Chapter 2

Upon exiting from the record store with a small bag in hand he noticed a kid, around Tom's age, that shoot 5'3 in a yellow sweater outside a sweet store with a jar of roughly $3 entered with a glee.

Tom decided to follow him and noticed that the kid bought 3 jawbreakers, the kid in the yellow sweater noticed Tom looking at other sweets. "Hey buddy can I help you?" he said as he frowned. "Yea i'm looking for something good, what you got?" he said sarcastically as to think the yellow sweater kid worked in the store, "Yea take some Jawbreakers, the best of the best!" he said. "Uh yeah thanks for the recommendation" Tom replied picked up 5 and walked in behind him. Tom asked "You seem to have a lot of cash for a kid in here." , to which the kid replied "Hey i'm not some damn kid." he scoffed and added "bet you didn't know I scammed some kids to get this money." he said in a lower voice, adding "bet you don't scam people." Tom scoffed and replied "On the contrary, I used to scam kids all the time where I lived and made over 100 bucks." The kid then gasped and stood for a while before he introduced him self "I'm Eddy Reese and I think we could be good mates if we want to, y'know, make serious dough." Tom nodded and added "Alright Eddy, I'm Tom Vermont. The new guy in your neighbourhood and I'm willing to lets say, get the ball rolling." Tom and Eddy shook hands and left with a total of 8 jawbreakers.

Tom and Eddy headed back to the cul-de-sac to which Eddy asked "So Tom what brings you to Peach Creek?", hesitantly he replied "I moved here after my mother had died, my Dad had gone through a rough time back when we lived in England. My Dad was originally from this state as so was my sister, of course my parents were married after my sister was born. Dad had turned 20 and mum was 28." Eddy nodded and raised his eyebrows in a look of sorrow at Tom, "Then of course I was born but thats where it went downhill, Dad caught her sleeping with another man and promptly filed for divorce, he only was allowed to keep me and my sister and few hundred to move us to here."
Tom sighed as he explained everything in vast detail including the fact he was diagnosed with depression at 11. "Shit, that must be hard to deal with all the time." Eddy said

"Tell you what, you are always welcome to my place anytime, I hope you don't mind the swankiest furniture I have to offer. He said with a grin to which Tom nodded as the two of them headed to Eddy's "You should meet my friends, Ed and Double D." he said as they sat on the orange sofa in Eddy's lounge. "This is very 70s in here, but what ever I like it." Tom added noticing the mixture of yellow, orange, olive and browns around the house. "Guy lives in an Ikea store." Tom muttered to himself before turning around adding, "I'm gonna go grab something from my house, I'll be back in a sec." as he walked outside to his house in the freezing snow. He arrived at his front door, as he entered his own house he bolted upstairs and switched his hoodie over to a olive coloured jumper and decided to pick one of his guitars and accompany him self back to his new friend's house.

Upon leaving the house he locked the door and carried his guitar case over his shoulders with an amp and a couple of cables in both his hands and made the short journey back over. He stood outside and knocked on the door, the door opened slowly to reveal taller guy who stood about the same height as Tom with a beanie and an orange sweater. "Can I help you sir?" he said quietly. To which Eddy yelled "He's a friend of ours Sockhead, let him in." Hearing this Tom walked in to the warmth and greeted the other Eds, he shut the door over to escape the cold harsh weather the state had offered.

"I got my equipment over and I got some paper from the house." Tom had declared with a smug grin on his face, to which the others looked at him confused. "Why would we want that?" said Eddy. "Because I'm planning a party Friday night and I want to test this out."Yea so who's going? Just us 4?" Eddy added in a snarking manner "That's about it then again, if you want all the kids round then." he shuddered on the phrase "all the kids" because that also meant the Kankers to which Tom had never met. "Does he know of the she devils that lurk in our midst?" said Ed. "She devils?" Tom added with a confused look on his face, to which he pondered on that thought. "You'll see them in School tomorrow." Edd added as he started to sweat. With a devilish grin Eddy added. "Thing is sockhead is embarrassed to mention about his Girlfriend, which happens to be one of them."

"Smooth work my man, did give her some..." He paused and made a circle with his right index and thumb and stuck his left index through the hole moving both hands simultaneously which caused Eddy and Ed to laugh uncontrollably, Edd blushed, "Well..I...I never did such a thing!" he protested. The others laughed so hard they ended up crying at the joke. "You do that man, she'll go nuts for you." the trio continued laughing ad Edd's embarrassment. "So Tom whats with the guitar case?" said Eddy observing it's size "It's my prized guitar in there, she has curves of natural beauty." Tom stated "She's blue and sounds like an animal." he then opened the case revealing the guitar inside and he was right it was an animal. "I thought you were talking about Double D's girl friend for a second." Eddy muttered to Tom, "Is she blue, with curves and an Animal?" "I dunno you gotta ask him bro." the two of them laughed slightly before Tom had set his self up in the lounge.

"Hey you got any Pink Floyd so I can play with this?" "Yea sure how about this song?Eddy asked as he put on "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd as to which Tom had managed to do the chords and somewhat the first solo no problem but came the harder part as the song built up he was ready for it the one chance to prove he was great, the chords kept coming and before they knew it the bass had kicked in and Tom blasted the second solo. Ed, Edd and Eddy's jaws dropped at how good he was, the noise had carried on and on throughout the house. A single tear had flown down Tom's eye because that was his mothers favourite song. He continued on until the music stopped and after another minute he too stopped.

"Damn didnt know you were that good!l" Eddy yelled. "I enjoyed the movement and sound but I am impressed how you can recreate the sound accurately. said Double D. "Well it takes practice and of course it takes time to get that right. I've been trying since i was around 12 and nearly 5 years paid off well." Tom said as he was interrupted by Ed yelling "Encore, Encore!"

Time had flown by so quickly that the sun was down longer than it was up. Returning back to his house at 6:45pm it was rather quiet but a note was left on the kitchen table when Tom returned to find out his "beloved sister" went for a dinner date with some hotshot at the university in the city. "Well lucky girl, she manages fine in life and look at me, an inconsiderate arse." Tom mumbled and he dragged himself upstairs to get some sleep ready for his first day of school since he moved to the place Yesterday.