(Notice: This chapter is obscene. Don't read UNLESS you're old enough or just like yaoi/slash.)

Eddy's fist was slammed into Ed's face at full force. Every bad incident in Eddy's life came out. It flashed before his eyes…

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"C'mon, Eddy…"

"No! Mark…just leave me alone…"

Mark hit him. Kicked him in the stomach. Then…Mark slid his hand into Eddy's pants.

Eddy cringed with pleasure. He tried to force himself not to like it…but he did. His brother pulled his hand out and unzipped his pants, standing right in front of Eddy, his penis erect through his boxers. Eddy started crying uncontrollably, and Mark slapped him.

"If you tell anyone, I'll kill you. That I promise."

Eddy nodded, still crying.

"Suck it! Damn, you act like you don't know what to do."

And Eddy didn't. He was only 6. He slid the erection in his mouth slowly. Mark's skin was sweaty, he noticed. The rest was a blur…being sodomized at knifepoint, his mother walking in and slapping Mark. Eddy crying as the cops came and took Mark away…the look Mark gave him as being pushed into the car. The trials…during the trials Mark had glared at him in pure hate…as if it was Eddy's fault.

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Eddy imagined Ed as Mark and took all his rage out on him…until Ed started crying. Eddy looked at him sadly and dropped to the ground, he himself crying. The entire rape scenario flashing before his eyes repeatedly. How his father used to beat him with a belt…over and over again…his dysfunctional youth was forever a part of his memories. So he took it out on Ed…who had taken it out on Jimmy…and Jimmy was Eddy's girlfriend's (Sara) best friend. Let alone the fact that Ed had done such a thing to his own sister's best friend. But it wasn't all Ed's fault… poor Ed, his very own friend, was bleeding all over the place where Eddy had pounded his face in and broken out some molars. Ed started rocking back and forth, holding his sore stomach. "Why Eddy…why…?" So they both sat there in the dark of Eddy's room, crying in pain, Eddy's emotional, Ed's physical.

The next day, Ed didn't come outside. He told his mother that fallen down a flight of stairs accidentally, and she forbade him to go outside for at least a day while the wounds healed. Eddy was jumpy and recoiled whenever spoken to. Edd noticed this but didn't say anything, much like he had lately.

These days, Edd was going out with Marie. Yes, Marie. Marie had grown to be one of the hottest girls in Peach Creek, but she turned down Rolf, Kevin, and Jonny, most of the football team, and generally most of the guys in Peach Creek to be with Edd. Edd accepted and as it turned out, they were meant to be. He told her all of his dark secrets, came to her for advice, and in return she did the same for him. So when Eddy started acting weird and Ed was gone altogether, she was the one to talk to.

"Marie, my friends are acting odd…"

"They always are," she chuckled at her joke. "How so?"

"Well…every time I try to talk to Eddy, he jumps. When I ask where Ed is he ignores me. It's strange, he never acts like this. Ed's gone completely, and I'm afraid something might've happened to him."

Marie shook her head. "Do you think Eddy had something to do with Ed's disappearance?"

He looked up at her. "You don't think…?"

Marie said nothing.

She simply nodded.