I was sleepless the night following Eddy's message. My soul foretold some ill-designed fate had been laid for us all. Try as I may, I could not dismiss it. I was so incredibly focused on this presentiment which took resident in my abdomen, I could hardly concentrate on my morning tasks.

Waves of disquiet surged through me as I traversed to my designated institute of education. All was peculiarly normal as I wound through the hallways to my locker. Although, my seraph was not present to consecrate that hall with all his brilliance.

It wasn't until 12 o'clock I would be a blessed and frightened spectator to his company.

Emerging from class, my ears heard a civil discourse of which Nazz was participant with unfolding just down the hallway.

"I can't believe you'd cheat on me! That's so NOT cool, Kevin!"

This statement sliced my chest open like a white-hot knife, cauterizing any flesh as so I would live to suffer through the pain. Instinctively, my legs followed the flow of the mass of people moving toward the sounds.

"Seriously, how could you be such an asshole and do something like that!?"

"Babe, I'm sorry, okay?!"

As I crested the corner, I was taken a-back when my eyes fell on the pleading man before me. Kevin looked as though he hadn't slept all week. His appearance was completely exasperated and distraught. His aggressive mask was visibly damaged and useless to him.

"Oh, you're SORRY? Like I haven't heard that one before!"

Suddenly, Rolf stepped out into the fray. He tried to appear as placid as possible to Nazz, so as to pacify her temper.

"She who laments over nothing, Kevin hasn't done anything to hurt you! He only jested at the Saturday gathering!"

Kevin extended an arm in front of Rolf like a gate, ceasing his approach.

"Just stop it Rolf…The game's up. Nazz, you're right. And I feel super shitty for doing it. Can't you just forgive me and forget it happened..please?"

His look was the epitome of desperation. Nazz, oh dear Nazz. Her vilification towards Kevin was undeniably warranted. Soon enough, true retribution would purge us of our sin.

"Forget it happened? You know what, Kevin? You better FORGET about being my boyfriend. You haven't just lost your best girlfriend ever, you lost your best FRIEND ever!"

At this, the valkyrie turned her heel to the individuals in this fray. I thought that abandoned man would die there as this woman took his soul lost to the battle which had just completed.

"Wait—Nazz!"

He commenced following her. She spun around with such a force and promptly slapped a hand across his face.

"I don't wanna hear it Kev! Its over!"

She continued her stride away from this state of affairs. I could only make conjectures as to the thoughts passing through Kevin's mind. His adrenaline was obvious and with it spurred such fateful phrases.

"You know it wasn't even a girl, Nazz!"

This halted her motions from the scene. It became cruelly silent. One could hear the dust falling onto the floor.

"I really wanted to tell you when shit settled down. But I'm gay."

I'm certain this sent shockwaves through the crowd, Nazz and I included. My throat ran dry on hearing this. It was the complete opposite to the phrase that had been wreaking havoc within me that past week. I could not process what I was hearing.

"Yeah, you heard me, I'm gay! That's why I'm sorry I didn't tell you what happened."

Nazz turned back to Kevin. She peered over to Rolf for a confirmation of these tellings.

"It is true. Kevin indeed is homo sapien."

All of us looked at Rolf cross-eyed during that moment. Though, some levity was needed through this thick fog. Clearly irritated, Kevin corrected his comrade.

"It's homosexual, Rolf. And yeah."

Kevin met Nazz's eyes.

"I am. And I realized how stupid I was about it too. I get it now. I'm really sorry Nazz, but I love—"

He took a large breath.

"I love Eddward."

Those words graced my ears. Through their vibrations, I felt every part of myself being cheered, one after the other. All emotional wounds healed spectacularly. A prayer from my angel's lips revitalized me.

Nazz's eyebrows raised in both confusion and shock.

"Wait…what?"

Kevin's vexation rose and he set to be more specific of his love.

"I said I love Eddward! Ya know, Double Dee!?"

From Nazz's gestures, one could discern she did not know how to process this information she had been given.

I began to feel eyes on me. Hushed voices containing my name emanated from the audience. Soon a sentence rose from the quiet tumult.

"Dude..I had no idea."

My attention brought to the source, I saw dear Nazz's hand to her lips in disbelief. All malevolence had vanished from her.

"Yeah, but I fucked up, okay? I fucked it all up."

