soulmates~reddie

chapter twelve

'I love you'
Richie muttered to himself.

Richie slowly stuffed his phone in his pocket. He couldn't stay mad at Eddie, Eddie didn't tell Richie about Henry abusing him because he wanted to protect Richie. He kept his mouth shut and kept getting beaten up by Bowers...just so Richie could be save.

A tear slid down the ravennette's cheek, he loved this boy so much. Eddie didn't deserve to be soulmates with Bowers.

Richie was still standing in front of the police station, in the parking lot, when suddenly a cop car came driving by. When the car was parked and the officers got out he saw who was in the car. His body froze and he couldn't walk away when he saw Henry trashing around in the hold of the two police men.

"I DIDN'T DO SHIT!" Henry yelled at them, and that's when his eyes met the ones of the boy who caused all this commotion, "TOZIER! YOU DID THIS, DIDN'T YOU? FAIRY TOLD YOU EVERYTHING AND YOU SNITCHED, RIGHT? I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU!" he yelled at the lanky teen, who still was unable to do anything.

The cops dragged him inside and Richie let out a puff of breath. He heard the doors open again and light footsteps coming his way, "Hey.." a quiet voice said.

He turned around and there he was, the asthmatic boy he was head over heels for. Richie didn't say anything, he just surged forward, flying into Eddie's arms and burying his face in the crook of said boy's neck.

It was silent for awhile, the only thing being heard were the rustling of the leaves and cars driving by, until Richie spoke up, "I'm sorry for running away, I was mad because you hadn't told me about it but then I realised that you did it to protect me a-and I..., I love you too.." the boy rattled while still cuddling up to Eddie.

He felt Eddie's heart starting to beat faster and Richie let go of their hug. He Grabbed Eddie's hands in his and gently dragged his thumb over Eddie's knuckles. He looked him in the eyes and saw that the boy had tears in his eyes. Suddenly he also felt tears pricking in his eyes, and once a tear slid down both of their cheeks, Eddie let out a chuckle.

He pried one of his hands out of Richie's grip and moved it up to caress the spectacled boy's cheek. Richie leaned into the touch and softly kissed Eddie's palm. Both boys looked at eachother and started to lean in.

Just when Richie's eyes fluttered shut they heard a car quickly and roughly pull into the parking lot. Out of the car stepped a distressed Sonia Kaspbrak.

"Eddie! Eddie, oh my god, the police called me to tell me that they brought you in. Are you okay? What happened? You're probably super tired, let's get you home and into bed, okay sweetie?" his mom rattled while examing Eddie's face and pulling the boy towards the car.

Eddie still had a hold on one of Richie's hands and, when his mother noticed, she looked at Richie with a glance that probably would have Richie dead if eyes could kill. "Let go of my son, you're hurting him." she sneered at the ravenette and pulled harder on Eddie's wrist, making the smaller boy hiss.

"I'm hurting him?", Richie said in a sarcastic tone, "I don't know if you can see but I'm just normally holding his hand and he could easily pull away, but YOU are holding him in a deathgrip." he clapped back at the woman in front of him.

Sonia instantly loosened her grip on her son's wrist when those words had left Richie's mouth. She looked at him with a shocked expression and was even more bewilderd when Eddie slipped his hand out of her loose grip and backed up into Richie's chest.

"I'm sleeping over at Richie's house." Eddie said in a monotone voice, "If that's okay?" he asked while looking up at Richie and giving him puppy dog eyes. Richie just nodded and gave Eddie's hand a little squeeze.

"No Eddie, you are coming home with me! I'm your mom, you should listen to me!" she started yelling frustratedly at the two boys, who were just standing there, still holding eachother's hand.

"And I'm your son, you shouldn't be treating my like I'm some kind of pet or a baby, I can decide what I can or can't do myself." he coldly said, and that's when he turned around and started running, pulling Richie with him. They ran hand in hand until they passed school.

"My car's still here, I ran to the police station, so it's still in the parking lot." the tall boy told the other.

"You ran? Why?"

"I was frustrated, and yeah, I don't know."

They walked to Richie's car and slung there backpacks in the backseat when Richie unlocked the car.

Eddie took place into the passengerseat after Richie dramatically opened the door for him and then Richie himself got in the driverseat.

The drive was pretty quiet, except for the music softly playing. With one of his hands Richie was tapping with his fingers on the steering wheel to the rhythm, while his other hand was laying on the console, intertwined with the brunette's hand.

After a while, Richie decided to break the silence, "How are Bill and Stan doing?" he asked, because he left the three boys there in the school bathroom and he doesn't know what happened after.

"They're fine, I guess. Bill had to calm Stan down because he was still crying but he had to calm me down to because I was having a full on panick attack because of everything that was happening and after we calmed down, last period was over so we gathered our stuff and walked to the bikeracks, hoping you would be there. But you weren't and, ...that's when I send you the text...and Bill and Stan told the rest of the Losers what happened and everyone was like freaking out a little bit, but I was so scared because I thought something happened to you. And then when we decided to go to the quarry, the police suddenly pull up to school and say they needed to take me down to the station, so I started freaking out even more...Richie I was so scared." Eddie had tears rolling down his cheeks while Richie listened to everything that Eddie was saying, "I thought that something happened to you.."

Richie squeezed Eddie's hand and comforted Eddie by saying that he was here now and Bowers wouldn't hurt him anymore. Then Eddie started talking about everything he said at the station and how the policemen where very nice and Richie just listened. He didn't make any jokes, he wasn't interrupting Eddie...he just listened.

Richie felt so happy, like there was no care in the world. Just him and Eddie in his car, holding hands while talking. Nothing that could hurt him right now. Nothing...until he pulled up in his drive way.

"What the fuck happened here?"