Double Dee sat in a corner of the room watching the other teens dancing and having a good time. He wondered for the thousandth time how he had let the other Eds drag him along to this party. He would much rather be at home with his books, ants and his cactus Jim. There were too many people here for the dorks liking, he knew so few here. He had seen Nazz dance by on the arm of a football player. Eddy was dancing with some girl he had managed to pick up since they arrived at the party. Ed was dancing with May.

Once the Eds had arrived at the house they had dumped Edd here in this corner and went off with the girls. He couldn't for the life of himself figure out just why they had insisted he accompany them to this party. He looked around at the magnificent room that he was in. It was a grand ballroom in a huge house. Whose home was this? He scanned the room again seeking to find anyone that he may know. He saw a couple of people he knew from some of his advanced courses at school. Most of the crowd he didn't really know.

Well if I must endure this for however long the Eds want to stay, I'll make it interesting to myself. He took a small bottle from the pocket of his jacket and added a bit of the liquid to his punch that someone had handed him earlier when he was near the refreshment table in the other end of the room. He stirred the drink with his finger and tasted it. Yes, that was so much better. As far as he knew no one knew of his secret drinking and he planned to keep it that way. After a few sips, he started to relax and looked around the room again.

Double Dee drained his cup and got up to go across the room to the refreshment table to get some more punch. As he moved through the crowd he could hear snippets of conversations, "What's he doing here?" "Who invited him?" I didn't know they let fags in here." Dee just ignored all this and walked through the crowd. He had mostly learned to ignore their ignorance. It still hurt to hear such things, but he had learned to tune most of it out. Someone had once said to him, "Words can only have power over you if you allow it." It was a good motto to live by and helped him get through when people were saying mean things about him and to him.

Just as he reached the refreshments, he heard two girls talking. "What are you doing here whore?" Edd heard a shrill voice say. He turned to see who Stephanie was talking to. It was Nazz, who was smiling and laughing.

"As head cheerleader, I get invited to lots of parties, Stephanie. What's it to you if I am here.?"

"I told Kevin and the boys I didn't want you here," Stephanie said stamping her foot.

Nazz laughed, "As I am the one who planned this soiree and did most of the invitations, no one told me that I wasn't welcome. I'm here, so deal with it. Are you afraid I might take Kevin away from you? If that's the case you should have no fears. We are friends and nothing more. I know more about where Kevin's heart is bound, and it ain't your skank ass."

"Psssh, I saw him in the jewelry store buying me a ring today. So after tonight, I'll make sure he has nothing to do with you or that faggot that lives across the street from him. He is going to announce our engagement tonight. That is what the big announcement is going to be. We're going places and we don't need the likes of you two around us."

Nazz laughed and pointed over towards the entrance to the room and said, "Well if that's the case you better go break that up for starters." Edd glanced up to see where Nazz was pointing and saw the handsome redhead enter the room with a girl under one arm and his friend Nat under the other. He was grinning ear to ear. The football star looked over in their direction and his frown dropped and he whispered something to Nat who just shrugged. Stephanie whirled on her heel and stormed over to where the green-eyed boy was standing. Whatever she was saying when she arrived wasn't pleasing to the jock who frowned and dropped both arms to his side.

"Hey Dee, I'm glad you made it tonight. Do you have your little friend, up your sleeve, I sure could use a shot right about now." Nazz said hugging Double Dee. The raven-haired boy pulled out the little bottle and poured some into two cups. He turned and grinned at Nazz, "How did you know about that?"

"After all these years of my having parties, and keeping my eye on you, I've noticed a thing or two about you."

"Sometimes its the only way I can deal with being around all these people. What do you mean keeping an eye on me? I didn't think you even noticed me most of the time."

"Dude, we're the cul-de-sac kids we gotta watch out over each other. Even Kevin worries about you."

"Well, he sure has a funny way of showing that he cares. He's bullied me all these years. Although he's never really been as physically violent as some of the others at school. He has forced me to do things for him that I would never do for anyone else."

