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༉˚*ೃ ᵒ⁴. 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐄!
"𝐇𝐄𝐘, 𝐄𝐃𝐒, 𝐘𝐎𝐔 have any food I can snack on?" asked Violet as the other Losers ransacked his kitchen cupboard for biscuits and snacks, because her stomach was rumbling. She hadn't had any breakfast, they'd run out of toast again—and it was always a little hard to bike when she was hungry. Her fingers were tired and her legs were a little sore, and she was breathless.
"Uh, yeah," replied Eddie and pointed to his pantry cupboard. "There's some bread in there that you can toast." Violet hummed and immediately started pulling things off the shelves to find the bread. It was all a bit of a mess, and Violet chucked a packet of chocolate chip cookies at Richie's face. They hit with a smack! before he caught them in surprise.
Maybe Violet should have felt bad about raiding Eddie's kitchen, but she really didn't. Vi didn't like Sonia Kaspbrak at all—not the way she spoke to Eddie, not the way she treated him, not the way she looked at Violet. She'd started hating her the moment Mrs Kaspbrak had called Violet a "dirty little" followed by a word so unexpected that it had felt like a slap to the face from her father. "You shouldn't be around her, Eddie," Mrs K had told him, with Violet standing outside their front door just a few feet away, because she'd come to pick Eddie up on her bike. But Mrs Kaspbrak would never care if Violet overheard. "Her kind aren't the type of people you want to associate with." Violet wasn't entirely sure what Mrs Kaspbrak meant by that, but she understood the idea well enough. Then Mrs Kaspbrak had told Violet that Eddie couldn't go out and play today, because he was sick, and she told Violet to get off of their property. For a while after that, Vi had thought Eddie might have hated her. But he seemed to have realised that there was a distinction between what his mother told him about his friends, and how they really were, and never had Eddie said or thought anything as cruel as what his mother had said to her. And Sonia had said the same thing about Stan. Sonia still said the same things about him, probably said the same things about Violet too when she wasn't around, and it made Vi go hot with anger.
Maybe Mrs Kaspbrak now tolerated her being inside the household, but never would she approve—Violet knew Sonia was constantly formulating new plans to keep Eddie away from the Losers. That was just the kind of mother she was. Vi's mother was never like that; never would have been, if she'd ever met the Losers Club.
