Double-D couldn't believe it.
One: He was walking right next to Kevin.
Two: Kevin kept shooting him quick uncharacteristically shy glances.
Three: He had previously just been making out with said boy behind the bleachers.
And Four: He had beaten the snot out of Eddy, ditched school, and hadn't even bothered to think about any schoolwork that might have been assigned, all in order to get to this point. Edd smiled to himself as they both wandered back toward the cul-de-sac.
Everything was…exhilarating!
As he glanced toward Kevin again, catching him once more sneaking a glance, he realized he must be blushing and grinning ear to ear.
"So…what did you want to do for the rest of the day?" Kevin asked, breaking the silence.
"The rest of the day?" Edd replied, surprised.
"Err, yeah?" Kevin rubbed the back of his neck nervously, looking anywhere but Edd. He jumped a little in chock when he found the slightly shorter boy standing right in front of him, reaching for said hand. Looking down he was captivated by the look Edd was directing at him; excited, yet nervous with a touch of shyness.
"Come with me" Edd spoke and started tugging Kevin away from the cul-de-sac, toward the creek. When they reached the bank Edd took off running, tugging Kevin gently behind him. The jock hadn't realized how fast the nerdy boy could run, but figured it probably came from all the times he'd had to chase
after the other Ed's.
Or run away from him Kevin's mind supplied and he felt his gut clench with guilt once more. Why had he been such a coward? If he had just admitted his feelings for the boy they could have been doing this sooner, whatever it was they were doing now.
Although he had no clue where exactly it was they were running to he was still having fun. More fun than he'd had in a long time, he found himself admitting.
As the pair neared a large looking group of trees closely clustered together Edd slowed down, turning quickly toward Kevin once more. Kevin felt awed as he looked Edd over, noticing the boy wasn't even winded in the slightest, but instead was biting cutely at his lower lip nervously. Kevin noticed the gap in the teen's teeth was all but gone and he once again realized how much Edd had really changed. He smiled as the boy glanced up at him & stepped forward, cautiously wrapping his Arms around the redhead's neck, as if he thought he would be pushed off at any moment.
Kevin waited until Edd was still before wrapping his arms around the thin frame tightly, pressing them almost flush against each other. Pressing his lips to Edd's pale neck he smiled as he heard Edd release a relieved sigh at not being pushed away.
Edd backed away slowly, gave him a quick peck on the lips, and with a mischievous glint in his eyes took off running into the trees, leaving Kevin stunned. Had Double-D always been this energetic and fun? If so, Kevin couldn't wait to keep experiencing this part of the dark haired male.
Though he had watched the boy enter he couldn't for the life of him see where he had disappeared to, for the group of trees was so thick it was practically a maze. Kevin paused and turned completely around, inspecting his surroundings. He didn't even hear Edd when he snuck up behind the taller boy and tickled his sides, making Kevin jump. Surprising he was actually very ticklish and playfully growled as he tried to grab the elusive male.
What seemed like hours later the two boys stopped goofing around, now both finally out of breath, and sat on a fallen tree simply smiling at each other.
"Have you always been that graceful? I don't think I caught you even once!" Edd laughed at that and shook his head.
"You almost had me at one point, I guess I'm just too fast for you!" he teased the red head. In Response he found himself trapped on the taller males lap, his resistance futile. He stilled as he listened to what Kevin was saying.
"Why don't you act like this normally, your much more..." he tapered off trying to grasp at his thoughts "I don't know, fun, exciting, happy..." he trailed off sheepishly as he realized he'd just said Edd rarely looked happy. Edd just smiled sadly, leaning his forehead against Kevin's. What could he say? He had so many secrets he had been protecting for so many years, and had been happy to just let everyone assume it was Eddy and Kevin's fault for the way he was. He decided to try and slowly open up to Kevin.
"There are many things you don't know about me" Kevin reached up to finger a piece of dark black hair and answered
"I know, but I want to learn all about you, I want to know you better than that damn eddy ever knew you!" Edd actually laughed at that
"Jealous are you?" he teased and Kevin just scoffed before Edd continued "you already know me better than Eddy". Kevin looked confused and stopped fiddling with Edd's hair, letting out a questioning 'huh'? Edd sign and explained "you're the only one that knows I'm... That knows I like you, I mean..." he tapered off, blushing slightly.
"Really? No one else knows you're gay? Not even your parents?" Double-D blanched at the mention of parents, but knew that story would definitely have to wait till another day. Distracting Kevin from the topic of family he spoke quickly.
"Well, maybe Naz, but that was more of an accident really, considering I kind of just blurted it out and...what?" Kevin was now staring at him with the most surprised look he'd ever seen, before he was overcome by unstoppable laughter. "What!" Edd demanded, jumping up from his comfy seat on Kevin's lap.
"Naz knew? For how long?" he asked through laughs. Edd stared down at him confused.
"Well...I guess it would be about a month now, why? Why are you laughing?" Kevin sobered up and reached to pull Edd toward him once again.
"Because Naz knows about me too!" he admitted, watching the utter look of confusion spread across Edd's pale features. "Well, not at first." he amended "She actually helped me solve who I was and realize what it was I wanted" he stood and tugged Edd gently against him, smiling before he continued. "Actually, she probably knew for longer than I even suspected, and that's why I was laughing" he paused to kiss away the confused wrinkles on Edd's forehead.
"She's been acting really weird lately, telling me I could be someone's knight in shining armor, that if I looked closely at a certain someone" he paused to grasp Edd's chin and moved his head till their eyes met "that I might find myself realizing there's more going on than I thought" both smiled as they thought about their scheming Cupid friend, and Kevin claimed Edd's lips in a telling kiss, conveying all his pent up feelings and feeling them all returned in earnest. Finally breaking away Kevin spoke.
"Ready to head back to real life?" Edd frowned, but soon turned his disappointment into cheer as he spoke.
"As long as you'll still be my knight."
"Not that you need one" Kevin chuckled as Edd slapped his arm and huffed "But I'll still be right by your side when you do". Kevin assured him with another deep kiss and tight hug, before tugging Edd gently back toward civilization.
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Back at the high school the ending bell rang to release the students.
Naz smiled to herself as she realized her planning had worked and both boys had been missing for the rest of the day. She giggled mischievously as she thought up ways for the boys to repay her for all the interference she had run during the day in order to assure the boys wouldn't be bothered. Being the principles daughter often came in very handy.
She drifted out the doors paying no attention to the curious eyes that followed her strangely over exuberant figure. Evil revenge plans were distracted by the utterance of buttered toast as two boys followed the rest of their class out into the school yard. Eddy would have his revenge, oh yes, and his plans started with Naz. She knew something he didn't, and he hated that and vowed that by the end of the month he would surely find out what the blond was all about. Soon he would get that stupid geek back for embarrassing him and admit that he'd somehow cheated in that fight, for there was no way he could have taken him on and won that easily, right?
