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The group speeds down the road on their bikes Richie standing up on his bike the seven of them still laughing about what just happened, "That women has got to hate you!" Mike laughs moving his bike from side to side, "No way a women can hate a man that-"

"Don't even finish that, Richie!" Eddie cuts him off glaring over at him Richie shrugs with a smirk, pulling to the side of the road they all park their bikes and hurry over the metal fence on the side of the road starting their walk through the small patch of woods. "Thank you, guys, for coming to get me" Eddie speaks up fidgeting with the strap of his fanny pack, "Of course Eddie we weren't just going to leave you!"

"Y-ya we're a g-group, we d-don't leave are friends"

"Plus I know you couldn't go a day without seeing me" Richie grins walking beside him, Eddie looks up at him remembering how quiet his room was and how much he hated it... "Yeah, I guess you're right; it would be to0 quiet" Eddie shrugs with a small smile, the answer makes Richie pause his mouth open to say something before closes it again turning his head to face the other way a small smile creeping on his lips as a red tint fills his cheeks. Bev notices she tried not to make her smile so obvious, but she couldn't help it, she had rarely seen Richie blush since nothing ever surprised him enough... Stanley who was walking next to Bev look's over at her confused to see a big smile plastered on her face, his eyes follow his gaze landing on Richie's face not being able to believe his eyes there was no way the Richie fucking Tozier was blushing!?

"Holy shit" Stan whispers catching Bev's attention her wide eyes looking over at him, fuck she did not just give Richie away... "What?" She asks hoping that he had just something else but of course not he was still staring right at Richie, "He is blushing!?"

"What no! Why would you think that"

"Because his face is red Bev... But what made him blush?" Stan hums looking around until his eyes widened again staring at Beverly blankly, "Do you and Richie have something going on?"

"What!? God no Stan he's my best friend that's it"

"Well then what!"

"It's not for me to say Stan... Richie will say something eventually but he's not ready"

"What kind of news could Richie even have" Stan rolls his eyes his arms now crossing, Stan had been best friends with Richie longer than him and Bev have even known each other so why does she get to know and not him! Is it because Richie thinks Stanley wouldn't care because that is not true, sure the two aren't all buddy buddy with each other like Bev was with him but still... He still cared about Richie. "Is he okay though?"

"Yeah he's okay Stan" Bev gives him a small smile, the group stops by the cliff they have spent nearly every summer at their clearing still empty so they could set their stuff down and relax, normally people didn't come here because it's supposed to be closed to the public but that didn't stop the losers. "Catch Rich!" Bev says tossing a towel over to him which he catches and lays it down on the ground placing the stereo that Bill brought on top of it, once it was set up he takes off his glasses making sure they weren't going to get stepped on or hit, he looks back over at the group seeing Bev already undressed putting her clothes into a neat pile. "Billiam avert your gaze" Richie teases him seeing his cheeks shine bright red as he looks over at Richie glaring at him "S-shut up"

Richie just smirks then starts removing his own shirt pulling it up and over his head messing up his already messy hair, "Hey" Richie nearly jumps out of his skin at the sudden voice looking next to him to see Stan stood there "Jesus' dude, are you trying to make me shit myself?"

"Sorry" He chuckles placing his clothes next to Bev's pile, Stan cast another look at Richie before letting out a sigh and walking back over to the side of the cliff where the others stood. "What was that about?" Eddie asked walking over to Richie holding his clothes as well "No clue, scared the hell out of me though" Richie snickers stealing a look at Eddie, he felt gross... "He's your best friend don't look at him like that it's just skin you weirdo..."

"So, who's jumping first?" Ben asks now that the whole group was stood there looking down at the water, even though they had done this jump millions of times they none of them ever wanted to go first except for Bev. "I'll go-" she starts to say taking a step back before Richie gets a running head start throwing himself off the side crashing into the water a few seconds later, "Slow pokes!" He shouts up once he resurfaces "Jerk that's my thing!" Bev shouts at him.

"Be faster next time then!"

