Note: I forgot about Johnny when I first wrote this. He's so forgettable for some reason. Ah well.
I don't own anything.
Before Mother and Father started taking more hours at work, they liked to set up play dates with the other neighbor children so their little Eddward could socialize.
They did not approve of Ed or Eddy. They were too brash and a bit too rowdy for their tastes. Sarah and Jimmy were still babies and not very good company for five years-old Eddward. Rolf, the dear foreign child, was just as rowdy as Ed and Mother and Father did not want to send their child to him only to have him returned with scrapes and bruises. And the Johnny boy's parents never answered their calls. Nazz was a sweetheart, but she was a bit ditsy for a small child and Kevin, across the lane, were there only options left.
So every other day at noon, Mother and Father sent little Eddward off to the Barr family house across the lane. Sometimes he held a toy, other's he clutched at his little hat, nervously making his way to their neighbor.
Kevin sometimes wasn't very nice. He liked to play ball, but he always threw it too hard so it would hit Eddward. And when Nazz came over to Kevin's house, she only ever wanted to play house and Edd always had to be the baby or the puppy. He didn't understand why the other children did not understand the concept of fairness and taking turns.
At lunch time, Mrs. Barr sat them at the table with triangle sandwiches and apple slices and fruit juice. Kevin gobbled his up and Nazz favoured her apple slices while Eddward neatly cleaned his plate and wiped his mouth after every bite.
After that, the three would go back outside to the back yard and continue playing 'throw the ball at Edd' or house.
When his parents called for him to return home, Eddward would thank Mrs. Barr for having him and say goodbye to Kevin and Nazz and then hurry back to the safety and order of his own home.
Mother and Father would sometimes ask him if he had a nice time and if he remembered his manners. He would answer them and they would eat their dinner and then send Eddward up to bed.