Richie Tozier lies awake in his bed. Occasionally dozing off, but then jolting right back up. Every time he closed his eyes it all came flooding back. IT. It had almost been 5 years since they had defeated IT, or Richie hoped they had. 5 years and he still got nightmares. Of course, he would never tell anybody, he was 17. Too old for bad dreams.

He tried to go back to sleep, but couldn't. So he decided he would try and sneak out to go to Eddie's house. He got up and grabbed his backpack, packing it with clothes, underwear, and a cassette with his and Eddie's favourite songs on it. He walked over to the window, opening it up, trying to be extra quiet as to not wake his father. That was the last thing he needed right now... He climbed out the window and jumped down from the roof, landing on his hands and knees. It stung but he had snuck out enough times that he was used to it. He got into his car and drove down the familiar road until he stopped at a familiar house. He parked his car a few houses away and walked up to the side of the house.

He hated to bother Eddie, but he still wanted to see him. He picked up a few rocks and threw them at the window he knew was Eddie's. "Eds?" He whisper-shouted. "Eds!" He waited a while then saw the shadow of Eddie walking towards the window. He opened it. "What the f-ck are you doing here?" He said, barely louder than a whisper. "What? You're not happy to see me?" Richie whispered back, smirking. "No! Do you know what time it is?" Eddie whisper-shouted, just the same as Richie. "I don't know, 4:20? Now, can I come in, or not?"

Eddie rolled his eyes and nodded reluctantly. Richie smiled a sh-t-eating grin and climbed up the house. He finally made it up to Eddie's room and climbed in, trying to be quiet. He would usually try to jump in as loud as he could, nut Richie had to admit, Miss. K was pretty scary when she got mad. Not as scary as- but his thought was cut off by Eddie telling him to go to sleep because they had school tomorrow, or something like that. Richie climbed into bed next to Eddie. Richie would never say it out loud, but he quite liked it when they were this close. He liked it a lot. Richie started dozing off thinking about how nice it would be if they were a little closer. How nice it would feel to run his hands through Eddie's wavy, brown hair. How nice it would feel to ki- He stopped the thought right there.

Too far, Richie, he thought. You know that's not right!, he scolded himself. Richie was now a bit more awake. He turned over to face Eddie, who had already fallen asleep. Richie looked at him for a while and smiled.

He knew it was "wrong", but God did Eddie look cute.

(A/N: This is the very first Fanfiction I've ever written. I already have it posted, along with a lot of other stories, on another website. I hope the people on this website enjoy it. It was fun writing, but looking at some of my more recent ones that I'll post later, I think I've definitely developed as a writer. I write every day and I now have an obsession with Fanfiction soooo yeah. This is really long... Sorry)