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The song for this chapter is: Arms By Christina Perri
Red ringleted curls bounced crazily in their messy discombobulated ponytail confines atop her head as the slim body of Rosemary Barr stormed into the room her snickers squeaking against the floor with the momentum she put into each stomp.
"Kevin David Barr, you will give me a full head of gray hair before I reach forty, I swear!" Rosemary breezed out as she waltzed into the room with an air of authority wrapped in uplifting blankets of humor.
"Oiii I didn't even do anything this time!"
She turned her head to Edd, "And you! I almost had a heart attack, I'm too young for heart problems, thank you." She tried to sound stern with him but ended up pouting concernedly before walking over to him.
Checking him over much in a similar fashion to the way her son did previously she smiled a sad tired smile, "I am so very sorry Eddward, If I had known the bullies were this demented I wouldn't have allowed you to go back here. I should have known better after seeing the injuries inflicted yesterday.." She trailed of guilty biting her bottom lip.
Edd shifted and lifted his chin high in a faux show of bravery and calmness; his cyan eyes wavered nervously ever so slightly, "It's not your doing at all Mrs-I mean Rosemary...some things can't be helped." He rubbed the sleeve of his plaid shirt searching for some kind of security to grasp onto.
"Bullshit!" Tears of anger and sadness pricked at her eyes as she yelled before blushing, "I-I.. mean...nonsense! From now on I won't have you coming to this school if those horrid brutes are going to be here."
A cough interrupted them as walked back into the room this time not alone as principle 'Dowell trailed after her looking decidedly very nervous after he looked over at Rosemary oddly enough.
"Unfortunately for the boy, I'm afraid you cannot just simply pluck him from his education without written or vocal permissions from his actual parents ." 'Dowell voiced in a combination of trying to be stern and nervousness he couldn't seem to hide.
Two identical emerald eyes flashed dangerously at this proclamation.
Both mother and son were turning toward the poor balding man in seconds.
"What, then would you have me do then sir?" Her voice came out like venom a mixture of sarcasm and instantaneous loathing.
He wiped at his forehead with a handkerchief before quickly pocketing it, "Get in touch with his parent would be a start Ma'am, I would think."
His beetle black brown eyes stared back defiantly despite his skittish manner, "Besides we have the assault of Miss Kanker to deal with as well as 's."
"WHAT ASSAULT?! He was all over my best friend his greedy disgusting beefy fingers touching him everywhere! He was about to be goddamn raped, what did you expect me to do just let him?!" Marie barked out scathingly.
Edd let out a choked whimper and sunk back down against the sick bed he was seated upon.
The walls were closing in on him, slowly swaying and turning topside.
His ribs burned with each breath he took as they began to become uneven and hitched.
Black spots formed dotting his vision scantly like someone taking a rubber eraser and erasing bits off the sides of a drawing they didn't like.
No no no no...please no...
The sound of bed springs squeaking is what draws him back to reality.
Someone calling his name hurriedly, messily and scared sounding.
Someone was sobbing...
He was sobbing...
Wasn't he?
Someone smoothed a strong hand down his back soothingly and carded another through his long black tresses that he barely remembered were still uncovered for some reason.
" -an you hear me? Edd? Double D?"
It struck him all at once; the sound returning to him, he overly bright infirmary room, and the calming warmth and scent of Kevin who was practically wrapped around him like a cobra snake.
He had been the one to notice first, that something amongst the noise and animosity of the small room was a miss.
Immediately he searched for the too all familiar cyan blue, only to find them half laden and glazed over as the owner of said eyes fell into the grips of a severe panic attack.
His heart startled in his chest, "Fuck! Look what you did now, Christ!"
Hurriedly he scrambled out of his chair and onto the bed behind Edd in seconds.
Pulling his smaller frame against his like an obscure puzzle piece fitting a bigger one, instantly feeling that strange inane connection he always felt when the younger of the two was near.
Double D inhaled in jerky fast painful looking bursts.
In an out, in an out, too fast to be healthy.
Edd's heartbeat was rocketing against his ribcage in turn hammering against Kevin's own as if it were trying to escape.
Helplessly he tried to not to panic himself and remember what he did the last time this happened.
Quickly moving his right hand to gently rub at the middle of Edd's back while he took his left and brushed aside the still slightly damp raven feathery hair hanging free along the back of the dork's neck.
All the while cradling him against his chest, fitting him perfectly on his lap as if he belonged there.
Edd gripped his shirt with a white fisted hand, and sobbed in between panicked gasps.
"Edd? Double D?" He tried to get a response out of the seemingly unreachable person seated on his lap.
"Can you hear me? Edd? Double D...?"
"K-Kevin..?" He breathed out shakily and winced, "O-ouch...that's no-not pleasant."
"You okay dork?"
"Move out of the way asshole." ordered Marie.
The sick bed creaked again as another teenager was added to the small tangle of limbs.
Marie snaked her arms around Edd's lithe waist and hugged him glaring at Kevin as she tried to pull him onto her lap instead.
"I should have known you'd get a panic attack after what happened, it was all just building up huh?" She voiced tenderly.
"Marie...I'm okay...it's getting better." He whispered softly.
"Edd...for the first time in your life please..." She begged tears in her eyes, "Don't lie."
Tears welled in his own mirroring hers as he let out a shaky sob, "I'm not okay...I'm not...but I will be...please don't leave they always leave Marie...they always...always...l-leave..." He babbled on as he clung to her shoulders now crawling off Kevin partially.
"You listen to me now, clearly Eddward Vincent, I will never ever, ever leave you! Not even if you try and send me away. Do you hear me? Not ever." She whispered softly to him and stroked his back.
Smiling a wet half smile he almost believed her as he let out a sigh and simply closed his eyes falling asleep against her chest.
They always leave...damn what the fuck had he done...
Kevin slipped off the bed after that seeing Marie console the dweeb was enough.
He looked at his mother and the principle, "Do we really have to call his parents?"
Rosemary looked to be holding back angry tears of her own, "Yes, I think we do sweetheart, especially after this..."
The principle smiled sadly, "Let him stay out of school for a few days, Jacob Talbit is in the emergency room with a concussion at the moment, as well as his friends with minor injuries and bruised ribs. They have all been suspended until I can talk to the school board on whether or not we are expelling them."
"There shouldn't need to be a damn board meeting for this, they nearly raped him." Kevin spits out.
"It's out of my hands right now." 'Dowell spoke solemnly.
"Out of my hands my ass." He answered back.
"Now see here-"
"Thank you for your words, we will be in touch 'Dowll. Until then however I will be keeping Eddward home while I try and get in contact with his parents." Rosemary stated steely.
With a huff the middle aged man left the room leaving behind to give them and awkward smile.
"Let's get you all on your way shall we?"
Giving a nod his mother gathered Edd's things.
Walking over to the bed he glared down at Marie, "Hand him over."
She glared back with just as much spite, "Take him, if you want to hold him so badly Barr."
For a second he almost chickened out, but then he leaned down and carefully lifted the smaller teen into his arms with skilled ease.
"He needs to eat more." He voiced randomly his cheeks turning pink.
"That he does." Rosemary tutted, "Now let's go. You coming Marie?"
"Hell yeah I am, but errr...thanks for the invite ." She muttered as an after thought.
A snort was her first response, "Okay this is a spicy beef taco and guacamole day...and ice cream...loads of ice cream." The red haired woman said dreamily as she walked ahead of them.
Marie looked on in awe and then smirked and looked at Kevin, "Dude your mom's awesome, where the fuck did you come from?"
"Ha fucking Ha Kanker."
And with that they walked out of the room after his crazy ass mother.