A Borrowed Film and a Stolen Kiss. 🎈 Reddie 🎈

Bonus: bozza originale.

Come già detto nel precedente capitolo la storia è completa, ma ho pensato che sarebbe stato carino includere un ultimo breve capitolo con la bozza originale in inglese dell'autrice, come ha fatto lei con la storia originale. Ho preferito lasciarla in inglese e non tradurla perché non credo che avrebbe reso allo stesso modo, è una prima bozza e riscriverla non avrebbe avuto molto senso. Spero che la storia vi sia piaciuta tanto quanto è piaciuta a me! E se avete altri suggerimenti su storie da tradurre fatemi sapere. ❤🎈

Watching old films in a treehouse or something, lots of warm imagery, first kiss, spices smells.

Go back in and edit more passion and confusion for the boy at the arcade.

Richie cuts himself/scrapes himself on something sharp in the attic. Eddie freaks, convinces Richie to
let him clean it. Richie promises that he’ll be fine, he doesn’t need any shots. He says if he gets sick
Eddie can claim that he told him so. Eddie grimaces, saying that if he gets sick he’ll be upset/pissed,
not proud that he was right. Richie says that a little sickness won’t knock him down, Eddie looks at
him seriously horrified and tells him not to even joke about that sort of thing. He gets anxious a bit,
and Richie doesn’t know why. Eddie explains that he’s been extra worried about the wellbeing of
the other losers after the events of the sewers. There’s a part of him, and he admits that it's a bit
“girly” that he really worries about everyone, Richie especially. Richie feels butterflies and he
doesn’t know why. He asks Eddie why, Eddie says something to the degree of “Richie you have the
intelligence of a peanut” and he knows he’s reckless. Richie says that’s ridiculous, but he can tell that
Eddie is very serious. He wonders if, because of how his mother is, Eddie’s way of showing love
and that he cares is through excessive worrying. He takes it a bit serious, tiptoeing the line of
bringing out the “real” Richie to relate to Eddie. He promises Eddie that he has nothing to worry
about, plus Richie says that he always feels confident that he’ll be okay as long as Eddie is around to
save the day with his grandma skills. Richie meant it to be more of a comforting joke, but Eddie
seems actually content with the backhanded compliment. Richie is intrigued by seeing the look on
Eddie’s face.

Relate back to Richie being overwhelmed by the realization that Eddie wouldn’t judge him about the
real Richie coming out. But it’s obviously wrong to some degree at first.

After they kiss it’s very awkward. They both are sputtering and Eddie even wipes his mouth, and
that hurts Richie's feelings secretly. They both angrily confess that they aren’t fags, it was just a
weird coincidence. However, Richie is experiencing a kind of high from the kiss. In fact, he finds it
difficult to mask his euphoria. Eddie gets up to leave but Richie convinces him to forget it happened
and continue to watch the movie he got from the theater. It’s awkward until Richie (somehow) brings
up that Eddie obviously thought it was disgusting kissing him. Eddie rolls his eyes and whines “richieeeee” annoyed. Richie says “what??? I’m genuinely curious if you thought it was that bad!”
Eddie says no, Richie isn’t a bad kisser. It’s just.,, that's not right. He’s not into guys. This makes
Richie kinda sad. But he says nothing. Eddie admits that that was his first kiss. Richie says no shit.
But also says that was his too. Eddie says it doesn’t count, Richie mistakenly asks why, a bit
offended. Eddie looks at him weirdly. Richie says nothing, feeling strangely very emotional. He bites
his lip. He looks away, feeling angry. Eddie senses the tension and leans away. Richie is feeling all
sorts of confused, and to his horror, he feels the sting of tears again. Again, why did these rejections
make him feel so awful? First the blonde, now his best friend hated him. All because he was a bit too
friendly. He didn’t think that was so bad. Eddie notices that Richie is looking abnormally rigid. At
first, Eddie just thinks he’s mad, which he could deal with, but when Eddie realizes that he’s upset,
he feels instantly regretful and afraid. He’s never seen Richie cry. He asks Richie if he’s okay. As
usual, when asked that, Richie chokes and he looks over at Eddie, seeing his concern, the tears
forced themselves out. Eddie panics, frozen and unsure about what to do. He’s so confused by the
whole situation. In reality, he didn’t mind the kiss that much. He was just trying to cover up so
Richie wouldn’t think he was a fairy. In fact, he didn’t mind it at all. Which unnerved him in another
way, but that wasn’t important at the moment. What he couldn’t understand is why Richie was
crying. Richie reaches out and hugs Eddie, crying on his shoulder, he feels wrongdoing it the whole
time, arguing with his insecurities about being feminine and showing emotion, but he can’t help it.
Eddie freezes too, but eventually gives in and awkwardly, but caringly holds Richie. After Richie
has calmed down, he gets up and leaves, Richie says nothing, thinking he really fucked up now.
Richie Tozier is not worth being seen. He needs to stick to trashmouth. Eddie comes back upstairs
then with more muffins and hands one to Richie and smiles.

They discuss lightly why Richie is upset. He edited the story but explains what happened with
Bowers’ cousin. Eddie, not sure how to respond, admits that it wasn’t that bad. He was just shocked.
Richie says no that he’s lying and he hated it. Eddie responds with do it again. Richie doesn’t believe
him at first. He says if we do this it doesn’t mean they’re gay, Eddie agreed. Richie kisses Eddie
softly, trying to duplicate what he’s seen on TV.

Didn’t all boys his age recognize other boys as attractive? Why wouldn’t they? That was just human
nature.