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(sorry for the hiatus! but im 
back and better / flashback) 

it was a week after the clown had been... dispersed of. everyone was starting to fall apart. to separate. 

beverly had already left with hear aunt. her absence left ben and bill devastated. but no one heard much from the two anymore. 

richie supposed that he and eddie were the only losers who stayed together. they were, after all, still dating. he couldn't have been happier about it. of course, he was very sad about losing his only friends. but eddie was all he could have ever asked for; and he knew that if he ever lost eddie he wouldn't be the same again. 

they had been sitting on the rock in the quarry where richie had asked eddie to be his boyfriend. eddie had called richie over to his house, where they spent a full hour cuddling. after the hour, eddie suggested the go to the quarry. he said that he had news. 

the boys biked side-by-side the whole way. about five minutes in, they saw mike. he looked very disheveled; the work on the farm along with him trying to get the losers back together must have been weighing him down. 

mike hadn't noticed them. 

when they reached the bottom of the quarry, richie and eddie climbed up in silence, holding hands. richie had no idea what the news would be, and it was an understatement to say that he was worried. 

when they reached the rock, eddie refused  to let go of richie's hand. instead, he stood up in front of the rock and hugged richie. it was in that hug that richie could tell that something wrong. 

"are... are you okay eds?" richie asked, feeling tears gather up in his eyes as he hugged eddie back, holding him as tight and as close as he could. 

eddie shook his head and sniffled. "we have to move," he said, without letting go of richie. 

"you... you what?" 

"we have to move. sonia, shes forcing us. she wants to go to california. for a 'fresh start'. to get all of this crap off my mind. and i told her. i told her, i said 'i want to stay'. but she didn't care. she ignored me. we have to leave. tomorrow." 


    

richie's heart fell from his body. it shattered on the ground underneath his feet, and he buried his face into eddie's shoulder. 

his eddie spaghetti was leaving. 

the one thing he cared about in life was going to be gone.