A.N: So, after that whole chapter we finally have Marie come into the picture, even more than before. The wisdom teeth removal went well, so now I'm back writing this chapter, haha! Some of you may have thought that Marie finding out that Edd was back might have been a little sudden, but trust me, we still have a lot to go through. A LOT. Something else has occurred to me and that is that some of the people who have fav/followed this story seem to be KevEdd fans, so I hope that you know this is an Edd and Marie fic. If you do know that and are just following because of the story, thank you! I just thought I should let those people know, so there you go. Also found out that I made a small mistake in the last chapter where the first paragraph was bolded, but luckily it didn't affect the story what-so-ever. Thank you to those who have favorited, followed and reviewed this story so far, I really appreciate it! Alright, onto the next chapter!
I woke up on Saturday morning, questioning if everything that had seemed to happen happened in a dream or real life. Hoping that it was just a dream, I got up and got my clothes on, but halfway through I saw that my guitar was out of place. So...it wasn't a dream, was it? I felt pretty calm about it, considering that one of the three people who I didn't want to know actually DID find out who I was. I wasn't sure if that was because she was pretty calm about it too, or if it was just because I didn't care at this point. Either way, after what had happened, I trusted Marie not to let my secret out...somewhat. I did feel like she wouldn't go telling everyone, so that made me feel a little better. If it had happened at school though, this situation would have been completely different.
As I went through my morning routine, I thought about how strange Marie was acting. It seemed that even after these four years, she still seems to like me, even just a little. Of course she was mad at me at first, what with that punch she threw at me, but after a while of just talking, she acted like...someone completely different than when we were kids, and she also acted differently than when she would at school. But as I was thinking about that, another thought came into my head: what about how I was acting? When Marie rested her head on my shoulder, I felt a little embarrassed. At the time, I didn't know what it meant, but now, I didn't feel like it was too important. I probably just felt awkward, considering I was talking to my childhood tormentor, who also had a crush on me, one of the people who I hadn't talked to in four years. I didn't really expect her to show a soft side, I guess. That's why I felt that way, I was just confused and a little awkward! I was happy that I figured it out so fast, and it was quite easy to explain in a way that wouldn't have made that whole situation even more awkward for me.
I decided to go onto YouTube and go song searching and read a little bit, something I like to do to pass time and find good songs. I went on my favorite channel to find new music and put the songs on shuffle while I read a good fiction book about four children with special powers that they all find throughout the series. I had read the four book series a while ago, but I wanted to read it again as it was an incredible series, and just to keep the adventures fresh in my head. As much as I loved real life, there was a distinct charm in how you could escape the problems of your own life and live the life of a character in a completely made up world. Add in some awesome music and you have yourself an amazing trip through a world made up in the imagination of someone else.
After an hour and a half of reading, my eyes began to tire, so I closed my computer and tossed my book onto my bed. Noticing it was a little too early to eat lunch, I messed around with my guitar. After I played my guitar for a while and ate lunch, I was at a loss at what to do. Luckily at noon, that question was answered with a knock at my door. I opened the door to find Marie standing there in a dark blue hoodie with a logo I couldn't recognise printed on the front. She was wearing some worn out converse with a pair of blue skinny jeans.
"Hey Edd." She said, seemingly a little nervous.
"Hi Marie. Decided to come around again?" I ask, wondering what she was doing back here.
"Yeah, I didn't want to deal with what Lee and May are fighting about in the trailer, which is probably some crappy food for lunch." Her face showed a little disgust as she thought about the meal her sisters were fighting over.
"Well too bad for you, but I just ate lunch. I might have some leftovers in-"
"No no no, I'm not that hungry, actually. I just wanted to hang out here for now. Also we never really finished our conversation yesterday." She said, cutting me off.
"Oh, alright. Come in then." I told her, motioning toward the entryway. I couldn't help but feel awkward again. I didn't see something like this happening when Marie found out who I was. I expected yelling, crying, and other sorts of crazy happenings, not...a fast formed...friendship? I guess that's what this is, but I still think it's too early to tell, so once again, I'll let things play out on their own. She came in and immediately sat on the couch, so I closed the door and went and sat on the opposite end.
"Hey, sorry about what happened yesterday." Marie told me.
"Sorry about what?" I asked.
