Ed & Bo Try to Graduate by Laura McGehee

Author:Laura McGehee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: EPIC Press
Published: 2015-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Hours later, Ed and Bo sat exhausted and somewhat demoralized in Ed’s garage. They had spent their Friday afternoon talking to more people than they usually talked to in an entire month, and it didn’t go all that great. Ed’s constant desire to be close to Hayley—but his refusal to talk to her—limited their interviewing options, since Hayley seemed to be a part of most clubs. They also found that walking into after-school activities while they were in progress to ask people if they would buy things from them was maybe not the best market research tactic. On top of all of that, nobody seemed all that interested.

“Why would I spend extra money when I can just go out and get it myself?” Sheryl Jimmens from the school newspaper had asked.

“How will I know that I’ll still want it by the time you get it to me? That just seems stupid,” Ben Vice, from CTF (Conspiracy Theory Fanatics), had said.

“Hi, Boring,” Hayley Plotinsky had said with a wry smile as Ed and Bo had walked by her in the hallway. Bo responded with a surprised, “Hello!” and Ed had been far less cooperative after that point. They sat now in defeat in Ed’s garage, worried about their future and resolving their fears the only way they knew how.

Joints were an everyday occasion. They were for the casual smokes, the ones that came and went without much notice. But on a day like today, Ed and Bo needed a bowl. They had a tiny chipped little piece they had procured from a confusing encounter with Doug the Drug Dealer a year or so ago. Thinking he was offering them a real bowl (and kind of confused as to why that would be sold with weed), Ed had left payment under a tire swing in Stample Park and gone back the next day to find their new orange friend. It was small and a bit modest, but perfect for packing when joints just didn’t seem to cut it. This was one of those times.

“It just seems like nobody cares,” Bo said, coughing once again. Ed had been conspicuously silent for the past couple of hits, and when Bo tried to make eye contact with him, he was looking at his phone.

“Aw, come on, man, I didn’t ask her to say ‘hi’ to me!” Bo said earnestly.

“Yeah, but you didn’t have to say ‘hi’ back,” Ed grumbled.

“Well, I kinda did. It would have been weird if I didn’t.”

“Maybe that would have been better.”

Ed shifted around in his seat a bit and took off his glasses to wipe the lenses.

“Dude, I don’t like her that way,” Bo said with finality, crossing his inadvertently tanned arms over his chest.

“Sometimes it doesn’t seem like that,” Ed snapped back.

For a couple minutes real-time, but about a half hour high-time, the boys sat and continued to smoke. Both boys were deeply wrapped up in their own heads and not in the fun mental rollercoaster kind of way, but rather the scary mental haunted house kind of way—it was pretty close to Terror Town.

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