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Chapter 8

The losers had now all been talking for hours, they were mostly all having their own conversations but were all still having a lot of fun. "Look, this stick is the size of my dick!" Richie blurted out, picking up a massive stick from the ground, "for fucks sake Rich would you stop talking about your dick?" Eddie rolled his eyes, playfully slapping Richies cheek, "beat his ass Eddie..!" Beverly laughed. "Or what?" Richie questioned him, Eddie then smirked and took Richies coke bottle glasses off of him before putting them on himself,

"hey give those back I can't see..!" Richie said, trying to grab them off Eddie,

Eddie giggled and held Richies wrist so that he couldn't get them, "that's the point fucknut."

Richie then began tickling him mercilessly until Eddie had shifted sideways in his lap, "get off of me asshole!" he laughed as he tried to push Richies hands away, in attempt to move off of his boyfriend, Eddie ended up falling off of the log and onto the dirt, "what the fuck Richie!" he yelled as he sat up and brushed the dirt off. Richie immediately started laughing, "I told you to give them back," he huffed, reaching to help him up, "fuck you!" Eddie spat, putting Richies glasses on the log before standing up and storming off to their tent.

"Come on Ed's..!" Richie called out as he watched him walk away, "wh-what happened..?" Bill asked, who had only just noticed Eddie leaving, "he fell into the dirt and now he's mad at me.." Richie sighed, putting his glasses back on.

"Sounds like Eddie," replied Stanley, "it's okay Rich, he's probably just tired,"

"Y-yeah I th-think we all a-are.. we should all g-get some r-r-rest now.." Bill suggested as he stood up, along with Stanley, "Bills right, goodnight guys." The couple then headed over to their tent, Ben and Mike leaving after them, leaving Richie and Beverly to be the last ones out, Richie looked down at the dirt, sighing, "you want one?" Beverly asked, referring to the cigarette she had just started smoking, Richie looked up at her and thought about it for a second, "yeah sure I guess."

He then stood up and walked over to sit down next to her, "so, talk to me," she said as she handed him a cigarette and the lighter,

"about?" he asked, taking the cigarette into his mouth and lighting it before breathing it in, "Eddie, dumbass," she laughed, Richie coughed as he inhaled it since he didn't smoke as often as Beverly did, he had maybe done it once or twice but would get told off by Eddie every time. He blew the smoke out and spoke, "I don't know.. he's just going through some stuff at home that's probably why he stormed off, but besides that we're good, he's just so adorable, even when he's mad," Beverly smiled hearing that, "yeah i'm sure he didn't mean it, you guys are cute, you're really meant for each other."

"Thanks Bev.. and could I ask you something?" he looked at her, "yeah sure, anything," she replied, "what's going on between you and Ben? Do you like him..?"

Beverly took another hit from her cigarette before replying, "to be honest with you.. yeah I think I do like him, but we're taking things slow, also i'll beat your ass if you tell anyone I told you," she smiled, "noted," Richie laughed, "I should get to bed now.. it's late and I need to talk to Eddie," he said as he adjusted his glasses and stood up, they both said goodnight before heading off to their tents.

Richie carefully crawled into his tent, trying not to disturb Eddie, after he had successfully gotten in he slowly zipped up the door and sat down on his sleeping bag, thinking of whether to wake Eddie or not. "Ed's..!" he whisper-shouted, "what..? I'm trying to sleep.." Eddie replied, turning around to face him, he sat up and sniffed the air before making a disgusted face, "you smell like smoke,"

"Sorry.." Richie sighed, "no... i'm sorry, for getting mad and all earlier.. it was stupid," Eddie said quietly as he got out of his sleeping bag and crawled into Richies lap, hugging him tightly, "you don't have to be sorry.. I understand what you're going through baby.." Richie replied, burying his face into the crook of his boyfriends neck. "I love you Rich.." Eddie said softly, pulling away from the hug to look at him, "I love you too Ed's," Richie smiled, he then pressed his lips to Eddies but was pushed away after a few seconds, "you taste like smoke," he giggled before getting off of Richies lap.

Richie was about to get into his sleeping bag but Eddie stopped him, "could you just come sleep in mine with me..? It's cold.." he asked, tugging Richies arm, Richie immediately nodded and they both cuddled up together, there was barely any room but they didn't care, it was warmer sleeping with each other than alone and they enjoyed being tangled up in each others arms, even if their argument over which sleeping bag they would get didn't matter anymore because they both ended up sharing one anyway.

*the next morning*

"Wake up losers time to go!!" Stanley yelled as he zipped open Eddie and Richies tent, causing sunlight to flood it, Eddie groaned and put his pillow over his head, "shut the fuck up Stanley..!" Richie spat, cuddling into Eddies side, "no, get the fuck up! Or we're leaving without you!"

"B-b-be nice, Stan," Bill said as he walked up to their tent and looked inside, he saw the couple cuddled up and sighed, "i-its okay, gi-give them a f-few more m-m-minutes, we d-don't have to leave j-just yet," he then walked off to go help Ben take down his tent, "you're lucky my boyfriends nice," Stanley huffed, Richie stuck his middle finger up at him, still not looking up, "real mature Rich," he said before leaving. Richie then crawled on top of Eddie, hugging and clinging onto him as he buried his face into his chest, "Rich—" Eddie squeaked underneath him, Richie didn't reply, already drifting off to sleep again.

"Richie you're squishing me—" Eddie said, a little louder this time as he tried wriggling out of his boyfriends grip, Richie groaned and rolled over, switching positions so that Eddie was now on top of him, "better..?" he asked sleepily as he wrapped his arms around Eddie. As much as Eddie wanted to stay like that with him, he wasn't that tired anymore, "actually i'm gonna get up now..." he yawned, reaching over and grabbing Richies glasses from next to the sleeping bag before placing them onto his boyfriends face, Richie immediately knocked them off, "I don't need those if i'm sleeping.." he said quietly, closing his eyes again, "come on, get up and help me take down this tent."

Richie groaned and put his arms over his eyes, blocking out the light, "come onnnn Richie," Eddie whined as he sat up, straddling him, he then pulled Richies arms away from his face and smiled down at him, "get up, trash mouth."

"you're annoying," Richie said as he finally sat up, he then kissed Eddies cheek and carefully moved him off of his lap before grabbing his bag and searching through it, meanwhile Eddie left the tent to go talk to the others, "is Richie up?" Stanley asked, looking over Eddies shoulder to their tent, "yeah he should be out soon," he replied, after a few minutes of waiting, Eddie decided to just go pack his bag so that they weren't wasting any time.

He opened up their tent and stepped inside, his breathing hitched as he saw Richie sitting on the floor in only his boxers, picking up a shirt out of his bag. "Like what you see?" Richie laughed as he looked up and saw Eddie standing there, Eddie suddenly looked away, not realising how much he was staring, "uhhh.." he said quietly, walking over to his bag, "I think you might have a little bit of drool there Ed's," Richie smirked, pointing to his mouth before slipping a shirt on.

"Shut up Richie,"

Eddie then grabbed any of his stuff that he could see on the floor and packed it into his bag before zipping it up, "you coming Rich?" he asked, turning around to face him, "yeah one sec," Richie replied, who had just finished doing doing up the button on his jeans. He dug around in his bag and pulled out a hawaiian shirt before putting it on, "okay let's go."

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