Do Not Fucking Touch Me // Reddie

One

"Hey, asshole!" Eddie yells, running up to his friend Richie Tozier.

Richie rolls his eyes and hands Eddie an ice cream cone dripping at the sides. Eddie hates messes, so he quickly cleans the cone off with a napkin he pulls from his fanny pack.

"Are you serious? Why can't you just lick it?" Richie asks, laughing at his clean freak of a best friend.

"Do you have any idea how many germs are on a person's tongue?" Eddie defends himself, which in return gets Richie to stick his tongue out and pretend to lick his friend.

Eddie leans away quickly in horror, and makes a disgusted face.

"Gross!" Eddie says, trying to get over the fact that Richie would never cease messing with the poor boy.

"So, why did you ask me to meet you here?" Richie asks, changing the subject.

Eddie's face turns white and him and Richie begin walking with their cones down the street. "I've been seeing it again," Eddie explains.

He could tell at once that Richie was becoming confused. "In my dreams, Rich," he clarifies.

Richie still looks concerned. They sit at a bench by the road.

"What happens in the dream?" Richie asks and licks at his ice cream.

Eddie sighs deeply and has a hand on his inhaler fully prepared to use it.

"It's just a memory, really," Eddie says, "I can't stop seeing him over me, with my arm broken, no way of moving."

Eddie looks down at his cast, which says Lover on it. The V is written in red ink by himself after that mean girl wrote loser on it.

Rich puts a hand on Eddie's shoulder. "I'm sorry, Eds."

Eddie hates it when Richie called him that, but he lets it pass because he is so upset, and for once Richie isn't insulting him. He has to admit, it is a nice change.

"Have you told any of the others?" Richie asks.

Eddie shakes his head. His ice cream is melting down the cone again. He doesn't care.

"Why me?" Richie asks after a few seconds of contemplation.

Eddie shrugs. "I didn't want to scare them. You're .... the bravest person I know."

Richie looks confused. He also looks happy. "Really?" He cracks a smile.

Eddie looks him in the eye. "Are you serious!? The way you took on Pennywise with that bat!" He laughs, "It was so badass."

Richie smiles and so does Eddie.

"I won't let it hurt you again," Richie says.

Eddie smiles. "Promise?"

He holds out his pinky on the arm with the cast. Richie giggles and links his finger with Eddie's.

"I promise."