More than friends {Reddie fanfic}

17

After spending another few hours on the road playing Uno and trying not to kill each other the sun start's to set, in minutes the sky was dark filling up with stars "We should find a place to sleep for the night" Ben suggest the other's nodding in agreement so Bev holds to map up her green eyes scanning the paper for a quick second before speaking up "It says there is a camp motel nearby"

"Do we have the money for all of us?" Stanley asks, he had a point did seven teenagers have the money to spend... "Well, no but we have plenty of money for two people" Bev smirks "Can you not count?" Eddie rolls his eyes the insult coming out before he could even think about what he said, he was like that when he was tired much ruder and blunt so the group didn't react like it was really insult Bev just rolls her eyes "What I mean is, me and Mike can check in pretending like it's just the two of us then we can sneak you guy's in"

"And that's going to work?"

"It's a random motel on the side of a high Stan, it's going to work" Once the group all agrees to the plan Mike turn's onto one of the exits driving for a few more minutes before pulling into the parking lot of said motel, it definitely wasn't a five star place but it was going to do fine for just a few hours of sleep.. Well, that's what Eddie keeps telling himself as he peaks out of the watching the two as they walk into the check in office, the back of the van had fallen silent like they were afraid of being heard somehow. The pair spends a few minutes inside of the building a smile on Bev's face as she speaks to the women about something causing her to laugh seconds later but after what feels like forever, they come strolling out climbing into the van like nothing happened, "So?" Richie breaks the silence sitting up Bev wait's a few seconds before dangling the keys in the air "Told ya it would work"

"Thank god a bed!" Stanley groan's loudly his sudden stretch causing his back to crack, Mike drives the van over to the parking in front one of the doors a few feet away from where they had been parked before letting Bev get out first to unlock the door while he walked towards the back of the van pretending like he was looking for luggage. He peaks past the door then signals for Ben to go which he does Bev holds the door open letting him easily sneak inside, then the group repeated the same steps... Mike would make sure the women wasn't looking then signal for one of them to go while Bev held the door open, Eddie finally gets the signal to go so he hops out of the back of the van moving against it before booking it into the room seeing the other's crashed onto the bed since he was the last one that needed to sneak it Mike actually brings the bag's in while Bev shuts and locks the door. "Good job ninja team" Bev chuckles dropping down onto the bed landing next to Bill, "I know right, damn I really should be a spy" Richie hums looking pleased with himself. "Well now that getting into the room is out of the way, what's going on with the bed situation?" Eddie sighs, looking between the two king size beds that everyone was huddled on.

"Four of us can crash on the bed's well the other's sleep on the floor, we have enough pillows and blankets to make it comfortable" Bev shrugs like it was somehow going to be easy for the seven of them to decide which four get the beds, "I call one of them I don't care, I will fight somehow for it my back is killing me!" Stanley blurts out first holding his hand out in the air "I'll c-crash w-w-with Stan" Bill stutters out looking over at his best friend "I'm not fighting with you guys, so I guess I'll take the floor" Eddie sighs too tired to even think about arguing with anyone. "I'll take the floor too" Richie adds while sliding off the bed standing next to Eddie while Ben and Mike share a look "I'm cool with the floor" Mike shrugs leaving Bev and Ben with the other large bed, like they were in synced Eddie and Richie turn their head's both sharing the same look a smirk growing on both of their faces "Think they're going to get up to anything?" Richie whispers making Eddie snicker "Ben? God no way the guy's probably going to sleep on the edge of the bed"

"Hey, give the man some credit, maybe he'll pull out some moves and win her over"

"Doubt it" Eddie chuckles again while walking over to the large pile of pillows and blankets tossing one of each over to Richie before taking two for himself letting Mike have his pick to the rest of them, while the four of them get settled into the bed Stanley passing out almost instantly the three left on the floor lay their pillow's down. Once Eddie lay's down he glances over to the right side of him seeing Richie laid a few feet away through the dark he could tell Richie was staring up at the ceiling the room had gone quiet the only noises was the sound of soft breathing and a few soft snores coming from Mike who was on the other side of the room, "What are you thinking about?" Eddie whispers making him turn his head, their eyes meeting through the darkness. "Doesn't this feel weird, I just remember... This is the first time I have ever been out of Darry"

"Me too... It does feel weird, like I feel like I should be in my bed hearing my mom's shitty reality tv shows from downstairs"

"Well, that's better than hearing nothing, like you could hear a coin drop in my house it's that quiet"

"You don't like the quiet?" Why was he asking that? He already knew Richie hated it, it's one of the reasons he would always speak up when the room got too quiet something about it affected him... "Nope, makes me think too much"

"What?" Eddie stares at him with a confused expression letting out a soft laugh turning onto his side to see Richie better the other teen doing the same thing, "When it gets all quiet like this it makes me go into my head... And I don't like it, I hate over thinking stuff"

"You and me both" Eddie sighs, "I get it though, the quiet it weird"

"I'm glad you said yes Eddie, this is nice... Being with all of you"

"Yeah... It really is, even though we could get lost at any points I feel like I'm relaxing more than I do in the safety of my own house... I feel safe with you, you- guys" Eddie corrects himself before Richie had the chance to notice himself "Me too" Richie gives him a soft smile before laying back down on his back letting out a sigh "Night Ed's"

"Night Rich"