Love You Too Much || Reddie

F O U R T E E N

Chapter Fourteen

Richies POV

    I'm led by my arm outside of the only place I can really call home, and immediately the icy night air freezes my whole face, Turing it red. The temperature feels as if it's dropped 40 or maybe even 50 degrees from earlier today, at the quarry. My mom and dad shove me in the car between Nancy and Mike, my siblings share a scared glance at one another then look up to search my eyes. I can't even refer to those monsters as my parents anymore. Real loving parents help you and support you, lift you up when you feel down. All mine have ever done for me is rip the people I really love out of my life, and stuff the hole of crippling loneliness in my heart with more fake friends.

   I feel Nancy's hand slip in between my freezing fingers. But I barely pay attention to it, all I'm thinking about is how scared I am. How lonely and isolated I feel. And most of all;

Will I ever see my Eds again?

I'm lost in thought when I feel something tapping my thigh. I look down to see Mike's fingers tapping out a weird pattern when I look up I'm met with his face turned around facing the window. He's watching the trees pass by and reading the signs as they fly in and out of view.

   It's probably just nerves... I think to myself.

    But yet I can't seem to shake the thought of something being familiar out of my head. That tapping... I've felt it before. Then the realization hits me like a truck.

    Holy fuck! He's using Morse Code!

    I try to remember back to when Mike thought me some simple phrases in the code. Back then I thought he was just being dumb when he said I might need to use it one day. All this happened when his best friend, Will Byers, went missing.

   I think long and hard for a few minutes, trying anything I can think of to remember what my twin thought me a while back. When I come out half finished with the first sentence.

..     .... .- ...- .     .-     .--. .-.. .- -.
(I have a plan, )

    Okay...okay! Now we're getting somewhere. I think to myself.
    Maybe I'm not as dumb as everyone says I am! Hell yeah, can't wait to prove Stan The Man wrong on this one.

.. / .... .- ...- . / -... .- -.-. -.- / ..- .--. / -.-. --- -- .. -. --. / - --- / .... . .-.. .--.
(I have back up coming to help.)

   
    Back up? Wow Michael, how extra of you. What the hell "back up" can get me out of this? Your barely 17! I snort
    Anyways, at least someones on my side here. Nancy probably knows about this too, I hope she's accepting of the fact that I'm gay...

    I tap back, letting him know I got the message. Even though I don't know what the hell I'm saying because I'm mindlessly tapping on his forearm, but at least I made and effort. A+ for that I guess.

    A few long-ass minutes later the car pulls up at the house. We all pile out of the car as Maggie grabs my arm and pulls me inside the house with the others.

    "Mike. Go take Richie upstairs to his room, we'll be up in a bit." My mom mumbles.

    He nods and we don't say a word until we're in my room with the door locked. I sit on the bed and he's standing on the beat-up carpet before me.

    "So..." I start, "What's the plan, man?"

     "Heh, so you did know what I was saying?" She smirks. "Because I wasn't so sure, by what you implied when you tapped back..."

    "What did I say?" I ask
"You don't wanna know."
"Oh, okay then"

"Anyways, if you wanna get outta here, we have to get Robin and Nancy's help." Mike says. I look at him, puzzled.

    "Robin? Who the hell is Robin?" I demand.

    "Oh you'll see..." A huge grin appeared on his face.