CHAPTER 3
(ED'S P.O.V)
"HOLY MOLY!, EDD SMACKED MARIE KANKER IN THE FACE!." THIS WAS TURNING OUT TO BE A HECK OF A SUMMER!.
Finally Edd had grown a backbone, considering he never had one. Talk about unexpected!. As for the blue haired succubus, she was too stunned to react. The only reaction she managed to show, was her face going red with embarrassment. "Uh Eddy," I suddenly whispered partially covering my mouth so that Edd would not hear me.
"Aren't you going to say something?." Eddy whose eyes had grown to the size of saucers, and his jaw dropping to his feet, hadn't gotten over the shock of seeing Edd smack Marie. Edd then abruptly turned and walked away still fuming with anger. Eddy and I followed behind in silence. "Eddy you really aren't going to say anything?," I asked again.
"Shut up Ed," Eddy whispered back. Eddy was no longer stunned by Edd's action, but was rather uncertain and silent. We had soon made it back to the creek, where the rest of the cul-de-sac was still enjoying themselves. Sarah and Jimmy were lying in the shade, while Rolf , Johnny and Carl were swimming in the water. Kevin was playing with his soccer ball on the sand.
I watched as Edd had approached Kevin.
"I WANT IN." Edd said with not a trace of humour in his voice. "In?," Kevin echoed expressed genuine confusion for a moment. "Dude that's awesome," Kevin responded as his face quickly turned to realization. "On one condition," Edd stated. "If I join you in taking down Carl, you have to allow May to come to all your social activities."
"You got yourself a deal. How 'bout we continue to discuss this later. I don't know if Nazz told you guys but we decided to keep a Bonfire here at the creek tonight starting at 10pm. There's gonna be food, drinks and music, as we reminisce about our childhood. Carl, Jimmy and the girls won't be joining us till the next hour or so. Said they got some girl stuff to do.
That gives us enough time to discuss our plans without interruption." "Yes that can work." Edd stated agreeing with Kevin's plans. "What an interesting turn of events this day has turned out to be," I interrupted Kevin and Edd's conversation. "Shut up Ed," Eddy told me, as he walked past me to the water.
(SARAH'S P.O.V)
"Keep still Sarah or your nail polish will smudge," Nazz warned as she painted my left big toe in bright red. I glanced down at my watch to see it was only 10pm. Within the next hour we would be at the Bonfire. I was definitely looking forward to this event.
There was something about Peach Creek that made me nostalgic. When thinking about the past, it somehow made me confident and hopeful for the future. After all Peach Creek wasn't just some boring old residential area, but a very unique place to live.
No matter where I go Peach Creek will always have a special place in my heart. Next year I was going to be thirteen years old, and to be honest I was nervous as hell. I was finally going to be a teenager, however I knew with that came a lot of changes. There were somethings I wasn't ready to think about. Which is why the Bonfire was the perfect thing I needed right now.
"I'll be right back Sarah," Nazz said getting up and headed towards her bedroom door. As Nazz opened it Carl appeared. "Carl where's Jimmy?, I thought you guys were working on some paintings?." Nazz inquired genuinely surprised. "We were," Carl responded. "But we decided to take a break for a while. Anyway, Jimmy just left to go for more paintbrushes at his house."
"Well I'm just going to check the chicken in the oven." "I could keep Sarah company while you're downstairs." "That's sweet of you Carl what do you say Sarah?," Nazz asked me grinning from ear to ear. "Sure," I shrugged. I noticed for a while all the guys except Jimmy were keeping their distance from Carl. I don't know what happened, but something was definitely up.
As I eyed Carl who closed Nazz's bedroom door quietly, and approached the bed I was sitting on, I began to wonder about him. When it came to Carl I didn't know what to think. There was a big question mark when it came to him. There was something about his shrewd eyes, and his trusting smile that made me think twice about him.
"Now that I've got the opportunity," Carl began to say, as he grinned brightly. "I wanted to say thank you for making me feel welcome, considering that some of your friends don't like me." "Why'd you think they don't like you?," I said playing dumb. "Well…" Carl said, as his gaze dropped to his feet. "Kevin picked on me so there's that, then Eddy keeps glaring at me every time I talk to you-."
Carl paused as I giggled upon hearing about Eddy. "You can't hold that against Eddy, if he's not the centre of attention then he gets like that." "I suspect that it's more than that Sarah," Carl stated staring at me. I shifted uncomfortably now.
WHAT THE HELL WAS CARL GETTING AT?.
"I didn't want to say anything, but now it's out in the open I overheard Rolf talking to Edd and Edd admitted that Eddy had a crush on you."
OH MY GOD…
I KNEW IT…
For some reason I was relieved at hearing this, because I felt the same way about Eddy. I was just too chicken to tell him. "But," Carl began to say again. "He would never admit it to you, because he's in love with Nazz."
"WHAT!," I practically screamed jumping up from the bed. "Promise me you won't tell Nazz that I told you this," Carl's voice dropped to a whisper. "Nazz doesn't know, and I don't want to create any problems between Nazz, Kevin, and Eddy." "Sure no problem," I responded bitterly.
BOY DO I FEEL LIKE A FOOL…
Since the beginning of this summer Eddy has been trying to get in good graces with me. Having figured out that he had a crush on me, I decided to play it cool, and see what he would do next. Confident that sooner or later it would lead to a confession from him.
Somehow the opposite happened. Instead of being open with me, he suddenly became very hesitant, and reserved when it came to me. To be honest I was confused and a little hurt at the sudden withdrawal.
NOW EVERYTHING MADE SENSE…
This was what was keeping Eddy from making a move. The real question was:
WHAT WAS I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?...