Author's Note: Oh my gosh...it has been hectic for me lately...still dealing with stuff which I wish I wasn't... But I managed to get this chapter done too and at least I know what I want for chapter 8 :)
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Ch. 7: Maybe, Just Maybe...
Before they even knew what was happening, all the cul-de-sac college kids found themselves in their second month of school; everything was going by so quickly. Edd loved all his classes, not surprising to anyone really, and was already getting good marks on assignments. He knew it'd be a big jump from high school to college, and he had been warned that many good students falter on their first semester, but being him, he was confident on his abilities to succeed right away…or so he had hoped. The jump hit him too, not as hard as it might have with others, but he faltered as well. He was glad that he was starting to get the hang of it; no way was he going to mess up his first semester and sacrifice his scholarship.
What happened the weekend Kevin had asked Edd to go to his place for a movie night, you may be asking yourselves? Well, nothing much to be quite honest with you. Both boys became hyperaware of themselves and each other once they found themselves wrapped up in the fluffy, blue blanket again. As for homework, Edd did end up having to help Kevin with most of it, but lucky for him Kevin was a fast learner once you found a good way to explain things to him; plus practice…lots, and lots, and LOTS of repetition.
Kevin decided that maybe it'd be a good idea for him to have Edd's constant help if he wanted to pass the class, so he bashfully proposed to Edd that whenever he has an upcoming project or midterm, that Edd would help, and of course, the little genius couldn't say no – not like he would've anyway.
Being mid October already, the winds were chillier, the rains were more often, and the leaves on the ground were crunchier. Autumn wasn't Double D's favorite season, because along with the wind, and the rain, and the crunchy leaves, it also brought germs, more germs, and of course more germs which caused half of the population to get a cold or even a flu. On the other hand, he liked the sweater weather, the pumpking and apple pies, and of course, Halloween.
Double D had stopped trick-or-treating when he was around 13, but that didn't stop him and his best friends from enjoying the festivities. They'd go over to one of their houses – They took turns every year – and watch scary movie marathons, and eat candy like there was no tomorrow; when they were 15, Eddy got 2 cavities from all the sweets, but he and Ed were spared from a painful visit to the dentist.
"This will be my first Halloween away from home…I wonder what I'll do…perhaps I could meet up with Ed and Eddy!... if they aren't too busy with school…which I sincerely hope they ARE keeping up with." Double D furrowed his brows and sighed.
It was a Saturday morning, and Double D was in his bed doing some research for his English class on Wednesday. He was researching the works of William Shakespeare, for a short essay he had to write on A Midsummer Night's Dream for the poetry section they were studying, when his phone came to life next to him, distracting him from his readings.
"Hello? Eddward speaking."
"HI DOUBLE DEEEEE!"
"Hello Ed! Wasn't expecting any calls. How are you?"
"DOUBLE D, CAN EDDY AND I GO THERE?"
"What? Go where? Here?"
"YES THERE! WE'RE COMING TO VISIT!"
"N-now?!"
Just then he heard knocking on his door and he quickly turned his head towards it. 'Oh goodness…'
He could hear his friend giggling on the other end of the phone, and he got out of bed to open the door, expecting to find his friends and being dogpiled to the floor. Despite the suddenness of the visit, Double D couldn't help but get excited at the thought that he'd get to properly interact with Ed and Eddy again.
He twisted the knob on the door, opened it, and partially stepped outside into the hallway, but no one was there. 'That's…odd.'
He turned on his heel and re-entered his room, speaking into the phone once more, "Ed when exactly are you coming over to visit? Do you guys even remember what building or room or even floor?...Hello?...Ed?"
Right when he hung up the phone, he heard loud, rapid, thumping footsteps coming from the hallway, but before he could even react and turn to close his door, his body was tackled to the floor and two laughing masses crushed him from above.
"DOGPILE!"
"How ya been sockhead?"
"I might be able to answer you once I'm able to properly breathe again!"
Eddy snickered, but proceeded to stop sitting on Ed and at the top of their dogpile, taking Ed by the collar of his signature, green jacket and dragging him up too.
Edd weakly got back up and took a deep breath before looking at his friends who had now invaded his room and were investigating every inch of it.
"Shit Double D! these dorms are pretty nice…even got your own bathroom eh? Lucky butt. I gotta share mine with lumpy over here and you wouldn't believe how hard it is to keep it relatively clean with this guy."
"Aw c'mon Eddy! I'm the best roomie ever! Besides I barely use the bathroom in the first place unless nature calls!"
Double D bit the bottom of his lip and narrowed his eyes at his tall friend, 'Lord, tell me he is at LEAST showering once a week…I beg of you.'
