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[ It's the summer after Neibolt, and for most of the people in Derry, nothing bad ever happened. It's as if the events of the previous year never occurred - there are no more missing children posters, the curfew has been lifted, and life goes on much like it always has.

For the Losers, though, nothing will ever be quite the same.

Bev's gone, for one thing. She comes to visit sometimes, but without her their little ragtag group doesn't feel complete. Ben and Mike hang out with them more often, which is fun, and now that Bowers is in juvie life is a little easier for all of them. The biggest change is the quietest one, though: it's the way they've all matured a bit, the unspoken knowledge that what they've been through has made them different.

Richie finds it harder to spend time alone nowadays. His parents have gotten even busier with work, and his sister's always out with her boyfriend, so even at home he never really has company. Maybe that's why he's taken to inviting Eddie over for sleepovers more and more often.

Tonight is just like all the other nights they've hung out together. They play some games on Richie's Atari, eat way too much junk food, and eventually pass out after talking like into the night, Richie in his bed and Eddie in a sleeping bag next to him. Only tonight, after their conversation trailed off and Eddie's breathing evened out, Richie found himself still awake, his brain filled with thoughts he doesn't quite know how to handle.

After what feels like hours, he gives up on sleeping and leans over the edge of the bed, squinting to try and make out Eddie's blurred form in the dark. ]

Eds? [ he whispers. ] You asleep?

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what the hell even is that?? yeesh

[ But he doesn't say no, because if Eddie says he wants it, Richie will happily get it for him. If he can find it, at least.

The truth of the matter is - despite all his joking and sex talk - Richie is just as head over heels for Eddie as he was when they were kids, if not moreso. And, because this is a second chance he almost never got to have, he's even more eager to spend as much time as he can with Eddie by his side.

In about twenty minutes there's a knock on Eddie's door, along with a call of, ] Eduardo! I got your shit, let me in!