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(It's technically Gucci who finds out that Beverly is in the house first. There's a snuffling at Beverly's door and then a determined paw knocking that door right on open. Gucci comes trotting in and upon seeing Beverly proceeds to act like she's known Beverly her whole life. The dog's body goes into wiggle overdrive as she wags her tail. She's not a jumper, but you betchya she's nosing and pawing at Bev's leg.

Not far after is Eddie who comes strolling into the room looking frazzled.)

Gucci, what the hell are you---

(Then he sees Beverly and all at once he goes from frazzled to delighted. His eyes pop wide open and his grin stretches across his face.)

Hot shit! (The last time they had seen each other had been...hard. And some part of Eddie had anticipated it had just been some fluke of chance. Deerington did that sometimes. But if Beverly was here then that meant...That meant she had to really be here. Just to confirm Eddie whips his arm up to check out his Fluid and sure enough- there's Beverly's name.)

Hot shit! You really are here! (Eddie bounces forward just a few steps into her room, and Gucci's whining now for depraved attention.)

That means you're my roomie. Welcome to-- (Eddie pauses and frowns, realizing Chloe and him had never come up with some dumbass name for their house.)

Whatever. Welcome home, Bev. (That's what mattered.)

[ you've been invited to a group chat with trashmouth and 2 others! ]

i say this whole heartedly as a boy

but i dont know why boys are AS fucking dumb as they are

we need to meed up before Eddie's bday, I have something to give you for it

hey, your friends with bill right? like he's part of you & eddie's group, right

[ There's a package addressed to Beverly on the front step. Inside is a skateboard. There's no card or anything attached that would give away who the sender is. Happy Hanukkah! ]

[ there's no real warning or reason to expect a visit from richie after his and eddie's fight over group chat. richie's been silent in the chat for hours now, though if she bothered to ask either of them, bev would find out that eddie and bill have been receiving increasingly strange texts from him for a little while now, but nothing has been sent bev's way in that time.

no, much like his previous unannounced invasion of her room, richie tumbles through her bedroom window by accident, somehow even more of a mess and tangle of limbs than he had been when he was delirious with illness. it would take less than a glance to determine that he's drunk. even more so than he had been at eddie's birthday party, tearful and swaying faintly in front of her.

he squints up at her from his painful sprawl on the floor of beverly's bedroom and squints at her from behind his thick, smudged glasses. ]

... why d'you keep switching windows with Eds, Bev?

[ he asks her with slow, slurred speech, sounding genuinely mystified. ]

[All the Losers get the same thing, just in different colors. There are 12 in each bundle, wrapped with a matching ribbon. Ben, not able to afford gifts this year, went and got creative. He spent some time in his room painting and building and gluing them together, with the hopes that they aren't too silly or dumb.]

[Worried that 'flowers' given to 'boys' might be dumb though, he doesn't sign his name at all. Though it won't be hard to tell who it was from. Instead he just writes on the tag on each one:]

Bev

Spring is memory
Fragrance from a walled garden
Calls to the Loser

Have some Spring in Winter, Merry Christmas

[Found on the front door of Bev's place is this, but wrapped in a ribbon and tag and softly placed there. Right next to a bundle for Eddie. they are orange and yellow colors because that remind him of her.]

(Bev will find a small silk bag dangling from her doorknob outside of her room one day. A simple tag tied around the bag lets her know that the gift inside is from Eddie. On the back of the tag is a small note:

This isn't to encourage you to keep smoking, just so you know, but this thing might be useful for you in a place like this.

QUIT SMOKING. I love you

-Eddie

Inside is a rose gold lighter with the inscription "For Mrs. Thunderfuck" on the bottom.

This is an enchanted zippo though. The zippo never runs out of fluid, can never be damaged, and the zippo has to physically be closed for the flame to go out. It can't be blown out or put out with water. However this is just the flame from the zippo. Any fires started using the zippo can still be put out as normal. Zippo will also magically somehow always be right where Beverly expects to find it.)

[ There’s a box wrapped in gold paper and inside is a set of movies; Mona Lisa Smile, The Devil Wears Prada, Legally Blonde, The Runaways, and Brave. There’s also a basket of movie snacks to go with it. ]

[ A box wrapped in gold colored paper is left by his doorstep. Inside is a slingshot and many silver pellets. The slingshot is engraved with the words 'Losers'. There is also a box of ammunition for her weapon and a box of cupcakes. Attached is a small card that says:

Bev,

First weapon I ever used was a slingshot, and I've had a fondness for them ever since. People underestimate a slingshot, so they have no idea how powerful it can be. Kind of like your little gang. Let me know if you need any help using it.

I know what it's like being the only girl in a group full of boys, so you stay strong and if you ever need anything from a woman, you come talk to me. In the meantime, enjoy the gifts.

~Ashe

P.S. The cupcakes are from B.O.B. he enjoys baking.

Edited 2019-12-26 06:11 (UTC)

[ Bill got Bev a dandelion necklace because maybe it'll help all her wishes come true. Awww. ]

[ richie hadn't hesitated to give bev her main present of the emoji yoyos along with a shirt boldly declaring anxiety in whichever style is preferable to beverly, the way he'd been delivering everyone else's gifts with a little note that just said:

teach me your ways some time, yoyo master ;).

he had another gift though that required a conversation with bev first. something of a followup to the drunken mess of a confession/apology session he'd had with her roughly a week before.

hopefully, this one goes easier than the last. richie even makes a point of knocking at her bedroom door and waiting instead of just barging in through her window like he has for every other desperate, terrible conversation he's had with her in deerington so far. ]

Edited 2020-01-01 02:38 (UTC)

action - day of bev's...arrival? move in? whatever idk you know what this is

text; un: trashmouth

private text p much directly after marriage thread

text on the 15th;

text;

delivery on the 22nd

action; hours after the group chat disaster

Delivery - Just before Christmas

gift cxmas

delivered on christmas

Delivered on Christmas

christmas gifts

action; backdated to the 25th