The sign at the bar they stopped at indicated that they were at the right place. The sign looked only a couple of years compared to the building which looked a couple of decades old. There were a few cars that parked in the small parking lot along with theirs. Edd could hear dance music being played from the club. So far, it looked like an average club to Edd. He just hoped that he would not get carded when they were inside before they got their chance to talk to Sasha.

"Looks like this is the place," Edd replied, "mind your manners while we're in here."

"Yes mom!" Eddy replied sarcastically with a groan.

"Do you think they would serve us eyeball martinis?" Ed asked.

Edd shook his head, "no Ed."

They got out of the van and entered into the building. The inside of the building seemed like a normal bar to him. The room was dimly lit. Neon light fixtures and wall speakers hung from the walls. Most of the people in the building were gathered around the bar, watching a football game from the big screen TV behind the bartender. Ed, with his infamous short attention, made a b-line towards the arcade games and begun to play one called "Alien Shootout" after putting a quarter into the machine. Next to the arcade games was a karaoke machine that was not being used at the moment.

Edd looked around and noticed some subtle hints about what kind of bar they were in. One of the patrons was a middle age, obese cross-dresser in a pink leopard skin dress, a platinum blond wig, and dark eyeliner. A rainbow flag hung from the wall near the bar tables that were near the door. Kevin led them to a gay bar.

Edd was not the only one who noticed, "What the hell? That fucking dickhead! That rat Kevin tricked us into coming here so he could tell everyone at school that we went to a gay bar!"

"Calm down, Eddy," Edd chided, "we need to ask around for Kevin's cousin before jumping to conclusions."

"Fine," Eddy groaned, "I still think Kevin tricked us into coming here!" Eddy went up to the cross-dresser he seen and tapped them on the shoulder. "Excuse me. I'm looking for someone named Sasha. Are they here?"

The cross-dresser grinned impishly, "Just wait a few minutes and I'll get Sasha for you, honey."

Eddy watched as the stranger in women's clothing went through the door, supposedly to the back room to get Sasha. "What the hell was that about? You see the way he looked at me when I asked to see Sasha?"

"No, I was watching Ed play an arcade game," Edd admitted. Unfortunately, he was getting a bit distracted from his own thoughts. It was not just Ed's arcade game that kept him distracted; it was the possible identity of Sasha. A dozen different possibilities ran through his mind, from Sasha being a gay man, a lesbian, a transgendered individual, or just a regular person who just so happened to work at a gay bar.

Eddy tapped the floor with his foot angrily after waiting ten long minutes for Sasha to appear. The cross-dresser arrived two minutes after claiming that he was getting Sasha for him. It was bad enough that Kevin tricked him, but getting tricked by an individual that kind of looked like the late singer/actor Divine was a new low to him. Edd and Eddy watched Ed play "Alien Shootout." Ed was pretty good at the arcade game. The distracted Ed played the game while yelling at the aliens on the screen, jerking around the joystick and slapping the buttons on the machine.

Eddy felt a pair of hands lightly grasp his hips. The person place open-mouth kisses upon his neck. Eddy squeaked from the contact, nearly jumping out of his own skin. The man who had him in his clutches whispered, "I heard you were looking for me. I have about an hour of break. You can fuck me however much you want until I have to return back to work, handsome."

"Hey! Keep your pervy hands to yourself!" Eddy broke from the contact and turned around to face his assailant. The sight of the person shocked him. The person standing before him was the teen from the video. However time has changed the geeky teen in the video to the man that stood before him. The guy looked to be about the same age as Matthew, Seth, and Lucas. The man's auburn hair was spiked and he had dark circles underneath his green eyes. The man's clothes seemed trendy enough. In fact, Eddy could see some resemblance between the man in front of him and Kevin.

Ed and Edd rushed towards Eddy calling out to him, the arcade game was completely forgotten. "Eddy, what happened?" Edd asked. When he saw the man in front of him, he was as shocked as Eddy was at the sight. He recognized the man as the teen from the video. Edd was not sure what he expected to find. The sight of the then teen, now twenty-something adult, was surprising to say the least.

