It's the February after the summer of 1989. And things have changed. Most things have. Except not the way that Eddie feels towards his friend Richie. He didn't realize that he could be happy fantasizing about being in a relationship with his best friend. He also didn't realize that the relationship was a lot more than a fantasy of his.

credits to the author!! Summary: "I am not harmless," Eddie had said, his eyes thundering-a challenge. "I could ruin your life." "I dare you," Richie had replied, a smug smile on his face.

❝Derry's gonna have to deal with us, Eddie. If they can't handle us being together, then that's on them.❞ ♚ In which Eddie and Richie haven't talked for awhile, but fall in love again. And now they have to hide it from the homophobic world.

[completed] Pennywise is defeated and the Losers Club decide to make the best of their summer before high school. They put their past behind them and look towards a new - hopefully more normal - future. Without a killer clown chasing after the group, their lives get some sort of normalcy. But with secrets being revealed and truths uncovered, the normalcy between the group soon vanishes. Beverly - 14; Richie - 14; Mike - 13; Stanley - 13; Bill - 14: Ben - 13/14; Eddie - 13

𝑯𝒆'𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒆

💧oh, you and i - in my mind, you were mine, baby💧 - As a kid, you think nothing could ever happen in a small town. But then as you get older, you realize you're wrong. Because small towns surrounded by forests are where the bad guys hide. Where things go unnoticed easily. Derry Maine. A small town, surrounded by forest trees and where the worst people lurk and crime isn't handled. Gangs are not a new thing and drugs are easily found in alley ways and the back of trucks. And for most of the minors residing in the small town, they have their lives planned out for them. - Richie, an artificial bad boy created by his father, the leader of a group of men with a corrupt name. Eddie, a small, asthmatic, pastel boy with a name to keep clean under his parents strict rule. - he can remember the first time he saw the tall, lanky, leather jacket wearing boy. a strawberry candy in one hand and a cigarette hanging from his lip. he was the boy his mother told him to run from, that he was trouble waiting to happen. but eddie knew this before being told, as the Toziers name has been tainted long ago and ruled as the outcasts. he knew, to stay away. - "Baby, this town gave us teenage blue" - ?read first chapter for disclaimers?