The Wandering Edd of Time
It was another normal day in the cul-de-sac. Eddy was thinking of another scam while Ed was reading his comic book. I was reading about Stephen Hawking's research about time and space. I was really interested in his work and how time and space works, you know physics and such. I'm even thinking about doing it as my future career. But that's a long way ahead of me. Anyhow Eddy was pacing back and forth thinking of another "clever" scam to rob everyone's money. His scams almost never work but we always try. All just for a jaw breaker.
"Aha!" Eddy screams across Ed's room.
"What? Another scam?" I ask.
"Heck yeah and this time it'll work." He said with a grin
We spent almost all day building this giant scam Eddy thought of. It was actually a good and fun idea, which is pretty weird for Eddy to think of. He explained that his scams never work because his greed got in the way and they always failed. This time he actually wanted to make a scam fun. So we built a mini race track and built race karts. It wasn't anything too big but it was something. We built the track in Rolf's yard, so it was pretty big. There were nine karts, one for everyone in the cul-de-sac. The karts were cheap but they were good enough for racing. The tires were inflatable, and the kart was made of wood. We didn't open the race track for two days. We checked and went over everything again and again to make sure nothing bad happens.
Finally on Friday, we opened and everyone in the cul-de-sac was waiting and waiting, to see what will go wrong. Eddy appeared in front of everyone screaming,
"EVERYONE! Welcome to The Ed's Track!" he said as he opened the gates to Rolf's yard. Everyone had a surprised look on their faces to see that it was well done. The track was smoothed and leveled out, the karts looked good enough to handle anyone's weight, and the biggest thing that threw them off was that Eddy didn't ask for money. He said he wanted to have fun. Everyone now started to think differently of Eddy after that. Everyone rushed in and got in their karts. Ed stood in front of everyone, having a race flag in his hand. He motioned it downwards and everyone raced off. Kevin was in first, Johnny in second, Eddy in third, me in fourth, Rolf fifth, Sarah sixth, Nazz seventh and Jimmy last. Eddy was trying to catch up and almost did but Kevin cut him off. He looked back with a smirk. I got in third, and Rolf was now behind Sarah. Ed stood over and watched to make sure no one did anything cheesy. We almost spent the whole day racing, we took breaks to eat and drink water and chat, and everyone was like a family. We were no longer viewed as scammers, we were all friends. It was about to be seven and we were still racing. Eddy in first and I was in second, Kevin was in third, Nazz fourth, Rolf fifth, Jimmy sixth, Sarah seventh, and Johnny last. Last because he let Plank drive.
"Come on buddy we're getting' close!" Johnny screamed to Plank, who stood motionless. I was about to enter first, until in the corner of my eye I saw a man standing next to Ed, I couldn't really see but it was definitely someone I haven't seen before. Ed didn't notice, he kept smiling and cheering everyone on. I kept my eyes locked on that man, in my blurred vision all I could see on him was a black hoodie and jeans. As my eyes were locked I didn't see in front of me and almost hit the railings. I lost control and started doing donuts. I finally stopped after hitting the railings. Everyone stopped and ran to me.
"Are you okay?!" asked Nazz.
"Duuuude that was awesome!" Johnny said
"Bro you sure you're good?" Kevin questioned. All I did was slowly got out of the car and looked to Ed, who was running over here. The man was gone. I shook my head and tried to focus.
"Agh yeah I'm fine folks. Just got crazy haha" I claimed. Everyone laughed of relief.
"Well it is getting a bit late for our parents we should go home." Said Jimmy. Everyone nodded and headed home. Eddy and I slept over at Ed's house. We walked in and headed to his room. He laid out comics, horror and monster movies, snacks, and drinks everywhere. He planned for this night already.
"Wow Ed you sure know how to plan a night." Eddy said with a quirked look
"Yup I planned this whole night for us!" Ed said. I stood quiet, still shocked about what I saw on the track. Eddy patted me on the back
"What's wrong sockhead?" He asked.
"Ah, nothing just still shocked about that crash." I said.
"Oh ha yeah that seemed pretty bad. The spinning especially, I would've thrown up." He said, rubbing his belly. I gave a light laugh. I guess I was just seeing things. He couldn't have just disappeared like that. I soon forgot about that whole thing after we started eating snacks, reading comics and watching movies all night. After we watched about three movies, we decided to star gaze on Ed's roof. We can see the stars really well from here. We have a clear view of the stars with no trees in the way or buildings. We all laid down and stared.
"Hey Double D?" Eddy asked.
"Yes?"
"Do you think there is something out there that we can't understand?"
"My, that's something I never heard from you before." I chuckled.
"Yeah I guess this kind of stuff gets me wondering."
"Well Eddy, I don't know the answer to that. The human mind is capable of doing a lot of things and there are still things we don't know we can do. Out there is like a giant fantasy world. We don't know what's out there, there could be a lot of things we can't understand yet. That's why it seems like a fantasy land. There is so much unexplained stuff and unknown things out there for billions of miles and there are over trillions of stars and trillions of things and ideas that all seem it comes from a story book. It's filled with a lot of wonders, Eddy. It's almost limitless. So much color and things to learn and explore, but we may never know what's beyond the beyond. There are limits to what man can do." I looked over at Eddy, with his eyes shut. I sighed and rolled my eyes. Did I just rant to myself? I still laughed a little. I sat up, and stood still. Watching the moon and stars. Then something like a shooting star ran across below the moon. It wasn't too big or did it leave a long trail. Just a slow, drag across the sky. And it disappeared. I looked over at Ed, and Eddy. Both sleeping. I was happy to have them as friends, and everyone else in the cul-de-sac. I hoped that we will all stick together, and will still be friends in the future.