Reddie or not {richieXeddie fanfic}

Chapter 3-The Confrontation

I stormed into my bedroom, slamming it shut and locking it. I was definitely not in the mood for visitors. I trudged over to my bed and fell back onto it. I stared up at my ceiling, clutching my chest through my shirt. I could feel my heart beating wildly, and it had been doing this ever since, well...you know... My breathing was ragged, and I was trying to regulate it, so that my lungs didn't feel like they were going to collapse, and it was working. I did this for a while,  eventually loosing track of time, and I only came out of my daze of regulating my breathing when I heard a knock at my window. I thought it was my imagination, or a tree branch or something at first, because my bedroom was on the second floor and who the fuck would be crazy enough to fucking risk their life to sneak through my window,

"Richie,open the window, I need to talk to you!" 

It was Eddie's voice. I immediately sat it up and looked towards my window, and there he was. I quickly got out of my bed and made my way over to my window and opened it for him, so he could come inside. Eddie carefully climbed in through my window and stood in front of me. I was shocked that he was here, so I just stared at him. He looked so nervous,

"Richie...I came over to apologize-"

I couldn't help myself , I engulfed him in a hug,

"Dude! What the hell is wrong with you?! You could fucking fell to your death! You can't just climb up my window on the second floor and act like you didn't just risk your life!"

I let go of him and put my hands on his shoulders, and gave him this stern look. His eyes darted down to my hands that were still lightly gripping his shoulders, and his face turned a little red, but he shook his head a bit, and said,

"I know, I know, but I really needed to see you, so I could apologize to you...for what happened at the quarry." He sighed and broke eye contact with me, as if he was really embarrassed. 

My face soften and I too sighed and led him by the shoulders to sit on the edge of my bed, and I sat next to him,

"Okay...say what you need to say..."

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"It's like complicated...I thought I might have a crush on you? But like I'm not gay! I still like girls and stuff and I've like never liked a guy or thought they were hot or whatever, but I kinda suspected with you it was different...so I needed to see if I liked you, so i just kissed you..."

"So?" I say with curiosity, "Do you? You know...like me??"

Eddies face went red, and I knew what he was going to say,

"I-I think so...But don't worry! I'm not gonna be like weird around you or anything. Like I get that your straight and all and I respect that, and it was wrong of me to have just kissed you like that, and I should've just asked, but like I don't know, I just went for it..."

I knew I was visibly blushing, but I tried to act like I wasn't,

"man, if you were just trying to figure your shit out, you should have just asked, I would have totally helped you out."

Eddie's face grew even more red, but his eyes lit up and he shot his head up to look at me,

"Really??"

"Yea man." I said, "You needed to figure out your shit, I get it, and I'm your friend, it's what friends are for. It's not like the kiss would like mean anything to me."

Eddie smiles at me. I felt my face heat up a little more,

"Also, I'm sorry for overreacting at the Quarry. At the time I didn't really know how to react is all." I apologized.

"It's fine dude, I get it."

"Really?"

"Yea." He says almost happily.

We went on to talk about all kinds of other things, like high school or movies like Weird Science. We talked for hours, and I never found myself once getting bored of talking with Eddie. Eddie is really easy to talk to and makes it easy to keep a conversation going, which is one of the many things I love about him. He'd been my best friend since day one, and I was really glad to have him in my life even if that meant he had a major crush on me. 

It had gotten dark probably and hour or so ago; Eddie decided he needed to get going. I agreed with him and walked with him over to my window. Once he successfully had climbed out of my window, I leaned on my windowsill, but when I did this, our faces were a little too close for comfort. I stared in his eyes, waiting for him to climb down, but he didn't. I was about to open my mouth to say something to him, when all of a sudden he started to lean in, Once he got too close to my face I jerked my head back, and he moved his back as well and blushed immensely. I could tell he was really embarrassed, so I didn't say anything to him about it.

"S-sorry, I didn't mean to do that...I should really get going. Bye Richie." Eddie said awkwardly before starting his descent.

"bye." I said back.

Once Eddie was out of sight I closed my window and face planted in my bed. I had enough of Eddie's weird gay sexual tension and I just wanted to go to sleep in my now damp clothes, and wake up and have this all have been some kind of weird twisted nightmare.