"And then he's just curled up in ball on the floor, crying his eyes out!"
That earned fresh laughter from Chuck's friends as they sat in a booth at Gerbert Gerbil's, each with a giant malt and a mountain of onion rings between them.
Chuck noisily punctuated the tale from this morning by munching on an onion ring. He wiped the grease on his grey shirt. His hair was short, a buzz cut, an he had something of a hoggish demeanor. The weather was getting warm so he had opted for sandals.
"Man your brother is crybaby," said Diego Murrieta, grabbing another fistful of onion rings. Diego often wore red, rolling his r's due to his Spanish accented English. He looked the toughest out of the gang of friends, having a buff set of muscles not commonly seen on the prepubescent. "What's so scary about Gerbert's? It's just the dorky animals in outer space, there's nothing scary about that."
"There's plenty to be scared of," said Willy McCulley, his hair matching the hint of red on his cheeks. "When you're a snot nosed baby that looks like a shrimp next to one of the robots. First time my cousin came here she yelled her head off. Had to put a sock in her mouth to get her to shut up." Willy pulled at his green shirt. "Otherwise, Gerbert's is kinda lame. I don't see why we keep coming here."
"Bide your tongue!" said Toby Garcia, his face crestfallen to the point it looked like he had jowls. "Gerbert's is the place to hang. The onion rings are great, the malts are great, the pizza's great, the--"
"Something besides the whole menu you keep stuffing your gullet with!" Willy spat back. Although to be fair, Willy wasn't a skinny kid either. Yet out of all of the upsized troublemakers Toby was the tubbiest. The blue shirt covering his stomach almost pressed into the table.
"Yeah, shut up Willy the food's great," Chuck said. Although not as big as Toby he was plenty big. And although he wasn't as nasty as Willy or as strong as Diego, he has all of their best (or worst) attributes rolled into one package. From his personality alone Chuck was the de facto leader of the little gang of bullies.
"Besides, yeah, Gerbert is dumb but Hippo Don is hilarious. Although nothing beats Hamster Louie."
"Hamster Louie isn't even a real character," Diego challenged.
"Is too!" Chuck retorted, chucking the remains of an onion ring at Diego. "They just don't advertise him, see, but he's strung up in the back room. Made him the perfect character to scare Freddy with." Chuck wiped the grease off his chin thoughtfully. "Although I need to find a new way to scare his pants off. Something that makes him cry even harder."
That got the gang of bullies to thinking. Well, three of them at any rate as Toby just kept helping himself to onion rings.
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