Author's Note: This story is inspired by Single by New Kids On The Block feat Ne-Yo. This is a RegXRev tale of SHENANIGANS! It's also after midnight, I'm a gremlin, and I don't know what I'm doing anymore besides being amused by my own lame plots.

Kevin looked at his phone's screen and made a face at the text Edd sent him.

DorkyBabe: I'm sorry I can't come tonight. This new hire is giving me the fits and I gotta make sure he doesn't burn the place down. I'll see you when you get home, though.

KevLuv: Fiiiiine.

The series of kissie face emojis Edd sent in response only made Kevin feel worst, not better.


They had planned to come see Big Ed DJ at the club three blocks from their apartment for weeks, but then the university's lab had hired on a few teams of new interns and it was Edd's job to make sure the new batch of fresh faced grads were ready to do what they had been studying for the past four years of their lives.

And one guy was always messing up.

Kevin thought it was just nerves, but was soon coming to see that in his effort to make a good impression on Edd as his superior, he kept bumbling things up.

Now it's after 12AM and Kevin's just not drunk enough to deal with his man missing a chance to hit the dance floor with him and shoot the shit with his best friend.


He heads to the bar and gives Lee a nod and she quickly hands over a beer and stuffed the $5 bill he gave her down her shirt.

"That gets ya two, Red!," she shouted over the din of noise that was her sister's fiancèe's music.

"Got ya!," he yelled back as he made his way to the DJ booth.

And then he saw him.


At first he thought he was seeing things.

The beanie was the same, but something about him was different.

And Kevin outright laughed at himself when he saw just how different he was from his own beanie clad dork.

This guy was a good six inches taller than Edd. And if Kevin's eyeball math was right, this guy was at least as tall as he was.

Then there was the leather jacket, plain red tshirt, skinny jeans, and Doc Martens. Which was the exact opposite of Edd's classic look of sweater and button up. Even if he had come to the club tonight, he'd be in a polo and khakis with his Converse. Definitely not looking like a punky badass.

The dogtags were a hell of an accessory since he didn't look like he had ever been in the military, but Kevin wasn't going to judge him for it as the look in his light blue eyes was just too sad for him to judge him for anything.

"You alright, man?," he asked as he got closer and the guy looked like he was ready to jump out of his skin.

He fumbled his phone in the process and Kevin caught it with the grace of the pitcher he used to be and handed it back to him with a flair.

"Here ya go...?"

"Eddward, two D's, but that doesn't matter," the young man muttered and Kevin cocked his head. "Thank you...?"

"Kevin," the redhead grinned as he took a swig of his beer.

A flush ran through pale cheeks at this and the red head had to smile which just made the flush grow deeper as the sad look in his eyes gave way to disbelief.

"Have we met?," the redhead asked as Eddward continued to stare and the tall punky dork shook his head.

"No, it's just that you remind me of someone," he said quietly as he tapped away at his buzzing phone.

"They coming?"

Eddward looked up from his phone to Kevin who as giving him a curious, but slightly worried glance.

"No, they have to work," he said bitterly as he locked his phone and shoved it into the inside pocket of his jacket.

Kevin made a face and Eddward nodded.

"But you're still here and the night is young!," Kevin cheered and Eddward gave him a blank look that the redhead just snickered at. "And I know the DJ, so let's do this!"

"Do WHAT?!," Eddward screamed as Kevin grabbed his hand and tugged him to the DJ booth.

"Wait here," Kevin said as he slipped past the bouncer that kept the DJs safe and ran up into the booth.

As he came back out, he tossed his empty bottle in the trash can next to the bouncer, and pulled Eddward out onto the dance floor.

The tall young man didn't exactly know what was happening, but he couldn't bring himself to stop it.


He had been dying to get out and celebrate since he and Kev moved to Peach Creek for Kev's new internship, but his tiny redhead was so caught up in trying to learn everything he could about applying what he had spent years studying, that plans to get out kept getting pushed back.

Even with the ultimatum he dropped this morning over breakfast of going to the club around the corner from their small house by himself, Kev still couldn't make it.

While a piece of him was ready to give the aspiring engineer a good old fashioned whatfor with a demand of dinner out for sushi on the side when he got home, he couldn't help but be caught up in the smooth moves the tall redhead was pulling out on the dance floor.

