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the neighbor

"Richie!" his mom called from downstairs. She yelled his name several more times but still there was no answer. Maggie let out a huff as she climbed the stairs to her sons bedroom. 
"Richard Tozier when-" She opened the door to find him dancing around with his Walkman on full blast, he had a hair brush to act like a microphone as well. Maggie couldn't help but smile at her goofy teenager. Richie did a spin and finally caught sight of his mom. He stopped, his face turning bright red as he slipped his headphones off and stopped the tape that was playing.
"Mom, how long have you been standing there..?" 

"Only for a minute, I got to see some lovely dancing though." Maggie teased as Richie smiled in embarrassment. 
"I was calling you to tell you that I want you to clean your room please, it looks like a tornado blew through here." 

"Fine" Richie huffed and set down his Walkman. "After I clean my room can I maybe go over to Bill's house?" 

"Sure, but this room has to be actually clean, no shoving things in drawers and your closet ok?" Maggie pointed a finger and smiled before heading back down the stairs. 

Richie smiled back and then selected one of his records to play while he cleaned. Soon all he could heat was Freddie Mercury's voice flow through the four walls of his room. It was quite loud but Maggie didn't mind, she was a big fan of Queen herself. 

Richie started to throw all of his dirty clothes in his hamper, which was already overflowing, when he heard a small voice from out his window. 

"Hey asshole!" a high voice yelled over the music.

Richie looked out his window to see a boy looking about his age with soft brown hair and wide doe eyes. It was the new boy next door. He looked pretty pissed. The neighbor boy had just moved in last week.
"Yes, and how may I assist you today?" Richie rested his face in his hand as he stared at the boy. 

"Can you please turn the music down? I'm trying to read and I can't when Queen in blasting through my ears." The boy huffed and waved his book for Richie to see. 

"I'm sorry I can't hear you over the amazingness of this song!" Richie grinned and went back to cleaning his room. The boy frowned, all he could feel was a rising anger for this boy across the way with the black curly hair and the bug eye glasses. Every time Richie  saw the Brunette looking he grabbed his hair brush and goofyily sang and danced to the song. The boy would just shake his head and yell something like "You're so annoying!" or "Could you please just turn it down?" as he sat on the bench in front of his window trying to read his book. 

Soon Richie had his room look to what he thought was spotless, he stopped his record and went downstairs to go receive his moms approval. The boy looked up to see the music had stopped and the other boy with the curly hair was gone. He felt a little sad that he had left but of course he wouldn't admit that. He watched until he saw him bound through the door again, followed by a very pretty woman. He looked away quickly and tried to find his spot on the page.

"So do I have the Mother Tozier approval?" Richie smiled but on the inside he was terrified of his mom dictation. No matter how hard you tried Moms always found something wrong.

"You know what Rich, I am very impressed." Maggie smiled at him, he was almost passing her up. She checked around his desk and in the closet. Maggie then looked out the window to see the neighbor boy sitting in front of the window. "Oh is that Sonia's boy?" she asked.

Richie looked over at the boy again, "I guess, I don't know his name though."

"I believe it's....oh um" Maggie paused and tapped her chin "Oh, Eddie, she told me it was Eddie. She was....not the nicest woman I will say that." She whispered the last part so Eddie wouldn't hear.