Yep writing it a little differently this time. Chapter and title in the center of this chapter. I wanted it to be a little professional. Won't let me indent dang it.

I couldn't think of a title for this story so I took the movie title and changed it. It is a B&J/WEGG crossover after all.

What's Eating Benny Pearl?

Chapter 1

In a small city in eastern Washington near the Idaho border was a little house on the river. The city was nice, it had lots of parks, a downtown, and some places were a bit bad. Benny Pearl ran a shop in the Hillyard neighborhood fixing cars. It used to be a town of it's own until 1924 when the town decided to join Spokane but they kept the name. The downtown there had run down buildings and they needed fixing. They held their own festivals there. Benny had a younger sister named Joon who was mentally ill and she had been living on her own for about two years now with her husband Sam. They had married the summer before. Sam was an eccentric nice guy obsessed with Buster Keaton, he recited old movies, knew every star in them and year they were released. He even liked dressing up as Buster and used combinations of Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin. He worked downtown at the American Classic Video. He wasn't good in reading but he was working on it. Joon liked helping him with it.

Then there was his old girlfriend Ruthie he had a relationship with for a few months. She worked at a diner called Fergusons as a waitress and she also worked as a manager at an apartment Sam and Joon lived in it. She sometimes went to the poker games with him still his friend Eric like holding. Eric worked at the garage with him and his wife, Claudia was deaf but she did fine as a parent. They both had a baby girl named Ivy who was seven months. They lived in a neighborhood that was a bit run down and looked like a ghetto but at least they made their house look nice and they chose to live next to a cement factory. Joon didn't really have a job, she worked at home painting and selling them for extra money. Benny's other friend, Thomas Mallory worked as an orderly at the Emma Sherman Memorial Hospital but quit after being attacked by a patient there. He was now working at a regular hospital near NorthTown Mall. Mike on the other hand was a poker buddy of Benny's but he was never really a nice guy. He seemed intolerant of people who were different. He took advantage of Joon by having her take his cousin off his hands. Sam was his cousin and he made him sleep under the sink. But recently Mike got in car wreck and lost his Lincoln Continental Mark V because it was totaled and he didn't have the money to get a nice used car so he ended up getting a Pinto. It needed lot of work and it made noise as he drove it and the paint was peeling off. It looked a lot like Ruthie's car except she had a Ford Maverick and it was in lot nicer condition.

Benny was still dating women. He had met one other woman but it didn't work out either at the end so they both moved on and hadn't seen each other since. She didn't like poker or how he spent his life. Now he was dating others. He try to hit on some hot ones at his job by giving them good deals on their cars he fixed.

Benny and Joon's parents had been dead for fourteen years now. They both died in a car crash and their kids were left to their grandparents until Benny turned 18. He took guardian ship over Joon and ever since their parents death, she had developed depression and started struggling in school and then she was starting to hear voices and hallucinate and then she was doing crazy things so that was a wake up call for Benny to get her help. She was diagnosed with a mental illness and the only treatment there was was medication and she had to keep taking it to stay mild. Without it, she will be worse off and have more breakdowns and hear more voices, not be able to control her actions but with medication, it made it a lot milder but she still had her moments and still heard voices sometimes.

Somewhere in Washington, a bunch of cars were driving on the road pulling their caravan Airstreams behind. Inside the last truck sat four people. An old woman was driving and in the passenger seat sat a girl who had black hair and she looked to be in her twenties. Her name was Becky. Her grandmother was the one driving in the driver's seat. In the back sat two men. A young man in his late twenties with gold hair that was shoulder length named Gilbert and next to him sat his younger brother named Arnie. He was mentally challenged and he was very hyper. He had short brown hair and was nineteen years old. They both traveled on the road with Becky and her mother. It was an adventure they liked taking. They had both met in Iowa where they used to live when their car broke down on the road and they had to stay there and camp until their car was fixed. Gilbert met Becky, she road her bike to town and stop at the small supermarket Gilbert worked at. Back then he had something common with Benny. His life was complicated. He had two sisters and an obese mother. She had gained all that weight by eating eating eating after her husband had hung himself in their basement, so she ate to cope with the depression. Now she was too big to work out because she could hardly move. Now she didn't eat much anymore but her weight still stayed the same. Gilbert had to take care of Arnie and his mother along with his sisters but he took care of Arnie and kept the house maintained while his sisters did the rest. Benny on the other hand had to take care of Joon because he refused to put her in a group home, he have housekeepers to watch over her while he be at work because she sometimes did disturbing things to the public so he needed someone to watch her. But Joon scared every one of them off with her violent outbursts because she disliked them for different reasons, the first one it was because her hair smelled, the second, who knows, and the third, she moved things and she used all these fancy metaphors. Then at one of their poker games, he had Joon there and he was outside talking to Eric and his friends had started without him and they had let Joon play. Mike took advantage of Joon by putting Sam in the pot and Benny had another weirdo to deal with but then he started to like him when he saw he was talented, not weird because people liked his antics. Sam liked doing silent acts from movies. Then his life was a lot less complicated when he let Joon be on her own. She had Sam so he would be there for her. Gilbert's life was a lot less complicated too, his mother died due to being obese and he and his brother and sisters moved all of their furniture and stuff out of the house and burned it down. Then they all moved on with their own lives but Arnie stayed with Gilbert. Then they both decided to go with Becky and travel with them.

