The alarm goes off at seven AM like it does every morning. Edd (Also known as Double Dee to everyone other than his parents) reaches over and turns it off like he does every day. But today isn't any ordinary day, it is Friday. And unlike the rest of his friends in the cul-de-sack who look forward to the weekend. Edd hates Friday. For you see he loves school, the smell of the floor wax, the excitement he gets from a surprised test and the enjoyment he gets from leaning.

Normally Edd wouldn't be looking forward to Friday and the two days he'd have to endure without education. But not this time, Edd had been invited to attend a weekend science lecture from the world renowned Doctor Banner as part of his Junior Scientist Club. A trip he has been looking forward to for a month.

Edd pulls off his covers and swings his legs over the edge of the bed and into his slippers in one fluid motion. He stands up and turns around to make his bed and once he is satisfied with his work he leaves his bedroom and enters the bathroom. Inside the bathroom he turns on the light and looks at himself in the mirror as his sixteen year old self looked back at him. He had bags under his eyes, a very common occurrence from the long nights he tends to have, usually from being up reading or working on one of his various project. His hair that he has hated for as long as he can remember was a big mess. His parents love his jet black hair and rarely let him get it cut, so he had resorted to keeping it hidden under his signature black ski cap head in place with bob pins. He looks away from the mirror and turns to the shower and prepares for his morning washing. "This is going to be a good day, I can feel it." He says as he climbs into the shower.

Across the cul-de-sack and past the construction site (that never seems to have any work being done) lies the tailor park where three sisters have been up for almost an hour already working on a plan to capture Edd and his two best friends.

"Are you sure this is going to work Lee?" the youngest of the three sisters asks her oldest sister. Her platinum blond hair tied behind her head to keep it out of the way.

"Trust me May, those Ed's can never resist a jawbreaker. Now keep drilling." Lee says to her sister who goes back to drilling into a jawbreaker with a power drill.

"That part I get, but will theses sleeping pills really be enough to knock them out?" Marie the middle sister asks as she looks at a bottle of pills lifting away her blue hair out of her eye to read the back of the bottle.

"Mom uses theses all the time when she needs to get to sleep quickly. Now quit yacking, we have work to get done if we want those Ed's to be all ours this weekend." The three sisters giggle together at the idea of having the three boys trapped for the next few days and at the mercy of the sisters.

Back at Edd's house the teenager was finishing getting dressed for school. He has dawned a while dress shirt and a black tie along with a pair of slightly failed jeans like he does for every day of school. After hiding his hair under his hat he makes his way down stairs for breakfast. He pours himself a bowl of cereal and when he is half way done with it there is a knock on the front door. He sets his spoon down next to his bowl and walks over to the door.

"Good morning Ed, good morning Eddy." He says opening the door to let his two best friends into his home.

"Hi ya Double Dee." Ed says walking into the house. Ed was in his standard dress ware of a dark green jacket, striped shirt and blue jeans.

"Hey Sock Head." Eddy says following Ed into the house. Eddy had on a pair of sunglasses even though the sun had not risen high enough for them to be needed. Along with his normal yellow shirt and stone washed jeans.

Edd returns to the kitchen to finish his cereal while he chatted with his friends before they leave so school. "So did you gentlemen finish your homework for today?" Edd asked his friends as he sits down.

"Yes sir Double Dee! I read all of my new comic book last night." Ed says smiling from ear to ear.

"No Ed, you were supposed to read from your English book and answer the questions at the end of the chapter." Edd says disappointed in his friend.

"Yeah, Ed, even I did this one." Eddy says taking an apple from the bowl of fruit on the counter and takes a bite from it.

"Honestly Ed, if you don't take your school work seriously you will eventually be left behind and have to repeat a grade." Edd says taking a bite of his cereal.

The boys chant for a few more minutes as Edd finishes his breakfast and after he rinses out his bowl and sets it down on the counter the three boys leave his house. The walk to school was quick and enjoyable, spring was in the air and the weather couldn't be more prefect for the walk. When they reached the school they find the rest of their friends hanging around Kevin's car. After the event with Eddy's older brother the Ed's and the others had finally been able to become friends.

"Hey ya Kev." Eddy says as she high fives Kevin who is leaning against his car with an arm around Nazz. Kevin Still wears his red hat but now wears a Lettermen jacket and black pants. Him and Nazz have been dating for a while now and have been almost inseparable. She has gone a lot more girly over the last few years. Her hair has grown out and she almost always has a skirt on and a top matching its color, todays color was dark green.

"Hey Ed's." He says to the three of them. "Eddy you ready for tryouts next week?"

