One Week Before Prom, Saturday

After lunch, Kevin picks up Edd and drives over to Mrs. Fitzgerald's house, so they can try on their altered suits. As Kevin tries on his suit, Edd looks at the rest of the clothes hanging in the kitchen. There's Edd's suit, which doesn't appear to be touched, meaning Mrs. Fitzgerald is really good at letting out clothes without leaving signs of the alterations. There's also a bright red dress with plenty of lace and rhinestones, which Edd assumes is Nazz's prom dress.

Kevin comes out, dressed in his suit, and carrying a hanger with only a tie on it. He hands the hanger to Edd, who doesn't place it on the rack Mrs. Fitzgerald had pulled into the kitchen. Instead, he looks at the bright red tie, not quite the same as Nazz's dress, but close enough.

He doesn't realize he's touching the tie, holding the end of it in his hand and running his thumb over it, until Kevin scoots closer and says, "Nice, right?"

Edd startles and drops the end of the tie. He hastily hangs it on the rack, next to Nazz's dress, where he can indeed see that it is a close enough match. "Yes, it's a nice tie."

"I don't have a collection like you, only got three, but one of them is… it's kinda lame… it's a Christmas tie…"

"Christmas ties are a disgrace to the accessory community."

Kevin snorted out a laugh. "Right?"

"So, this is an old tie? You didn't get a new tie for prom?"

"Nah, not about that life. I just wanna have fun, not show off how much money I spent for one night. I just happened to luck out and have a red one that kinda matched Nazz's getup. I wanted to go for my green one, but she said this would look better if we were to take pictures." Kevin sighed and flicked the tie. "So… here we are… red tie."

Edd didn't know how to reply, but lucky for him, Mrs. Fitzgerald returns from her sewing room with a few supplies.

While she inspects the fit of Kevin's suit, Kevin asks, "What about you? Gonna stick to that purple bow tie?"

Edd nodded, "Yes. I'm rather fond of that plum color. And it's my favorite bow tie."

Kevin is told to turn around, so Mrs. Fitzgerald can check the back of his jacket, but Edd saw his smirk and nod before he turned. "Yeah, I can see that. It does look good on ya."

Thank goodness he's turned around, Edd thought, as he pulled down his hat over his eyes.

When it was Edd's turn to get changed, he gets pricked by a pin that was in the cuff of his sleeve. When he tells Nazz's grandmother about this, she mutters a few profanities under her breath before saying, "I'm sorry, Eddward, dear. I seemed to have forgotten to do your cuffs. Let's check the rest of your suit for now."

After she approves the rest of the suit, and Edd confirms that he can now move his arms freely and sit down, he changes out of it. Edd returns to the kitchen in normal attire, carrying his suit, to hear Kevin trying to argue with Mrs. Fitzgerald.

"I said I would get it done today, and I will."

"It's fine. I can just get it myself some other day."

"But this is Edd's suit, not yours."

Edd interjects. "I can wait a few days. That's fine. No need to rush yourself."

Mrs. Fitzgerald stares at him wide-eyed.

"See. We're good." Kevin said, grabbing his suit, and steering Edd towards the front door. They thank her for her help and said their goodbyes.

On the way back to the cul-de-sac, Edd asks about his little tiff with Nazz's grandmother.

"In all honesty, it wasn't really about the suit. I betcha she forgot to do the cuffs on purpose."

"What do you mean?"

"She started gossiping as soon as you left the room, asking all sorts of questions. Then she said we should stay so she could ask you some questions as she finished the alterations."

Edd thought back to a few weeks ago, when Mrs. Fitzgerald was interrogating Kevin about his relationship with Nazz and the prom. "Yes… I don't think I would have wanted that."

"And I wouldn't want to put you through that," Kevin laughed.

When they returned to Kevin's house, Kevin asks if Edd minds going upstairs with him. Edd really didn't have much to do besides watch a new C-rate zombie film with Ed later that night, so he agreed.

