The video started off with black static. Edd turned to see Eddy sat in the armchair beside him. The whiff of Eddy's cologne was intoxicating. Edd let out a soft moan as he remembered the night before. How soft Eddy's lips felt on his own. How divine Eddy's tongue felt sliding across his own and how wonderful Eddy tasted. That night was one of the rare moments that Edd would not mind exchanging microorganisms with another person. Edd resisted the urge to taste that heavenly warmth inside of his friend's mouth again.
The black static quickly changed to focus on the recording of someone's shoes. The recording started to get fuzzy until the camera was in focus. Judging by the expensive running shoes alone, Edd had to guess that Lucas was the one behind the camera. His guess was proven when Lucas pointed the camera on his face. Teenage Lucas' hair was a bit longer than it was today and teenage Lucas also suffered from bad acne.
"Is this thing on?" Lucas asked, "Hello, I'm Lucas Malcolm Holmes. I am fourteen years old and I am a Scorpio! These two fuckbags at the stand are Seth Alexander Lovering and Matthew Terry McGee."
The camera pans to a wooden stand and zooms in on it. Teenage Matthew and Seth sat at the stand with a wooden sign that read "Moonshine: $5" in painted letters. Teenage Seth was creating a stick and poke tattoo on a pig ear. Seth only had one tattoo at the time and it was of a yin-yang symbol. Teenage Matthew looked extremely annoyed at the bottles of Moonshine in front of him. Matthew had also looked a bit different as a teenager. At fourteen, Matthew still did not develop facial hair and was relatively skinnier compared than he was today. He wore a white hoodie under a dark yellow numbered jersey, dark green slacks, and a red cap. It was the same outfit that he seen "Matthew" in when he and Eddy were only twelve. Ed, Edd, and Eddy found out later that day that "Matthew" was actually Sarah and Jimmy the whole time.
"Fuck this!" Matthew cursed, tipping over the stand in a fit of rage. The cups containing moonshine spilled to the ground. "We haven't had a single fucking customer all day!"
"It's the end of the month, Mattie," Seth argued, picking up the pig ear that Matthew knocked over. "Nobody gets their paychecks or allowances until next week."
"Why didn't you tell me that, you stupid fuck?" Matthew growled, stomping away from the failed scam. He turned towards the camera and sneered, "Turn that fucking camera off, Lucas!"
The video turned to black static. "So even my brother and his friends had failed scams." Eddy guffawed.
Edd nodded and waited for the next scene to play. He recognized the next scene being on the Peach Creek Junior High stage. It looked like it taken place at a talent show with the camera being propped up backstage facing the front of the stage. The principal tripped off the stage from a prank involving marbles.
Just as the principal fell off the stage, Matthew and his friends got on stage wearing bondage accessories over their casual clothes. Leather harnesses went over their shirts. They wore spiked collars around their necks and they carried floggers in their pockets. Edd had to wonder who in their right mind let three fourteen year olds near items like that. The trio more than likely wore the improper accessories as a joke or a way to anger the principal. The trio received a mixture of shocked gasps, laughter, and even cheers. The three managed to top off the outrageousness of the situation by singing "Cradle of Love" by Billy Idol while each playing an instrument. Matthew played the harp, Seth played the drums, and Lucas played the keyboard.
Edd and Eddy sat in uncomfortable silence as the outrageous talent show performance continued. The segment ended with Lucas rushing to retrieve his camera and the principal shouting out that the three was suspended from school. The familiar black static greeted the two teens in the theater room once again. The next scene was also at a familiar setting.
Matthew, Seth, and Lucas were at the playground in the cul-de-sac. The camera focused in on a half-naked teen that was tied up to the monkey bars. The teen was a scrawny bespectacled redhead whose straight hair was parted down the middle and grew an inch past his ears. The teen looked to be the same age as Matthew in the video. Matthew was leaning over the teen with a callous grin on his face. Edd felt physically sick just from watching the scene unfold.
"Why the long face?" Matthew asked the bound teen with mock sympathy, "I thought you were into freaky shit like this."
The teen struggled against his binds, "No! Let me go, you dorks!"
"You said some shit about me this morning. Something about how I'm a waste of life that would probably end up working as a carnie as an adult. Sound familiar?" Matthew was spit in the face as a response. Matthew quickly backhanded the redhead, "You must have death wish today, you little faggot! I'll admit; you've got a lot of spunk. Don't think that I won't bust your head in today though."
"Ah Mattie," Seth spoke up, "let's leave the little geek here. I think the embarrassment of someone finding him in his underwear is punishment enough. Let's blow this joint before someone sees us and calls the pigs over here."
"Since when do you or Lucas think?" Matthew retorted. He turned to Lucas, who was obviously behind the camera, "Lucas, you and that stupid camera are starting to get on my last fucking nerve. Shut that fucking thing off!"
The scene once again goes to black static like they were in some kind of kind of horror movie, forced to watch a scene more disturbing than the last scene. The redhead in the video was correct about Matthew becoming a carnie when he grew up. Edd just hoped that whoever the person is alright now. Eddy twitched in his seat. Have he been twitching the whole time?
"Let's do something else," Eddy gulped and quickly got up to shut off the video. "Let's try to find that pool. Watching videos is pretty boring anyway."
Edd could only nod in agreement at Eddy's statement. He knew that Eddy was just as disturbed by what he had seen just as much as Edd was. Eddy racked his brain trying to figure out why the redheaded kid in the video looked so familiar to him. He had seen the teen in the video before sometime in his youth, but he could not figure when he had seen him.