"Heck yeah, I've been hitting the gym every day after school to get ready." Eddy says answering his question.

"Hi ya boys." Three voices say in sync. The Ed's freeze and slowly turn to look that the source of the voices. They knew right away who it was but they still had to face there tormenters.

The Kanker sisters stand several parking spaces away smiling at the three boys. Lee stood between her two sisters. Her red curly hair still hanging over her eyes which matches the red tank top she is wearing that is showing off her pink belt (that all three of them are wearing) that is holding up her faded blue jeans.

To her right was May who still had her blond hair pulled back behind her head. She was wearing a gray sweatshirt and red basketball shorts on which was very similar to what she use to ware back when the Ed's were out casted.

On the opposite side of Lee stood the middle Kanker Marie. She had a skull beret in her blue hair on the left side of her head. She has on a black shirt with a white skull on it and its sleeves ripped off and a dirty green colored mini skirt.

"Kanker's." Eddy says staring down the girls. The boys expected the sisters to come over to them and start the day off tormenting them. But they didn't, they just stood there staring at the Ed's smiling.

"What do you three want?" Nazz asks from beside Kevin.

"We just want to say good morning to our boyfriends." Lee says glaring at Nazz.

"We are not your boyfriends Lee, and we never will be." Eddy says.

"Don't you just love it when they try and deny their feelings for us?" Marie says.

"Yeah, that Big Ed is just to die for." May says giving Ed a doe eyed look.

Lee elbows May back into reality. "Well bye bye boys, well see you around." She says as the three of them blow a kiss to their respective Ed. They turn and walk towards the school building.

"Well that was unlike them. I was sure they would have chased us all the way to homeroom." Edd says turning back to the others.

"They are planning something, I can feel it." Eddy says glaring over his shoulder at where the three girls had been standing.

"All I feel is my buttered toast in my pocket Eddy!" Ed says with his standard dumfounded look on his face.

"You think the Kanker's are up to something Eddy?" Jonny asks as he hides Plank inside his bag. Jonny looked exactly like he did when they were younger, white t-shirt and blue jeans.

"I'd bet my life savings on it Jonny."

"Come now Eddy. Maybe they needed to finish up some school work, or talk to a teacher. Surly they are not concocting a plan against us." Edd says giving the girls the benefit of the doubt as he does for everyone.

"You're too forgiving Double Dee." Eddy says.

Little did they know that the Kanker sisters were in fact planning something and as the girls entered the building May questioned her older sister's plan.

"Are you sure we couldn't have gone for a kiss?"

"Yes May, we need to let them let their guard down for this to work." Lee says as they walked down the hall. "Do you two remember the plan?" She asks when the reach her locker.

"We leave the Ed's alone all day letting them feel safe." May says.

"And we leave the Jawbreakers at their usual lunch table for them to find." Marie says.

"And then when they fall asleep in gym, we sneak them off the school grounds and back to the trailer." Lee says finishing the recap of the plan. The sisters giggle together again at their plan.

"Ok, well keep them here in my locker until lunch." Lee says taking the bag that has the Jawbreakers in it out of her back pack.

"I'm still unsure about this plan Lee." May says as Lee puts the bag into her locker.

"It will work May." Lee says closing her locker. "By this time tomorrow those Ed's will be all ours."

The first half of the day unfolded like it did every day. Ed and Eddy barely paying attention to the teacher and Edd taking very detailed notes on everything the teachers would say. After their fourth period English class the three Ed's are walking down the hall to the lunch room.

"I'm going to miss you while you are gone Double Dee." Ed says sounding sad.

"It's just for one weekend Ed, I'm sure you will be ok without me." Edd says reassuring his friend. "And you can take your mind off of it by going with Eddy on his job hunt."

"There are no cool jobs out there." Eddy says kicking a fake rock as they walked.

"You can't expect to get a "cool job" for your first job Eddy. We all have to start some ware."

"Says the guy that has a fun job."

"I assure you Eddy, working at the Radio Shack in the mall is anything but fun." Edd says as they enter the Lunch room. "The only people that seem to come in are the electronically illiterate. What has happened to the people of this world when they don't know the difference between a Coax cable and a HDMI cable?" He says holding his arms in the air.

"Double Dee calm down man." Eddy says as his friend is over reacting.

"Sorry Eddy." Edd says.

"Hey guys look!" Ed says pointing at the table the three Ed's usually sit at. On the table sat a brown box. And when the boys approached it they saw that it had the words "To Ed, Edd and Eddy. From your friends." Written on it.

"I wonder who it is from?" Edd says examining the box.