They go upstairs, where Kevin hangs the suit up in his room. Edd stands there awkwardly, not sure why Kevin wanted him to come up with him. He watches as Kevin runs a hand down the red tie. Kevin then hastily removes it from the suit and hangs it on an almost barren tie rack in his closet, Edd noticing the green tie Kevin had mention, the same shade as his eyes, and the Christmas tie with snowflakes and penguins on it. Kevin then shuts the closet door, looks back at the suit with no tie, and nods in approval.

"There. Now that that's all sorted, mind staying a bit and helping me practice some more?"

Edd wanted to ask about the tie but decided against it. "No problem. Want to try the foxtrot again?"

Kevin groaned. "Fine. But this is going to be embarrassing."

Good. Then we'll be even.

Edd pulls out his phone and selects a song, noticing Kevin rushing to close the blinds and lock his door. He must still feel pretty embarrassed about learning how to dance.

Edd places the phone on Kevin's dresser. When he turns back around, Kevin is standing there with a hand outstretch. "May I have this dance?"

Edd takes his hand and says "Certainly."

They tried to dance for a bit, but it was hard moving about Kevin's room with the lack of floor space due to the placement of his furniture. They soon decided to go back to the waltz thinking it would decrease the number of times they run into furniture. However, it didn't decrease run-ins enough, and before the song ended, they both agreed it was a bad ideal to try to dance in Kevin's room. Edd was torn between suggesting they should just wait until Tuesday or going to his place now to dance, when Kevin turns on his television and says, "You wanna watch something instead?"

Edd considers this a moment, as Kevin starts queuing up Netflix.

Looks like he's going to watch something regardless, so I might as well join him.

Edd stutters out a "sure" and Kevin grins at him, before plopping down on his bed. He scoots to one side and pats the bed next to him. Edd complies and gingerly sits down next to Kevin.

On his bed. Locked in his room and sitting on his bed with him. Oh, Eddward, what are you doing!?

Edd looks up, and sees Kevin scrolling through his list, but right below that, is the continue watching list, with Bob Ross as the most recent show he's watched.

"You watch Bob Ross?"

"Dude! You mean Bob 'The Boss' Ross!? Yes, man, he's dope!" Kevin scrolls down and selected the episode he just finished watching. "You need to see this one. The painting is not the best, not compared to a lot of his other stuff, but he has squirrels in his shirt pocket as he paints."

"Seriously!?"

"Yeah, man."

About halfway through the episode, Edd realized he went from confused and apprehensive to completely relaxed in a matter of seconds, all because of Bob Ross. Edd looked over at Kevin, who had a half smirk and was nodding.

Edd laughed to himself. Someone seems impressed with Mr. Ross's current brush choice.

Kevin startles and looks over at Edd, smiling back at him. "Whatcha laughing at dork?"

"Oh, nothing."

"C'mon, tell me."

"It's nothings, really."

Kevin shrugs and goes back to watching the show, but soon turns back to Edd. "Hey, remember that scam you guys did, where you basically built that city in the alleyway?"

Edd groaned and pulled his hat down over his eyes. "I hated that scam."

"Really?"

"I hated all of them!"

Kevin laughed. "I feel that… but I was kinda impressed with that one. That was one of the biggest constructions you had to do. And some of it looked legit, well, to us kids at least."

Edd peaked out from under his hat. "Really?"

"Yeah, man. Hey, so… um… why did you do that? All the scams and stuff."

Edd readjusted his hat on his head. "I supposed it was due to the fact that I was still a child, and I didn't have a firm grasp on what it means to be a friend. I just automatically assumed that I had to gain everyone's approval to be friends, so I would appease Eddy's crazy schemes, in the hopes that it would impress the rest of you, so that we can be friends. I was a little ashamed that it took so long for me to realize that going along with scams would just push you guys away, not be inclined to become friends."

Kevin nodded, "Yeah, I get that… And, no offense, but I'm kinda glad you all stopped scamming."

"You and me both," Edd laughed.

"Speaking of the pipsqueak, did you tell him he could join us at prom?"

Edd nodded. "Yes, texted him that same night."

"Is that why you finally decided to go? Because he might go?"

"No, I decided on my own. Which works out, since he just told me this morning, he agreed to go with Lee… while also complaining that he needs to go order a corsage today."

"Well, shit. He really fucking did it. Lee."

