𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍

𝐇𝐀𝐖𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐅𝐔𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐑

𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘

𝙺𝙸𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁𝙻𝚈 𝙲𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙳𝚈

The lights shone brightly all around me as I pushed Andrew and Michael through the fair. Children ran by us and chased each other whilst the adults stood gossiping with either a beer in their hands or toys that their kids had won.

"You two will be old enough to enjoy the fair soon enough." I said to my brothers as we walked slowly towards the ferris wheel. I wouldn't exactly be getting on it, but it was nice to see everybody else happy enough riding it. That didn't stop it from being relentlessly dangerous, though.

Eddie said he was going to be a little late, something he had to do first so I decided to head on out without him, hoping to maybe see one of my friends whilst I waited. Robin was the only one I had seen so far, and I didn't bother her as she was with a girl. I didn't want to interrupt anything and freak them out.

"Kim, hey." Somebody said from behind me. I stopped the stroller and turned my attention to their voice, seeing Andrew Davidson with a few of the other jocks.

"Oh. Hey, Andrew." I said and smiled politely at him, moving the stroller around so I could face him properly.

"Oh!." He said and looked at the stroller oddly. "I didn't know you-"

"No!." I shook my head. "No. They're, uh, they're my brothers." I explained with an awkward smile.

"Really?. Isn't your mom a litte, uh, old..for that?." I could see him trying to hold back his smirk, and I so badly wanted to punch it from his face.

"Obviously not." I said with a sarcastic smile. "Aren't you a little old to be criticising what other people do with their lives?." I asked with a raised brow, letting my anger get the better of me.

"Woah." Davidson held his hands up in defence. "There's no criticism here, Cassidy." He chuckled.

"I think he just meant that she shouldn't physically be able to-" Marcus Wilson interrupted us.

"I know exactly what he meant, Wilson. I don't need your jackass to clarify things for me. After all, aren't you one of the only kids who didn't graduate?." I asked smugly, remembering the scene of the rest of the jocks bullying him after graduation for having to be kept back a year.

"What's going on here?." I heard Eddie's voice from besides me, making Marcus take a step back but continue his angry stare.

"Nothing. Just saying hello." I lied to him and looked his way, smiling to hide the fact I had snapped only a second ago. "Let's go." I said to him and took one last look at the Jock boys, who were speechless. "Have fun." I said to them bitterly, smirking as I pushed the boys away from them and walked slowly by Eddie's side as he let Andrew grab ahold of his finger.

"You've got a strong grip there, buddy." Eddie said to the little boy who giggled at Ed and tried to ask him to pick him up with his hands.

"Did you sort it out?." I asked him as we walked past the haunted house, seeing half of the Wheeler family standing across from it in the que for the alien ship. I swear Mike and Nancy never saw their parents. I wonder why.

"Sort what?." He asked and stood up straight, letting go of Andrew and watching me.

"Whatever you had to do before you came here." I said bluntly. Eddie shrugged at me.

"Kind of." His response was simple but I didn't pry. I wanted to avoid all sorts of conflict at any given opportunity. We would not go back to what we were.