"So?"

"So?"

Father looked at son and each gave a hearty laugh.

"Toss me a beer, boy!," Sean said as he kicked his cowboy boots off and wiggled his toes.

Kevin dug into the cooler filled with Miller Lite and Mexican Fanta and pulled out a beer for his father and a strawberry Fanta for himself.

They took quiet sips, had large burps, bigger laughs, and then settled back into the lawn chairs they brought with them from home.

Their fishing lines bobbed as flies settled on their rods and curious, but apparently very smart fish nibbled at the bait on the hooks.

It was quiet, peaceful.

The perfect Father's Day as far as Sean was concerned.

For the most part anyways.

The tall redhead next to him was every bit his clone in every way.

Strong sense of self, determined, very self-sufficient.

He stepped up without any hesitation when his Aunt Valeria called from the hospital in tears over Marisol.

He had plenty of friends, but something seemed to be missing in Kevin's life and like the good dad he was, he was going to help him get it if he could.

"So what have you been up to lately?," he asked as a few mosquitoes hovered overhead.

"Not a lot," Kevin sighed as he realized that his life had been nothing but helping his cousin, work, and school right up to Tuesday when he saw Edd alone for the first time in weeks.

"Well, it's summer and that means you're gonna get a new curfew," Sean said as he took a quick swig of his beer.

"What?! Really?!"

The only curfew Kevin had known to this point in his life was 10 on weekdays and 11 on the weekends. Considering that he hadn't caused them any problems his entire high school career, Sean thought it was a good idea to give the redhead a bit more responsibility and some room to grow.

"Yep," his father nodded. "Midnight during the week and 2 on the weekends." When Kevin sputtered in shock, he put the lid on his flames a bit. "But you still gotta call if you're stuck or something. Got it?"

Kevin eagerly nodded and then his fishing rod was pulled into the lake.

"Did ya bring your trunks?," Sean laughed.

Kevin gave him a hard stare that he learned from his mother, stripped to his trunks, and jumped in the lake after his rod and the large-mouth bass that tried to get away.

"You kids doing any more parties?," Sean asked as the sun started to dip down and the late afternoon heat spiked a bit over the lake making the fish sink lower and out of the way.

"Maybe," Kevin shrugged. "Everybody's working all the time now, so who knows really?"

"'If you build it, they will come,'" Sean quoted as he reeled in another minnow that he just tossed back.

"If we get time off, we will," Kevin snorted.

"Ya did before!"

"That was because it was my birthday or we were in court, though, Dad," Kevin sighed.

"Well, you better be looking at getting The Fourth off then because your mom wants to do a thing," he said as he opened another beer. "And be sure to let Edd know that she wants the heads up on sales and shit."

When Kevin pulled out his phone to text him his mom's request, Sean laughed til he saw the surprised look on Kevin's face.

"What's up?"

"Eddy's at Edd's."

Sean shot him a quizzical look and Kevin quickly texted him his usual "Y'all some dorks," in response to the selfie of all three Eds having pizza at Double Dee's, before letting him know about what his mom wanted and sending him a quick selfie with his father.

"He looks happy."

"Huh?," Kevin said as he put his phone in the fishing kit he got his dad for the holiday.

"I said, 'He looks happy.'"

"Yeah," Kevin huffed in relief. "Eddy's been working like hell and hasn't been around so I guess he got the day off or something and could hang."

"He only smiles like that when he's with you, ya know?"

Even though the temperature outside was 92 degrees, Kevin felt cold as he turned his deer in the headlights stare on his father.

"Haven't seen him look that happy since around Valentine's Day actually," Sean mused as he stood to cast his line further out from where they had been fishing in.

"Oh, God," Kevin muttered as his stomach seemed intent on expelling everything he had ever eaten in his life.

"What did you get him?"

"A…um, a new set of slides for his microscope and an app for his phone so he can look at the stars no matter where he is. Why am I telling you this?!," he cried as his dad chuckled.

"What did he get you?"

