A/N: The second, and last, chapter for Edd has been posted! I don't think that this one is as great as chapter one, but I hope that you all will prove me wrong! I would also like to clarify how this story works, as there seems to have been some confusion. I will be posting two chapters for each character, all in this story. When I do each character twice, I might start to go back and re-do them, but I haven't actually gotten that far. Enjoy!

1. Brave -

Through out his life, Edd has been the butt of many jokes. He has been picked on, bullied, and laughed at. Trampled and used and forgotten. And that is fine, or so he tells himself, because he knows he isn't brave enough to do anything to stop them. It gets worse when Edd gets into highschool. Then it isn't just Kevin who taunts him, but many others. And, still, Edd tells himself that it is fine. He deals with it quietly - until he steps outside of the school one day and sees someone, big and strong and a jock, shove Eddy. Hard enough for the other boy to hit the ground. Edd is not brave but he knows he can be quiet no longer.

2. Nightmare -

It's gym class and the coach has stepped outside for just a moment. Left the students to their game of dodgeball, because they are only first graders and it only makes since that they will behave and follow the rules. Coach Benson doesn't hear them start laughing but he does hear the shrill, high-pitched scream of a child in pain. By the time he gets in, Eddward is curled on the floor, clutching his arm. He is crying, sobbing, gasping for breath - and when he sits up in bed, tears running down his face and still trying to get air into his lungs, it's hard to know that it wasn't just a nightmare.

3. Listen -

He can hear them fighting again. Hear the screaming all the way across the street - raised voices and shouted insults and a loud crash as something glass shatters. Edd has never been able to figure out why he seems to be the only kid in the neighborhood to hear the arguements. But he is. And he tries not to listen, really he does, because he knows that it isn't his business and, were he in Kevin's place, he wouldn't want any one to know either. But he can't not hear the yelling. He can only try not to take Kevin's hostillity towards them the next day to heart.

4. Perfect -

"There." Edd says, setting the wrench down on the layer of newspaper spread out on the kitchen table. It has taken most of the day, and several large books borrowed from the library, but he has finally been able to get the kitchen sink to stop leaking. Just like his father asked him to. Make sure the kitchen is perfect, said the note. Eddward plans to do just that.

5. Follow -

It didn't take a genius to figure out that Eddy played a large part in Edd's social downfall. Yes, the behatted boy would never be popular. Would never be loved by his peers or adored by anyone but the teachers whose classes he aced. Still, it would always be the part he played in scams that ruined Edd's life and destroyed any chance he had of befriending his neighbors. Yet he would still follow Eddy, follow Ed, until the day they all split up. Because they were the closest to real family that he had.

6. Wonder -

Sometimes, the kids of the cul-de-sac wonder. They look at the fancy two story house on the other side of the street, the one with the purple front door and the always empty driveway, and they try to figure out what's so different about it. Why it stands out so much more than all the others. They look at the excessive amounts of cleaning supplies that Eddward brings home each week and stare at the bags of grocery he hauls into the house. Kevin watches him shop. Nazz looks on as he gathers the mail each morning, the paper each evening. Sarah watches as he tries to clean her older brothers room, asks him if his parents will worry about its state. Sometimes, the kids of the cul-de-sac wonder. They just never do anything to find out the truth.

7. Blue -

It's a bright Summer day in Peach Creek. The sun is shining and a gentle breeze blowing. Three days before school starts and the entire cul-de-sac is peaceful in a way that would normally set of alarms. But no one worries, no one peers around buildings before turning a corner, no one wonders where The Eds have gone. The three boys are down in the park, laying on the side of a dandelion covered hill, and staring up at the blue, blue sky. And, for a moment, everything is fine.

8. Repition -

Wake up. Get dressed. Read the new notes left by his parents, feel the ache in his chest grow and grow. Get breakfast. Clean the kitchen. Go outside. Talk to Ed and Eddy, make a scam and build something new. It goes wrong. Listen to the other kids laugh. Watch them point. Listen to Kevin's taunts, always hide how it hurts. Go home. Do chores. Go upstairs, and shower and lie and pretend that everything's alright. Get out. Get changed. Go to bed, and know that tomorrow will be exactly the same.

9. Wings -

Someone once said that 'A person is born to fly, to be free. A person is born with wings, just so they can reach their dreams.' Eddward has read this quote time and time again, in English class and in countless books he has gotten out of the library. And, now, he is expected to write a quote on it. On why he thinks the author wrote this, thought this, felt this, and why he thinks this is true. So Edd does. He sits down and writes two thousand words, all nothing but a lie. Because, he finds himself thinking time and time again, as he stares out the window and down from the roof and at the ground from the clubhouse he once built with Ed and Eddy, if a person were meant to fly then he would not be so tempted to do so.

10. Know -

As a child, Edd has gone through many things. He has been hated and lied to and abandoned. He has been forgotten and thrown aside and bullied. Edd has been loved and trusted and cared for. He has been remembered and picked up from the ground when he thought he was broken and protected. He is an adult now; fresh out of high school and headed for college. And, after all these years, Edd still knows the truth. Knows that it isn't just childish anger making him think this way. No. Eddward knows, with every fiber of his being, that it is Ed and Eddy who are his true family. They are the ones that would do everything for him and more.