problematic ➳ reddie

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April❀ age 11 -12

bill's lips met beverly's, the spotlight turned to them. their red lips brushed against each other, slightly craving for more, but yet bill found himself pulling away, glancing down at beverly's blue eyes.

and that's when the crowd cheered and began clapping their hands.

"that fucker did it!" richie giggled and nudged eddie's rib, who was grinning just as widely. the school was having its annual spring play. this year they had picked The Sleeping Beauty, starring beverly marsh and bill denbrough, bill being the prince and beverly being the princess.

stan was slowly clapping his hands, guiding his eyes somewhere else than the two kids, who were now holding hands and bowing towards the crowd.

soon the rest of the actors and actresses joined on the stage and the whole cast bowed and sent air kisses towards the crowd in front of them.

the clapping faded away after a moment, the chattering growing. bill and beverly looked down on the front row, spotting three of their friends. they carefully hopped down from the stage, meeting the trio.

"so? how'd you like it?" beverly asked, blushing.

"so fucking good" richie nodded. "really good, especially the little heated make out in the end"

bill flushed red.

"it wasn't a make out" stan exclaimed rather harshly.

the others looked at stan a bit weirded out.

"i-i mean there wasn't any tongue...." he coughed.

"ruh-right...anyways, wuh-we should probably get ah-away from these clothes" bill turned to beverly who nodded agreeing. "yup. see you guys later"

" sure will" eddie assured before looking at stan, who looked extremely bothered. "what's the deal with you?"

"me? what do you mean?" stan choked out.

"yeah, you're always weird around beverly" richie crossed his arms.

"am not. you two are weird" stan defended, his words slurring together.

"is there something you're not telling us, stan the man?" richie squinted his eyes as he flung an arm stan's shoulders.

"n-no..." he shivered.

"liar!" richie grinned excitedly. "you have a secret"

stan flushed red.

"you so do! what is it? do you have a boner constantly?"

stan almost choked. "no! what the hell?"

"are you dating someone?"

stan shook his head. "just drop it"

"do you have a crush on someone?" richie wiggled his brows. stan shook his head, but the bright red blush on his cheeks told that he wasn't completely wrong.

"is it bevvie?" richie asked giggling and stan shook his head harshly.

"bill?" eddie asked softly before them. both of the taller boys' heads turned to look down. stan had turned red as a tomato now.

richie snapped his head to the peanut hue, who wanted to sink under ground.

"bill? you like-"

"i need to go home" stan cut richie off. "i don't have a secret. just drop it"

and with that, the curly haired beauty turned around and exited the gym.

eddie and richie looked after him for a while, until looking at each other.

"should we....?"

eddie shook his head. "no...he doesn't wanna talk about it"

"maybe that's why he's been acting so weird..." richie said.

"we don't know if he likes b-"

"oh g-good you're sssstill here" bill exhaled happily from behind them, wearing his own flannel and cuffed jeans, a bag hanging from his other shoulder. "can ih-i walk wuh-with you two. buh-bev had t-to luh-leave pretty quickly"

richie bit his lip as he tried to keep his mouth shut about to theory he had, but eddie kicked his ankle.

"sure" eddie smiled widely and linked his arm with bill and pulled him towards the exit, looking over his shoulder at richie and shaking his head rapidly.

"soo...." richie caught up with them and looked at bill. "how was the kiss?"

"g-good" bill smiled.

"did you wanted to kiss her? like was that your dream?" richie kept asking, making bill blush lightly.

"wuh-why do you wuh-wanna know?"

"I'm curious" richie smirked.

"muh-maybe..." bill shrugged.

"oooh someone has a crush" richie teased, trying to squeeze something about stan out of bill, but instead he got.

"ih-i can't duh-deny..."

"what?!" eddie and richie exclaimed in sync.

"duh-did I h-hide it that wuh-well?" bill furrowed his brows.

"but stan-"

"stan is a great friend" eddie cut richie off and tapped bill's shoulder. "so when did you realize you were crushing on bevvie?"

"ih-immediately when Ih-i saw her..."bill smiled a bit. "this suh-seems stupid to t-tell this..."

"cause it is" richie groaned.

"what richie means....is that it's stupid to listen to this, when we both obviously knew you two liked each other but-"

"you t-think sh-she likes muh-me too?" bill asked excitedly.

eddie looked over at richie, who gave eddie a smug look.

"i-i...i wouldn't know that for a fact but...." eddie rambled. "i'm not saying that she hates you, i just....i think that she might...or that you...i don't know, bill"

bill smiled a little before humming in confidence. "t-thanks guys..."

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a/n sorry this one was shorter but i just somehow couldn't focus on this chapter at all. next one will hopefully be better