Friends Forever? Stan Uris x Richie Tozier

Chapter one: Loser

Richie's POV
None of them have mentioned what happened over the summer, then again none of the losers stick around each other anymore.
Since Bev left to her aunts place Ben and Bill have been distant, Mike doesn't exactly go to school so I barley see him anyway, Eddie got a girlfriend which probably won't last long since, you know, rumours going around she has mono, but there is one person that is still with me, Stan.

"Hey, Rich! Snap out of it!" Stan flicked my forehead to bring me out of my dazed state.

"Ow!" I flinch back and rub my head, and he rolls his eyes.

"So are you going to answer my question or not?" Stan looks at me expectantly.

I look at him with a confused face.
"You were speaking?!"

He pinches the bridge of his nose and smirks.
"Yes, dumbass. I was. Now after school do you want to go bird watching with me?"

I sigh heavily, and flop onto the cafeteria table.
"But Stanelllllllllll!!!!!! That's boring can't we just go to the arcade?"

Stan looks at me being over dramatic and chuckles to himself.
"Rich, we always go to the arcade, can't we do this once?"
I lift my head and look at Stan, he looks really cut- woah wtf no don't think of that dumb fuck.

"Ugh, fine! We can do that shit! But if I get bored I'm leaving!" I sit up and pack my thing in my bag.
"Okay it's set see you after school, don't be late!" He walked to his class.
I turn around and smile then head to my class.
I feel someone bump into me I look at who it is, it was Eddie.
I threw my hand up to wave at him.

"Sup?Eds!" I smirk at the small boy.

He glared at me, flipped me off and walked away.

"What the fuck is his problem" I mumble and scoff I check the time.
SHIT! I'M LATE FOR CLASS!!!
I rush into the classroom and everyone's eyes went to me.

"Mr. Tozier, care to explain why you are late?" The teacher gave me a death glare.

"He was making out with one of his boyfriends!" A classmate shouted, after that was said everyone whispered to each other and a few f slurs where heard.

The teacher looked at Richie who was now looking down at the sudden attack. She told him to sit in his seat while she calmed the class down.

The lessons weren't important, all I could think about was how birdwatching would be like but every time I thought about it I got bored so I thought of Stan, the way his curls would bounce with the slightest movement, the way his eyes shine when he speaks of birds, how when Stan smiles the world around me seems to disappear, everything about him is perfect.

The end bell rings and I am the first to leave the school.

I wait for Stan by the bike rack, we put out bikes together so we know where to wait for each other.

The last few people walk out of the school and my worry increases since I haven't seen Stan anywhere. I head back inside and go to his locker. No one, I go to his last class, no one. I stress out until my heart drops as I hear a bang and then someone shouts my name from the bathroom.

I rush to the bathroom and anger instantly surges through me. There is Stan laying on the floor with a bully standing over him.

"Oh look who it is it's your boyfriend coming to save you" the bully grabs on to Stans collar.

"Let him go, you fucker!" I walk towards the bully hands clenched and punched him in the jaw.

The bully let's go if Stan, and Stan gets back up and runs towards me getting behind me.

Just then a teacher walks in.

"And what happened here?" He asked

The bully looked at me, Stan then the teacher.

"Nothing, just fooling around." The bully grunts.

"Yeah, just fooling around" I say through gritted teeth.

"Then get out of here!" The teacher yelled.

We leave and the bully walks past us, saying the f slur.

I turn around and look at Stan, his face was covered in blood. I got flashbacks to that time but shook my head.

"Let's go to my place to fix you up" I grab his hand and to my surprise, he grabs mine also.

We bike to my place, I open the door and head upstairs Stan following behind me.

I pat the toilet, signaling for him to sit down, he does. I pull out the first aid kit and start wiping off the blood then sanitizing and bandaged his wounds.

"You're good at this" Stan laughed.

"I do my very best Stan The Man" I smile. We stay there for a bit before he looked down.

"Sorry I ruined our plans," Stan said sadly.

"Hey, dude you didn't do anything wrong! It was that dick wad who started it! Besides we could always go another day?" I look at him giving a reassuring smile.

His eyes lit up, and my knees grew weak. He stood up and hugged me.

"Thank you"

"Y-yeah no problem, hey would you look at the time we should probably get to bed!" I put away the first aid kit and started to head downstairs.

"Wait!" Stan shouted

I turn around,
"What's wrong?"

Stan shifted and rubbed his arm.
"I was wondering if I could sleep over? My parents would kill me if they saw me like this" he nervously laughed.

I nod and made my way upstairs again then headed to my room. Thank god I cleaned it last night. I make a bed on the floor then lay down.

Stan argues that I should take the bed, but I won the argument and stayed on the floor.

"Goodnight Rich, thank you" Stan said sleepily.

"Night Stan, sleep well" I answer, I hear his soft snores which lulls me to sleep.