More than friends {Reddie fanfic}

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He slowly turns around, his heart dropping into his stomach, his scared brown eyes flick up meeting an evil gaze from none other than Henry Bowers... "What do you want Bower's..."

"Did you really think you could ruin my tires and just get away with it?"

"Like that could be any worse than the shit to the shit you've done..."

"Well add this moment to the list" Henry says stepping closer to him flicking his famous pocketknife out, his steps seem to echo off the brick wall as he gets closer inch by inch leaving Eddie pressed up against the wall behind him fear paralyzing him. "Get the fuck away from me Henry"

"Or what? You gonna cry"

Eddie lets out a yelp as Henry leaps forward taking a fist full of his brown hair slamming him down to the ground, he groans his face pressed against the dirt as Henry places his body weight on top of him. "You and your whole group are just a bunch of fucking fairy's, but they aren't here to protect you now Kaspbrak..." Eddie tried to say something before Henry lift his head again causing Eddie to grit his teeth with a sudden motion his face his bashed against the concrete blood wasting no time in rushing out of his nose staining the ground under him, Eddie's breathing goes crazy his lungs seeming to not work all of sudden his breath coming out in wheezy gasp his ears ringing loudly. "You shouldn't have fucked with me tiny..."

"L-Leave me alone... P-Please" Eddie gasp his teeth clenching again as henry lift his head once again forcing Eddie to look meeting his sick and twisted gaze, "What was that I couldn't hear you" he laughs loudly smashing his head of the ground again, Eddie went limp his head throbbing the loud ringing getting louder... "Get the fuck off of him!" A loud voice screams before the weight on Eddie's body was suddenly lifted and a pair of arms were around him "Eddie!? Eddie come on say something please!" It was Bev, Eddie peal's his eyes open looking up greeted by her bright red hair and her worried green eyes "Where did you come from?" he asked, his eyes still squinted trying to calm the throbbing pain in his head down, "Mike come on!" She calls out and suddenly Mike was by his side too helping Eddie up to his feet suddenly feeling like he could throw up. He was lifted into the basket in front of Mike's bike, which made Eddie upset he was thankful for his friends but seriously... He could still in the basket that his ten-year-old self could, that has to say something.

The two bike over to the closet house which just happened to be Richie's, Bev jumps off her bike not caring as it slams off the ground, she rushes up the steps and bangs on the door sounding like a mad man. Meanwhile Mike parks his bike helping Eddie onto his feet keeping a hold of his shoulders making sure he doesn't fall, "Jesus Bev what the fuck?" Richie snaps pulling open the front door glaring at his friend "That asshole was trying to fucking kill Eddie!" Bev snaps back suddenly his glare drops looking at her worried which only gets other when Mike and Eddie walk up, his face covered in his own blood that smudged everywhere his eyes still squinted open... "What the fuck!?"

"I'm fine, calm down you two" Eddie groans waving his hand but the two just stare at him as Mike help's him up the steps nearly falling over on the last one, but he makes it inside of the house and flops down on the couch groaning, "Ed's what the hell happened?" Richie says squatting down in front of him. "Bowers happened" He shrugs "He was all pissed off and started slamming my head off the ground... now I have a massive fucking headache"

"Jesus... Here sit up I'll clean the blood off your face" Richie sighs walking into the kitchen while Bev helps Eddie sits up, he felt like a baby and did not like it. "I told you guys I'm fine it's just a headache"

"Eddie you could have a concussion" Bev snaps at him which panics the boy... Oh god what if he did what if he ends up falling asleep a goes into a coma or something!? "Oh fuck..."

"Don't start panicking, okay? If this dizziness or nausea doesn't go away soon we'll take home, and you can go to the hospital"

The fucking hospital... "I'm sorry, god what was I think pissing Bower's off it's like a death wish!"

"Eddie relax, Bower's is a dick and you only pierced his tires there was no need to go ahead and try and crack your skull... He's fucking sick" Bev tries to reassure him, but she could tell the boy was still freaking out, Richie comes back into the room holding a wet cloth in his hand sitting down next to him on the couch. The room falls silent as Richie gently grabs the side of his jawline moving his face to look at him starting to wipe the dry blood off his face, he tries to ignore the pair of big brown eye's staring back at him... He wished he would just look away, God he loved his eyes... The cloth in his hand lightly flicks over his bottom lip and Richie has to control the erg to stare, "Hey me and Mike are gonna be outside for a sec" Bev says suddenly her hand wrapped around his arm dragging him out of the house flashing the two a smile before closing the door. "What was that about?" Eddie hums looking over at the door "Bev I fucking love you" Richie thinks, he must have been staring which Bev would have noticed since that's her thing she notices everything and wanted to save him from the embarrassment of the two of them just standing there.

"No clue, you sure it's just your head hurting?" Richie sighs still wiping away the blood, it felt weird seeing him like see... Eddie never got into fights never got himself dirty and now here he was his face smeared with blood his clothes dirty due to the gravel, "Well my face, but that's just because of the ground" Eddie shrugs moving his head to allow him to get another spot on his face, it falls silent between the two but Eddie could tell that Richie was still worried like somehow he was just going to randomly flop over and die. "Rich I'm fine" he speaks up placing his hand on top of Richie's the size difference enough to be spotted Eddie had short and rounder fingers while Richie's were long and skinny like twigs, Richie looks at him through his glasses "Hey you got them fixed!" he gasps noticing the crack in the glass was no longer there.

"Yeah, mom forced me to"

"I can't believe she had to force you" Eddie snickers shaking his head, "They were broken, could you even see"

"Of course, If I couldn't see your face every day then I would have gotten them fixed first thing" Richie smirks, the smaller boy's heart flutters his eyes wide his lips parted... Did Richie Tozier just flirt with him? He should have laughed it off, but he couldn't his body was frozen processing the words that had just ran off of his tongue, Richie had just flirted with him... And he didn't mind, he liked it... "Holy shit I like Richie flirting with me!?" Eddie thinks to himself trying to understand why he would enjoy his male friend flirting with him, he couldn't be gay... No that just isn't Eddie, but now that he thought about it girls never did anything for him, he would even roll his eyes once his friends started talking about them or playboy magazines... Could Eddie seriously be gay...

"In the sense that I wouldn't get to see your annoyed glare every time I make a joke" Richie adds a few seconds later noticing how Eddie stared at him like a million thoughts were running in his brain, "God what was I thinking!? Why the hell would you flirt with him!" Richie beats himself up over it... He ruined everything didn't he?

"Well, your jokes suck Richie, any person would roll their eyes" Eddie finally speaks up going back to normal like nothing... Because that's what he wants to feel, like he didn't just enjoy the fact his friend flirted with him and the chance of him being gay... "You're going to grow to love them one day Ed's, I know it"

"And if that day ever comes, please have me checked into a mental hospital"

"Oh yeah, maybe you and Bowers could be roommates?" Richie teases seeing that glare he was talking about the one that always made him smile, "Not funny"

"Very funny and you love it"

"Whatever you say Richard" Eddie shrugs smiling when he sees his friends cringed face, Richie hated his full name that's why he went by Richie because according to him it sounds much cooler than Richard... Eddie couldn't stop thinking as Richie finished cleaning his face... He could be gay, Eddie Kaspbrak... Gay?