For five, no ten minutes he could be ok with pretending that this Kevin was his own.

Til his phone rang.

When Kevin saw who was calling, Eddward wondered who he would have in his life that would light his face up like that after spending the last fifteen minutes or so flirting with him.

"I gotta...," Kevin said apologetically as Eddward's own phone buzzed.

"It's fine," he shrugged as Kevin skipped away.


He wearily trudged to the bar to get a drink, but Lee waved his order off.

"You're boyfriend said it was on him," she giggled as she handed him a beer and he just nodded and wondered if Kev was trying to make things up to him already.

Til he saw the brand of the beer in his hand.

But free beer is free beer and after his dance with Kevin, he was parched.

And the texts he was getting from Kev had him feeling like a dying man in the middle of the Sahara.

So he chugged the beer and walked home, the roar of a motorcycle a couple of blocks away making him miss the one in his driveway?


He ran into the house and saw Kev unboxing some takeout from the one Chinese place in town that was open 24 hours.

"I'm sorry," he said as he handed Eddward a fortune cookie that he sat aside so he could kiss him.

"Don't you ever make me do that again," he groaned into Kevin's hug.

The redhead said nothing as he squeezed him tighter.


When Kevin walked in the door, Edd was standing over his teapot, but his hand was held out to Kevin and not in the most welcoming way.

"You forgot this again," he huffed as Kevin walked into the kitchen and saw his wedding ring in Edd's hand.

Fear coursed through him as he looked into disappointed blue eyes.

"I-I'm sorry, Babe," he whispered as he took the ring and put it in the place Edd had placed it two years ago.

The ravenette shot him a glance as he took his favorite tea mug out of the cupboard and said, "Maybe Nazz was right about getting matching ring tattoos."

"What about a dog tag or something?," Kevin said nervously as he wrapped his arms around him from behind so Edd could pour his tea.

Edd turned and peered at him over his tea mug as he took the idea in and then said, "We'll see."


A month later, Big Ed is back at the club again by popular demand and Lee was cursing the fact that she couldn't wear earplugs to work.

This time, Edd gets to come and he and Kevin grab a table in the corner, but sat on the bench seat that lined the wall of the club and people watched for a bit as Ed rigged his set up and played a few warm-up tunes.

When Edd sputtered into his bourbon and Coke, Kevin nearly choked on his beer when he saw who he was looking at.

"I can't believe he's not in the lab!," Edd said in shock as he stared at a redhead who was about his height, but Kevin's eyes were on the tall, blue eyed, bean clad young man with him.

"Who's that, Babe?," Kevin asked as he tried to get his wits back around him.

"That's the guy who's been giving me fits since school started back up again!," Edd exclaimed as he sipped his drink and shook his head. "I told him that I wasn't babysitting him tonight and that he had better not be in late because he's over his allotted lab hours as it is. Like, if he would just chill out, he'd be fine. I guess he decided to chill out."

They watched in some amusement, Edd more so than Kevin, as Lee took their orders, before her glances back to them caught their twins attention.

Edd waved kindly and Eddward stared at Kevin a bit as Kev walked them over.

"Eddward, this is my boss, Edd," Kev said by way of introductions and Eddward closed his eyes and sighed heavily as things started to make sense.

"And this is my husband, Kevin," Edd smiled and Eddward's gut twisted a bit as Kevin shrugged, the ring on the necklace he was wearing sparkling a bit like a disco ball as the newly healed ink on his left ring finger explained everything.

"I'm sorry if he's been giving you a hard time," he said with a strong side eye to Kev who shirked back as Edd waved him off with a bit of chuckle.

"No, he's fine. He just needs to relax."

"Working on it," Eddward said as he started to tug Kev to the dance floor.

"Thank God he's not single," Edd sighed as he watched them walk away.

"What?!"

"Well, if he were, I'd never be able to get out with you again because I'd have to babysit him all the time. At least now I know I have someone to send him home to."

"Yeah, you do that," Kevin snorted, a bit relieved that the sad look wasn't in Eddward's eyes anymore as Kev made his boyfriend status very clear on the dance floor.