Two trashouths | Richie Tozier (1)

~14~ So Close To Kissing

The next morning, I was sitting on my front porch with my bike next to me. My leg was jittering with excitement. I knew this wasn't a date and that Richie was just teasing my choice of words, but I was excited to hangout with him. Just the two of us.

"BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER!" Richie came into view, on his bike. Instead of stopping, he kept going. "Catch me if you can!"

I laughed. "You asshole!" I jumped on my bike and peddled as hard as I could.

I managed to catchup to Richie.

"How the fuck did you do that?" he asked.

"I have strong legs and arms." I grinned.

"I wonder what else those arms can do." he smirked.

"Why don't you ask your mother? She'll know." I retorted.

"OCTOBER!" he cried as I sped past him, laughing.

We soon arrived at the arcade. Walking in, there were a bunch of kids laughing and playing.

"Let's play streetfighter!" Richie said excitedly.

I laughed. "Okay fine!"

I beat Richie in every single game.

"What the fuck?" Richie exclaimed. "How are you so good?"

"I've been coming here to play every Sunday for years." I explained, reaching into my pocket for another token.

"Wait, you're a video game addict?"

"Pretty much yeah."

"You never told me that." he frowned.

"You hated me from the day we met." I shrugged.

Richie grinned. "Well now I know how I'll be spending my Sunday's."

I giggled, blushing slightly.

After the arcade, we went to get ice cream. We started walking around.

"Hey, I didn't tell you yet, but you look nice today." he told me.

I smiled at him. "Thanks Richard."

"I mean, you never look nice so it's an improvement."

I bumped his shoulder with mine. "Wow, that's a real nice thing to say asshole."

We found ourselves sitting on a park bench, we ate our ice creams. I watched as some kids kicked a ball around.

I suddenly felt sticky cold all over my mouth and nose. Richie had shoved my ice cream in my face.

"Hey!" I shoved his ice cream in his face.

Now both of our faces were covered in ice cream. He looked at my mouth.

"What?" I asked.

"I want to lick that ice cream off your mouth." he murmured.

"That's disgusting Tozier." I shook my head.

"Okay fine yeah that's gross." he leaned in slightly.

I leaned forwards too. Before our lips could touch, we heard a loud yell.

"OCTOBER! RICHIE!"

We pulled apart and looked to see Bill and Ben running towards is. They looked terrified.

I jumped up. "What's wrong?"

"Is it the fucking clown again?" asked Richie.

"It took Beverly." Bill rasped.