| Viva Ed Vegas Introduction-Mud Sling-Edd
Viva Ed Vegas Chapter One-Eds Will Roll
Chapter Two-Getting Better Aquaint-ED
Chapter Three-Put the Ed into Action
Chapter Four-Get Your Ed Under The table
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NOW PLAYING......Janet Jackson-That's The Way Love Goes-Edd n Mel get sen-ti-men-tal (huh, that rhymed!-ED)...
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(pic by Rach)
((Like a moth to a flame burned by the fire...))
"Melissa" he stammered. "Im so sorry."
((My love is blind, can't you see my desire?
That's the way love goes...))
"Doesnt matter. Spilt milk, I suppose." She muttered from behind the door.
"If you'd just give me a chance to explain Id"-
"Theres nothing to explain, Double D." she interrupted. "Eddy spoke for all of you."
"Eddy... um... Eddys always screwing up with things he says, Mel." Comforted Edd, shaking his head. "To be honest I think he carries around this attitude he has to compensate for his own insecurites, believe me, it wasnt your fault."
"Like offence as a best defence, huh?" she asked.
"Yes, I suppose so." Edd put his ear and palms to the door. Melissa heard them fall onto the wood and aligned her palms with his on the other side. She closed her eyes as a tear trickled down her cheek.
"I,,I cant stay here, Double D." she told him defiantly. "Im going home."
"You, you are?" gulped Edd, feeling himself quake with sadness. "Im sorry to hear that, Melissa."
"Um, you wouldnt have my hat with you, would you?" she asked with a tiny laugh.
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"Oh yes, here." Edd answered
Melissa cracked the door open and stuck her hand out. Edd handed her hat back to her. She fidgeted with it for a few seconds behind the door as Edd twiddled his thumbs uncomfortably. She stepped back from the door and turned a lamp on. "Come in, Double D." she mumbled as she headed back to her couch at the window. He stepped in gingerly and was hit with the smell of incense as soon as he closed the door.
"Glittery, glittery, glittery!" he breathed as his eyes darted around the luxuriously decorated suite. The lamp cast a mint green misty light over the room, and Edd winced from the light reflecting off the delicate crystal canopy hanging over Melissas Ivory bed. The soft carpet sifted under his sneakers as he walked quietly to the chair next to her, all the while gaping at the many colourful and psychedelic fliers and posters scattered along her bedroom wall. Photographs of Melissa and other equally glitzy figures stared out questioningly from the shelves and surfaces. Edd stumbled slightly, not looking where he was going. Melissa turned sharply from the windowsill where she was staring out to make sure he was okay. They sat in silence for a moment or two.
"Yknow" she finally said. "In the big picture, the tapestry really doesnt mean anything. I mean, at the end of the day its just a rug, right?" She shrugged nonchalantly.
"Yes, but all the work you put"-
"What really bothered me, Double D" she interrupted, hardly listening. "Was that I was dumb enough to leave myself open. There I am, just trying to make friends and get on with things.I mean, you know I havent done anything to Eddy to make him so resentful!" she complained.
"I know, I know!" said Edd. "What you have to understand, Melissa, is that, well, due to want of a better word, Eddys as sick as a parrot with jealousy!" he explained.
"j-jealous?" she irked. "Why? what have I got that he hasnt?"
"Look around you, Mel!" stated Edd strongly, waving his hand to the beautiful mirrored wardrobes, the ceiling painted to look like the Vegas sky in the summer, the flashy posters from the cabaret shows were Melissa had spent the majority of her life. "Eddys stuck here in plain-old suburban picket fence Peace Creek for quite a while, and he knows it. Hes a 13-year-old kid with barely a dime in his pocket, the clothes his grandma bought him for Christmas that he hates and,me,boring, methodical, white-wash me,oh, and dont forget Ed." He said with a touch of lament. "And then you come along!" he pointed at her demonstratingly. "You, Daisy, Travis, youre like a walking Elvis Presley VH-1 Marathon, the three of you! Youre everything hes ever wanted to be! Youve got celebrity in your walk, you breathe it!"-
"No We dont!" denied Melissa, shaking her head with her arms folded sulkily.
"Oh yes you do!" argued Edd jokingly. " You know how much of Vegas has been implanted into you three from such an early age"
"I dont like that word "implanted", Double D!" she said as she bit her lip.
"Oh, you know what I mean!" he laughed, taking her hands in his. They both looked down and blushed.
((OOH, I'm gonna take you there...))
"Um" stammered Edd, losing track. " All Im trying to say is Eddy has great admiration for you... he just isnt capable of showing it." Edd sighed, looking at the floor, referring to more than what he cared to expose.
((That's the way love goes...))
Melissa sat silent for a while, taking her hand away to tuck a stray hair under her hat.
((That's the way love goes...))
"First of all, Double D" she finally said, looking with determination into his eyes. "I never was, and never will be a Las Vegas showgirl Celeb-Luvvie, crystal?"
"Oh no, um" he started, afraid he offended her. She put her hands to his face to silence him.
"Let me finish. You are not, I repeat- NOT!" she dismissed with her hand. " boring and white wash. On the contrary, youre one of, if not THE most interesting and enigmatic people Ive ever encountered."
"Oh, well I um" muttered Edd with an embarrassed grin.
"If anyones boring and whitewash,its me." She said sadly, looking out of the window.
"W-what are you saying?" said Edd in disbelief.