"You two talk too much" Stan rolls his eyes being the next to jump off letting out a yell before hits the water causing a large splash, "Hell yeah Stan the man!" Richie grins raising his hand for a high five which Stan gives with a roll of his eyes. Bev gets a running head start before jumping off falling in the air for a few seconds before she joins them in the water with another splash which hits the two boys who stood there, "Come on you guys get in here!" She calls up to the other four who stood up there. Mike looks at the other three before he jumps down letting out a scream until he hits the water causing a splash bigger than Bev's even knocking her over back making Richie burst out laughing, "Who's going first boy's" She shouts up again backing away, so the same thing doesn't happen twice. With a second thought bill throws himself off Ben jumping a few seconds after him leaving Eddie stood up there alone, "Come on Ed's!" Richie shouts up.

"What if it's too shallow and I hit my head off a fucking rock and bleed out!"

"You won't, I'm the tallest here and I didn't hit anything so your tiny body will do fine!"

"Oh, screw you dude"

"Just jump E-Eddie!" Bill shouts before the other's join him, Eddie rolls his eyes before taking a deep breath and jumping off his scream cut off when he hits the water the warm water swallowing his brown hair floating around him before he pushes himself back up to the surface letting out a gasp of air pushing the hair out of his face. "See? No rocks and bleeding out"

Eddie rolls his eyes again pushing his hand out splashing Richie with a wave of water, soon regretting his mistake when Richie starts attacking him with splashes Eddie yelps covering his face with his hands trying to swim away from him. When the splashes stop, he peaks through his fingers seeing Bev splashing him now Richie letting out a scream before dunking underwater and in seconds Bev was taken under her scream cut off, the group stares at one another waiting for the two to come back up. Eddie let's out a scream as something touch's his leg swimming away from it "What the fuck was that!"

"Richie, I swear to god if that's you I'm going to drown you!" Eddie yells the teen coming back up to the surface laughing loudly Bev coming up a few seconds after, "You scream like a girl!"

"You're an asshole!"

"Aw come on Ed's" Richie grins jumping forwards wrapping his cold arms around him making Eddie groan again, He gives up letting his shoulders drop an annoyed face while Richie kept his arms around his shoulders resting his chin on top of his brown hair. "Who's up for a round of chicken!" Bev grins looking around the group "Sure why not" Stan shrugs, "So who wants to go against me and Stanny" Bev smirks looking at the group again "R-Richie, me and you?" Bill speaks up.

"Hell yeah Billiam! Let's do this" Richie grins finally letting go of Eddie and swims over to Bill, he takes a deep breath in before dunking underwater letting Bill get onto his shoulders. When he stands back up Bill holds his arms out holding his balance while Bev gets onto Stan's shoulders, once the four were all ready Bev starts putting going for a shove but Bill catch's her hands the two fighting to push each other off while Richie and Stan tried to keep their balance. With a grin Richie moves his leg forward gently rubbing his foot against Stanley's, he lets out a yelp the sudden touch making him stumble the two falls back crashing into the water Richie and Bill letting out a loud cheer. He leans back letting Bill get off his shoulders,

"That was not fair, keep your feet to yourself Tozier!"

"No clue what you're talking about Stanley" Richie shrugs trying not to laugh, and Bev pops back out of the water her short curly hair dropping into her face, "Rematch right now!"

For the next hour the teen's take turns pairing up, Bev partnered up with Mike against Richie and Stanley this time after five minutes of pushing and shoving Bev reach's forward tickling under Stans arm making him fall back bringing Richie with him. When it came to be Eddie's turn he had the choice between getting on Richie's shoulders or Mike, the choice should have been easy Mike was just stronger and was a safer opinion but looking over at Richie he sees him laugh with Bev about something she reach's up moving a piece of hair out of his face. "Richie, come on" Eddie says without thinking the taller teen perking up "Let's do this Ed's"

"Just shut and bend down"

"Aye captain" Richie smirks shooting him a wink before dunking under water letting Eddie move onto his shoulders tightly holding onto his shoulder as he stands back up to his full height, he struggles for a few seconds Richie raises his hands up placing them on Eddie's thighs steadying him a bit. "You good up there?"

"Yeah, I got it" Eddie lets out a small chuckle his eyes looking down at Richie's hands that were still on the skin of his thighs, a weird feeling fluttered around his stomach one that he wasn't used to feeling it felt like he could almost puke his stomach feeling light... "Focus Eddie..."