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67. when im with you

by: rauqthetommo
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For a long time, the happiest day of Richie Tozier's life was the day he met Eddie Kaspbrak.

They'd been in the fourth grade, Richie was 10 and Eddie was 9, and Henry Bowers had pushed Eddie down on the playground. He then stood over Eddie, taunting him for crying. Richie noticed that Eddie was down, and despite his fear of Henry, Richie decided that Eddie was worth the risk of getting his ass beat. Richie retrieved Eddie's inhaler that Henry had kicked away, and brought a teacher over to break up the fight.

Richie had taken a pretty severe beating from Bowers and his crew, but it was worth it to have seen Eddie smile for the first time.

The day he met Eddie remained the best day of his life until the day that he'd asked Eddie to go out with him. It had been on Richie's 14th birthday. After Richie's party was over, Eddie hung around to help clean up, so while they were collecting used paper plates from Richie's living room, Richie nervously asked Eddie if he'd like to go to a movie that Saturday night. Like on a date. Not just as friends.

The blush that spread across Eddie's cheeks and the smile he'd given him that day easily beat out his other "best day ever."

That day too, however, was beaten out in favor of a new memory. The first time they'd kissed.

On their second date, they'd walked along the banks of the Kenduskaeg together, holding hands and skipping stones across the water. It was getting late, with the sun going down, breaking the water up into tiny little disco balls. Richie would always remember when Eddie stopped and turned to him. They'd bumped noses and teeth the first time they went in, both too eager to be careful, and they'd laughed it off together. When Richie went home that night, he'd cried tears of joy. He didn't believe he'd ever be happier than he had been in that moment.

A little over a year after their first kiss, Richie's favorite day became the first time they had sex.

They'd been together for over a year at that point, and they'd made out plenty of times, but for the most part, they'd decided they were too young for sex. That was, until, Eddie's 15th birthday. Since he was 6 months younger than Richie, they'd decided to wait until they were both 15 to try anything. One night, while Richie's parents were away in Bar Harbor, Eddie came over to spend the night. Eddie had turned 15 two days prior, so they'd been waiting for the right moment to be together.

It had been nice. Fast, but well meaning, with a lot of nervous laughter and awkward fumbling, but afterwards, Richie held Eddie on his chest and listened to his heart beat straight out of his chest. "You sound like you're going to have a heart attack, Eds." Richie had whispered.

"Beep beep, Richie." Came Eddie's voice in the darkness.

Since they'd been saying "I love you," for as long as they'd known one another, their first time saying it as a couple had never really impacted Richie the way those other memories had. Of course it was special, but he already knew Eddie loved him. And Eddie knew that Richie loved him. So the next best memory didn't come until much later in their lives.

After Eddie's college graduation, they decided to take a walk down on the banks of the Kenduskaeg. As they walked along, holding hands and skipping rocks, Eddie cleared his throat to get Richie's attention. "Do you remember this place, Rich?"

"The Kenduskaeg?"

Eddie nodded.

"Oh sure," Richie said. "It's been here for thousands of years."

Eddie rolled his eyes and smiled. "Not the river, Trashmouth. The bank." He turned to face Richie, taking both of Richie's hands in his.

"Well, sure, Eds. We used to come down here as kids."