"Believe it or not, I was beautiful once, Double D." she sighed.
"Oh now, this is ludicrous!" spat Edd, standing up and walking to the centre of the room. "If youre referring to what happened earlier on today then youre seriously overreacting"-
"Do you know how nauseating it was to see those three again?!?" she snapped.
Edd stopped still with curiosity.
"Wha-who? The Kankers?" he took a guess.
"Who do you think?" she huffed, pulling her knees up to her chest and glaring with steely eyes at the floor. "Lets just say we have our history."
"Why, what happened?" he asked, sitting back down on the swivel chair with the back to his chest.
"What didnt happen..." she snarled, her face growing dim. "Its because of them-and others-that I left home in the first place." Edd rested his chin on his folded arms attentively as she continued. She slapped her thighs and with a weary sigh walked to the other side of the room. It was darker and less cluttered there. "They were in my old school, Double D." resent crept with stealth into her expression. "Id heard a birdie here and there that Marie especially was pretty jealous of me ever since the Piggy-Bank day dance solo tryouts. We were the last two, they needed one and guess who they picked"
"Uh,Marie?" suggested Edd.
"Huh-No!" snapped Melissa. "Me!"
"Oh, right!" peeped Edd, slightly cowering but with a grin on his face. Melissa sure was cute when she went all pouty.
"They did everything from smearing pork and beans on my locker to telling everyone I had some weird scouserpox that people with Liverpool blood get if they are exposed to sunlight for too long." She despaired. "The hair was the last straw."
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Youre telling me that the Kankers are responsible for-gulp-your hair?" stammered Edd.
"Im afraid so, Edwardo!" huffed Melissa. " One night, about 5
months ago, I stayed behind in textile class because I was putting
together a suit for Daisy. It was her debut as a Candybeet,
you see. Beforehand my dad had a friend of his play the drums.
Anyway, anyway, anyway, I heard something like a rat squeaking
from outside the classroom"
She paced up and down, up and
down and Edd never once took his eyes off her as she gave a
blow-by-blow account of the tyranny that is the Kanker sisters.
"So I stepped out, pushed the door open and BANG!"
Melissa stomped and clapped her hands together, startling poor
fragile Edd, making him jump 3 feet out of his seat. Gingerly
he sat back down.
"Next time, warn me before you do that!" he requested.
"Oh yeah, will do!" nodded Melissa.
"Youll never guess what The Kankers had set up a bucket of textile
glue, and it completely saturated my hair! It was like cement!
Heres a picture of me before that happened." She handed him a
picture of her. It was Melissa, all right. Slightly younger,
but with streaming golden curls right down her back.
"See, I told you. I was beautiful once, Double D!" she said stubbornly. Suddenly she realised something. She
finally saw the funny side of it. A side she never saw before until
she confided in Edd.
"Y-yeah, ha ha! Like cement!" she tittered.
" And I came home and had to have it shaved off , I looked
like Patrick Stewart! Ha-ha-ha-ha! Make it so!" she bellowed, mimicking Jean-Luc Picard
from Star-Trek. Edd looked at her in bewilderment at first,
especially when she kneeled on the floor laughing, but soon
enough the infectious laughter caught onto him and he was
rolling around giggling with her. Melissa eventually sat up
and rubbed her eyes.
"Oh my ribs!" she gurgled. Hey D-man! Dont look so
confident, You gotta take the sock off too! Fairs fair!"
"Noooooooooo!" protested Edd. "That is no mans land, Melissa!"
"Yeah but Im a girl!" she scolded with a twinkle in her eye.
"I can see that, but still" muttered Edd, turning crimson.
"Thats not fair!" protested Melissa, stomping her foot playfully.
Edd groaned and stood up.
"Okay, Okay,enough with the cute tantrums, youre driving me nuts!" he said playfully. Slowly he slid off his hat and closed his eyes, dreading Melissas reaction...he waited. Silence
"Ur...heh...hello?" He stammered his eyes still closed. silence.
"Mel...say something...please?" he murmured with slight panic. Silence. Edd's hands twitched at his sides nervously.
Suddenly he inhaled a warm haze of perfume,
as if someone was standing next to him.
he opened his eyes and sure enough, Melissa stood in front of him.
She flicked her eyes up with daunt and said:
"Kiss me, Edd."
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((That's The way love
That's the way love))
He looked on with utter fear as Melissa moved in closer.
((That's the way love
that's the way love))
With clammy hands Edd grabbed hers. Melissa pressed her forehead to his affectionately.
((That's the way love))
Edd felt all the enamour in his body rush forward as he cupped Melissa's little face in his hands.
((That's the way love))
She felt her temples tingle as he moved in to kiss her.Their lips about to meet, Melissa closed her eyes...
((That's the way love goes...))
"RING RING!"-Ed's voice crackled destructively through the walkie-talkie just before the two lovebirds could officially seal it with a kiss.They both huffed at his bad timing.
"Well, at least he's consistent." Sighed Melissa, resting her head on Edd's shoulder.
"Y'know...it's times like this I wish
'I' was on a sinking ship in the middle of the Atlantic..."
moaned Edd cynically, his nose buried in her collar.
"OOH Don't mind me, sockhead!" Crooned Eddy through the static.
"Not interrupting anything...am i?"
Edd clambered with panic for his walkie-talkie and near collapsed
with mortification when he saw the access button switched on auto...Eddy had heard the whole thing!
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