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twelve

"Eddie fucking Kaspbrak." Eddie heard the voice coming from behind him and Richie. Bowers.

"Bowers." Richie immediately started. They were at Eddies locker. Eddie had pulled out his inhaler a few minutes before. Henry saw this and took it as an opportunity. He grabbed Eddies inhaler and tossed it to the ground, then he stomped on it, cracking it into pieces.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Eddie said, picking up his inhaler as Bowers walked away.

"Shit, what the fuck is his problem." Richie sighed.

Eddie just stared at the inhaler in his hands, he didn't want to cry, it wasn't that big of a deal, but he felt like crying. He just wanted Bowers to leave him alone.

"Hey, I'll take you after school to get a new one." Richie said, noticing the nerved look on Eddies face.

"Okay." Eddie breathed out and nodded, "Thanks."

-

After school, after Richie and Eddie had picked up a new inhaler from the pharmacy, they were sprawled out on Eddies bed, reading comic books and laughing. The laughing soon turned off when Richie got a call from Bev.

"Whats up, Bev?" Richie asked, putting the phone on speaker.

'Bowers told everyone about you and Eddie- he claims he saw you kissing. Everyones talking about it.'

Okay, Richie and Eddie weren't going out of their way to hide it from people, but they also weren't going out of their way to tell people. Derry will always be a dangerous place for people who are different, no matter what day and age.

Eddie sat up and was listening to Bev talk through Richies phone.

'Hes' saying he wants to beat the fuck out of you guys- him and his boys.'

Richie groaned. Henry was definitely not all talk, if he wanted to beat someone up, he would. For fun, out of boredom, out of hate or spite, he was a fucked up person. He had beat Mike Hanlon up multiple times, and even gave Richie a black eye once for making a snarky comment at him.

'Just be careful tomorrow, okay?'

"Yeah." Richie replied and hung up the phone. Eddie just shook his head.

"Where the fuck did he even come from? I mean, he has some serious issues. How is he not in jail by now?" Eddie said.

"I don't know, he's definitely a psycho path." Richie responded with a little laugh.

Richie reached his hand over to Eddies and squeezed it tight, then planted a kiss to his head, "We'll be alright."

-

The next day at school, the boys walked in awaiting an interaction with Bowers. Of course, they saw him coming towards them. They weren't too scared, considering he wouldn't beat the shit out of them in the school, he was smart enough to attack people outside.

"Hey, asshole!" They heard a voice, and Henry turned around. It was Bev, marching towards Henry.

"Oh what do you want you-" Henry started, but was silenced by Bevs fist in his face.