Chapter four: Bright horizon

In the days that fallowed after Edd moved out of his house and stayed with Eddy, his relationship with Marie had patched up pretty well, if anything it had improved greatly. The two teens were almost inseparable; the only time they weren't together was when they didn't have the same classroom or when Edward had to go home. If it wasn't for Momma Kanker's 'no boy's can stay in the house' rule, Double-D would've gladly moved in with his girlfriend.

"Could you be any slower Romeo?" Eddy snapped at his friend who was lagging behind due to the fact he was walking to school with his beloved like his friends were.

"Mind your own business before I hang you with your own tongue!" Marie snarled back

The green tongued boy shut his big mouth and continued to walk with his Kanker to the high school. As always Ed and May where completely oblivious to everything around them, they were too caught up in a debate about who would win a fight between the zombie cyborg from the twelfth planet and the ninja werewolf from the fifth circle of Hades.

As the Eds and their girlfriends entered the school, Double-D noticed Kevin from across the hall, taking out some books for his class from his locker. The jock had stayed away from the cap-wearing boy since Marie had returned to her lover's side, but Edd knew the second his blue haired beloved left him alone for just a minute, Kevin would finish what he started days ago. The boy's girlfriend noticed the boy's fear in his eyes and touched his shoulder in comfort.

"Is there something wrong babe?" she asked

"I-it's nothing my dear" he stammered sheepishly

"I doubt that" the trailer park red neck responded "now what's going on?"

Edward looked into her eyes, there was no point of hiding from his gothic goddess; took a deep breath and prepared to explain his strange behavior to his love.

"Kevin knocked out sock-head because you broke his wrist!" Eddy blurted out who was then smacked over the head by Lee

"Thank you Eddy" Edd sarcastically thanked

Marie's face turned bright red with rage. She then stormed over to the star football player and spun him around to face her.

"Hey what give-"Kevin objected until her say his attacker's face, which made him nearly wet his pants "uh….hi Marie"

"I thought I told you to stay away from my Edd?" she barked in his face

"W-what are you going to do?" the big chinned boy asked in fear

The middle Kanker sister suddenly tackled her victim and assaulted him with her most deadly attack she had in her arsenal of wrestling moves: the bone buster for all to see.

"Way cool!" Ed cheered "look at Kevin's head twist Eddy!"

"Woah!" Eddy said in horror "I hope you don't break up with her Double-D"

"Duly noted" Edward replied as he looked on, stunned

"Holy mackerel!" Jimmy shrieked in terror "its hideous Sarah!"

"I know, Isn't it neat Jimmy?" she answered her friend

"I've never seen a person's spine bend like that either Plank" Johnny said to the piece of wood

"That's so gross dude" Nazz commented

"The blue haired she-devil is angered! Rolf must seek refuge at once!" Rolf exclaimed in fear as he pulled out his pet giant clam Bo-Bo, he leaped inside it and slammed the massive mollusk shut.

"Ah, the good ol' bone buster" Lee spoke up with a bit of nostalgia in her voice "I ain't seen Marie use that since she got in that fight with May over the TV remote"

"Yeah" her blonde haired sister added "I still can't feel my brain"

After the jaw-dropping onslaught was over the Kanker sister dusted her hands off and walked back to Edd with a big smile of triumph on her face.

"Don't worry about him anymore baby" she informed him with a kiss on the cheek "he won't ever bother you again"

Double-D's fear of his girlfriend's power turned into gratitude. He smirked evilly and walked over to Kevin who had been contorted into a human pretzel.

"Hell hath no fury like a Kanker scorn Kevin" he began smugly "now I must bid you adew"

"Dork!" the now walking freak show cried out as the Eds and the Kankers walked away

….

After school the Eds and the Kanker's kissed their girlfriends good-bye until seeing them again later today. As the trailer park girls walked home, May noticed a car was pulling up beside them.

"We got company" she told her sisters

As the other girls turned their attention to the oncoming car, Marie immediately recognized the driver. It was Double-D's father and by the look on his face, he wasn't coming up to them to say hello.

"Home wrecker!" He shouted at his son's lover before speeding off

In a fit of anger Marie picked up a rock and chucked it at the man's car, busting one of his tail lights out.

"That was him wasn't it?" Lee asked as she put her hand on her sister's shoulder thoughtfully "Double-D's dad"

The blue haired girl spun around and threw her arms around her older sister. She began to cry deeply while Lee held her tightly in a compassionate hug which May joined in.

