Authors note: I do not own any of these characters. C2ndy2c1d owns Nat and human Plank

Edd sighed with frustration as the last bell rang on the last day of his junior year in high school. An entire two and a half months will pass before he could have homework to take his mind off of his life. Sure, there was science camp but that never lasted long enough. His parents won't come back until the week before school starts to take him shopping, even though they could always just transfer the money into his bank account like they did every week for groceries and recreational use.

Walking to his locker to get the last of his belongings, he felt eyes on him. He looked back, seeing Kevin and a guy with bright aquamarine hair standing at the end of the hallway, Kevin had his eyes set on Edd while the other guy was pointing to him and talking fast and angrily at Kevin. Shrugging slightly but also blushing at the awkward moment that just passed, Edd turned back to his locker. The hall had cleared except for Kevin and his friend. He heard feet stomping behind him and saw Kevin's friend huffing off. Edd closed his locker and turned the lock into the last teacher he had.

Edd walked out into the empty hallway and headed to the stairs to find Kevin pacing in front of the stairs. Edd cleared his throat.

"Greetings, Kevin!" Edd said, giving him a small smile. "Have a lovely summer!" He cheered as he passed the somewhat distressed jock.

"Wait, dork. I needa talk to ya bout somethin'." Kevin sighed through his nose.

Edd simply turned to him, eyes slightly widened.

"I know I used to bully you dorks all the time when we were younger but I was jut wondering if we were cool? I just wanna be your friend." Kevin looked genuinely worried.

Edd smiled widely, flashing his gap toothed smile that took Kevin's breath away. "The past is the past Kevin. You don't need to worry about me. Of course we can be friends." Kevin smiled, muttered something about texting him later and then walked in the opposite direction from the dork.

Edd reunited with his close friends from the cul de sac in his driveway. Ed grinned loopy like always and eddy raised hell about him taking forever to get back home.

The boys watched movies and ed and eddy snacked on popcorn and candy all night while Edd wondered how their stomachs could manage all the junk they put in their bodies. Around seven Edd texted Kevin.

Kevin

"damn dork, took ya long enough!"

Edd

"I guess I did indeed take some time to revel in my thoughts about sending you a message." Edd giggled silently.

Kevin

"Well I'm glad you did."

Kevin

"er... I mean, Nazz is having an end of the year party tomorrow. I know Eddy is going so you two other dweebs should go with him."

Edd blushed a little. The party scene was not his way of being comfortable enough to socialize. He bit his lip and thought.

Edd

"Well I assure you that Eddy has already pledged us to go, so you will see me there. Although I am not sure how long I will allow myself to stay for I am not comfortable in rather large crowds inside rather small spaces."

Edd laughed a little at his reply to Kevin.

Eddy became aware that double d was texting someone and became impatient trying to get his attention back.

Kevin

"well, just as long as I get to see you there. Night Double Dork."

Kevin placed his phone on the bedside table and sighed. He felt the tight knot in his stomach. He'd been crushing on the dork since sixth grade but didn't realize until seventh grade and finally accepted it in eighth grade. Although he would never even dream of telling the dork but he surely wanted to a few times. He watched edd from the corner of his eyes all the time. The fragile looking teen boy had been all Kevin could think about for years. There were times where he slept with other girls, a one night stand kind of deal, and he imagined the dork moaning and yelling his name instead of some hussie.

Kevin was always afraid of rejection from the nerd. He confided in Nat and Nazz about his feelings, they both approved of him coming out to them, and encouraged his feelings for Edd. They wanted to see Kevin happy, they tried for months before giving up to find out if double d had the same feelings. But he was a brick wall when you got onto the emotional level with him. He was always quiet and kind, using his intelligent language that most people don't understand.

Kevin was head over heels for the dork. The dork who used to design the things that the other two dork wads needed for the schemes eddy made up. The dork who nearly lost his friendship with eddy because he didn't want to do bad things to or for people.

This was more than a crush.