Not The Face

Chapter 1

Third person pov

It was dinner time once again at the Eddsworld household. Tom was drinking beer, Edd cola, and Matt was drinking water.

Both Tom and Edd are sitting at the table like they do everyday, but Matt bought his food to his room.

Once their he slowly picked his food off and put it in his trashcan. They were having pasta that night and Matt was disgusted by it. He could never understand why Tom and Edd enjoyed it so much. It makes you look fat and hideous. Everyone must look perfect after all or no one will notice you. Maybe, Matt only thought this was because of how he grew up.

He remembers his first time skipping a meal.

Flashback

He was in junior high. The report cards just came out and he had all A's. When he got home the first person he showed was Jade.

Jade was his main maid. The maid that took care and raised him since he was a baby.

Jade told him how excellent he did and to keep up the good work. She was in charge of giving Matt money, which believe it or not didn't happen often unless it was his allowance. She gave him fifty dollars and he ran off excited to go tell his parents.

They didn't care. His father just slapped him in a drunken state to do better, whereas his mother called him fat and to be perfect. So that's exactly what he did. When dinner rolled around he told Jade he wasn't hungry and he fell asleep with no food. In the morning he felt great.

Flashback ends

Matt smiled at the memory. It always made him happy when Jade took notice of him. All the other workers treated him as if he was cursed and wouldn't go near him unless assigned to.

His feeding habits got worse as he grew older just like everything else in his life.

After he finished his food he looked at the full length mirror he had in his room. He took off his jacket, hoodie, and shirt to see if he gained any weight. Just to confirm it he stepped on the scale and weighed himself. He was fifty pounds. "Ok,"he thought. "This is as skinny as I can get. But I have to try better," he told himself the same thing every night since highschool when this became a routine for him.

He would sometimes think about eating food again. He would just about put it in his mouth, before his mother's words would echo in his mind and he would put the cursed thing known as food down.

Matt put a bunch of things in the trashcan to hide the food he didn't eat and went about looking in a mirror to make sure that everything about him was perfect. After all if he wasn't  perfect then what kind of life would he be living. Once he was done he went to sleep.

Third person with Edd pov

Edd didn't know what was wrong. Nothing was wrong with him. No, it wasn't Edd that was the problem. In fact the problem is Matt. Every time it's dinner, breakfast, lunch, or if he just plainly mentions food Matt will just do his best to not take it.

Edd was observant like that. If he thinks about it really hard, he could notice that Matt only got worse when Tord came back just to get his robot and destroy the house. He didn't know much about Matt and Tord's relationship. In fact he was even unsure of his own relationship with Tord.

Edd has always been a good friend. When people say you only meet someone like that once in a lifetime they don't lie. Edd thinks of himself as the responsible parent in the household at times. He has a good reason to, Tom is always drinking something alcoholic, while Matt's' always looking in the mirror.

That also means that if he feels like or thinks that something is wrong with one of his friends he will try to figure it out.

The night at dinner, after Matt went to his room, Edd bought the subject up to Tom.

"Hey Tom. Don't you think Matt's eating habits are a little strange," Edd asked. Tom just looked at him with his lifeless like eyes with a look that told you 'you are not serious.' Oh but yes. Edd was very serious.

"I'm serious Tom. The second Matt sees or if we even mention food he looks ready to throw up. You can't tell me you haven't noticed," Edd said.

"What do you mean. Of course I don't know what your talking about. He's acting the same way he did in high school," Tom responded.

"This isn't high school Tom. I'm talking about now. We didn't live with Matt dearing high school. Even then though, he still had some weird eating habits," Edd tried to reason with Tom. Tom tried to figure out if what Edd was saying was true.

All that Tom could remember from highschool was drinking all the alcohol he could sneak in and drink during and in the middle of class and blacking out in the middle of the day. Yeah, Tom was not a good influence on people.

"Whatever," Tom said. He got up emptied his plate and went up to his room to play his bass or sleep. Sleep sounded good to. Edd just sighed and wonder what he was going to do. He wanted to help Matt, but he didn't want to betray his trust.

Edd just sat their thinking about what to do. Tom came downstairs about an hour later to check on him. Edd jumped when Tom tapped him. "If I was you I would go to sleep or at least up to your room. It"s pretty late," Tom told Edd.

Edd sighed once again. He got up and headed to his room while Tom went to his.