Teensworld (An Eddsworld Fanfiction)

Chapter 4: What Now?

Edd's POV:

I just drank a huge bottle of cola, everyone was cheering and clapping.
Tom and Matt walk up to me, and Tom ruffles up my hair.
"Haha! Knock it off, I just got it to look nice!" I fix my hair into the hair being in my eyes. Tom gives me a funny look.
"You would look better if it was out of your hair." Tom chuckles, and tries to fix it.
"My hair is fine!" I laugh.
I look around and don't seem to find Matt anymore, where the hell did he just go? He was just here!
"Where's Matt?" I ask Tom.
Tom looks behind him and give a me a confused look.
"I don't know, he was just with me a second ago." Tom shrugs.
"Well no worries," I said.
"He's probably off somewhere enjoying the party."
Tom nods and stares at the empty bottle of cola I downed.
"Well, looks like you stole the opportunity of people drinking cola here." Tom raised his eye brows and chuckled. I crossed my arms.
"Actually, Mr. Noitall," I said sarcastically. "There is another bottle in the fridge, so technically, I didn't do anything wrong."
Tom put an arm on his hip and stared at me, confused.
"Okay. Then why'd you chug a whole bottle anyways?" Tom asked.
"Because Hellucard dared me to, and because I love cola." I shruged. Tom looked surprised and took his arm off his hip.
"That German kid?" Tom asked.
"I'm not sure if he's German, but you know, blonde hair, green hair dye fading, black shirt with scull. That dude."
"Huh." Tom said surprised,
"Didn't know he was here."
Tom then walks over to the punch bowl and pours himself a drink, and walks back to Edd taking a sip of the punch.
"Sooo," Tom says awkwardly.
"Wanna dance or something?"
I shrug.
"I dunno. Wanna see if your flirting techniques are better than mine?" I ask challenging.
Tom gives a soft laugh.
"Sure!"
Tom and I walk towards the living room. I had my hands in my hoodie pocket and Tom had one hand holding his punch, and one hand in his pant front pocket. We both looked around awkwardly. We didn't have much experience with girls, so we were not that confident walking up to one. Then, Tom took a deep breath and told me to hold his cup for him. He walked over to Laurel, and was twisting his hoodie strings nervously. I wouldn't blame him, she looked very pretty tonight, a dark purple dress and a scull pin in her blue hair. I saw Tom starting a conversation with her, it seemed to be going very well. Then all of a sudden, I heard Matt yell from upstairs.
"AAGH! NOT THE FACE!"
It sent shivers down my spine. Was Matt in trouble? I looked back at Tom to see if he heard him scream. But Tom was still talking to Laurel. I saw him hold out his hand to her, probably asking to dance. She shook her head and I could hear her say,
"I have a boyfriend." Tom looked shocked and disappointed. I moved closer to hear his response.
"O-Oh! I'm sorry I didn't know!" Tom stuttered.
"Its fine, just go away so he doesn't catch me talking to you, he gets jealous." Laurel said, turning away. Tom seemed to be freaking out.
"W-Wait! I...are you sure you don't want to? Because it might be fun! I mean..." Tom stuttered. Laurel seemed to be not amused.
"I..I've never danced with a girl before, but I practiced! With my mom!" Tom said nervously. I facepalmed myself, and Laurel looked disgusted. She stood up and splashed the punch she was holding into Tom's face. I cringed as she said, "get away from me you creep!" And walked off to another room. Tom walked over to me sadly, punch soaked his hoodie and face. I put my hand on his shoulder.
"Didn't go well, huh?" I said.
Tom shook his head and wiped his face with his sleeve.
"Girls don't like me." Tom said grimly.
"That's not true!" I tried to sound optimistic about the situation.

All of a sudden, everyone stopped, we were all listening to Tord and Matt scream as they ran downstairs. They were frantic as they stumbled and tripped down the steps. Matt ran behind me, trembling. Matt held onto me and Tord looked like he was going to pass out because he was talking so fast and breathing so hard, they both looked so pale.
Tom and I both dragged Matt and Tord away from all the attention, onto a sofa in another room.
"HOLYOHMYGODTOMEDDYOYDONTUNDERSTANDLOOKWEOMGOMGOMG." Tord was shaking in fear, we couldn't understand a word of what he was saying. Tom tried to calm him down but he was talking to fast. I started to get sick of this and took Tord by the shoulders. He stopped finally as we gained eye contact. He was hyperventilating still, but I calmly waited for him to slow down.
"What happened. More slowly please." I said.
"I-I-I.." Tord stuttered. Fear clouded his eyes, and Matt's eyes began to well up. I motioned for Tom to try to ask Matt or at least cheer him up. Tom nodded slightly and crouched down to Matt's level, since Tord and Matt were both on the sofa and all. Tom carefully put his hand on Matt's shoulder.
"I-I are you okay..?" Tom asked.
Then we heard someone call out,
"Hey look everyone! Since he failed at talking to girls, he's trying to be gay!" Everyone started laughing except Tom, Tord, Matt, and myself. Tom stood up and put his hood over his head, his face was red and his black voids started to swell with tears. Tom ran outside, and I saw Bing put his hand over his mouth. He was also one of the people who wasn't laughing. The same guy who said that rude joke seemed to be Laurel's boyfriend. Edwardo.
"I knew it.." I said angerly under my breath. I wanted to find Tom but couldn't leave Tord and Matt like this. But what if Tom tries to run home? He might get hit by a car! I stood up and gave Edwardo a death glare. Then my legs suddenly took over and started to walk over to Edwardo.
"Hey!" I said getting his attention.
"What do you want, punk?" He flashed an angry glare at me.
"I think you should shut your mouth!" Everyone gasped and someone turned off the blaring music. Edwardo turned to me.
"What was that?" He said menacingly. I gulped and realised what I was doing. But this felt right, I can't just let Tom be humiliated like that.
"You heard me! What, do have a problem with gay people? Is it because didn't your dad leave your mom to sleep with a man?"
I saw a few people whip out there phones. Edwardo growled and started to walk to me slowly.
"I..I bet your gay too! I bet you only have a girlfriend so you could distract yourself from thinking about dicks!" People started laughing, and I was getting a thrill out of doing this.
"your dead.." Edwardo mumbled.
"What was that?"
"YOU ARE DEAD MEAT, EDD!" Edwardo grabbed me by the hoodie and was about to swing a punch at me, that's when Bing ran over.
"You two! Stop at once! If your going to make some trouble around here, you can leave!" Bing said sternly. Edwardo put me down but stomped on my foot and walked off.
"T-Thanks, dude." I thanked Bing.
He just nodded and walked over back to the music and it started to blair again.

Tord and Matt both walked up to me telling me how stupid that was, all I did was nod and tell them to stay here while I get Tom, and ran outside.
"I hope he's okay..." I whispered to myself.