"Wait, you're not here for a booty call?" The man asked Eddy, he seemed genuinely confused.

Eddy let out a low growl, "no! What the fuck is wrong with you? You don't just put your lips on complete fucking strangers!" Edd's blood boiled at the mention of the man's lips on Eddy. He decided to calm himself from the hypocritical feeling of jealousy. It was a great misunderstanding on the man's part.

"Sorry, man. I thought you were looking for hook up." The man shrugged.

"Are you Sasha?" Edd asked. When the man nodded affirmatively, Edd explained the situation, "there has been some misunderstanding. We need to discuss some things in private."

Sasha nodded. He strolled over to the Asian bartender on duty and whispered to the guy. The bartender nodded affirmatively and Sasha walked back over to the teens. "Hiroshi is going to take over me. It's too noisy to discuss things here, but we can discuss things in my apartment."

Edd wasn't sure if it were wise to follow the man. The man did try to "hook up" with Eddy. However, he deduced that Sasha could not have been any worse than Matthew was. Plus, he did need to discuss what was on the tape to the redhead. Ed followed behind them, grinning naïvely. They walked past the back room of the bar where boxes sat on shelves, ready to be served to the customers on any given day. Sasha unlocked one of the doors and led them inside.

The apartment that was connected to the bar was a small two bedroom apartment where the kitchen and sitting room was in the same room. The only thing that separated the kitchen and sitting room were dividers. The room was illuminated from one overhead light fixture. The entire sitting room contained a lot of horror movie posters, music posters, and horror movie memorabilia. Besides that, empty pizza boxes, fast food wrappers, and cookie boxes cluttered the place. Edd grimaced at the sight. Sasha's place fit the whole bachelor pad stereotype.

"Sorry for the mess. I can't cook, so I order out a lot." Sasha apologized, "Please have a seat on the futon." Sasha pointed towards the red futon sofa bed that sat in the middle of the sitting room. Edd glanced over the sofa, making sure there were no food crumbs before sitting down. Eddy flopped down on the couch after Edd. Ed was busy marveling the horror memorabilia in the room, critiquing the various items as "cool."

"Yeah, your house looks like Ed's room on a really, really good day," Eddy muttered. Edd elbowed Eddy for the backhanded comment. Though he had to admit, it was kind of true. While Sasha's house was leagues away from the landfill that Ed called a room, the pile of discarded trash near the futon and the horror movie stuff certainly did remind him of his friend's bedroom. "Hey!" Eddy yelled out as he rubbed his own side, groaning.

"So how did you three find me?" Sasha asked, taking a seat on an armchair.

Eddy answered, "Kevin led us here."

"You know my little cousin?" Sasha asked with concern, "did something happen to him?"

"Yeah, we know Kevin Barr; he's one of our classmates. He told us that this is where we would be able to find you," Edd explained, "-but that's not why we're here. Kevin is alright. I assure you."

"Oh great, I hit on jailbait. Not exactly the highlight of my life," Sasha remarked about his actions earlier around Eddy. "At least, Kevin is alright."

"Hey, you were the one that put your lips on me, Romeo!" Eddy retorted.

Sasha shrugged, "what can I say? I like chubs. However, I don't like underage chubs."

"What the hell did you call me?" Eddy shouted, "I'll have you know that the only reason we're here today is because my brother and his asshole friends videotaped themselves tying you up half-naked!" Edd groaned at Eddy's outburst. There were better ways to tell Sasha the news, but that was not one of them.

"Is that you, Pipsqueak?" Sasha asked. Edd snorted humorously at the nickname given to Eddy. It seemed everyone Matthew knew referred to Eddy as that.

"Yeah, I'm Matthew's younger brother, Eddy," Eddy huffed, not being too thrilled at being known as Pipsqueak even by the guy who was bullied by his brother.

"I haven't seen you since you were a small child," Sasha commented, "I suppose you kids are wondering about my years of being bullied by Matthew McGee and his two lackeys?"

Edd nodded, "if you want to."

"Let me get myself something to drink and I'll tell you two what I can," Sasha replied, "the only thing I have in my fridge is wine coolers, so I don't have anything to offer you three."