"What kind of things Double Dee? I thought you and Kevin got along better since the incident with Eddy's brother."

"Yes, we get along but I'd rather not talk about all that here where everyone can hear." Double Dee said as he turned to go back to the corner where he had been sitting all evening. When he turned to sit down he noticed that Nazz had followed him over and pulled up another chair to sit near him.

"OK, Dee, we're off in this corner and no one is around to hear us so spill. You can't leave me hanging like that you gotta tell me what is going on maybe I can help you out in some way. Is he forcing you to do his homework for him? But that wouldn't explain why he is not making almost straight A's in most of his classes.

"No, it's not homework. He does that all on his own. I do grade it for him and tell him what he has done wrong. So the grades are all his doing. I am proud of him doing so well and that he will be graduating in the top ten of our class. One night after a particularly rough day at school, a day when all the bullies had decided to pick on me, I had had a few drinks after school while Kevin was at practice. Then when he arrived for our study session we got to talking about crushes that we have had and I inadvertently admitted to him that I was gay and had been crushing on him for years."

Nazz sat in deep thought for a moment and then said, "well if he isn't forcing to do his homework, then what is he making you do."

Double Dee turned a pinkish shade of red as he blushed. "Don't tell anyone this." He whispered, "I'm doing sexual favors for him. It all started that night that I confessed my attraction for him. I told him that I had wanted to perform fellatio on him for the longest time. He looked at me stunned for a moment, then he stood up and dropped his pants and said, "Get you some!." The funny thing is that with my OCD you would think I would find that disgusting, however, instead I found out that I enjoyed the act with him. I tried it with a few others and all I could think of was nasty, nasty, nasty."

"You could always charge him with sexual abuse Double Dee since he is forcing you to do that for him."

"I guess I worded it wrong. He doesn't actually for me to do anything. After a few days, I got to thinking about it. I figured I had lost him as a friend when he showed up at our next study session I felt that we could still be friends. I promised him that it would never happen again. He had avoided me for a few days at school so that had me worried about our budding friendship and I so needed to broaden my friendship horizons and didn't want to lose him."

Nazz laughed, "I remember when he was avoiding you. It wasn't because he was mad at you. He told me about the head job and that every time he saw you at school he got a raging hard-on. And he didn't want to have to explain that to anyone at school."

Double Dee blushed again and said, "That's nice to know. At the next study session, he told me that if I ever wanted to do that again he wouldn't be averse to the action. I told him that if he wouldn't give away my secret and made better grades in school that with each A he made on a test I would give him a sexual favor if he wanted. I never expected him to become an honor roll student. We've even gone all the way sexually a time or three."

"Why'd you keep doing it after all the good grades he's been making for the last couple of years. You could have stopped at any time. He wouldn't have outed you, Dee."

"I know that Nazz, it's because I love him and wanted to keep doing that for him." Double Dee blushed and looked down at his red solo cup that was empty. He looked up towards the refreshment table and caught the eye of a certain emerald-eyed jock standing at the punch bowl who grinned back at him and lifted his cup and pointed at it and then pointed at Double Dee. Edd nodded and sat back in his chair. He watched as the redhead poured two cups of punch then grabbed them and his cup and headed over towards Double Dee and Nazz. Stephanie who was standing behind the jock reached out for a cup and Kevin brushed past her and headed over to Double Dee. The irate girl glared after the redhead. She watched with daggers in her eyes as he neared the hated couple sitting away off in the corner.

When Kevin reached the corner he handed a cup to Nazz and then gave the other to Double Dee. "Ok, Double Dee spike us up, I know you got your stash up your sleeve."

"Kevin, I.."

"I know you drink Dee, so cough up already. After listening to Stephanie's shrill all night I need something to calm my nerves."

Dee pulled out the bottle and poured some liquor in each of their cups. "ok Kevin, I heard you bought her a ring today and are going to announce your engagement tonight."

"So that's what she's been telling everybody, boy, is she gonna look stupid in a little while..."

"Kevin! what are you doing over here with these losers when you could be dancing with me."