Chapter 10: Looking For Today
It is now 9 AM in the morning, and Chris woke up to make his coffee to wake him up from a rather very late night's sleep. In fact, that reminded of him of why his mom would tell him sleeping late isn't a very smart idea. It seems it is, especially if you do ridiculous crap beforehand that leaves you exhausted beyond all recognition. Either way, he vowed to never do that again, as he feels like a zombie right now.
After around 15 minutes, his mind started to wake up, and he could actually do stuff efficiently now. Either way, he went to the restroom, and found Double D asleep, which scared him a bit, not expecting to see him there. It's a good thing the restroom was cleaned up before Double D slept in it, because knowing how he is, he would be freaking out about it.
"What the?" Chris said, quietly.
Before Chris spoke up to wake Double D up, he noticed that he was holding some notebook, that had bits of punk-like stickers, which raised Chris's eyebrow. He got closer to Double D, and then he realized that he had Marie's diary.
"You've gotta be kidding me... what did this dude do?!" said Chris in his mind, not fully understanding the context of the situation. However, Double D woke up, and jumped when he saw Chris, not realizing that he had fallen asleep in the restroom of all places.
"Chris! I apologize wholeheartedly!"
Chris then looked at Double D with a raised eyebrow, wondering what what the circumstances that led to this, after which he says, "So... you wanna explain what that is next to you?"
Double D stood confused, before he realized what Chris was talking about. He realized that Chris found out about Marie's diary, and that he had it aswell. Well, so much for the secret.
"Let me guess, apple doesn't fall far from the tree, huh?" responded Chris.
Double D was sweating billets, as he wasn't prepared to explain himself. He responded back, in a panicked state, "Umm... it's just a misunderstanding!"
"How did you get it? Tell me that at least." said Chris.
Double D explains, "When you three were realizing that the Kankers were nearby, I unfortunately found this all in the mist of our escape. However, I believe it is our duty and responsibility to return it to... Ma-Marie."
Chris's eyes widened, and then he said, "No, no, and NO!"
"Come now Chris! We've already done something disgusting loathsome by doing your little stunt!" said Double D.
"Yeah, lemme just tie you up and then put a sticker saying 'for Marie Kanker'." Chris said, while facepalming a bit. Double D didn't say anything in response.
"Look, you take care of it for now. We will come up with idea for this later, we've done enough for now. But, I've got one idea to cover it." Chris said.
Chris ran to his room and got a fake cover for a notebook, and place it on top of the actual cover to hide the fact that it was Marie's diary, and make it seem as if though it was something else entirely.
"Now, hide it for now. I'll try to figure out a plan to get it back to her later, but do NOT mention this to anyone else. Also, I don't think I need to tell you this, but don't look into that thing. Because once you do, it's gonna be hard to make it seem like you didn't, and then it's all your fault!"said Chris.
"I shall keep that in mind. Might we join Ed and Eddy in the living room?" responded Double D, wanting to avoid further discussion on the topic for right now.
"Yeah." said Chris.
And so, the boys went to Ed and Eddy in the living room, who were actually already up, playing some games while the situation upstairs unfolded. Both of them took notice of the fact that they finally found the other two.
"Where were you two?" asked a confused Eddy.
"I found a little someone who fell asleep in my bathroom." Chris said, jokingly.
The boys minus Double D laughed at the situation the latter got himself into. Speaking of
"Ha ha ha, very funny." said Double D, disapprovingly.
"Relax Double D, you'll live like you have all the other times!" said Eddy. "Besides, you've been in MUCH worse scenarios, so this is nothing man!"
"It's as if though it is fifth season all over again." Ed said, while a smile across his face.
"That reminds me, Chris, what made you move to our delightful cul-de-sac?" asked Double D, out of curiosity.
"Well, my friend, I guess it is time for a story in a story" said Chris.
All 4 boys sat down on the couches, with the Eds awaiting Chris's story as to why he moved to the cul-de-sac, seeing as they haven't gotten the details as to how he moved into the cul-de-sac yet, and that's always something that they have wondered. Regardless, Chris begins to speak, saying, "So, there was a newspaper that mentioned many places that had houses for sale, news about different places, and the cul-de-sac had news about how it was destroyed. I saw the cul-de-sac before the attack, and after, they provided pictures so yeah. On the before page, I thought it looked nice, but I could wonder why it got so destroyed, like golly man!"
"Ah yes, I sadly admit that the cul-de-sac was destroyed for a rather preposterous reason." said Double D, with a slight frown.
"You actually know why?" asked Chris.
"It was the Kankers trying to find their ship-in-a-bottle, apparently." responded Double D.