Eddy opens the box and his face lights up. "Guy! Look! Jawbreakers!" He says pulling one out.

"Alright Eddy!" Ed says taking one out of the box himself.

"Gentlemen I must protest us eating these. They could be contaminated with an unknown element. You could get sick or contract a deadly virus!" Edd says warning his friends not to eat the Jawbreakers.

"Relax Double Dee." Eddy says as he puts one into his mouth.

Ed follows Eddy and puts one in his mouth as well. "They seem good to me Double Dee." Before Edd could protest again Ed took the last jawbreaker out of the box and shoves it into Edd's mouth. "See Double Dee, they are good."

Edd's thoughts were scramble when he tasted the Jawbreaker. The boy's love these candy's above all other foods.

Across the lunch room the Kanker sisters sat watching the Ed's. "I told you they would fall for it, they can never resist a jawbreaker." Lee says smiling.

"And now we play the waiting game." Marie says leaning back in her chair and crossing her legs.

The Ed's enjoyed the jawbreakers throughout all of the lunch period and finished them just before they walked into the gym locker for their least favorite class. The Ed's hated Gym because none of their other friends were in it with them and all three Kanker's are in it and would usually find some way to torment them. But like this morning the Kanker's just greeted the three boys and left them alone.

"Ok, so they should start feeling groggy half way through the class, that's when we offer to take them to the nurse and that's when we take them away." Lee says to her sisters in a huddle.

But the boys never got sleepy, they just partook in the gym activities in their own ways. Ed just rand around the guy laughing, Edd tried to participate but was out of breath and sweating profusely. Eddy was the only one that was actually partaking in the game of dodge ball. When the teacher blows his whistle signaling for the end of the class the boys go off to the boys locker room and the girls to theirs.

"What the hell? Why didn't it work?" Lee asks as they entered the locker room

"I don't know Lee. You sure those were the pills mom takes to sleep?" Marie asks looking over to May.

"Yes, she gave them to me herself." May says.

"What did mom say exactly when she game them to you?" Marie asks as she starts changing.

"She said to "Get rid of these for me" last week as she was getting ready for work."

"Get rid of these? That sounds like she wanted you to throw them away. They were probably out of date and didn't work anymore." Lee says.

"Crud, now what do we do Lee?" Marie asks her older sister.

"We go to plan B. We catch them the old fashion way." Lee says as she finishes changing back into her street cloths.

The girl's decided to split up the Ed's and capture them individually. They ditched there last class to wait by the front doors of the school for the boys.

"Ok girls, when we see them chase them into a corner and take them back home." Lee says to her sisters as they lean up against the wall next to the door.

"Look, here they come." May says pointing down the hall at their targets. "Best of luck to the both of ya."

"Today has been a great day, the Kanker's left us alone, we got free jawbreakers and we got to play dodge ball in gym. Face it boys, today was one in a million." Eddy says grabbing his friends around the shoulder.

"I have to agree Eddy, this was a great start to what I'm sure is going to be a fantastic weekend for myself."

"Um eddy…" Ed says stopping and pointing in front of him.

"What is it Ed… Oh crap." Eddy says when he sees the Kanker's next to the door.

"What do we do Eddy?" Ed asks as he starts to panic.

"Maybe they will let us pass?" Edd says being the optimist that he is.

"I don't think so Double Dee, they are coming this way." Ed says still pointing at the girls.

The girls were in fact walking towards the boys and Eddy and Edd started to panic alongside Ed.

"Hi ya boys, did you miss us today?" Lee asks when she was in ear shot of the boys.

"Yeah like we'd miss the biggest pain in our backsides." Eddy says to Lee.

"Aww and even after we gave you a present your still like this." Marie says looking at Edd with a wicked look.

"Wait, you left those for us? What did you do to them?" Eddy asked Lee with anger on his face.

"Kiss me and I'll tell ya you big lug." Lee says leaning down to Eddy.

"I'd rather suck and egg." Eddy says back to her.

"I love it when you walk dirty Eddy." Lee stands back up strait and looks to her sisters. "Girls, I think it's time we claimed our prizes."

"It's about damn time." Marie says cracking her knuckles.

"Uh oh, Eddy I think we should start running." Edd says as he watches the Kanker's.

"Good, I love a good chase." May says smiling at the Ed's.

The sisters start puckering their lips at the Ed's.

"Run Boy!" Eddy yells as he turns and takes off down the hall.

"Run away! Run away!" Ed says falling Eddy.

"Let's get them May." Lee says as she runs after Eddy. May just laughs as she follows her older sister.

"Now Marie, can't we talk about this?" Edd says as he starts to back away from the blue haired Kanker. "I happen to have prior engagements to attend to after school."

