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After the incident with It Eddie realized he really had to let himself cut loose more often. So he did. He started disobeying his mother more, he stopped taking (some of) his pills, he started letting himself eat all of the sugary foods his mother had shielded him from for so long. But with lifestyle changes came consequences.

At around the age of 14 years old Eddie had started to fill out just a bit more. He wasn't huge, he wasn't even technically fat. Just a little bit extra here and there. His thighs had some more girth to them and his bum started certainly filling out those red shorts of his. Not to mention the small warm pouch near the bottom of his tummy that he had begun placing his hand on during stressful situations. He just felt weird comfort in the pudge around his hips and near his navel that he could just lightly squeeze.

But then when he realized that it was obvious enough for people to know he had put on weight he had gotten a bit more self-conscious about it. He hadn't put on too much weight, it's not like people were freaking out and worrying about him, it was just that it wasn't as subtle as Eddie had thought which starting to make him wonder what they thought of this 'new him'. He only noticed that Richie, now his boyfriend, poked his side a lot more and that Bill would smile a tiny bit when he took off his shirt to go swimming. Sometimes Ben—who had started losing weight once high school had started—'s worried looks made him feel like he was getting too big and he thought maybe he should do something about it.

Eddie had never been very good with diets since he had always been so small he never needed to. But he had been dating Richie for a while now and since they were 16 now which meant were starting to get at an age where they might start taking their relationship to new levels they haven't been to before which meant he would have to be naked near him. Which honestly? Sort of worried him. What if Richie didn't like the way he looked now? They had started seeing each other before his weight gain started to show. Which was why he had turned to all of these strange diets, which rarely worked for him.

He went on odd juice cleanses and practically starved himself to follow the strange meal plans he read about in his mother's magazines. Of course, Sonia always bought him the new crazy organic foods because she did nothing but promote this absurd and dangerous diets. For a large woman, she seemed to be extremely bothered by Eddie's weight. She always made sure to comment on it when he wore clothes that showed more skin.

The diets weren't always good. In fact, they almost never were. Eddie had passed out in History class once after going on a diet that involved eating only an apple a day for two weeks or something like that, and of course, his friends made sure he ate properly after that. They had all brushed it off as Eddie having an off day and forgetting to eat, though. They had no clue about his insecurities. Except maybe Richie.

Richie was the only one who seemed more worried and a lot more skeptical once Eddie had lost consciousness over not eating. But he didn't say anything at the time so he wouldn't embarrass him. There was also the odd time that Eddie had called him sounding rather hysterical and he had rushed over on his bike to an Eddie that was home alone and crying with breath that reeked of vomit. Once again, Richie's naïve brain saw it as his little Eds simply being upset because he had the flu and hated being sick.

Things finally caught on with Richie the third time he noticed something unusual with him. Eddie's mom had seen some ad on TV for diet pills that were definitely not intended for teenage boys but she had bought them for 'herself' apparently. Either way, the next morning he had woken up with them in his fanny pack and a new alarm put into his digital watch. Richie and Eddie were alone on their way to the cafeteria for lunch when Eddie's watch went off and he paused in the empty hall. Richie, being the dork he was, had practically memorized the times for each of his pills for whenever that ancient ass watch inevitably broke. When Eddie popped two bright yellow pills into his hand that Richie had never seen before he grabbed onto his wrist before he could take them.