How It All Began

Chapter Three

It had been a few days and Edd was becoming increasingly worried about Matt. Something about him seemed off and he was going to get to the bottom of it. He prepared himself and went up to Matt's door. He became increasingly nervous, he wasn't always the best at confronting people. He also didn't want to seem pushy, like Matt had to talk about his issues. He worked up the nerve and knocked on the door, a voice from inside was heard

"Come in!" it said in a voice loud enough to hear through the door.

Edd opened the door to see Matt lying on his bed looking at his phone with his feet kicking in the air.

"Matt," He closed the door behind him, "I just wanted to see if you were alright, something seemed to be bothering you these past few days."

Matt stared at him, seemingly scared that Edd might find out what he's been doing these past few days. He couldn't bear the thought of Edd telling Tom. Tom would hate him, and he was convinced of that.

"Its nothing, okay? I'm perfectly fine." Matt lies, hoping Edd would take it and leave.

"Are you sure you're fine, its okay to talk about your issues y'know?" Edd says looking worryingly at Matt.

"Mmhmm, I'm sure of it, I'm probably just getting sick or something. There's probably something in the air." Matt lies again.

Edd just hums to agree and slowly walks out, looking back at Matt. Edd isn't convinced by Matts excuse. Matt is never this down, not even sickness can take away his narcissism. He goes downstairs, Matt still on his mind. Suddenly he bumps into something.

"Watch where you're going ya dingus, you almost made me drop my food!" Tom yells, playfully pushing Edd away.

"Hah, sorry Tom, I'm just worried about Matt, You've noticed it right? Something is really off about him." Edd says feeling concerning for Matt.

"Now that you mention it, yea. I bet it's probably nothing, im sure hell snap back to himself eventually." Tom responds

"I hope you're right, in fact I'm sure you are. I'm probably overreacting and it's probably just a down time for him. Maybe a breakup? Whatever it is we should at least offer our support." Edd says trying to be positive.

Tom agrees and goes to the table, Edd sits there too. The whole time they sit in silence, Matts strange behavior getting them concerned. The whole day was shrouded in silence, worry in the air thick as ice. Edd doesn't know how to help Matt in any way, he wished that he would have told him so he could help. The group was different without Matt. Edd got even more concerned when he realized that Matt hasn't even left his room to eat anything.

He decides that he wants to bring something to Matt, that's the best he could do to help with his limited knowledge of how Matt feels. A nice meal could cheer him up and give him more strength. So Edd heads towards the kitchen and prepares a meal that he knew Matt would like. He gets it ready on a plate and heads towards Matts room. Tom was heading upstairs too and looks at him quizzically.

"Its for Matt, he hasn't even come downstairs today so i figured that I'd get him a meal. Don't want him to starve and all." Edd says, knowing exactly what tom was thinking.

Edd walks up to Matt's door and without even thinking opens his door without knocking. When he walked in he was shocked at what he saw, Matt was sitting on his bed, Knife in hand, carving at his skin and crying. Edd sets down the food he made for Matt and heads over to Matt who was visibly panicking. Matt attempted to hide his arm by rolling up his sleeve but it was too late, Edd already saw it. The horrible bloody mess that was his arm, and the name on it too.

"I'm sorry" Matt says, looking down in shame.