𝘏𝘦𝘺, 𝘋𝘰𝘭𝘭

Chapter Three

Gordie POV

Chris slung his sleeping bag over his shoulder and proceeded to pick up Adelaide, despite her protests, ran her all the way to behind the Blue Point Diner, me right on his heels, asking what the hell we were doing. When we finally reached the diner, and Chris set Adelaide down and Adelaide said,

"What the actual hell Chris, if you insist on carrying me, at least give me a heads up."

Chris responded with a,

"Okay, fine."

I didn't care, and said,

"What is it?"

Chris stuck his hand into his sleeping bag and pulled out a gun. He turned to shocked me, and a concerned Adelaide and said,

" You wanna be the Lone Ranger or the Cisco-kid!"

Adelaide still looked very concerned as I said,

"Jesus..."

Adelaide snapped out of her trance and said,

"Where the hell did ya get it?"

I handed her the gun, and she turned it over in her hands. She handed it back as Chris answered,

"I hawked it off my old man's bureau. It's a 45."

Adelaide and I looked at him and said in sync,

"We can see that."

I started fake shooting it, with my own sound effects as Adelaide asked,

"Got any shells for it?"

Chris answered,

"Yeah Doll,"

Adelaide flinched at the name, yet again, as Chris continued on,

"Took all that was left in the box. My dad will think that he used them himself shooting at beer cans while he was drunk."

I continued examining the gun while Adelaide continued her questions, following up with,

"Is it loaded?"

Chris looked offended, and answered with,

" Hell, no! What d'you think I am?"

Adelaide mumbled under her breath,

"An idiot."

He shot her a mock glare, but she wasn't paying attention. Instead, I pulled the trigger and to my shock the gun fired, we yelled,

"Jesus!"

Adelaide said,

"Let's get out of here!"

Chris (without warning) picked her up, and we started running. As we ran from the Blue Point, he started yelling,

"Gordie did it, Gordie Lachance, Gordie Lachance!"

Adelaide was laughing as I responded with an aggravated,

"Shut up!"

As we rounded the corner, we stumbled out of our jog, Chris said as he set Adelaide down,

"Oh man, you should have seen your face! Yeah, that was cool! That was really fine"

Once Adelaide was on the ground, he wrapped his arm around her waist for support, and he turned to her and asked,

"Is that good, Doll?"

She nodded, not even acknowledging the nickname, while I said,

"You knew it was loaded, you wet end! I'll be in trouble now that Tupper-babe saw me!"