Baby//Mike Wheeler X Eddie Kaspbrak

Hawkins Highschool

Hawkins, Indiana. September 3 '88

Eddie walked into the building with Richie and Mike. The small boy was utterly terrified. Change was not Eddies thing. He held his backpack straps as Mike guided him to his first class.

As the small brunette sat down in an old desk, he looked around the art room. The only other kid there yet was a boy, one who must've been only an inch taller than Eddie himself.

Eddie studied the other boys features. His green eyes and light brown hair. The circle glasses that sat on his face. His small perky nose. A small scar, right on his cheek. Eddie looked at it, it was not made from a small wound. The scar was not very thin and much whiter than his skin. It must've been relatively new.

Finally, the boy turned to Eddie, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Uh- you look like Harry Potter." Eddie spoke the first thing that came to his mind, surprising himself. (Guys i know Harry Potter didn't exist yet but boris calls Theo that so 🤷‍♀️)

The boy groaned, hitting his head on his desk. Eddies heart sank, did he offend the boy?

"I've been called that three times today! And I'm new here!" The boy held laughed half yelled.

"Oh- I am too. I mean it's the first day of school so I bet there's lots of new students." Eddie pointed out. The boy nodded.

"Well my name is Theo. I'm from.. New York." Theo mumbled the last part, seeming suddenly reminded of something he'd forgotten for a few seconds.

"I'm Eddie. Nice to meet you."

Meanwhile, Richie sat in his desk. His homeroom was English. The curly haired boy turned his attention to another, more wild looking boy. He had black locks of crazy curly hair. He wore gloves with no fingers and a black coat over black jeans. When he sat beside richie, the tall four eyed boy studied him.

Finally, the boy turned to face Richie. To richies surprise, when he began to talk he had an accent. Richie did accents but this one was almost like something he'd never heard before. It was overpoweringly Russian but the way he said some words had to be German, French, Canadian, American, man, this guy must've been around.

"Boris Pavlikovsky." He introduced himself. Richie shook his hand.

"Richie Tozier. Where are you from?" He asked.

"Oh all over. Yeah I've been around. All over Europe, Spain, the USA, Canada, all of that. I was born in Russia though. I just moved here from Vegas actually." He shrugged making Richie grin. He liked Boris.

"That's awesome! Do they have a whole bunch of naked chicks?" He asked jokingly. Boris however, told him the dirty truth.

"Only if you can seduce em. You know, I lost my virginity at 12 to an 18 year old in the back of her car. Canadians, man." Boris said casually, shrugging. Richies eyebrows raised very far up.

"Wow.. uhm you're lucky." Richie blushed awkwardly. The bell ringing cut off the two and their conversation but Richie was definitely not done with Boris. Richie was determined to make him a loser too.

Mike and Max sat in math, waiting impatiently for lunch as they partnered up to do some equations together. The redhead began a conversation about his twin.

"So is Richie gay?" Max asked Mike, who furrowed his eyebrows.

"Actually, I'm not sure. Why do you ask?" He turned to the girl who was already looking at him.

"I dunno he just kinda gives off that vibe. Not to make you jealous or anything but I have a feeling that Richie may have been in love with Eddie. Of course not anymore, but there are times when I feel like he remembers when he was in love with little Ed's." Max thought aloud, resting her head on her freckled knuckle.

"You know, sometimes I feel like that too. Wh- why would you think that it would make me jealous? If they used to be in love?" Mike broke eye contact as he asked, his face turning a shade of red.

"Oh, no reason." She chuckled, turning back to their work.

At lunch Mike met up with Richie and Eddie, guiding them to the table the party always sat at. When they all sat down, Eddie spotted a certain short boy with hazel hair and circle glasses. He stood up excitedly.

"Theo!" He yelled, waving the boy over. Behind him walked a tall curly haired boy. Theo looked very annoyed with the scrawny boy.

"Hey Eddie!" Theo shook the annoyed expression off and said hi to his new friend. Eddie told the two to sit, even though he didn't now the other boy.

"Boris! Dude you've gotta tell them the virginity story!" Richie shouted upon seeing his new friend.

"No no no no! Not again please my little ears!" Theo pleaded jokingly.

"So I was in Canada.."

At the end of the day, Eddie and Mike walked home hand in hand.

"Today was good. Don't you think?" Mike asked. Eddie agreed.

"Mike, I'm happy." Eddie smiled up at the freckled boy. The sun always seemed to hit mikes face just right.

"I'm happy too, Eddie." Mike laughed softly.

As the two boys who found themselves secretly crushing on each other separated down their streets, Eddie noticed the boy from lunch unlocking the house next to his. He picked up his pace and waved his hand.

"Boris!" Eddie yelled, trying to get to know him better. Boris turned around in confusion but smiled upon seeing Eddie.

"Hello little one. You like hand sanitizer I noticed." Boris looked at Eddie like he was a lost puppy.

"You and your boyfriend look nice together." Boris mentioned casually, turning back to his door. 

"My- my what?" Eddie blushed a deep red. His big eyes widened.

"The Mike boy. He seems cool. You guys drink? Or smoke? Do drugs maybe?" Eddie furrowed his eyebrows and shook his head quickly.

"Oh...what do you do for fun then?" The lanky boy asked genuinely wanting to know.

"We just hang around. I had the girls over and we did karaoke and did our nails." Boris laughed, but not a laugh to make fun of Eddie, more of a laugh of approval.

"Ohh I see." He chuckled.

"Wh-what?" Eddie blinked rapidly, the boy in front of him confused Eddie very much.

"Oh nothing, nothing. Anyway, I've gotta go to town with Theo. Tonight we were gonna have a good time if you wanna stop by his? Or just come here, I could bring you." Boris nodded at him.

"Um, I'm okay. My mom would kill me." Eddie blushed, tapping the tips of his fingers together gently. Boris nodded and smiled, beginning to enter his home. The small boy took a few steps down the walkways before stopping and turning around.

"Boris! Just so you know, Mike isn't my boyfriend. I just really like him and it would be great if you didn't say anything to everyone." Eddie nervously told Boris.

"No worries. I'm sure you two will fall in love soon enough." He grinned at Eddie before shutting his front door. The delicate boy stood shocked before smiling softly and looking at his shoes.

"God, I hope you're right." He whispered.

A.N. I'm going to Orlando this week! I'll be updating as much as I can! I'm going with a friend who also writes on wattpad so I'm assuming we'll write loads on the plane and by the pool (or in lines for universal) :)