Unfinished Business- TordEdd

Aftermath

It had been a 2 weeks since Tord came back and ruined their lives. Edd was still going through the events in his head. Tord came back. They had fun. And then he betrayed them all for some stupid robot. Now their house and everything they knew was gone. Because of Tord. And yet...

Edd still felt sorry for Tord.

He was a complete sack of garbage, he knew that, he burned down their house for cola's sake. But when the robot came down, Edd looked at the hill Tord crash-landed on. The once mighty robot looked pitiful now. Tord was nowhere to be seen on the hill. Edd felt a pang of guilt when that happened. As the smoke cleared and he, Matt, and Tom moved on, he still couldn't see Tord. Did he die in the explosion? Probably. There's no way he could've survived that.

Thank cola that Tom already had a new apartment ready for them. Most things from the old house couldn't be salvaged, but Edd managed to find a few pictures, his lucky can, and Ringo in the rubble.

After about 2 weeks, the whole crew started getting closer. Knit so tightly that sometimes they would just sit together and tell stories about what happened before the attack. They knew that anything could happen again, that, if Tord was alive, he could come back and finish them all.

Still, life had changed a lot. Tom started to drink less, and Matt was attempting to find a girlfriend. Edd, however, was starting to lose hope for both of them. Tom would still have his 'long nights', and Matt, being narcissistic, could never keep a relationship for more than one date. But it didn't matter. They had each other. No more Tord. No more Tord...

Edd couldn't keep secrets from any of them. But he did have one. One he would never admit to the others, A) because Tom would kill him and B) because Matt would have traumatic flashbacks of his face being ruined. Even after Tord betrayed them all...

Edd still loved him. Not even like a friend or even an acquaintance anymore, it was just love. He wanted to make the feelings just go away, just have them be gone. It should have been justified for that to happen. I mean, he did betray all of them.

But it didn't work.

Because one other thing that survived in the explosion was one of Tord's spare hoodies. Tord brought it when he first moved in, but now that he was gone, there was no use for it. Matt wanted to throw it out. Tom wanted to burn it in a bonfire. Edd agreed to throw it out, even though he secretly wanted to sleep with it and feel Tord's warm scent again. Tom and Matt watched as Edd put the hoodie in the trash can. As soon as they left however, Edd pulled it out and was pleased to find that it wasn't too smelly and that it still smelled just like Tord.

He washed it a couple of times, hidden within the rest of his clothes so the others wouldn't notice he still had it. The memory that Tord had ever worn it was fading, but Edd still kept it. For memorial purposes, he supposed. It wasn't too hard to hide it though, the friend group mostly hung out in Tom's apartment. And when they did go to Edd's, he put it in his cabinet and no questions were asked.

Edd hoped it would be like that for longer.
No questions asked.
He would just be alone with his suppressed feelings that wouldn't go away.

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