"Aww Muffin, you don't want to spend time with your girlfriend?" Marie asks as she matches his step.

"As Eddy had mentioned this morning. We are not in any sort of relationship, and while I am sure you would be an interesting person to hold a conversation with I do not have the time to engage in one."

"Ooo, I just love it when you use big works Double Dee." Marie says picking up her passé.

"Marie I must insist that you stop your advance in my direction."

"Oh come on Oven Mitt, you know you want to kiss me."

"No thank you!" Edd says as he turns and runs away from Marie.

Marie giggles as she follows Edd down the hall but takes a detour in attempt to cut him off. Edd being the very un athletic person that he is runs as fast as he can but in reality it's not much faster than jogging speed so Marie was easily able to get in front of him. Edd was putting all of his effort into running and not looking in front of him. Had he been paying attention he would have seen Marie appear in front of him and her opening a door in the hall way that stood ajar. Marie grabs Edd as he is running by and using his own momentum against him she throws him into the room and follows him in slamming the door behind her.

The room turned out to be nothing more than a broom closet the janitors use to keep tools and supplies in. Edd was sitting with his back to the far wall a little dazed and confused after what had just happened.

"You should have known that running away was useless Double Dee. I always catch you." Marie says taking a step to Edd.

"Marie please, I have a very important appointment to be at. A once in a life time opportunity for me." Edd says trying to reason with his stalker.

Marie grabs Edd's feet and pulls him down onto his back and she sits on his stomach pinning him to the ground. "Trust me Muffin, THIS is going to be a much more enjoyable experience for you." She grabs his hands and holds them to the floor over his head and starts forcing kisses all over his face and neck like she dose whenever he is captured by the Kanker's.

'No no no no! I must get away or I will miss the bus!' Edd thinks as he closes his eyes trying to hide from what is happening to him. He starts to struggle and sweat under Marie's assault and the sweat on his arms starts to loosen Marie's grip on him. He keeps struggling and eventually his arms break free of her grasp and he is able to get out from under her.

"Ooo, do you wana be on top?" Marie asks from her spot on the floor.

"No never!" Edd says standing up. "Good bye Marie please don't ever do this again." He says being polite to her even though he may have miss his ride because of her. He turns to run out the door again not watching where he is going.

"Edd watch out!" Marie yells as she holds out her hand and up. But it was too late, right as she was standing up Edd hits his head on the low hanging light and falls to the ground.

"Edd. Are you ok?" Marie asks kneeling down next to him the first time she's ever been fully concerned for his wellbeing.

Edd who is seeing stars only says; "Night night mommy." And passes out.

"Shit, Edd wake up." Marie says shaking the unconscious boy. "Come on brain boy wake up." But it was no good, Edd was out cold. "Ok, I need to find some help." Marie says standing up and going to the door. As she turned the handle and pushed the door but it didn't budge. She glares then slams into it with her shoulder but again it didn't move. "Shit, what am I going to do now?"

Else ware in the school Eddy and Ed are still on the run from the other two Kanker sisters.

"Quick Ed, the back door!" Eddy yells at his friend and points at the door as they run down the hall.

"Ok Eddy." Ed says and the two of them hit the door and start running towards the parking lot.

"You can't hide from us boys." Lee says as her and May come out of the door.

"Yeah Big Ed, we are going to get you both." May says following behind her sister.

The boys get to the parking lot and start looking around. "What now Eddy?" Ed asks as the two look around for their next move.

Before Eddy could answer Kevin pulls up next to them and Nazz leans out the front passenger window; "Get in guys." She yells at them.

The boys quickly run to the car and Eddy pulls open the door and Ed jumps in followed by Eddy.

"Thanks Kevin, we owe you one." Eddy says as he puts on his seat belt as Kevin puts the car in gear and starts down the road.

"You guys can just buy me a pizza some time to pay us back for saving you." Kevin says not looking back at the two in his back seat.

"Yeah, we couldn't just leave you at the mercy of those Kanker's. Wait, where is Double Dee?" Nazz asks turning around in her seat to look at the two Ed's.

"He didn't follow us, I just assumed he went his own way." Eddy says.

"Oh no Eddy! What if Marie got him!?" Ed says starting to worry over his friend.

"Relax Ed, he probably just ran for his bus to his lame science thing." Eddy says leaning back in his seat.

While this was going on Lee and May are standing where Ed and Eddy had gotten into Kevin's car.

"That's no fair Lee, we almost had them." May says looking sad.

