Reddie Oneshots

soulmate au (mood necklaces)

found it on ao3 (always) by sweetkisses

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Mood Colors:
Dark blue: sleeping
Yellow: laughter
Pink: fun
White: content
Light green: anxiety/nerves
Orange: happiness
Red: anger
Black: sad
Grey: scared
Dark green: excitement
Gold: jealous
Purple: annoyed

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Eddie first moved to Derry in June before his junior year.

His mom dragged him here after she decided that New York was too germ and diseased ridden for her. Eddie secretly agreed but not that he would say that out loud. You see, Eddie's mom, Sonia, is a large lady with a serious fear of all things dirty and sick. Which means that she makes sure Eddie is as safe and as healthy as possible. He used to take medicine every hour until he turned 13 and figured out all the medicine and his sickness was bullshit.

Of course she was right about his asthma, he carries around his inhaler with him in a simple black fanny pack. Thankfully he doesn't do enough physical activity -he mostly just sits in his room- for his asthma to act up too badly. Unthankfully, his asthma is triggered almost frequently by the boy's poor anxiety. That he does still take medicine for and it's an important one that Eddie wouldn't dare leave at his house. No, both his inhaler and pills are in always in his fanny pack.

They also moved after an incident involving his mom's soulmate necklace and his own. You see soulmate necklaces are given by the government at birth. They have a small circle charm that depicts your soulmates mood and the necklace heats up when you're near them or cools down when you're far away from them. Her husband, Eddie's dad, died long before Eddie can even remember. His necklace was linked with Sonia's necklace so she could feel the heat from being close to his grave but hers circle was clear which means that he was dead.

Eddie isn't sure why it took basically all of Eddie's life for his mom to take her necklace off and move them far away. Before that though Eddie's mom stole his necklace one night when she was drunk and she tried to destroy it. She beat it with a hammer but thankfully it didn't break but there is a small crack in Eddie's charm. After he shouted and yelled at her, crying loudly he took back his necklace. It wasn't cold or warm anymore, it didn't feel anything.

He'll never know how close or far away they are anymore.

The tension still sits with Eddie and his mother. He's bitter, confused and angry that she would be so jealous that Eddie still has a soulmate. She almost ruined that chance for him. From then on out Eddie wears his necklace under his shirt instead of over it. So when his mom decided to move away from New York Eddie didn't fight much because no matter where he is he'll never feel how close his soulmate is. Sure, he can see the yellow color of laughter that his soulmate always seems to be but if the two of them ever meet; Eddie will never be positive if it's them.

So here he is, Eddie Kaspbrak, freshly unpacked and sitting on his new front porch in the humid air of Derry, Maine. His necklace hidden under his green polo shirt. His mom is out at her new job. While he is organizing his fanny pack, placing the inhaler on the far left and then some wet wipes and his pills. He also has a bandage and a pack of gum in it. Eddie sighs, bored and lonely, how lame is it that he's sitting alone and organizing his fucking fanny pack during the bright crisps of summer. He debates adding his necklace in his pack, he debates it each time, but looking at the dark blue for his sleeping soulmate tells him otherwise.

As Eddie is new in town, only a week in, he doesn't have any friends but he's never had any friends. Sure he's had nice peers in New York who he would talk to in class and at lunch but no one he would really call his friends. He's not sure why, maybe it's because he's the sick weird kid or maybe because he's sassy and everyone thinks that makes him gay. Which, I mean, he is. Oh yeah, Eddie is gay. Always has been since he was 14 and almost kissed a boy named Chad Cooper behind his house. That didn't end too well but that's not the story I'm telling so let's move on.