A/N: Please Excuse my French. It's been almost two years since I was in second year French in high school so I'm a bit rusty and if it's off then much apologies!
Rave woke up completely relaxed and not even slightly annoyed until he opened his eyes after hearing a small "ooouf!" Rave looked across the tent, slightly narrowing his eyes as he saw Nathan making a pained face while his phone sat splat in the middle of his face. Rave chuckled realizing the idiot had dropped his phone on his face and sat up in the bed. Nathan watched him stretch his arms and back while he yawned, Rave felt him watching him and turned to give him a very mean look.
"The fuck are you looking at, Goldberg?" Rave's words were filled with as much venom as he thought he could manage after waking up, which seemed to be enough once he made eye contact with Nathan and watched the smile falter a little on his face and his eye reciprocate the sadness that Rave knew he was feeling. But in the end, Nathan just smiled, the smile reaching his eyes.
"You look so cute, sleep head." Nathan cooed.
Rave laid back down, folding himself in the blanket like a burrito and faced Nathan. "I should have left while you were still sleeping." Rave muttered, snuggling against the pillows he had set up alongside himself last night.
"I thought you would have, truthfully. I'm very glad you didn't. I wanted to at least be able to make you breakfast." Nathan sat up, looking over at Rave carefully.
"'M not really all that hungry." Rave said, the growl from his stomach betraying him. He cursed himself out mentally as Nathan grinned like a goon.
"Your tummy tells me differently!" He cheered, getting off the bed and putting his shoes on. He opened the tent and left without saying anything to Rave, which kind of bothered him.
So, Rave being somewhat even more annoyed, he got out of the bed and put his shoes on as well and went outside to see Nat quietly sneaking into Kevin's tent. Rave followed, planning on pulling Nat out by his ear for invading people's privacy until he saw what happened inside.
Kevin and Edd were in one bed. Cuddling. Cuddling in one bed, together. Rave put a hand over his mouth to cover his smile and watched on as Nathan took several pictures from all angles. Kevin looked very protective over Edd and Rave felt happy for the dork. Even though he knew nothing of Edd's personal life, they only had small conversation in class. But Rave considered him okay enough to be an acquaintance and they looked so cute together. Kevin opened his eyes, staring right up at Nathan and tightened his arm around Edd. Kevin glared at Nathan until Rave pulled him by his ear out and saw Kevin snuggle up against Edd again.
"That was very intrusive of you, asshole." Rave muttered, pulling Nat by his ear up to his house.
Nazz's van was missing and it seemed the two girls and Rolf had cleared out. Which would make sense since it was almost 11:30 in the morning.
"They just looked so cute and Kevin will never ever admit it to Edd so I'm just gathering evidence until I have to tell Double Cutie myself." Nathan winced as rave twisted his ear before letting him go in the foyer. Rave didn't like Nathan calling anyone else those annoying nick names but him and he would be damned if Nathan ever fucking knew that.
Nathan walked into the rather large kitchen, addressing the two maids making food, Rave narrowed his eyes at the fact that he had women working for him. But Nathan spoke to them in French, a language Rave hadn't been able to grasp yet.
"Bonjou! Il a une odeur delicieuse! Je vous remercie de cette fixation jusqu'a si court preavis!" Nathan turned to Rave. "James, juice, coffee or tea?"
"Black tea, please. S'il vous plait." Rave turned to the two women, even though they didn't understand the first part they nodded.
"Would you like any eggs?" Nathan sounded like a completely different person.
"Uh, can I just have two pieces of toast?" Rave didn't think he could raise his eyebrows more than they were already raised.
Nat told the women what he would eat and explained that Rave was very petite and would settle for something small. The women gave Rave a sad look, looking gently between the two boys as Nat moved closer to him.
"Vous lui tenir trop mince, Monsieur Goldberg!" The woman gave him a hard glare, thinking about how the other people that stayed the night with Nathan were always very hungry in the morning, before smiling at Rave and turning her back.
"What did she say?" Rave crossed his arms, deciding if he should feel offended or nonchalant.
"She said you're too skinny." He laughed, proving a point by being able to grab Rave's hip in between his thumb and pointer finger.
Rave pushed Nathan's hand off him and sat at the bar while the other lady served his tea.
Back in the tent Kevin woke up to Edd waking up. Neither of them moved right at first, Kevin snuggling a little tighter before hearing the other boy sigh then become really tense. He heard Edd suck in a deep breath before letting go and turning his back on the boy to make it seem like he was still sleeping, just getting comfortable again.
Edd scooted across the bed, away from Kevin and Kevin could practically hear the blush come from Edd.
He opened his eyes and sat up on the bed and rubbed his face.
"Good morning, Kevin." Edd almost whispered, still not looking at him.
"Good morning, dork." Kevin chuckled. "Sorry if I cuddled ya and you felt uncomfortable, it's a habit of mine." It really wasn't. Kevin never cuddled, not even with Nazz. Not even with a pillow or stuffed animal as a child.
"That's quite alright Kevin. No harm no foul." Edd smiled wryly trying to get rid of the fact that he was indeed uncomfortable talking about it now.
Kevin and Edd made their way to Nat's house talking about Rolf and laughing as they entered.
"Good morning Rave! And Nat!" Edd cheered, glad to see Rave stuck around after all.
The surprise was evident on both their faces, Nathan completely happy that Rave was here, Rave looking completely nonchalant about everything like this was not supposed to be a surprising event that Rave was sitting in someone else's kitchen drinking black tea and eating toast while watching the news on the flat screen in the corner of the room.