"Damn that Kevin and Nazz, always spoiling our fun. Come on lets go see if Marie at least got Double Dee." Lee says turning around to walk back into the school building.

But they couldn't find their sister any ware in the building and they eventually had to leave assuming that she was successful and had Edd back at the trailer. But in fact she was still stuck in the closest with an unconscious Edd.

Marie had tried several more times to get the door open but it was to no avail. It was stuck shut and it wasn't moving. Marie was sitting on the floor beside Edd with her legs crossed and her chin resting in her hands. She had put his messenger bag under his head as a makeshift pillow.

"What are we going to do Double Dee?" Marie says to Edd knowing full well that he won't answer. She's already tried to wake him several times over the past two hours that the have been stuck but he wouldn't wake so she just accepted that he will wake up on his own.

"Uhhhh..." Edd says as he starts to finally wake.

Marie jumps to kneeling next to him. "Edd, are you awake?" She asks.

"Yes mother I." Edd started to say, but when he opened his eyes and sees Marie looking over him he jumps up to a sitting position and backs away into the corner of the room. "Marie what did you do to me? Why am I in this room with you? And why dose my head hurt?" He puts his head into his hands from the pain.

"You don't remember?" Marie asks him.

"Oh course I do, I was just hoping that it wasn't what really what happened to me!" Edd says looking up at her.

"I'm sorry Double Dee, I didn't want to hurt you." Marie says crawling over to him.

"Then why did you trap me in here with you and then proceeded to have your way with me?" Edd snaps at her.

"I I'm sorry Double Dee, it was just meant to be some harmless fun." Marie says stopping and sitting still a good distance away from him.

"Fun? You call being chased around the school and then being trapped by the person that scares you more than anything fun?!" Edd says looking at her with anger on his face.

"I scare you more than anything?" Marie says surprised by what he said. She didn't think that he feared her that much.

"You and your sisters torment me and my friends on a daily basses. If someone were to constantly invade your comfort zone for the past four years you too would hate them." He glares at her.

Marie was in complete shock, Edd has never said that he hates her before. She felt heartbroken that the boy she likes just said he hates her.

Marie looks down at the ground; "I'm really sorry Double Dee, never wanted you to hate." She feels tears come to her eyes.

Edd see Marie tear up. "Marie, are you ok?" He asks losing the anger he just had.

"I'm Fine." She says sharply turning away from him.

Edd starts to crawl over to her. "Marie I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. It was the head wound talking not me."

She whipped her eyes smudging her eye liner and looks around to him. "You mean it?"

"Yes, while I do not enjoy your actions. I could never hate you for it." Edd says smiling at her.

Marie wipes her eyes again as she turned back to face him. She looked him in the eyes and sees the sincerity in them. She jumps at him and hugs him. "Edd I am so sorry! I never thought that we bothered you boys THAT much. We were just doing what Lee said to do to get you guys to like us." Marie says confessing to Edd.

"It's quite alright, now why are we still in here this broom closet?" Edd asks ignoring her little confession of why she does what she does.

"The door is stuck, I couldn't get it opened." May says letting go of him.

"Humm let me take a look." Edd says getting up from the floor and walking over to the door. He looks over the door examining the lock and the hinges of the door all while saying "Humm". After a minute of looking it over a light goes off in his head. "Ah ha!" He says and starts looking around the closet for the tools he needs. He looks trough the shelves and finds a putty knife and some extra strength graffiti remover.

"This should do the trick." he says returning to the door with the tools in hand.

"What are you going to do?" Marie asks curios as to how the items in Edd's hand will help to free them.

"Well Marie it appears that the door has been improperly painted several times over the years and due to all the extra layers of paint, and probably the wood swelling as well, the door just became too big for the frame and when it was slammed shut it became quite literally jammed shut." Edd says as he starts to unscrewed the cap off the graffiti remover. "And this graffiti remover should allow me to loosen the paint to where we will be able to open the door." Edd to go to work poring a small stream of the remover on the long edge of the door letting it run all the way to the floor and uses the putty knife to get it into the space between the door and frame. He repeats this action over and over again slowly weakening the paint.

It takes several minutes for Edd's plan to work all the while Marie just stat on the floor in silence as Edd worked. Course that didn't stop her from enjoying the view of "her man" working to free them from her own trap. 'Wow, Double Dee is really smart on top of being really cutie' Marie thinks as she watches him work with a look of pure focus on his face.

"Alright, that should do it. Marie will you be kind enough to help me with this part? My lack of physical strength will make this part undoable by myself." Edd asks turning to look at Marie.

"Um sure, what do you need me to do?" She asks getting up off the floor.

