Chapter 4: Big Brother (The Most Important Chapter You Guys will ever Read From Me…)
(Back in Chapter 3…)
The other kids soon left the three Ed's and Jennifer as they went back to their table and went back to whatever they were doing. There was a moment of silence between everyone at the three Ed's table until Double D said, "Eddy; you didn't have to snap like that."
"What do ya mean by that, Sockhead?" Eddy questioned as he turned towards his hat-wearing friend, "Kevin doesn't need to be talking like that about us!"
Double D made a sigh at his behavior, "I guess you're right."
'… Thank you,' Jennifer thought with a weak smile.
(And now, back to Chapter 4…)
It was almost evening now here in the little neighborhood of the Peach Creek Cul-De-Sac as we come upon the first house to the left of the entrance of the neighborhood. It is here in the kitchen of the house that we see the three Ed's sitting around the kitchen. They were sitting around, trying to think up of some scams to do tomorrow.
"What about the bakery scam again?" questioned Eddy aloud, "Pretty sure they can fall for that again."
"Maybe so," Double D stated as he jotted the idea down in a notebook in his lap with a black pen.
"Ooo," Ed awed a little, "Are we gonna bake a cake that's from the planet Mondaruta's secret cook book?"
"… No Ed," Double D replied to the tall Ed as Ed made a slightly disappointed face.
"… Hey, you know what I thought up today at school?" Eddy stated as the two Ed's turned to him, "I was thinking about doing some kind of drawing scam! You know, like making picture drawings and stuff."
"… It sounds like a good idea, Eddy," Double D started to say, "But none of us have any artistic experience to support the idea."
"No, we don't…" Eddy muttered a little before saying with a slight chirp, "But Jennifer does!"
Double D seemed a bit surprised, "Yes, you're right… but I don't know if she would agree to something like that."
"Eh, it's alright if she says no; don't want to put pressure on her like that," Eddy replied as Double D made another surprised face, "Besides, we can always go back to that bakery scam!"
"Yeah! I wanna start baking that cake from Monda--"
"Shut it, Lummox," Eddy snapped a little with annoyance.
Bam! Bam! Bam! Someone one was banging at Double D's front door, which caught all three Ed's attention. Double D quickly jolted up from where he sat and rushed over to the door, which was still being banged on from the other side. But as soon as he unlocked it, someone opened the door and rushed inside like a flash, tumbling a little as they did.
"Jennifer?!" questioned Double D with surprise.
The person that came in swiveled to him and said, "Please, close the door!"
Double D quickly obliged to her command and swiftly closed and locked the front door. And when Double D turned back around to the person, he grew a little pale in the face. It was Jennifer, but she was nothing like they last saw her three hours ago; her arms and face were covered with bruises and bashes. She seemed to be a little weak and exhausted.
"Jennifer!" Double D muttered with shock at her appearance, "W-What happen--"
He was suddenly interrupted when he felt arms wrap around him as Jennifer embraced him, crying into her red-orange shirt while her glasses lifted a little off of her face, "Why; why does he keep doing this?!" she cried as more tears came from her eyes.
Double D was shocked by her sudden actions towards him; and about everything else that has happened in the last five seconds. You could also see a faint red in his face.
"What's going on, Double D?" questioned Eddy's voice from the kitchen as he and Ed came from the kitchen to the front door, only to see Jennifer hugging Double D, crying her eyes out. Eddy was greatly surprised, "Jennifer?"
Ed blinked a few times before making a sad face, "I-Is she crying, Eddy?" he questioned as he looked down to the short leader of the Ed's.
"… Yeah, she is," Eddy muttered.
Jennifer then let's go of Double D, wiping away the tears from her eyes and a little off of her glasses, "I-I'm sorry; I-I just needed to let that out."
"I-It's quite alright Jennifer," Double D replied as he then looked towards the living room, "Do you need to sit down?"
"Y-Yes…" Jennifer stated as she slowly walked over to Double D's couch and flopped down in exhaustion.
Double D soon looked back at the bruises on Jennifer's arms and face as he, Eddy and Ed came into the living room with her, "What happened to you? You're all bruised…"
Jennifer made a sad face as she got back into a proper sitting position, clasping her hands together in front of her for what she was about to say, "… I-I had an argument with my older brother about something…" she couldn't stop the tears from coming to her eyes again as she hung her head low, "A-And then he started punching me, calling me stupid, retarded; anything that he thought suited me…"
"… My god…" Double D muttered with shock as Ed made a sad face to her. As for Eddy, he didn't know what to feel; he looked like he was in a daze with a thought.
It was soon that Eddy asked, "Why…?" everyone turned to him, only to see a narrowing in his eyes, "Why did your brother have to hit you?!"
Jennifer made another sad face, "I-I want to know why too; for the past nine years…" she then started to tear up again, "I-I'm always too scared to ever ask him why…"
The three Ed's sat beside her in silence as Jennifer made a few sniffles of sadness; they had no idea what to say to cheer her up…
"… You can stay with me anytime you want too, Jennifer," Double D started to say to her as everyone looked at him, "And I'm sure Ed and Eddy would do the same as well."
"… Yeah," Eddy replied weakly with a scratch on the back of his head as Ed only nodded his head in a furious manner.
Jennifer managed to make a little smile to the three of them, a few tears coming from her eyes again, "T-Thank you…" she muttered.
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Okay, I think there's some things to be explained in this chapter.
Yes, my brother use to beat me, but not like what you've read in this chapter. The reason why this chapter is a little extreme is to emphasis how much pain he has cause me mentally; not physically. He has never really accepted me because I would always get things wrong, and he's the kind of person that expects you to get it right the first time... this is also the same with my Dad too. And yes, he always called me stupid and stuff; he still does that today... He just doesn't understand about Aspergers, even though he's been explained about it about a thousand times...
