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twenty-three

Bill POV

"H-Hey, Stan?" I asked as we begin our walk home from the hospital.

"What's up?"

"Wuh-what are we, exactly..? I mean, are we eh-ever going to tell th-the others?"

"I mean, there's a lot going on right now. If you want to be so something more that's fine, but I'd rather tell them when things are more casual I guess." He shrugs.

"O-okay." I stutter. "Duh-do you feel bad about not telling Euh-Eddie?"

"I guess so. It's for his own good, you know? I don't want him to end up having an athsma attack or anything." He starts. "Also it's not really our place to tell him. I know he's been asking about it a lot, but he needs to hear about it from a doctor or his mom or something."

"I hope Eddie will be o-okay.. the doctors said they are suh-symptoms can luh-lead to.. guh-god I don't even want to say it.." I say sorrowfully, my eyes watering at the thought. Stanley must've caught this because he embraced me in a hug.

"I hope he will be okay too.. we all do.. the doctors are prescribing antibiotics for Eddie, to hopefully help him that is.." He sighs.

"Wuh-what if they dont-"

"They will help. If they don't what's the point of giving them to Eddie, right?" He says as rubs circles onto my back.

What's hard is that Eddie has been are friend for the longest time, so seeing him inthis state all of a sudden is heartbreaking. He doesn't deserve what's happening to him, no one deserves to go through what he might have to.

"I duh-don't want Eddie to die.."

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After arriving to Stanley's house we went up into his room and sat on his bed, just processing the day so far. I lay down on my side, still thinking if there's any possible way to help Eddie at all.

Stan laid down as well, curling up beside me as we cuddled each other without a word spoken. We didn't really need to talk at this point, we just knew what each other were feeling and thinking about. It's no surprise we could figure out what one another was thinking.

After many minutes of laying with each other peacefully, I nuzzled into his chest before drifting off into a sleep.

Richie POV
Monday morning~

Mike and I awoke to the sound of his alarm clock, him lazily turning it off in the process. We both drag ourselves out of bed and changed out of our clothes and into different ones, which Mike kindly lent me. Which consisted of a normal white shirt, a button down he claims to wear underneath his sweaters, and a pair of regular pants.

"Thanks." I say as we head downstairs for breakfast, in which his sisters and parents are already seated at the table, putting things on their waffles.

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After walking to school, I go to my first period class and take my usual seat. It was weird being here, considering I'm almost always late or don't show up. But that's not even the strange part. The thing is that whenever I did show up, Eddie was here.

I couldn't get my mind off of him. To the point where it was basically killing me not being able to see him. I haven't seen him that much, when I was at school, I would always avoid him. Now I am wanting the opposite.

When both of my dreadful classes were over, I made my way to the cafeteria, swiping an un-eaten apple that was just on one of the tables. (a/n swiper, no swiping!)

"Hey." I greet before taking a bite of the apple, sitting down across from Stanley and Will. Bill soon joins the table, followed by Mike who took a seat beside me while Bill of course took his usual spot beside Stanley.

"How's Euh-Eddie? Do y-you know?" Bill asked, not to anyone specifically, but to the whole group in general.

"It's only been a day,.. I'm sure he's doing alright." Mike responded sorrowfully, Stanley putting a hand on Bill's shoulder in a comforting manner.

After that we all just ate our lunches- I ate my apple- and quietly did our own thing. I drifted my gaze to other tables, watching them fill the cafeteria with their own conversations.

Soon I adverted my eyes to the group in which I was eating at for a short time, realizing that I just completely ditched them out of nowhere. "Shit." I mumbled under my breath.

"I'll be right back." I tell the others, them nodding. I got up from my spot and started to walk towards their table, a few of them already looking at me while doing so.

"Oh, you're here back for another round?" Lucas scoffed, rolling his eyes.

"I'm here to apologize."

"Woah that's a first." Max commented, looking at me with a doubtful glare.

"Why are you really here?" Dustin huffed.

"To apologize.! I know just leaving you guys was a shitty thing to do, and I'm sorry for that. Things came up and I didn't know how to deal with them..!" I explained.

"We forgive-"

"Don't forgive you." Lucas cut Ben off. "What you did was not fair. We even allowed you to join us when we very well knew something like this was going to happen. And guess what? It did. But we didn't care to think about that, and what the worst possibilities are. Because we're kind people, unlike you."

"That's why I wanted to apologize!" I exclaimed.

"Ooh, look who we have here!" Another voice sneered it, making my body shake. "Midnight, Toothless, Piggy, and Tampon Top..! But wait," they turn to me "looks like we got ourselves a Trashmouth here too."

"Fuck off, Beverly." I groan.

"What's the fun in doing what you're told?" She snickered.

"Seriously Bev, mess with me all you want, but leave them alone." I pleaded.

Okay Rich, meet me in the courtyard after school, and no bailing. Otherwise, your friends here will be in for a treat." Beverly spat, going in the opposite direction to join Mike Hanlon once again.

I sighed in relief and turned back to the others, them all giving me a thankful look. I smiled gently before Dustin spoke up.

"Hey, that was really cool of you to do." Dustin thanked.

"It's alright." I said

"Hey, uhm.." Lucas started. "About what I said earlier..  I-"

"It's fine. I get it. I'm a douche."

"Not after what you did just there." Ben commented.

"Well, thanks." I shrugged.

"We should be the ones thanking you. And sorry if you get into trouble after school.." Max said.

"It's fine, I'm sure it won't be that big of a deal." I say. "Uhm, anyways I'm going to go now. Thanks for understanding."

They nod as I turn around, heading back to my table. I sat back down beside Mike before the others started to look at me. "After school, huh?" Mike said.

"Yeah, you can go home without me, I don't know how long it's going to take, or even what she wants anyways." Mike looks away and down at his food placed on the table. I gave him an odd look but ignored it nonetheless.

Okay I'm going to do something different, you guys will get to choose what happens next in the story. Just comment on the one you would prefer to happen with beverly and the one with the most comments I will choose. (a/n I won't be updating until I get comments on the ideas so it's important you do vote).

▪beats him/each other up

▪makes some kind of deal

▪has a converstaion (you suggest the convo)

▪forces him to do something

▪other