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"Hey Edith, I'm home!" Archie called as he walked through the front door.

"Ooohh hello Arrrchie!" she greeted him as she ran out of the kitchen and into his arms. "How was your day?" she asked after giving him his welcome home kiss.

"Never mind dat, never mind dat. Where's your cousin Fruit?" he asked breaking the embrace

"Floyd." She corrected him

"Whoever."

"I don't know. He ain't called or showed up and he's half an hour late." She said putting one hand to her cheek as she looked at her silver watch.

"Ah jeeze. That man can't be on time for nothing." Archie groaned as he walked over to his chair and took a seat.

"That's true." Edith said as she followed him and sat down in her own chair. "Steaphy told me, that her Aunt Laura told her that, Steaphy's Uncle Tom, who was Laura's brother, told her that Steaphy's Uncle Bob…"

Archie watched her tell her story, a headache already starting to form, but he couldn't help but be thankful that her could hear another one of her famous never-ending stories.

"…had told him that their cousin Elsa had told him that Steaphy's mother had told her that Steaphy's father, that's Floyd, was late for when Steaphy was born!"

Archie leaned closer to Edith and quickly kissed her.

"Oh Archie. What was that for?" Edith asked softly.

"Happy New Year Edith we're in the year 1992!"

"Archie…" Edith started to say in a confused tone. They were in 1980. Then the light went on, "Ooohhh!!" she said in a away only Edith could say. "Oh Archie." She said smiling. Just then the phone rang, "Oh I'll get it!" Edith cried as she jumped up from her seat at went to answer the phone.

"Hello?" she said into the phone, "Oh hello Floyd." She said after a pause, "Where…"

"Is that Floyd?" Archie asked from his seat "You tell him dat you can't keep the food warm for him so he'd better hurry it up. And I don't care if youse can just for once in your life, Lie!"

Edith however wasn't paying much attention to her husband as she listen to what was being said on the other line. "Oh I see…yeah…no it's ok. Well sorta…Oh yeah it can….Sure I'll tell her….ok Goodbye." And with that she placed the phone back down.

"Ah jeeze, lemme guess." Archie groaned

"He ain't coming." both husband and wife said at the same time.

"Ah jeeze, what are we gonna do Edith/" he questioned sounding frustrated. Edith took a seat once more in her chair, obviously thinking of something.

"I don't know."

"Well guess it's back to Plan A with the suitcase thing." Archie simply said before getting up and getting a cigar from on top of their TV.

"Oh I know!" Edith exclaimed from her seat, "We could call Floyd back later on and tell him our plans and leave it up to him. If he wants to talk about it over the phone or in person!" she exclaimed feeling proud with herself.

Archie sat back down in his chair, a cigar in his hand now; he raised an eyebrow and looked over at his wife.

"Tell youse what we'll do. We'll call him up and let 'em know our plans and leave it up to him to come talk to us in person or over the phone." Archie said smirking, while Edith looked at her husband confusion once more showing on her face

Well there you go! Chapter 8 of As Time Goes By! Thanks for Reading! Hope you liked! Please review! Until Next week! Have a Nice Day!