Eddie | OTA
He'd never been to a party before and, for once, that had nothing to do with his overbearing mother. Well, mostly nothing. If Eddie were ever to be invited to a party back in Derry, his mother definitely wouldn't let him go. It probably wouldn't stop him because his best friend was Richie and Richie would just encourage him to sneak out. Luckily for Sonia Kaspbrak, however, Eddie and his friends were losers. They were the kids that never got invited to anything, the ones who seemed to draw the attention of every bully and the ire of every one of the popular kids just for existing. He’d never been to a party back home and he probably never would but that didn’t matter. Those parties didn’t have a hot tub or bots. They definitely didn’t have whatever adorable thing Gerty was. He still wasn’t sure what a Pokemon was, but she was great and he wanted one too.
Tearing himself away from watching Gerty he, finally, made it out to where the actual party was. There were a lot of other kids, but he didn’t really know any of them. Maybe he’d talked to a few of them before the party but never in person. They were all basically strangers. He did, however, happen to notice that the redhead who wasn’t Beverly, scared him, and knew way too many forms of self defense was talking to a boy who had an inhaler of his own. Which meant he could have one, damnit. His was probably lying somewhere on the fucking bed and Richie just didn’t even bother looking for it.
Where was Richie anyway? Eddie frowned as he scanned the crowd looking for a flash of large glasses. Maybe he’d been annoyed at the other earlier but he was over that now. Now he just missed Richie and standing alone at a party surrounded by a bunch of kids he didn’t know? Yeah, that was the worst.