(3rd person p.o.v)

It was a normal, sunny day in the cul de sac. Sarah and Jimmy were playing ball, Jonny was hanging out with his piece of wood, Plank. And Kevin was beating the living daylights out of Eddy for scamming him out of his money once again.

"Haha thanks dork!" Kevin walked off with Eddy's jar of change.

"Hey! Come back with my money!!" Eddy exclaimed shaking his fist in anger. "Double D, Kevin took my money!"

"Don't you mean our money Eddy?" She said crossing her arms.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever just help me get it back!" The shorter teen ran after the bully. Kevin quickened his pace, and Eddy being as unfit as he was, was unable to catch up to him. "Slow down, will ya!" He said panting out of breath.

Edd just shook her head and let out a sigh.

"Ha ha! Look at Eddy go Double D! Run Eddy, run!" Ed laughed and cheered Eddy on.

Eddy walked back with his head hanging low in defeat. Edd looked at him with crossed arms and a smirk.

"So, you didn't get your money back?" She raised an eyebrow. He shook his head no whiles keeping his head low. "Hm, well, it's ok, in total there were only five dollars in that jar-"

"Five whole dollars!?" He said yelled in her face grabbing a fist full of his own hair. "Do you know how much stuff I coulda bought with 5 whole dollars?!"

"Mm, not much these days-"

"Think of all the jawbreakers I, er, I mean we could have?!"

"Uh huh, to be totally honest Eddy, I'm not that into jawbreakers anymore-"

"Not into jawbreakers?! Have you lost your mind?!" He said violently shaking her almost knocking off her hat. After he let go of her she fixed her hat.

"Watch my hat Eddy, you almost knocked it off."

"So?" He stepped back. "Why do you wear that old thing anyways?"

"I wear it... because."

"Because why?!"

"Just... b-because."

"What are you hiding that is so big or so horrible that you can't even tell me? Your best friend. Come on sockhead, we've known each other for years, you can show me, I won't freak out."

'That's what YOU think' she said in her head.

(A/N Pretend that episode where Ed and Eddy saw what was under his hat never happened)

"C'mon, just show me and Ed, you don't have to show the others." He said wrapping an arm around her shoulder. "Jeez, you got some dainty shoulders Double D."

"Eddy, I just can't-"

"Then just show me, you can trust me."

"No."

"...Fine." He sighed and let go of Edd. "I gotta go anyways, c'mon Ed." Ed ran over to Eddy.

"Goodbye fellas." Double D said waving and walked back into her house.

"So, lumpy, what d'ya think Double D is hiding under his hat?" Eddy asked Ed.

"MAYBE DOUBLE IS AN ALIEN AND HAS ANTENA ON HIS HEAD!"

"Puh-leez, that's not it."

"Maybe he has a really bad hair cut?"

"A bad haircut for 12 years?"

"Maybe he has no hair at all!"

Eddy stopped and thought for a moment.

"That's not it either, remember that he always has a little bit of hair that sticks out from under his hat."

~*~*~*~

As soon as Edd shut the door she locked it and slid to the floor.

She sighed and pulled off her hat letting her long hair fall into her face. It was a total mess from being shoved under her hat all day.

"Home at last." She brushed her long bangs out of her face. "I'm 16 now, I can't keep this up much longer."

She pulled her self up, walked upstairs and into the washroom.

"Maybe a quick shower is all I need." She pulled off her shirt, and then her socks.

After fiddling with the strap for a while she finally managed to pull off the chest binder. Marie had gotten her one. She said that if she was gonna keep up the act she couldn't keep on using bandages. Marie was the only one who knew that she was a girl. Long story short, she had walked in on Edd changing into her pyjamas. The pyjamas were Marie's. What was Edd doing at Marie's trailer you ask? I would say, but this is the shorter version of the story.

"What do I do? I can't keep on pretending I'm a boy. People are starting to get suspicious. I mean, I don't really sound like a boy anymore, and I don't exactly have a manly physique either." She said to herself. "I can't just tell everyone that I'm a girl either, It'd be a total shocker. All my life I've been pretending, what am I supposed to do? Just show up at school one day without my chest binder, wearing a mini skirt and say 'guess what everyone? I lied to all of you, I'm really a chick!'? That would be crazy, and stupid, and crazy stupid." She finished getting undressed.

"I could cut off all my hair." Then she shrieked and grabbed her hair. "No, not an option." She stepped into the shower. "I'll think of something." She turned on the shower. "I just have to keep up the act a little longer."