JULY 30, 1989

- - Rylee Tozier - -

It's been three weeks since that fight. Three weeks. I stayed at Bills house for the first four nights after the fight but I felt bad for taking up their home so I decided to go home after that.

I still haven't talked to Richie. We don't even look at eachother, well, I don't look at him, he looks at me sometimes. It's hard to ignore someone when you live in the same room as them.

I've had the sheet that gives up privacy across the room the entire time i've been home. Richie tried to get me to forgive him but it never really works. I mean.. he called me a whore, how could I forgive that?

Richies always at the arcade. I'm always on my bed, drawing or listening to music, I've barely even eaten. I haven't even talked to anyone from the losers club. Except for Bill.

Bill and I talk everyday over the phone, I haven't left my house since the fight. But it's that amazing time of the month that a girl gets a little 'friend'. I mean my period. I'm on my period and I don't have any pads or tampons in the house.

I sighed loudly and set down my sketch book. And changed into something other than my pyjamas

I put my hair, which is still pretty short, into a ponytail and walked out the door,

I walked down the street to Mr. Keenes pharmacy, it's about a 20 minute walk from my house to the pharmacy, so I get to be alone with my thoughts.

I've been constantly thinking about Eddie since the whole Neibolt thing. I tried calling him multiple times, but Mrs. K banned Eddie from using the phone, I also tried going to his house, but Mrs. K caught me trying to sneak into his bedroom window and put him on full house arrest

I miss Eddie a lot. I also miss the rest of the losers. Stanley invited Richie and I to his bar mitzvah, I did go, but I sat away from Richie the whole time.

Like i said earlier, Bill and I talk a lot over the phone, as for the rest of the losers, I haven't talked to them. I do miss Richie, too. I just really can't believe he'd call me a whore, maybe that clown was right, maybe he doesn't care about me. Maybe it's just pity.

I walked into Mr. Keenes pharmacy with my head down, I walked into the isle that had the pads I use, I looked for the right box, but then I heard the doors bell chime and Mr. Keenes voice say the name of someone I miss the most. "Here for the refills Eddie?"

"Yeah." Eddie said, god I wanted to run and hug him, but something stopped me

"You know it's all bullshit, right?" Grettas voice asked

"what is?" Eddie asked her

"Your medication, they're placebos." Gretta told him, I always knew none of his medication was ever real, Mrs. K just wanted the make him believe it was real so she could 'protect' him.

"What's placebo mean?" Eddie asked

I looked out from the isle I was in and saw Gretta standing in front of Eddie, "Placebo means bullshit." she then looked at the cast on his arm, no signatures. "No friends, huh? Your cast. No signatures or anything? So sad."

"I uh, I didn't wanna get it dirty." Eddie said

My hand balled into a fist as I watched Gretta pull out a pen, "I'll sign it for you."

I watched as Gretta wrote something on Eddies cast. When Mr. Keene came back with Eddies pills, I watched as Eddie started to walk away, towards the front door

I walked up to Mr. Keene and paid for my 'package'. "Thank you, Mr. Keene." I smiled as I walked away, but when I turned around, I saw Eddie staring at me

I smiled a little bit. "Ry!" He yelled and ran up to me, giving me a tight hug, which I returned immediately "God I missed you, my moms been going on and on about how you and the others aren't good for me but I never listen because you guys are amazing and-"

"Eddie just shut up and kiss me." I cut him off

"Yes ma'am." He said and leaned in and linked his lips with mine, it was passionate, and filled with love

Once we broke the kiss, we both smiled and walked out of the store, walking down the street and just talking, after about ten minutes of walking Eddie cut me off "I love you."

"Eddie I was in the middle of sayi- wait what did you just say?" I asked and stopped walking, standing in front of Eddie, stopping him from walking too

"I said I love you." Eddie repeated

"I-I love you too." I told him and wrapped my arms around his neck, hugging him, I felt his arms wrap around my waist

"I wanna take you on a date, a real one." Eddie said once they broke the hug

"I've got until seven." Rylee smiled and held Eddies good hand

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- - Rylee Tozier - -

Eddie and Rylee most of the day together after that, they went and got ice cream, walked around town for a bit. They were gonna go to the arcade but Richie was there and Rylee didn't really want to talk to him. Right now, Eddie and Rylee are eating their second ice creams, walking down the street

"What my mom said about you wasn't true, by the way. You're not a whore. You're an amazing, beautiful girl, Ry." Eddie told her, Rylee just smiled. "Hey, what happened after mom drove me to the hospital anyways?"

