eene: befriending edd hcs
A/N: kid was rad. i related to him a lot and still do a lil- i actually had a tooth gap way back when too before i got braces and yes, it whistled. never could really work the beanie look tho and i lost my nerdness some time after middle school. now im just a big dumbo.
also; kind of veered off while writing this i think and i feel like i sorta lumped in the other eds too? eh. this is my first time writing for them so it was mostly just me getting my feet wet. hope none of this is too ooc
- you were a new kid in the cul-de-sac; your ‘rents slid into some well paying jobs and could finally afford a house in a quaint neighborhood
- you found out it wasn’t so quaint on day one when three kids tried to con you out of your pocket change
- of course, you’re a bit clever so they couldn’t pull the wool over your eyes and it just led you to getting to know: the eds
- you find yourself slightly more chummy with edd though
- he’s a major brainiac, but you’re able to keep up with him. for the most part
- you try to remember some of the many factoids he says in a day and it’s all pretty damn interesting to you
- even if some of it was hard to understand or hold onto
- you voluntarily help him with experiments and he enjoys the company, mostly because you’re the only assistant that hasn’t caused some kind of chemical fire or completely botched his work
- you find out quick he’s pretty bashful when you point out how his tooth gap whistles sometimes when he’s worked up or re-enunciating something to someone. he lit up like a christmas tree faster than you could say sorry
- he’s also a major neat freak, so you try to respect that. even if it’s hard to (he’s noticed you’re a bit of klutz sometimes)
- he actually values your input very much. especially because you’re the only one so far who tries to understand and contribute to his ideas
- the only thing you’re really able to do with the stuff he’s taught you is make corny jokes (like horrible pickup lines and puns)
- but he loves them and you get him cracking up every time. and ed and eddy are always wondering what the hell was so funny
- you have in fact asked about the hat
- and why he wears it all the time
- you’ve managed to get a mumble along the lines of messy, messy, messy but you think that’s all you’ll ever get as an answer
- you tend to spend a lot of time with the eds, or at edd’s place and you notice how much edd is home alone
- you ask him how he feels about it but he just shrugs it off. his parents are busy people is all!
- it just makes you more active in sleep overs and hangouts with the eds
- the thought of being alone that often gets to you (your own parents come home every night, maybe really late some days, but to your knowledge edd’s rarely do and no one should be alone that much. the sticky notes everywhere also add to your opinion on the matter)
- at school, you sit with the eds at lunch and get a lot of help with homework from edd
- you try to partner up with him as much as possible (you struggle a lot with certain topics and get easily distracted, so what better person to have than a nerd in your corner)
- you’re actually pretty good at sports and body block for edd during dodgeball (you’ve caught more than one fastball meant for his face and you know you’re in kevin’s dead dork book)
- you spent a pretty penny on a new microscope for edd once (you used your summer savings to get it) and he nearly fainted from glee
- he promised to get you something you really wanted on your birthday as well
- he’s actually very easily overstimulated and prone to headaches, and you found out the hard way when you and eddy were getting a little too rowdy one day
- he snapped before quietly apologizing and excusing himself to go home. you coaxed him into letting you walk him (whereas eddy just huffed and waved his friend’s behavior off)
- edd told you about the headache issue on the way and how he is usually able to sit through them better
- you’ve become a pro at reading when he’s getting one now
- his habit of bringing hand sanitizer everywhere has rubbed off on you
- you got him to switch hats with you once when you wore a snap back to school (he swapped hats so quick you couldn’t see what was under his beanie. but a tuft of hair stuck out the broad rim of your cap the entire day and you still try to get him to just reveal this weird secret of his)
- you notice that when edd goes on an uninterrupted tangent, he never wavers while speaking. you think he’d make a good public speaker
- he’s asked you why you have braces before and you just gave a pearly grin that showed off the shiny brackets glued to your now mostly aligned teeth and said “Because the whistle.”
- you couldn’t stop laughing when he realized what you meant (that you had a tooth gap too once) and self consciously slapped a hand over his mouth
- he wasn’t good with teasing but he knew your jokes were all lighthearted at best
- you have sleeping issues so you either go to eddy’s (you learned he had rough luck with nightmares most nights) or edd’s for help
- edd is able to help get you into sleep mode easier; he does the whole warm milk and story time granny shtick. but with a thick book on greek mythology
- during sleepovers, it’s hard for any of you to settle down but for some reason, you’re always the first one to go out like a light. it was like clockwork
- thankfully edd makes sure that ed and eddy don’t mess with you when you knock out
- you like to remind edd that he’s a great, considerate pal. mostly because of how often eddy gets him riled up
- you envy the eds friendship really and how they all fit together, but you’re glad they’ve made a mix shift spot for you
