rhiannon- eddie munson [discontinued]

[2]

2. 𝘧𝘶𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴

eddie was curled up on the floor, his eyes fixed on the body of chrissy cunningham. he was freaking out, mumbling things incomprehensibly.

unlike the munson boy, rhiannon snapped out of her daze.

rhiannon grabbed eddie's hands and started to pull him up from his sitting position on the floor.
"eddie, we have to go."

this made him finally look at her.
"what- i don't understand- we can't just- we can't just leave her!"

"eddie, please, help me out here, we need to go, now."

"no, no, no, no, no... oh shit, oh shit, this is really bad, this is really, really bad!" he pulled his hands out of hers and backed away, his hands going to his rest on his head. "we can't leave her, everyone's going to think i did this, but i didn't do this, hopper, i didn't, i didn't!"

eddie was clearly relapsing into another breakdown. rhiannon decided to try a gentler approach. she slowly moved in front of him, until they were so close that their faces were an inch away from each other. she gently cupped his face in her hands, the cool metal of her rings pressing into his face. she gently turned his head so that he locked eyes with her. he stopped his rambling and stared into her eyes, his mouth hanging open.

"eddie," she began, keeping her voice soft and her movements slow, "listen to me. you're right. if we stay here, they will think that you did it, but i know that you didn't, ok? the thing is, the cops won't know that. and we're not going to stick around long enough to let them find out. please, let's just get out of here." she felt like she was talking to a child, or a deer caught in headlights.

they were so close that they could feel each other's breath. for a second, eddie's eyes wandered, moving down her face to her full lips. as soon as he realised what he was doing, he broke away from her hold.

"yeah, yeah, ok. i know a place we can go, we can lay low for a bit by ourselves. nobody will find us there. first i just have to, er..."

he strode down the hall to his bedroom, where his guitar was hanging proudly on his wall. he kissed his hand and planted it on the guitar strings. "i'll be back for you, honey."

he reappeared at rhiannon's side seconds later.
"what did you- you know what? never mind." the blonde decided against questioning it.

eddie grabbed the keys to his van off the side table and then walked out the front door, taking extra care not to look at chrissy. rhiannon followed shortly after.

when rhiannon got outside, eddie was sliding into the driver's seat of his van. she opened the passenger door and quickly slipped into the seat.
"where are we going?"

"my supplier's house. he's in prison right now, so everybody knows its empty."

"great."

he turned the key in the ignition and hit the gas. eddie usually drove like a maniac, but this time, he was officially running from the law: he had a good reason to. and he had this strange girl that he had just met earlier that day in the passenger seat. he didn't know why, but he felt that he wasn't trying to save his own skin- he was trying to save hers.