#but its okay bc richie ends up comforting max and telling him that he misses him

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npmd except max walks into the school angry and confident and full of revenge on a mission to kill richie but looks around and sees how happy everyone is without him and hears everyone talking about how glad they are that he's gone and he can see that everything is clearly better now that he's dead. and he just deflates as every ounce of anger and adrenaline leaves his body. and when richie finds himself alone in the locker room ready to shower after everyone leaves, rather than hearing his name be called out menacingly he hears faint crying coming from someone where in the locker room. and he's shocked to find what looks to be max jagerman in tatters, both physically and emotionally, curled up in a ball sobbing in the corner.