Lisp • Richie Tozier (1)

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^^I'm sorry this is just too funny😂

Apparently Beverly had something to show us. She said it was important. Richie and I had to wait outside for her dad though. I was kinda mad because I really wondered what had happened.

"What if her dad comes back?" Richie yells at them. "Do what you always do... start talking." He sighs. "It is a gift." I sit next to him on my bike. "Can't believe they left us out here. It's way too hot." I say. He shrugs. "I don't know— or care... as long as I'm with you." I roll my eyes. "Why do you like me so much?" He smiles. "You're funny, smart, hot, and you have nice hair." I blush slightly. "I don't really think that—" he shrugs. "It's true. You're hot." I glare at him. "Stop, you're making me uncomfortable." It was uncomfortable. This fluttery feeling in my stomach. The kind of feeling I got when I was anxious or about to puke. Richie's staring at me with his face propped on his fists. "That's love." He says. I look at him, revolted. I was disgusted with myself because I was wondering if maybe it was love. "Yeah Richie, I love you to the moon and back." I joke. He smiles at me. "I love you too." But the thing is, this time, I really can't tell if he's joking or not.

They finally come out about twenty minutes later smelling like blood and bleach, which made me happy that I didn't go in. Bill and Beverly seemed closer together then they were before.

"Really could you idiots have taken any longer?" Richie asks them. "Shut up, Richie."
"Yeah, shut up, Richie." Richie rides around us in circles. "Oh okay, trash the trash-mouth, I get it. Hey I wasn't the one
scrubbing the bathroom floor
imagining that her sink went all Eddie's mom's vagina on halloween." I internally laugh.
"She didn't imagine. I also saw something." Bill chimes in.
"You saw blood, too?"
"Not blood, I saw G-g-Georgie. It seemed so real, I mean it seemed like him but there was this..."

"Clown- yeah I saw him too."

"I saw it... Richie and I were at my house— it went dark and it was there." Richie looks confused. "Wait! Can only virgins see this stuff? Is that why I'm not seeing this shit?" I slap his arm. Suddenly, we hear a yell from the woods. "Oh shit, that's Belch Huggin's car."

"Isn't that... the homeschooled kid's bike?" I stare at the woods. The yelling continues. "Yeah that's Mike's..." Eddie trails off. "We have to help him." Beverly says. "We should?" Richie asks hesitantly. "Yes!" They all drop their bikes while Stanley and I prop ours up. We sprint into the woods and see what's happening.

The first thing I see is Henry Bowers pinning Mike onto the ground. It looks like he's about to bash his head in with a rock. Beverly takes a rock, winds up, and throws it at Henry's head. She hits him and he falls back. "Nice throw." Stan says. "Thanks."

"You losers are trying too hard! She'll do you! You just have to ask nicely— like I did." He rubs his hand on the front of his pants slowly.

With a loud battle cry, Ben hurls a rock at Henry, hitting him barely. "What the fuck?" Henry mutters. Beverly throws another rock, then I do. "ROCK WAR!!" Richie yells, then gets hit in the head. "You okay?" I ask. "Yeah."

We take turns throwing rocks at them and they throw rocks at us. It's the first time I've ever seen Eddie dirty as he went into the muddy water just to throw rocks at them. We yell profanities at them and they yell back.

Belch yells a final, "Fuck you bitch!" And Beverly nails him with a rock. Henry's goons run off and he's laying there clutching his head. Pretty much everyone is gone except me and Richie. "Go blow your dad you mullet wearing asshole!" Richie yells, sticking up both middle fingers.

I think he's got the message.