𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 (𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐙𝐈𝐄𝐑)

iii.

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"Tell us more about yourself, new kid." Bev said as she laid on her stomach. She then placed the joint between her lips and inhaled deeply before passing to Richie, who began pacing the room for some odd reason. They were in Bev's living room now, listening to Richie's mixtape of music that he said Stan should know. He also found out the name of that damned song from earlier.

"Well as you know I'm Stan and I'm a junior and my parents and I moved here from Seattle for some reason unknown to me." Stan said plainly as he tried to hide his disgust. The smell of the weed was bothering him. "I know you can get deeper than that." Eddie chimed in, plopping down next to Bev as he swayed to the music.

"Well you guys are my first friends actually. No one would talk to me after-" Stan began to spoke, but he shut himself up right before he could say too much. Everyone just stared at him sympathetically before going back to their previous activities. As soon as the song changed Richie gasped excitedly and handed the joint to Bill, clapping his hands and turning towards Stan. Stan recognized the song to be 'Two of Hearts' by Stacey Q.

"Oh god, Richie, please stop." Bev complained as soon as Richie started nodding his head a bit. Richie completely ignored her, shaking his shoulders along with the beat and getting really into it. It was like one second Richie was himself and the next he was like a rockstar. Richie took his glasses off and threw them in Eddie and Bev's direction just in time before he began to lip sync into his balled up fist as if it were a microphone.

'I never said I wasn't gonna tell nobody
No baby
But desperate lover, I can't keep it to myself
Oh no'

Stan stared in awe just like earlier. Soon his eyes quickly met Richie's and just like earlier Richie was keeping eye contact with him. Like he wasn't scared at all. He seemed like he was in his element he was so damn confident. Richie began to stride over to the boy just like he did earlier, but this time felt way different since he knew this wasn't just part of some routine for a musical.

'When we're together it's like hot coals in a fire
Oh baby
My body's burning so come on heat my desire
Come on, come on'

As the chorus started up Richie began to jump up and down, still lip syncing as he did so, eventually stopping and taking hold on the feather boa that was still hanging off of Stan's shoulders. He tugged at the ends which made Stan automatically stand up and he felt good about the fact that he and Richie were basically the same height. Richie continued to look into Stan's eyes during the entire next part and Stan really noticed how red Richie's eyes were.

'People get jealous 'cause we always stay together
Yeah baby
I guess they really want a love like yours and mine
Together forever
I never thought that I could ever be this happy
Yeah baby
My prayers were answered, boy you came in the nick of time
Oh'

As the chorus came up once again Richie went over to Bill and snatched the joint right out of his mouth. Bill didn't seem to react though. Richie brought it up to his lips, taking a long drag from it as he walked back over to Stan. He lightly pushed Stan's chest so that he fell back onto the couch and even though Richie was pretty high and his vision was shit, he could tell the other boy was blushing madly.

Richie seated himself right onto Stan's lap without hesitation, feeling the boy under him tense up and he turned his head to look at him, finally pulling the joint out from between his lips and exhaling slowly directly into Stan's face. Stan closed his eyes, breathing the smoke in and relaxing afterward. Richie sighed and leaned his head back against the couch with a blissed out expression on his face, one hand lazily holding the joint between his pointer and middle fingers and the other gently stroking Stan's cheek. The rest of the losers were staring at them in shock, but they decided to say nothing at all about it.

They both stayed like that until Bev told everybody to get the fuck out so they don't fall asleep there. 'My dad will kill me if he knew you guys were here' she said.

They all said their goodbyes and Richie gave Stan a hug, pretending as if the events of that day never actually occurred.

A/N I'll try to update my other fanfic tonight if I can