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2. April ❀ age 6 

ring ring 

"IT'S EDDIE! NOBODY ANSWER! IT'S EDDIE!" Richie screamed as he heard the phone ring downstairs. He ran down the stairs and grabbed the phone. 

"Hello? Eddie?" Richie asked, almost tripping. 

"Excuse me? Who is this?" a male voice said from the other line, which made Richie sigh. "Richie Tozier..." 

"Is your mother home Richie?" the voice asked. 

"yeah...MOM! SOMEONE WANTS YOU IN THE PHONE AND IT'S NOT EDDIE!" Richie pouted. 

Maggie jogged from the kitchen and grabbed the phone. She brought it to her ear and began talking to the man on the other line. 

Richie sighed loudly. Eddie hasn't called him in weeks. he did call when he and his mom had settled down, but after that, it was rarely when Richie could hear Eddie's cheerful voice and since the day the Kaspbrak car disappeared behind the trees, eddie and richie hasn't seen each other. 

"Okay, thank you." Maggie put the phone down and looked at Richie who was devastated. 

"Richie" Maggie sighed and sat next to him on the stair. "Eddie's gonna call you at some point. Don't you worry, okay? Put guess who was on the other line?" 

Richie couldn't care less. "Who..." 

"The optic" 

"Oh great, they're going to rip my eyes off AGAIN!" Richie groaned. 

"What do you mean 'again'?" Maggie chuckled. 

"When I went there the first time, they poked my eyeballs" Richie pouted. 

"Well we're going to ask them not to do that this time...you have an appointment for tomorrow" 

Richie started crying. 

It was like winning the lottery, one out of a million. 

Tears poured from his eyes and it wasn't exactly because of the eye doctor. It was because Eddie would know just what to say, something like 'it's okay richie, it'll go well.' But Eddie wasn't here to say that. 

Maggie frowned and rubbed Richie's back. "It's okay, it'll go well" 

"That's what E-Eddie would say" Richie screamed, getting so mad of the lack of seeing Eddie. 

"So you're not scared of the optic?" 

"No! Of course n-not! I want to see Eddie!" Richie yelled, jumping up from the stairs and storming to the door. 

"Richie! Where are you going?" Maggie yelled after him, following her son. 

"I'm going to f-find Eddie!" 

"No you're not! you could get lost, or murdered!" Maggie pulled her son back and kneed down on the hallway. "Listen. How's this sound, tomorrow, after you had your eyes checked, we'll go see Eddie"