-so roller skating is like a lot of balance okay, it’s swaying your body and pushing with just your legs and trying not to fall
-the lanky boys™ have the hardest time because the lankier you are, the clumsier you are sorry i don’t make the rules
-therefore, bill, stan and richie are flying all over the place
-richie has a knack for speed but he falls a lot so that just means he zooms and then slams into a wall or into eddie or just down onto his face
-bill is just like clinging onto a wall like a kid, pushing himself aroud while glaring at bev, ben, eddie, and mike who are just gliding around the rink like professionals
-mike is helping stan out, a hand on his hip and holding one of stan’s hands in the other, just kind of pushing him around while stan is just not moving, focusing on not falling on his face and embarrassing himself in front of his (perfect-at-everything) boyfriend
-ben and bev, oh gosh, are just like this perfect, adorable couple who are holding hands and talking and occasionally spinning each other and leaning over to give each other a soft kiss and it’s just so precious and straight out of a romcom
-eddie is just skating around by himself
-he offered to help richie but richie is stubborn and refusing help, claiming he would get the hang of it on his own (really he just didn’t want to feel belittled by eddie. he feels embarrassed that he looks like a fucking disaster flying around)
-eventually eddie gets bored of harassing bill and just skating by himself so he sneaks up behind richie and just grabs his hand, effectively preventing him from falling again
-“i’m gonna help you, dumbass, before you get more bruises”
-richie’s face and neck burns red but he lets eddie help him nonetheless, because how is he going to deny a cute boy holding his hand
-he doesn’t necessarily get the hang of it after a couple hours, but he does stop falling.
-he can’t really turn, or stop, so eddie just skates backwards, holding both of his hands
-at one point eddie skated back right into a wall and richie can’t stop so they kind of just slam into each other, eddie pinned by richie and bill whistles and richie falls on his face trying to get away because he’s flustered
-yeah anyways eddie kind of just yanks him up and kisses him and richie falls again and this time drags eddie down with him painfully and they’re that cute couple that had their first kiss at a skating rink