But Rave was also surprised, so he understood.
After everyone ate and fell into an awkward silence Rave spoke. "Edd, do you need a ride home?"
Edd nodded. "That would be very appreciated Rave, thank you very much." Edd noticed out of the corner of his eye he saw Kevin nodding too, as if also saying thank you to Rave.
"Nat, is it cool if I chill for a while? No one's home and I wanna waste some time before I go back." Nat nodded, drinking his orange juice and studying Rave's face.
"Okay, well, bye." Rave stood, grabbing Edd by the wrist and hauling ass to the front door.
"Bye, Kevin! Thank you very much for the enjoyable evening and lovely breakfast Nat!"
"BYE DOUBLE CUTIE. TALK TO YOU LATE PRINCESS."
Kevin rolled his eyes and shortly waved while the two boys were still in sight.
Once in Rave's car, where Rave could relax and not have to worry about trying to keep up with what Edd was talking about, since Edd didn't want to really talk as well, they drove into the cul-de-sac. It was mere seconds before Edd got out of the car that Rave spoke to him.
"Listen, you pull any shit like that on me again and I will fucking murder you, bring you back to life and kill you again." Rave's voice was normal but his eyes held anger and something else? Edd didn't try to decipher the boy's attitude.
"I just wanted you to have a night to enjoy, is all really." Edd shrugged, leaning out of the car.
"Well it looked like you enjoyed your night a little bit more than anyone else fucking did." Rave smirked.
"W-what are you talking about?" Edd blushed.
"Nat was sneaking into your tent and I followed him to usher him out, because privacy you know? But when I walked in Kevin was so wrapped around you I couldn't even fucking see you." Rave narrowed his eyes at the memory.
"Well, I don't know what that was about. I was asleep so I did not condone it. But thank you for the concern, James! I hope your night with Nathan was quite enjoyable. I shall talk to you soon." With that Edd closed the car door and waved as he turned his back and walked up to his house.
Back in Nathan's kitchen, Kevin groaned.
"He's just too cute not to cuddle, I get it Kev, but come on dude. Don't be a poopoo head, alright? You can't get mad if he gets weirded out because he doesn't know what's going on like you do. I mean it's obvious to everyone except you two that you two are into each other..." He thought for a minute, listening to Kevin's heavy breathing as he tried to clear the blush from his face. "I got it. We need a vacation! I'll talk to Nazz to get everyone on board- those who can at least put $250 down to help out at least. We could go to an island! Oooooh! Let's go to Florida! I've always wanted to go! We could go to Marco Island, I've heard it was very classy and calm. Perfect for our vacation! I'll plan everything out with Nazz and configure my spending. I don't expect you people to just have money for a flight there and back and vacation money handy so let me figure it out. You get Double Cutie Booty on board and then I'll take care of the rest." Nat grinned, knowing Kevin hated anything that had to do with money, especially Nat spending and excess of it just for him.
"Nat, no. You're not wasting money on me or any one else. We can just go to the beach here and have a fun beach day, a stay-cation. No money spent and everyone is happy." Nat just nodded his head no.
"I'm not doing this just for you Kevin. I'm doing this for US, Buddy!" Nat smirked, imaging Rave staying in a house with him and everyone else, sleeping in the same bed as him only inches apart from touching each other.
"what the fuck ever man, just make sure that everyone knows this was not my fucking idea." Kevin grumbled.
Kevin and Edd met for lunch the next day at a small private diner that Edd had picked out. It was very calm, slight music playing in the background as the two boys ate silently. Edd settled for a pasta dish and Kevin for a burger.
"You know, all the grease in that will probably be the cause of your death Kevin." Edd said after Kevin ordered but Kevin just smiled, appreciating the concern written all over the smaller boy's face.
"Oh please, if a burger kills me then I died eating what I love." Edd shook his head, giving up on his lecture completely.
"Anyways, there's something I wanna talk to you about." Kevin became serious and Edd's heartbeat picked up.
"Yes?" Edd swallowed, watching Kevin look everywhere but at him.
"Nat decided on planning a vacation for everyone and he wants me to bring you. The other two dorks already agreed and so has Nazz. I just wanted to see if you're actually interested."
"Vacation? To where?" Edd paled a little, Ed and Eddy had already agreed? Neither of them had asked him, then again, he hasn't seem them since the bonfire last night.
"Marco Island, Florida." Kevin spat, sounding sour but giving the dork a hopeful smile.
"I've been there! It's very nice. The people are humble and the island stays busy. I would like to go again..." He bit his lip. "But I have no money to spend on air travel and lodging and anything else for that matter. I could probably pay for food for a week, but I don't know how long that would last between everyone and-"
"Dork. Stop. Nat is paying for us. He said he'd pay for you, me, Nazz and Rave. But everyone else has to pay for themselves. Eddy is being paid for by his mom since Sarah got wind of the plans and forced her mom to pay for her and Jimmy to go. Rolf and Ed have their shit figured out already. It basically was just left up to you to complete the circle." Kevin smiled genuinely.
"I don't understand why Nathan is being so gracious but I guess instead of questioning it I'll take the offer. Thank you for passing along the invitation, Kevin." Edd blushed slightly, making a mental note to talk to Nathan later.
"Great! We leave tomorrow."
"Oh my goodness, this is such short notice! I've got to head home and prepare myself." Edd threw money down on the table for his half of the food and said goodbye to Kevin.
Kevin was so fucking happy that he would be getting time to spend with the dork. Especially out of both of their comfort zones.