"Well, punching you for starters, and for acting all emotional yesterday. By the way, if you tell anyone about that, I'm not afraid to kill you." She said, giving me an evil smirk with it. I just chuckled and waited for her to continue. "Me being all emotional was just because I hadn't seen you in like four years. It's just so weird because you were here one day, and then you just weren't. It caught all of us off guard, I hope you know that. We were all worried for you, and wondered where you went when we couldn't find you." There was a short silence, as if she was remembering something, but it was quickly cut short. "And now you just come back, without a word. Why haven't you said anything to anyone else yet?" She questioned me. I told her why I had left, which led to more questions and answers about life in Peach Creek. Eventually, we found ourselves in an awkward silence, so I decided to cut it.
"So you never answered my question yesterday, why don't you want to be known as smart?" I asked Marie.
"It's just another thing that people can use behind my back as an insult. I've had people try to bully me for a long time, and when you left is when it got really bad. I was having some...problems after you left and people took advantage of it and started bullying me. One day, I kind of snapped and attacked this kid for calling me an 'emo freak.' After that point, I started to defend myself from people calling me names and I became this huge bully at high school. I can stand up for myself, but that doesn't mean that what people say doesn't sting just a little." She ended off her answer with a little bit of bitterness. I never understood how smart could be used as an insult, and I still couldn't.
"How can smart be used as an insult, though?" I asked. A small grin flashed across her face before she replied.
"You should know, what with Kevin and Eddy always calling you 'dork.'" She said.
"Yeah they called me dork countless times, but I was never offended by it. Being smart isn't something bad, and I don't know how it became an insult, because it's really a compliment." I replied.
"Easy for you to say, because it seems that everyone loves you now." Well, I couldn't argue about that, I guess I thought.
"Yeah, but still, why take a compliment as an insult? If they resort to calling you 'smart' they've run out of actual insults. Same thing goes for things you can't change about yourself, like your race or gender. I've seen countless fights like that, where someone insults another person because of something they can't change, and it doesn't even count as an insult. If someone tried to use 'smart' as an insult, I'd just say 'oh, so you're a dumbass then?'" When I ended my little rant with that, Marie just busted out laughing. I looked at her, and started chucking myself.
"Oh, I should use that at some point!" She exclaimed as she kept on laughing.
"Let me know when you use it, because I want to see their reaction to it!" I said, laughing as I imagined what would happen. After some more laughing being shared between us, Marie asked me a question.
"So, were you ever bullied in New York?"
"No, I was lucky enough to become friends with one of the most popular kids just a couple days after I got there." I answered. "After a while, I became friends with a relatively tough guy, and he's who helped me bulk up a little bit and get me into breakdancing. Also, there was almost never any bullies at my school, because if someone was ever bullied, everyone else would defend that person." Marie had her eyebrows raised, as if she was considering that school as a place to go.
"Hmm. That sounds like a really cool place. I wish I could go to New York and just escape my whole situation here. So how is it like in New York? Is it cool with all of the tall buildings around you?" She asked me. It's a question that I had a simple answer but complicated explanation to.
"It's extremely enchanting from afar, and it puts you into perspective when you're in the middle of it." Marie gave me a questioning look, as if she had no idea what my answer meant.
"What do you mean?" The question I get after every time I give that answer.
"Well, when you're really far away from the actual city, like along the outer edges, you can see everything and just how big it is, but it looks so small too. Nothing is moving from what you see, but in reality, everything is moving in that city. You can see the sun's reflections on the buildings and you wonder just how massive the shadow that building is casting. The city looks so small from far away, it almost looks like a model." I saw Marie process everything I had just said, but there was another half to my response. "When you're in the middle of it all, it's chaos, but it seems so organized. It's as if all of the chaos, the people traveling on the sidewalks, the horns honking and the congested streets, it's as if that's the only way that it could be, as if it was made for that sole purpose. When you crane your neck up just so you can see the buildings that surround you, it really makes you feel small, but then you realize that all of this was made by people like you, and then you realize just how much power you have." I looked back to Marie, and saw her face looking off into the distance, trying to imagine a place similar to what I had just described. The room was quiet for a long while, but then Marie looked back at me.
"That sounds so cool. I really want to go there now, it just sounds so amazing." She said in a quiet tone, almost as if she was afraid to scare off the image she had created in her mind.
"It's really nice there. I know it's a concrete jungle and everything, but I lived on the outer edge, so I was able to enjoy the buildings from far away." I added.
"So why did you guys move there?"
"My parents moved to New York because there were some better job opportunities there than here. We moved back because we didn't have to be there all the time and so we could be closer to family and friends." I replied. For the next hour or so we talked about all sorts of things, ranging from my urbexing experiences to breakdance to the music I make. After a while of getting asked questions about myself, I decided to ask Marie about what she's been doing for the past four years.
