Chapter 6
At around noon, there they were sitting on Maple Avenue, with an ice cream cone in one hand. It was a public, family park, to say the most. They were sitting on bricks that surrounded a flower bed. Each cone was vanilla flavored. Hey, they were giving them out for free.
Copper spoke,"Do you think Eyeball would want his car back anytime soon?"
"Nah", Gordie said.
"Really?", she looked at them.
"No", Chris said.
"What if...", Vern started saying.
"What if what?"
"What if we never find Teddy?"
"Shut up", Gordie said.
Chris just looked at Vern.
"That's not funny, Vern", Copper said.
He took another lick of his ice cream. "I mean what if he's lost forever."
Gordie stopped him with,"Can we just drop this conversation."
"Okay then, let's talk about that day", Vern said.
"No, we can't talk about that day in Public", Chris said.
That was the end of that conversation.
Vern looked at Copper as she was already biting into the waffle cone,"How did you decide to leave?", he started, yet, another conversation.
"I decided to leave after my sisters burned the kitchen down."
Vern raised an eyebrow. Gordie just starred at her with a confused facial expression. And Chris looked at him.
"Well they didn't literally burn the kitchen down. They were cooking chicken fingers and they burned them. I yelled at them for being idiots, because they were just siting there watching television, while the whole house smoked up. There was smoke everywhere. And I cleaned everything up and they didn't so anything."
"So what did your folks do?" Vern asked.
"My parents weren't' home at the time. I phoned my parents later and told my mom what had happened. She just told me that I was too mature and responsible, and that my sisters weren't idiots , they were just not mature and responsible. But they were idiots."
"I got a brother who's an idiot", Vern added.
"Yeah, so do I", Chris said.
She went on with her answer,"So I decided to leave because I was just fed up with my sisters, well more than my sisters, we just didn't see eye to eye. You know. And all three of us shared a room. And I needed my space. They were real messy too. Not saying that I wasn't messy. But I wouldn't have been so messy if it was my own room. It's like I wasn't having any fun. I wasn't really doing anything."
"Do you think they miss you right now?"
"Probably. I miss them too...", She trailed off biting some more off the cone, and at the sight of Gordie dropping his cone.
All the guys looked at him for answers. Gordie was just staring straight ahead, and clearly not answering anybody anytime soon.
"Uh- Gordie ,you dropped your ice cream cone, man.", Chris said.
Gordie stood up on the low brick wall that he had been sitting on. He didn't hear or see anybody except what was ahead.
Before anybody could say anything else he began yelling, "Teddy!", at the top of his lungs. He was the first to spot him.
The rest joined him by yelling his name and waving their hands.
Teddy was on the other side of the park and on the other side of a little hill that started where they were sitting. He was with an older kid, with a little lighter hair color than his, and a tall figure with broad shoulders in a blue uniform. The older kid turned but he didn't.
So, they ran across the park and to where Teddy was, screaming, "Teddy! Teddy!" On the way over there they had all dropped their cones, off course.
Teddy finally turned their direction and waved to his approaching buddies.
They never thought they'd be so happy to see him. Vern knocked him down in an attempt to hug him. Chris and Gordie grinned from cheek to cheek. "We got him", Copper finally said, holding on to his shoulder in an embrace.
"Hi, you guys, this is my uncle Julian", Teddy said.
"Hi", He said.
"Hi", they all said.
"Teddy, do you remember us?",Gordie asked.
He didn't wanna say so. "No", the smile faded away.
"That's okay, right guys?" Vern said, putting his arm around his friend.
"Yeah. That's okay, Teddy", Chris said.
"Well...", Julian said, "You guys better take him home, his mom's been worried sick. I phoned her an hour ago to tell her he was with me."
"Yeah, we'll take him home." Chris said.
"Bye Teddy", Julian said.
"Bye Julian", Teddy mumbled. Julian turned around and walked the opposite direction to his bus.
"Teddy", Gordie didn't waist any time, "I'm Gordie, this is Vern, that's Chris, and that's Copper. Have you got that down?"
"Yeah", he said, "Copper, Chris, uh-Vern and Gordie."
"Good", he said, "And you've know us since the beginning of time, except for Copper." Then Gordie turned to Chris, "Let's go Chris." He ran ahead, and they all followed. He stopped when they reached Eyeball's car and so did the others.
Chris stopped Gordie from getting in the car and let the others go ahead of him,"Gordie, what are we doing?", he said kind of quiet.
"We're going to tell him,Chris. Everything."
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