Soap Being Soap

Okay but imagine

in the 27 years between the losers first beating Pennywise until their reunion as adults, Eddie and Richie are separated long enough that they each forget about the other, but they eventually meet, fall in love (or I suppose rediscover their old love for each other w/o actually remembering they were childhood friends), and have time to get married before Mike ever calls them. Mike is able to find everyone’s name and phone number just fine, but is stomped on Eddie, trying every Eddie/Edward K and Kaspbrak he can find, without luck. Dread starts to fill him as he thinks maybe the worst possible thing has happened. Then he calls Richie. On the off-chance he might know something (those two were awfully close way back when...) he asks Richie if maybe he knows something. Richie sits there in stunned silence for almost a minute, and Mike starts to think he’s hung up on him, when there’s an almost inaudible, disbelieving and high pitched croak on the other line and Richie’s voice sounds almost manic as he says, “did you look under Eddie Tozier?”