problematic ➳ reddie

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November ❀ age 21

"You're such a fucking whore" Richie groaned and threw his Monopoly piece on the floor.

"Richie!" Eddie exclaimed and quickly ran to get the piece. "Please for the love of god, don't throw small objects on the floor, because either Gatsby or Pup's gonna eat it and swallow it and then choke on it"

Eddie pointed his finger at Richie. "And don't call Sage a whore"

"She stole my money!" Richie groaned and gave the black haired girl.

"Man up, Tozier. It's just Monopoly" Sage chuckled and fanned herself with the stash of money.

"You, are a pain in the ass" Richie pointed at Sage. "Monopoly sucks"

"We've been playing that with our friends since forever. Richie never was good at it" Eddie smiled.

"Would you shut it?" Richie groaned and began putting all the supplies back in the box. "And Sage, take this devil's game out of my apartment"

"You're a bad loser" she rolled her eyes a bit and folded the board back to a square.

"Honestly, sweety, don't test me right now" Richie laughed unamused.

"He's had a rough couple days" Eddie patted Richie's shoulder.

"Oh yeah, how's the radio coming along? I wouldn't know since I don't listen to you" Sage gave Richie a cocky grin, which made the black hue grit his teeth.

Eddie could sense how uneasy Richie began to get, so he quickly put the lid back on the game and helped Sage up. "I'll walk you to the door..."

Richie only glared at the two as they walked away, Sage looking confused.

"Did I do something wrong?" she whispered.

Eddie looked over his shoulder at Richie who was rubbing his temples. "No...I just...I think you should know that Richie has a bit of a trouble controlling his anger. At least he had some issues when he was younger. He's better now but never really got rid of it...so, maybe you should cut the annoying tone"

"Yeah...Of course. I'm sorry, I didn't know" Sage apologized and put on her shoes.

"No worries...I'll ease him down" Eddie nodded and handed the game for Sage, who took it and looked at Richie a while. When she was done, she hugged Eddie and waved her hand at Richie who only murmured in reply.

Then Eddie was left alone with Richie. He sighed and walked to his fiance and sat in front of him. "Richie..." he sighed and grabbed Richie's hand and traced his thumb against his knuckles.

"I'm okay, I swear" Richie assured. "That just...worries me"

"What worries you?" Eddie asked and shifted closer and put his other hand on Richie's knee.

"That nobody listens to me. The radio. Maybe nobody really does" the raven haired beauty mumbled.

"Hey, no...Don't say that. Remember the last time you checked the listener-score? It was about 100K and rising." Eddie nodded.