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In Case You Don't Live Forever

New York Funeral Home, New York New York
September 12 1994
4:04 pm

Eddie sat front row, on his left was Issac Walter, on his right was Mari Sanchez. In front of him was the casket with Tom Jefferys and behind him was his family and friends. Eddie, dressed head to toe in black, held Issac's hand, rubbing circles into it as the boy silently cried. Skylar wasn't invited to the funeral, so like everyday, he sat in his dorm room. The ceremony was almost done, he now listened to Tom's mother say words about him.

After that they all sat around the room, and Eddie went up to say sorry about Tom to Tom's mother. The thought of death scared Eddie, always had, but when he was a teenager, the thought of it sounded good, so he wasn't as scared. But now, now that he's grown, and happy ever thinking about it made his stomach twist and he just wanted to cry and scream. How could someone take a persons life away from them? Someone killed Tom, and Eddie hoped and begged that something like that would never happen to him.

He has so much things he wishes he could say to those gone, those like his father or Tom. He would ask his dad why he left him, left him with Sonia, why he hadn't loved them enough to stay, and then die. Then he'd tell Tom how sorry he was for letting Skylar just drive off, say sorry for not getting out of the car to make sure he got home. He has so much to say to people still living, but can't. He can't say everything he wants to say to everyone he knows. It's too much.

"I don't want to die..." Eddie mumbled to Mari who sat in front of him while Issac was talking to Tom's mom. "I'm scared." Mari looked up. "I don't want people to forget about me, I don't want to not exist. I don't want to be dead." Mari was speechless, had no idea what to say. Eddie just spoke out of no where, she pushed a piece of her black hair behind her ear.

"Eddie you're young, you shouldn't have to worry..."

"I can die at any age. Tom was young."

"Yeah, but you're healthy."

"What if I catch a sickness? Or get hurt, murdered, attacked, get in accident?"

"You just can't think that stuff. When you die you wouldn't know."

"I don't want to be forgotten...." Eddie cried, pulling his hands over his face. Tasha and Ivy sat down at the table, seeing Eddie cry.

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Pace University, New York New York
September 12 1994
6:00 pm

Eddie held the phone up to his ear, hearing the ringing noise over and over.

"Hey?" Richie spoke.

"I love you." Richie chuckled.

"What?"

"I mean it. You're one of my favourite people, I don't want to loose again, I don't want you to forget about me. We won't live forever, I need to tell you how much I love you. I don't want to die knowing you don't know I love you."

"Wow, Eds, you aren't dying. Why are you saying this?"

"I just want you to know..."

"Love ya too." Eddie smiled, wiping a tear away.

"How's helping Mike?"

"Ugh god I just helped him clean all his stuff out from the basement, that bitch has way too much nerdy crap." Eddie laughed. "Seriously, I knew he was a nerd, but I didn't know he was that much of a nerd."

"Are you really gonna try and tell me you aren't just as big as a nerd?"

"Well... I..."

"No, I've seen the way you fan girl over your dumb video games, Richard."

"Oohh, really Edward. Well what about the way you fan girl over your weird knee high socks."

"Hey! I don't even wear those anymore!"

"Well you did, and it was like you were in a candy store, looking at all those socks."

"They were stylish."

"No, they looked so weird... but cute on you."

"Oh, shut up." Eddie laughed.

"You still wear them, I know you do."

"... okay, only when it's cold...."

"See!"

"Well you still are just as big as a nerd as Mike, literally you're a pair of nerdy twins."

"Are you making fun of me now?"

"Yes, yes I am."

"I'm not even as big as a nerd as him!"

"Yes you are, you're an even bigger nerd!"

"What! How?!"

"You're the one who used to have the stupid video game posters on your wall, you said you used to collect Ninja Turtle action figures till you had a whole set, you're the one who would always want to go to the arcade-"

"Oh my dick! Eddie that's not even nerd!"

"Did you really just say that?"

"Yeah, not even nerdy."

"No you dipshit, you really just said 'Oh my dick'" Richie laughed, hysterically, as Eddie smiled so confused on how he found that so so funny. "Richie.."

"Hahaha, sorry, sorry."

"I want to move in with you after school." Richie gasped.

"Really?! You mean it?!"

"Yes, I do."

"Even if I'm a 'big nerd'?"

"Yes, even if you're a big loser."

"Hey, I said nerd, not loser. That's wounded me, Kaspbrak."

"Whatever, Wheeler."