Vern quickly started to run to the tree house where all his friends were, he ran past the shops and turned a corner nearly bumping into an old man, he ran across the fields and finally he was at the tree house.
He climbed the little wooden ladder and stopped before he banged his head, trying to remember the secret knock he thought for about a minute, until he actually had an idea of what it sounded like.
He tried it out "That's not the secret knock" Gordie called out.
Vern said what he usually said "I forgot the secret knock" And the boys let him up, he scrambled to his feet and sat on his part of the floor.
"Where's Chris you guys?" He asked finally noticing that Chris wasn't here.
"Chris is with your mum" Teddy laughed and Vern looked at him angrily.
"Shut up Teddy, he's gone to get some drinks" Gordie replied and started to read one of his comic books.
"Oh" Vern said and leaned his head back on the wall and it made a little sound.
"Vern-o where were you?" Gordie asked and Vern started to get interested.
"I was mowing an old lady's lawn and she gave me some cake, sincerely, it was boss and I now have money" Vern smiled.
"Oh that must've been so interesting" Teddy said sarcastically.
"And I also met her granddaughter Sarah" Vern added.
"Granddaughter? was she hot?" Teddy asked getting interested.
"I don't know" Vern shrugged his shoulders.
"You are no use" Teddy shook his head and started shuffling the pack of cards, there was a knock on the trap door it was the correct knock and Gordie let Chris up.
"That's the secret knock, I thought it was longer" Vern said mostly to himself Gordie looked at him and rolled his eyes.
"God, took me forever to get here with this it's heavy" Chris sighed banging the big box down on the floor and the tree house shook in response "Hey Vern I saw you running" Chris laughed and lit a cigarette.
"Yeah?" Vern asked, but Gordie butted in.
"Are you sure the tree house can take this much weight I mean it's just wood?" Gordie asked worried .
"Sure it can, remember that time we had that stray dog up here he weighed a tone but it didn't fall down" Chris said reassuringly.
"Hey what happened to Shaggy?" Vern asked, the three boys were surprised that he was actually listening for once.
"We found his owners and gave him back to them, that was a boss summer" Chris smirked remembering that summer.
"Don't you remember anything Vern-o?" Teddy asked handing out a coke bottle to Gordie.
"Yeah I do" Vern said defensively "I remember Ray Brower and that pie story that Gordie told us, that was a swell story Gordie" he also added "I remembered one time I stayed all night in my room eating cherry flavoured pez and the next day I was sick all over Billy, it was like lardass, sincerely, except Billy didn't throw up though"
"You always think about food" Gordie laughed and Chris and Teddy nodded their heads in agreement.
"Shut up" Vern replied taking a coke from Chris.
"I don't shut up I grow up and when I look at you I throw up" The three laughed hysterically and then they started banging their feet on the tree house.
Vern just felt the tree house shake like they were having an earthquake.
Gordie stopped banging his feet but that didn't stop Chris and Teddy so he screamed out "Stoppppp, It's gonna falllll" suddenly the tree house shook and started to fall the pieces of wood started falling apart, and it reached the ground, the four boys were laying on each other.
Teddy was the first one to get up and he laughed hysterically "Eeeee-eee-eee, that was so boss".
Then it was Gordie he just looked around and said "I told you it would fall".
Chris got up looked at the pieces of the old tree house and smirked "It was nine years old what do you expect? Come on Vern-o" He said and helped Vern get up off the floor.
"Where are we gonna go now?" Vern asked stretching.
"Dunno" Chris replied.
"Why don't we just build a new one?" Teddy asked.
"Are you nuts? It took us forever to build" Gordie replied moving a piece of broken wood away.
"Any one got ideas where we can hang out and not get found by the fuckin' cobras?" Chris asked.
"I do" Vern replied and the others just looked at him "Let me just go home, I'll come back when it's done, sincerely" And he just took of down the street before the boys could say anything, he was so excited about this idea he had when he got home he didn't see Billy sitting in a chair holding a baseball bat.
"Ohh Shit"…..
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