"So you said that you're into singing and... drama, right?" Marie nodded, and a small smile appeared on her face. "Well, what kind of plays have you been in?" Her eyes drifted up as she tried to remember what she has acted in.
"Weeeeelllll...I've been in a play called 'Our Town,' I've been in 'Noises Off,' and I tried to get into 'Grease' but they told me that I would either have to wear a wig or get rid of my blue hair." Marie seemed to be a little disappointed that she wasn't in "Grease," but I didn't really know why they would kick her off for having blue hair.
"Wait, they kicked you off for having blue hair? Isn't that against a policy of some sort?" I saw Marie shrink up just a little bit before she told me exactly what happened.
"Well, I may have been kicked off for more than that…" I looked at her with confusion before she decided to continue. "The costume director told me that my hair was a problem, and I kind of overreacted and got in a huge argument with her over it, which eventually lead to me saying things that got me kicked out of that play." She avoided eye contact with me, but I was just laughing in my seat. "What's so funny?" She asked me with a small grin.
"I guess you didn't change in that aspect." I said once I was done laughing. Marie just rolled her eyes and shook her head. "So, you said you can sing, right?"
"Yeah," Marie replied.
"Well then why don't you sing?" I asked. I saw a blush run across her face, and I could tell she wasn't about to start singing. Her response confirmed my suspicion.
"Oh no way. Not without some music or something to help me along."
"I can get my guitar if you want." I said as I got up with a grin on my face. Marie seemed to get even more embarrassed and grabbed my arm to stop me from getting my guitar. She tugged my arm so I would sit down, but instead it led to me slipping, falling half onto the couch, and rolling to the ground. There was a moment of silence before I started laughing. I heard Marie start laughing too, and I got back up onto my feet.
"Well thanks for that, Marie." I said in a sarcastic tone. Before she could reply though, I ran off to my room to get my guitar. I wasn't going to let her get away that easily. I came back in with my guitar, and I saw her face change from confusion, as to why I left so suddenly, to dread when she saw what I had in my hands.
"Oh, God. I'm not going to do this, I hope you know that Double D." She said, hiding her embarrassed face. I just smiled before replying.
"Oh come on. I'm gonna breakdance for you later, and you're not going to just sing something? It can just be something really simple, come on, please?" I asked as nicely as I could. I saw her contemplate it in her head, but she shook her head with a nervous smile. I didn't want to keep pushing her, so I just put down my guitar and a small silence filled the room. We managed to fill that gap with a little small talk, but it seemed Marie was getting bored with just sitting around.
"So, do you want to get out of here and go somewhere else? There are probably some cool places that you haven't seen yet. Let me think of one, hold on." She said as she began searching for a place in her mind. As she was thinking, three words popped back into my head from about two weeks ago. Let's start again. As I remembered these words, I thought that this whole situation turned out to be a lot better than what I was expecting. Instead of getting killed by Marie or having her spread the word about who I was, I was actually forming a kind of friendship with her. This was definitely better than having Marie kill me, but it would be weird at school I would think, what how we were fighting on Friday. How will we act then? I thought. As I was about to ask, Marie shouted out where she wanted to go.
"OH! I know where! There's this cool area I found over by the creek, it has a nice view and I found it a couple years ago, so I don't know if you know about it. It takes a while to walk there, but it is really nice over there. I've gone fishing there a couple times, but I've never caught anything up there. I don't know what we could do there, but it's a nice place anyways. What do you think?"
"I think it would be better to do that later, I just wanted to sit around for most of the day, actually. I would like to go to the little candy shop and see what they have though." I said. I felt pretty lazy today, so I wasn't going to put in the effort to go and walk all the way over to where this little hideout was. I saw Marie nod at the idea, smile, and get up.
"Alright, I'm game. I have a couple dollars on me, so I could buy something while I'm there."
"Well I have money if you want to buy something that's a little over your range."
"Aww, that's sweet!" She said in a mock voice that was similar to the one she used on me when we were younger. I just laughed it off, grabbed some shoes and my key, and walked to the door. We were walking along the sidewalk, just outside my house, when the thought of school came back into my head.
"So, what about school? How are we gonna act towards each other?" I asked. I saw Marie pause to think about what I asked, but then she came up with something.
