Serendipity [Reddie Fanfic]

CHAPTER TWO: Smoking In The Barrens/Who The Hell Is Ezzie?

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Smoking In The Barrens/Who The Hell Is Ezzie?

RICHIE, AS HE TOOK A LONG DRAG ON HIS CIGARETTE AND STUMBLED A BIT DOWN A SLOPE, DID NOT EXPECT TO SEE THE CHUBBY BOY SITTING NEXT TO BILL DENBROUGH AND BEVERLY MARSH, ALONG WITH THE SMALL BOY WHO WAS ALWAYS SUCKING ON AN ASPIRATOR.

BUT HE MOST DEFINITELY DID NOT EXPECT THEM TO YELL AT HIM TO COME SIT WITH THEM.

"H-huh-hey, Richie!" Bill waves to him.

"Hey, Bill!" Richie waves back, holding the cigarette lightly in his hand.

"Wanna come hang out?" Beverly yells. Richie thinks about it for a moment; he could wander around the barrens, trying to make his single cigarette last, or, he could go and hang out with two kids he didn't know, Beverly Marsh, and Bill Denbrough.

He finished walking down the slope, still holding his cigarette in his hand.

"Rich, where's Rosemary?" Beverly asks him as he stands in front of them. Richie shrugs and takes one last drag on the cigarette before dropping it to the ground and stepping on it.

"Dunno. We got in a lil' fight, ya know, and then she walked off." Richie pauses. "Did you know she has a guitar?"

Bev gives him a confused look. "Yeah. Didn't you know? She's in a band with Ezzie."

Richie makes a face. "Ezzie? Who the hell is Ezzie?"

The chubby boy laughs. "You know? Ezzie? Plays guitar? Has a band?"

"He's like, really stupid." the boy with the aspirator remarks. Richie, Bill, and Bev ignore him.

"Eh." the fat boy makes a so-so gesture. "He acts stupid, but he's good at the guitar."

"R-ruh-osemary's in the same band as h-him. She plays bass. Did you n-nuh-not know about th-this?" Bill looks at him, confused, as if this is common knowledge. Richie throws his hands up.

"No, I did not know about this! Rose hasn't even ever mentioned playing an instrument before in her life, and now she plays bass and is in a band with someone named Ezzie?'"Richie swears. "What kind of a name is Ezzie?"

"It's because he likes Ozzy Osborne, and his real name is Ezra. So, Ozzy and Ezra make Ezzie." the short boy spreads his hands wide and giggles; Richie likes the sound.

"Still stupid," Richie rolls his eyes and plops down next to the boy. "Gotta smoke, Bev?"

"Yeah," Beverly pulls one out and hands it to him.

"Thanks, babe." he blows her a kiss and Beverly giggles. "What are you four even doing down here?"

"We where building a dam," Bev says.

"B-buh-ut then B-bowers and his f-fuh-riends came and k-no-nocked it over," Bill finishes.

"We're gonna start a new one tomorrow," the fat boy says.

"Yeah, Ben here drew the blueprints," the short boy nudges the fat boy. The fat boy--Ben--flushes.

"Cool." Richie exhales the smoke slowly.

"Richie, do you even know these two?" Bev speaks up after a while, sounding a bit amused. She gestures vaguely to the two boys Richie does not know. Richie shrugs.

"Uh...no."

"I'm Eddie." the short boy says promptly.

"And I'm Ben."