Crushes

chapter 7

All of the losers were sitting in Stanley's basement sleeping bags all over the place. Richie was wearing a baggy black sweatshirt in order to cover his arms. So far no one had mentioned him cutting, or kissing Eddie. He hoped that only Stan and Eddie knew but both of them could have told.

"We should actually get some sleep tonight." Mike said sleepy from his sleeping bag.

"Yeah; i have to leave by 8 tomorrow." Richie said sprawling out on his sleeping bag.

all of the losers agreed and after a hour everyone but Richie was asleep. Richie got up and rolled up his sleeping bag. He reached into the backpack he had brought with him and pulled out a piece of paper and a pen and wrote a note to the losers. He wanted to stay he just didn't know how he could stay bye to them in the morning. he put the note down where his sleeping bag had been and gathered his stuff. He looked at Eddie who freckles looked adorable in the moonlight coming through the window. Stan and Bill were sleeping on the couch and Bill was hugging Stan. Mike was over in the corner like normal and Bev and Ben had fallen asleep holding hands. As far as he knew they were not dating but who knew. Richie wiped away a tear and went up the stairs and out the door as quietly as he could. Richie walked over to the kissing bridge and pulled out a pocket knife. He leaned down and carved R+E onto the wood. From there he went home and went up to his now empty room where he spread out his sleeping bag and drifted into an uneasy sleep.

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Stan woke up the next morning to see Bill laying next to him awake looking up at the ceiling.

Bill had woken up a few minuets but he had not moved that much since he did't want to wake up Stanley.

Stan looked around the room noticing that Richie and his stuff was gone, "Bill what happened to Richie?"

"Wait Richie's gone?" Bill asked looking around the room. "Mike! Mike! Hanlon!" Bill whisperer yelled across the room.

"What, I was sleeping ass hole." Mike said angrily, "you know this is the one time i ever get to sleep in."

"Don't care, have you seen Richie?" Stan asked.

"It is fucking 6 am do you people understand what sleep is?" Beverly said sitting up.

"Richie's g-gone." Bill said.

"Shit, Ben... Ben wake up!" Bev said shaking Ben.

"5 more minuets." Ben said turning over.

"Oh my god! Ben wake the fuck up! Richie's gone!" Bev said hitting the boy with a pillow.

"what about; Shit wheres Richie!" Eddie started before noticing that the boy next to him was gone.

"S-shit no one knows what happened to him?" Bill asked looking around at all the losers.

"hold on there's a note." Eddie said picking up the note Richie had left their a few hours before.

"What dose it say?" Bev asked.

"dear losers,

By the time your reading this I'm probably on the road for my new life. I'm sorry I left but i did't know how i was going to say bye to you guys in the morning. I will try to go on with out you guys but I am not sure if I can. I'm going to miss all of the mom jokes and sleepovers. Good bye, Richie." Eddie read put to the losers.

"well that sounded both optimistic and depressing." Mike said.

"what of he's still thinking about-" Eddie started before being interrupted by Ben.

"We can call him tonight ed's." Ben said.

hi next chapter there will finally be stranger things. Sorry it took this long. BTW in stranger things this is after season two before season three so yeah.