Kevin's energy was spent. From all I have heard, his declaration to me in front of half of the student body, I obtained the courage to step forward in these trying circumstances.

"Kevin."

I maneuvered around human obstacles towards my beloved. As I breached the barrier of the inner circle where he lay, all three figures in its confines regarded me. I preoccupied myself only with that of Kevin.

"From this entire display I do believe you have redeemed yourself in my eyes."

Our affair clearly exposed, I urged myself to make amends for the crimes we committed. Looking over to the offended party, I announced my disgrace.

"Dearest Nazz, please forgive us. The fates were not in our favor when this entire ordeal began, yet that fact alone does not justify our abhorrent behavior following. If you cannot find it in your heart to pardon us, you are vindicated in that right."

Confessing to these acts was as if I had poured alcohol onto a wound. Although it cleansed it, the pain was unbearable. Nazz's face produced concern from my words.

"I just kinda wish Kevin told me sooner, Double Dee. I mean, it's really messed up what you guys did, but it's also kinda hard to be mad at you for it."

She stepped towards me, placing a hand atop my shoulder in consolation.

"But it sounds like you guys are having some trouble, huh?"

Another familiar tone originated from the forest of people around us. Nazz distanced herself a tad from me to focus on its direction.

"Tell me about it! It turned Sockhead here into a complete zombie the past week."

After a few demands of making a path incited from Eddy, out stepped my two best of friends.

"Are you two gonna finally kiss and make up now so you can stop being an asshole?"

I was vastly confused at the emotions being tossed at me from the party involved. Peering to Kevin, he shared the sentiment. We were further addled as Nazz spoke up.

"Yeah, come on guys! You totally have my support in this!"

Kevin's uncertainty prominently stood from her announcement.

"You sure, Nazz?"

This produced a shrug alongside an answer.

"I'm super proud of you to like, tell the whole school about this. That takes a lot. I'm not gonna hold you back from that, Kev."

After that reassurance, I beheld my turtledove and he did the same. The anger and spite had all but faded from his complexion as his gazed onto me. It was replaced by that same warm softness begot from a forgotten female persona I once wore.

"Well in that case."

Kevin quickly closed the distance between us. Those dazzling eyes took me within them. Time seemed dilated in these moments, a second stretched into an hour. I may as well have been staring into the vast, awesome reaches of space, crippled by its incredible glory. Mystified by its allure.

Neither him nor I were required to say a word. We understood each other through the vessel of sight. Both knowing we must exit this trance, he took me into an embrace and I exiled the space separating our lips.

Numerous exclamations were spawned from the troop surrounding us. Hearing cries of excitement from the exhibition of Kevin and I seemed misplaced at best. Let alone the detail that this hubbub had not been dismissed by a faculty member by now astounded me. Oh, how I wish we had reconciled in a private assembly.

Our lips parted ways from each other and immediately I felt the pressure of a tight hug around the both of us. Ed had taken Kevin and I into his superhuman grip as to outlet his delight.

"Awwwww, you two are so cute together!"

Ed's movements knocked us all out of the daze we were in. Eddy, taking the reins, begun ushering people away.

"Okay, get outta here, people! It's over-scram! Give these guys some privacy, will ya?!"

I saw from my peripheral vision Rolf shooing the horde away alongside him.

"What, do you believe this is a spectacle all can see?! Away with you, you vex Rolf!"

As the herd scrambled, I peered over to Eddy. I hadn't spoken to him since the quarrel we had the morning before.

"Eddy, please forgive my rash behavior yesterday. I wasn't quite myself."

He scratched the back of his neck and avoided my eyes, showing his susceptibility to my admission.

"Eh, don't worry your pretty little head about it. If I knew it was this serious, I wouldn't've made a joke about it. I kinda got it after you blew up over it."

A grin wiped across my lips. Soon Ed exposed a more truthful reaction from Eddy due to our tiff.

"Crybaby-Eddy here called me in the middle of the night saying that he was worried you'd never talk to him again because of something stupid, Double Dee."

My irate friend gave a snappy remark in reply.

"Shut up Ed, no I didn't!"

I chuckled, an amused look resting on my face, heart glowing from the proximity of my loved ones. My mind will never let go of the entirety of this dear memory. As I reflect on it now, I smile wistfully at its thought.

All seemed well.