"Oh, um.. Bill said he wanted to go back to the house on Neibolt again to kill the clown and Richie, Ben, Mike, and Stan didn't want to. But Beverly and I agreed with Bill. Richie got really mad at me for not picking his side over Bills and then he called me a whore, and pushed me. I left after that, didn't go home for four days." Rylee explained

"You're not a whore, Rylee. Richie didn't mean that, he was just mad. Richie loves you Rylee, he cares about you. You're his best friend." Eddie told Rylee

"Yeah.." Rylee mumbled and looked down

"What, uh.. what did you mean when you were yelled at my mom? You said 'It's not my fault my father' and then you stopped yourself and changed what you were saying. What did you mean, Ry?" Eddie asked

Rylees eyes widened, "I.. uh. I- I don't know what you're talking about Ed's."

"Please, Rylee."

"Fine." Rylee paused, not looking at Eddies face while she spoke. "You gotta promise not to tell anyone."

Eddie held out his pinky finger, "I promise." he said and Rylee kinked her pinky with his

Rylee took a deep breath before starting, "A few months ago, you remember that night, you, Stan, Bill, and Richie were over at Bills house for the night?" Eddie nodded, "Well, I was home, I was going to go to sleep, but my dad came in and beat me until I was unconscious." She paused, "He raped me Eds. He beat me till I was passed out and raped me."

Eddies hand formed into a fist, and his jaw clenched, "Why didn't you tell one of us? You- You can get him arrested! The both of them!"

"I didn't want all of you to worry about it." Rylee shrugged

The two walked down the street again, Rylee on the verge of tears, Eddie wanted to murder Wentworth, and Richie, well Richie heard that whole thing. Rylee and Eddie were standing in front of the arcade went Rylee admitted, and Richie heard it all.

Rylee looked down at the letters written across Eddies cast: 'LOSER'. Her eyes darkened and her eyebrows furrowed, "you got a pen?" she asked suddenly

"Huh?"

"You got a pen?" She repeated

"Y-Yeah." Eddie said and pulled out a red permanent marker

Rylee smiled and took to marker, taking off the cap and writing a 'V' over the 'S' in 'LOSER' making it spell 'LOVER' now, Eddie looked at her and smiled, giving her a quick kiss on the lips

As the two we're walking down the street, passing the park, Rylee spotted a store, that had chocolate, so she told Eddie she'd be right back and that she was just going to the bathroom but really she wanted to get chocolate, and she needed to pee

Rylee pecked Eddie on the lips before turning and running across the street to the store. Eddie watched Rylee run to the store and smiled, then walked over to a bench and sat down

"Was that your girlfriend?" A voice spoke from beside him, he looked over to where he heard the voice from and saw an elderly woman, in about her seventies, looking at him with a questioning look

"Yes ma'am, she's my girlfriend." Eddie responded with a smile

"She's very pretty, and she looks good for you, boy. Never let her go." The woman told Eddie

"She's the most beautiful girl i've even seen. And I would never leave her. I love her." Eddies smile grew as he told the woman this

"I can tell, she looks like she loves you too." The woman said

"Thank you, ma'am." Eddie smiled at the woman again

The woman smiled, then looked at Rylee as she walked back to Eddie "I got us chocolate" Rylee smiled

"of course you did." Eddie smiles and grabbed Rylees hand, turning around and smiling at the old lady once more before walking down the street.

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Eddie dropped Rylee off at home around 6:47pm, he wanted to stay with her, but she refused to let him stay.

Rylee was laying on her bed, looking at the drawing she had made of the losers club months earlier, it was finished, she smiled and carefully placed the portrait into a frame.

Rylee pulled out her other sketch book, the one she has solely of Eddie, or her and Eddie together. She pulled out one of the drawings and put it in another frame.

Rylee has a lot of drawings of her and the losers, she's been drawing her and Eddie a lot lately. But she's also drawn her with Stan, Beverly, Ben, Mike, and Bill.

