"I found something last night." Stan said, he pulls a small wooden box out of his backpack. "There's pictures in here that I forgotten about until yesterday." Stan opens it up. On the top there was a picture of Mike and Bill clinking two mugs together, "When he came to my house I would make hot chocolate for him." Mike commented. They went through all of them, a couple of them stuck out to Richie. There was one where it was Eddie, Richie and Georgie all huddled together trying to figure out how to make a flower crown. There was another one of Richie and Eddie snuggled together on the floor. Richie wiped all of his tears and made sure none got on any of the pictures, "Take the ones you want. I already picked out mine." Stan offered, Richie took those two pictures.
Eddie took a picture of Georgie walking to his first day of school with Bill and a pictire of Beverly and Richie smoking on the roof.
Beverly took a picture of her and Ben cooking together and a picture of Bill and Stan laying on the grass pointing up at the sky.
Ben took a picture of Georgie and him at the library and a picture of Eddie, Mike and Beverly all riding together on one bike.
Mike took a pictire of Richie teaching Georgie how to play guitar, and a picture of Bill talking to his grandmother.
"I can't believe you have all of these Stan." Richie said, "I just take a lot of pictures I guess, I forgot all about this box though." Richie put his pictures in his backpack. "I got a letter from Bill the other day." Eddie said, "What about?" Beverly asked, "He just was wondering how I was doing. Nothing to crazy." They sat in a moment of silence.
"Do you think everything will go back to how it used to be? Even if Bill isn't with us, do you think everything will he normal again?" Richie asked, "Was there ever a normal?" Stan pointed out. Richie shrugged, "Kind of, even though it was a miserable kind of normal... It was still normal." "I don't know Richie. I can't picture things being normal again. I think we'll all get over all of this, but it won't be the same. But the sad truth is that one day we'll all move, we'll all get jobs, get married, have kids even. This is just the beginning." Mike said, he was telling the truth. "God Mike, why do you have to be right." Richie wrapped his fingers around his hair and tugged a little.
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"Stan." "What's up Eds." Eddie hesitated and made sure no one was around them to listen, "I'm worried about Richie." "I think we all are. I think everyone's noticed how hard he's been taking everything." Eddie sighed, "We need to help him. We can't just leave him to suffer." "You're right Eds, but I don't know how to help him. He's a tricky one, I don't know him as good as you do." Stan pointed out. "Okay, I'll try to figure something out."
AN kind of a filler.
-GROOVYLADY
