Hello my beautiful readers! This is my first KevEdd story, so tell me what you think! Remember, this is Slash, as in Man on Man romance, so leave if that makes you uncomfortable.

This will be a One Shot unless someone asks me to continue it.

Enjoy!

"Greetings, fellow members of Peach Creek," Edd said as he climbed awkwardly onto a park bench, "I am certain you are all wondering why I have requested your presence here today." Edd was sweating bullets, tugging at the collar of his signature red shirt to try and release some of the heat building inside his body.

"Get on with it already!" Eddy yelled. Edd's little meeting had postponed a scam Eddy was particularly excited about, which had made the shortest Ed irritable.

"Yes, yes," Edd nodded, "I assure you, I will be brief. You see, through the years, I have come to know all of you quite well and do consider most of you my friends… it is because of this fact that I cannot stand to keep a rather large part of myself hidden from you any longer." Edd paused, his mouth suddenly going very dry.

"What, are you coming out of the closet or something?" Eddy barked, "Spit it out already, sock-head!"

Edd stared at his shoes, suddenly regretting that he had ever decided to confide in the children of the cal-de-sac.

"Wait, you're not… coming out of the closet, right?" Naz asked with her eyes narrowed.

"Well," Edd shifted from one foot to the other, "yes, I am."

There was silence among the crowd, a silence that made Edd's stomach drop. Then, someone started laughing. Soon, they were all laughing. For a minute, Edd held onto the hope that they were laughing for a positive reason, like that they had known all along and had just been waiting for him to announce it. But then he felt a jolt and a sharp pain in his shoulder.

Edd looked down to see a small rock at his feet. He looked into the crowd to see Sarah, arm still raised in the air. Edd's heart sank.

"Faggot!" Sarah spat as the rest continued to laugh.

With his heart in his shoes, Edd ran home.

He was actually surprised he was able to run all the way to his house, but never the less, he arrived on his doorstep with no breath in his lungs or feeling in his chest. The frail boy opened his front door with weak arms and entered the empty house.

Edd looked around at all the post-it notes stuck around the house, post-it notes he put up to make himself feel less alone.

Edd suddenly felt very much alone, and now not even the post-it notes could help. A rage previously unknown to the smartest Ed bubbled rapidly to his surface. With so many raw emotions Edd had kept bottled up inside, he snapped. Edd screamed as he tore his house apart with a strength he had not known he possessed. He flipped tables and smashed mirrors and shattered dozens of framed pictures of a family that no longer existed.

Kevin walked home alone. He kicked a rock with each step, mostly as an excuse to keep his head down. He didn't want anyone to see the emotions on his face: the anger, the sadness, the regret. He wondered if Edd had noticed he hadn't laughed. He wondered if Edd had noticed him looking sympathetically up at him. He probably hadn't, Kevin knew that. Kevin also knew that he should've done more; he should have punched Eddy in the face, taken the rock away from Sarah, stood up on the bench beside the smartest Ed and told everyone exactly where they could shove their laughter.

"Dammit!" Kevin yelled at the rock as he kicked it as hard as he could. He followed the rock's path with his eyes; he watched it land in a yard. Edd's yard to be exact.

From his place in the road, Kevin looked up the yard and towards the house he had known since childhood. Today, however, the house offered him a view of something he had never seen and never thought he would see.

Kevin found himself caught in some horrified stupor as he watched what the house had to offer him, and without him realizing it, he was walking up the lawn. Even when he reached the door to the house, he wasn't entirely aware of what he was doing.

He had no plan, to course of action, all he knew was that he had to do something and whatever that something was, it was about to happen.

Without knocking, Kevin entered the house and was immediately hit with an earth shattering sound that broke his heart in two. Kevin didn't have to search long before he found Edd; all he had to do was follow the crashes, the shatters, the screams, the sobs.

Edd was in what Kevin guessed was his bedroom, shattering picture frames against a wall, his back to Kevin.

He didn't consider how Edd might react and at the moment, he didn't care. All Kevin could think about was how Edd's body was shaking with rage and sorrow and dejection and how he wanted to make it stop. With that in mind, Kevin gave no warning before pulling Edd into his arms.

Edd froze in surprise and terror as he was pulled against the unknown body, but he quickly recognized the smell of testosterone and motor oil and went limp in Kevin's arms.

Slowly, the two sunk to the floor, Kevin shifting Edd onto his lap so he could hold him tighter.