"I know, right!? But still, language, Kevin."

Kevin just laughs and nudges Edd. "Whatever, dork."

They continued on like this, watching a few more episodes of Bob Ross and talking about mindless topics, until there was a knock at the door.

"Come in!" Kevin shouted, not even looking away from the screen.

The door handle rattled, but the door didn't open. "Shit. Forgot I locked it when we were dancing."

Kevin crawled over Edd, causing him to tense up and hold his breath. He got off the bed, the door handle rattling the whole time.

"Dude! You forget to unlock the door after jerking it!" came a voice from the other side of the door.

Kevin hastily unlocked the door, and threw it opened. "Nat. Do you have no filter?"

"Oh, I do, but I don't like using it."

"You're an ass," Kevin said, as he was being pushed aside so Nat could enter the room. Nat took two steps and saw Edd sitting on Kevin's bed. His eyes widen and he grinned wickedly.

"Well, hello there, Double Delightful! What a pleasant, pleasant surprise!" Nat exclaimed, emphasizing each syllable.

"Hello to you, too, Nathan," Edd said, secretly hoping he wasn't as flushed as he felt he was.

Nat slowly raised two finger guns toward Edd as he turned his head toward Kevin, grin still in place. He quietly said, "Sooooo… you forgot to unlock the door after you were… jerking him, or-FUCK! Dammit, Kevin!"

Kevin started punching him in the arm and shoving him out the door. Nat fought back and managed to snatch Kevin's hat from his head, tossing it to Edd, who fumbled to catch it. Edd started laughing as he watched the boys pushed on either side of the door, one hoping to regain entrance to the room, the other hoping to close the door and pretend Nat's comment never happened. When they heard Edd laugh, they slowed on their assault against the door, and both turned to look at him, smiling. Edd was laughing loudly, one hand covering his gap-tooth grin, the other clutching Kevin's baseball cap.

Nat took this opportunity to push through Kevin's defenses and reenter the room. "So, Double Dreamboat, you wanna go get some pizza with us?"

Edd calmed down to just mild giggling and checked his phone. His smile dropped when he saw that he missed two texts and a call from Ed, somehow forgetting to take his phone off the "do not disturb" mode after they no longer needed uninterrupted music for dancing.

He hastily got off the bed. "I'm afraid I just realized I was due somewhere else about 12, no, now 13 minutes ago."

"Oh, shoot, sorry about that," Kevin said, a bit sheepishly.

"No worries, it was just a movie with Ed, I'm certain he'll understand, and if not, there's always buttered toast to appease the beast."

Kevin laughed. "True that. Well, see you Tuesday, then?"

Edd nodded, approaching Kevin. He tentatively reached a hand up and decided to just do it. He casually brushed Kevin's fringe back with two strokes of his hand, and then placed his baseball cap back on his head for him. He hated how his heart started racing and how his cheeks started burning. But he took satisfaction in hearing Kevin's breath catch and seeing him blush, while choosing to ignore Nat's small squeal before he started bouncing on feet.

"Yes, I shall see you Tuesday. Good night, Kevin. Good night, Nathan."

Kevin's "good night" was drowned out by Nat's "FARE THEE WELL, DOUBLE DELIGHT!"

As soon as Edd left the room, Nat started talking to Kevin, clearly with no concern about Edd overhearing.

"Dude. You made him late. Like almost a quarter hour late."

"I knooow. I feel so bad."

"Double Delight's never late."

"I knooow."

"He's actually typically early, and you made him late." Edd looked back up the stairs, and saw Nat go wide-eyed before ducking back into the room.

"Is there a point to this?"

"Yeah, I'm just saying, if you manage to get Double D to lose track of time, then…" Edd, nearing the bottom of the stairs, barely heard Nat give a low whistle, "That must have been one helluva mind-blowing jack off-FUCK! WHY YOU ALWAYS GOTTA HIT ME? STOP!"

"WHY YA ALWAYS GOTTA OPEN YOUR DAMN MOUTH!?"

As soon as Double D entered Ed's basement bedroom, Ed asked him, "Why are you so red?"

For this, Edd had no answer.