Two trashouths | Richie Tozier (1)

~19~ Epilogue

"I CAN'T BELIEVE WE GRADUATED HIGHSCHOOL." I cried.

"You said that seven times today October!" Richie laughed, nudging me with his elbow.

The Loser's and I have finally graduated highschool. It was a hard and long journey, but we made it. We made it. Together.

Now, we were currently in the living room of the house I share with Beverly. We were celebrating having graduated. Plus, some of us were leaving Derry. I had gotten accepted to Yale University of Art to study my love of photography. And Richie was going somewhere to try out his standup comedy.

"I also c-c-c-can't believe we're finally getting out of Derry." Bill said.

I nestled closer to Richie. "It feels like a dream."

Stan smiled. "It's a good dream though."

"You got that right!" Eddie grinned.

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Now, I was at the airport. Everyone was now going their separate ways. And we were getting out of Derry. Except for Mike.

"I still don't get why you're staying Homeschool." I said to Mike. Everyone decided to get their planes around the same day and time so that we could have our last memory of leaving all together. And Mike came to see us off.

"Somebody needs to stay here." he said, smiling.

"I'm going to miss you guys!" I said, tears spilling from my eyes.

"Good grief woman, you're so fucking emotional." Richie said, though his eyes were watering to.

We all hugged each other tightly.

"We all better stay in touch, right guys?" Mike said.

"Of course." Stan grinned. "You guys are family."

I cried even harder at that. Eddie rubbed my arm. "Oh come on October don't cry, you're just making us all cry."

And sure enough, everyone single one of them had tears streaming down their faces.

Soon, Eddie's plane was called. "Oh that's me." he gave us one last hug, and kissed my forehead before he departed.

Everyone else's planes were called. Mike left after a bit and now it was me and Richie.

"I love you." we both said at the same time.

We laughed.

"Two dumb fuckers think alike." we said together.

We started laughing hysterically now. After we calmed down, Richie motioned for me to go first.

"I love you Richie. And I'll miss you a lot." I took his hand.

"I love you too October." he stepped closer to me. "We'll make this long distance shit work."

We kissed, him pulling me closer. But it wasn't a passionate make out session. It was a last final kiss for a very long time. It was just from the passion of love. We broke apart.

My plane was called. "And that's me."

Richie smiled sadly.

"See you Tozier. You're a real asshole. But you're my asshole."

Richie smiled. "And you're my Stupid October. I'm proud of you."

We hugged tightly before we started walking away, and into our unknown futures.