"Don't worry sis, if he knows what's good for him he'll stay away from you" the eldest Kanker soothed

"Thanks Lee" Marie replied softly, wiping away the tears from her eyes

With that, the three trailer park girls continued their walk home. Along the way there the girls made fun of the cap wearing Ed's parents.

….

The moment the three sisters stepped inside their home, they saw that their mother was talking to one of the objects of their jokes on the sofa.

"Hello girls" their mother greeted happily "I want you to meet Edd's mother, Jocelyn"

Once again, Marie's face became a façade of rage. She attempted to lash out and strangle the woman, but was held back by Lee and May.

"Get her out of here!" she snarled

"Marie Josephine Kanker!" her mother scolded using her full name "Do you have any manners?"

"No, it's alright" the women said "I deserved that, but I'd like to talk to Marie alone and explain myself and my husband's actions"

Momma Kanker nodded and ushered her other two daughters out of the living room, allowing Edd's mother to speak.

"I'd like to say that you have my deepest apologies for the other night" she began "The same goes for my husband"

"Right and I guess I should also forgive him for calling me a home wrecker twenty minutes ago to right?" The trailer park girl said in a sarcastic tone

She heard the older women curse under her breath before speaking again.

"You'll have to excuse his behavior; he's been drinking since Edward left the house" the Kanker's boyfriend's mother explained "he's taken our son's departure very hard"

"Well if he loved his son so much then maybe he should've been a bit nicer to me" Marie replied brashly

"You have to understand that Gregory only acted like that is because he had a hard childhood" Jocelyn answered "He was picked on constantly picked on by people of your nature"

"Spare me the 'my childhood was wreck' B.S" the red neck girl answered dryly "he's an adult, he should know how to act by now"

"Yes but-"

"And another thing, you shouldn't be apologizing for your husband's screw up's" the blue haired beauty interrupted "I thank you for coming down here to explain yourself, but he needs to do the same"

"I…understand" Edd's mother acknowledged softly

There was a silence in the room for a full minute until Marie spoke again.

"There's something I want to know" she asked "Why did you join in with Edd's father in harassing me"

"I didn't mean anything by it" Jocelyn defended "Gregory said you were a bad influence on our son so I thought we were just scaring you off"

The young girl grinded her teeth at the older women's explanation for her insult's, She had called a bad influence before (among other things) but Double-D's lifestyle changes where on his own, not because of her.

"But now I see he loves you more than anything else in the world" the cap wearing boy's mom continued "I only want to see my Edward happy, and if all he wants is you then that's ok with me"

Jocelyn stood up and walked up to the girl that she insulted days ago and hugged her tightly. Marie smiled and returned the hug. A few seconds later Edd's mother broke off the hug and headed out the door, leaving the Kanker with the happiest feeling since her first real kiss with her favorite Sock-Head.

….

"…And that's what happened" Marie explained her day to Edd over the phone

"Well I can't say it's all right as rain since there's still the issue of my father" Double-D replied "but it's getting there"

"So I was thinking Edd…" she said seductively "Maybe we could skip over the movie for tomorrow's date and just get caught up on our 'Biology'"

"Oh-la-la!" another voice that was phone line exclaimed "X-rated"

"Eddy get off the line!" Edward ordered his friend

"Or what?" the smaller Ed snickered

"Or I'll reach through this phone and pull you inside out!" The punk Kanker threatened

"You two have no sense of humor" Eddy mentioned

"Now Eddy!" the two lovers shouted into the phones, nearly making the greedy boy go deaf in one ear

"Alright, alright sheesh!" he growled as he hung up the phone

"Now as I was saying" Edd's girlfriend started "I was thinking about wearing-"

"Hello?" Ed's voice asked on the phone line "Is this the robot planet in the third dimension?"

"You know what, I'll tell you tomorrow" the middle Kanker sister sighed

"Ok then, goodnight my beloved" Double-D replied with a small chuckle "I love you"

"Goodnight baby" she cooed "love you too"

Edd hung up the phone and hummed joyful a little tune as he walked back to Eddy's room where is friend was sitting on his bed, hoping he didn't lose his hearing.

"What are you doing?" the three haired Ed questioned

"Oh nothing" Edward answered "just humming hallelujah"

….

"Hello...Hello?" Ed said into the phone in his room "any robots there?"

The End

A/N: I hope you all enjoyed my first Edd/Marie fic; there will be a sequel to this story which I will be writing soon.