"Eddy's like a girl anyway!"
"SAY WHAT NOW?!"
Ed laughed and patted the top of Eddy's head, turning to Double D as he spoke, "He takes FOREVER in there; sometimes it's as if an aquatic alien came out of the shower or sink, touching him and therefore transforming him into a water-alien too, and then he drags him down the drain into their spaceship in the sewers!... but then he comes back like 2 hours later."
"THAT WAS ONCE! Besides, you need to take your time if you wanna look as good as I do." Answered Eddy with a smug smile and slowly moving his hands from the top of his head and down, as if showing himself off.
All Edd could do now was laugh at his friends' interactions; even the dogpile was happily nostalgic. Eddy walked over to where Edd was standing and put an arm around his shoulder a tad awkwardly, since he was still the shortest of the three.
"Okay Double D, whattaya wanna do today? Pick up chicks? Go to a bar? An arcade? Triple date?"
"I didn't really plan anything, Eddy. You DID just show up here."
"Well think of something!"
Edd was about to answer with a grumble when his phone began to ring again.
"Hello? Eddward speaking?"
"Hey dork."
"Oh, hello Kevin!"
"KEVIN?! WHY DOES SHOVEL-CHIN HAVE YOUR NUMBER?!" The moment Kevin heard the voice that haunted his childhood his nose cringed and he stuck out his tongue.
"Dorky's here?..."
"WHO YOU CALLIN DORKY? BOXHEAD!"
"EDDY, DESIST! GET OFF ME!" Edd and Eddy found themselves fighting for ownership of Edd's cellphone for some reason. Kevin and Edd were friends now, and it was a fact Eddy would have to learn to tolerate sooner or later, preferably sooner.
"HI KEVIN!" In the end it was Ed who swiftly grabbed the cellphone and put it against his ear.
"Uh, yeah, hi Ed….listen can you just give me Double Dork back?...I-I MEANT SO SAY LIKE…CAN YOU JUST GIVE HIM HIS FUCKING PHONE BACK?!"
"Oki dokes Kevin." Eddy lunged at Ed, attempting to get the phone back, but Ed easily held him back with his free hand as he gave the phone to Double D, "Eddy don't be rude! Kevin wants to talk to Double D, not you. Here ya go Double D."
"Thank you Ed,"
"Double Dork?"
"Yes…I guess."
"Finally! Okay, so…there's gonna be a Halloween party being organized by some of the student unions, and I was wondering if maybe you uhm…if you wanted to come with?"
"A Halloween party? Well…I suppose if I do not have any homework or studying to do it should be fine."
"Party?! WHEN?"
Double D turned his head to face his now curious friend, "Well it is a Halloween party Eddy, so my guess would be it lands on…you know…Halloween." Edd answered, raising an eyebrow at Eddy.
"Cut the attitude sockhead! WHERE? I'M COMING."
"WHAT?!" Kevin was not at all pleased with the idea.
"Kevin please, you just yelled right into my ear…"
"Oh...sorry… do dorky and dorkzilla really have to come though?"
"Well that depends; if it's an open event and not just for PCU students, and if they wish to come, then I don't see a problem with it. They're my best friends."
"Yeah, yeah, I know…Dorky though?"
"Kevin!"
"OKAY! Whatever…but you will come right? I'll see you there? Nat and Nazz were thinking of doing our costumes together, so if you wanna join us that'd be cool too."
"NOPE! HE'S COMING WITH US!" Eddy grabbed the phone from Edd's hands while his guard was down.
"Says who?!"
"ME!" And with that Eddy ended the phone call before Kevin could even get a word out.
Upstairs Kevin was fuming as he stared at his phone, as if it were Eddy's own face. "Who does this kid think he is? He doesn't own Double D! So what if they're best friends? I'm Edd's friend too! Tch!...I'll just text the dweeb later…waaayyy later." With a huff, he got out of bed and got dressed to meet up with Nazz.
It had been a long time since he saw his old friend, but finally they're schedules were going in their favor and both of them had some free time. They had agreed to meet each other at a café near campus. On his motorcycle it took Kevin about 15 minutes to get there, and lucky for him he didn't have to wait for her because she was already there.
"Kevin!" The blonde called her friend from her seat near the window when she looked up and saw Kevin enter the café.
"Yo Nazz, how you been?" Kevin took the seat opposite of hers and made himself comfortable.
"Good, good! School's getting SO hard though! We're focusing on duck at the moment, which I've never cooked in my life, and it's actually really hard to get it perfectly right! How about you? What's new?"
"I'm fine too I guess, school's alright, practices are tougher, but I'm alive." He chuckled. "And I'm dorming in the same building as Nat and Double D, but they're downstairs."