The people liked traveling all over and camping at places. They were now heading for Idaho. They finally reached the Spokane area and were traveling on the back roads. They finally reached the city when their car stalled out. Becky's grandmother tried to start it again but it wouldn't start. "Oh fiddle sticks," she said. Even her engine wouldn't turn on. "I guess we better find a mechanic."

"Not again," said Becky.

The last time their car had broken down was somewhere in Iowa outside a small town.

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Benny was at work working on a car when he saw a tow truck pulling a car behind it. Four people got out. There was a hot woman with them. He knew he might see her again since he be fixing their car. But he didn't know she was already taken. One of the guys looked like Sam, sort of. He had golden red hair and his hair was the same kind as Sam's except he wore regular clothes.

They walked in the office. Benny followed in after them. "What can I do for you?" he asked.

"Our car broke down and we were told about this place and he recommended it," the grandmother replied.

Arnie was walking around in the office touching things. Benny could tell he was mentally challenged. Benny tried to not look at Becky but Gilbert could tell Benny liked her. "She's mine," he told him.

Benny thought at first Gilbert was in a incest relationship with his sister, then he thought he meant stay away from her because she's his sister. After all he used to be over protective of Joon and he wanted Sam to stay away from her when he found out he was in a relationship with her. Why should he stay away from the girl, the guy wasn't the boss over him just like he wasn't the boss over Sam so he refused to stay away from Joon.

Becky's grandmother told him what problem they were having with the car. "The car won't turn on," she said.

"The engine might have frozen up, I'll take a look at it," said Benny. "Do you guys have a place to stay?"

"We have our caravan but we'll get back to it."

"Do you guys have a campground to stay at? You can camp in front of my house. We will have it towed there," Benny offered.

"Okay, really?" Becky's grandmother asked.

"Sure," Benny said. "You can hook your electricity to my house and it be free of charge. I also have a river but it might be dangerous to swim in and we have a playground and I have a tree house. We built it two years ago for a friend of ours for her kid but they aren't here right now. They are on the road traveling because her husband is a musician and he's decided to tour again."

"Oh cool, does he sell any CD's or-"

"It's Peter Faltskog, ever heard of him?" Benny asked.

"Oh my grand daughter used to listen to him," Becky's grandmother replied. "I'm Dorthy by the way but you can call me Granny. Everyone calls me that."

"Did you just say Peter Faltskog?" Becky asked.

"Yes," Benny said.

"Oh he was one of my favorite singers. You liked him too?"

"Yeah he was okay, I know him personally," Benny replied.

"Get out," Becky said.

"I'm serious," Benny said. "I'm too serious. I'm always serious. My ex girlfriend and I accidentally hooked her up with him when we suggested a camp for her son and Peter owns one out of town and she sent her son to it and that was how they met."

"Cool," Becky said. "You wouldn't happen to have proof would you?"

"Come stay at my place until your car gets fixed and I will show you some photos."

Gilbert just looked at Benny thinking he was hitting on her. He watched them intently. He had warned him that she is his.

"Hey Gilbert, this gentleman here is offering a free place to stay," said Becky.

"I told you she is mine," Gilbert told Benny.

"Oh I won't hurt her," said Benny. "Don't you worry, I understand. I have a little sister too and I also felt the same way when she met someone."

"No I mean she is my partner," said Gilbert.

"She isn't your sister?" Benny asked.

"No," said Gilbert.

Benny lost his hopes. The lady he saw he liked was taken. The last lady he last dated was overweight but she was a bit out of it. She would say things and wouldn't mean any harm by it and she sometimes forget to knock when she come to his house and she joke about she had played too much of Legend of Zelda, she liked video games. She was good with backhanded compliments but wouldn't even mean to be insulting, she meant to say compliments.

"You look just like someone I know," Benny told Gilbert finally.

"Really?" he asked.

"Yeah, you look like Sam, are you blood related or his long lost twin?" Benny teased.

Gilbert shrugged.

"I bet if we dye your hair and make it the same color as his, you both will look lot alike and you can probably fool people if you both switch places."

"That be like The Parent Trap," said Becky.

"I would need your name and address and phone number," Benny informed.

"We don't really have one," said Granny. "We just travel all over with other people and then we got stuck here."

"But do you have a phone number?"

"Yeah, it's 555-0244."

Benny got out the form and wrote down her phone number. "And what name do you want me to put down?"

"Dorthy Willard."

Benny wrote her name down. "Okay, I will check your car out in the next day or two to see what's wrong with it. I think it might be the engine. But you are still welcome to stay at my place."

"At least we're getting a free campground," said Granny.

"I want to see if this man is telling the truth about Peter Faltskog," said Becky.

"Okay, we have a free place to stay then," said Gilbert. "But on one condition."

"Okay," said Benny.

"You show us the proof and we will stay but don't take my girl, she is mine or we are going to find a campground to stay at."

"Not a problem."

Then Arnie accidentally knocked some magazines off the shelf.

"Arnie," said Gilbert as he rushed over.

Benny looked and saw his life was probably going to be a little rough again until their car gets fixed.