"That's fine," Edd nodded. It was the man's house, so he did not want to be disrespectful and scold the man for drinking alcohol in front of them. Sasha walked towards the small fridge in his apartment. The man paused to lift his shirt up slightly to wipe his face with his shirt. The sight of the man's lower back being exposed was heart-stopping. Straight down the man's lower back was a scar that was possibly even longer. Edd was not sure how he missed it, but there was also a scar running down running down the length of Sasha's wrist as well. The scars on the man's body looked quite old

"How the hell did you get those scars on your back and wrist?" Eddy asked.

"Thank your brother for both of them," Sasha replied, lowering his shirt and getting himself a wine cooler, "the scar on my back was the result of Matthew throwing a hissy fit before Matthew got thrown out of his dad's house. The one on my back is from a blood oath he forced me to take back when we were both ten years old."

"What kind of blood oath did Matthew force you to take?" Eddy asked, curiously.

"I'm afraid I can't tell you what happened," Sasha replied, returning to his seat with his drink.

"What do you mean you can't tell us?" Eddy yelled, slamming his fists into the table. Ed was temporarily broken from his trance of playing with an evil-looking doll that was a replica of a famous killer doll from a horror movie, but that was short-lived. Ed went back to what he was doing. Ed was going through Sasha's stuff similar to how someone would view things from a museum with the exception that someone would not be touching everything in sight.

"Hey, be nice to my table, you little dork," Sasha scolded, "Part of the blood oath was that neither Matthew, Seth, Lucas, or I would speak of what exactly happened one day when we were ten years. It's personal, so please mind your own business. You're lucky I'm telling you about what happened to me as kid."

"Fine," Eddy groaned.

"Anyway, Matthew was always too insane to ever be considered sane and too sane for the nuthouse." Sasha continued, "He was always a troublemaker, even when he was child. He was always bullying me and trying to scam me every chance he got. However, he got worse after one particular incident that caused Matthew to force me to take the stupid blood oath in the first place. I can't tell you kids exactly what happened, because part of the blood oath was that Matthew would kill whoever dared to tell anyone exactly what happened. However, I can give you a few details about what happened."

"That is understandable," Edd replied.

"I was dragged by Matthew and Lucas to a house that was pretty famous in the neighborhood at the time for how much parents forbid their children from visiting or going trick-or-treating at. My parents even told me to stay away from that particular house. Seth seemed just as scared as I was of that damn house and its owner. Matthew got the bright idea to use me as bait while they robbed the person that lived there blind. Things did not work out that way and all four of us experienced something that no child should ever have to experience. All four of us escaped from that house several hours later and hid in the forest behind the house. Neither one of us wanted to talk about what happened in that house until Matthew spoke up and barks orders at everyone, discussing the terms of the blood oath. I remember Seth and Matthew arguing, because Seth wanted to us to report the house owner to police. Matthew got his way once again and they slit their fingers with a pocket knife that Seth took from the owner in order for us to escape and touch each other's bloody fingers like they were in some kind of strange ritual. Then they decided to get me into that disgusting ritual with them. Matthew had Lucas and Seth hold me down while he cut my wrist. They each touched my wrist with their bloody fingers and I became an unwilling participant in their blood oath."

"Damn," Eddy commented, unsure of what else to say. Edd was also too stunned to say anything.

"As much as I hated to admit it at the time, that event changed each of us." Sasha continued, "I could not relax for the life of me and had trouble sleeping for years after the event. Lucas became a lot creepier. Just being around that guy was enough to make my skin crawl. Seth would come to school sometimes reeking of alcohol and got track marks on his arms from shooting up. Matthew became a lot more sadistic after the incident. I would arrive home everyday black and blue. After a while of shoving me into lockers, breaking my arm a few times, throwing stink bombs at me, and forcing me to drink alcohol and some kind of strange hot sauce, his tactics for humiliating me became more sexual as time went on. He would strip me naked and tie me up to anything that held me there until someone found me. He would make wild accusations about how much of a "gay whore" I was. He told everyone at school that I either was sucking off old dudes for cash, got my stomach pumped for overdosing on semen, or that I had a crush on the football team. It was the same juvenile shit every single goddamn day. It was especially bad when one of Matthew's lies led to child services questioning my own parents about it. Nothing came from it, thankfully."