"Awesome! How are they? I haven't seen Double D since forever!"
"Same ol' same ol'. Nat's still a royal pain in the butt, but he's my pain in the butt, and Double Dweeb hasn't changed much either."
"Still got his beanie on?"
"Yeup." Just then the waitress arrived to take their orders, "Hi, uhh, can I get a uhh…actually just a regular coffee with cream is fine."
"I'll have a chai latté thank you." The waitress wrote down their orders and went on her way, leaving them on their own again. "So there's really nothing interesting going on?"
"Well…"
"Do tell!" She giggled.
"I didn't even say anything!"
"But you said "well" meaning there IS something, obviously!"
"Alright…well…I guess there is some stuff. Nat has a crush, a real crush."
"Aww! I'm happy for him! How long has it been?"
"A while now. He doesn't want to tell me who it is; instead he's playing a guessing game with me…so every time he talks to the guy or hangs out with him and doesn't fuck up, he tells me something about him."
"What have you gotten so far?"
"Dark hair, really smart, and cute." Kevin sighed, "How am I supposed to guess who it is from that?! I guess eventually I'll know though…Nat's pretty set on succeeding with this guy, and they seem to be good friends already."
'Oh. My. GOD!...could it be?!' Nazz bit her bottom lip in an attempt to not let her guess just shoot out of her into the open; lucky for her, Kevin didn't notice her reaction. "It's a mystery alright. How 'bout you?"
"Me? I don't like anyone…at least, I don't think I do."
"You don't THINK you do? Well this is a story I gotta hear!"
"I don't know…like…I've been getting close to this person recently, and I've come to learn that they're actually pretty cool and I like being around them…but…I see them more as a little brother you know? And I-"
"WOAH WOAH WOAH BACK UP THERE BUDDY…brother?! As in, a BOY?" Nat covered her mouth as her eyes widened.
"SHH! NAZZ! Ugh…yes…a boy. It's a fucking guy."
"Since when do you-"
"I DON'T KNOW…I still like girls but I guess something about him got my attention too…"
"So you DO know you like him?" Nazz lowered her hand and her spreading grin became visible to the redhead in front of her, which made him pink in embarrassment.
"I uh…well…no! I mean…maybe…I don't know what I feel towards him…I've never liked a guy before, and they're…I just became actual friends with him, and it's…it's weird."
"Describe them."
"What?"
Nazz was about to speak again when the waitress came back to their table with their hot drinks; they thanked her and continued their conversation.
"Describe them to me. What you think of them."
"Oh, uhh…well, they're like a little brother to me. He's smart, really smart…hmm…he can get a little sassy and proud at times…he's actually pretty cool once you get to know him, but he's nothing like me…uhm…oh, whenever he gets shy or nervous he starts to fidget with his hands or something, and this one time when he was helping me with French homework we were eating ice-cream and he accidentally got some on his nose, and it was really amusing to see him all cross-eyes trying to see the spot of ice-cream on his nose, and he actually tried to lick it off but he couldn't reach. It made me laugh a lot, cuz it's not something I would've expected of him of all people. He's pretty chill too, but he can get strict when it comes to school; that can get annoying, but I won't deny he's been my saving grace for passing my French class and helping me stay in the baseball team. Oh an this other time…"
Nazz smiled as she heard Kevin go on and on about this secret boy, and she could see his eyes slowly starting to glaze in an endearing way. Kevin was gone, far gone, just like Nat seemed to be. After a few minutes Kevin realized he hadn't shut up for a while, and made eye contact with Nazz, who just smiled at him knowingly. He cleared his throat and rubbed the back of his neck as a bright blush colored his cheeks and nose. "W-what?" He asked.
"You liiiiiiike him."
"What? What makes you say that?! I-I just think he's an awesome lil bro!"
"Lil bro my ass, Kevin! You like them!"
"I…no…no that can't be! How could I ever like D-" But just before he accidentally spilled the name of his secret maybe-crush, he bit his tongue and stopped himself.
Nat raised her eyebrow while still smiling at a flustered Kevin, "D? D what? Who is he?"
"I-I'M NOT SAYING!"
"Oh c'moooonnnn Kevinnnn!" She reached out her hand and shook Kevin's arm on the table while she made a pouty face at him, "We're best friends since we were kiiiidddsssss. Pleeeaaaassseeeee?"
"N-no! W-what if I don't like them afterall?!"
"Oh believe me Kevin you do, and you know it!"
"Hnnggghh…" Kevin looked down into his coffee, but Nazz could tell there was more. She had known Kevin since they were little kids, and there were certain things he did that always signaled him being nervous or shy or something, like rubbing the back of his neck, that was always a sure sign.
