HEART ACHE <3 REDDIE

chap 36: coffee with a friend

a/n: thank you for 1.05k? what the heck.

Richie

Connor sat across from me awkwardly. 13 year old me would've probably called him names and yelled at him for basically ruining my life but I wasn't 13 anymore.

"So he's like... you're boyfriend?" Connor questioned. I gripped my mug, staring down into my tea. I hated tea. I liked black coffee but Connor was paying and tea was less expensive.

"Kinda. I guess. I suppose we're on a break now. I don't know why I'm telling you all of this." I blabbered on. The fact I was talking to Connor of all people about my issues with Eddie was hilarious to me. Honestly did crack me up. But god was I pissed at Eddie and I had to tell someone about it.

It fell uncomfortably silent between us. I shifted awkwardly in my seat, listening to the chatter of people around us while avoiding eyecontact with Connor.

"Listen, Tozier. I wanna apologize for that day-" Connor started but I quickly cut him off.

"Don't worry about it. We were kids."

"No, I shouldn't have done that. I did it because... I don't know why I did it." He quickly changed his sentence. I wanted to ask what he was originally going to say but I didn't.

"It's water under the bridge, man. Don't stress about it." I shook my head. It really wasn't but I wasn't going to make him feel like shit for it.

It fell quiet between once again. Not a comfortable type of silence that Eddie and I could have. It was a horrible silence that we both felt needed to be filled with talking but neither of us knew what to say.

"Hey, do you wanna like... come back to my apartment?" Connor finally spoke up. I furrowed my eyebrows at him in confusion of the offer.

"Not like that. I meant to just come watch a movie or something. No funny business." He reassured. I thought it over. Eddie would hate it. But what Eddie liked wasn't very important to me at that moment. I still had absolute rage toward him. A part of me wanted to piss him off. To make him feel as shitty as I did but I could never do that to him.

"Yeah. Sure." I smiled and his face lit up.