Reddie

Part 3

eddie POV

i was so scared of what would happened to richie. we arrived at the hospital and they rusdhed him into a room to do a and told us to wait outside. i reached for my inhaler and bill was strying to keep me calm. me and richie are best friends. i hate to see him in pain. why didn't he tell us any of this before. what felt like hours passed and the doctor finally came out. he wil be okay, he juts needs some rest. we have called the police and they are on their way to take his parents to prison. we all nodded. can we go and see them. only one person please. we all turned around. they all looked at me and said i should go. so thats what i did. richie was laying in the bed. hey eds. don't call me that tozier. we both laughed. oh eddie, don't make me laugh. sorry rich. how you feeling? i asked. alright. they called the police, your parents are going to be locked up. richie siled. god i love that smile i though to my self. i walked over to hi bed and sat down in a chair. richie looked at me. why didn't you tell us richie. he gave me a smole. i was afraid if i did and my parents found out, they would-- he stopped. they would hurt you guys. they would hurt you. he looked away when he sai that. i felt my face become red. i gave him a weak smile. i grabbed his hand, he looked at me. he had tears coming down hi face. richie, your my best friend. you are always there to protect me. you were there when my mom hit me, and i had that terrible dream. and when IT attacked us. richie you help calm me down. i don't know what i would do if i lost you. things could have been worse if you didn't tell us wjat really happened right then. tears were threatening to come out of my eyes. another tear came down his face. he squeezed my hand tighter. i looked at his arms again and saw all the markings he did. did you also do that anywhere else. i asked. he nodded his head. he showed me the ones on his legs and i finally snapped. the tears were streaming down. i was breathing heavily and sobbing. hey, it's okay, everything is okay. he kept saying. he grabbed my arm and pulled me on the bed. he layed my head on his chest. i was crying harder now. i grabbed my inhaler and hit the trigger taking the medicine down. shh, shh, he kept saying. it's okay. richie, promise me you will stop this, please. eddie, you have to understand something. i'm still here onlt because of you. what? i said looking up in his face. eddie, your my only light in this world. i gave a weak smile. really? yeah, he said. he started rubbing my head and playing my my hair. why did i fall for this one, and a boy. 

richie

the hospital finally realsed me and eddie was waiting for me outside. my parents are locked up finally and i was staying with eddie and bill. eddie had been staying with bill because of his mother. when we got to bills house i was welcomed by his family and by the one and only losers club. after a while everyine left and it was onlt me eddie and bill. there was a knock at the door. bill it's for you. his mother called. bill came up with 2 other people. guys this is luke and carl. hi. luke, carl. this is eddie, and this is richie. hey. well bill we are going to be staying wth you for a little. so are they. ha. we all smiled. some one called and it was for me. it was my new caseworker. she was giving me an update on the trial and something else. WHAT! i screamed. when she hung up i went back to bills room. they were all looking at me. whats going on? eddie asked. that was my caseworker. she just told me that i have been living with the wrong family, not just because of what they did, but i'm not a tozier, but i'm a wheeler. what? i have a different mother and father, i have a bug sister and a little sister and a, idenical twin brother. okay, that is pretty big to put on someone after just getting out of the hospital. wait, whats going on? carl asked. eddie looked at me, i nodded. richies parents used to abuse him and they finally are in prison but the had to be hospitalized, oh and he has tried to kill himself. wow. carl and luke said. she also told me the trial is next week. already? eddie asked. yeah. god i hate this. i said plopping on the bed. there was another knock at the door. we heard someone walking up stairs. when they opened the door it was eddies mother. what are you doing here. eddie, i knew you would be here. come, we have to help your sickness. what sickness mom. your sickness. your just homophobic. i said defending eddie. you hit him, and he can't forgive you for that. you said he was sick for no reason. your just  homophobic, a other should love their child no matter what and never call them sick. do you hear me. tozier, you have no speaking in this. i do. oh really why? because my mother and father, i said in quotation marks, abused me, i just got out of the hospital, my real father was killed in front of me by my mother, and they are finally in prison, so yes, i do have a say in this. i practicly yelled at her. well, richie, i am very sorry, i had no idea. no one did till a few days ago. and you always insisted on hating me, you never asked how i am feeling. look, i know you don't like this but, eddie is who he is, and nothing, no medicine, no doctor, nothing in the world can change who he is. you have to accept that. she looked at me in disbelief. okay, she simple said. eddie, you have a chioce stay here, or come back with me. i want to stay here for a little while. but i promise i will come back. okay eddie. wait! mom, before you go. he ran to her and gave her a hug. thank you mommy. she hugged back and smiled. she then left and eddie turned around. i was smiling at him. i then started feeling weird. i got dizzy. my eyes were getting heavy. richie? eddie said. bill lokked at me, i started swaying back and forh. my breathing became heavy. the room was getting darker. richie! i heard eddie say as i fell to the ground. i hit my arm and it felt like it broke.  eddie and bill lifted me up to get me to bills parents. they were doctors. they had a huge set up. when we got downstairs everything went black and i collapsed on top of eddie. 

eddie

i had just made up with my mother. i looked at richie. he was smiling at first but he started looking weird. richie? i said. bill looked over. richie collapsed and i ran over to him. he was having trouble breathing. he looked like he was choking. blood came out of his nose as he collapsed again when we got down stairs. i-i got my p-p-parents. bill said. mom dad! he yelled. they came running in adn they had everything they needed. the took him in the basement where they had everything. it was like a huge hospital room. when they set him on the bed he started seizing. they said we all needed to get out. bill grabbed me and we went out of the room. oh my god! i screamed. i was close to tears. what is going to happen to richie! is he going to be okay! he just got out today! bill was trying to calm me down but i coulsn't my best friend, and crush if in pain, and i still badly hurt. they doctors said he would be fine. what seemed like hours passed again and bills mom came upstairs. we had to emergency surgry. what! i yelled getting up. he is okay, but the doctors at the hospital didn't notie one of his ribs were broken, and he was walking like that for to long and it punctured a lung. he will be okay. i started calming down a little more after they said he would be okay. they let us in to see him, he was still asleep. i just kept staring at him waiting for him to wake up. an hour or so past and he finally woke up. i told him what happened. i'm just glad your okay i said. he smiled. me to. he said, bill told luke and carl to give me and richie a minute. they left and it was just me and richie, alone. i started at him. i kept going from his eyes to his lips. i wanted to kiss him right then and there, but he isn't gay, is he? stare much? he said. oh sorry, just happy your awake. he just smiled. hey eddie, can i tell you something. sure. no one knows this, but i know you will get me. eddie, i'm- he paused. your what? i'm gay he in a whisper. really? yeah. and there is a boy. he has brown hair, had freckles on his face all over. he wears shorts and a red shirt all the time. he has 2 fannypacks. he looked at me and smiled. and i have had this crush since i met him. well, there is this boy with dark hiar, he has big glasses, he is hurt, just got out of the hospital. we both looked at each other adn smiled. and at the same time we said, " and he is right next to me"!