"I just need you to push on the door with me." He says taking ahold of the door knob and turning it.

"Ok, I can do that." She stands right behind him resisting her Kanker urge to tease him.

"On the count of three we hit the door, ready?"

"Ready."

"One... two... Three." And on the count of three the two teenagers hit the door with their combined strength and it swings open with them stumbling out of the closest.

"Ta da." Edd says boasting after regaining his composer.

"I knew you could do it Double Dee. Now let's get out of... Hey where is everybody?" Marie says looking around the school hall way and seeing that there is no one around.

"How long where we in there?" Edd asks her as he looks around the school himself.

"I don't know, I don't own a watch."

Edd pulls out his pocket watch his parents had given him for getting a perfect final report card for freshmen year. "Oh my lord! School had ended almost three hours ago." Edd says when he sees that his clock was approaching six thirty in the evening. "I missed my bus." He says falling to the ground sitting on his knees.

"I'm sorry Double Dee, it's not that far to walk back to the cul-de-sack." Marie says looking down at him.

"It's not that, I was scheduled to attend a weekend science lecture with my Junior Scientists Club and they have most certainly already left for the city by now." He says with disappointment in his voice.

Marie started to feel guilty for him missing his event even though her and her sisters were planning on imprisoning him and his two best friends for the weekend. "Will there be another one?" She asks as she sits down in front of him.

"Sadly no there won't be, it was a rare assurance and I even worked several extra hours to earn enough extra income to pay for the trip."

"Double Dee..." was all Marie could think to say, the look of disappointment on his face was the saddest thing she's ever seen. She reaches her hand out to him but takes it back thinking he didn't want to be touched at the moment.

He takes a deep breath to regain his thoughts. "Ok let's leave the school grounds before we are caught being in here after hours." He says standing up and pushing his grief to the back of his mind.

Marie stands and they take a few steps towards the door then Edd stops. "Oh my bag!" He turns and reenters the closet and grabs his bag off the floor where it still laid.

When they got to the door Edd pulls the handle down. But the door doesn't open. He tries again and then the other one whit it didn't work. "Oh dear. It appears to be locked from the outside." He says as he tries the second door again.

"Don't you have a cell phone? Call someone." Marie asks him.

"It's against the rules to have them with us so I leave it at home." Edd says answering her question.

"Ok, well I could break a window and we could get out that way." Marie suggests looking at the window on the wall.

"Havens no! Breaking a window is extremely against the rules!" Edd says shocked that she suggested him to break a rule.

"Then what? We stay here in the school till someone comes on Monday morning?" Marie asks putting her hands on her hips giving him a questioning look.

"I'm sure someone will come by before then, but for now we will have to make due in the school." Edd says trying to reassure her that they will not have to spend the next two days in the school. "What about your sisters? Surely they will come looking for you or call the authorities when you don't come home soon."

"You don't know my sisters very well, they won't care, they will think I just suck off to go to a concert or something." Marie says looking away with a look of anger on her face.

"I had no idea Marie." Edd says feeling a little sad for her.

"Its fine, so what are we going to do for food if we are going to be stuck in here?" She asks looking back at him.

"Well the cafeteria is probably locked so that's out. I know that there is vending machine in the teachers' lounge, we could see if it is open." Edd says scratching his chin thinking.

"Lead the way Mr. Smarty-pants." Marie says smiling and standing to the side to let him pass in front of her.

Edd lets out a small giggle at the name she just called him and walked past her towards the teachers' lounge. They walk in silence down the hall to the lounge. Edd was thinking of how much it stinks that he is missing the bus to his weekend lecture and how he may have to stay in the school with Marie Kanker, a girl that he normally would avoid at all costs. Marie on the other had saw this weekend trapped in the school as an opportunity to changed Edd's option on her. She doubted that she could make him fall for her but maybe with a little luck she could get him to see her as a friend and to hopefully sow the seeds of something more.

They reached the teachers' lounge and just as Edd had suspected the door was also locked. "Well this is not good." He says turning the locked door knob.

"How are we going to get in? I'm getting really hungry." Marie says looking in to the room through the small window on the door. "Could you pick the lock?" She asks looking to Edd.

"I could, but that is also against the rules Marie."

"This is more important than some damn rule Double Dee, if you don't want to do it the easy way I'll just do it my way and bust out the window." She says knocking on the window with her knuckles.

"Fine fine Marie, but don't expect this to be a recurring event." Edd says as he reached up under his hat and pulls out one of the bobby pins holding his hair in place. He kneels down in front of the door and starts to bend the pin in to a needed shape and sticks it into the lock.

