song: bandito, top

woah, your sister is cute

ashley walked out of school and noticed her brother and his friends emptying their backpacks into some trash cans. she then looks up and sees betty ripsoms mom, waiting outside anxiously with two cops by her side. she looks up at ash and then back at the cops. she sighs and walks down the steps.

"woah, your sister is really cute," eddie says, looking at her as she walks down the steps. "stop staring at her, all of your mouths drop wide open whenever she breathes." richie scoffs and throws his bag onto his back. she stops at the trash cans and looks at the boys. 

"hey rich," she smiles. "hey ash" 

"what are you all doing, your all swarmed around two rubbish bins like your plotting something," she says with an arched eyebrow. "just talking about summer, boys stuff you wouldn't understand" richie sneers, ash rolls her eyes and leans on the bin. "your eyes..." stan starts. 

ash turns and faces him, he goes bright red and pauses. not knowing what to say. "your eyes are pretty ashley" eddie finishes. "oh, ha! thanks, eds" she smirks. stan feels a wave of jealousy and eyes eddie who smirks back at him. 

the boys start walking towards the bike stand, ash follows between richie and stan. "you know, the barrens aren't that bad. everyone loves to splash around in shitty water-"

richie is cut off when henry bowers tug his backpack strap and push him back. he falls onto ash, who falls onto stan. the three kids tumble to the ground, richie letting out a groan. 

"nice frisbee flamer," patrick says as he picks up stans kippah. "give it back!" stan argues, but he throws it into a passing school bus. "fuck" ash winces as she stands up, dusting the grass off her knee caps. she sees that richie has already stood up and holds a hand out to stan.

she stands there for a little while, stan staring at her. "are you going to take it uris?" she pondered. stan sobered up, back into reality and took her hand. they both stand up and start walking over to where bill and eddie were.

"you s-s-suck bowers!" bill shouts. henry and his crew slowly turn towards them. "shut up bill!" eddie hisses. "you s-s-say something? b-b-billy?" henry mocks. 

"you got a free ride this year because of your little brother, free rides over denbrough-"

ash scoffs and pushes through eddie and bill, standing in front of bowers. "you trying to help your boyfriends tozier?" henry says with a smirk. "shut the fuck up bowers" she spat.

belch and patrick start to chuckle a bit. "what are you going to do? cry for betty to help-"

he was cut off when ash wraps her hands around henrys arm and pulls him into a lock. "i'm going to do that" she spat into his ear. "now run along with your friends, or the tough henry bowers will have to walk around town all summer with a cast and arm sling"

she lets go of his arm, he licks his hand and wipes it onto bills face, "hurt train" he whispers and runs off and slips into victor criss's car. 

"holy shit!" richie yells, "when did you learn to do that!" she turns to face the whole group, who were staring at her. their mouths hung ajar. "taught myself. it could be useful when you won't shut up" ash rolls her eyes. 

"i wish he would go missing," richie says out of the blue, "probably the one doing it" eddie sighs. they pick up their bikes and start to ride home. when richie and ashley arrive at their house ash parks her bike and goes inside, richie stays outside chatting to the others. 

"you think you can get her to sign my yearbook?" eddie asks. richie rolls his eyes, "okay whenever you guys see her can you at least not make it obvious that you like her?" richie groans. "i'm sick of it"

"what makes you think we like her?!" eddie and stanley say in unison. richie looks at them with an arched eyebrow and bill starts to laugh. "i'm not even going to bother anymore. see you tomorrow" he wheels his bike and parks it next to ashs and walks inside.

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"ashley! i'm going to the barrens with the losers, wanna come!" richies voice echos through the house. ash looks up from her watercolor painting and rolls her eyes, "no richie! how many times have i said! n, o means no!" 

"okay, your loss!" he says and slams the door. she scoffs and carries on painting. she stands and looks out their bedroom window. she sees bill, eddie and richie bike away from their house. she rolls her eyes and flops down onto her bed.