"The Batman Lego Movie and the case on my phone," Kevin muttered into his palms.

The phone case in question was a picture of his Harley printed on well-made plastic that protected his phone from his oddly klutzy hands when it came to anything not a ball, Rosie, or Edd himself.

"Nice," the elder Barr grinned as he chugged a bit of his beer.

Kevin stared at him in confusion because he seemed to be taking this news way too well.

"How drunk are you?!"

"I am still sober enough to know that you like the boy across street enough to not call him a dork and be mean about it like you used to. And I'm perfectly okay with it."

"Because you're drunk."

"No," Sean sighed as he turned to look at his scared boy. "Because I am okay with it. If you like the boy and he likes you, then it's all good to me."

"So if I said I was gay…"

"Then I would say that you need to make sure that you get tested and to just be careful," Sean shrugged. "This world is a crazy place, but the good Lord hasn't flung this old rock into the sun because people are coming out of the closet and living their lives. I just want you to be safe about it."

"Dad, I'm gay."

"Hi, Gay. I'm Dad."

An indignant sound of frustration left Kevin's throat as he threw a bottle cap at his father who fell out of his chair and then into the lake as he laughed.

"Toss me another!," he hollered as he pulled himself out of the drink, wet hair, shirt, jeans, soaked socks and all.

Edd barely registered the ringing of the doorbell over the explosions from the video game being played in his living room.

Kevin's voice screaming at his father brought him back to reality and he paused the game before answering the door, his friends following after him as they were too curious about what was going on outside themselves to care that they weren't playing anymore.

"Mr Barr!," he exclaimed as he opened the door and his heart sank when he caught the scared look on Kevin's face as he pleaded with his father not do anything.

"You said you were okay with it! With us!," the redhead screamed as the elder Barr glowered himself over Edd.

He held up a finger to silence his son and Kevin actually sniffled as he did so.

"Eddward, right?"

Edd, who was suddenly sweating in fear as the tall, solemn, scary looking Irish man stood over him, just nodded.

"You like my boy?"

"Y-Yes, Sir," he said quietly before drawing some sense of strength from somewhere deep in his soul, which made him stand up straighter as he said, "I love him."

Kevin reeled as his father grinned.

"Good to hear. But if you so much as hurt a hair on his head, I've got a shovel and plenty of alibis, you hear me, son?"

"I would never!," Edd protested and Kevin just sat down on the lawn and put his head between his knees.

"See that you don't," Sean said seriously and Edd nodded again, words lost to him as the man in front of him rendered him speechless in a way that his son used to. "Also, his curfew for the summer is midnight during the week and 2 on the weekends. Break that and I break you. We clear?"

"Y-Yes, Sir," Edd nodded quickly, still a bit scared out of his mind, but glad he was still alive and conscious.

"And we need to have dinner with your parents."

"WHAT?!," Kevin screamed again and his father shot him another silencing look over his shoulder as he said, "We meet the parents, Kevin. You know that."

"Yes, Sir," the redhead muttered before putting his head between his knees again.

"Well, umm…my parents are kinda busy," Edd said quietly and Sean shrugged.

"Figure it out," he said as he patted his shoulder before he turned and walked away. "Kevin, get up! These fish ain't gonna clean themselves."

Kevin slowly stood up and looked at Edd who gave him a wide eyed confused stare. He could only shrug in return.

"Kevin!"

A loud, but smol voice echoed across the cul-de-sac from Kevin's front door and he gave Edd an apologetic glance.

"Go," the ravenette told him before he waved at Rosie, who waved back.

"¡Hola, Doble Dee!," she squealed and Edd's heart hadn't melted that fast since he and Kevin's first kiss.

"¡Hola, Rosie!," he called back before Kevin and his father disappeared into the house.

He closed his door and slid onto the floor, the whole event having shaken him a bit.

But his heart for his lover stirred.

"Ahem."

Pulled from his loving thoughts, he looked up to a confused Ed and Eddy.

"Dios mio," he sighed as he pulled himself up off the floor and officially came out to his friends.