Walking on the Tracks Chapter 2
Chris and Teddy went on with their game while Gordie and I read our favourite comics.I sighed a little as I read my comic and thought about how this day was going to be like any other day when there was a knock on the door.
"That's not the secret knock!" Gordie sighed irritated.
"I forget the secret knock! Let me in!" a voice squeaked from outside.
"Vern!" we all said in unison.
Vern Tessio was the youngest of our gang and the butt of (mostly Teddy's) jokes. He was quite short and tubby with jet black hair and bright sky blue had a gleaming smile and a good wasn't the sharpest tool in the box but he was still a good kid.
He climbed up into the treehouse after Chris opened the door,a jumble of words tumbling out of his mouth.
"You guys won't believe this it's incredible!" Vern gasped red in the clearly had been running.
"What are you pissing and moaning about Vern-0?!" Teddy asked impatiently.
"I knock" Chris declared to Teddy's dismay.
"What?!' Teddy cried outraged "you liar!".
"Make your draw Shitheap" Chris laughed.
Then Vern said it.
"You guys wanna go see a dead body?".
Everyone froze,all eyes were on Vern,staring at him widely in disbelief.
"Well I was under the porch digging you know?..." Vern began to tell us the story.
He was under his porch digging,looking for his long lost pennies (long story) when he overheard his older brother Billy and his friend Charlie Hogan talking about Ray Brower's Brower was our had gone out to pick blue berries but never came he was dead?
According to Vern,Billy and Charlie had discovered his body down the back Harlow road near the old train tracks,Charlie wanted to tell the cops but Billy wouldn't let him cause they boosted a car to get there.
"I know the back Harlow road!" Teddy told us when Vern had finished "it comes to a dead by the Royal River!".
"Jesus Christ man,if they knew you were under there they would have killed you" Chris told Vern.
"Man,poor kid" I said shaking my head "getting hit by a train is a terrible way to go".
"Yeah he was so young" Gordie added.
I thought we were done with the subject when Chris had an changed our lives.
"Hey you guys,I bet you if we find him we'll get our pictures in the paper!".
"Yeah! We could be on TV!" Teddy exclaimed.
"Sure!" Chris replied.
"We'll be heroes!" Teddy cried, his eyes bright.
"Yeah!"
"Guys hold on a sec!" I jumped in "we can't just go all the way to the back Harlow Road to find a body".
"Dan's right" Vern agreed "what do we tell our folks?".
"Easy" Gordie replied "we'll just say we're tenting out in your back field,you tell your folks you're sleeping at Teddy's and we say we're going to the drag races the next day".
"Man that's a plan in a half!" Chris grinned as he and Gordie did our special "skin it" hand shake.
"But if we do find the body then our parents will know we lied and we'll get hided" Vern protested.
"No one will care cause everyone's gonna be so jazzed about what we found!" Teddy reassured him.
"Yeah,well my dad will hide me anyway but he'll it's worth it!" Chris said nodding "let's do it! Whose in?".
"Shit yeah I'm in!" Teddy shouted excitedly.
"Gordie? Daniel?" Chris asked us.
"Sure" Gordie said shrugging.
"Okay what the heck?" I said.
We all looked at Vern.
"I don't know..." he sighed.
"Vern!" Chris said raising and eyebrow.
"C'mon Verno!" Teddy said.
Soon Teddy and Chris had him in a headlock until he agreed.
"So cool! So cool!" Teddy was shouting hyped up.
day sure took a turn for the exciting.