Author's note: We last left our friends Double D and Rolf as they were about to meet the new kids, R&R if you like the story.

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Chapter 2: Meet the Bobs

Double D knocked on the door, and something unusual happened. The Cul-de-sac got darker, a lightning storm started, and a red-eyed young boy in a hooded cloak answered the door. "To what occasion do I owe this disturbance?" The boy inquired in a demonic hiss. Double D was suddenly frightened. "I-I-I'm D-Double D, and this is R-Rolf," Double D stuttered due to the boy's intimidating attitude "W-we're here to g-greet you and say 'welcome to the Cul-de-sac!'" Double D seemed less frightened for some reason. When Rolf spoke, all he said was "I am Rolf, son of a Shepherd."

The boy raised an intrigued eyebrow that neither Double D nor Rolf saw underneath the hood, which covered the boy's face in darkness. "And I am Robert- You WILL refer to me as 'Rob'- thank you for this... 'warm' greeting, come back here tomorrow after everything's been unpacked, and I will show you my personal living quarters." This time, it was Rolf alone who answered. "Rolf and Head-and-sock Ed boy shall return tomorrow to see your room!" Rob replied with a grunt, which both Double D and Rolf took as "alright".

Rob closed the door. Double D and Rolf were a little too worried about what might happen if they went over to the other two boy's houses. So, instead, they went back home. When Double D got to his house, he said goodbye to Rolf and went to his room. Double D lay down on his bed and started shaking. Rolf, however retold his experience to Wilfred, Victor, and his chickens. "Rolf senses a great evil within Rob, The Ed boy looked very sick."

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Eddy was not aware of what had happened to Double D when he had met Rob, so he was concerned about him when he heard Double D's voice, he sounded like he had just survived a tsunami, but just barely. "Eddy, I can't come back out, I'm not feeling too well right now. Goodbye." Those had been Double D's exact words; they kept playing over and over in his head. Eddy, being his casual self and getting chummy with the new "pigeons" as he referred to newcomers in the Cul-de-sac, decided to try the house to the right of Rob's house. He knocked twice, and a tall young man with perfect teeth answered the door.

"Hello?" the young boy asked in a somewhat expectant tone. "Howdy, neighbor! I'm Eddy and I just wanna say welcome to the Cul-de-sac! Since you're new here, I'll show you around town... for a price." "I'm Bobby," the young boy responded, "and I know that trick, Eddy, I pulled it several times before I figured out that it didn't work." Eddy looked like a kid who had just been severely spanked. "... So you're a scammer too?" he asked Bobby. "Yup, I've tried for many years, all of my plans worked out, except for that one. I never figured out why." Eddy felt jealous, none of his scams EVER worked out. 'I want you to meet my friends later on, come back over tomorrow, and I'll introduce you to some of them." Bobby interrupted Eddy's "deep" thought. "Sure, I'll be over again later, see ya tomorrow." And with that, Eddy left Bobby's house.

At the same time, in his low-quality room, Ed was looking out his window, when he saw a truck drive towards one of the vacant houses. "Oh boy! I hope that the new kid is a chicken-lover too!" Ed promptly ran out of his room to meet the new kid. This was the only one that the Eds didn't meet yet. Ed walked up and hit his head against the door three times. He was about to "knock" for a fourth time when the door opened and Ed fell through the doorway. "Ouch," he said as he landed, "My name is Ed and here to be your best friend I am!" the boy who answered was about Ed's height, but was cleaner, and wore only an undershirt and some jeans.

"Well, my name is Bob; I just moved here from a far-off place that I've always called 'the big, loud, square' but I never really liked it there, there weren't enough libraries to satisfy my insatiable appetite for learning." Ed had the usual, glazed-over look on his face. "Umm... you sound a lot like Double D, Bob." "Who?" Bob asked. "Oh, he is another of my friends, but he sounds sick right now, he said he didn't want to come back out because some guy named Rob was watching him. Oh well. Uhh... I have to go now, can I come back over tomorrow?"

"Well Ed, I'm actually going over to a friend's house, but you can come with me if you want." Bobby said, Ed was almost overjoyed when he heard the offer. "Sure! Ed will come with Bob because Ed and Bob are great friends forever and ever!" Bob was freaked out by that sudden response. "Uh... Sure, we can do that. Okay, I'll see you tomorrow Ed.". "Bye-Bye!" Ed responded, and he left Bob's house and went back home.

Meanwhile, in a dark room, a phone rang; the voice that answered sounded demonic, two red spots appeared in the darkness; a light flipped on and a boy in a hooded cloak stood with the phone under his hood. "WHAT?" Rob demanded; his deep thinking was interrupted when Double D and Rolf had come over; and his plans for retribution were interrupted when the phone rang. "Rob, you'll never guess what happened-" a slick voice answered. "Let me guess, an insolent peon visited your house today?" "...No, but I did get a visit from a midget named Eddy; he tried to scam me out of my cash." Bobby responded." "Just as awful." Rob muttered under his breath. "I got a call from Bob and he said the same thing happened to him; he and his new friend are coming over tomorrow, why don't you bring your friend?" "You mean new FRIENDS." Rob put an extra emphasis on these last words.

"Whoa... there're TWO of them?" Bobby seemed a bit overwhelmed. "Well, we can always go bowling, we have enough people for a team now." "True... I must go." Rob did not wait for a response, he just hung up. He shuddered at the mere thought of bowling with the insubordinate fools who had just cost him the very attempt of summoning a demon. But he abandoned the idea of revenge after Bobby's suggestion; he instead just thought about his future for the rest of the day.

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Alright guys, that's all for now, hope you enjoyed this chapter, R&R please, I'll have the next one up soon.