Chapter Three Part Three

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(PIC by Rach)For about five minutes the musical war between Eddy and Travis raged on.

"Hope youve wrote your will out, shorty!" teased Travis.
"Dont count your chickens, hedgehog-head!" snapped Eddy.
"Why would he not count his chickens?" asked Rolf.
Suddenly Edd stood in between them, strumming on his
portable steel guitar. The eyes of everyone in the room
turned on him but he was not aware of it. He balanced out
the metal roughness of Travis guitar and the soulful
hoarseness of Eddys saxophone. The steel guitar whooped and
wobbled as Edd plucked faster, skipping his fingers over the
rods.
"Oh yes I feel it Im feeling the adrenaline, Eddy baby!" he
roared with triumph. Travis and Eddy stood agape watching
him annihilate their duel and take it for himself with the
exotic chimes of the steel guitar. He ended it all with one
last bend and the room fell silent. Edd stopped and came out
of the little zone he was in. He shrivelled up with horror
when he realised everyone was looking at him, including
Nazz, Johnny and Plank too!

(PIC BY RACH)

"That was amazing, Double D!" stammered Melissa as she ran to hug him. Edd trembled as she cuddled him and Eddy broke his silence with fits of stifled laughter as he watched Sarah's face boil acidically. Although rigid at first, Edd encircled his arms around Melissa as she swayed him from side to side. She was the first female other than his mother (Sarah doesnt really count, shes twice the man Edd is) to show him affection and he didnt quite know what to do with himself, With her heart beating against his and the smell of her conditioner in his nostrils. And his mother always used rubber gloves and a hygiene mask so you can understand his awkwardness!
"Far out, Double D!" squealed Nazz.
"Yah Travis and Eddy, perhaps you should take up basket weaving!" scoffed Rolf.
"I could hear my heart-beat, Sarah!" gushed Jimmy.
"I could hear it too, Jimmy!" she answered, taking his hand
and running over to the congregation around Edd who was very
beetroot from all this-what he thought was unnecessary-
praise.
"Talk about steal the limelight, Double D!" snarled Eddy
when the other kids headed back down to the basement. He
tossed the sax back into the closet and headed downstairs
again with Ed. Now it was only Edd, Melissa and Travis in
the recording studio.

(By Rach)

"Yknow" nudged Travis. "You aint so bad for a bookworm preppie, old man!"
Edd smiled confidently and hi-fived him. "Right back at ya, old boy!" he said.
Travis gave a slim smile and walked back out, leaving
Melissa and Edd alone.
"I dont understand, Double D." she said quietly. "Youre
brilliant! All that talents going to wastejoin the group,
sockhead! Lets make it official!" she giggled. Edd let a shy
smile past his face. He sighed with defeat.
"Oh all right,,, like sockhead has a choice?" he groaned.
"yay!" chirped Melissa, clapping her hands. Edds heart
melted at how adorable she was. "Missy Twinkle and The
Erupting Eds are born!"
"Hows it going, Andrew Lloyd?" croaked Eddy from the
doorway. Edd shuddered with the shock of Eddys creaky voice.
"Eddy, you know I hate that!" complained Edd. He looked at
his watch. "oh dear its 5:30 p.m.! Wed better be going,
Eddy!"
"yeah right, why?" Eddy objected.
"Oh yeah, Eddy!" exclaimed Melissa. "When exactly are you
hoping on setting up the casino?"
"What?!? How do you"-then Eddy stopped himself. "I was
hoping to set it up for Saturday Melissa, my lovely Vegas
vixen!" he flattered.
"Saturday?!? Thats impossible!" shrieked Edd. "Thats 3 days
away! That hardly gives us anytime to rehearse or gather our
resources, and I havent even looked at the plans for the
improbre"-
"Okay Mel, it looks like well be going now!" Interrupted
Eddy, putting his hand over Edds mouth again much to his
distress and marching him out.
"OK, guys. Well talk about costumes next time!" she smiled.
"Costumes?!?" whimpered Edd as Ed hauled him over his
shoulder.
"One Double-D, hold the onions!" he bellowed as they pelted
down the driveway.
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"Slowly careful there!" muttered Edd as he planned out the
improbreaker machine blueprint in his room. It was 5am
Thursday morning and Edd had been awake all night. By his
desk stood a trolley with a huge pot of coffee and 2 super-
size bottles of Coca-Cola. The birds were already chirping
and peeping at his window. He rubbed his eyes achingly and
stood up."Curse my gullible ways!" he sniffled as he lay
down on his bed and set his clock for 7am. He was way too
tired to bother getting changed and washed which for Edd was
extremely alien. His eyes fell heavy and he drifted off.

((AKA PIC COURTESY OF KIT))

Boing!
"Oh the Heavens, I'm gonna die!!!"
Edd shot up out of his bed like a ferret out of a
drainpipe when Ed and Eddy ambushed him by bouncing all over
it. Clinging to the ceiling with horror he shot them an ice-
melting look."What are you trying to do, give me a premature
heart attack?!?" he hissed."Do you know how much caffeine is
in my system?!? I was drinking coffee and Coca-Cola all last
night like it was going out of fashion!"
"Chill-out, Double-D!" snorted Eddy. "Its time for school
anyway!"
"What time is it?!? Have I slept in?!?" Edd panicked,
fumbling for his alarm-clock through his heavy and swollen
eyelids. "Oh no! Ive only 10 minutes to exfoliate and
sterilise myself! Not to mention the rigorous procedure of
ridding my bed of all those millions of pesky dead skin
cells!"
"You had to get him started, Ed!" blamed Eddy, wagging his
finger at him.
"Did you draw up the plans for the improbreaker, Double D?"
"No, I stayed up all night painting my toenails, what do you
think?!?" snarled Edd sarcastically.
"Mums the word!" blurted Ed.
"Cmon, lets see it!" squeaked Eddy, fumbling around on Edds
desk.
"Its not over there, Eddy. Its in my bag." said Edd. He
unravelled the blueprint and Ed and Eddys eyes widened.
"Youre a whizz, Double D!" gulped Eddy, his eyes watering. ***************************************

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