WY--Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Another Day Planned Ahead

(Back in Chapter 1…)

“Mmm… nngh… leave… me… alone!” Double D cried aloud as his eyes snapped wide open at a bad dream. Sitting straight up on his bedside, the hyperventilating preteen took a moment to not only notice that his clock read 1:00am, but also to think for a moment, “Surely… I-It couldn’t have been her… c-could it…?!” he choked out a little as he shook in fear of a memory; the dodge ball incident.

“I-It just can’t be her…” Double D muttered after he had the flashback as he then put his tongue in between the gap in his teeth, “A-At least, I don’t want it to be her…”

He then made a little sigh as he then lied back down in his bed, going back to sleep; a worried face imprinted on his face as he did…

(And now, onto Chapter 2…)

It was a somewhat peaceful, quiet 11:00am fall morning here in the little town of Peach Creek as we soon come upon a neighborhood called the Peach Creek Cul-De-Sac. It was here, on the front lawn of the second house to the right of the entrance, that we could see two boys standing there.

The first preteen was a tall, twelve year old preteen with a red-tinted buzz cut, a unibrow and hazel, green-brown eyes. He was wearing a red and white striped t-shirt that was underneath a long, green jacket that went a little past his waist, baggy blue jeans, and black tennis shoes.

The second preteen was a twelve year old preteen that seemed to be just a smidge too short for his age. He had three long strands of dark, almost navy blue-colored hair that stuck out more than the rest of his hair on his slightly shaggy blue hair and had dark, foggy ice blue eyes. He wore a yellow t-shirt that went right to his waistline. The shirt had a purple collar and a red stripe coming down the right side of his shirt. He wore baggy blue jeans with a silver wallet chain coming out of his front left pocket and also wore red tennis shoes with white and black designs on them.

These two preteens where Ed McNeal and Eddy Wendell; they were currently waiting for their third friend to come here to Eddy’s house. Ed, as usual, had a bit of a goofy smile on his face, like always. Eddy, in the meantime, had an impatient look on his face, with his arms crossed across his chest.

“Where the heck is Sockhead?” Eddy questioned a bit of an angry voice as he gritted his teeth a little.

“I dunno, Eddy,” Ed replied with a shrug of his shoulders as he looked around where he was to see if he could spot him, “Maybe he’s still in bed?”

Eddy paused to think for a moment, “… Nah, I don’t think that’s it, Ed.”

There was another quick pause before Eddy started to think about something, placing his right hand under his chin, ‘But, now that I think about it, Double D sounded kinda funny when he called me last night…’ he closed his eyes with another thought, ‘He also thought I called him earlier, but I didn’t…’

“Hiya Double D!” Ed’s voice stated aloud as Eddy opened his eyes from his thought to see Double D coming up to them.

“Greetings, gentlemen,” Double D greeted back as he made a gaped smile to his two friends, but Eddy could sense something amiss about his smile; it seemed a bit forced out.

“Are we ready to plan out our activities today, Eddy?” Double D questioned as he looked at Eddy.

“Uh…” Eddy muttered before realizing that he was asked a question, “Oh, right! Well, I was plannin’ on goin’ to the candy store.”

“The candy store?” Double D repeated with confusion, arching an eyebrow to him, “But Eddy, I thought we were going to do--”

“Candy store?!” Ed blurted aloud as he clasped his hands together with happiness and turned to Eddy, jumping a little with excitement, “Are we really going there, Eddy?!”

“‘Course we are, Lumpy,” Eddy replied back as he then started to dig through his right pocket, grabbed something out of it and showed it to his two friends.

It was three quarters; seventy-five cents in total.

Double D seemed surprised to see the money in Eddy’s right hand, “How on Earth did you obtain that, Eddy?” he asked with a bit of suspicion as he placed his right hand on his hips, his eyes narrowed a little bit.

“I found them while I was looking for something in my house this morning,” Eddy replied to the hat wearing Edd as he made his well known smirk, “You guys know what I’m thinkin’, right?”

“Yeah, jawbreakers!” Ed chirped as he made another one of his goofy, trademark grins on his face from ear to ear.

“Yeah, exactly what I was thinkin’!” Eddy stated back as he then faced towards the entrance of the Cul-De-Sac, “Let’s get goin’ already, alright?”

“Yay!” Ed cheered with both of his hand up in the air as both he and Eddy started to walk off towards the entrance.

It was then that Eddy noticed Double D did not seem to follow them immediately; he seemed to be in his own little world, which is rare for him to do. Eddy stopped walking and turned back around to Double D.

“Hey, Sockhead!” Eddy stated as Ed also stopped walking to notice that there was no one walking with him, “Aren’t you gonna come?”

“… Oh, y-yes,” Double D muttered as he started to come over to his two friends, “I-I’m coming…”

Eddy arched an eyebrow to his hat wearing friend when he came up to them, ‘There’s definitely something wrong with Double D,’ he thought as they continued to walk towards the exit of the neighborhood, ‘I just gotta figure out what it is…’

Little did they know that they were being watched at that very moment on the fence of the Lane; it was a feminine figure, tomboyish in appearance. She was wearing a yellow bandanna that covered up most of her scraggly, auburn red hair. She wore a long, black jacket that went to her knees with a red t-shirt underneath the jacket, a pair of slightly baggy, black jeans and black and white checkered shoes.

“I’m coming for ya, puddin’ hat,” she snarled a little under her breath at her target as she then jumps off the fence she was on and walked after them, hiding herself from their site on the other side of the Lane’s fence.