soulmates~reddie

chapter twentytwo

'Sleep well, Rich.'

A few days had passed and Richie was feeling slightly better but still spent most of his time laying in bed, talking to Connor,

"Hey, who are the Bowers gang's soulmates?" Richie asked out of nowhere, his head laying on Connor's chest.

"Why'd you ask?" the blonde boy questioned back.

Richie shrugged, "Just curious, y'know."

"Well, you know Henry's soulmate,"

Richie sighed and shifted his position, laying his head on Connor's shoulder now and tangling their legs together, "Yeah.."

"Euhm..Patrick's soulmate is some dumb bimbo, she's really obnoxious and overly sexual, but I think that he's secretly in love with Henry," Richie snorted at that, "Victor has never met his soulmate and Reginald doesn't have a streak."

Richie blinked up at Connor, "So your telling me that they bullied Eddie for a year because he didn't have a streak meanwhile one of them doesn't even have one?!" Richie said while sitting up now, his back leaning against the headboard.

Connor gave Richie an expression filled with sympathy, "It was mainly Henry's fault that they did that..I'm sorry."

"No, it's fine. I shouldn't have asked in the first place." he shrugged it off.

Connor went to sit upright against the headboard next to Richie, "How are you feeling today?" he asked after a while.

"Better, I guess.." the boy answered. Shifting from position again, he layed his head in Connor's lap who started playing with Richie's hair again. Suddenly the blonde froze up after coming across Richie's pink streak which was barely visible anymore...almost completely gone.

"What's wrong? You're tense." Richie says while lifting his head up.

"Oh it's nothing just‐"

"Connooorr, just tell me what's wrong."

Connor looked Richie in the eyes and that's when he felt it...the snap that their connection was gone. The sparkle Richie would get in his eyes while looking at Connor, the desire to be with eachother, their bond...it was all gone, he felt nothing anymore.

"Richie...our soulmate connection is gone.."

"Soulmate connection? What's a soulmate connection?" Richie asked while tilting his head to the side.

"You know, you have your streak but with that comes a connection, the desire to be with your soulmate, that's how you can feel if you're really soulmates..."

"How do you know ours is gone?"

"Your streak is fading away.."

"What?! How long has it been fading?"

"Since you got sick..Maybe it had to do something with that?" he swallowed the lump in his throath, trying not to tear up.

"Connor..why didn't you tell me?" Richie asked softly while laying a hand on Connor's knee, his thumb slowly dragging circles across the skin there to sooth the boy.