Two trashouths | Richie Tozier (1)

~3~ Helping The New Kid

"I think it's great we're helping a kid, but we need to think snout our own safety! He's bleeding all over!" Eddie said as we rode our bikes as quickly as we could. "And you all know there's an AIDS pandemic happening right now, right?"

"Ed, relax, I'm sure we'll be fine." I said. We turned a sharp corner. "We'll be okay. We'll just get whatever we need and help him."

I may be an annoying trash mouth, but I still always tried to help and take care of my friends needs.

"My moms friend in New York has it! Just by touching a dirty pole on the subway." Eddie kept rambling on and on as we ignored him. Sometimes the best way to deal with him is to let his anxiety get out of his system. "And a drop of AIDS blood got into his system, by a hangnail! And you can amputate arms and legs. But how do you amputate a waist? You guys know that alleys are known for dirty needles that have AIDS right?"

We turned into an ally. After helping Ben sit on a box, Bill turned to us. "Richie, October, wait here."

"Hey, you know I'll probably end up killing Tozier if you leave us alone right?" I asked.

"It's f-f-f-fine you'd be doing us all a favour anyway." he replied.

Ben laughed slightly.

"Why the fuck do I have to stay with him?" I called out.

"Because Richie isn't trusted to help Ben, and he won't be any help in the pharmacy either. You need to watch over him."

Bill, Stan and Eddie rushed off to the pharmacy.

We stood in awkward silence.

"Glad I got to meet you before you died." Richie suddenly said to Ben.

"Tozier!" I punched his arm.

"What?"

"It's Ben right?" I asked kindly.

He nodded. "Yeah."

"So what exactly happened?"

"Henry was going to carve his name on my stomach, I kicked him off after he did the letter H."

"Oh Ben, I'm so sorry." I patted his shoulder. "Henry's a dick."

He smiled at me.

"We were in the same English class right? I think we were. Oh god you probably remember how I can't read well. Yeah I have dyslexia. It's so embarrassing. I can't read simple things sometimes. Everyone remembers." I started to ramble off a bit.

"We get is Stupid October, you're dumb. Get over it." Richie said.

I looked at Richie, angry bubbling up inside me. "Oh that's it!"

I pounced on him and dragged him to the ground.

"Guys break it up!" Ben yelled.

Just as I was about to throw the first punch, the boys came back holding a bunch of supplies. They didn't even question what was happening.

"Up you get October." Bill grabbed my shoulders and hoisted me off of Richie.

"You fucking bitch!" Richie kicked in the air at me, as Stan held him back.

"What the fuck was that kick supposed to do?" I shot at him. "Hurt the air around me?

"Just fucking stop!" Stan let go of Richie and covered his ears. "You guys are too much sometimes!"

I heaved a deep breath and pushed Bill off of me. "I'm sorry Stan."

Eddie kneeled in front of Ben and started pulling out some supplies