"The worst part of it was lumpy here had stolen it while he was sleepwalking, drawing the Kankers to us!" blurted Eddy out loud.
"Ah good times, the fourth season was..." said Ed, in a relaxed tone.
Chris chuckled before continuing, saying, "Anyways, I found that one house, which is this one, and because my parents had planned to move anyways, we decided that this house would be the best place to do so. Besides, we got at a decent price, as it wasn't used in a while, and the seller wanted to sell it to someone as soon as possible, seeing as how no one has bought the house is a long time. Until now!"
"What about school? After all, you can't be older than us, no?" asked Double D.
"Taken care of. We actually only have a week before it starts, but yeah. Not to worry man, I'm going to the school that's literally next to us basically, so yeah."responded Chris.
"Of course, Mr Einstein here has to ask about stupid school!" Eddy yelled out.
"School is most certainly not lacking in intelligence, Eddy." Double D responded to Eddy.
"Relax, besides we're gonna have the same classes most likely; as we are in the same grade anyways, tenth to be exact." Chris said.
"Oh! I have a question Chris!" Ed yelled out.
"Yeah?"
"Were there evil aliens in your place?" Ed asked.
Chris laughed before he said, "No Ed, my old place did not have those."
"Aw..." Ed said.
"But yeah, I hope this school is better than the one I used to go to." said Chris.
"What was wrong with the school, if you don't mind my asking?" asked Double D.
"It's fine, don't worry." Chris said, as he sighed before he explained why he decided to leave his old school. "Well, honestly? I got a lot of pressure from teacher to just go in routes that THEY took, but I never felt like I could say anything. It just didn't feel like I had a choice in what I wanted to do and well, I got sick of it. The school here, I've talked to some of our fellow teachers, and they understand me better than anyone did at the old school."
"My goodness," said Double D. "I'm sure you'll have a better time here, it certainly seems a huge weight was lifted from your mind!"
"Where is it Double D?" asked Ed.
"Shut up Ed." responded Eddy.
"Anyways," continued Chris, "I honestly didn't have a huge connection with lots of people there, so I wasn't losing a whole lot when leaving. I did like a teacher here and there, but yeah."
"Well, I hope you will be free of most drama here, as the only drama here is just the Kankers." said Double D.
"It will mostly depend on time really. But maybe they'll change, who knows." said Chris.
"That's never gonna happen! What would make them change?!" yelled Eddy.
"Who knows..." said Chris.
Speaking of the Kankers...
May has practically been dead silent since last night, still refusing to leave the room ever since she got pranked by Ed last night. Meanwhile, Marie was both angry and somewhat upset, as although Double D had both, "cheated", on her, left her fake gifts, she couldn't help but wonder why he did everything that he did. Did he actually hate her? Was she never someone he would've liked? It never crossed her mind that he was capable of even disliking anything, as he always tried to find the more positive side in stuff.
Meanwhile, Lee was just flat out angry at Eddy, seeing as it only fueled her motivation even more, but she had an idea to get payback. Yet again. Oh boy...
"What are we gonna about this?" asked Marie. "It seems no matter what we do, they always fire back at us!"
"First, we need to do something about that Chris guy." said Lee. "He is leading this crap, along with Eddy, that is something that is an absolute fact."
"But what exactly can we do?" asked Marie.
"Let's try something that will surely get his attention, I know what will." said Lee.
Marie wasn't sure of what Lee meant, as Chris was seemingly aware of anything around him. But she didn't really say anything, as she was sort of thinking about Double D, and what he truly thought about her.
"Marie! Are you even listening?!" yelled Lee loudly, noticing that she wasn't even laying any attention.
Marie was somehow thinking so much that she forgot about Lee's original plan, which made the latter annoyed.
"MARIE!" yelled Lee, five times louder.
"What! Geez..." responded Marie.
"Listen here, we will capture the Eds from their houses, and Chris will have to get them and try to save them, get that?" said Lee. "He wants to play hero? Well, he's gonna get a chance to do so!"
"Yeah, sure, whatever." said a rather reluctant Marie.
Although Marie had slight prejudice towards Chris, she highly doubted this would even help their issue, seeing as that kind of stuff only made things worse. But she didn't really want to go against Lee, as Lee always held a rather hard leadership habit, and kinda ignoring her and May's input on most things.
"Should we get May?" asked Marie.
"Nah, she's useless for now. I got a separate idea to get her spirits up, but we gotta do something about that Chris guy, as he is gonna cause problems, but not for much longer." said Lee, as she chuckled.
This is gonna be conflicting...