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Chapter 16

Once all the losers arrived at the theatre/arcade, they headed inside, Richie instantly running to street fighter, Eddie rolled his eyes and went after him, "Richie come on, you can play that after," he sighed, watching as everyone else went to get their tickets, "please? Just one game Ed's."

Eddie frowned and grabbed onto his boyfriends arm, pulling him away from the machine, "after!" he spat before dragging him towards the others.

They all then got their tickets and headed into the movies, Ben and Beverly sitting on the end, Mike sitting next to them, followed by Stanley and Bill, and then Richie and Eddie sitting on the other end. The movie was a horror, which Eddie strongly disagreed with at first but became okay with when Richie told him he'd comfort him if he got scared.

"Does anyone have anything to eat?" Eddie asked, leaning over Richie to look at the others, "I mean.. I'm always a snack," Richie smirked, pushing Eddie back a little to look at him.

"I'm hungry, Richie, not horny," Eddie rolled his eyes, leaning back over him again, Stanley and Beverly laughed, causing Richie to glare at them.

"H-here Eddie t-take this," Bill said, throwing Eddie a spare box of popcorn that they had, Eddie took it and began eating it when Richie suddenly tried to grab some, "back off dickwad! This is mine," he whisper-shouted, pulling the box away.

Richie ignored him and continued to try and get it off of Eddie, the armrest between them had been put up so Richie dragged Eddie onto his lap, so that he was sitting sideways in it and buried his face into the crook of his neck. Eddie paused and looked down at him, surprised from the sudden change of mood, he then shrugged and allowed Richie to cuddle him, relaxing in his arms.

About an hour into the movie, Eddie had practically fallen asleep in his arms, Richie looked down at him and smiled, seeing his hands still gripping onto the popcorn. Suddenly a loud noise came from the movie, causing Eddie to jolt awake in shock, "what the hell..?" he whispered, looking at the movie screen and then back at Richie.

Richie smirked, "scared?"

"I don't even know whats going on to be honest.." Eddie shrugged, his eyes moving down to his boyfriends wet lips.

He then shifted in Richies lap before slowly leaning in and pressing an unexpected kiss to his lips, Richie then returned the pressure, breaking the kiss just to reconnect it again, their mouths fitting together perfectly. In attempt to swing his legs over and straddle Richies lap, Eddie ended up forgetting about the popcorn he was holding and accidentally spilt it all over Stanley who was sitting right next to them.

"What the fuck guys?!" Stanley whisper-shouted, standing up and brushing the popcorn off of himself, Richie looked at him and burst out laughing, holding Eddie onto is lap, keeping him there. Eddies face went red and his eyes widened, "oh my god.. sorry Stan.."

Stanley then sat back down and looked at them, "you guys know we're in public right? You're literally on top of each other."

Richie huffed, "maybe if your boyfriend was this cute too, you'd be doing the same." Stanley just rolled his eyes and turned back around, resting his head on Bills shoulder, causing him to smile.

Eddie then tried to wriggle out of Richies lap but couldn't, "let go of me idiot!" he whisper-shouted, feeling himself starting to get an unwanted erection from the friction. Richie smirked and leaned in to whisper into Eddies ear, "we can do some more stuff tonight if you want Ed's.."

Eddie froze, looking down at him, "stuff..?"

"Just like last night.." Richie whispered, causing Eddie to shudder above him, "oh no oh no oh no not now!" Eddie thought to himself as he could feel his erection growing.

Eddie instantly grabbed Richies arms and pulled them off of himself, "no Richie..! J-just get off me!" he hissed, sounding slightly upset, Richie quickly let go of him, watching as he moved back to his seat, "i-i'm sorry Ed's, I didn't mean to- I'm really sorry, I just thought—" "well you thought wrong..!" Eddie cut him off, folding his arms and facing away from him.

For the rest of the movie, the two were silent, not speaking a word to each other, worst of all was that Richie didn't know what he did wrong, maybe he made Eddie uncomfortable but he just didn't understand since it came out of nowhere.

Eddie sighed, not knowing why he lashed out at Richie, it was probably due to the unwanted feeling of the erection he was getting and the irritation of Richie not letting him go, maybe if they weren't in public and were alone, Eddie would've reacted differently, but it just didn't feel right, even though Eddie wanted more than anything to "do more stuff" but it was too late now.

After the movie, all the losers headed back out to the arcade, even though Richie was planning to play street fighter afterwards, he decided he should just talk to Eddie, "Eddie wait up!" he yelled, watching as he turned around.

He was about to say something when suddenly a familiar voice called his name, "Richie!"

Richie looked to his left, seeing Connor, Henry Bowers cousin, standing there, "hey dude! It's been a while," Connor said, walking over to him.

Richie turned back to look at Eddie, but sighed when he realised he had already left, "wanna play street fighter or something?" I bet I can beat you," Connor smirked, lightly grabbing Richies arm.

Richie smiled and looked up at him, "oh yeah? Let's find out then," he said before running over to the machine with him.

*time skip*

"I don't know how you do it dude, you're so good at this game," Connor huffed, looking Richie up and down, "told ya, you'll beat me one day, maybe.." Richie smirked, "I'm gonna head to the bathroom, i'll be back soon."

Richie then walked off to the bathroom, after he was done, he was just about to go back to Connor when suddenly he walked around the corner, almost bumping into Richie, "oh- do you need to go too or..?" Richie asked.

Out of nowhere, Connor pressed his lips to Richies, Richie didn't kiss him back at all and immediately pushed him away, "what the fuck?!" he yelled, taking a step back.

Connor looked at him, his eyes filled with fear, "what..? I-I thought—" "I have a boyfriend dude!" Richie cut him off, pushing past him, Connor grabbed Richies arm, stopping him from leaving, "i'm sorry.. p-please don't tell Henry.." he begged, his voice shaking.

"I won't.. just.. don't do it again okay? Seriously, I love my boyfriend and this is just- fuck..!" Richie then ran out of the arcade, not looking back.

As Richie swung the door open, he suddenly ran into Henry, almost falling over from the impact, "watch where you're going faggot!!" he yelled, pushing Richie backwards.

Richie looked up at him, his eyes widening before he quickly ran past him and grabbed his bike, he got onto it and started peddling as fast as he could.

"COME BACK HERE OR IM GONNA RIP YOUR FUCKING FACE OFF, FLAMER!" Bowers yelled as he watched him leave.

Richie could feel tears welling in his eyes as he tried to get as far away from there as possible, not stopping for a second.

Eventually he made it to the memorial park and sat down on the bench, no one being there since there were no events on. He took off his glasses and put his face in his hands, the whole situation reminding him of a similar one he had when he was 13, back before him and Eddie were together.

"Fuck.. I have to tell Eddie what happened.." he thought to himself, dreading going back to school the next day, Richie stayed at the memorial park until it was almost so dark out that stars began to appear, he'd rather be there than at home, where his parents did nothing but ignore him and yell at him if they were to speak to him.

He wanted so badly to go to Eddies house and sort things out but remembered the whole situation with his mom and didn't want anything bad to happen to Eddie because of him, so he stayed there as long as he possibly could before heading home in the darkness.