problematic ➳ reddie

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march ❀ age 12-13

eddie entered the boys locker room, his other classmates walking in front of him, shirts wet from all the sweat. it was a rough PE class. running and jumping, everything what eddie hated. he couldn't jump very far, since he was so short and couldn't run very fast since his legs were small and weak. everyone made fun of him, but the insults have been fading away recently. eddie didn't know why, but he was happy that he didn't get called 'skinny legs' or 'dwarf' anymore.

just 'girly boy'.

the boys headed to the showers, eddie waiting to go last, since he didn't want to be in the middle of the others naked bodies, the dirt coming off of their body with the water and sliding to eddie's feet.

that's disgusting.

so eddie waited, towel in his hands and when the boys started walking out of the shower space, he went in, put the towel aside and put on the shower, cool water surrounding his body. he shivered a bit, but got used to it pretty soon.

and eddie didn't know what exactly made him do this, but he looked over at the other boys, who were removing the towels from their waists, eddie getting a nice view of their lower half. his breathing pitched in his throat as he felt a strange feeling in his abdomen. a feeling he has never felt before. it was like someone was stirring his insides, blood rushing to his thighs and making him exhale deeply.

he swallowed whilst he kept staring at the other boys, until a laugh brought him back to earth.

"ohmygod! look! eddie has a boner!" one of the boys laughed and pointed at the small eddie, who quickly looked down and saw that, indeed, he had a boner. a boner caused by looking at boys.

he covered his erection with his hands, tears forming into his eyes, not knowing why his dick was harder than it was before and why the hell was it pointing upwards.

"ew that's disgusting" one of the boys grimaced and walked closer to eddie, who was doing his best to cover himself up. "people like you should get killed! that's disgusting"

he gripped eddie's wrist and pulled it off from eddie's lower part, the other boys laughing at eddie.

"look at this faggot! a fucking boner for us!" he helf eddie's wrist up in the air, digging his nails into eddie's skin.

eddie didn't stop the tears not streaming down from his face, letting out a sob. the other boy looked over his shoulder and chuckled. "would you like me to wipe those tears away, queer?"

eddie didn't dare to look at anyone. he looked down at the bathroom floor, still covering his private parts. then the other boy let go of eddie's hand with a tug and shoved eddie against the tile wall. "you're so disgusting. fucking kill yourself, faggot"

and so the other boy left the shower space to the other boys who were still pointing at eddie and laughing like maniacs, pretending to gag.

eddie waited.

eddie waited everyone was out of the locker room and that's when he stepped out of the shower, tears smeared across his face. he pressed the towel against his lower part, opening his locker. he sobbed quietly, hearing the bell ring in the background, not wanting to leave this locker room to face other people.

he slowly put on his boxers, red shorts and a yellow shirt. after that, he sat on the bench, pulling on his high socks and putting on his shoes. and then he just sat. he didn't want to move. he felt ashamed of himself. his damp hair was sticking to his forehead, curling a bit at the ends.

30 minutes passed, eddie just sitting there, looking at the patterns on the floor.

"no! just wait there! i think I left my gym shorts here yesterday! just- why are you looking at me? just go find bev or something! just let me get my shorts, jeez bill"

footsteps came closer, until they suddenly stopped. "eddie?!"

the small boy looked up into richie's eyes, feeling the tears well up again.

"what's wrong?" richie asked. "what are you doing here?"

eddie's lower lips began trembling and that's all it took for the taller one to sit down next to eddie and embrace him in a tight hug. eddie leaned his head on richie's shoulder, his face against richie's neck. he let tears stain richie's shirt.

the other boy frowned sadly as he slid his hands against eddie's rising and lowering back. he didn't question why eddie was crying, because he knew exactly why. he heard what happened. the whole school heard.

"rich-richie, they-they laughed a-at me a-and they all ssaw me n-naked" eddie sobbed uncontrollably.

"shh, eddie, it's okay. I know" richie nodded and comforted eddie. "it's fine"

"y-you think im-i'm dis-disgusting"

"no, eddie, no, I don't" richie pulled away and made eddie look at him. "i don't think you're disgusting. i don't even think it's weird. you know what I think?"

eddie didn't reply, he just sniffled.

"I think it was just because hormones and those aren't your fault. they've probably had boners more than you. don't bother your cute head with those thoughts" richie slightly ruffled eddie's almost dry hair.

eddie let out a breathy laugh, looking down at their intertwined hands. "y-you don't think that i'm disgusting?" eddie asked.

"no, never" richie shook his head. "and neither does the others. we all love you"

eddie nodded smiling, but then quickly flushed red. "but i'm not like that"

"like what?"

"i don't like guys"

richie nodded smiling. "i know, you don't have to keep reminding me"

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a/n smol little 12 year old eddie getting his first hints inspired by alex strangelove