Freshmen summer had allowed the Eds to catch up with each other and hang out like old times. But the start of the 2nd year of high school had started to drift them apart again. But no, not this time Edd refused to skip grades to stay with his friends much to the disappointment of his parents. Therefore, he was not going to allow their friendship to be strain. The opportunity to hang out together came on a Wednesday during lunch. Eddy walked to Edd's table.

"Double Dee." Said Eddy has he sat down in front of him. "Salutations, Eddy!" Replies Edd.

"Meeting at my house and bring the root beer."

"Can I inquire about the time?"

"7pm and don't be late."

"I would never."

"Whatever."

"Will Ed be in attendance?"

"Of course, Sock-head!" Replies Eddy as he gets up and leaves.

"Good-Bye, Eddy."

"See ya later."

'Getting to hang out like before has proven less challenging than I had previously calculated.'

Edd triple checks all of his homework then walks downstairs to gather up some root beer to take to Eddy's house. Then at exactly 7pm sharp knocks at Eddy's door. The door opens revealing Ed.

"Hello, Double Dee!" Ed yells excitedly as he hugs Edd and brings him inside.

"Greetings, Ed." Squeaks Edd as he is suffocated by Ed's hug.

"Put him down Lumpy." Yells Eddy from behind a table crowded with little figures and papers.

"Ok, Eddy." Replies Ed has he puts down Edd and takes the drinks from him.

"Greeting, Eddy. What's all of this?" Inquires Edd as he approaches the table.

"This is REVENGE! Ha-ha-ha!" Answers Eddy as he moves some toy pieces around on what looked like a poorly drawn map.

"I don't like the sound of that Eddy."

"Shut it Sock-head. He has it coming."

"Who?"

"Shovel Chin who else?"

"But why Eddy? He is no longer your enemy. After the whole thing with your big brother we all became friends."

"Friends? With Shovel Chin, NEVER! Anyway that jerk getting what he deserves. He thinks he is all that because his Captain of the Jug Heads. But we will see whose laughing in the end."

"Don't tell me you plan to pull one of your childish pranks on Kevin."

"Childish? No genius pranks, Double Dee. Mono-brow! Stop drinking all the root beer and get over here!"

"Alright Eddy." Responses Ed as he put down the almost empty bottle of root beer and runs towards Eddy and Edd.

"Listen closely," Eddy continues, "this is my SUPER genius plan."

'I know now the dangerous of standing too close. You don't get to see the big picture. You have to step back to see what you didn't know was there. I think that's how I got here?' This thought began to creep in Kevin's head as he stared out his window to Edd's house.

'It sucks when you think you like one person but your eyes are always searching for another. When exactly it started is debatable but the fact is that it already started these…feelings.' Kevin's cell phone starts to ring and he lazily walks over to the end table next to the couch to see whose calling. 'Nazz.' He seats himself on the couch and answers the phone.

"Hey, Nazz."

"Hey, Kev."

"What's up?"

"Nothing much broke up with my boyfriend and I am bored."

"About time I don't know why you were dating that loser."

"Come on Kev he wasn't a loser."

"Yea, he was. Better than some of the other losers you have dated but still a loser."

"Kev!"

"I would be much better than those guys." Kevin let slip soon regretting his words. There was a long silence then he adds. "Why didn't things work out between us, Babe?

There was another long pause followed by a sigh and finally Nazz said with a tone of sadness in her voice. "Kev the reason things never worked out between us is because you just like me not like me, like me. Every time you had a chance to assert your feelings you opted out and you always picked your bike over me."

"I was shy and a kid, you know how much that bikes means to me." Kevin retorts.

"No Kevin. Every time there was always something…or maybe evens someone else in the back of your mind."

Kevin's stomach tightens as if Nazz might have been correct in her suspicions. His mind started to race and for a while Kevin said nothing. Until finally Nazz broke the silence and elaborated: "Kevin I had liked you a lot through Junior High and even though I tried to ignore it. I noticed that your thoughts always seem to be elsewhere. I mean you would always complain about Eddy and his scams but it always seemed that you were mad at him for other reasons. I always thought you were jealous of him for some reason even though it was Eddy who had all the reasons to be jealous of you. You are the most popular guy, everyone likes you, you're cool, you had a garage full of jawbreakers and….and you had me. But even so you practically hate him and couldn't even give up calling him a dork. I always wanted to know Kevin what could Eddy possibly have that you don't?"

The answer popped instantly to his head but he couldn't bring himself to say it out loud. He was too proud to admit the truth. So instead he went with a half-truth and responded after a few moments of silence: "I don't know, Nazz"

"…I think you better figure it out."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because I know that it's eating you up inside."

"…"

"…Kev I just want you to know that I will always be by your side and we will always be the best of friends. If you ever need my support…I...I will always be there for you, dude."

"Thanks Nazz"

The conversation soon changed topics and they talked for another hour or two before they hanged up. Kevin put down the phone and walked to the window. He looked through his window and fixed his sight on Eddy's house. 'How could Nazz think I'm jealous of you? I mean just because…UGH! Its not fair, why couldn't I have met him first? Why you? I hate feeling this way .Damn it Double Dweeb!'

Edited: 10/2014