Crushes

Chapter 9

"You want me to do what?" Ben asked. The losers were once again hanging out in Stanley's living room discussing there plans to get to Richie.

"Ben its not that hard; call Mrs. Tozier ask her for their address and if she asks why... Its for the school." Bev said smiling.

"Please Ben, your the only one of adults take seriously and trust anyway." Eddie said.

"Oh my god, fine." Ben said caving in.

"Phones on the wall." Stan said.

"Can't we just use our phones?" Mike asked holding up his phone.

"N-no the school uses l-landlines; remember." Bill said.

"Okay, Now everyone shut up!" Ben said putting the phone to his ear. "Hello is this Mrs. Tozier." Ben asked.

"Yes who is this."

"Its Ben from Derry."

"Oh hi Ben do you want to talk to Richie?"

"Um, no the school needs your new address in order to do the school transfer."

"Okay, you work for the school office right."

"Yes."

"We live at 2903 Maple tree lane, Hawkins Indiana."

"Okay thank you-"

"Oh my god Richie! Ben i have to go!" Mrs Tozier said.

"Wait what happened to Richie!?" Ben said but it was to late and Mrs Tozier had already hung up.

"What happened?" Eddie said coming into the hallway.

"What happened to Richie?" Stan asked following Eddie into the hall way followed by the rest of the losers.

"I got the address but then his mom yelled his name and hang up." Ben said.

"Well where dose he live?" Bev asked.

"Hawkins Indiana." Ben said.

"Okay we can get there by bus. but where are we going to stay?" Mike asked.

"Shit, we forgot about that." Eddie said.

"You said Hawkins Indiana, right?" Stan asked.

"Yes." Ben said.

"My cousin Dustin lives there, I can call him and see if we can stay with him. he has a cellar thing that we can set up sleeping bags in." Stan said. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and scrolled to Dustin's contact and called his and put him on speaker.

"Heyyyyyy Stan guess what." Came Dustin's voice from the phone.

"Omg what?"

" I got a cute high school girl to dance with me at a school dance."

"Cool. have any new kids by the name of Richie Tozier moved to Hawkins recently?"

"Oh yeah, he's kind of quiet but when he talks he is kind of funny."

"Wow Richie can be quiet; But has he been-"

"Cutting?"

"Yes please tell me that he stopped."

"no every time that i see him he has more scars on his arms. My friend Max asked him about them but he just said that he had a kitten that hatted him."

"Yeah that's bullshit he's allergic to cats."

"Hang on are you in that losers club thing?"

"Yep that's us... and speaking on the losers is there anyway we can stay with you while we try to help Richie?"

"How many people?"

"There's 6 of us; me, Bill, Eddie, Mike, Ben, and Beverly."

"Okay, you guys can stay in my cellar... Just be warned there is a hole in it that leads to the middle of the woods so it gets kind of cold down there and sometimes animals get in."

"Why the fuck do you have a tunnel in your cellar?"

"Its a long story."

"can you also give us food?"

"I have like a stupid amount of eggos."

"Okay see you like tomorrow."

"Fine, by the way some of my friends are coming over tomorrow. not Richie tough."

"Okay see you then." Stan said hanging up then looking at all of the losers.

"Everyone go pack your bags, say your sleeping over at my place, and I am going to tell my dad i'm sleeping over hear. meet back hear in an hour." Bev said.

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Mrs tozier hung up the phone and ran over to Richie who had come in the door with a black eye. "What happened honey?" she asked examining Richie's eye.

"That asshole Troy punched me in the face and called me a fag." Richie said.

"Did you fight back?" Wentworth asked from the other room.

"No I tried but then Will and Lucas held me back while Max yelled at Troy."

"And that's good because fighting is wrong." Maggie said walking over to the freezer and pulling put an ice pack. "I thought that we wouldn't have to deal with Bully's hear. He can't be as bad as Bowers though, I mean that boy took knifes to kids." she said coming over and putting the ice on Richie's eye.

"That's where your wrong, apparently he tried to cut out Dustin's teeth one time." Richie said.

"Dustin and that Mike kid where were they when this was happening and did one of them punch him back?" Wentworth asked.

"Dustin left school early for a doctors appointment and did't come back. And Mike always leaves school as fast as possible to go hang out with his home schooled girlfriend. Shes nice though so i can't blame him for ditching us." Richie said heading towards the stairs. "I'm going to my room, thanks for the ice Mom." Richie said running up the stairs and into his room. he closed the door and headed over to his sock drawer and pulled out a blade. he walked over to his bed and started cutting his arm. troys right I am a fag. I kissed my best friend and ruined a relationship. I abandoned my friends like a douche. i am going to get these kids beat up for being friends with a fag like me.

hi, things are finally going some where. to help this make more sense to all of the kids have i phones but this still takes place in the 80's. also I am not sure if i want to try to put Steve and Robin in the next chapter or not so if you have a preference put in in the comments.