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The Living Nightmare Scam

The Ed's stood looking dumbfounded at the lane.

Everything was quiet. It was so quiet that the only noise that they could actually hear ants crawling all over an ice cream cone.

"We're murderers! They're gonna get us for this!" Ed shouted looking at the four kids, and a block of wood, who weren't moving on the ground.

Eddy slammed his hand against Ed's mouth and he pointed out how Kevin began moving.

Through his dazed, beat up head, Kevin heard Eddy whispering. The second he painfully sat up, the dorks were no where in sight.

This was the last straw. They were really in for it this time.


Ed burst into his room with such force that he broke the whole door in.

Eddy said the scam would not put harm on anyone, but now look at what happened.

"Trouble, bad, pain!" The boy shouted as he tore apart his wall and shoved his hundreds of sponges into his gigantic sock like sack. He stuffed whatever else he could into it.

Before he left his room the toast popped out from the toaster.

There was no time to eat it right now. The kids could be on his tail. Or worse, they could already have Edd and Eddy!

Ed burst through his window only to catch Sarah and Jimmy's attention who were making a pretend pirate film.

Sarah rolled her eyes at her brothers, as always, stupid antics, but she took notice to how panicked he looked. Were those all his sponges he was setting free into the sky? Those were his delicacy.

Ed scrambled down the neighborhood as Sarah and Jimmy looked at one another. The two children heard Rolf scream along with Kevin. Oh yeah, the Ed's had to have done it this time.


"'Dear beloved parents, by the time you read this, I will be long far...'"

This one was no good either. His hands were so shaky that Edd could barely understand his own writing.

As his belongings lay neatly all around is bed, in the corner of the room sat the upset sockhead who couldn't leave without leaving his parents a note.

Edd started over again; '"Dearest Mother and Father, it is with great shame that a regretfully confess to...'"

He put the pen down. He couldn't form into words what just happened only a few moments ago. Eddy forced him to build that thing. All he wanted to do was test it before the kids came. But, Eddy... oh Eddy, why did he...

Edd pulled himself out from his dark thoughts. He picked up the pen and continued to write; '"I regretfully confess to my involvement...'"

He was making it sound as if he murdered someone. But, then again there was a possibility that they did. His parents didn't want a child who murdered. They made that very clear when they moved here after the incident that happened in his old school.

Edd picked up the pen once more; "'... I regretfully confess to my involvement in the inexcusable, unconscionable, reprehensible...'"

Were his parents even going to read this?

"'...abhorrent, detrimental...'"

Would they even notice he was gone?

'"... detestable, incomprehensible, immoral...'"

It was like he didn't exist to them. Work, work, work! What about time for family?

"... thoughtless, hurtful.!!"

This note was the worst out of all of them. "Oh, what have we done?!" Edd bawled into his knees at the horrendous consequences that were coming.

Just then his door was kicked off its latch.

Oh no, was it...

"Double D!" Ed screamed grabbing him by his shirt.


Eddy crammed anything he could into one suitcase. He jumped up and down until he finally heard a click.

The thing weighed as if it were an elephant. How could a whole bunch of clothes and magazines weigh so much?

Luck wasn't with him, like it ever was, as the suitcase exploded its contents all around the room.

How could this happen? He learned all he knew about scams from his brother. What did he forget that was missing?

None of his brothers scams turned out this way. He'd get the big bucks and never fail.

But, then again the last one was the final strike with his parents. Was he under strikes too?

Eddy broke out in a sweat when someone began pounding on his door.

He had to act fast.

Eddy grabbed the vacuum cleaner. "My little Eddy's not home right now." He said trying to impersonate his mothers voice.

Edd bulldozed into the room. Without looking where he was going, he tripped on the vacuum and landed on an almost hysterical Eddy.

"It wasn't my fault, I swear!" Eddy screamed before realizing it was only Ed. He resumed packing again, but had no idea what to stuff in it.

"What do we do, Eddy, what do we do?!" Ed yelled with sweat flying across the room.

Eddy ran around in circles, finally noticing something missing. "What happened to sockhead?" he yelled. Did the kids already get him?

Ed pulled a dazed Edd out from his giant sock. He was covered in much and butter from all the garbage that was inside.

"Here, hold this!" Eddy yelled throwing his suitcase into Edd's arms.

This finally snapped Edd out of his daze. "We're fugitives, Eddy! Are you aware of the consequences we're about to endure? All because of our misguided chicanery!"

Before one of them could speak again, dark shadows moved along the window. They were coming!

"Too late! Quick, my brother's room!" Eddy screamed running into the hallway. It was the only room he could think of that nobody would know they'd be there. He knew it was a good hiding place since he'd hide their from when he was in trouble with his parents. They never cared to look their because they liked to care that the room never existed.

The Ed's screeched to a halt when the front door was being pummeled. Eddy shoved his friend's upstairs and they ran. They ran like they never ran before when the front door smashed against the wall.

Ever so slowly, Eddy turned the knob and peaked inside the dark room. He hadn't been in here for a year. Even then it took guts to go in. This was where his brother took him to torment him. Away from their parents because he could block off the sound.

Was this right?

"Eddy, do you think this is wise?" Edd asked him.

"They'll never find us in here!"

It was the only shot for them to get out of this alive. He worked up his courage and ran into the room. His friend's followed and the doors were locked up from the outside world.