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"Am I being impulsive?!" Eddie asked as he paced his room. "Moving so soon? Leaving in a few hours??"
Will smiled and sat on the bed, his room actually empty minus the furniture clean of clutter and objects. "Eddie. You're moving a state away. It's okay. I'm glad you're leaving your mom can't control you."
Eddie swallowed thickly, he didn't tell anybody he'd packed his fake medicine.
"They're gonna be here soon let's go say your goodbyes."
At the airport Jane and mike and will and max all stood and hugged Eddie. Eddie hugged mike and will the longest, he'd miss them the most. They were all he had when he had moved here three years ago.
"I love you." Eddie told them before joining his friends on the plane.

He flew common while the band sat in first class. He was alone but that wasn't a bother to him, Richie on the other hand argued with his tour manager, Mike tried his hardest to get Eddie first class with them.
"Richard wentworth tozier it's fine if I'm back there, we're going to the same place." Eddie huffed crossing his arms.
So here he sat sandwiched between a bony gray haired lady and a bigger man who slept since he sat down, he read his book.
From Indiana to Louisiana they flew, then they'd go to Arkansas, then Texas, then Ohio, then New Jersey, then Idaho, then Arizona, New Mexico, Los angels, Oakland, San Francisco, Washington, newyork and theyre home in Maine.
Eddie had his book in his lap and he had bought a water. He was ready to listen to music and read "the goldfinch the whole flight.".

•• an hour later••
Eddie can't sit still anymore. He can't. He bounced his leg, changed the Song, took off the wrapper of his bottle. Scrolled through the same thing on his instagram (no service on the plane). Played crappy laggy games, gone to the bathroom, bought fruit snack- long story short he was bored and he still had a long flight ahead of him.
A stewardess approaches him, "are you eddie spaghetti kaspbrak?"
Eddie fumed. Really Richie?
"I am in fact he." He responded through his teeth, not at her but at the fucknut who said his name like that.
"You have been requested to come to first class and talk with a mr. tozier."
Eddie unbuckled and crawled awkwardly over the sleeping man and into the aisle. The woman lead him to the curtain and opened it.
Eddie found his way to his boyfriend who smiled and looked up at him.
"Hi eds."
"My name is eddie dickwad"
Richie waved it off and grabbed the short feral boys hand. "I missed you."
"Richie you seriously interrupted-"
"Eddie I know you. You ran out of things to do and you can't sit still anymore so here " he handed him a thick book.
On the cover it said it had crosswords and word searches and other games and things.
Eddie melted.
"I know you have to keep your kind busy or you go insane so I got you this in Hawkins." Richie shrugged fixing his glasses.
"aweeee Richie- I- thank you."
It was the small things like this.