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twenty-four

Eddie POV

I've been awake for quite awhile now. It's quite boring really, having no company and not expecting it until later because of school. I wonder how everyone's doing, and if there's tea on my favorite soon-to-be couple, Stan and Bill. They get flustered whenever I tease them on it, it's kind of fun but I can't help myself when I ship them.

The door barging open cut through my train of thoughts, my eyes immediately darting to the sudden movement.

"Oh, Eddie-bear!!!" Sonia comes rushing in, cupping my cheeks and looking at me everywhere, inspecting my body.

"Hi.." I looked anywhere but her, avoiding her gaze that burned into the side of my face.

"I was so worried about you!" She exclaims, her hands still on my face.

"Oh.., yeah.. well.." 

"I'm so glad you're doing okay. The doctor told me for you to start taking some different medications."

"Uh, mom..?" I start.

"Yes Eddie-bear?"

"What are they treating me for, exactly? Like, no ones ever told me what's wrong." I question, genuinely wanting to know. I've wanted to know this for awhile now, considering that this isn't the first time its happened.

"..Y-you might have-" The door comes in opening, the nurse getting their things ready for my hourly check-up.

I groaned, wanting to know more but leaving it to be answered later. After the check-up, Sonia had to leave to go back to work because she was notified during it. But something was on my mind.

"What's wrong with me?"

Richie POV

I didn't end up going after school to meet up with Beverly. She would just be a waste of my time. Plus Mike insisted on waiting for me if I were to go, and I would feel bad for him just having to sit there and do nothing.

"Hey." I greeted Mike at his locker.

"Hi." He replied, then shut his locker and began making our way to the bike rack. 

We removed our bikes from the rack,hopping on then cycling our way back to his house. We didn't say much on the way there, probably because there wasn't really anything to say.

"Hey, uh, do you want a snack or something?" Mike offered once we got to his house and in the kitchen.

"I'm good, thanks." I kindly decline.

"Who are you and what have you done to Richie?" Mike joked.

"I don't have to be this nice. I can be one hell of a naughty boy." I said with a wink, earning a punch to the shoulder.

"Stop.!" He rolled his eyes playfully.

"What? I'm being serious!" 

"Save that for Eddie, please." Mike said, walking down the stairs to the basement, me following behind.

"Speaking of Eddie, should we go and visit him later today?" I asked.

"Yeah, maybe when my mom comes home from work. Then that way she can drive us." Mike says, flicking on the basement lights. "Should we ask the others?"

"I'm sure they will have already visited him. Besides, this way Eddie won't be too overwhelmed with so many people."

"When have you gotten so considerate? And yeah, you're right." He shrugs. "Hey, weren't you supposed to meet up with Beverly after school?"

"Yeah, but whatever she had to say can wait. I honestly don't want to deal with her bullshit."

"Okay." He chuckled, sitting down on a sofa. I took a seat beside him, us sitting in silence until Mike starts to talk again.

"Are you and Eddie, like, good now?" He questions, turning his body towards me. I mirrored his actions.

"Yeah, at least I'm pretty sure." I say, then pause before continuing. "I really hope he gets out soon.."

"Me too." He agrees. "At least we can keep each other company, I guess."

"And what are you suggesting?" I ask, smirking.

"Oh, I see what you did there." Mike rolls his eyes playfully. "But we like different people, remember?"

"There's such things as imagining.. just like what you did in the bathroom the other day." I move in, dangerously close.

"Will caught us, remember?" He points out in just above a whisper.

"There's no one here to catch us.." And just as I was about to close my eyes, my phone starts to ring, making us both flinch away from each other.

I pick up the phone, Stanley's face flashing on the screen. I answer the call before putting the phone up to my ear.

"Hello?"

"Hey, It's Stan. We were wondering if you wanted to visit Eddie with us in the hospital?"

"We? Is Bill there?" I smirk, even though he can't see me.

"Yes. Now do you want to come or not?"

"Yeah, yeah, sure. Mike and I will ride our bikes to your place before going there, okay?"

"Sounds good. See you soon."

"Okay, bye." I hung up, turning to Mike. "Stenbrough wants us to come to the hospital with them to see Eddie."

"Stenbrough?" He asked with a confused look on his face.

"Yeah, Stanley, Denbrough, ..Stenbrough." (a/n the same hand gestures as Dustin used to explain what the demodogs were).

"But why didn't you just call them by their actual names?"

"It's a ship name- you know what, nevermind. Let's just go."

i feel so bad for not updating sooner i have so many book chapters I'm writing all at the same time so sorry! i also apologize for the short chapter, but I promise you it gets really intense soon so bare with me. if you guys want to know some other stuff im writing/making then you should go and check out my spam book because i post that kind of stuff on there. anygay there's going to be some real tea in like the next couple of chapters so yea stick around for that if ya want to