"I wonder how everyone will react if we just come in acting like really good friends, haha!" She said as she started laughing. I couldn't help but laugh with her, thinking about how everyone would act if we actually went through with this plan. And as ridiculous as it seemed, I kind of wanted to go through with it.
"I want to try this now, haha!" I said as I kept on laughing. I noticed Maries laugh die down as she looked at me, and I looked at her and saw a questioned look on her face, accompanied by a grin.
"You actually want to do that? What would we say if they asked why we're all chummy now?" I laughed yet again at her question, or more so, her wording.
"Chummy? And yes, I want to see what everyone would do. But seriously, who uses chummy?" I asked while chuckling.
"Hey, don't criticize me on my choice of words! And what about what you would say when we were younger, huh? Seriously, how did you even know half of those words?" I saw that she was wearing an angry face, but I could tell it was all just acting. After all, we were...friends, right? I can call us friends at this point, I would assume.
"A lot of studying and paying attention to the real world. I was fascinated with the English language, and I would study different words and different meanings for those words. I was kind of a show off when I was younger, but I still know those words like the back of my hand. I just don't use them anymore because I tired of the constant questioning of what I was saying. It was almost as if I was speaking a foreign language, so I just decided to simplify my speech."
"Wow, I wasn't expecting a full explanation, Double D, haha!" She said.
"Sorry," I muttered out, feeling slightly embarrassed. We walked for a little bit longer, and before we knew it, we were at the shop. I opened the door for her, as I do with all my friends, and even complete strangers. Marie decided to poke a little fun at me yet again for this small act.
"I'm so glad my boyfriend is such a gentleman." She said, extra stress on the word boyfriend. I hadn't heard her use that word towards me in a long time, it felt weird, but I was fine with messing around a little.
"Hey, do you want me to pay for you, or not?" I said, grinning at yet another one of our spats, but this time, it wasn't like the angry one at school. Instead, it was like the way I acted with my friends at school in New York, in a way. We walked around the store, looking at all sorts of candy and other sweets, and I noticed Marie sampling some of the candy when the store owner wasn't looking. Eventually, we both chose what we wanted to buy, and surprise surprise, Marie chose something that was just out of her price range. Oh well, I couldn't get mad at her. Who could pass up the opportunity of free food? We walked home eating our candy, and she parted ways with a simple "goodbye" as she walked off back to the trailer park. The rest of the day was pretty normal after that point, but I kept thinking about Monday and how everyone would react to Marie and my interaction to each other. I laughed at the thought, but it would have to wait for another day.
. . . .
Sunday came and went, mostly uneventful if it weren't for my parents coming home. We talked about my first week back and how it went, and we also talked about their adventures. Unfortunately, time went by too fast and before I knew it, I had to get some sleep for tomorrow. I woke back up on a new day that was going to be different than Friday, and possibly funnier than Friday, too. After doing all of my morning routines, I was actually able to be dropped off by my mom, something that had become a rarity at this point. My parents would have to leave while I was at school, but I elected to walk home, so that way I wouldn't have to stuff my bike in the back of our car.
I got to school, and instead of going to the popular group like I normally would have, I sat down at the wall I sat at for lunch on Monday and Tuesday last week. I sat there listening to music for a while, but I noticed Marie walking up to me. I got up and stopped my music, just as she started talking.
"So wait, we never figured this out on Saturday, what are we gonna tell people if they ask why we're friends?" Luckily for me, I had this planned out on Saturday, but I never got the chance to tell Marie.
"Just intimidate them. Give them your death glare and say something like 'does it matter to you' or along the lines of that. Who said we needed a backstory?" I saw her grin and chuckle as I gave my explanation.
"What makes you think I have a 'death glare'?" She asked with finger quotes at the death glare part.
"Come on, don't deny your death glare. Besides, I've seen it firsthand." I said, referring to our previous spats on Thursday and Friday. Her grin widened as I said this, and I could tell that she liked the idea already.
"That's right, I almost forgot about that. Anyways, this should be fun sixth period, see you then Double D." She said as she started to walk off, but I corrected her just as she turned around.
"I'm Daniel, remember?" She turned around when I said this, at first confused, and then she understood what I was talking about, but then her face turned into one of slight concern. She walked back up to me, and now that face was scaring me a little.
"By the way, May may have found out about you." Now my face turned to confusion when she said this, but she decided to clarify a little bit. "Let me rephrase. May probably knows who you are and that you're back." Oh, well, crap. I thought.
"So May know then? How?" Just as I asked this, though, the bell rang.
