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Fourth of July pt 2

Fair Grounds, Hawkins, Indiana
Thursday July 4th 1990
11:23 pm

Richie has taken Eddie to buy popcorn while they cooked their food. They picked it up and began to walk back.

"Try catching this in your mouth." Eddie said, picking up a piece of popcorn and backing a bit away from Richie.

"You're on, baby." He winked, opening his mouth as Eddie gently threw the popcorn at him. It hit his glasses. "Fuck, try again."

Eddie laughed, picking up another one and tossing it his way, it hit his nose, rolling down his lips and dropping to the dirty ground. "You're wasting my popcorn ya know."

"I'll buy you more. Try again." Eddie three another piece at Richie, having it hit his cheek.

"Shit!" Richie yelled.

"You're bad at this." Eddie laughed.

"H-hey guys." Bill greeted, walking up to them with arms full.

"Oh, Bill, here, let me take something." Eddie ran over taking Mike's kettle corn.

"Thanks E-Eddie." He smiled gratefully.

"Here, catch." He picked up popcorn with two fingers that didn't need to balance the bag, he tossed the popcorn at Bill making it land perfectly in his mouth.

"What?!" Richie yelled in defeat. "That's bullshit if I've ever seen it."

They walked over to the blanket, passing everyone their snacks and settling down.

"Try again!" Richie yelled.

"Oh my gosh." Eddie laughed, picking up popcorn and throwing it at Richie, him still missing. "Fuck!"

"Richard." Karen warned.

"Sorry." He rolled his eyes.

Eddie picked up a piece of popcorn, feeding it to Richie. Richie leaned back onto his elbows, resting one arm behind Eddie. Eddie gave himself some popcorn, and then Richie.

They saw a flash.

"Mom! What are you doing!" Richie yelled.

"I'm sorry, I can't help it. You two are just too cute!" She smiled, looking at the photo coming out of the camera.

"Guys, watch this. I finally perfected it." Beverly yelled, standing up and doing a cartwheel in front of the grass.

"Wow, that's pretty good. But have you seen mine?" Richie smirked, standing up.

"The last time you tried, you landed on your head! That isn't safe!" Eddie yelled.

Richie waved him off, doing a bad cartwheel and fall don straight after his feet touched the ground.

"Ten points for Bev, one for you." Ben yelled.

"That's just because you're in love with her haystack, that ain't fair!"

"You were l-literally a one." Bill agreed.

"That hurts." He put his hand on his heart dramatically. He walked over, taking his seat beside Eddie. "Well, spaghetti, time to try our deep fried dishes."

"I'm not ready for that." He snarled.

"C'mon, it's good!" Richie took out a pickle, holding it in front of Eddie's mouth. They had a habit for feeding each other it looks like. Eddie barely opened his mouth. He took a tiny bite of the pickle, holding it in his mouth before grabbing a napkin from the bag. He spat his pickle in it, folding it up.