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They were on the road for a few more minutes until Richie pulled into the parking lot of the first fast food place they have seen for the past ten minutes, Eddie slides out his feet hitting the ground while he let out a sigh watching the other's pile out of the van "Bill I swear you were sitting on me!" Mike says "I w-would never!" he says with a dramatic huff making a few of them laugh while they start walking into the building Richie holding the door for everyone.

"Wow what a gentleman" Eddie teases being the last one of the seven to walk in making Richie roll his eyes following behind him "I'm always a gentlemen Ed's" He stated making Eddie give him a glance but he says nothing, the two meet up with the group Eddie giving Bev his order so he could sit down. He let's out a small groan god he hated fast food places it always felt gross and sitting down on the chairs was even worse, the second he was sat down he was digging through his fanny pack pulling out the travel size bottle of hand sanitizer he always had with him squeezing a small amount on his hands before aggressively rubbing them together "H-hey Eddie" Bill says sitting down in the sit in front of him "Hey" Eddie replies looking over his shoulder at the rest of the group Richie leaning against the wall talking to Mike about something while they waited for the other's to be done.. The thought's he had been trying to push back this trip were starting to become much louder and even harder to push down, this wasn't normal.. What he felt couldn't be normal.. He couldn't like boys god that would mean he was sick or something, people would want him dead the minute the word gay would even leave his lips not even thinking about how dating a boy would be like in their shitty town of Darry.. "E-everything okay?" Bill ask making Eddie jump slightly whipping his head back over to look at his friend "Yeah sorry just a bit tired"

"M-me too, I can't wait to just e-eat a-and pass o-out" Bill chuckles making Eddie smile too "That sounds like heaven right there" the two share a look before laughing, since the loser's club got bigger now being seven people when it only used to be four Bill and Eddie didn't get much time to be the original duo they started out as. Not that Eddie hated the other being here he loved the loser's but the two had forgotten what their friendship used to be like, "Hey you two!" Bev's cheery voice break their laughing fit the two looking up at her seeing the rest of the boys followed behind her. The table quickly fills up Mike having to pull up an extra chair to sit on the End while Eddie sat closest to the window looking over at his large group of friends Richie sat next to him before anyone could even think about it, he hoped the other's didn't notice how fast he dropped into the seat next to him but even if they did they would mostly likely think it was to annoy him. The group starts talking and laughing with each other while Eddie look's out the window seeing the sun starting to set he let's out a content hum popping one of Richie's fries into his mouth without him noticing, "So w-what's the sleeping a-arrangement t-tonight?" Bill ask looking over at Beverly since she had been the one with the map and the one who had been planning everything so far "Well I actually had an idea.. That I know one of you won't like" she says her green eyes landing on Eddie making the rest of them look over at him as he sips on his water "Huh?" he stares at her confused watching as she pulls out the small map pointing to one of the sites labeled camp site, "You want me to camp?" Eddie huff's making Bev give him a sweet smile "Aw come on Ed's it'll be fun"

"First off it's Eddie, second.. No fucking way will sleeping in the fucking wood's will be fun!"

"Y-you could sleep in the v-van" Bill speaks up sparking the idea into Beverly she instantly perks up, "Yeah true! Sleep in the van, it's comfortable enough"

"Fine" He shrugs making the group stare at him, all of them had expected more of a fight from the normally very anger teen but instead he just takes another sip of water sliding out of his seat "Be right back" He says before walking off the six of them watching him leave towards the bathroom "There's something wrong with him" Stanley says making Richie glare at him "Rude much?"

"He didn't even fight" Ben adds to Stanleys point the group now exchanging a glance "You think something is bothering him or something?" Mike speaks up popping a fry into his mouth once he finishes his sentence "Or maybe he's just fine with sleeping in the van? He has been doing things he's sworn off before guys" Richie argues his point that nothing was wrong with Eddie, "Yeah true, I'm sure he's fine probably just wants us to have a good time" Bev agrees with Richie the group falling silent until Eddie returns a few minutes later.

