Danny A. Owns Ed Edd n Eddy I own nothing not even this computer
Ms Kanker set down the two coffee mugs. Both as dark and sugarless as tar. The man reclined on her couch a smirk on his face, he had a predatory look to his eyes and teeth, as if he wanted to attack her the moment that her guard was down. His expensive suit clashed with the griminess surrounding him, he seemed unperturbed by the setting he had been in much worse dens of depravity than a ramshackle trailer.
"I can't believe that we really haven't seen each other for so long. I mean really Bebe why don't you invite me over more often?" The man took a long sip from his coffee. Bebe glowered, she counted to ten, then twenty, then thirty.
"If you're so hot to see us why have you never invited us up to that swanky penthouse you got for yourself Bubba?" The blue haired man stopped drinking, he hardly reacted, he was always cool about everything, maybe it came with the fact that his parents paid for all of his possessions or maybe it was just an aspect of his personality. Either way it took a lot to get under the mans skin.
"Please, that nickname was such a childish thing to have, refer to me as Attorney, or Bub or something." They had met back when she was dating two other guys and working as a waitress full time. Somehow they just clicked. Maybe she forced it for a beeline to his cash but that was beside the point. He dumped her the moment that he learned that she was having triplets, each one from a different guy. All that he left was his bathrobe.
Of course she tracked him down years later, he had money that she could use. By then he had become a lawyer and there was no chance that she could squeeze him for dough. Out of guilt or pity he offered her a favor and left a phone number. Bebe had been skeptical at first, he might have just been trying to get a crazy lady off his back. But much to her surprise it worked and now here he sat.
"Fine then. Bub. I need your help suing some family." He looked at his thousand dollar watch bored already.
"Oh what did they do to you Bebe? Not tip high enough or something."
"Their boy knocked up my May." Bubba's eyes sneaked up from the watch face he did not turn his head but she now had his attention.
"The redhead or the blonde." The only child's name that he bothered to memorize was his own.
"The youngest, blonde."
Bubba picked up his coffee cup again and took a deeper sip, he looked down into it's depths. The coffee tasted like seven different flavors from several different bags, it tasted disgusting. He had another sip.
"How much money we talking here?" Bubba wanted to be cautious about this, if his exlover was talking a millionaire then he should just walk away now, he didn't want to waste too much time on this.
"Enough to live in one of those swanker houses up in the Cul-De-Sac." Bubba slicked his hair to the side so that his blue unruly mop almost fell over one eye. Not enough to hide it but it gave him a younger face.
"We might have something there. How old is she anyways?"
"Same age as Lee and Marie." Bubba cocked an eyebrow waiting expectantly. When she did not respond he sighed, he would actually have to spell this out.
"How old is that?" Bebe sighed, he of course wouldn't know, he probably didn't even care.
"Their in their junior year of high school genius. You figure it out." His eyes flashed dangerously. Bebe looked down, she couldn't insult him too much, if she did then he would wipe his hands of this and take his leave, then she would be back where she had started.
Pacified Bubba placed his coffee cup down.
"How old is the boy?"
"At least two years older, he's been held back a couple of times. Might be slow."
"Isn't May? That ought-a be able to work in our favor."
The clomping of feet coming towards the trailer alerted the two of the immediate return of the girls. The three entered, not bothering to knock. A little surprised that the door was unlocked but soon saw their mother and guest. Lee was the first one in, her face remained blank and stoic. She simply shrugged and walked past her mother and one of her Dad's.
Marie was almost shocked into place once she saw her dad. It had been a few years since she saw the guy, maybe even a decade, he never sent any pictures or acknowledged her birthday. In fact he had done nothing to even show that he cared that she existed. She gazed at the man whose hair color she shared, he blankly looked back at her. He gave a little grin, an in control predatory grin. Marie felt a shiver go down her spine and then right back up. She didn't like guy's who were in control like that, they always seemed to have something underneath the service, some ulterior motive.
May was the final one into the trailer, she had to practically push her older sister out of the way. Her mother and some guy who looked distinctly like Marie sat staring at her. Expectantly. They were prepared for her arrival.
"What's going on?" Marie said before May could speak, she sounded terrified. Frankly she was, she hardly knew her dad and know him showing up out of the blue and with all of the stuff going on with May...it was a stressful time for any form of reunion.
"We need to speak with May." Ms Kanker said. She stared at her youngest girl until Marie took the hint and headed upstairs to her room. May stood still for a moment, she looked between the two before finally sitting down on a stool that they had in the corner for guests.
"You know Bubba right May?" May looked between the blue haired man and her mother. She barely knew him, she saw him in old photographs and from stories their mom told them. A distant memory also, back when she was just hardly able to memorize anything. Her mother had introduced them to three men, they were at an apartment, one they did not own, maybe it had been a hotel room.
A tall straw colored guy with arms the size of tree trunks had been the first to leave,disgusted and refusing to take responsibility. A shorter man with buck teeth and a mustache had followed soon after, terrified that his wife might just find out about the two of them. This man however, this man who smelt like fancy soap and privilege had studied the three sisters for a little while longer, sizing them up. Measuring them with his eyes.
