3 - Ben's house

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(1ST PERSON POV)
As we were riding our bikes to Ben's house I noticed a missing person poster with someone I recognised. I slowed down before coming to a full stop. I dropped my bike and went over to it and saw that it was...

KIRK??

I stood there shocked. No way that both of the people I talked to at school had disappeared, that quickly as well?

Whilst I was standing, Richie and Beverly were the first ones to run up to me, they soon looked at the poster as well

"Isn't that the kid that asked out Samantha Barnes in the cafeteria and got rejected badly?" Richie asked
I let out a short laugh and soon a tear shed. Yesterday was probably the last day I'm ever going to see him, most of the kids that go missing are never found, or maybe their blood or clothes are found...

"He was one of my friends, well, I thought of him as one. Not sure what he even thought of me" I wiped my tears and took a deep breath
"Sorry, let's go to Ben's house now" I grabbed my bike off the road and slowly peddled behind him.

Once we got there, I saw Patrick Hockstetter's mom putting up a missing poster. When we got to his room, we saw that his walls were covered in tons of newspapers, articles, etc.

"I heard he has a roller coaster and like a pet chimp and like an old guy's fucking bones, yeah" Eddie was babbling something with Richie

"Wow," Richie said as soon as he stepped into the room
"Cool huh?" Ben asked
"No, no nothing cool, there's nothing cool..." Richie muttered.

As the others were discussing, I checked out some of the stuff on his walls, and then what he had on his table and bed until I heard the door creaking a bit.
I looked over to it and saw Beverly standing next to a big New Kids on The Block poster
I was honestly shocked but in a good way. Now that I think about it, Ben does seem like the type to listen to them. I looked over at Ben who was a bit ashamed, Beverly closed the door with a grin.

"Where is the Well House?" Bill asked
"I don't know, somewhere in town, I guess. Why?" Ben replied as Bill looked around some more
"Nothing" he soon answered
"If it's a drug house, I would have found it by now" I laughed to myself "Oh come on guys, that was funny!" I rolled my eyes and continued to stare at the missing posters.

Once we were finished, we all went out separate ways home. Not for me though! I wasn't alone, turns out that Richie lives pretty close to me so he decided to take me home, in his words "It's the gentleman thing to do".

When we got to my house I saw that the door was opened a little from the morning I had to experience
"Thanks for taking me home..." I smiled as I placed my bike near the porch
"No problem, I mean, we live so close so I thought why not" he fixed his glasses. We said our goodbye's but as he was starting to get back on his bike, an idea popped into my head

"Hey, do you want to stay for a bit before my dad comes home?" He stopped and looked and me, fumbling before talking "S-Sure"

"What happened? I thought Bill was the one who stutters" I giggled as he was coming back and putting his bike next to mine "I don't get invited to girl's houses... often!" "often huh?" I smiled and placed my hands on my hips. "yeah! often!" he fixed his glasses and went in first, I followed after.

"Do you watch Baywatch?" I asked
"Yeah, for the girls"
"Honestly same" I laughed "Want anything to eat?"
"You got chips?"
"I got all kinds of chips, come" he sat up from the couch and followed me to the kitchen. I opened the pantry and a bag of rice almost fell out but I caught it before It could fall
"Woah! Didn't know we had Wonder Woman in the house!" Richie commented as I put the rice bag back on its shelf "Why do you even have that big of a bag of rice?" "Because rice is delicious" "Whatever" We both mindlessly stared into the pantry before we grabbed the snacks and drinks we wanted.

> After an hour or so<

It was an ad break and my dad hadn't got home yet, suddenly Richie spoke up
"You're lucky"
"Why do you think that?" I said as I took a sip of my favorite soda.
"Well, first off you can watch TV as much as you want, second, you got a lot of snacks and whatnot, third... you can invite whoever you want"
"You can't?"
"Not exactly..." He fixed his glasses
"Well... why?"
"My parents are... neglectful? I think that's the right word. I mean, sometimes I feel like I'm not a part of their family, as if I'm just an outsider. It's like they expect me to take care of myself. "
We sat quietly for a while

"I used to have a similar situation..."
"Really?"
"Well, I used to live with my mom and her boyfriend and soon enough they started making their family. Turns out that my mom was going to have twins and yeah... they ignored me and made me feel bad because I had a different father from them. They made it pretty clear that they didn't like me, my mom's boyfriend too."
"What about your mom?"
"Honestly I'm not sure. I think she tried to do the same as her boyfriend so he wouldn't hate her."
"How did you get out of the situation?"
"This sounds stupid but... one day I took my mom's documents until I found out my dad's name and then just... went searching around. After finding him I told him about the situation and they had to go to court. He won custody of me, mostly because my mother didn't even try" It was silent again

"This probably made hanging out weird, sorry" Richie soon apologised
"No worries, and if you ever want to get something off your chest or... I don't know, advice maybe... then you can come to me. I'm all ears" I laughed to lighten the mood and soon we continued watching Baywatch until my dad came home.

Soon after he arrived, Richie decided it was time to go home. Me and my dad spent the rest of the night talking about our days and falling asleep thinking about tomorrow.

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