At first, neither boy spoke. Edd couldn't as his sobs rattled his small frame and Kevin thought it best to allow Edd time to calm down first. Eventually, however, Edd's sobs quieted to soft sniffs and the pair knew dialog would need to happen sooner or later.

"I'm sorry," Kevin whispered, breaking the heavy silence.

"What are you doing here, Kevin?" Edd asked, his face still pressed against the jock's chest in favor of letting him see his tear-stained cheeks.

"I saw you through the window when I was walking home and I couldn't just… leave you here alone," Kevin cringed slightly at his less than impressive explanation.

Edd scoffed, which surprised Kevin since Edd was always unnervingly polite, "well, I'm fine now, so you can leave." At that, Edd moved to push away from Kevin, his face still downcast.

"No, you're not," Kevin said, tightening his hold on the smaller boy, keeping him from moving farther away.

"Let me go, Kevin!" Edd ordered, pushing harder against Kevin's chest, but to no avail.

"No," Kevin insisted, "I just walked in on you smashing picture frames against your wall and I had to walk through that disaster area of a living room to get here, I know you're not fine. Look, I know you're hurting, and I'm sorry our friends are a bunch of assholes."

"They're not my friends," Edd muttered, giving up on his struggle against Kevin and resigning himself to sitting rigidly on Kevin's lap.

"They are your friends, Double D," Kevin sighed, holding him closer despite Edd's resistance, "they just… don't know how to deal with…"

"Don't try to make up excuses for them!" Edd shouted, thrashing against Kevin violently, but then settling on staring venomously into the sympathetic green eyes before him, "they're not my friends. If they were my friends, they wouldn't have laughed in my face." Edd's face was flushed with anger now, "and you're no better than the rest of them."

Kevin felt like he had just been socked in the gut and it took several tries before words would come from his mouth, "I'm sorry," Kevin looked at Edd with pleading eyes, "I know I should've done something, but I froze. I didn't expect them to react that way when you said that… I'm sorry."

Edd didn't reply, which Kevin felt was probably worse than if Edd had started screaming at him again.

"If you want me to go, I'll go," Kevin sighed, "but don't think that I didn't do anything because I don't care or because I feel the same as they do… and if you believe me, then let me stay."

Edd stared into Kevin's eyes a moment longer before shifting his eyes to the wall beside them and for a second Kevin was afraid he was going to be thrown out.

"I believe you," Edd whispered in a defeated voice.

"Good," Kevin smiled sadly before standing up, with Edd in his arms, and sitting the both of them down on Edd's bed.

Kevin almost laughed when he saw the bewildered look that spread across Edd's face as he looked up at him.

"Why are you being nice to me?" Edd asked, suddenly averting his gaze and attempting to hide the blush that was creeping onto his cheeks.

"Because, like I said before," Kevin smiled as he scooted up so his head rested on a pillow and pulled Edd along with him so they were lying beside each other, Kevin's head propped on his hand so he could look down to the other boy, "I care about you, Double D."

"But, why are you," Edd's blush darkened as he indicated the fact that they were on a bed with a nod, "when you know I'm…"

Kevin looked at Edd and, at first, didn't answer, because he didn't have an answer to give. Kevin didn't know why he had felt such an intense need to comfort Edd when he had seen his breakdown from the window, or why he had pulled him into his arms without a second thought, or why he had felt comfortable with lying beside him on his bed and even now had no intension of changing that fact. So, instead of making up a reason or making Edd wait until he figured it out himself, Kevin decided to answer with a quiet "I really don't know,"

Edd nodded understandingly at Kevin, "it's okay to not know sometimes."

"Yeah," Kevin smiled gratefully, laying his head back on the pillow "I suppose so."

Edd smiled slightly, and Kevin was utterly convinced that it was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen in his entire life. Feeling much lighter now, Kevin didn't think twice before pulling Edd against his chest and rubbing small circles along the smaller boy's shoulder.

"K-Kevin," Edd stammered, caught off guard by the action.

"Shut it, dork," Kevin chuckled teasingly, "I'm emotionally drained now and I'm guessing you are too, so I think we should take a nap and then set to work cleaning up your mess."

Edd shuttered slightly as he remembered the chaos his normally immaculate home was in, but also suddenly felt extremely tired, so he nodded against Kevin's chest before shifting into a comfortable position and letting the drum of Kevin's heart lull him to sleep.

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