"Did someone die or something?" He stares at them with a confused look while he sits back down, "Nah Richie just said something dumb again" Bev shrugs making the silence that hung over them break the six of them snickering while Richie just gasp "Hey what the hell!"

Another few minutes passed the teens laughing and talking to one another enjoying the calm moment, "We should probably head out before it get's to dark" Ben suggest making the group look over at him noticing the dark sky outside stars starting to litter it. With nod's of agreement they climb to their feet and make their way outside crossing the parking lot a few cars still parked outside belonging to workers, after they were all comfortably back in the van Richie start's driving again heading back onto the main room reading to drive the thirty minutes to the camp ground Bev had shown him on the map. Eddie who sat in the passenger's seat again lays his head against the window letting out a tired yawn his eyes landing on the focused Richie at the wheel his eyes glued to the dark road in front of them, the louds thoughts didn't stop.. They just kept getting louder and louder like a headache he couldn't shake and he fucking hated it, he wasn't gay god he never looked at guys like that so why was it happening now with Richie?

The van was silent apart from the music playing off the speakers, Richie turn's onto the dirt road hearing the sound of the rocks under the tires until he finds a clearing of land that they could park on so he does just that. Once the van was parked the group pile's out of the Van looking around at the wood's around them they weren't deep you could see through them to the campsite beside you but it was enough for privacy, "You guy's have fun out here, I hope you all get eaten by bugs" Eddie grins "Aw love you too Eddie!" Beverly leans forward messing up his perfectly swooped brown hair making him slap her hand away sticking his tongue out of her only earning a chuckle. While sitting on the end of the van the door's propped open to let the other's take their stuff with out having to re open the door all the time, Beverly had planned ahead and brought her aunt's camping stuff since she used to be really outdoorsy so with an amused smirk Eddie watches them as the struggle with putting the pieces together. Ben had leaned down to connect one of the rods when it suddenly goes shooting up nearly hitting Stan who was reading the instructions a few feet away making him let out a loud yelp, the sight was enough to make the whole group burst out into loud laughter "I nearly died!" Stanley gasp before looking over at Eddie who was also laughing "Let me crash in the van with you Eddie?"

"Nope" He smirks leaning back on his hands, "Oh come on there is so room for two!"

"Well you should have agreed with me that camping is dangerous Stan"

"That was before my eye nearly got blown out by Ben over here!"

"Hey I didn't mean too!"

through the bickering Richie walks over to one of the boxes noticing it was sat on top of a cooler that had yet to been opening yet, "Hey Bev, what's in here?" He ask turning to look at her seeing a smirk growing on her face. "Since my aunt love's me and all of us, she said as long as we are responsible we can have a few of these" she says the last part as she opens the cooler revealing the contents inside which was a few can's of beer most of the teen's staring down at the liquid most of them had never been allowed to drink while apart from Eddie who didn't even bother getting up, the though of beer made him gag he had never tasted it but once a him and Sonia went to go visit some family and one of his uncles had poured himself a glass and the smell put him off in seconds it smelt like pure piss. Plus his mom had told him that alcohol ruined your brain cell's thats why most alcoholic's acted the way they did, so safe to say he stayed far from it.. He watched as the other's finished up with the tents then collapsed onto the fire watching as Stan started a fire since he was the only one who had taken boy scouts when he was younger, Eddie stands up and sits down joining the others watching as each of them took a can Richie being the first one to crack his open already taking a large sip like it was nothing. Eddie just roll's his eyes and looks forward at the fire trying not to groan loudly watching everyone drink, was he a baby for hating it? It seemed like it was fine to everyone else.. Well bedside's stand his winced the minute it hit his tongue "Yeah I think I'm more of a wine guy"

"When the hell did you have wine Stanny?" Richie chuckles leaning back on one of his hands holding the can in the other the glare of the fire reflexing off his glasses, "My mom left her wine glass out one time so.. I took a sip it was pretty good, really sweet"

Eddie keep's his eye's one the fire he wasn't going to crack, just because everyone else was drinking didn't mean he was a pussy for not wanting to..