Don't Speak(Reddie)

Chapter Five

Eddie

It was a week after Richie and  I kissed for the second time.  It was a week after I shocked the hell out of myself and actually spoke. It may have only been a whisper but a word came out of my mouth for the first time in 6 years. All because of Richie 'Trashmouth' Tozier. The kiss  took my breath away and filled me with so many unknown feelings. I didn't even think when the word left my lips, it was just natural. Because of this I avoided spending alone time with Richie because I knew he's be trying to get more words out of me. 

The only time we hung-out the whole week was when it was all four of us. I noticed Stan and Bill had gotten a lot closer. I was wondering if they were finally getting close to admitting their feelings to each other. My phone vibrated and broke me out of my thoughts.

Richie: You can't keep avoiding me forever Eds.

Of course he knew I was avoiding him. We'd only known each other for about 4 months and he could already read me like a book. I decided not to respond mainly because I didn't know how but of course I wasn't getting off the hook that easily. Another vibration.

Richie: Meet me at our spot in The Barrens. Stan and Bill already told me they're busy tomorrow so you can't use them as an excuse. Also if you don't I'll just come to your house and while I'm sure your mom would love a visit from me, I'm pretty sure you don't want that.

I knew Richie well enough at this point to know he wasn't bluffing and if I didn't go he'd show up at my house tomorrow. My mom wasn't too fond of the foul mouthed boy and I knew it wouldn't go over well if he came over. Also when had his spot in The Barrens become ours? We'd only gone there together a few times. 

I shot him a quick text back. Fine. Was all it said. 

I went to bed that night thinking about Richie.

I woke up the next day to my phone buzzing on my nightstand. I looked at the screen and of course it was Richie. Why did he even bother to call me? He must be losing his mind. I answered the call anyway and as soon as I did he was talking. "Not even a hello? Yeesh.  Get your ass here Eds." I rolled my eyes at his joke and hung up on him. I dressed quickly and made my way to The Barrens as fast as  I could. The quicker I went, the less of a chance there was of me running into Henry Bowers.

When I got there I wasn't surprised to see Richie already there, resting lazily on a blanket he brought every time we hung-out here now. That was one thing that I really liked about Richie, he was very considerate of me for the most part. Of course sometimes he couldn't help but tease me, but mostly he was pretty accommodating when it came to my germaphobia. I didn't have to speak for him to notice I was there. He patted the spot next to him and at down next to his laying form. 

"So tell me my dear Eds, why have you been avoiding me?" It was summer time so there was no saying I had class or anything like that. I let out an exasperated sigh and pulled my phone out knowing that Richie wasn't going to let it go because he never let anything go. One of the things I disliked about him. 'I know now that I said one measly word you're going to take it and run with it. You're going to annoy me now more than ever about talking.'

"Well maybe if I knew why you didn't want to I wouldn't bug you about it." I scoffed because he and I both knew that that wasn't true.  He'd bug me about it no matter what. I sat my phone down next to me and looked out over the small field of flowers and greenery we were surrounded by. He let out a bit of a frustrated noise and jabbed my hip with one of his fingers. I jolted a bit and slapped his hand away. I picked my phone up and began typing. 'I haven't even whispered a word to anyone in 6 years. Not to my best-friends, not to my mom, not to anyone. I'm kind of annoyed that someone I've only known for a few months has made me break my vow and I'm also annoyed that part of me wants to keep breaking it.' It was annoying that this loud mouth made me actually want to break the vow of silence I had committed myself to. 

He made me want to take everything I felt like I knew about people and toss it out the window. Of course what I told him made that stupid smug smile appear on his face. "Then do it. I won't tell anyone if it'll make you feel better." I shook my head at him and didn't say a word. It's not that I didn't trust Richie, it was just important to me that my vow not be broken and one day I would tell him why, maybe one day soon. "Fine but you better not try to start avoiding me again because I will embarrass the ever living fuck out of you and I know you don't want that." I was thankful that he dropped it and agreed not to avoid him again because I knew all too well Richie would stay true to his word if I did.

A/N: I hope everyone is seriously wondering what this vow of silence is about because I will be explaining it sooner than you might think!