JULY 31, 1989

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"Help! Please help my sister!" Richie yelled as the losers all ran into the hospital, Mike was holding Rylee in his arms

"Young man! Please keep it down, this is a hospital, not the woods." A woman spoke

"I'm sorry, ma'am, but my sister in unconscious, bleeding, and barely breathing. Help her!" Richie yelled

"Help her! Help her right now! She's bleeding, bad! And she's not breathing properly! So just fucking help her!" Beverly yelled

Just then a doctor ran in, looked at Rylee, and calmly told a nurse to grab a stretcher, "Tell me, what happened?"

"W-We were playing in my b-b-backyard and I g-guess she had a pocket knife in her pocket because s-s-she started bleeding really b-bad and p-p-passed out." Bill stuttered

The doctor wrote things down as the nurse came in with a stretcher, Mike placed Rylee down on the stretcher and the Doctor and Nurses ran down the hall of the ER with Rylee on the stretcher "Don't make her wear one of those dumb hospital gowns! She hates them!" Richie yelled

The lady from when the kids first walked in walked up to Richie and handed him a pen, and a piece of paper with a lot of questions clipped to a clipboard. "You're her brother, right?"

"Yeah. Is she gonna be okay? Oh god please tell me she'll be okay." Richie cried

"I can't answer that. But i need you to fill this out and give it back to me when you're done." The lady said and went back behind the desk

Richie sighed, then began writing the answers to the questions, like, 'what is their name' and 'how old are they' and 'what gender' and things like that

Richie soon finished the sheet and handed it back to the lady, then joined. his friends again in the waiting room.

"Ed's you should really go take a shower." Ben suggested "We all should, but mostly you."

"Why me?" Eddie questioned

"You literally got vomited on, go home and shower, then come right back." Beverly ordered

"But.. Rylees in there! She could die and I wouldn't be there!" Eddie argued

"She's not gonna die! She can't fucking die!" Richie screamed

"Quiet! No yelling! And watch your language." The lady yelled

"Right, s-sorry ma'am," Bill said then turned to Eddie, "She w-w-wo-w-won't die, Ed's. Please g-g-go home and shower."

Eddie sighed, then nodded and turned and walked out of the hospital, walking home. Truth, he was terrified. He didn't want to leave Rylee there, he wanted to be there with her, with the losers. But he knew he needed a shower, as much as he loves Rylee, he wanted to shower desperately.

Eddie reaches his house and ran in, ignoring whatever his mother had to say. He ran into his room, grabbed a clean change of clothes, then ran into the bathroom and quickly took a shower

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Meanwhile at the hospital, Stan got his head bandaged up, and Richie was freaking out. "What if she does die?" Richie wondered out loud

"She's gonna be back to normal, perfectly fine, soon." Beverly said, though she didn't know if she was trying to convince herself or Richie more.

"Hey Bev, you freaked out pretty bad earlier at the receptionist, what was that all about? Why'd you stick up for Rylee like that?" Ben asked the red head

"Because she's my friend, and i care about my friends." Beverly responded, wiping a tear from her eye, "I know i just met her, but I don't know what i'd do without her, or you guys." Beverly said, leaning her head onto Bills

shoulder

"Guys.. what if Rylee doesn't make it? I'll have no family left. Mom and Dad are just fucking drunks. Aunty Lynn and Uncle James died last year, grammy and grampie live on the whole other side of the country, and Mom never had siblings. I-I'd be all alone." Richie cried

"Richie, she'll make it, she's strong. She'll push through this. I promise." Stanley told Richie, placing a hand on his shoulder

"I sure hope so." Richie mumbled

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Eddie stepped out of the bathroom after getting dressed after a really fast shower, yet still getting every little piece of dirt off of his body. He quickly grabbed a new pair of clean shoes and ran down the stairs to his front door, hair still soaking wet.

"Where are you off to Eddie Bear?" his mother asked him

"I'm going to visit Rylee." Eddie stated, turning around to face his mother

"Oh you're going to see her. She's nothing but a worthless little-"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence, Ma." Eddie cut her off "Rylee is a beautiful, funny, nice, and amazing girl, what you hear about her is all just rumours! Nothing you hear about her is true unless you hear it from me, richie, beverly, bill, stanley, mike, or ben. Rylee is an amazing person, and an even better girlfriend."

"A even better what?"

"Girlfriend. She's my girlfriend. Rylee Tozier is my girlfriend. And I love her. I love her, I love everything about her, and I love the losers. You can't do anything to change that because they're always there for me when I need them. You have no idea the pain you brought to Rylee all those times you've said thin gas to her face or said anything behind her back and she found i it somehow. You abused her, maybe not physically but you did verbally. And now she's in the hospital because she was fucking stabbed. How do you feel? Hm?" Eddie asked

"Like she deserves it."

"No! She fucking doesn't! Did you not listen to me?! She's an amazing person that gets judged by everyone except for seven people for some dumb lies a bully made up! She's nothing like what you think she is! She's my girlfriend and you can't change that. And the losers are my friends, they always have been, and they always will be. So you can shit the fuck up with all the shit you say about them." Eddie finished and ran out the door to his bike, not once looking back, leaving his mother standing at the door shocked.

Eddie biked all the way to the hospital, not regretting a word he said to his mother. When Eddie walked into the ER waiting room, he saw all of the losers sitting together on the floor, looking sad

"What? What happened??" Eddie asked as he walked up to them

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