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Tom Pov:
"So it's like a slumber party?" I ask Edd with a slight smile.
"It's not a party, it's a three day trip to America to participate in a friendly debate between the Defenders and the Offenders.. This year there just happens to be a problem with most of the hotels there, so we're forced to share a hotel with the Offenders." Edd says with a disappointed sigh, which makes me frown. "The only exciting thing about this trip is the fact that the trip is paid for by the debate group who's invited us there and we're staying in one of the biggest and fanciest hotels in New York."
"I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty damn fun to me," I say and Edd glares at me, I can tell Edd's still mad at me from the fight we had a week ago.
"You know Tom.." Edd begins, but then he looks at me and goes silent before sighing. "Nevermind..."
I go to ask what he was going to say, but then Matt bursts into the room with a excited smile as he shouts, "We're going to New York! Woop woop!!" Matt then dances in celebration and I smile.
"Oh yeah, it was always your dream to go to New York City right Matt?" I ask Matt with a smile.
"Yeah! Ever since I was a little boy! And it's especially exciting since we're going to the biggest hotel there! I feel like I'm going on vacation!" Matt says happily which makes me feel good that he feels good, since he's been acting down for several weeks now.
"Yeah, for three days that is. It's not as long as a real vacation would be-" I smack Edd's shoulder and glare at him. "What?"
"Stop being such a baby, we had a fight. But so what? I'm not mad at you anymore, so maybe you should get over yourself and stop being so rude." I say to Edd and Matt frowns.
"I think I'll just let you guys be alone for awhile.." Matt says with a fake smile before shuffling out of the room with a sad look.
"Wait Matt-" I try to call out, but he's already closed the door behind him. I then pinch the bridge of my nose in annoyance as I step away from Edd. "Jesus fucking Christ Edd."
"What? What did I do?" Edd asks and crosses his arms, I turn to him.
"Will you just stop?!" I exclaim and turn to him.
"Stop what?!"
"Stop putting everyone down!" I shout and Edd flinches. "Matt was just super excited for a trip to New York like any normal human would be after being stuck inside a building for months, then you go ahead and make it seem like it's nothing!" Edd moves his eyes away and I step toward him in a intimidating way and he rubs his arm. "I know you're upset with me Edd," I take another step and press a finger on to his chest, he looks at me with furrowed eyebrows. "But don't you dare drag Matt into your petty, unwanted feelings."
I then turn away from him and walk to the door, opening it up and walking out of the room. Matt is like my little brother and I'm his big brother, that's why I'll make sure he doesn't get hurt, emotionally or physically.
Third Person Pov:
*New York*
When Tom, Edd, and Matt arrive at the hotel, you can see how they look at it in pure awe. The whole hotel is like a skyscraper and it's said to have over a thousand hotel rooms and two extra large pools with one indoors and one outdoors.
But Matt has to be the most excited, he was constantly bugging Edd on the flight about how much time was left until they landed and now he's jumping at least two times with every step he takes out of pure joy.
Unlike Edd, Tom is completely fine with Matt's excitement and is overjoyed himself that Matt is happy; while Edd is trying to be okay but he's still very stressed from the fight and the fact he's going to be forced to act nice to a group of dirty communists, so it's hard for him to relax when Matt's around due to his friend's manic behavior and his low tolerance to anything.
Unlike how the rebellion leaders took a public airplane and arrived at the hotel in a taxi; Red, General Winston, Scott, and General Jennifer who is another popular person among the Red Army and a trained debater took a limousine from their personal jet's landing station to the hotel.
Edd glares at everyone who comes out of the limousine while when Tom sees Red he can't help but give off a lovey dovey smile, which Tom receives one in return from Red as they both give each other a short and sweet wave; and Matt is just far too excited to get into the hotel that he doesn't notice any of the tension and loving gazes around him.
General Winston, General Jennifer, and Scott begin to walk up to the rebels. which Red doesn't notice they're walking because he's too busy staring at Tom with lovestruck eyes; so Scott ends up running back to him and grabbing his arm, yanking him forward with a small, "Come on!" and dragging Red along with him as Red continues to lovingly look at Tom with a large smile.
The high rank communists stand in front of the rebel leaders with a glare with just Edd and Tom glaring back at them.. except Tom only directs his glares at everyone but Red and Matt is too busy jumping up and down from excitement, he just wants this stupid glaring session to be over with so he can explore the hotel- really he's not even listening to the conversation that's about to start.
"Green Leader," General Winston says to Edd with a glare.
"General Winston," Edd says to General Winston and glares back.
"I have one thing to say and one thing to say only," General Winston says to Edd as his eyes radiate a red flame.
"I have one thing to say to," Edd says back.
"Stay away from Blue Leader," Edd says at the exact time General Winston says, "Stay away from Red Avenger."
General Winston then crosses his arms and says to Edd, "I'm glad we both want the same thing, this should make things easier."
"Then let's compromise," Edd says to General Winston. "In our reserved area that the debate group paid for us, there is one suite with two king size beds, there is one single bed hotel room, and there are two hotel rooms with two full size beds in each," Edd crosses his arms as well and gives the evil general a dull look. "I say you and your other General take the suite, Purple Leader takes the single bedroom, I take one double bed hotel room with Blue Leader, and Scott Williams takes the other double bed hotel room with Red Avenger,"
Edd then disengages his arms and lets his arms hang to his sides as he continues, "This way Blue Leader and Red Avenger will be supervised by two people and won't be able to get to each other without us knowing," to which Tom and Red look at each other with a 'We won't let that happen' kind of look. Edd then holds out a hand to General Winston and asks him, "Is it a deal?"
General doesn't hesitate to grab Edd's hand and shake it as he says, "Deal." which after only three shakes, they release their hands from each other and quickly wipe their hands on their casual shirts in a attempt to wipe off the sins of the other person.
"Let's go-"
"FINALLY!!" Matt cuts Edd off and sprints to the hotel.
Tom calls out a, "Wait!" and chases after Matt, Tom's feeling extra protective of Matt today and it shows; it's obvious that he's still on edge from yesterday. Tom just wants Matt's vacation to go perfectly, his big brother side has officially kicked in and it'll be hard to get him out of it.
Red goes to chase after Tom, but Scott grabs him by the back of his shirt and says, "You're not going anywhere, unlike how Green Leader trusts his comrade," Scott lets go of Red's shirt and gently smacks his shoulder for really no reason. "I don't trust you to go out on your own." which Red whimpers to as he sees his lover run inside the hotel without him.
"We may have to be around each other at times, but I don't want you trying to start up casual conversation with me, you commies make me sick," Edd says to every communist in front of him, including Red even though he isn't even sure if he's a communist- He's really just doing what he's told to do and doesn't talk about it.. well he doesn't really talk in the first place now does he.
"Likewise," General Winston speaks for his group, even though Red would really like to speak to Edd in casual conversation himself- but he would never say that out loud or he'd most likely get his ass whooped by his leader since they aren't near the dungeon at the moment.
The communists and the single rebel then silently walk into the hotel, what Edd, Matt and the high rank commies don't know is that Red and Tom already have plans swarming in their heads to figure out how to see each other without supervision...