Bet (Reddie)

Chapter Four

Edited (again)

The bell rang and I looked at Richie who was asleep. I shook him and he groaned. "No.." he said and turned his head so he was looking at me. "I slept through the entire class?" he asked and sat up. I saw the wet stain on his book and I gulped.

"Yes. and do you now how much bacteria is on that page now!? All your spit an everything is going to absorb in your paper" I said in disgust. "So, Richie, how as your sleep?" Mrs. Franklin asked him.

Everyone looked at Richie and I grabbed my inhaler and pressed down while breathing in. Richie shrugged. Richie always shrugged. She dismisses us and we left the classroom.

My watch beeped and I groaned. I grabbed my pills and my water bottle. When I swallowed and Richie stared at me. I put my water back in my backpack and we kept going to second period. "Cya at lunch" I said and we went are seprate ways.

(Edit: that was a dry paragraph wtf-)

When I got to class Ben sat next to me with Beverly on the other side of me. "This bet is dumb," I said and shook my head. "You guys are doing fine. Did something happen?" Ben asked.

"No."

"You're lying. What happened?" Beverly asked. I shook my head. "I'm serious. Nothing. Richie is just.. why him out of everyone in the world? He's so immature" I ranted and instantly felt kind of bad for saying that. Ben shook his head and took out his sharpener. "Well, you can always just quit the bet and hopefully Stanley will just give you something else" Beverly said.

"But seriously, Richie has always been the way he is and you never liked that? Then why did you even be friends with him?" Ben asked and put his sharpener back in his backpack. "Class" the teacher said and everyone got quiet. This is going to be a pretty long month.

When class was over, we all met in the cafeteria but didn't see the one person we always see. Richie. I shook my head. We looked at our table to see Richie with his head down. When we sat down I looked at Richie and his eyes were closed.

"He fell asleep in first period.. Why's he so tired?" I asked and looked everyone. Everyone looked at each other. "What if he has Narcolepsy?" I asked and of course they didn't know what it was.

(Edit: I gave him narcolepsy, then completely forgot later on. My bad.)

"Narcolepsy is when you fall asleep without warning. Like, one minuet you're wide awake, next minute you're sleeping. It usually occurs to people from the age of 10 to 25" I said and everyone looked at me in shock. I looked at Beverly who looked at Ben, who looked at Stanley, who looked at Bill.

"Richie.." I said and lightly shook him. When his eyes fluttered open I sat next to him. "Oh.. hey.. Guess I'm still tired or something" He said and yawned. "C'mon let's get some lunch" I said and he shook his head no. All of us left to get some lunch while Richie stayed behind.

Why do I care for him so much?