"Mire de cerca, Eduardo." a voice interrupted.

Eddy looked over to Edd, who was now accompanied by a tall man, Edd's cousin, who was working as a musicology-teacher at their school.

"Esto es cómo usted afina una guitarra."

Eddy disliked the Spanish vocabulary. In fact, he hated it. He didn't understand a word of what the two were saying. But still, he didn't say anything about it. He'd learned to respect the fact that his friend was Mexican-Italian, and that his family spoke more Spanish then English with him.

Edd had always hidden the fact that he was a Latino. His father told him so. It was always Edd's father who made up the rules for him. The man disliked their Latin background, and so he'd changed Eduardo's name into 'Edward'. To make sure that no-one would ever find out, he'd also changed the family's last name, de la Costa, into 'Coast'. Though his wife was proud of her Mexican blood. She kept just a little bit of Latino alive in Edd. She teached him some Spanish, and stimulated him to grow his hair, just like all the men of her family, to show their pride of freedom. All this was done while his father was at work. She could hide the Mexican and Spanish books easily, but Edd's hair was a problem. Therefor, she got him a black hat, to hide the long, black locks from her husband.

Until that one day. Eden had just recovered from her illness, when a big, orange car parked in front of Edd's house. The three Ed's and Eden were in the frontyard, trying to come up with a new scam, when someone patted on Edd's shoulder.

"¿Hola Eduardo, cómo usted es, amigo?"

Edd looked to the man, and stood up. He started to laugh.

"Stuart!" he replied, "Uh... buenos, muchos buenos!"

This time, it was the man's turn to laugh.

"Maybe it's better if I'd just talk English." he said.

"That would be nice. I'm not that good in Spanish, yet." Edd answered.

"That's not a problem. I've been living in England for such a long time, I'd almost forgot the vocabulary, too." Stuart smirked.

Eddy suddenly realized that Eden was staring at Stuart, completely speachless. He waved his hand in front of her eyes, which seemed to have some effect. She started to stammer.

"Y-y-you are T-t-t..."

"2D, Gorillaz, yes. I've left the group for a short while to come and visit my cousin. Do you mind calling me 'Stu' as long as I'm not with the others?" he replied.

All Eden could do was nodd. She was still stunned. Who would know that Stuart '2D' Tusspot was Double-D's friend! She turned white by the thought of it, and started to sweat just because she was now so close to her idol. As Ed saw this, he started to panic.

"Eden's turning sick again, Eddy!" Ed yelled.

Eddy tried to calm Ed down, as Stuart felt Eden's forehead with the back of his hand. Eden started to blush and turned her head away.

"It's just a little crush, I guess." Stuart smirked, "I don't know why those teenage-girls get those while an entertainer is around."

Edd crossed his arms. For some reason, he didn't like Eden's little 'crush' on his cousin. Besides, it was him who saved her! He was the one Eden should have a crush on! He remembered himself what had happened a few weeks ago, right after he'd met her for the first time...

Messy chapter! Okay, just to make sure you still know what's happening: This chapter was more about the arrival of Stuart, and Edd's background.

Next chapter will be about what had happened after Edd met Eden.

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