Impossible Wishes - 1.part // Reddie Fanfic

13. the losers club

Eddie was thinking about what Charlie had told him when he had visited her the whole weekend. Like she had told him, he was trying to imagine what his life would be like if his mother couldn't control it. He still didn't know what he would enjoy doing or studying at the university if he had the opportunity to go, but it hit him on Monday. Eddie was surprised that he hadn't thought of it before.

When Eddie was in an AP Psych class, Mr. Carson was telling them about people who had been affected by trauma and how to deal with it. That was when Eddie realized that psychology was one of the subjects he wanted to know more about. He actually liked the idea of becoming a psychiatrist and helping people who had unpleasant experiences and problems in their lives.

Unfortunately, Eddie knew it wouldn't be possible. Not only he and his mother did not have money to pay for college unless he got a scholarship and high GPA, but she would also never let him go, and as far as he knew, she would never forgive him if he moved away from her.

Later Eddie quickly forgot about university and Charlie because Bill's birthday was on Wednesday, so he focused on his best friend and his birthday party instead.

When Eddie had a free period with Bill, Bev, Stan, and Richie that day, they all wished him happy birthday. Richie was so excited about Bill's birthday that all the students sitting with them in the cafeteria knew about his birthday as well because he couldn't keep quiet about it.

Eddie partly thought Richie had done it on purpose so everyone would know about Bill's birthday, but he knew that Richie was sometimes wild and started talking before thinking about the consequences, so Eddie wasn't sure.

It was embarrassing for Eddie at first because he hated any attention he or their group was getting, but he oddly started enjoying it after a while because Richie was really hilarious. In fact, Richie was actually one of the funniest people Eddie knew.

When Eddie started getting to know him better and Richie stopped pissing him off that often, he realized that he was actually having a lot of fun with him. Sometimes he was joking around about Eddie which was the only thing that annoyed him, but Eddie soon learned how to shut him up.

As they were sitting together in the cafeteria, Bill was telling them about the details of his birthday/Halloween party which was supposed to take place the following weekend.

He told them that Georgie was going to stay with Eddie Corconan all weekend and his parents would be in the house with them only for a few hours, and then they were going to town for the evening, so they would not return until Sunday morning.

Bill didn't want them to bring alcohol, mainly because he didn't want them to be wasted right away like at Mike's place, but also because he was supposed to be in charge of the house, so he didn't want anyone to catch them drinking because most of them were still minors, however, he reassured them he would have beer and wine at least.

Richie seemed like he was going to protest at first, but then he agreed. Eddie was happy because he didn't plan to drink alcohol this time, preferably none at all.

When Eddie was done with all the classes that day, he went back to his locker to put a few textbooks he didn't need inside and the same thing that had happened the previous week, happened again.

When Eddie opened his locker, the paper did not fall to the floor this time, but he noticed that it was inside of the locker. Eddie wanted to make sure it was another letter someone had left for him, so he opened it, and read what was written there:

Sometimes I wonder

How I'd ever make it through,Through this world without having youI just wouldn't have a clue