She pulled out the rest of her drawings with the other losers and put them in frames as well

Rylee also made another drawing of the new additions to the losers club and placed it into a frame

Rylee took all the the drawings she'd just framed and hid them under her bed with the rest of her sketch books

Rylee sighed and laid back on her bed, the door to her and her brothers room creeped open, "Ry.. We needa talk." Richie said as he walked past the curtain

Rylee nodded and say up in her bed, patting the spot next to her for her brother to sit down, which he did. "Why didn't you tell me?" Richie whispered

"Hm?"

"About Dad." Richie simply said

"I- Richie how did you- Nevermind. I didn't want you to have to worry about me, you already worry enough with them constantly hitting me, I didn't need you to worry about that too." Rylee told her brother, who was about to cry

"But, But we could get them arrested! They already beat us, that's one thing. But rape?! That's a whole different thing, Rylee. It's serious. It's a real thing that happens and it happened to you! You could get him arrested, and we could get out of this shit house and away from those shit parents!"

"With what money, Rich? We don't have enough money to just run away. Face it Richie, we only stay here and take the shit they give us because at least we have a home to sleep in, yeah we basically raised ourselves but.." she paused "we would need money, Richie."

He didn't talk for a bit, but after a minute of silence between the twins, Richie broke out crying, sobbing really. "Hey, hey. What's wrong?" Rylee asked, wrapping an arm around her brother

"I-I can't believe I said those things to you Rylee. They aren't true. They aren't. You're nothing like what I called you at all, Mom and Dad are wrong to do what they do to you! I-I can't believe I pushed you! I hurt you, and Im so, so fucking sorry Rylee. I love you, so much. I was just really hurt that you took Bills side instead of my side. I love you, you're my sister, and I care about you. You're my bestfriend Rylee, I cant lose you." Richie ranted "I'm so sorry." he sobbed

"Look at me, Richie." Rylee started, calmly, though tears were running down her face, "Richie, I said look at me." she repeated. Richie picked his head off of Rylees shoulder and wiped his tears from his cheeks, though they still ran down his face, he looked at his sister in the eyes

"I love you, Richie. You're my brother, my best friend. I know you didn't mean what you said and did, okay? I get it, you got upset. Now stop apologizing and hug me." Rylee told her brother,

Richie sniffled, then smiled at his sister and hugged her tight, "I love you Ry." he whispered

"I love you too Rich." Rylee whispered back and gave him a squeeze through the hug, after about two minutes of the siblings crying into each others shoulder, telling eachother how much they care about eachother, Rylee let go of the hug and wiped away Richies tears off of his face while he did the same for her, "Go get in your pyjamas and we can watch Ghostbusters, yeah?" Rylee suggested

Richie jumped off of her bed with a quick "Hell yeah!" and ran to his side of the room, closing the curtain to separate the room once again so the twins could have privacy while changing

Rylee changed into her pyjamas, which were just shorts with one of Richies old t-shirts, which went down to her knees. Once she got changed she went up to her television and turned it on, turning on The Ghostbusters. It was Richie and Rylees favourite movie, they always watched it.

Richie came from his side of the room in a t-shirt and hello kitty pyjama pants, he sat down next to Rylee on her bed and got underneath the blanket, "Start the movieeee" he whined

"Fine." She mumbled and pressed play, the movie began and Rylee went back to her bed and sat down next to Richie, when she was pulling the blankets over herself, she saw Richies pants "Are those a old hello kitty pyjama pants?"

"They're comfortable and you didn't want them anymore so.." Richie tried to defend himself

"Richie, you look ridiculous." she laughed

"They're comfortable!" he argued

"Whatever Kitty boy." She mumbled and wrapped her arms around his stomach, placing her head on his chest

"Well you steal all my clothes, look your even wearing one of my shirts right now!" He pointed out, wrapping his arms around the place her neck is, planting a small kiss on the top of her head, they always do this whenever they want to. Rylee and Richie have always been close, and whenever they need to, they'll cuddle, not in a weird way, in a sibling love kind of way.

The two watched Ghostbusters, until Rylee got tired around the middle of the movie and looked up at her brother who was already asleep, she smiled and took his glasses off of his face and placed them on the table next to her bed, then did the same with her own glasses, then snuggled back up to Richie and fell asleep around 10:40pm.

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