Marie having never seen what is under Edd's hat was curious as to why he had a bob pin under it. "Double Dee why do you have." She started to ask but he cut her off with a "Shhhh".

"Please can I have some quite while I work? This is very tricky." He says looking up to her. Marie decides to hold her question till later and leans against the lockers next to the door in silence to let him work.

It takes Edd a few minutes of working to finally get the lock to pop open and with a turn of the knob and a push he opens the door. "There we go." He says getting up from the floor.

"Good job Double Dee." Marie says. She pecks him on the cheek with a little kiss as she walks into the room. Edd was not expecting the kiss and lost his train of thought, he shakes his head and follows her into the room.

Inside the room is the vending machine they are looking for as well as a small couch with a blanket on it and a circular table with three chairs around it.

"Yay food!" Marie says looking at the rows of junk food inside the machine. It dawns on Marie that she has no money to buy any of it and she knows that Edd would not let her brake it to get at the food. "Umm Double Dee, do you happen to have some cash you could lend me so I could get something to eat? I'll pay you back when I can." She asks looking from the machine to him.

"Do not worry, as a gentleman it is expected to purchase sustenance for a lady when she cannot provide some for herself." Edd say as he pulls out his leather wallet and removes several bills.

"Thank you Double Dee, that is really nice of you." Marie says smiling at him.

"No thanks needed Marie, it is all part of the gentlemen's code." He says as he sticks one of the bills into the vending machine and pushes a couple of buttons to make his choice.

"There is a gentlemen's code?" She asks him as he feeds another bill into the machine.

"I cannot say for curtain if there is an official written code book or not, but it is something my father would say when he'd talk to be about the do's and don'ts of being polite to others." he says as he makes his fourth selection of food and starts to retrieve them from the tray on the bottom of the machine. Edd stands up and hands her one of the two packages of the peanut butter cracker sandwiches as well as one of the bags of little oatmeal cookies (theses being the healthiest items in the vending machine).

"Thanks, that is very noble of you Double Dee. Most of the guys in this school are just rude pigs." Marie says taking the food from him and flipping a chair from the table around before sitting in it with her arms resting on the back of it.

"I'm sure not all of them are, though I do have to agree that most of them are not up to the standers my parents have raised me to." He says sitting down at the table himself and opening his crackers.

"Always looking for the bright light in the world aren't you?" She asks ripping open her cookies.

"Someone has to keep humanity looking good." He says smiling.

"Did you just make a joke? Oh my god I've never heard you make a joke before Double Dee."

"Well this is the longest we have talked to each other." Edd says in between bites.

"Yeah, it's nice to just talk you know?" Marie says trying to keep any sort of conversation going with him.

"I have to agree that it is far more enjoyable than the normal events that unfold when we are both within proximity of each other." He says finishing his crackers.

"Maybe for you." She says giving him a wicked grin. "Don't worry Double Dee." She says when she sees the look of worry cross his face. "I promise that my days of forcing myself on to you are done." She says smiling at him.

Edd was relieved that the days of being stocked and attacked by Marie where over with. "I'm glad to hear that you are giving up on stocking me and chasing me around the school and cul-de-sack are done."

"Oh don't get me wrong, I'm still going to stock you and chase you. Just not tackle you and have my way with you, I can't give up all my evil ways. But I won't chase you around for a while though, you deserve a break from all that." She says reassuring him that her evil ways are not ending anytime soon.

"Is there anything I could do to get all of it to stop?" Edd asks her.

"Humm..." she says looking off into the distance to think. "Marrying me probably." She says looking him in the eyes with a serious look on her face.

Edd's face started turning red at her answer and she starts laughing at him. "I'm kidding Double Dee, maybe, come on we have the whole school to ourselves. Let's go have some fun." She stands up and grabs his wrist and pulls him out of the room and down the hall.

They wonder the halls in silence stopping at random doors so Marie could try opening them and when they wouldn't open she'd ask him to open it for her and he'd tell her that he shouldn't open any that aren't needed for their stay in the school. Which she would replay to him with a "your no fun", or a "lame". They eventually come to the library which has no doors just a brick archway for an entrance.

"We could entertain ourselves with some good reading material." Edd says as they stand outside the library.

"It's better than nothing." Marie says and walks into the big room full of books.

The two teens wonder the isle of the libraries Edd looking at the titles for something to catch his eyes that he'd like to read and Marie barely looking at any. While reading was one of Edd's favorite pass times, Marie really didn't care for it. Edd eventually finds himself in the spare text book section and pulls down a physics book meant for the senior class. Marie was in the art books, she hasn't told many people but Marie has a soft spot for art and her art class is the only one she actively participates in. She finds a book about graffiti art and decides to give it a look through. Marie finds Edd sitting in one of the arm chairs already reading through the text book.

