It's Friday, and school has already let us out for the weekend. Kids run cheering about what plans they have as I wait for Lee and May so that we can walk home. They come about five minutes later and we start to head for the trailer park, but Lee points at the Eds who are standing around chatting.
"There's our men!" She yells and runs after Eddy, May following her lead. The Eds stand there as if stunned with horrified expressions on their faces. Ed starts running in a circle with May chasing after him while Lee has already tackled Eddy and has begun smothering him with kisses.
I look over to Double D who is cowering in fear. He realizes after a while that he's not being attacked by me, and looks around cautiously. Having made eye contact with me, he looks away. Sensing he's still not going to be attacked he look back at me again, and this time I turn my head away. I peek at him out of the corner of my eye and he's got the most adorable puzzled look on his face. It makes me want to giggle, but I can't give the plan away so I just continue to ignore him.
Ed and Eddy finally manage to escape from my sisters and they run towards their cul-de-sac screaming. Double D gives me one last confused look, and then goes after the two.
"Well, that was fun," Lee states. "C'mon, girls, let's go home."
I can't believe it! It actually worked! I run to my room and throw myself on the bed, hugging my pillow with excitement. Reverse psychology actually worked on Double D! If he didn't care, he wouldn't have kept looking back at me. Boy, I wish I had thought of this sooner.
On Saturday Lee and May decided it would be fun to go down to the creek since the days were starting to get warm. There's really nothing better to do around this dump, so I tag along.
Of course when we get there, who should we find but the Eds. It seems they're helping Eddy devise another one of his stupid scams, which the neighborhood kids actually still fall for. Jeez, Eddy's already sixteen; shouldn't he get a job or something if he wants to make money so badly? Shaking my head at the thought, my sisters yelled gleefully when they saw the Eds too.
"Oh crap," Eddy said quietly as Lee pounced on him. Ed actually was able to outrun May, but then slammed into a tree where she caught him and kissed him. Double D didn't huddle into a little ball like the last time, but he still looked nervous.
Pretending to ignore the whole scene, I took off my shoes and socks, rolled up my pants, and dipped my feet into the cool creek water. I looked up at the clouds calmly, then slyly looked at Double D. Again, he had a confused expression on his face, but it looked mixed with…annoyance? I didn't see any reason for him to be irritated, but it sure did look like he was.
He came a little closer to me as if to make himself known, but I continued to ignore him. A few minutes passed, though they seemed like hours, and Double D was still looking at me. He ignored his friends' cries of help as they continued to get smooched. He suddenly cleared his throat and I turned my head.
"Yes?" I lifted one of my eyebrows.
"You're not attacking me."
Thank you, Captain Obvious. Although Double D was very smart, he sounded pretty stupid right now.
"Nope," I simply replied to him.
He paused for a while. "Why?"
"Don't feel like it."
He didn't say anything else after that, but remained glued to the spot.
"Bye, boys," Lee yelled suggestively after them, as Ed and Eddy managed to escape once more, covered in kiss-marks.
"You should probably go after your friends," I told Double D as he snapped out of his little trance of trying to figure out why I wasn't all over him.
He ran after them in fear as he saw my sisters coming towards me, thinking they might attack him instead.
"What's up with you?" May asked sitting next to me and sticking her feet into the creek too.
"Nothing," I replied.
"It's her little psychotic stuff she's up to, May," Lee explained. "She thinks it'll actually work, but all she's doing is missing out on the fun of kissing her man!"
May laughed along with Lee. My poor, idiotic sisters. I really wish they wouldn't think that acting the way they do now will get them any closer to the Eds. I almost felt sorry for them, but since they were laughing at me, it didn't bother me too much.
"I'm going home," I announced as they were swimming in the creek in their underwear. They didn't respond so I just put my shoes back on and headed for the Park n' Flush. Walking through the woods, I smiled. This plan was working out better than I had expected. Double D was more interested in me than ever, even if it was just because I hadn't attacked him in a while.
As I passed through some trees surrounding a clearing, I heard someone talking. Hiding behind a tree, I peeked at the clearing to see Double D sitting on a log talking to himself.
"I just don't understand it! Why did she stop all of a sudden? More importantly, why do I care?" Double D sounded frantic and confused. Cute as ever! I couldn't help but let out a giggle, and he sat up straight, alerted by the noise.
"Oh crap," I whispered to myself. He totally heard me!
Double D looked around, then said to himself, "Must've been my imagination."
I quietly and carefully walked away from the clearing, not wanting to blow my cover. If he saw me, he'd probably think I was still after him and then the whole plan would be shot to hell. That was something I just couldn't bear to let happen. I was already so close.
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