Really? // Stenbrough

Chapter 31

Stan's PoV

"Lets go Stan." Richie whined.

"Hold on, I have to put a different shirt on." I said walking to my closet.

"Why? That one looks fine."

I turned to face him. "Yeah? What about this gigantic spot of taco you flung at me?"

He held his hand up in surrender. "Sorry about that."

I rolled my eyes at his grin. He wasn't sorry. We were eating and he started a taco war. It didn't get that far, he flung one scoop of meat at me and I threatened to not feed him. He quickly apologized and helped me finish cooking.

I threw on a random t-shirt and turned back to Richie. "Let's go."

"Finally."

"Oh be quiet. It took me like three seconds to change."

He laughed and followed me out of the apartment. We got into his car and drove to the local mall. Richie has asked me to help him pick out and make his anniversary gift for Eddie. Their one year is in two days. He said he had looked everywhere for what he wanted to get Eddie, but couldn't find it. So he was giving it one last look before he would find something else.

I still can't believe they've been dating for a whole year. It's just crazy. Most people tell us high school relationships don't even last six months, Richie and Eddie have been together for 12. Sure they've had their ups and downs, but so do all couples, it's not a real relationship without the problems.

I believe Bill and I will last a long time, at least I hope so. I already want to spend the rest of life with him and we've only been together for almost five months. It's all so crazy.

"Yo, Stan. We're here." Richie said, waving his hand in front of my face. "Whatcha thinking about?"

"It's Billy boy, isn't it?" He wiggled his eyebrows. "Are you guys still virgins?"

I blushed madly.

"You are. Damn, Eddie and I had sex for the first time on our three month."

Ok, didn't really need to know that. Wait a minute, Eddie gave up his virginity to Richie when they had only been dating for three months? That does not sound like Eddie. Wow.

"I know what you're thinking, and no. Eddie was the one who wanted to, I mean I did too, but he initiated it."

"Wait so he tops?" I asked confused.

Richie gave me a weird look. "What? No. He's too small. Not his dick, his dick is actually a pretty good size and it's-"

"Ok ok. I don't need to hear a description about your boyfriends dick. Let's just go shopping." I told him getting out of the car.

He laughed and got out as well. He flung his arm around my shoulder. "Has little Stanny never seen a dick before?" He asked teasingly.

I shoved him away from me and glared. "For the record I have seen a dick before. I just don't want to hear about Eddie's. Considering he's your boyfriend and I have my own."

He laughed. "So you and Bill haven't done it, so you've given each other blow jobs. Who tops?"

"I don't know! Probably me, but we haven't done it yet." I whisper yelled at him because we were getting closer to other people.

"Yeah, I can't really see Bill topping in your relationship."

I slapped his shoulder. "What is wrong with you?"

"Sorry if I crossed a line." He said shrugging.

"Its ok. Let's go get Eddie's gift!"

"Wooo!"

Richie ran into the store like a little kid. I followed him laughing.

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"Do you think he'll like it?" Richie asked me.

We finished putting together his anniversary gift and it's really cute. But Richie's doubting himself.

"Of course he will Richie. I mean it, it's a really sweet and thoughtful gift, plus it's from you. You could give him trash and he'll still love you."

"Are you saying this is trash? Shit I knew it, he won't like it, he'll think I don't care about our relationship. Oh fuck, he's gonna break up with me because he'll think I don't care about us. He can't break up with me, I don't know what I'll do without him. Shit shit shit. We gotta go back to the store and get something else."

Richie quickly stood up from his seated position on the floor and started to walk out of his room. I grabbed his arm and pulled him back down to the ground.

"Richie. This is literally the best gift ever. Nothing is better then this, mind if I borrow this idea for my one year?" I told the panicking boy in front of me.

"Yeah you can borrow the idea. Are you sure it's good?" He asked, still unsure of himself.

"Yes Richie. It's amazing. Eddie is going to love it, maybe even more then he loves you."

He sighed, happily. "I still can't believe we've been dating for 363 days. I still can't believe Eddie agreed to be my boyfriend. Do you know how we got together?" He asked looking up at me since he was laying on the floor. I shook my head.

"Well it's your lucky day Staniel. I've known Eddie since kindergarten and I'm pretty sure I fell in love with him on that day, I also meet Billiam on that day. Then Mike, Bev, and Ben joined our little gang in the 4th grade. And then you this summer."

He flipped onto his stomach and looked at me.

"I for sure knew I really liked Eddie in the 7th grade, I came out to everyone that year as bisexual, and then the reality of it all just came crashing down. I fell for him harder and harder every day. I told everything to Mikey and Bill, like everything so they could give me advice. It took me three years to work up the courage to ask Eds out. I was afraid he wouldn't like me back and that asking him out would ruin our friendship. I could not ruin our friendship, it would have broken my heart. So, when he had talked to me the previous week about his sexuality, confiding in me about how he's gay, I knew I had a chance. So I finally asked him out."

Richie flipped back onto his back and gazed lovingly up to the ceiling.

"I cooked him some spaghetti noodles, put them in a bowl and handed it to him, and said 'will you, Eddie spaghetti, do me the pleasure of accompanying me on a date?' I thought he was going to say no, but he didn't. I was caught off guard when he jumped into my arms to hug me. The action knocked the bowl of noddles all over my shirt but I didn't care. Eddie had said yes, he had said yes."

It was clear to anyone, that Richie loves Eddie with his whole heart. Just recalling the first time Richie had asked Eddie out brought light to his eyes and his smile.

"Not only did the hug spill the noddles onto my shirt, it knocked us down. Luckily I asked him inside his house. I knocked on his bedroom door and when he opened it, I asked. We fell onto his carpeted hallway floor, with him on top of me, the spaghetti between us. I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him. He wanted to get up since the noodles 'felt slimy' and then I made a sex joke and thought I for sure I just fucked it up, but he just giggled.

Sonia came home when we were cleaning up the spaghetti and I became nervous, me nervous! But I didn't know if Sonia knew her son was gay or not, but she did, and she accepted him. Eddie told her with glee that I had asked him out. Sonia already didn't like me, and that just made her hate me more. But eventually she came around and realized how happy I made her son and allowed us alone in his room with the door closed. Big mistake on her part."

He grinned, and I instantly knew that that was the day Eddie and Richie had their first time together.

"Eddie came out to the losers the next day, and we became official the next week. And do you wanna know how I'm going to propose? That same way, with a bowl of spaghetti outside of his bedroom door."

"You wanna know how to make this gift even better?"

He sat up and looked at me eagerly. "How?"

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