#ew laurel

Basically Matt Edd Tom and Tord were all friends, childhood friends ofc and they were all pretty close. Unfortunately as time went on they grew apart and time moves forward

we follow matt as he's struggling to find his footing as he's been kinds cut off from old money, and he gets a paper and see's his old pal Laurel has gotten a job as a PI or a Lawyer and is like "Oh hey good for her"

however in the bg he see's edd, and is like "Heyy Edd!! I haven't talked to him in a while. Maybe we could help eachother out!"

He hops on "Totallynotnewgrounds" and goes to their old messages and

nothing.

matt's like "Damn must have deleted his acc. Maybe i can find him on"

- Linked in: nothing

- Facebook: nada

- Insta, you name it: He's gone.

Eventually he's going a little crazy and he straight ip searches records like school yearbooks and his own damn scrap book: Nothing. No pictures. No mentions. Nothing at all

Now matt's freaking out bc what the fuck did i mandela hallucinate an imaginary friend

Eventually he gets the idea to search up his old friend, but when he searches him up: a criminal record in norway appears and he's like "what the fuck"

so he goes to Laurel in a moment of curiosity and they chat and have a nice time but then when they reminice, she says "Oh yeah, you and your friends what scamps. You three were the funniest"

FOUR!! THERE WERE FOUR!

Laurel excuses it as she had a concussion a while back and must not be remembering. Matt is like "I KNOW!! IT WAS EDD WHO THREW THE SHOE!!!"

And shes like "Who tf is edd?"

Matt realizes that a lot of their stories don't add up. and asks laurel to get any information on Edd .

Laurel comes back and says "There is no one who goes be "Edd Venture" here. There's an Eduardo!"

"Oh your ex?"

"I never dated an Eduardo..?"

Matt's freaking out.

Eventually Laurel comes back with the papers on his old Norwegian friend, and hears that he's got a fake identity by the name of "Tord" now.

Laurel is suspicious, but says she won't touch the case unless She's paid. After all, "Tord" is very rich now.

Matt, curious, looks into "Tord N. Shields" Files and finds out that he works with Tom. Tom! His old friend Tom Arrow!

That could be a lead!

They work on-

... well matt didn't expect this but hey a lot of highschool tension makes sense now.

After plot shenanigans and more lore bits that i'm too lazy and fly-less to talk abt, Matt visits their film company and finds Tom and Tord.

Surprisingly, they are actually happy to see matt and would like to catch up in the short break time they have in-between shoots.

Matt asks about Edd and finally...

Tom and Tord remember Edd. Matt could cry with relief.

Matt tells them the whole story.

Tord snaps his fingers and he's like "Maybe he's running from something! I've erased myself before! It's not too hard!"

Matt's like "???" so Tord tells him his story.

Turns out Tord fled his country after he embezzled funds from his publishing company who bought his old comics and used it to create an army and attempted to take over norway. he was arrested and tried but before he could get incarcerated, he fled the country, changed his name, and with no other option, married Tom to get a green card to stay.

matt is looking at the camera like in the office.

But there were records of Tord still available. There was at least mentions and photos of him in yearbooks and pictures of him

But none of Edd.

That catches their suspicion. Now its weird. The only picture of Edd in existence is this newspaper that Matt keeps carrying around.

Tom and Tord tell matt about some weird phenomenons that they've seen/experienced and even felt recently.

Matt starts logging them down.

Eventually tomtord tell Matt to stay with them for a bit bc lovingly he looks like shit. Sleep bro.