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Chapter Eight

Unspoken Secrets
Chapter Eight

(from now on all chapters will be in lowercase.)

richie laughed at ben's corney flirting and threw an arm around eddie, causing him to feel eddie's shoulder's tense.

richie looked down at the beautiful boy, his eyes glowing brightly and joyfully, each freckle on his face plastered carefully and meaningfully, and his lips so pale and so small. recognizing all these features every day made his heart skip, but he found himself blushing even more this time as their eyes locked.

"richie," beverly said, interrupting the gazing. "truth or dare?!"

"dare." richie said without hesitation, messing around with the hem of eddie's shirt.

"i dare you to kiss eddie!" beverly said with a huge grin.

richie's fingers stopped moving along the fabric. his eyes widened as he looked at beverly, then slowly at eddie. his cheeks grew ten times the amount of red they were before, and as did eddie's.

"o-on the ch-cheek, right?" richie stuttered unintentionally, his heart racing.

"lips." ben said. beverly only nodded, her eyes glued on the scene.

richie hesitated, looking at the horrified eddie. he then turned to beverly and ben. "wh-what's fucking wrong with you two? you just wanna see s-some queer horny shit, huh? is that it?!"

ben looked a bit taken back, but beverly's smile stayed in place. "don't be such a chicken, richie. it's just one kiss."

"m-my first kiss.." eddie mumbled, but no one heard.

richie groaned and turned to eddie. even though eddie had been his crush since fourth grade, he was too afraid. he knew eddie didn't like him that way.

that's why richie had tried to move on. he found himself crushing on stanley at a few moments, until he realized how stanley felt for bill, and he automatically felt more turned on around eddie. now that they were in seventh grade, he could finally get closer.

and he did at this moment.

their noses were touching, and richie closed his eyes slowly. eddie followed along.

slowly, their lips touched, and just as they did, richie grabbed eddie's shoulders and pulled him closer.

eddie's hands were shaking, but slowly he wrapped them around richie's neck, scooting closer.

at this point eddie would be on richie's lap at any moment, and richie was moving his hands to eddie's waist, pulling him closer. as eddie slowly arrived on richie's lap, he wrapped his legs around his waist, setting his hands in richie's hair.

beverly and ben watched the scene, amazed, but trying to hold in laughter. all beverly wanted to see was a simple kiss, yet she got much, much more.

"WILLIAM DENBROUGH!"

the voice echoed through the house, and bill immediately jumped.

bill's dad walked over to the pair, his eyes locked hard on stanley. he grabbed stanley's shoulders and his grip tightened every second he spoke.

"don't you dare ever come near my son again, do you hear me, boy? you're a disgrace, do you hear me? a fucking little filthy, ignominious disgrace!" bill's dad pushed stanley off bill's lap with a big shove, causing stanley to tumble to the ground.

there was that word. ignominy.

stanley wanted to say some sort of forgiveness, but no excuse could come to mind, and no words could slip past his lips, so instead, he stood to his feet and began running out of bill's house. bill's dad followed, screaming at him.

bill sat on his bed, tears slowly slipping out of his eyes. his lip quivered effortlessly, and his heart yearned for stanley, but he could do nothing about it. because he felt like nothing, his mind felt numb and he was frozen. he couldn't move, he couldn't speak. his eyes just froze in place. and even when he saw his dad smacking him in the face, he felt nothing.

stanley's feet stopped in the middle of the road, tears spilling out of his eyes, and he simply just collasped to his knees, a meager sob escaping his lips, his body shaking.

he covered his head in his hands as his head slowly fell to the ground, unintentional sobs continuing to erupt.

stanley had always been known as a cry baby, and he had always cried of the most small things in his life. he knew others would simply think of this as something very petite, but for him, it was the end of the world.

his bill, his love, his new boyfriend, his first boyfriend, the boy who he shared his first kiss with, the boy he wrapped his legs around, they boy he loved more than anything.. would not ever be able to speak to him again.

and at this thought, a hand was placed on his shoulder. stanley jumped back with a loud gasp.

but who stood in front of him made his heart melt. it was richie.

richie grabbed onto stanley's hands and sat down beside him.

"stanley, what the fuck happened?" richie whispered as stanley fell apart in richie's grasp, uncontrollable cries falling out swiftly.

"b-b-b-b-bill... a-a-a-and h-h-h-h.." stanley tried to say through his tears, but his voice was too wavered and his vision was blurry with tears.

"shh, it's okay stanley.. it's okay.." richie muttered, wrapping his arms around stanley, holding him tightly.

after crying for around what seemed like hours, richie used his thumb and wiped stanley's flustered cheeks.

"you wanna go to my house, bud? we can talk about it there." richie cooed, and stanley implied, for he just needed some comfort.

richie helped stanley up and together, with richie's arms around stanley's shoulders, the two boys walked to richie's home, where stanley would get the comfort he needed.

as for bill though, his dad was threatening to kick him out.

and all of this because two boys loved each other very much.

END OF PART TWO

Part three (TBA) will be released on Friday, December 1st.