country Chicken or my Dads house. After a while, she stopped bringing them home, but held on to all of the ones she already had. A lot of them still had the meat on them, and they eventually started to stink really bad. So me and Lee decided to throw all of them in the briefcase and bury them under the trailer."
"That sounds like something I would expect from Ed!" said Double Dee, "Maybe those two deserve to be with each other"
Marie and Double Dee shared a laugh.
"And here you and your friends come along with your stupid treasure map and dig it up." said Marie playfully. "Now we have to deal with it sitting under our bed, because she checks for it every freakin night!"
Double Dee laughed with Marie.
By this time the couple had finished eating. Marie assisted Double Dee with the dishes, after which they decided to spend some time in Double Dees den watching television. The couple sat on the couch; Double Dee had his arm around Marie, who was leaning her head on his shoulder.
After a few minutes, Marie turned her head up towards Double Dees face.
"So how did you like my pictures cutie?" asked a smiling Marie.
"I thought they were beautiful Marie," said Double Dee smiling, "Thank you so much for giving them to me."
Marie leaned up into Double Dees ear.
"How did you like that last one?" she asked in a rather seductive sounding voice.
Double Dees face filled with warmth as he felt himself begin to blush. Marie giggled.
"I think I have my answer." she said as she grinned.
"That was quite a stunning photograph," said Double Deem after which he couldn't believe that the words he had just said had come out of his mouth. Marie kissed him on the cheek.
"I'm glad you like it," she said, "May took that picture of me last year when my Dad us all down the shore over the summer"
"I can sure say that the ocean did look quite soothing in that photograph." said Double Dee.
"So let me get this straight," said Marie in a playful manner as she turned around to face him. "You would rather look at the ocean than your girlfriend in a bikini?"
"Wel…I…see…." said Double Dee, fumbling around with his words while blushing.
As Marie laughed at her boyfriends embarrassment, a quite different situation was playing out in Eddy's bedroom at 220 Rathink Avenue. The room was quite dim, as the only light source in the room came from Eddy's lava lamp. Kevin and Rolf sat on Eddy's bed, waiting for the surprise announcement, while Ed paraded himself around the room, admiring Eddy's various knick knacks.
"Alright boys!" said Eddy as he returned to his room holding cans of soda for all of his friends.
"Alright dork, what's this about?" asked Kevin as he popped open his soda, "I could be out hanging with Nazz right now!"
"Here's the deal." said Eddy.
Eddy was about to blatantly lie to all of his friends as well as betray Double Dee. Without thinking of the consequences of his actions, he delivered a bogus story to the boys.
"Double Dee told me last night the real reason why he has been hanging out with Marie." said Eddy.
"Yeah, it's cause they really like each other we all know that dweeb!" yelled Kevin.
"Oh contrair Kev my boy." said Eddy with a sly grin on his face, "Check this out!"
Eddy held the picture of Marie with a her right eye exposed out for everyone to see.
Kevin and Rolf were both stunned by the picture.
"Damn," said Kevin stunned at the sight of Maries crooked eye, "That's why she keeps bangs."
Kevin and Rolf stood speechless for a few more seconds before Kevin interjected.
"Alright man, how'd ya get this picture?" asked Kevin.
"The Sock Head has been playing both sides of the field." said Eddy, "Somehow, he got brave enough to spill his feelings to Marie and win her heart. He spent the last two weeks brownnosing them all with the objective of finding some dirt to embarrass the Kankers."
Eddy gave a sly smile.
"Boys we hit gold. Thanks to Double Dee, we can now humiliate those Kankers in front of the whole school just like they humiliated us every day since they moved here."
Kevin sat speechless for a few seconds.
"So let me get this straight, Double Dee came up with this whole relationship with Marie thing, to gain the Kankers trust, and then eventually use something he found to humiliate them?" asked Kevin.
"Yep, that was his plan." said Eddy.
At this point, Eddy was quite frightened, as he began to believe Kevin wouldn't buy his story.
"Dude, he's got guts!" yelled Kevin.
Eddy's mind was at ease.
"Tell me about it?" said Eddy.
"I tried to accept it, and I'll be honest, I truly thought that he actually liked her for a while there. But now that you told me about his plan, it all makes perfect sense." said Kevin as he laughed.
The boys continued laughing. All except Ed, who stood listening to the conversation, with a stern, yet dumbfounded face.
"So now what do we do?" asked Kevin.
"Boys, we gotta lay low for a few more days." said Eddy, "In the meantime, don't talk about any of this with Double Dee. He told me that he doesn't want to talk about it so that he can 'remain in character' or something stupid like that."
"Gotcha." said Kevin.
"Alright here's the plan, we strike on Wednesday." said Eddy.
As Eddy began discussing his vindictive plan with his friends, Double Dee and Marie were sitting on the couch, making jokes and having fun conversations. Little did Double Dee know that his supposed best friend, had not only just betrayed him, but also had manipulated his friends to believe a false story about his relationship with Marie.