"Oh well, looks like I can't tell you, bye!" Marie said as she walked away to her class. I just sighed in defeat and went off to my class. As it did the first week, the first half of the day went by just as it had on Friday, except that when it got to calculus Marie wasn't sending me angry glares, instead they were friendly looks. Lunch ended up changing the monotony of the whole day by a lot. I got to the table with Kenny and the other popular kids. I was a little late out, and I saw that everyone but David and Jackie was there. Wow, I remembered their names? I'm usually trash with names. I thought. As I got closer to the table, I saw May look up and her eyes got a little wider and a smile formed on her face. Before I could sit down, May stood up and asked me a question.
"Dou-Daniel, can I see you privately?" I heard Kenny start to say "ooooohhh" in a joking manner, but laughed and told us he was joking. I nodded my head and she led me to a place where there was only a couple people sitting around, eating their lunch. She quickly looked around, before quietly whispering something.
"Double D?" I looked at her and nodded, knowing that this was coming at some point. She surprised me with a very strong hug and she actually picked me up, despite being a foot and a half shorter than me. "Oh my god! Double D, you're back!" She exclaimed as she put me back down, and I was out of breath as she practically crushed my lungs.
"Yeah, I'm back. So Marie told you, huh?" I said once I regained enough oxygen to actually talk.
"Yeah, she did. I noticed that she had changed and was a lot happier, so I decided to spy on her on Saturday, and I heard her talking about you. I walked in on her and asked why she was talking about you. After a little arguing, she told me that you were back, and told me to keep it a secret. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone, but you should tell Ed at some point. Just be careful when you tell him, because he's likely to tell everyone." At the mention of Ed, I smiled. As much as I would love to tell him, I knew that once I did, the ball was in motion, and that my secret would not be safe. Although, I guess that the ball already was in motion, what with Marie finding out and now May. Still though, I didn't want Eddy to find out, because I figure it will be a fight over something in the past. I didn't like him for it, in fact, I hated him for it, but I want to avoid a fight that will end nothing between us. May caught my attention by snapping her fingers in my face.
"Edd? You in there?" I nodded.
"Yeah, I'm still here, just thinking things through. Let's get back to the table before they start to wonder what we're doing." I replied.
"Don't worry about that, I've said plenty of times that Ed is who I'm after." She said.
"Still after him, huh? I've heard that you two have made amends as of late." I asked as I looked at May.
"Yeah, I still like him, so what? I chose him for a reason, Mr. Smartypants. Seriously, you should come over to the trailer so we can catch up. I'm sure Marie would also like the company too." She said, nudging me with her elbow.
"If you're talking about her liking me, then you're wrong, because we've just become friends. She's a lot more tame than when we were younger if she does still like me." I told May. She just scoffed as we got back to the table. We sat down at our normal spots, and it seemed that now I had my own spot, but now I found someone sitting next to me. On Friday, I had this side of the table to myself, but I found Sandra sitting on the same bench as I sat before. I sat next to her, but at first I didn't think much of it. We had a pretty normal conversation, one that I would have with my friends back in New York. Some time passed and it was fifth period. As time kept going along, I couldn't help but smile at what was likely going to happen next period. I could hardly wait for it to be sixth period, and eventually, it came.
I took a little extra time walking to APUSH this time, and I could hardly keep my composure. I walked into the classroom, and saw Marie, standing there with a pissed off face. At first I was worried, wondering if I had done something in the past two hours that could have set her off, but I saw her angry face melt into a grin as I walked up to the table. At first, I missed the fact that everyone else in the class was watching us as I walked into the class, as they were probably expecting a big fight to ensue. I got up to the table, and put my stuff down as Marie started to talk.
"So?" She said, with a slight grin.
"So what?" I asked, feeling the corners of my mouth tug upwards, yearning to form a smile.
"No 'hi' or 'how you doing?'" She asked, mocking a hurt face. At this point, I couldn't contain my smile, and let it show.
"Hi, Marie. I hope you had a pleasant weekend." I said as I sat down. She smiled and sat down as well.
"Thanks, and I did. Did you have a nice weekend?" She asked. It was at this point that I noticed how quiet this room was, but I also noticed that the two other kids in our group were still standing behind us, not wanting to sit down just yet.