May knew Bubba, as some sort of terrifying coldblooded man she met once.
"Call me Bub." He said the grin smaller know. Coffee strong on his breath. May nodded once in greeting, she wished her sisters were there, they could at least give her something to distract herself with. She almost wished she was back in school. It had felt like the day would go on forever and yet somehow it was over all too soon and she was thrust into this sort of situation.
"Your mom has made me privy to your little predicament." Bub said. May looked over at her mother. Her two buck teeth showing gnawing away at her bottom lip in worry. Her mom while looking a little uncomfortable for the most part appeared at ease, home in this sort of environment.
"Well I think that I might be able to help you. If you are willing to carry the little bun to term then I think I can help you get a little restitution from the family. Only if you are all able and willing to do exactly what I tell you to do." May did not answer.
"May? Are you on board with this? It needs to be a family effort to get it done." Ms Kanker spoke with an authoritative voice. It was not going to be a request, she was expected to keep the thing inside of her.
"Do I got a choice?" May whispered. They could hear her fine though. Bubba with the coffee mug, now empty being moved in his hands. Ms. Kanker not looking at her child, knowing how hard the task she was asking of her was. Lee and Marie who sat at the top of the stairs and eavesdropped on the conversation below could hear her just over their breath.
"No. You don't." Bubba said. May nodded, she was going to do it. She really had no idea what else there was to do now. Bubba stood his smile back on, he must have thought that it was charming, all that May could see where chips of ice imbedded in his gums.
"Now I will send a car over tomorrow morning, the four of you can come to my office and we'll get this entire mess sorted out, I will go to the liberty of informing the family. Bebe? If I could get the proper contact information from you?" May watched as her mother and Bubba walked outside, he walking carefully to avoid any puddles of indiscriminate and suspicious origin.
Lee and Marie walked downstairs. They sat on either side of her, kneeling. Lee took her May's hand, it was a gentle touch, one that neither of them were used to.
"So uh. You want to go for a walk or something? Talk about this?" Marie spoke quietly May nodded once. The three sisters stood and took their coats and walked out of the house, letting any chores that could possibly be waiting for them to wait another day.
The day while bright and sunny was also chilly. It cut through their cheap jackets like a steak knife going into butter. They saw a fancy car parked just outside of the trailer park gates. Marie looked down as it drove off, her father leaning in the back seat reclined on expensive leather. Their mother walked right past them but was so preoccupied in her little world that she did not notice them, and if she did then she did not comment on it.
They reached the woods and started off on the path that wound it's way among the trees. Lee and Marie waited for May to speak first, the blonde kept her mouth shut for a solid five minutes before talking.
"The blonde girl, Nazz? From the neighborhood? She knows." Lee and Marie looked at her in astonishment for a moment before blowing up. The two girls shouted and clamored to be heard over the other and at the same time also scold May. Finally Lee couldn't take arguing with Marie anymore, with a swift slap she shut her up and shoved her face into Mays.
Her face was bright red and steaming. Her nostrils flared and her hair almost crackling with rage.
"What the hell were you thinking! You told her?! Why would you do that?!" May looked back into her sister's eyes as well as she could, it was difficult with all of the hair in the way. She could always manage to see at least a section of one eye.
"I wasn't she just sorta got the drop on me! I couldn't help it."
"Great now we have to go threaten her so that she don't tell." Marie said, annoyed at the thought of a long walk, but there was also a hint of excitement, an underhanded enjoyment at the chance to attack someone with malicious intent.
"She said that she would keep it under wraps. I-I think that we should trust her." May said this calmly and quietly. The other two about looked like they were ready to rip her head off and shove it back down her throat.
May understood how they felt, the girl had always been a possible threat to them getting their Ed's, with her pretty hair, cash, the fact that she had more then one pair of shoes and an entire array of perfume...it could be intimidating. But-but she had actually seemed nice to May, and not a lot of people she knew were ever nice to her for any reason.
Marie snapped her spine upwards at a straight angle and smelt the air. She got a sultry look on her face, her feet appeared to levitate off of the ground and her eyelids came down halfway.
"Oven Mitt's around the bend." When it came to tracking down their Ed's Marie was like a bloodhound, somehow she had found a way to memorize and track down the hat wearer's scent. While it was downright spooky and obsessive it certainly did help the three girls when they wanted to find them.
May tensed up, typically where there was one Ed there was the trio. May did not think that she could deal with seeing Big Ed on top of all of this. Her sisters on the other hand desired some sort of relief from the amount of stress of the day, and what better way to relieve stress then to transfer it onto another person? With that mindset the Lee and Marie blazed their way threw the woods, Marie's nose leading the way and May behind the two of them nervous and dragging her feet the entire time.
Danny A. own's Ed Edd n Eddy I own nothing not even this computer. Next chapter, confrontation. Would appreciate a few reviews or something of that caliber.