Worst Of You

No. 13

At school Stan was sitting with Bev and Ben in history, the teacher had came in drunk before passing out at her table. Stan had his elbow propped up on the desk with his chin in the palm of his hand, those pretty forest eyes were just set on a small piece of graffiti, "Maya Buckley was here, 1945." Her hand writing was soft, even for it being in permanent marker it was so perfectly written, and so his mind wandered and made up a face for the name. Brown hair? Blue eyes? Who knew.

"Hey Stan you okay? You've been quiet." Bev spoke snapping him out of his train of thought, he looked over at the red head and noticed how the sun gave her skin a white glow making her eyes stand out, Bev was hands down the most gorgeous girl he'd seen. "Oh, yeah. Just thinking."
"About Richie...?" she mumbled, he nodded a little and its as if she was already aware, "Well you gonna come to the dance tonight? I think you might have a little date." She winked gesturing behind him, he turned around seeing a boy who caught his eye. He had slight wavy brown hair that parted in the middle and pretty ocean eyes, a bit like Bill but also not.
Stan gave him a gentle smile, and looked at Bev again.
Bev went to say something but notice the boy walk to Stan, she bit the inside of her mouth and allowed him to do whatever. "Hey, I'm David." The boy spoke softly, Stan looked up at him smiling, "Im Stan, are you new?"
"Oh yeah i've been here for a while."
"That's cool." David rubbed the back of his neck smiling, "Do you wanna go to the dance later on tonight? Like only if you want-" and without hesitation Stan agreed, "I'd love to."
"Ill see you tonight." David smiled widely and almost skipped off, Bev sighed quietly to herself looking down. "What?" Stan looked at her hearing the sigh, "Im moving on and i dont need Richie."

Lunch rolled around. Bev had pulled Stan away talking to him. "Stan, im happy for you, I really am, but dont go with David."
Stan rolled his eyes, "Bev im done waiting for Richie to come around to me, he doesnt like me and he made it clear yesterday." Bev bawled her fists, she wanted to just say that Richie loved him back but she couldnt, she couldnt just do that to Richie and she couldnt do that to Stan. "Please just hold on Stan..."
"Oh you know something dont you? Okay, if he does like me why hasn't he tried!" Bev just looked down holding back every urge she had stabbing at her. "Just wait... It'll be worth it.." was all she said before walking away incase she made it worse.

"im just gonna go see Maya."
"Thats where he'd be...."

Maya hit her head on the table and groaned, "This wont work Rich."
"Free dinner Maya, you're lucky im going through with the plan otherwise things would be completely shit." Maya pushed her hair back into a small bun, "I still wonder why i'm doing this."
"Look, if he tries anything, beat him up-"

ding

They both turned around seeing Beverly standing there panting, "Richie you need to tell Stan how you feel." She walked straight up to the small boy who looked at her confused, "Bev, Ive got a plan, Ill do it tonight and im not procrastinating."
"The new kid David has asked him already! You need to hurry!" Richie's eyes widened, he threw himself off the counter sprinting to school. Maya looked over at Bev, they both just looked at each other, "So you're Maya?"
"Yeah, I take you're Bev?"
"One and only." It was quiet for a little until Maya sat up a bit, "Are you any good at makeup?"

Richie had ran all the way from the chemist to school, once he got there he felt like his legs were about to snap off at any minute but he still kept running throughout the school to find Stan.
Even his mind was running around, he couldnt focus on one thing.

please dont tell me im gonna loose him
what if he grew out of feelings?
fuck what if this new kid hurt him
Stan means everything to me
what if Stan rejects me?
fuck no- i cant let this kid get him
i love him-