The To-Do List
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Chapter 2
Summary:
Ed and Eddy are the best friends.
Chapter Text
"Oh, come on, Sockhead! It wasn't that bad." Eddy tells him with a slap to the back as they file out of the auditorium. They follow the line of graduates out to the parking lot where they're meant to meet Double-D's parents for pictures and congratulations. Eddy's parents had decided to skip out on the event, while Ed's both had work. Edd thinks it a bit odd, considering his parents are always the ones absent. Nonetheless, he is glad they were able to make it.
He spots his parents by their car and quickly hurries over to them, Ed and Eddy in tow. Once he reaches them, his mother gives him a soft smile. "Your speech was great, honey. If only those hooligans you have as classmates didn't interrupt it so rudely." Edd grimaces and nods in agreement.
"Hey, Double-D's mom! Double-D's dad!" Ed greets from behind him, waving enthusiastically. His parents flinch at the sudden exclamation, but wave back to the tallest Ed.
"Hey," Eddy simply says to them. Eddward rolls his eyes at his friend's rudeness.
"Hello, Eddy," his father returns flatly.
"Are we going to take pictures?" Ed asks excitedly and Edd swears he sees Ed's eyes sparkle.
His mother claps her hands."Oh, yes! Dear, hand me the camera, please." His father rummages through his mother's purse, which he had been politely carrying for her, and hands her a professional-style camera. "Now, if you boys could please pose for me."
After several rounds of pictures, Eddward tells his parents that he will be going along with Eddy and Ed to a get-together his classmates had planned. Normally, his mother and father would be against such things, but considering their son is newly-graduated, they feel they should give him a bit more freedom.
Waving goodbye to his parents, he follows Eddy and Ed to Eddy's new-old car. It's a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu and—to put it nicely—it has seen better days. The paint is faded and chipped and one of the doors is missing its handle. However, it provides transportation so none of them complain.
Once seated in the passenger seat, Ed residing in the backseat, does Edd inquire where this get-together will be held at. "Will you stop calling it that? Geez, Double-D, it's a party. Like, with music and beer and dancing." Eddy snaps.
"What?" Edd exclaims, "Eddy, you know how I feel about parties!" Edd pulls his hat down past his ears and sighs loudly.
"Yes, I do, Edd. And that's exactly why we're taking you. You're going to college in, like, three months, Sockhead. College is not like high school. At all."
"Yeah, Double-D! My parents tell me college is scary." Ed chimes in. "But Eddy and I promise to help make it less scary for you."
Edd takes a moment to decipher what his friends are trying to tell him. He's heard stories about college before and some do sound a bit frightening to him. And there's also the fact that he no longer wants to be a pariah and was hoping to fit in better during his next four years of schooling and hiding away from the social scene is certainly not the way to do that.
"I suppose one party will not be too bad..."
