Impossible Wishes - 1.part // Reddie Fanfic

3. neighbor

When Eddie woke up in the morning on the second day of school, he wanted to avoid Richie as much as he could. He didn't have an AP Psychology class that day, so he just hoped he wouldn't meet him in the hallway or have another class with him.

On the way to school, Eddie met up with Stan, and they walked to school together again. He spent most of the time with Stanley that day because he had AP Biology class with him, and they both had free period afterwards. The thought of Richie didn't cross his mind the whole morning, and he was grateful for that.

When school was over, Eddie and Stan headed home. As they were walking, a black car, Eddie didn't recognize at first, drove past them, and honked at them. The two boys jumped a little because of the sudden sound which they did not expect to hear, and then Eddie realized that he had already seen the black car before.

He had seen the car outside of a house where Richie and his family had moved into, and Eddie put two and two together, and realized it must have been Richie who honked at them, however, he decided against telling Stan about it, he just kept on walking. He didn't want to talk about Richie or think about him at all. ''What a jerk,'' Stan said not knowing it was Richie, and followed Eddie further along the way.

Later that day at home, Eddie started working on a task one of the teachers had already given to him. He managed not to think about Richie until the evening when he went to bed.

Although, the thought of him only flashed through his mind, it was enough to put him into a bad mood. As a result, Eddie reminded himself to continue with the same tactics. It meant he would continue avoiding and ignoring Richie.

Unfortunately for Eddie, he was supposed to have AP Psych class the following day, so he knew it wouldn't be as easy as it was since the encounter, he had with him on the street.

When Eddie woke up in the morning on the third day of school, he no longer felt as fresh as he did on the first and second day, but he still managed to get up in time, and start with his morning routine.

Eddie liked to experiment with his clothes and style in general, however, he knew very well that he couldn't do it much, especially not in public. He didn't want to stand out and get in trouble, so he usually wore ordinary clothes, so as usual, he decided to wear a simple green sweatshirt with light blue jeans.

When he was still in middle school, other kids had often picked on him and laughed at him because of his clothes he hadn't even chosen to wear himself; his mother had chosen the clothes for him.

One day he had even gotten into a fight with Henry Bowers and his gang because of it. Henry was calling him 'wheezy', 'queer boy' and other names since then and on every occasion he got.

Eddie hated when people were calling him names which was the reason why it bothered him so much when Richie was doing it. He hated his mother for calling him 'Eddie-bear' as well, but she still did it, despite all the complaints from him. It didn't matter if the names were offensive or not, he just didn't like them.

When he had gotten into the fight with Bowers, Bill and Stan had also been there. They all had gotten in trouble because of it, and his mother had had to go to school to talk to principal because of him for the first time ever.

The Bowers gang included Victor Criss, Reginald ''Belch'' Huggins, Patrick Hockstetter and Henry Bowers, of course, they were known for bulling and making fun of all the students at the Derry Middle School, at the time. When they all had gone to high school, they had fallen apart.

Shortly after they all had started attending Derry High School, Patrick's parents had put Patrick in a mental hospital located outside of Derry because he had been hurting people, and his parents were afraid he would kill someone one day. At least that was what Eddie had heard.