Edd paused mid sentence and grabbed the offending piece of clothing off of his face with a small huh, escaping his figured he should be grossed out, and he wasn't going to sniff them or anything so they seemed clean.

Much to Edd's surprise Kevin's neck up to his hair matched, even the tips of his ears. Edd laughed and in good humor tossed the boxers back at Kevin. He heard Kevin mumble something unintelligent, and watched his arm stiffly move to removed the boxers and toss them into the hamper.

Kevin waved his hand at Edd's comment about the dishes, "Just leave them on the counter, thanks for cleaning them."

Edd nodded with a smile on his face and gestured towards the hamper, "Getting festive early?" He asked, with a waggle of his eyebrows.

Kevin felt his face flush again just has it was starting to even out back into its normal tan color.

He had never, ever, ever, seen any Edd waggle their eyebrows, in almost- dare he say it- flirtatious, he took that back, he had seen Eddy do it to Nazz, but Eddy didn't cause him to feel nervous or like it was horribly out of place on his face.

Kevin coughed and rubbed the back of his neck nervously, shivering slightly when a breeze came into the room from the open window.

"Yeah, got them last Christmas." Now he shrugged, "Not gonna waste a clean pair of underwear cause it's not the right date to do so."

Edd giggled, giggled and Kevin envisioned in his mind throwing the underwear back at him to maybe get him to giggle like that again. He was completely and utterly surprised that it came out of Edd's mouth. Even if he had heard it before, he found himself wanting to get him to do that more often especially with him.

Kevin envisioned in his mind a partially naked Edd giggling from Kevin tickling his ribcage softly while he couldn't move, before Kevin's mouth kissed slowly down his sternum.

He shook his head as if to clear his thoughts. Kevin had always known he had swung the other way. Had never tried anything with it, but he was proud enough to admit that he found that he liked some men.

But imagining this boy that he bullied relentlessly, not so much him but at least his friends, in his bed naked? He wasn't sure what to do. Part of him wanted to act on it, get the idea out of his head.

Maybe he found the geek's innocence intoxicating and wanted to have it to himself? Maybe the thought of fucking the dork senseless and getting rid of the thoughts and ruining the Eds' friendship was an intoxicating thought too..? Maybe holding the geek against him, had caused these thoughts to come from somewhere? Maybe he had always found him adorable?

He growled mentally, he just wanted to get this sexual tension out of his system. Especially if the dweeb was going to be staying at his house for the remainder of the time he reminded clueless.

Kevin sighed and made a mental note to call Nazz up for a quickie tomorrow, he thought that maybe doing something would help him a bit.

Edd watched Kevin in silence; Kevin's face went through many emotions whilst he thought.

Edd thought it was adorable and didn't say anything to ruin the train of thought the redhead seemed to be having. It was quite amusing, if he was going to be honest with himself.

Kevin's green eyes got dark for a second and Edd had a sneaking suspicion it was anger or desire.

He felt his tummy clench at the thought of desire but it quickly went away.

He didn't know this boy-man-person, whatever he should be called. But he could feel his body reacting, or at least what he thought was reacting.

He wasn't really sure about anything, well nothing but motor skills, and talking… Okay, he was sure about some things. But he found himself nervous, he felt comfortable around him.

Maybe he wasn't supposed too? He didn't know, he found himself figuring he was going to cause a lot of problems in his life. He felt like he was wearing a person suit, he was in someone's life that even though was him, he knew nothing about. He was still in his interpersonal musings when Kevin interrupted his musings with a hastily asked question, "How do you know its not around Christmas?"

Okay... Sorry, no good excuse other than the true one now which is "writers block". Well... just starting Senior Year and my 2 year boyfriend just graduated.. and then left me..

Its been a hard time for me lately. I tried on this chapter but its been a long time, this chapter is short, and I have no clue when the next chapter will come out.

I'm sorry.. Thank you to all who have stayed and PM'd and commented and favorited or followed despite my lack of updating.

I'll try not to abandon this, but if I do it will be stated on the summary and a note explaining why.

Again thank you

Lyly