"Isn't that a course book for the senior science class?" She asks sitting down next to him.

"Yes it is, but it never hurts to stay ahead of the game and as a man of science myself I need to stay well informed." He says looking up from the book.

Marie opens her book and starts to flip through it "Whatever you say Double Dee."

The two sit in silence reading, Edd was completely focused on his book but Marie was flipping through her book stopping to look over a painting she liked. Every so often Marie would sneak a look at Edd and smile to herself enjoying the fact that she is technically hanging out with him.

'This is going great, he's sitting next to me and isn't trying to run away.' Marie thinks taking another glance at him and smiles.

Marie was reaching the end of her book and turned to Edd to ask him about where they should sleep for the night when the lights all go out. "Eeep!" Marie yells and jumps into Edd's lap and hugs his neck somehow not knocking his book out of his hands. "Double Dee, what happened to the lights?" She says squeezing his neck.

"The school must have the lights on a timer. Looks like we won't have any light for the night." He says looking up to the celling.

"I don't like the dark Double Dee." She says closing her eyes and squeezing him tighter.

She was squeezing him too tight and he started having trouble breathing. "Marie." He says trying to inhale. "I can't breathe." He gets out with the last bit of air he had in his lounges.

"Oh." She says loosening her grip on his neck. "Sorry, I just got scared. I really don't like the dark."

"It's ok, if you get off me I might have something in my bag to make it easier to see." He says to her. Marie is a little reluctant at first to get off him, she felt safe from the unknown of the dark on his lap. She eventually sides off his lap to let him stand, but she holds onto his arm with both hands to keep herself feeling safe.

Edd starts digging through his bag until he finds what he's looking. "Here it is." He says as he clicks on the little flash light he had in his messenger bag. "There we go." He says holding is up.

Marie snatches it out of his and points it around the room but still holds his arm. When her fear of the dark had subsided she let go of his arm. "Double Dee, can we go back the lounge? I don't want to be in here anymore." She asks pointing the light at him so she can see him.

"Might as well, we can spend the night there." He says and he picks his bag up.

Marie leads the way out of the library and down the hall towards the lounge waving the flash light to the left and right. The walk back to the lounge felt longer to Marie that it was, she really didn't like the dark even though she was a Kanker and Kanker's are not supposed to be afraid of anything. But Marie has never liked the dark for as long as she could remember. She feels a sense of relief when they reach the teachers' lounge. She walks into the room and when Edd walks in she shuts the door and feels a lot safer.

Edd places his bag onto the table and looks over to Marie who was sitting on the couch; "So you can sleep there on the couch and I'll sleep on the floor."

Marie points the light at him. "I can't let you sleep on the floor." She says in protest to his proposal.

"I won't take no for an answer Marie. It is rude and impolite to let a lady sleep on the floor when better sleeping accommodations are available." He says holding up his right index finger like he was lecturing her.

Marie couldn't help but let out a small giggle at him. "Ok, Double Dee, But if you wake up all stiff and in pain tomorrow don't blame me."

"I assure you I will be fine. I have survived sleeping in Ed's room before." He says as he sits down on the floor.

Marie giggles at his second attempt at telling a joke. "Alright well um, good night Double Dee." Marie says as she lies down on the couch and pulls the blanket over herself.

"Sleep well Marie." Edd says lying down on his back and resting his head in his hands.

Marie takes one last look at Edd and then turns off the flashlight.

Marie snaps awake in the middle of the night. She had forgotten where she was at first but it all came back to her when she realized she was still in her cloth and not pajamas. She turns on the flash light and looks over at Edd with a smile but it quickly fades when she see that he is shivering on the floor. He is asleep but curled up in a ball trying to keep warm. Without even stopping to think Marie gets up off the couch and drags the blanket over to him. She kneels down next to him and pulls the blanket over him. Right as she tucks it around his shoulder he stops shivering. She's about to go back to the couch when her eyes fall on his hat.

'I wonder what he has under there.' She thinks as she looks at the hat. She knows she shouldn't look, but her curiosity was getting the better of her. Slowly she lifts up his hat and looks under it.

"Oh my." She whispers when she sees his hair. 'His hair is amazing, sure it looks silly all pined up like that. But he would look so handsome if he let it show.' She thinks as she gently touches his hair. Her touch caused him to stir and she jumped letting his hat fall back to his head. She quickly scrambled back onto the couch and pretended to be sleeping. But when he didn't wake up she let out a sigh of relief and closes her eyes.