Roses

Three

Eddie lay fast asleep in his dark room. Eddie has off white walls with posters of his favorite bands all over his room. He doesn't seem to be afraid, his closet lay open with his dark or stripped shirts hung up.
The next day he sat up in bed. He usually thought about what he was gonna do. Ride to the quarry with the losers go to lunch etc. But this time when he thought of going to the arcade with Richie he got butterflies, usually he'd gag at the thought of touching the arcade games but this time all he could think about was Rich.
He hopped out of bed and slid a black band tee over his striped turtleneck and thinking of what Richie said before he put little black hearts under his eye. Today the losers where doing their own thing.
Richie's mother let Eddie in and watched as Eddie strutted up the stairs to Richie's room. Eddie pounded on his door as a morning wake up call. Richie's hair was uncombed and he was barley awake
"So ya ready for the arcade?" Eddie asked in a "start small talk" kind of way.
"Yeah" Richie yawned and stretched as he picked out a pink shirt with blue flowey pants with a black belt. Richie combed his curls out of his face and they where on their way.
Once they where at the arcade they got about 60 tokens. They played streatfighter, packman, super contra, pin ball, and thousands of other games. They won about 130 tickets.
"Just enough for two bunnies!" Richie exclaimed pointing at the stuffed rabbits on the prize counter. Richie got a pink rabbit that he named "Peaches" and Eddie got a dark blue rabbit. Eddie didn't care about naming a stuffed animal but in his head he called his rabbit "Richie"
Richie placed Peaches in the basket of his bike as they rode off into the forest. They dropped their bikes in the middle of the forest and placed a blanket over the grass and ate the weat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that Eddies mom packed for them.
"So Ed's, I heard you got a new poster" Richie asked with his mouth half full with peanut butter
"Richie stop calling me that. And yeah, I got a 'Bowling For Soup' poster" Eddie explained why he got it and where he got it because Richie always seemed to like knowing that stuff.
"Hey girl! Oh shit sorry Richard!" Henry Bowers, the shittiest person on the planet.
"Stop calling me that Henry" Richie has never liked being called Richard, it sounded to grown up, to old, to serious.
Henry took no note of Richie's request and just started to tease Eddie
"And is this the emo Eddie? Or are you to excited for hollo-weeb?" Eddie seemed to not care. When Henry didn't get the attention he wanted he just moved on to the next person, but only after making Eddie look like his face was stomped inwards.
Richie and Eddie went to clean Eddie up. In the hopes not looking like mash potatoes when he got home he washed the blood off and put on two large Band- aids. One on his left cheek and one on his right temple.
Later that night Eddie felt even more butterflies and couldn't fall asleep.