Mystery on Ed street

Chapter 2: The boy and girl sleepover

A few days later, Double D woke up around 9:00. He saw Eddy and Ed at the lane, along with Nazz, Rolf, Jimmy, Johnny, Plank, Sarah and Kevin.

"I swear Ed, you need help… Oh, hey Double D." Eddy said. Ed gave a big grin and hugged Double D, but stopped when he began to turn blue. After Double D caught his breath, he noticed the peculiar gathering of the other kids. They were just standing motionlessly in front of Kevin. "Why's everyone just standing here?" Double D asked.

"Kevin said he has some big announcement to make" Eddy explained to his friend. Double D started to have dreadful thoughts.

"I haven't seen him since the store incident. Do you think he's still mad?" Double D inquired.

"Maybe, I dunno" Eddy replied.

"Okay, next week, I'm having a sleepover party, and everyone is invited! Feel free to wear your usual sleeping attire" Kevin said.

"You can't have girls and boys sleeping together!" Nazz said.

"Yeah, so they'll be in separate rooms" Kevin told her.

"I don't know about this" Nazz said reluctantly.

"Trust me. It will go along smoothly, Nazz" Kevin assured her.

Kevin gave the invitations to everyone, including the Eds. "Why thank you Kevin!" Double D said in his delighted manner.

"No sweat" Kevin cheerfully said.

"Wait, why does this invitation say that your party isn't at your house?" Eddy asked with suspicion.

"Well, I couldn't fit all of you guys at my place, so I'm throwing it at my uncle's house while he's out this weekend" Kevin explained. Double D was a bit suspicious.

"It seems very short notice that the party is a week from now!" Double D said to him.

"Sorry, I kept forgetting to hand these out. Just show up" Kevin said to the others.

On the invitation, there was a chart that listed where the boys would be staying and where the girls would be staying. They already had dinner because Kevin's letter said that there wouldn't be any dinner at the sleepover. The house was 3 stories tall. The boys stayed on the first floor while the girls were on the second floor. One week later, the kids showed up around 7:00 P.M., but the door was locked. Nazz rang the doorbell. "Only Kevin could leave the door to his party locked" Eddy snidely remarked.

Kevin heard the doorbell, so he opened the door. The Eds, Kevin and Johnny stared at the panties Nazz was wearing. She walked into the girls' room with Sarah. Jimmy was following them, but Kevin stopped him. "Whoa, where do you think you're going?" Kevin asked Jimmy.

"I was just going to my room" Jimmy alibied.

"I don't care if the red-head brat is your friend, you can't go in there. You are a boy, I think, so you sleep in this room" Kevin ordered.

"But…" Jimmy began to say.

"No excuses" Kevin said to Jimmy.

"You're so mean…" Jimmy muttered. Jimmy took out his sleeping bag and pouted in it.

Eddy was anxious to get on with the party. "So Kev, what's first?"

"Well, I just have to get the refreshments, and then we can tell some ghost stories" Kevin said. Kevin ran off the get the soda in the kitchen. He came back with it and told everyone to sit down.

"Okay, I'll tell the first story. Just remember that it may be too scary for some of you" Kevin warned the boys.

The Eds, Rolf and Johnny gathered around him as he began his tale. Johnny looked a little nervous, and he was tightly holding Plank.

"It was the 19th century, in 1877. A widow of a farmer was living in this house at the time. On a dark night, the woman began to see strange things. She first saw the initials of her husband engraved on the bathroom's sink. She was scared because her husband was dead, and she never defiled the sink. She then saw her husband's leather boots on the stairs. She ran down to the basement, and was horrified at the next thing she saw!" Jimmy looked like he was going to have an accident, Double D looked scared, Eddy looked bored, Ed was asleep, Rolf was growing tired of the story and Johnny was shivering. Kevin continued his story.

"On the wall of the basement, the words Catherine, come to me were written with blood on the wall. Then, the woman began to hear noises. She ran to the door but it was locked. She looked downstairs to see a moaning ghost floating towards her. She ran to a door in her basement that led to a secret passageway. She ran through the passageway, and she jumped for a ladder that led to safety. She missed, fell down into the phantom's arms, and the ghost disappeared with her."

Ed woke up and looked at the others. "Is it story time yet?" Ed asked Eddy.

"You just missed it, monobrow" Eddy replied snidely.

"I think I peed pants" Jimmy said.

"Well, that was quite a story" Double D said.

"I'll be right back, I just have to go to the bathroom" Kevin said. He walked upstairs.

"That was pretty creepy, huh Plank?" Johnny asked Plank. Johnny began to giggle at the board, as if it were telling jokes. Finally, Eddy snapped.

"Johnny, for the last time, Plank isn't alive!" Eddy yelled. Johnny stared at Eddy and scowled at him.

"What are you talking about?! He's a real person!" he told Eddy. Eddy became even more frustrated.

"HE's A PIECE OF WOOD!" Eddy screamed. Johnny was hurt by his comment and stood up for him.

"Bark and lumber have feelings too you know!" Johnny told him. Eddy rubbed his head to try to calm himself.

"Johnny, bark and lumber don't have feelings. Neither do any other parts or kinds of wood. They're inanimate objects" Double D said.

"How do you know?" Johnny testified against him.