The losers were all sitting in the clubhouse. They'd spent their whole summer going after that stupid fucking clown, so they did absolutely nothing fun. Unless you count almost being killed a few times "fun." They were all worn out and after a scare of everyone moving away. They'd all ended up staying in Derry. None of them were sure if it was really a good thing but at least they all stayed together. They almost lost each other earlier in the summer while going after the clown so they were glad it would not happen again. Richie cringed thinking about when they were apart. He remembered the arcade with Bowers. He remembered how he made fun of him, calling him a fag and gay. He knew it was true. At least a little true. He couldn't deny what it was like to have Eddie around him. He could not and would tell anyone he was gay.
"Hello? Earth to Richie?" Richie looked up to see everyone staring at him. "Sorry. Were you saying something? I was in deep thought about Eddies mom." Eddie glared at him. Richie winked at him. Eddie groaned. "W-we w-were talking about g-going to the q-quarry." Bill chimed in. Richie was obviously on board. He loved going there.
They all rode their bikes down to the quarry but Richie fell behind. He was too busy, lost in his own thoughts to go faster than everyone else to be an annoyance like always. He was annoying as hell but they all loved him, anyway. Stan noticed and started peddling a little faster. Dude are you okay? You haven't talked about Eddie's mom in almost a full 20 minutes." Stan joked. "What? Yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking about that stupid clown." Stanley gave him a knowing look and nodded."I think we're all a little traumatized by that thing." Stanley sympathized with Richie.
They all were suffering because of that stupid clown. Bill lost his brother, Bev lost her dad and now lives with her aunt, not that it was a bad thing, Ben seemed to have been cut open by various things, Eddie broke his arm and got in a huge fight with his mom because she lied about him being sick but that just ended up giving him more freedom because she couldn't control him anymore, Mike kept having nightmares about his parents which let me tell you, is hard on a person, Richie well he had to figure out how to deal with his sexuality along with whatever happened with Bowers and the clown.
The losers got to the quarry and stood at the end of the cliff they usually jump from. "Are we jumping today or sitting up here? I don't think Eds is supposed to get that wet." Richie said pointing at his cast. "Don't call me that asshole. But that was not incorrect. If it gets wet, it'll get moldy a-and I could get an infection an- " Richie put his hand over Eddies mouth. "We got the picture Eds." He scowled at Richie.
Beverly looked at them and raised her eyebrow at them. "Well, Eddie can stay up here I w-want to j-jump." Bill said. Everyone agreed and looked apologetically at Eddie. Richie shrugged. "I guess I'll stay up here with him while you guys come down and once you come up, I'll jump and someone can go with me." They all jumped and Richie and Eddie watched.
"I'm uh.. sorry about your arm and stuff. It must suck having to wear it all the time." Eddie looked at him in shock. "What?" "I don't know. That was probably the first time in months you said something and it wasn't about fucking my mom." They both burst into laughter.