"What aren't you telling me Kev?" She leaned forward and narrowed her eyes at him.
"Nothing. There's nothing."
"Yes there is. What did you do? Or what did he do?"
"Nazz!"
"Kevin!"
"I…ugh…I might've had a moment of weakness…and thought about maybe…perhaps…kinda…sorta…kissing him." The last few words came out as a mumble and Nazz wasn't able to understand.
"Kinda what now?"
"kisshim…" He mumbled quickly.
"Kev, speak up!"
"KISSHIMMMMM" He hissed at her.
Nazz covered her mouth with both of her hands and starting squirming of joy in her seat; all Kevin could do was drink his coffee and try to ignore it.
"DUDE! OH MY GOD! AND YOU WEREN'T GONNA TELL ME THIS?! DUDE, IF THAT HAPPENED TO YOU THEN WHY WOULD YOU DOUBT YOUR FEELINGS?"
"I already told you why."
"Are you gonna flirt with him? Do you wanna kiss him still? Are you going to date him?"
"W-what? M-maybe. I-I don't know! I guess so? A-and, date?! Date a guy?!"
"Well why not? You DO like him…"
"Yeah but…a guy Nazz?"
"Yes Kevin, a guy. What's the big deal?"
"Wouldn't that seem…odd?...and what would the team say…what would others say…what would my parents say?!"
"Well fuck that! You're not the only person out there who likes the same gender; screw what the team says, besides, Nat's pan and I'm guessing they already know that! As for your parents…well…they're your parents! They'll understand!"
"I know I'm not, and yeah they do, and my parents…that'd be nice."
"Ok, so, how do they treat Nat?"
"Uhm…like Nat? Some guys just keep a safe distance in the showers, but you know how flirty and out there Nat can be, so I don't blame them."
"See? No one's attacking him or anything. This isn't high school anymore Kev. Yeah there are still assholes out there who might give you a hard time, but you also have friends who will support you. Like me! And Nat!"
"But maybe I don't like him."
"Just keep an open mind! Spend time with him and pay attention to how you feel!...Hmm… Is he gonna come to the Halloween party?"
"I think so…"
"AWESOME. SPEND TIME WITH THEM THEN!"
Kevin huffed and remained quiet, but thought of Nazz's advice in his head. Nazz could tell that particular conversation was over, so for the remainder of their time together, they just made random conversation and drank their coffees. Once it was time to say goodbye, Kevin lightly hugged Nazz, who then gave him a reassuring pat on the back before separating and waving goodbye.
The trip back to his dorm felt eternal for Kevin, even though it had seemed like a second when he was on his way to meet Nazz. His mind was on overdrive; What if I DO like Edd? What would I do then? Maybe I'm just overthinking it…I would never like the dweeb…I don't dislike him though…He is nice, and really smart…he's so passionate about stuff, it's adorable…it's…admirable…I admire him? yeah…I guess I do…but like?.'
That question plagued his mind all the way back to his bed. He took off his red cap and ran his fingers through his hair, sighing as he laid his head down on his pillow and kicked off his sneakers.
"I should spend more time with him huh?... Makes sense…" Kevin took out his cellphone and searched for Edd's number; he took a deep breath, and began his text.
'I hope Ed and Eddy are gone…or that they at least mind their own fucking business.'
To Double Dork: Hey
To Kevin: Hello Kevin, how are you? Sorry about Eddy earlier today…
To Double Dork: It's fine, Eddy's a jackass; can't be helped, lol. Anyways, I was wondering if you wanted to hang out tomorrow? We could go to the mall and find stuff for our costumes? Y'know, for the party.
Kevin was actually beginning to feel a little nervous when he pressed send for his last text. What if Edd said no? What if Edd said YES?
To Kevin: Kevin please, Eddy's not so bad once you get to really know him! Also, that sounds fine with me! Ed and Eddy leave at noon tomorrow, so I could meet you at your room after? Say 1?
'YES! They won't tag along!'
To Double Dork: Choice! It's a date.
To Kevin: Pardon?
'SHIT. SHIT. SHIT. NO. OH MY FUCKING GOD.'
To Double Dork: Im joking! LOLOLOLOL xD
'Did I just really say that?...'
To Kevin: Oh, of course, haha!
'Kill meeeee…'
To Double Dork: See ya tomorrow then!
To Kevin: Yes, goodnight!
Kevin placed down his phone on his nightstand and let out a big sigh. He felt good; he was actually kind of excited for tomorrow.
"I gotta keep an open mind. I gotta be nice to him. I need to know if I really feel something for him… tomorrow has to go perfectly."