'39 [Stanley Uris]

20: I Don't Want to Miss a Thing

From there, the losers pass the booze around, and loosen up as the bottle grows more and more empty.

Even stan takes a couple of chugs from the bottle, feeling light on his feet as nearly an hour or so passes. Feels like it's only been seconds to him, though.

"You feeling alright?" Andi questions, ignoring as the others argue about whether aliens are real or not.

Stan turns to her with a dazed smile.

"Better than okay," he nods. "You're here, my friends are here, and for once I don't feel so worried or nervous about what's gonna happen next."

Andi grins, noticing that he isn't nearly drunk. Just buzzed.

She leans over and turns her radio up, "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper blasts.

"That's great," She laughs, moving closer to him. "Is it weird that I wanna kiss you really really bad right now?"

"Sounds like good luck to me," he laughs, moving forward and kissing her.

Although they aren't drunk, they're both way too intoxicated to be properly coordinated. Stan ends up pushing too much weight onto Andi, and they stumble back with causing Andi to hit her head on the floor and Stan to knock his teeth against hers as he falls on top of her.

The two immediately break into laughter, drawing the other losers attention.

As soon as they realize what happened, they burst into laughter too. Everyone is just laughing way too hard, and Bill is literally red and in tears. Beverly is snorting so grossly that they all find themselves laughing even more.

After laughing for literally 20 minutes, Eddie has to pull his inhaler out and huff in attempt to calm his coughing down.

They all finally calm down, and Richie holds up a Polaroid picture.

"Thank god I captured that moment," he says, "because I'm pretty sure it's the best one in my life."

The losers go back to talking about aliens, and Stan moves onto his arms to get a better voice of Andi's face stained with tears of laughter.

"Sorry," he grins.

"I'm not," she grins back. "You're literally so incredible— you're like, I-I— I don't even know, I lack the vocabulary to describe you."

Stan doesn't say anything more, just leans down and kisses her. Properly this time.

This time, he's the one to move his tongue eagerly into her mouth. The music and laughter seems to engulf the air around them as they kiss.

A full 3-5 minutes pass before anyone notices. Then rings Richie's voice.

"You two should get a room already!" He calls.

Stan doesn't stop kissing Andi, just flips him off.

"Richie this is her house," Mike snorts.

"Fuck, you're right," he murmurs.

A while passes before the two pull away from each other, and when they do, they just lay there. Listening to the music. Music has a way of making people fall in love. Or maybe it just has a way of making people who are in love realize that they are.

After a good while, the song ends and "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" plays.

Andi moves at this, causing Stan to move with her.

"What?" He questions.

"Let's dance," she smiles. "I love this song, and I wanna dance with you."

"Can't argue with that I guess," he chuckles, standing up and dramatically offering his hand.

She takes his hand and stands up as well.

"May I please have this dance," He whispers.

With a gentle nod, Andi moves one hand into his, and the other gently rests against his shoulder as she places her head against his shoulder.

Stan sways softly to the music, and Andi listens to his steady heart beat the whole way through.

The other losers pay them no mind, throwing snacks at each other.

It's a good time all around as Stan softly kisses his girlfriend's cheek while they dance.

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(Richie's Polaroid.)