Impossible Wishes - 1.part // Reddie Fanfic

1. candy cheeks

It was the last day of August in 1994. Eddie and his friends have decided to go to the festival in Derry to enjoy the last moments they had left before going back to high school.

Eddie and his two best friends visited the festival in Derry together every year, and year 1994 was no exception. It was their last year before the graduation, and his friends couldn't be more excited about finishing their education, going to college and moving with their lives. Unfortunately for Eddie, he had no choice. At least, he thought he didn't.

From an early age, his mother had the future planned for him. He didn't mind it though because he didn't have any plans or particular dreams anyway. He just wanted to graduate and have a peaceful year, that was all he wanted.

His friends Bill Denbrough and Stan Uris have been his best friends since they were in the kindergarten together. In fact, they were his only friends. They usually spent every living moment together. He didn't need anyone else, he loved them.

The celebration was held in the city center, in the park, right in front of the Paul Bunyan statue. It was a perfect place for that occasion. It was not far from their high school and about twenty minutes from Eddie's house, however, the weather was not so great. It was a cold evening.

After the three boys had spent a few hours at the funfair, they decided to go and get cotton candy. As they were walking to the stall with cotton candy, the boys could smell candy and popcorn in the air. They had already managed to eat a whole box of popcorn, few corn dogs and a couple of lollipops before, despite the fact that they had been there for only a few hours.

When they reached the stall with cotton candy, Stanley decided to go ahead and buy tickets to the Ferris wheel, where they wanted to go afterwards, to save them some time because it was getting late and it was almost dark, so Stanley turned on his heel, and left.

''Strawbe-berry? Right, Eddie?'' Bill asked Eddie when they both were waiting in the line. ''You know me Bill, you don't have to ask every time we do this, are you sure you want to pay for all this food? I can pay for myself.'' Bill shook his head. ''It's a-alright, don't wo-worry about it.''

After a few minutes, it was their turn. A beautiful girl with a short slightly curly red hair was standing behind the counter. Eddie remembered her from school, but he didn't remember her name, Bill did.

''Hi Bev,'' Bill looked surprised to see her there. ''Hi Bill... and you are Eddie, right? Nice to meet you, I'm Bev, Beverly Marsh,'' she said in a nice and friendly tone, and hold out her hand to shake.

Her name sounded weirdly familiar to Eddie, but he didn't know why. ''Hi, yes, nice to meet you, Bev.'' Eddie was also a little taken aback when Bev knew his name, he always felt like he was invisible at school. He was not popular, unlike others, and did not have many friends.

The two smiled at each other and Bev put her hair behind her ear, Eddie could see a few freckles flash on her face. She was beautiful.

''We've never been in class together, but I had English with Bill last year, so I heard a lot about you,'' Bev said when she noticed Eddie's confused expression and smiled again. Bill blushed, and Eddie gave him a confused look, as to why he would talk to someone about him. Bill shrugged, he understood, while he was still blushing.

Bill then started talking to Beverly, and they didn't mind that there were people standing in the line behind him, who were also waiting for cotton candy. They were mostly talking about summer holidays and school. Eddie have never been eager to talk to her and to people he didn't know in general, so he didn't join the conversation, instead he zoned out while Beverly was making cotton candy for them. He was just awkwardly standing there, watching them, not even really listening.