The Town of Derry

Richie's a Dumbass

Stanley and I sat next to each other on Eddies front porch, "so Eddie Spaghetti, hows your mom" Richie asked as hey sat in front of us on the railing, Eddie rolled his eyes and pushed Richie back making him fall off the railing into the bushes.

"Jerk" Richie said as he got up and brushed off the dirt from his clothes, while we were laughing.

"Eddie bear, I'm going out to the store and to the library, I should be home around 8:30pm" Mrs. Kaspbrak said as she grabbed her keys for her mini van.

"Ok mommy love you" Eddie said kissing his moms cheek. I giggled a bit, and moved closer to Stan to let mike his on the swing too.

"Want one from me too Mrs.K?" Richie yelled as she got into her van, making her chuckle a bit. "Richie!" Eddie playfully smacked him.

About 30 minutes later a car pulled into Eddies driveway, I felt my body clench up knowing who was going to come out of that car.
Mike got up and grabbed the money from under the stone, he handed it to Richie who was the one who lost the coin toss to see who gets the pizza.

"Trashmouth" Henry said as Richie walked towards him in the pathway, "psycho" Richie shot back as he handed the money.
"Just one whore tonight?" He asked Richie, Richie ignored "or is Slut Marsh here too?" Henry passed Richie the pizza.

"Shut up" I quietly said, "what's that?" He said looking up to the porch, "she said shut up man, don't talk about her or Bev like that" mike said, taking the pizza from Richie.

"Come here laura, I have stuff for you" Henry said, I was confused. Stanley grabbed myself hand as I stood up, he walked with me down the pathway and let go once we got closer to Henry, I walked a few steps closer to him as he held out a note.

Stan grabbed it from my hand as I stood there staring at Henry, scared of what it said, he turned around to go in his car.

As he turned around, I heard Stan rustle behind me while him and Richie read the note.

"FUCKING ASS HOLE" Richie yelled as he threw one of Mrs.K garden bricks at Henry's car as he was pulling down the drive way.

"Rich! Inside now!" I yelled knowing Henry would stop and get out. I pushed them inside and locked the door. "Let me in fuckers!" He yelled banging on the door.

"What the fuck did it say?" Eddie said looking at Rich, who was trembling with adrenaline.
"Not important, I threw it out" Stanley said, he sat at the kitchen table. Henry finally gave up and left.

"Stan?" I asked sitting beside him, "please tell me" I picked up a slice of pizza and put it on the plate, as Eddie got us water and juice. Stanley stayed quiet and Richie hovered over my back "you don't need to know boob, leave it okay? It wasn't important" Richie said leaning on my back watching Eddie search in the medicine cabinet.

I rolled my eyes and shoved the slice of pizza in my mouth. "I'm kind of curious" Eddie said, I felt Richie behind me shake his head no.

"I can't believe you did that rich" I said, I stood up and turning around to stand in front of Richie who's face was covered in pizza sauce.
"Hey I mean, it was worth is" Richie mumbled as I wiped his face and wandered over to the living room behind mike. "He's gonna be after us even more now" Eddie said trembling and sitting down while taking a puff of his inhaler.

"Don't worry Eddie, I'm here to protect you" Richie stood up and did 'superhero' arms. Showing nothing but frail bones, "you have no muscle what so ever" mike said laughing, he stood up and compared his arm to Richies, then Stan followed "ladies" rich motioned to Eddie and I "which ones the strongest" rich asked.

I stood up and looked at Richie, playfully squinting, "not you" I said as I moved onto mike, I looked over to Stan who was trying hard. "I'm not gonna play favourites Stanley" I said, I moved back over to mike. "Definitely mike" I said, I plopped back down onto the couch. "Well I'm going with Richie because I'm going to play favourites" Eddie said, knowing he didn't even look at the others because he doesn't wanna make rich sad.

Stanley looked at me "should of played favourites" he jumped onto the couch, "am I the only one a bit worried about the others" Mike said, making me relieved, because I was so worried. "I'm glad you said that mike because I havnt stopped thinking about Bev after the whole bowers thing" I said, I know Richie wasn't for this conversation.

I was flipping through Stanley's bird book, picking out some that I wanna see eventually.
My feet were on Mikes legs, while Eddie and Richie sat in Mrs.K's chair.

"It's my fault" Richie said, shaking his head in disappointment. "No no rich, it's no ones fault, I agreed; it's summer! We're suppose to be having fun, not chasing fucking clowns" Eddie patted Richies back.

It was quiet during the next hour, "hi hi" eddies mom said walking in, "hi mommy, we left you some pizza" Eddie said going over and hugging his mom.

It was quiet again while we all sat around, napping, few comments were made here and there.

It was around 11pm when I looked over at Richie and Eddie who were waking up from their nap, Stan and I have been awake the whole time. "I can't do this, I need to make sure they're ok" I stood up, and headed to the kitchen where Eds mom was.

"Hi hun" she said to me as she stirred her tea, "I'm going to let my dog out, then I'll be back, not sure if the guys are coming with me or not" I explained to her, lying about where I was going since she was over protective of Eddie.

Then I left the house, not sure if anyone was following me.