Eddy ran down the hallway, when snow started to fall. "Snow...indoors!" Eddy ran through the snow, but soon collapsed. Sarah and Jimmy stepped in front of him."
"We are the ghosts of Christmas Past!" said Sarah. Jimmy looked nervous. "But there's only one Ghost of Christmas Past, Sarah!"
"You're right..."
The two of them morphed into a two-headed person. Eddy looked annoyed, though that's nothing new. "Great. I get a freak for a spirit."
"HEY! We're here to help you stop being such a loser!"
"Oh yeah? I think I'm LOOKING at a loser!"
"Eddy, we're here to show you one of your first Christmases!" said Jimmy. Suddenly, they were in a school. Little kids were running around. It all looked familiar...
"Where are we?" asked Eddy.
"Why, it's the preschool Christmas party that you had a long time ago, silly!" replied Jimmy.
"Hey, yeah! There I am! What's that I'm holding?"
"It's a bottle of milk filled with sewer water." grumbled Sarah.
"I remember this! It was my first ever scam!"
"And a dangerous one at that!" added Jimmy. "You gave it to Kevin."
"Hey, Kevin! Want some milk?" asked the younger Eddy.
"Why is it gray?"
"It's...sports drink milk!"
"Awesome!"
"Cough up a penny and it's yours!"
Kevin drank the "milk" and looked disgusted. The present Eddy watching laughed. "Man, that was priceless!"
"Kevin didn't think so," said Jimmy. "And Nazz saw it as well. They didn't think much of you from then on. But they couldn't do a thing about it, because your brother was always around. They were terrified of him. But when he left home, they were free to finally stop putting up with it all! You were left with no one."
"Yeah!" said Sarah. "You were such a loser, no one else liked you!"
Jimmy continued, "You finally saw two people who didn't hate you! Two people you ignored your entire life..." The smaller Eddy walked over to the young Edd and Ed. "Um, hi...guys."
"Flabbergasted!" said the younger Ed.
"Hello, I'm Edd. This is Ed. Do I know you?"
"No...I'm Eddy."
"That's funny! We're all named Edward!"
"I wanted to be named Zena, Warrior of the Planet of the Apes." The Eds continued to talk and become friends.
"They took you in, despite the fact that you never said a word to them," sadi Jimmy. "Would you do a thing like that?"
"I guess I wouldn't..."
"Yeah, you booger head!"
Eddy watched his past speed up. Soon, he was getting older. "Wow...I never really thought about that..."
"Come," said Jimmy. "We'll look at another Christmas." They were suddenly in the Cul-de-Sac in the summer.
"This isn't Christmas! It's July!"
"It was just last summer," said Jimmy. "Ed was bringing Christmas cheer to the kids. But then you, like you always do, tried to con the kids out of their money!"
"Oh, come on! Ed and Double D were doing it, too!"
But it was YOUR idea!" accused Sarah. Eddy saw him and his friends singing carols for money.
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Fa la la la la la la la la
Give us cash or we'll never stop singing...
Sarah's spirit suddenly smacked the present Eddy.
"What was that for!"
"For taking our money!" Eddy saw Ed giving the jawbreakers away. "But did Ed eat the jawbreakers you bought?" asked Jimmy.
"NO! That lump gave them all away!"
"But you didn't see the whole thing..."
"I gave jawbreakers to all, and to all a good night!" Ed was saying. Eddy's pset version tried to tackle him, but bounced off. He got up. "You idiot! Those were OUR jawbreakers! I can't believe anyone would be so STUPID!" Before Ed could say anything, Eddy's past self ran off.
"Gee, Double D," Ed said when Eddy was gone, "I saved one for him. More for us!"
"I suppose you're right." The present Eddy watched and was touched. "He saved one...for me?"
"But it didn't end there," said Jimmy.
"This is pretty fun," Sarah said, seeing Eddy's pain. The past Eddy passed Nazz's house. He glanced in the window. Nazz and Kevin were inside.
"So I didn't see Eddy with a jawbreaker," said Nazz. "That's too bad."
"Eh, he didn't deserve them! Remember when he was just a baby dork and he gave me that sewage milk?"
"Yeah. That stuff was gross. Well, I'm happy I ended up with you."
"Is that a mistletoe?"
"Merry Christmas..." The past Eddy looked like he was in dire pain as he watched the two of them kiss. The present Eddy looked the same way. "I tried to forget that one..."
Suddenly, they were all back in the hallway. "Why'd you have to go and show those memories to me!"
"They show why you hate Christmas," explained Jimmy. "When you were very little, most of your friends drifted away and your brother left. Then later, you saw Nazz and Kevin kiss. Deep down, you remember these memories every Christmas. But if you stopped scamming people, that kind of stuff wouldn't happen. These are the shadows of what have been. Don't blame me."
"I'm not about to give up scamming just because of some memories!" yelled Eddy. "HIT THE ROAD, JACK!"
Sarah lost it. "That's it!" Sarah shoved Eddy into a vending machine in the hall. The two of them disappeared, leaving Eddy crammed inside.
I know we've had an episode where we saw how the Eds met. However, I had already written this story when I saw it...at least it was a good one.