Impossible Wishes - 1.part // Reddie Fanfic

5. my apologies señor

The second week of school began and it was time for Eddie to go to school again. He had a different schedule the second and the fourth week of each month, so he had different classes which meant that he wasn't supposed to have any classes with Richie for a week, and Eddie was grateful for that.

He really didn't want to deal with him, especially that week, because he was supposed to pay a visit to the school counselor on Tuesday to talk about his future, and he knew he shouldn't have been nervous about it, but he was, and his promise to Bill about meeting up with Richie at lunch wasn't helping either.

Given the fact that it was Monday, he got out of bed without a problem. After breakfast, he went to school. He met up with Stan, and later they met up with Bill in front of the school as they usually did. Bill wasn't supposed to have a free period with Eddie until the next day which meant that he didn't have to see or talk to Richie until then.

The first lesson Eddie had, wasn't interesting in any way. Eddie focused on making notes, so the lesson was quickly over. The second class he had that day was more interesting.

It was a history class which he had had the previous years as well, so he knew the teacher very well. The teacher was not particularly strict with the students, but not very friendly either, and it was the first time in that school year that a teacher was assigning him a project, and it was in pairs.

Eddie didn't have history classes with Bill like he had had the previous year, so he didn't know almost anyone siting in the classroom with him. The students, who had friends there, had already split up into pairs, and there were only a few students left who still did not have a partner, so the teacher assigned Eddie to work on the project with someone he didn't know.

Eddie's partner was a medium height. He was bigger than Eddie, but not overweight just more masculine, had dirty blonde hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a large sweatshirt and light blue jeans. When the boy sat down next to Eddie, he had a notebook full of papers in his hand. He looked like he was some kind of writer with a notebook like that. It fascinated Eddie.

Eddie knew who the boy was, but he had never spoken a word to him, and they had never been in class together before. Eddie knew that the boy was new in school just like Dorsey was; they started attending the Derry High school in the same year. They weren't as new in Derry as Richie, but they were still considered 'the new kids', and that was exactly how people called the boy, who was sitting next to Eddie, 'the new kid'.

''Hi, my name is Ben,'' the boy said, and smiled at Eddie. ''Nice to meet you, I'm Eddie,'' Eddie introduced himself, and smiled back at him. After that brief introduction, they started talking about the project they were assigned which focused on the World War II and its impact on the United States. Eddie felt good about the boy. He was friendly and very nice. Eddie was sure that they would understand each other, and get along very well during the time they would work on that project.

They soon figured out that in order to finish the project, they would have to meet up after school at some point. They haven't made a plan yet, instead Eddie turned his gaze to Ben's notebook again which was lying on the desk after Ben had left it there.

''What is this for? Are you a writer or something?'' Eddie asked not wanting to be noisy, but he was very interested in what he saw in front of him, so he couldn't help himself. ''It's nothing, just a few poems I've written, nothing special... really.''

Eddie was impressed even more. He didn't know if the poems were good or not, but he could tell Ben had written a lot of them. Eddie could tell Ben had a romantic soul, he could tell by the way Ben spoke to Eddie, by the way Ben looked at things and people, and the fact that he was writing poems had only confirmed it.