"Oh dear," Edd uttered, "That was absolutely horrid."

Sasha only nodded. "I did not know of Matthew's sexual attraction towards me until I was asked by one of my teachers to help him with his English homework. When I arrived to his house, he pulled me into his bedroom and locked the door. He pulled down his pants and told me that I had a choice between sucking him off and him telling the whole damn school that I forced myself on him. I choose to suck him off. He hounded after me after that. Whenever he wanted someone to suck him off and if one of his various girlfriends didn't help him out, he went after me and I didn't have much say over it. I eventually lost my virginity to him. We had some sort of twisted fucking relationship if you can even call it that."

"So what happened between you two that led to you getting sliced like a turkey?" Eddy asked.

"Well, I broke things off with him after awhile." Sasha replied, "One day I had to babysit Kevin while his parents went out to dinner. Matthew wanted to fuck me at my aunt and uncle's house with Kevin there. I told him to fuck off, that I was not going to fuck him with Kevin in the house, but he came back with his two goons and beat up Kevin while Seth and Lucas held me down. I called the cops after they left. Kevin was pretty bruised up and I tried to get him to calm down before the ambulance arrived. Hopefully Kevin doesn't remember what happened that night. I broke up with Matthew at school when he was released from juvie. Unfortunately, word had gotten out that I was one of Matthew's dates and things have gotten worse. People at school were whispering behind Matthew's back, but no one dared to say anything about it to his face. Word had also gotten back to his parents over his bisexuality. One day he showed up at my house wanting to "make amends." I should've known that it was a trap. He hugged me and then stabbed me in the back. He thought that I was the one that told his parents and everyone at school about him and me. He left me in the driveway for my parents to find me and I was taken to the hospital. I still have trouble lifting heavy stuff to this day over the wound I got. I have to have Hiroshi take care of the heavy boxes for me."

Edd and Eddy remained silent. They did not know what to say about it. It was one thing to see Matthew torture Sasha on video; it was another to hear Sasha discuss every grim detail at what Matthew put him through. They could only offer Sasha a look of genuine sympathy at what he had gone through. Edd looked up when Sasha talked again, "so what are Matthew and his goons doing these days?"

"Seth owns a tattoo parlor, Lucas is in college, and Matthew just got fired from his job as a carnie. Matthew also has three kids from three different women and moved back in his parents' house." Edd replied.

Sasha snorted at hearing about Matthew becoming a carnie. Edd remembered that Sasha predicted that Matthew would become a carnie as an adult in the video. "Wanna hear something interesting? All three of them are a pedigree of some kind. Lucas is the son of an heiress, Matthew and Pipsqueak here are the descendents of the Peach Creek's founding fathers, and Seth is the descendent of Lord Kanker."

"Seth is a Kanker?" Eddy choked at hearing the news, "I thought his last name was Loveri-whatever."

"His grandmother's last name was Kanker until she got married and changed her name to Lovering. It was kind of funny seeing Matthew and Seth argue back and forth in history class over what happened between their ancestors." Sasha responded. That would make Seth a distant cousin to the Kanker sisters. It's not that surprising considering how small Peach Creek is.

"Hello, do you know the nearest way to the blood bank?" Ed asked, using a plastic skull with elongated canines as a puppet, "my new friend needs a little pick-me-up from there."

"Your new friend needs to take a nap in a trashcan," Eddy retorted.

"He can take that fake skull with him if he wants," Sasha snickered, "you guys should be leaving soon anyway. I've got to get back to work and I better not see you three back at the bar for two more years. You can come visit my apartment anytime you want to, but not the bar."

"Thanks for everything, Sasha," Edd replied as Sasha led them out through the front door of Sasha's house. "I promise we won't tell Matthew or anybody that we talked to you."

"It was no problem," Sasha held the door for them, "-and honestly, I don't care if you tell Matthew about our meeting or not. The police department is a minute away from my bar. If he shows up trying to start trouble, I'll have the cops remove him."