"Oh it was a lovely weekend. I got to spend it with a friend and I was able to spend some of it with my family." I stated, still with a smile on my face. I noticed a couple of the kids around us were wide eyed, knowing that just a weekend before we were at each other's throats, wondering what had changed between us. None of them were brave enough to try and ask, but that was what was probably on everyone's mind. We ended our small conversation and the bell rang, so the two kids who were in our group finally sat down and put down their backpacks. For the rest of the period, anyone who looked at Marie funny got a glare from her that kept them silent. It was quite entertaining to see this kind of stuff happen, and while normally bullying is something I am completely against, Marie wasn't really bullying anyone, just giving them glares every so often. Although, I do know why everyone fears Marie, and while I don't agree with what she did, it's all in the past. Maybe I should feel the same way about Eddy...I'll get to that when I get there. Who knows, maybe I can get him out of all this trouble he's been digging himself into from what I've heard. I thought a little bit more about Eddy, and then about Ed. I really wanted to see Ed again, but did I really want to deal with Eddy? At this point, I knew that everyone else had forgiven me for what Eddy had blamed me for, so I wasn't worried about them. Eddy would be my only problem, and as much as I didn't want to deal with him, I decided that I wanted to catch up with Ed even more. Dealing with Eddy would be a pain, but I think that seeing Ed again would make up for that. So, I decided that I would talk to Ed on Tuesday, as I still wanted to prepare myself for Tuesday, knowing that most likely, it won't just be Ed that will find out who I am. After thinking about this for a while, I realized that it was almost time to leave, and deciding to mess around with everyone in the class a little more, I started talking to Marie.
"So what are you gonna do later today?" I asked her.
"Probably fight with my sisters over something stupid, as always." She replied.
"I found out what happened with May. She practically suffocated me at lunch, haha!" I said with a laugh. Once again, I noticed that the classroom was silent yet again as Marie and I conversed. Marie laughed with me too, but I remembered what May had told me when we were talking at lunch. "OH! Yeah, she also said I should come over and catch up a little bit. So should I come over later today?" I asked.
"Yeah, you can come over later today. Maybe you can help me with my homework too." She chuckled. The bell rang and we walked out, still making small talk and enjoying the faces of everyone around us. We walked all the way to our homes, splitting up when we needed to go separate ways. After an hour or two, I decided that I could head over to the trailer park. Eventually, I made it and knocked on the door. May answered and invited me in, and I noticed that Lee was nowhere to be seen. We talked about all my adventures, all of May's accomplishments, and other stories that the other may have missed. We talked for a good two hours, and as they wanted me to have dinner with them, I refused, seeing that I had already eaten before I came over. It was nice to catch up with them, even if they were Ed, Eddy and my enemies in the past. I found that Lee had gone out with her friends, but neither May nor Marie knew where to.
"God, this feels so weird." I said at some point in our conversation. "I mean, four years ago I would have been fighting to get out of here, and now I've come here to talk about what we've been doing for the past four years. It's just so...strange." I finished off.
"Same. Not only that, just how much we've all changed is crazy too, I mean, I knew I had seen you from somewhere when we first met, I just didn't know where. Now I know and it all makes sense, but I feel the same way, it's just so weird." May added.
"I'm just glad that we're friends now and not enemies like before." Marie said.
"I know, that felt weird too. I don't know what I was expecting, but I didn't expect us to be friends so fast, I mean… I guess I expected you to be mad at me." I remarked. Marie laughed at that last part.
"I was mad at you. Do you not remember that punch I threw at you, or did I give you amnesia from it?" She started laughing again, and May and I joined in as well. We moved onto another topic, and after yet another hour into my visit, I decided to call it quits.
"Aw, you didn't even help me with my homework." Marie said with a faux pout as I was leaving.
"Well you should have mentioned it sooner. Seriously though, I can help you with your homework if you want." I told her.
"I think she wants you to help her with more than just her homework!" May shouted from back in the trailer.
"Shut it, May!" Marie yelled back with a small blush on her face.
"Still acting like sisters, I see." I remarked, remembering that the Kanker sisters had arguments like this quite often when we were younger.
"As always. Well, I'll see you tomorrow!" Marie said as I left.
"Goodbye!" I waved and left the trailer park. Tomorrow is going to have a lot in store for me, I thought. I didn't know what it would actually have in store for me until later though, but I could hardly wait to tell Ed(and quite possibly the whole cul-de-sac) that I was back. I'll just wait and see. I thought, walking down the street, heading back towards my house.
A.N: Things will be picking up speed yet again in the next chapter, so let's see how everything will go down in the next chapter. As always, reviews are appreciated, and I'll see you in the next chapter!