A:N/ sorry about the wait guys….my laptop died on me, but I fixed it! …then I lost my internet….but I got it back! Then I had loads of work to do…..but now I have time off!

So anyway, thank you too all you lovely readers, and reviewers, without you this story would be dead.

Disclaimer and warning: you've seen them enough…

Chapter 3

Kevin sat on his couch with his head in his hands, he had left Edd on his bed so he could rest, both boys were soaking wet and luckily Kevin's parents were out of town for the week…he could always clean up later. Kevin thought hard, when he brought Double D upstairs and lay him down, he had tried to dry the smaller boy to the best of his ability without removing to much clothing; he had lifted the orange t-shirt and his eyes were met with bruises…a lot of them, and not just a few small ones but big nasty looking ones that look like it hurt to move. Kevin couldn't stand the thought that it could have been him that gave the smart Ed such pain, no….it couldn't have been, call it favouritism but he would never hurt Double D….just Eddy, wait…..was it Eddy? If it was then Kevin was going to have words…violent words.

'What happened to him? Why would someone do that?' Kevin had never thought so hard on a non-school day before, 'I'll have to ask the dor- I mean Double D when he finally wakes up', happy with his plan, he walked into the kitchen to get something to eat.

"WHERE'S DOUBLE D, EDDY?" Ed couldn't take it any longer, he missed his best friend and couldn't wait to show him his new comic 'night of the brain eating cupcakes',

"Ed, you don't have to yell…I'm standing right here", Eddy was getting frustrated with Ed's constant yelling, as soon as Edd took off, Eddy had dragged Ed back to his house. This resulted in Ed tearing the house apart in an attempt to find his lost friend,

"why did he leave, Eddy? Ed is sad without Double D", Eddy rolled his eyes at Ed's pouting and tearful face,

"I don't see why he's so uptight about his hair, I mean it looks nice…why hide it?", Ed looked thoughtful for a split second before answering the question Eddy had asked to himself,

"maybe he's is hiding it because he doesn't want the aliens from the planet Zomborg to suck the jello from hi-", Ed get cut mid ramble by a heavy book to the face, the bigger boy just laughed,

"when we find Double D can we all go get some chickens?", Eddy, once again rolled his eyes,

"sure lumpy….why not".

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A few hours later, Edd opened his eyes and blinked, he quickly got up into a sitting position which he soon regretted as his head protested the quick and forceful movement. He looked around the unfamiliar surroundings,

"where am I? and what happened? Oh dear….", he then remembered that he didn't have his hat on, as the golden strands fell gracefully in front of his face, his clothes were still damp from the rain. Edd felt his heartbeat quicken, he had to get home now before anybody saw him like this. Carefully sneaking out of the room he found himself in a hallway, it was a nice little house. He quickly found the stairs and carefully stepped down one stair at a time to ensure that he didn't alert anyone still in the house, as he successfully descended to the bottom without a noise he made a quick dash to the front door, opening it and slamming it shut he immediately spotted his own house,

"but that means….isn't this Kevin's house?", the thought that Kevin, the one who hated the Eds so much, had took him into his house and took care of him in his time of need didn't scare far as much as the fact that Kevin saw…he knew, what would he think of Double D now? His heart dropped at the thought that Kevin might think less of him…if that was even possible. As soon as he was about to make a mad dash to his house and seek sanctuary, he saw someone running towards him at top speed out of the corner of his eye.

"DOUBLE D! finally I found you! Eddy said 'Ed, you find sock-head so we can make cash and stop eating my potatoes!'", Ed picked up his smaller friend into a bone breaking hug. Gasping for breath, Edd just smiled and patted Ed on the top of his head,

"I'm not doing anything for Eddy until he apologises to me for what he did, the least he could do is give me my hat back", Ed looked confused for a minute before replying,

"but Double D….you look pretty without your hat", Edd blushed, pretty? Really?

"T-thank you...Ed, I don't know what to say… It hurts that Eddy would do that to me, even when I asked him to stop", Ed's bottom lip trembled as Edd went on, his bright blue eyes filling with tears, Ed did the only thing he could do, he brought his friend into a gentle hug. Kevin watched the scene unfold before him, standing in the doorway his heart ached at the fact that Edd was so upset and it wasn't him that was comforting him, even so, the scene was very touching.

"I try to do my best so that you and Eddy will be happy….but it's never enough for Eddy. I hate that we have to do what he wants everyday, I just wish we could be normal", Edd clung desperately on to Ed's shirt, soaking it with tears, Ed didn't care; Double D was sad and he was going to do everything he could to make it better.

Kevin, who had remained un-noticed, felt a slight wetness on his cheek; wiping it away quickly, he coughed, making his presence finally known. Both of the Eds quickly looked at him, Ed smiled goofily, while Edd turned away, his cheeks burning with embarrassment.

"Hiya, Kevin! Have you came to play ring around the marshmallows?", Kevin cocked an eyebrow and shook his head,

"I actually wanted to talk to Double D privately for a minute", Ed just continued smiling as Kevin took a hold of Edd's wrist and pulling him back into his house,

"oh….and tell Eddy that Double D doesn't want to know and that he's a dork, ok?", Ed nodded,

"gotcha Kevin! The gravy train had departed!", and with a new found purpose, he ran off down the street towards Eddy's house.

Kevin sat Edd down on the couch and took a seat next to him, "glad to see you're finally awake, here…let me clean you up a little", Edd trembled slightly as Kevin wiped his face with a small towel, he was half scared that Kevin might suddenly turn and beat him in to next week and the other half was a strange feeling, it was making his cheeks go many shades of red, which didn't go un-noticed by Kevin, who just smirked.

Kevin couldn't help but touch Edd's hair, it was so soft and silky. Behind that beautiful hair were scared blue eyes, but they held something else in them, something he couldn't quite read. Looking down Edd's face, past his red hot cheeks, past his cute nose were his lips, Kevin suddenly felt very hot, he had the urge to bring his head forward and press his lips onto Edd's and kiss him like no tomorrow. It was when Edd opened his mouth to talk that Kevin saw that cute little gap in his teeth that he had had enough, he brought his face close to Edd's and brushed their lips together, Edd's blue eyes went wide and his stomach did several back flips, his mind was screaming no, but his heart was screaming yes even louder. Edd was about to inch forward when he caught something move out of the corner of his eye. Kevin, having saw this too, stood up and scowled,

"get out of my house, dork!", Eddy, who looked infuriated, simply glared from Edd to Kevin and back again,

"Don't want to know….huh Double D?, Edd, for the second time that day, ran away.

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Oh God! D:

I can't believe it took so long to write something so short and…not so good.

Hope this chapter was worth the wait ^_^'