Even though his brother was kicked out when Eddy was just eight years old, he was starting to see less and less of his brother after he turned three years old. Matthew would always take off in the early morning and stay away until after his bedtime. Eddy figured that Matthew went to either Lucas' house or Seth's house. As his own father recalled, it was as if Matthew was eleven going on twenty-one. His parents couldn't control Matthew and kicked him out several years later when Eddy was just eight years old.
Their search for the pool room led to them finding a yoga room, a room full of exercise equipment, and an extra bathroom. "We're getting close, Sockhead," Eddy stated, "I can smell the chlorine." Eddy opened the next door and spotted the edge of the pool. "It's over here, Sockhead!" Eddy announced. Eddy looked around and spotted a mesh storage cubes with swim trunks and towels. "It looks like we don't even have to go skinny dipping."
"Check the sizes on those to see if we would be able to fit them first," Edd advised, not wanting a repeat of the time they wore his brother's swimsuits for Nazz's sprinkler party. "-And what do you mean you would've gone skinny dipping if there wasn't swimsuits available? Do you know how indecent and discourteous that is for us as houseguests?"
"Mellow out! I came here to swim, not to get nagged to death." Eddy started to strip out of his clothing.
"Eddy! What are you doing? There are three grown men in this house not including the hired staff." Edd exclaimed.
"It's just Matthew and his stupid friends." Eddy snorted in amusement at Edd. He dropped trou and checked the swimsuits. "Looks like there are no swimsuits in my size. Too bad!" Clad in only his boxers, Eddy made a beeline towards the pool and quickly jumped in. "Geronimo!"
"Why do I even bother?" Edd checked the same pile of clothes that Eddy haphazardly thrown around. After neatly folding the swim trunks that Eddy left, Edd found a pair of trunks that fit him and a jersey that would hide the hickey that Matthew gave him. Eddy was already lying on his back in what Edd liked to refer as an "indolent backstroke" where Eddy would only kick his feet and move his arms once in a while to stay afloat.
Edd quickly changed in the extra bathroom Eddy and he found when they were searching for the pool room. Thankful that he always carried around a box of plastic hair nets, he took off his hat and equipped one of the plastic hair nets. After examining his appearance in the mirror, he decided that he was ready to swimming. The hair net covered the hickey that Eddy had given and the jersey covered every inch of his shoulders.
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The three men in the entertainment room laughed at Lucas recalling a memory from their wayward youth. Seth and Lucas were unable to contain their chuckles. It was just one of those times where the three would meet up to catch up on the latest affairs of their pals and reminisce about the past. Matthew couldn't help but get the feeling that whatever was between Seth, Lucas, and him was only superficial. Sure, they have been friends since grade school, but beyond that they were former scamming buddies and now drinking buddies. Matthew wouldn't jump in front of a bullet to save either of them nor did he care about what Lucas and Seth thought of him. Such was their friendship.
"So Mattie, you're staying the night, right?" Lucas asked in a sickly sweet tone.
Matthew glared at him, "I've got plans later on tonight, Lucas."
"You're currently unemployed and living at your parents' house. What plans could you possibly have that are so important?" Lucas asked with a twisted smirk.
Matthew groaned in annoyance, "I have plans later on tonight with the kid in the sockhat, so sorry about your luck!"
Seth rolled his eyes, "I fucking knew it!"
"Fuck the kid here. I don't give a flying fuck. It's not like I'm going to be the one cleaning the bed sheets anyway. There's plenty of alcohol in this place to keep you content for the night and a private room that is probably swankier than most hotel rooms in this fucking state." Lucas knew how to coax Matthew into doing what he wanted and Matthew hated him for it.
"Okay, fine." Matthew caved, "I'll stay here for the night. Damn, is it that horrible to stay in a big mansion by yourself for days on end?"
"You have no idea," Lucas turned to Seth, "are you going to be staying here too for the night?"
"No thank you, I've got work in the morning and my wife is expecting me back in time for dinner," Seth sneered when he heard Matthew making a whipping noise, "Shut up, Mattie!"
"I'm going to need you and Lucas to do something for me before you go back to your dungeon master – I mean wife," Matthew grinned maliciously at his friend.
"What a shock! What do you need now?" Seth folded his arms, not liking whatever Matthew had planned.
"I need my night to be uninterrupted by Pipsqueak. I mean it; I need Pipsqueak in bed for the rest of the night." Matthew explained. "I need you two to make sure that happens and done in a way that Pipsqueak would not expect a thing. I would need you two to serve him strong alcohol throughout the day. I don't even care if you two have to hold him down and pour alcohol down his throat. Just make sure you serve him enough alcohol to get an elephant drunk or Seth's mom." Lucas snickered at the comment, but Seth was more interested in what the rest of the plan might be if there was anything else to the plan than about the wisecrack regarding his mother. Matthew continued, "If you guys have to; mix roofies into his drink or give him a Dahmer cocktail."
A Dahmer cocktail was a term they used for alcohol laced with sedatives. Had Seth been a different man, he would have disagreed with the whole notion and refused to even take part in the whole ridiculous plan. However, he left his dignity back his youth and took part in whatever Matthew told him to do. "Fine, I'll help you get Pipsqueak drunk while I'm here, but I'm not drugging the damn kid. That whole idea is twisted even for you!"
"I know how much of a pussy you are, Seth. It'll be alright," Matthew cooed mockingly, "where are Pipsqueak and Princess anyway?"
"Princess?" Lucas asked, confused, "Oh, umm, I honestly have no idea. We'll have to split up to look for them. Seth can check the left side of building where the theater room and exercise rooms are at and Matthew, you and I will check the right side where the pool room and extra dining room is at."
A/N: Remember loyal viewers, whatever Bro does in the story, do the complete opposite! Though I'm sure most of you are mature enough to know that already.