Chapter 2: Red

Edd awoke to his alarm blaring beside him. With blurry eyes he read that the time was 6:30. He lazily reached out to cut it off, then proceeded to get out from his bed. He stretched and yawned rather loudly, heading towards his window to gaze out into the neighborhood. The sun was steadily climbing over the horizon and casting its rays over the houses. After a moment of admiring the beauty of such a peaceful morning, he advanced towards his closet and obtained his clothes. He chose a gray long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans and a black pull-over hoodie. With his articles in hand, he headed for the bathroom to prepare for the day. He had a slight nagging feeling as he stepped into the shower but couldn't exactly remember why for some reason. He shrugged off the feeling and entered the warmth of the water,

It only took Edd around twenty minutes to get full ready for school. He descended the stairs, pulling his beanie over his head as he did. Walking into the kitchen, he found a few sticky notes left by his parents. He read them over and started to accomplish the tasks left to him. He was about to start washing what few dishes were in the sink, when he heard a loud knock at the front door. Edd walked over and upon opening, his two best friends bustled in.

"Good morning to you fine fellows as well", Edd said whilst rolling his eyes.

"Oh yeah, sup Sock-head?", Eddy replied, "Wanna give me and Monobrow here a ride? My car won't start and Ed forgot to put gas in his."

"Why of course, but you two should really be more responsible about such things.", said Edd as he walked back over to the sink to finish the dishes.

"Your worse than my mother you know that?", said a scowling Eddy as he and Ed took seats at their friends kitchen table.

Edd finished rather quickly and went to a cupboard and pulled out some bowls and a box of Fruity Pebbles, "Would you two care for a bowl of cereal?"

The two boys at the table answered yes quickly and got up to prepare their breakfast. Edd had gone over to obtain some orange juice, but when he lifted the box to pour himself a bowl, he discovered it to be empty.

"Good Lord! That was a freshly opened box! All of it, gone!", Edd said with an increasingly rising voice. He looked over at the table and saw Ed and Eddy munching away at their ridiculously high amount of cereal that they granted themselves. Both boys looked up, cheeks full and just grinned.

Ed swallowed and for the first time that morning spoke. "We gotta taste the rainbow Double-dee! The little bunny rabbit says so!", Ed said and started back into his cereal.

Eddy started laughing and almost choked on the bits in his mouth. He hacked and coughed until it came out, speeding across the table where it smacked Ed square in the forehead. Ed screamed, spewing cereal back at Eddy who was still trying to regain normal breathing. After seeing this comical display, Edd couldn't help but laugh at his friends actions and forgot about why he was even upset. He started to clean up the mess of his friends as Eddy was cussing about getting Fruity Pebbles in his hair.

At school, in the hallway...

As the three amigos walked towards their Biology class, Edd again felt that nagging since of worry, but still could not figure out why. Eddy on the other hand was expressing a matter that he had been on since they had left Edds house.

"Who needs this bullshit anyway!? Really!? Like I'd ever need to know that a red blood cell doesn't have a nucleus!", Eddy raved as they got closer to the classroom door. "Double-dee, how do you like this shit anyway?"

Edd snapped out of his stupor after he heard his name. "Uh, oh uhm...what now Eddy? I'm afraid I didn't hear you, I was trying to figure out what has been bot...". Edd did not finish the sentence as the boys walked in the Biology room. Sitting right beside where Edd took his usual seat, sat Marie Kanker.

All three boys stopped as they spotted her. She looked up and saw Edd, trembling slightly as their eyes met. She cracked a wicked smile and fluttered her eyes flirtatiously. "Hi Double-dee, wanna help me prepare for this big test?", Marie said, her words riddled with sickly sweet venom.

Edd broke into a sweat after those words. The bell suddenly rang and the boys were forced to take their seats. Eddy patted Edd on the back as he headed for his seat in the back. Ed gave Double-dee a big hug and started sniffling as he slowly went to sit beside Eddy. Edd looked back at Marie and proceeded over and took his seat, making sure he kept his eyes centered forward so that he wouldn't look directly into her wanting gaze.

It didn't last long however. He noticed out the corner of his eye that Marie had scooted rather close to him. No matter how much he fought it, Edd couldn't help but look over. Marie was still smiling that devilish smile, making Edd sweat even more.

Edd being the gentlemen that he was, couldn't help but politely greet his tormenter. "H-H-Hello Marie, how a-a-are you-u thi-i-is morning?".

"Oh dreamboat, what's wrong? Don't tell me I make you that nervous?", Maine whispered, "You really should loose up a bit hun. I'm sure you'd be a freak in the bed!".

Edds eyes were plastered open as he blushed wildly. Marie in turn giggled lightly as she ran her index finger across his cheek. "I'm sure your wondering why I'm in your class", Marie said, "I swapped this with my history class at the end of the day, so I get two classes and lunch with you lover boy!".

Edd couldn't believe what he heard. Two classes with MARIE KANKER! How did she manage this he thought? What cruel twist of fate had decided to curse him this day? Edd knew he was in for a very long day, and an even longer school year.

It's done! Chapter 2 that is! I'm not really satisfied with this, but I figure it'd be a good filler chapter. I got some rather juicy stuff saved for down the road! I mean, relationships take time! I wanna thank the dude/dudette who reviewed, much appreciated! I'll be back with chapter 3 soon as I can. Until then, review it up and enjoy!