A New Chapter

Chapter 19

Previously-

"Nothing w...would make m...me hate you S...stan." Bill snapped back, now standing up and making his way towards the boy. "C..come on l..lets g..get a d..drink."

Chapter 19-

As the two crept downstairs hoping not to wake their fellow friends, Stan's mind began to race. He desperately wanted to tell him how he felt, plus his talk with Richie and Eddie did really help. But, there was the chance of Bill and that factor alone shook the boy to his core. Bill was right behind him and they soon entered the kitchen, Stan pouring a glass of water for himself and guzzling it in his nervous state whilst Bill rubbed his eyes trying to wake himself up a little.

"S...so whats on your m..mind?" Bill yawned, taking a seat and looking up at Stan who was clearly on edge. "Stan you know you can t...talk to me r..right."

"Yeah, i'm just scared." Stan confessed, now sitting opposite Bill refusing to look at the boy in the eyes.

"Y..you helped kill a killer c..clown." Bill chuckled. "You d...don't need to be s...scared Stan, you're a b..brave person."

"Thanks Bill, but if it wasn't for you guys that clown would have killed me." Stan uttered, trying not to tread to heavily on the subject as he knew how much it hurt Bill. "No offence or anything."

"I understand, b...but i would have b...been the s...same. We all n...needed each other." Bill replied, now reaching his hands out on the table for Stan to take hold of. "S...so do you w...want to tell me?"

"You promise you won't hate me?" Stan emitted, now holding his shaky hands with Bill on the table.

"P...promise." Bill smiled, gripping tight onto Stan's hands as a gesture of reassurance.

"Okay..." Stan started but struggled to find the words, now thinking them over in his head whilst Bill waited patiently not wanting to cut his friend off. "The thing is.....i like you. Like Richie and Eddie like each other sort of like. I didn't want to tell you because i know you and Bev are still hit and miss or whatever and you might not even like guys but i know you aren't against it or anything beca----."

"S...Stan calm down of a s...second." Bill exhaled, his hands relaxed in Stan's hands making the boy worry as to why he loosened his grip - already fearing the boy hated him. "I'm glad y...you told me, its a h..hard thing to do. I do like B...Bev but only as a f...friend now."

"Oh." Stan uttered, unsure of how to respond or whether his friend had finished his point.

"B...but i don't know h...how i feel about you." Bill confessed, making the other boys heart plummet. "You're m..my best friend Stan."

"Yeah and you're mine Bill." Stan uttered, trying to hold in the tears and keeping his voice from breaking. The back of his throat felt although someone shoved a rock there and he was trying to not swallow it or spit it out, painful to say the least. "I'm sorry."

"D....Don't be sorry." Bill smiled, now looking Stan in the eyes noticing the pain that filled them. "I don't know how i f...feel about dating a g...guy but.."

"But?" Stan spoke up, his heart lifting slightly.

"But, m...maybe we can hang o..out more? Just the t...two of us and s..see how t...things go?" Bill suggested, it was true he had never contemplated dating a guy before and he was in love with Beverly not so long back. But, Stan meant a great deal to him and like Richie and Eddie he couldn't imagine not spending the rest of his life without him.

"Yeah, but please tell me if you don't like it or just want to go back to how things used to be because i can then try to move on." Stan smiled, the idea pained him but he would rather do this than loose Bill altogether. "Thanks Bill."

"You m...mean a lot to me S...Stan." Bill replied, now tightening his grip with Stan's. "Y..you know that r..right?"

"Of course and you mean a lot to me too." Stan replied, now standing up still keeping his grip with Bill. "Do you want to head to bed, we can talk about this another day together?"

"Yeah, i'm b...beat." Bill laughed, as the two crept back upstairs Stan's heart slowed down and his hands stopped shaking he was relieved to have gotten that off of his chest to say the least. "S...Stan." As Stan turned his head around at the top of the stairs Bill pulled his t-shirt and leaned his head into Stan's drawing the two into a quick kiss. "S...sorry, just wanted to k...know how it felt." Bill blushed slightly.

"Your verdict?" Stan blushed back, turning his head quickly to make sure the group were still asleep (which they all were).

"It was....n...nice." Bill smiled, the two now headed into Richie's bedroom and fell asleep next to one another, both with huge smiles plastered across their faces.

The next morning-

"FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK!" Eddie shouted, scrambling around Richie's room waking everyone else up.

"Eddie what the fuck." Bev groaned, rubbing her eyes and sitting up-right as the others did the same. "What's the matter?"

"WHAT'S THE MATTER? IT'S A FUCKING SCHOOL DAY AND WE ALL SLEPT IN!" Eddie gasped, not realising that in his manic process Richie's shorts he was wearing had fallen to his ankles. "MY MUM'S GOING TO KILL ME WHEN SHE FINDS OUT!"

"Ed's calm the fuck down and pull the shorts up or take them off, good job that shirts too long for you." Richie chuckled, now adjusting his glasses on his face.

"CALM DOWN?" Eddie blushed, realising what Richie was talking about and swiftly pulled his shorts up. "My mum already hates me enough."

"Come here Ed's." Richie sighed, patting the bed.

"Don't call me that asshole." Eddie snapped, but edging towards Richie as the boy brought him into a tight hug.

"Look, we're already going to be late so we might as well ditch school for the day. You need a day off Eddie, it's been stressful for you recently." Richie softly spoke, rubbing the boys head before giving him a quick kiss on the forehead.

"But, the school will call my mum asking where i am!" Eddie uttered, all the scenarios playing out in the boys head only made him panic more. "I'm scared."

"Eddie, don't panic okay." Mike smiled, trying to take hold of the situation. "You're mum would have already noticed you are not at home. So either way it doesn't make a difference, just have today off school then go home and say you needed a day to yourself so you left early, went for a walk and tried to change the way you feel about things..."

"So, use her current hatred to my advantage?" Eddie glumly replied, lowering his head.

"In a harsh way of putting it, yeah basically." Stan replied. "Look, if you say that your walk helped you and convince her of this, then it will probably overrule the whole 'ditching school' thing."

"I guess, but if it doesn't i'm coming after all of you!" Eddie snapped back, eyeing each of the losers up.

"So scared." Bev chuckled, rolling her eyes and heading towards Ben and Mike sitting in-between them.

"S...so, day off s..school. What do y..you guys want to d...do?" Bill smiled.