~Dirty Little Secret~

~The Arcade~

Richie smiled as he and his friend Connor walked to the cinema arcade. Richie had brought almost all of the money he's been saving to spend on tokens so him and Connor wouldn't run out. They entered the arcade and Connror looked over at Richie "So Tozier, what do you wanna play?" Richie looked around a bit and spotted his favourite arcade game "How about Street Fighter?" He asked. Connor nodded and smiled "You're on." They buy their tokens and make their way to the machine.

After a few hours of playing the two boys start getting tired. They finish their most recent play and turn to look at each other. Connor smiles "You're fucking good man" He says as they both high five. Connor looks at the time "Well I should probably go now." Richie was enjoying his time with Connor too much to just let him leave, he grabs his last token off of the edge of the machine as Connor starts to walk away and he looks at him "How about we go again? Play some more ya know? Only if you want to of course." Connor was about to accept the offer when suddenly his cousin Henry Bowers walked in. In an attempt to not get bullied by his cousin he looked at Richie with an expression of disgust and backed away a bit "Why are you being weird? I'm not your fucking boyfriend." Richie's face dropped at Connor's words, he tried to say something but he was so taken aback that it was like his words had left his mouth "No I-" Bowers looked at Richie "The fucks going on here?" He asked. Richie felt his heart drop as Connor said "You assholes didn't tell me your town was full of little fairies." Bowers scoffed and walked a bit closer to his cousin "Richie fucking Tozier? What, you tryna bone my little cousin?" Richie backed away as Henry got closer "Get the fuck out of here faggot!" Henry yelled at him. Richie froze, he didn't know what to do "Fucking move!" Henry yelled again. Richie looked around to see everyone staring at him. He teared up as he ran away, not wanting to be seen by anyone else.