The day I left was the day I tried my best to say good bye to everyone. Only Ed was there, and every day since. He was my true friend. He would sit outside until I opened the door, he would smile and hug me and say "it is okay Double D". I would smile and pat his head.
He would sit with me as I looked through my college applications, he even said he would help me organize them.
Now everyone thinks Ed is stupid even his family truly believes this only no one has ever giving him the time to really see who he was. He might not be able to sit down and tell you how to solve a math question but his intelligence lies in his people skills. He knows how to comfort anyone, or help them when even they don't know what's wrong. He is also strong so strong it scared me at times when he was near.
It was one day that I decided that I would wait for Ed, it was pretty nice out I believe, though I started to use a umbrella being that my skin didn't take well to the sun's rays even with sun screen. Hearing a slam of a door I looked up, it was Kevin, he didn't seem to notice my stare. Though it was more of a glare.
He had his shoulders slumped, purple patches under each of his eyes with his nose taped up, his hat made the ugly coloring of his bruises to an even brighter shade. He was headed to his motorcycle when I saw Ed charge out of his house yelling my name. Kevin's head snapped up, our eyes meeting, smiling I used a gesture I have seen but never used before. A simple finger, the middle one to be exact. I could feel his displeasure even at this distance, it gave me Goosebumps. I never knew being "Bad" could be this good.
Ed turned around seeing who I was glancing at, he stopped and stared. Turning back to me he shook his head "Double D, you shouldn't use language like that."
Smiling up at him I made another decision that day "Ed? Call me Vincent please, that name brings up bad memories."
Nodding he giggled. Today wasn't going to be so bad.
It even got better from there, my acceptance letters came from everywhere. Although one caught my eye. It was somewhere in Oregon lovely place far from this peachy place. Ed was ecstatic he was going to miss me as I would miss him, but I have to move on.
I had even received blessings from mother and father, all expenses paid, along with an allowance that would last me years. They haven't been home since my graduation. Though that was celebrated alone, a cake placed on the counter, "you have made us proud." That was all it said, I cried harder than I ever had in my life.
But much like I am telling you now, it is in the past I am a new man. I live with my eccentric, vulgar roommate, and his boy toy. Never worrying for a job I wondered in to some bar, I was asked to be a lead singer for the entertainment. Let's just say me dressing as a girl didn't even seem to matter.
Getting this life started was easier than I thought, I lived like this singing, dating, living my life the way I wanted. That is until a red headed Twat showed up.