the new kid - stozier -

- chapter 13 -

* Stans POV *

There is a huge rain storm outside. School has been cancelled. My parents are not home and I am lonely. So I say "fuck it". I'm going to run to Richie's house because I don't want to be lonely. ( + I love him but he definitely doesn't know that )

I put on my blue raincoat and walk out the door. I pull my hood up and lock the door. My hair immediately gets soaked even though my hood is up. I start running fast towards Richie's house.

The rain pours down on me but it's okay because Richie's house is not far from mine. The streets are empty and deserted. Nobody wants to be out in this terrible rain storm.

I get to Richie's house and just incase his parents are home I climb up the side of his house and knowing him he is probably asleep. I am right because I see him laying in bed.

I knock on the window loud enough for him to hear. Richie turns around in his bed and sees me. His face lights up and a huge smile appears on his face.

He gets up quickly and walks over to the window and opens it. I jump in and hug him as tightly as I can in my wet raincoat. He pushes me away and laughs. His t shirt he was wearing when he was sleeping is now wet.

I pull my hood down and take my raincoat off.

"What are you doing here? It's freezing and raining. There is a fucking rainstorm and you decide to come here?"

"I'm feel lonely without you. I missed you."

At this, he smiles and only now I notice the bruise surrounding his left eye. I walk over and run my thumb over it.

"What happened to your eye!?" He looks away when I ask this.

"Nothing happened, I just fell and hit near my eye."

This is a shitty excuse and I call him out for lying.

"Richie, that's obviously not what happened. Tell me what happened." He looks away again and tears form in his brown eyes.

"My dad heard me coming home late last night and he wasn't happy with it. So, he hit me."
My eyes widen and I walk over and hug him and he hugs me back.

Tears begin to fall down Richie's face and I pull away from the hug.
I wipe Richie's tears away. "It's gonna get better, I promise."

"Are your parents home right now?"
Richie shakes his head to say no.

"Let's get your mind off it and.. watch a movie?" I propose.

"Yeah, sure. I will show you what dvds I have downstairs and you can pick a movie you want to watch from them."

We walk down the carpeted stairs and into the sitting room.

I look at his small variety of dvds and decide on some shitty horror movie called Jigsaw.

Richie tells me the movie is really good but scary and this makes me slightly nervous but I still decide I will watch it because I don't watch Richie to think I'm a pussy.

There is microwave popcorn we bought at the shop the other night in his cupboard because Richie insisted on buying it. I put it in the microwave as he goes upstairs to get blankets.