I'd Never Tell (boyxboy)

Chapter Two

Double D's POV:

As I finished up the spare room for Andie and pushed her suitcase under her bed and left the room, hearing Andie and Kevin talking downstairs in the kitchen. When I walked down the stairs and into the kitchen, Andie and Kevin were sitting at the kitchen table, Andie at the head of the table and Kevin sitting on her left, talking and laughing. "You seriously didn't know Double D could sing?" 

"I had no clue. No one did. He wasn't exactly a song-bird in school. He barely talked to anyone but the dorks he hung out with." I smirked and bent over, placing my crossed arms on the table. "To be fair, Kevin, I didn't even know I had a talent of any artistic kind until I met Andie in college." Andie smiled at me from across the table and sipped on the cup of tea she must have made while I was upstairs. "I found Double D in a coffee shop, singing along to his music while he was studying. About two months after that, I was helping him clear out his dorm room so we could get an apartment, and I found a folder full of unfinished songs and poems he'd started. I helped him finish them and we sort of started up a band after that." She sipped the tea again and I stood up to get a cup of my own. "Pull up a chair Beanie Boy. We're just talking about our pasts and how all of us met. I've already heard some interesting stories about Ed and Eddy." I snorted and set the tea kettle back on the stove then strode back to the table with my cup in hand. "The marvelous misadventures of the Eds. Not exactly the proudest years of my life, but they were definitely fun." Andie and Kevin both threw their heads back and laughed. "So what college did you guys go to? No one here ever knew where you were accepted Double D." Kevin sipped some soda from a bottle and eyed me with interest. "A private university in Portland. Lewis and Clark college." Andie smirked. "Yeah. This ass got in on a full scholarship, I had to pay my way in because of an incident from when I was in high school." 

"What kind of incident?" Kevin asked and I reached across the table and placed a hand over Andie's. She smiled reassuringly at me as if to tell me that it didn't bother her as bad to talk about this anymore. "When I was in high school I got charged with second degree assault charges." The shock was painted clear on Kevin's face. "Geez... What for?" Andie sighed and shrugged. "I... beat the snot out of the kid who killed my twin brother. I tried to kill him with my bare hands, but the court system didn't need to know that." Andie squeezed my hand and grinned at me. "He was a lot like Double D. Right down to the damn beanie he always wore." I grinned back at her and she let go of my hand to fish her phone out of her pocket. She scrolled through something on the screen and held the phone out to Kevin. I smiled and ran my fingers along the rim of my cup. I knew she was showing Kevin the picture of her and her brother from their seventeenth birthday. Her brother looked just like her, but he always wore a black beanie like mine, and had a gap between his two front teeth just like I did. "I'm so sorry, Andie.." Kevin's voice was saturated in serenity. It was a little shocking to me because I'd never seen this side of Kevin before. I'm so used to the bully he was in high school that seeing and experiencing him being so kind and understanding toward me and my friend, it was like watching images from my high school imagination.  I'd always cared for Kevin... When we were kids, it was simply just a desire to be his friend, to be there for him and help him when he needed my assistance. But when the time came for me to leave Peach Creek, my feelings evolved into a need to be with him. And not just in the same town or his friend... I fell in love with him, but was too scared to say anything before I left. I watched how he and Andie talked and I thought it was really nice how well they got along. I was snapped back to reality when Kevin said my name. "Double D, remember how hard you, Ed and Eddy always worked to scam everyone in the cul-de-sac?" I laughed and covered my face with my free hand. "Don't remind me! Eddy was always the mastermind behind those damn scams, I was just the unfortunate accessory and... craftsman that made them all a reality." 

"Am I ever going to get to meet Ed and Eddy?" Andie asked me and I shook my head, stood up from the table and took my cup to the sink. "Nooo, no, no good lord no."