Richie looks up to see Henry is the one that pulled him back. Stan is also on the ground. Bill, Leah, and Eddie turn around to see what happened.
"Nice frisbee, flamer." Patrick Hockstetter says to Stan while picking up his kippah.
"Give it back!" Stan tries to grab it, but Patrick yanks it away and throws it into an oncoming bus. "Fuckin losers!" Leah runs over to help Richie and Stan up.
"I'm sorry guys." Leah says with a frown.
"Don't worry about it. He's always been like this." Stan assures her with a smile. Leah helps them up and they start to walk over to the others. Belch does what he does best and burps into Eddie's face, and being the germaphobe that he is, he gagged and Belch shoved him over to Bill. Once they are all together and the gang is walking away, Bill just had to speak up.
"You s-s-s-s-suck, Bowers!" Bill yells at Henry, which makes him slowly turn around.
"Shut up, Bill!" Eddie raises his voice.
"You s-s-say something? B-B-Billy?" Henry says, imitating Bill. "You got a free ride this year cuz' of your little brother, rides over, Denbrough." Henry smirks and says with a snarky attitude. By the time he finishes, he is in Bill's face. All of the losers are scared of what he is going to do next, but Leah turns her head and sees Henry's dad glaring at him.
"Bowers." Leah takes a leap of faith and says his name. Once she gets his attention, she nods her head over in his dad's direction. Henry sees him and almost cowers under his fathers gaze. He turns back to Bill one more time.
"This summers gonna be a hurt train. For you and your fucking friends." Henry finishes by licking his hand and swipes it on Bill's face. Richie looks over to Eddie and sees disgust written all over his face. The bullies walk away and get in Belch's blue trans-am. The losers walked until they were about to walk off of the curb, and they watched the gang get in the car. Richie decided to speak up.
"Wish he'd go missing."
"He's probably the one doing it." Eddie followed his comment.
"Well...I should probably get going now." Leah says to the rest of the group. Richie turns to her.
"Do you want me to ride home with you?" Richie asks the blonde. She ponders for a moment, wondering if she should tell him about her encounter with Henry.
"If you want to. Um, my mom shouldn't be home for another hour or so, so we can actually go all the way instead of to the corner." She chuckles lightly.
"Alrighty, bye guys!" Richie turns back to the losers. They all exchange bye's and he and Leah start off towards their houses. A comfortable silence engulfs the two, unlike how it was this morning.
"Hey, Richie?" Leah says.
"Yeah, Leah?" Richie says back. She pauses briefly and glances towards him.
"I just want to say, thank you. For biking with me and letting me meet your friends. I've never really had any friends, they either turn up fake or my mother ruins the friendship." She says while sighing, remembering her past "friends."
"Oh of course! I see you biking alone and to be honest I always feel bad. Don't make this seem like it's out of sympathy, because it's not," he pauses to laugh, "but ever since you moved in here I've wanted to be your friend...that sounds kind of creepy." he lets out a chuckle. Leah laughs with him.
"No it's not creepy, its actually nice." she smiles at him. They both stop talking, enjoying the scenery around them.
"Does that possibly mean we're friends?" He say and looks at her with a goofy smile. She laughs and smiles back at him.
"Possibly" she says. He looks at her and smiles even bigger, which Leah didn't think was possible.
"YES!!!!" He exclaims as they ride up to her mailbox. She giggles and hops off of her bike, while putting her kickstand down.
"See you later, Tozier." She says and starts walking up to her porch.
"Bye, Leah!" She walks up to her front porch and unlocks the door. Once she's inside she peers out of the window to see if Richie is still there. Of course, he is. Aw, she thought, he waited for me to be safely inside. He then breaks out in his little victory dance that he does whenever he wins against someone at Street Fighter. Leah laughed at how cute he looked. He then got on his bike and went back to his own house. After a second of sitting on the couch, Leah walks up to her room and twists the door knob.
As she opened her door, she saw THOUSANDS of wasps. One of her biggest fears. She felt as if she was getting pushed into her room and the little bugs surrounded her as the door slammed shut. She was still in shock and couldn't move. They all started swarming around mainly her head, but her whole body too. Once she was out of the initial shock, she let out an ear-piercing scream. She tried swatting them away but nothing would work. She was having a panic attack by now. She was hyperventilating and tears were streaming down her face. In her peripheral vision, she saw a red balloon eerily floating around the chaos. As one of the wasps stung her, all of them disappeared into thin air. She very slowly calmed down, but she was still crying. She didn't know what to do, so she made the only logical move she could think of in the moment.
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Fanfiction"Does that possibly mean we're friends?" He say and looks at her with a goofy smile. She laughs and smiles back at him. "Possibly" she says. He looks at her and smiles even bigger, which Leah didn't think was possible. (Richie Tozier x fem) started...
