Chapter 8

'Hey, Ed, come here!'

Ed turned to see the loudest of the three Eds walking up to him, fuming.

'Hiya Eddy!' Ed waved, oblivious to his chums anger. Eddy grabbed his collar and pulled him down, so their faces were inches from each other.

'Ed you dolt! What have you been up to? People keep coming up to me and telling' me to keep you in check!'

There was a long pause.

'I forget what I've been up to Eddy. Brain like a sieve!' Ed laughed. Eddy relinquished his troublesome friend and smacked himself on the forehead. He continued through gritted teeth.

'Don't play stupid with me Ed, you know to well what you've been up to. You've been water bombing half the frickin' campus! You know what that does for my reputation!'

'Jeez Eddy, I'm sorry,' the pseudo-activist apologised, 'I was just fighting the system.'

'Oh Ed, what we gonna do with you?' Eddy grumbled. 'You haven't a clue what you're talkin' about.' The pair started to walk down the pavement towards Ed's apartment. 'You do realise Double-D's miffed as hell, don'tcha?'

Ed paused in his tracks before he remembered his previous arrangement with Edd.

'OH! I forgot to remember not to forget that Double-D was coming round!'

'Smooth goin' Ed.' Eddy kept on walking. 'You ain't gonna hear the last of this for some time now. Kid's like a broken record I swear.' Ed ran to catch up his friend.

'What should I do Eddy.' Ed grabbed his friends shoulders and begged for advice.

'For crying out loud Ed, just get him a book or something.' Eddy replied, trying to push his larger friend off of him.

'You're the man with the plan Eddy!' Ed chuckled.

'Yeah, whatever.' Eddy was conscious of the people surrounding them. Many seemed amused by Ed's antics. Fortunately, none of them were in Eddy's Business class. They reached the apartment building in which Ed lived. The taller Ed-boy turned to his loud-mouth friend.

'Wanna come in? I've got video games!' Ed seem too proud about that fact, considering his age.

'Well done Ed. Thanks but no, I'm meetin' Hank and Melvin. I'll see ya later Ed.' Ed's brain kicked into gear and he remembered what he had seen the other day from the car.

'Oh, I remember something!' Ed grabbed his friend and turned him back round.

'What Ed,' Eddy replied impatiently, 'how to talk and blink at the same time?'

Ed was oblivious to the blatant sarcasm and told Eddy about what he'd seen; Melvin and the dark, mysterious stranger. Eddy didn't appear remotely interested or intrigued by the time Ed had finished.

'You done?' he asked. ''Cus I've gotta go.'

'But Eddy, what about the dark and mysterious stranger?'

'Ed, I've seen Melv with the guy a few times, they're old buddies, they like to hang out. Big deal. Now I've really-'

'In a toilet?'

'Maybe they just needed a whiz at the same time, whoop-de-doo. Look Bean-dip, I'm late, I'll catch ya later.' With that, Eddy turned and briskly went on his way, leaving Ed to contemplate what Eddy had said.

Eddy turned up outside the cinema five minutes late.

'Damn Ed,' he thought to himself, 'goin' on and on 'bout his crazy theories. What an idiot.'

Eddy was surprised to see that only Hank was stood outside on the steps waiting.

'Good to see at least one of you could turn up.' Hank said.

'What ya mean? Ain't Melv showing up?'

'No man,' came the slow reply, 'he's got to meet that friend of his fer something. So we just as well get in now man.' Eddy didn't respond, he was thinking about what Ed had said earlier. What if something fishy was going on. Melv. With a shady stranger. In a public toilet.

'Oh my god, my friend is gay…' Eddy muttered aloud.

'What you talkin' 'bout?' Hank gave him a funny look.

'Oh, nothing, never mind.' Eddy laughed nervously.

A/N: Sorry it's been a while, I've been on holiday. A bit of a short chapter, but I'll try to make the next few longer.