(Richie's POV)
I sat alone on the bus and deleted the emails on my phone that I had gotten in the past. It was boring ,but I had nothing better to do.
My bus is usually one of the last at the school. We got to school at 7:57.
I walked into my homeroom and saw Stan, so I walked up to him.
"Where's Eddie?", he asked.
"He's sick, I'm not buying it though. He never gets sick cause of his crazy Mom.", I answered.
"Yea, that's true. He'll probably be back tomorrow.", said Stan.
"Maybe....", I said.
I got a head ache and I just wanted to go home. I felt really sick and I couldn't focus or really do anything by the time we were at science.
I went up to my science teacher and asked if I could go to the nurse.
She gave me a nurse pass.
I walked to the nurse and told them that I couldn't focus because of my headache and stuff. They called my Mom and I got to go home. I decided to call Eddie because he was at home too. Maybe this would be a good day?
So I called him. No response.
He called me back 10 minutes later and he answered this time.
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"Hey, Eds.", I said.
"I thought you were at school?", he asked me.
"Yea, I had a really bad headache so I got sent home....Are you okay?"
"Yea, why are you asking?", he asked.
"Um, no reason. So anyways, do you have a headache too? Is that why you said you were sick?", I asked.
"No, I need to tell you-"He got cut off because he started crying.
"Eddie? What's wrong?!", I asked worried.
"I'm not sick. I'm not sick at all. I've been-I haven't been getting enough sleep and today I did...but I was a little late for school because of it. The bus was supposed to come in 15 minutes but my Mom was mad at me, she made me lie to you. I'm so sorry I wanted to go to school today. I'm just... I'm scared of my Mom. I don't know what to do. I never eat her food. I sneak food at night and eat it. I don't trust her ,and I'm just scared.", he said, wiping his face with the back of his hand.
"It's okay, Eds. If you want you can stay with me for a bit.....", I said.
"Thanks Richie, I thought you wouldn't care."
"I'll see you tonight?", I asked.
"Yea", he answered.
"Okay, bye Eds. ", I said.
Then call ended.
He didn't even say "don't call me that".
That whole day I thought about Eddie.
There's something about him.
I don't know. Maybe he's just a really good friend that I trust and he trusts me?
Well, I like that he trusts me. No one ever trusts me. I'm just the "trash mouth",but for once....I like being that friend that people can trust and tell them things.
*A few hours later*
When it was 7:30 PM I was sitting in the living room. Then, the doorbell rang. I ran right to the door and looked through the peephole.
It was Eddie.
I opened the door and let him in.
"Hey, Eds! How long are you staying?", I asked.
"Hey Rich....I don't really know. Maybe a few days?", Eddie said.
"Oh, Okay."
We sat in my room and sat on our phones. Well, I was. Eddie was writing something. It kinda looked like that book in his bag from yesterday that I asked him about......
•••••••••••••••••(Eddie's POV)••••••••••••••••••
Richie was on his phone. I was writing in my diary. I don't think he noticed though....
Dear Diary,
I live with Richie now. I don't know how....I don't remember a lot that happened today. A lot happened today, so I don't really know what to write. I guess I'll just write tomorrow.
Bye
-Eddie (NOT EDS)
When I closed my diary, I shoved it in my bag.
"So, you wanna skip school tomorrow?", Richie asked.
"What-No-What do you mean?", I asked.
"I don't wanna go to school tomorrow...Should we skip?", Richie asked again.
"Richie Tozier is gonna skip school. What a badass.", I said joking also while being sarcastic.
"Spaghetti.", he said back at me.
"But for real though- we're definitely skipping school.", I said.
"You know it.", Richie said while laughing.
'I'm so glad I know you', I thought.
Thanks for reading Chapter 6! Chapter 7 coming soon
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