Fuck you, bro (Richie Tozier x Male!Reader)

•Twenty One•

Word Count: 1010

Warnings: Math, gay, internalized homophobia, cold shoulder, cussing, inappropriate jokes (mostly as notes, not from the characters), Frozen reference.

Song for chapter 21 - "Boyfriend" by Big Time Rush.

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It was around 2AM as I was laying on my back on my bed, staring at the ceiling and just contemplating life. I should be sleeping, because I still have school tomorrow, but I can't fall asleep for some reason. It's fine, though, I'll just sleep in math class or something. I won't be learning anything there anyway.

I decided on just getting a glass of water and walking around for a bit to hopefully tire myself out. It did end up working, so I sadly had to wake up and make my way to school.

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I was now sitting in history, which I shared with the class Richie was in, because their lesson apparently had been cancelled, so they split us half in half and moved half of our class and half of their class to a different lesson, while this half was in history. It's confusing, I know. Richie was still kinda ignoring me, but he allowed me to sit next to him. I looked at him a few times, but he didn't seem to acknowledge me, he looked interested in the topic the teacher was talking about. Jeez, and he says he's not a nerd. I rolled my eyes.

I was "listening" to the lesson (I was actually zoning out), when I snapped out of it because I suddenly felt Richie hit my knee with his. I looked at him in confusion and he looked flushed.

"Dude, what?!" I whisper-yelled.

"Nothing, I did that by accident!" He whispered back. I shrugged it off and continued to "listen" to the lesson.

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I was currently sitting in English class (which I only had with my class, so Richie wasn't here, it was just Alyssa and me). It was almost the last lesson and I was exceedingly bored. I had fallen asleep in math class as I had promised myself last night.

My leg was bouncing up and down at the speed of light and I almost fell off my chair when Alyssa startled me by nudging my shoulder. I turned to her to glare, but she gave me a questioning look.

"What?!"

"Why are you doing that with your leg? You're literally going to destroy your chair AND our table!" She lectured me.

"I'm so bored, I'd literally rather be in the sewer right now."

"Huh???"

"HEY, quiet down, lovebirds! Take your bickering somewhere else." The teacher almost shouted and we both flinched. Lovebirds??????

I heard Alyssa shuffling her stuff and she got a piece of paper and gave it to me after writing on it.

'By the way I need to talk to you about something after school wanna go to the usual place?'

'sure do you have any money?'

'No you're paying'

'oh come on!'

'I'll pay you back don't get your panties in a twist'

'ugh fine'

I gave the paper back to Alyssa and subconsciously started to bounce my leg again.

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"So what did you want to talk about?" I said as I ordered some pizza for the both of us.

"You guys seem tense around each other." Alyssa pointed out.

I choked: "What? Who?"

"You and Richie. What's up with that? Aren't you guys like childhood friends?" She asked.

"Yeah, we are. We aren't tense around each other WHAT- What gave you that idea???" My voice cracked.

"Well, Richie isn't talking to you, first of all. Second of all, you seem a little weird."

"I'm not weird! Shut up and eat your pizza." I told her and she did indeed shut up for a little bit and we sat in silence as we ate. Not in complete silence, though, there were the occasional baby cries, which made me want to smite myself or throw the babies into a wall....or maybe both at the same time. I don't know anymore.

But then Alyssa opened her mouth again. Why are we still here...just to suffer?

"Wait...do you like him?" Alyssa asked me and I almost busted a lung.

"What do you mean? Of course I like him, he's my friend."

"You know what I meant." She gave me a knowing smile.

"WHAT NO- I'm not...I'm not that!" I got a few stares from the other people in the restaurant because of how loud I was. I lowered down in my seat, embarrassed.

"Come on, spill the tea." Alyssa said after looking around at the people. She grinned, taking a sip from her soda.

"There's nothing to spill. I don't like Richie in that way." I suddenly found the table very interesting.

"Oh really? Yeah, the longing stares you give each other are very heterosexual." She laughed. I sputtered. Longing stares????

"Anyway, it's ok. You can tell me anything." Alyssa reassured me.

"There's not been a single thought process that would indicate that I like him in that way! Well, okay maybe one- No! Uh, I don't want to talk about it."

"If you don't want to, that's fine, but when you do, I'm a lesbian, so, remember, I won't judge you."

"Dude, I appreciate it, but I'm not gay!" Goddamn it, I could feel my cheeks getting hot (and not the face ones- JKJK). What is wrong with me? I am literally not gay. There is absolutely no homosexuality happening.

"Yeah...right." She dropped the subject, but I could tell she wanted to keep teasing me about it.

We finally finished our pizzas (I know, I know, how does a person eat one pizza for so long?) and went our separate ways after walking together for a bit to talk about school.

I was "greeted" by my parents both sitting in the living room, both watching the TV for some reason. I guessed they just got off of work really early, but isn't it weird for both of them to be home at the same time, really early from work? I didn't think much of it and just went upstairs to do my homework for the first time in forever (Anna much).

Damn, what the fuck even was this day?

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LMFAO I'm sorry I literally just post like once a month. I'm gonna try to publish chapters with less of a time gap, no promises though.