Sam and Laddie laughed on the merry go round, screamed on the rollercoaster, held on while riding the scrambler, attacked Mike and Star in bumper cars, and various other things to show they were enjoying themselves on the various other rides they rode. As they were in line for the spider they saw a couple people off to the side.
"Edgar?" they turned,
"Alan!" Laddie waved his arms and jumped up and down. They came over.
"Hey you guys, what's up?" Alan asked.
"Nothing much," Sam said. "We're here to ride and enjoy the last day, you guys?"
"Same." Alan said. He and Edgar looked sideways at each other.
"Say Laddie, do you know where Star and Mike are?"
"Uh huh, they're right over there." He pointed to where Star and Mike were standing looking at them curiously. Edgar crouched to his eye level.
"Okay, Laddie, I want you to go over there and talk to them for a little bit, I have to talk to Sam. He nodded. He looked up at Sam.
"We'll ride later."
"Yeah," he nodded, "sure." Laddie ran off and Sam got out of line. They moved off to the side.
"What's up Edgar?"
"Well, we need to ask you about Josh Haywood and Robert Pendleton."
"Okay, what about them?" Alan got in front of him and looked at him. Edgar just sighed.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Sam licked his lips and looked away.
"You gotta realize, I'm not worried about them, and no one else should be either."
"Sam-"
"Alan wait, let me finish. Now back in Phoenix there was this kid named Jeff, and he used to try and beat the crap out of me, got me a few times too, anyways, Mike went postal and fought with him, now Mike won, just barely, his friends had to drag him home, but he won, ever since then they couldn't get along, they got anywhere in the vicinity and they were like two mad dogs or something, they'd start talking trash and get ready to fight, and I got sick of it. I just didn't want that to happen again."
"I can understand." Edgar replied, "But what makes you think it would?"
"You know the stuff they're doing now?"
"Yeah," Alan replied.
"That's how it started with Jeff; with stuff exactly like that." They nodded. "That and something else."
"What?"
"Alan," he looked to Edgar and he swallowed, "it's not something I really want to talk about."
"Whoa." Edgar moved and Alan stood back.
"Wait! Nothing happened." The brothers looked at each other. "They were screwing with my head. But nothing happened."
"Nothing happened?" Alan asked.
"You're sure?"
"I'm sure Edgar, Alan, nothing. They were just messing with my head. You know how they are."
"Yeah," Alan replied, "And yeah, I could definitely see Mike going a little ballistic on that one."
"Which wouldn't be good for anyone involved." Edgar said.
"He wouldn't kill them." Sam stated.
"No," Alan said, "But he sure would cause a few hundred dollars worth in hospital bills." Sam looked at him.
"Good point."
"Guys." They turned to Mike. He looked at them, "Everything okay?" Suddenly Edgar and Alan started shifting slightly. Mike breathed slightly.
"It's not cause you're a. . . ." Alan looked around. "You know. . . ." he looked at Edgar.
"We're not privy to the release of such information at this time and place. However, should the situation change then we will be most happy to inform you of the cause of our behavior." Mike raised his brows and looked at them.
"Are you guys okay?"
"Yeah," Alan said looking at Michael and then turning to Edgar. "Right?" Sam and Michael shook their heads.
"We're fine." Edward said.
"Okay." Michael walked away and did the Universal Coo-Coo sign to Star. Laddie laughed and Star shook her head. Sam, Alan, and Edgar looked at each other and laughed.
