I don't think I'm going to be nice to you any more.

( another lie, but this one feels good. he's smiling around the words and it's probably audible. he doesn't mind so much. is it really such a bad thing, to tell richie plainly that he still thinks the world of him even after a few decades of missing time?

there's every chance the world won't end, if eddie doesn't wrap his love in barbed wire. and if it does, maybe it might be worth it. it just seems that maybe richie needs to hear these things more than eddie needs to not say them, that's all. )

Richard Wentworth Tozier, you are my favourite Loser and best friend, and if you ever use this against me I'll kill you. How about that?