not quite goodbye - a reddie story :)

part 3 - break up

Richie drops his bike in front of house and rushes through the front door, slamming it shut. Per usual, his parents aren't home. When he gets to his room he collapses onto his bed. He just wanted to go to sleep forever, why was this so painful?
He had barely any tears left by then, dry, heavy sobs wracked his body.
"You're so pathetic" says the same voice as before after about 10 minutes. Richie sits straight up looking around for the source, still nothing.
He knew something or someone was there, there had to be. He didn't believe that he was just hearing things. But after a minute or two of frantically looking around he gave up.
So he wipes those stupid tears away, and gets up. He might as well try to do something now, crying won't help him at all no matter how much it hurt. He had to distract himself. Richie walks down the stairs into the kitchen, and with that, he calls bill.
"Hello?" None other than Ms. Denbrough's voice answers.
"Can I speak to bill?" Richie responds quietly.
"Why of course hun! He'll be on in a moment" she replies cheerfully.
"Bill! Your friend is on the phone!" Richie hears her call out before putting the phone down.
After a few seconds he hears the phone being picked up.
"Y-yes? This is b-b-bill."
"Hi bill" richie says trying to keep the guilt out of his voice.
He felt bad for he'd looked at and spoke to bill earlier, and how he had left without saying goodbye.
"What d-do you want?" Bill snaps at him sounding offended.
"Look, im sorry, I didn't mean to be such a dick earlier, can you get the others to meet up by the barrens?" Richie replies.
Bill sighs and goes completely silent for a moment, thinking about his decision.
"Yeah fuh-fine" he says.
"Great, I'll see you there" richie says before hanging up the phone.

~ (time skip)

"Hi richie" bev says as she approaches him with the other losers trailing behind her.
Richie was sitting on a large rock near the entrance of the sewer. He nods and gives a slight smile as everyone settles down.
"Guys I'm sorry" he says, obviously regretting being so bitter then pulling them away from the funeral. It wasn't their fault he couldn't control himself.
"I don't know why I've been acting this way lately, I just

I miss eddie" he continues.

He's met with an uncomfortable silence. None of them had really spoken his name since the day it happened. It was a shock to all of them, including richie himself.
"W-well we do too, s-so thats no g-good excuse" bill says refusing to make eye contact.
"You don't understand bill" richie whispers.
"No, we don't understand richie! But you aren't even trying to care about us are you? Just because he fucking died doesn't mean you get to act like we aren't important to you anymore" stan snaps, staring richie straight in the eyes as Bill had failed to do.
"Lay off" beverly says, she sounded pained. "We all miss him but we shouldn't start fights because of it"
"Well I'm duh-done with this g-group, c'mon s-stan" bill says, grabbing Stan's hand and pulling him away.
"No! Don't go! Please!" Mike begs, speaking up for the first time since they'd gotten there.
"Well if they're going then I guess I will too" ben whispers as he gets up and walks in another direction.
Beverly and Mike look desperately at richie.
"Well, I didn't need this group anyways" richie shouts at bill, ben, and stan who probably couldn't hear him by now. And with that he storms off. It wasn't supposed to end this way, he wished that may 25th had never happened. Yeah, it was 2 months and 3 days ago, but it still hurt like hell, it was still causing problems.
School shouldnt have let out early, maybe this would've never happened. Maybe eddie would still be here.
Richie didn't bring his bike this time so of course, now he had to fucking walk all the way home.
What a fucking great day, huh?
Eddie's funeral and the losers break up? How could it get any worse?
And then it gets worse.
Henry's friend, patrick was it? was standing by the kissing bridge nearby
The exact bridge that richie had to cross. Richie was about to duck out of the way and hide until he went away but it was too late, patrick saw him. "Uhhh, hii?" Richie says awkwardly as Patrick starts slowly approaching him. "So you're the one who got my buddy thrown into prison for life?" Patrick snarls.
Richie doesn't waste one second, he bolts past patrick knowing that patrick wouldn't wanna chase him, everyone knew in derry knew that richie was fucking quick.

(Off topic but toasted bagels are real fucking good)