The bell was just minutes away from ringing letting the kids outside know they needed to come in but one kid wouldn't be able to. Eddy had gotten himself to the top of the playgrounds tower and was now scared stiff.
*RRRRIIIINNNNNGGG* "Oh no.." Eddy said aloud in a scared tone. I can't get down, he thought, I can't think of a way down! Maybe a teacher will get me?, no wait nobody but those two boys know I'm here. They won't tell the teachers anything."Ohhhh!" Eddy screamed even more scared now that he knew there was no way out of this.
"HEY KID!"
"Huh...?"Eddy said as his train of thought had been broken by a voice. The source of this voice came from a boy below him who Eddy never remembered seeing before. "Ye...yes?" he asked nervously.
"How did you get up there?"
"I don't remember" and it was true he couldn't he was too scared to.
"Oh...Hey you think you can tell my friend Jib to come down he knows better than to be flying around like that."
Eddy was about to ask but decided not to. Easier to just do what was asked. "Umm ok..HEY JIB GET DOWN!" he screamed to the air.
"WOW! he came down he NEVER listens to me like THAT! What's your name mister!"
"I...I'm Eddy" Eddy said suddenly seeing how utterly hopeless this was.
"Well Eddy my names Ed." he said taking a bow. "OH I can spell it too it's E...D!" this led him to having one of the most ridiculous grins Eddy had ever seen on a persons face. This is getting me no where. This kids got no brains, Eddy said thinking to himself in disappointment.
"Hey?...why do you seem sad?" he said. Hmm wonder how he got that, Eddy thought, maybe he's not brainless.
"I can't get down...so...I'm scared OK!"
"You don't like it up there?"
"NO I CAN'T GET DOWN!"
"So your scared because you can't get down?"
"YES!" Oh how Eddy hated telling this to anyone, how could a kid he just met get him to tell him his deepest secret?
"Why?" the boy questioned. AHHH! Would he just stop, Eddy thought.
"Because I can't find a way out of this! Get it?"
"So your scared because you can't get out?" ARGH IS THIS KID DENSE,
"YES!" Eddy screamed getting annoyed.
"Well I could get you out! YEAH! Promise I will!" He said with another one of those goofy grins.
"Huh..y…yo..you will?" Eddy was truly surprised he didn't think anyone would help him. "Really?"
"Well yeah a hero always saves people and I wanna be a hero like on the t.v."
"Ok...well how can you help?"
"Well you jump and I catch you."
"WHAT!"
"Don't worry I'll catch you, promise!" the boy said as fast as he could. He sure promises a lot, Eddy thought, maybe he'd be good to have around.
"Ok..but you have to promise some thing to me first ok?"
"Ok!"
"That if I jump you would be my friend?" Eddy asked he really would like to have a friend.. "OH and that you won't ever tell anyone what I'm scared of!"
"UH..HUH! I PROMISE!" he said nodding his head up and down very fast. "and...that...you won't ever let me get scared...again...please?" he said in a begging kind of tone.
"OK I PROMISE! the boy said with a grin that put the others to shame.
"O...oh ok I'll count to three and then I'll jump ok?" Eddy said with a nervous tone. "GOTTCHA!"
"..o..o..1"
"t..2"
"3!"
Eddy jumped and in doing so he did the one thing he hadn't been able to do since preschool. He trusted someone, and that someone hadn't let him down.
"I..I...I..i'm ALIVE!" Eddy said as he was sprawled out on the ground atop of his newly made friend Ed.
"HAZZAH!" Ed shouted throwing his arms up which just made him look like he was trying to make a snow angle in sand.
"YOU DID IT ED!" Eddy said as he grabbed Ed's hand forcing him up only to grab hold of his arms and force Ed to go round in circles like an idiot with him.
"T…Thank...You!" Eddy stopping to give Ed a huge hug but started to cry out of pure relief. This was probably one of the only times those words ever left his mouth and held any real meaning.
"Well... what are friends for Eddy?" Ed said smiling that goofy grin which Eddy was coming to love.
"We better get to class bud." Eddy said thinking about how their teacher would be mad because they came in late.
"Hmm I forget where it is Eddy."
"Ok then we better get you to class huh Ed?" Eddy said smiling at his own joke.
"OK Eddy!" Ed said following him into the school.