Reddie For You [On Hiatus]

| Chapter 9 |

"Eat my dust Eds!"

"Go die."

"In your dreams." Richie snorted, his thumbs moving a mile a minute on the controller. "Watch this." His character flew through the air over Eddie's and took the remainder of his life away. "Told you I'd kick your ass!" He chuckled victoriously.

Eddie withheld the urge to smack the sly smug off of his face, so he just shook his head and tossed the controller onto the coffee table. "Whatever. You were probably playing this game every day, I haven't even held a controller in a decade at least. I'm out of practice."

"Excuses, excuses Eds."

"Shutup." Eddie rolled his eyes, stretching his legs out onto Richie's lap. "Are you done packing for tomorrow?"

For the entire week, Richie couldn't stop talking about how excited he was to work with SNL. Netflix had already approved his show after their meeting and Richie spent the rest of the week working on his script. "Pretty much. We won't be there for long, you know that right?"

"It's only two days."

"Yeah but you have a thing for overpacking babe." He laughed, placing his controller down and shutting off the game. Eddie couldn't help but fluster at the nickname. He'd agreed to be Richie's "boyfriend" after his small breakdown and an exchange of handjobs. As childish as he thought the label sounded, he did enjoy the newfound intimacy and getting to sleep in Richie's bed every night.

"So? I like to be prepared! You don't pack enough."

"You pack enough for the both of us!" Richie cackled. "We leave tomorrow, and not even early, yet you still insist on getting to the airport four hours early!"

"We are leaving the house four hours early, dipshit." Eddie corrected. "Just in case there's traffic, or the security line is long, or if you get stopped since your a fucking celebrity!"

"I'll take my chances if it means you'll let me sleep a little longer."

"No way." Eddie scoffed. "I don't know how you didn't miss every single flight before me."

"Because your whole procedure is a little ridiculous. I still love you though." Richie tugged him closer to place a wet kiss on his cheek. Eddie shoved him away before wiping it off.

"You slobber like an animal!" He grimaced, rubbing the residue on Richie's shirt.

"I am an animal hot stuff." Richie purred, wiggling his eyebrows comically.

"You're disgusting." Eddie retorted, a smirk still evident on his face. He opened his mouth to say more before his phone started vibrating on the coffee table. He picked it up, the smirk slowly vanishing as his lips fixed into a tight line.

"Who is it?" Richie said quietly, knowing that whoever it was, Eddie did not want to talk to them. He sighed, picking it up to his ear slowly.

"My aunt Linda." He murmured. "Hello?" He answered dully, not even trying to hide his unamusement. "Hey. Uh... yeah we are." He jerked the phone back from his ear at the sudden loudness flooding from the speaker, even Richie could hear it from where he was sitting. Eddie's aunt wasn't far off from his mother. She was scolding him on something, but she was talking so fast he couldn't make out the words. Talking fast definitely ran in Kaspbrak blood.

"No." He said, frustrated and turning red. "What? No! I've never had an affair. No, I'm not sick. Why? Because I was unhappy in the marriage okay! I'm sorry that all of you are so disappointed, but this is my life. I'm going to get my stuff and drop off some paperwork tomorrow." She must have said something out of line because Eddie's face twisted in shock and it looked like he was about to start fuming. "Don't ever bring up her name again. Yeah well she's dead. I'm done with this conversation, I'm not changing my mind and I'm not making a mistake." He hung up without a goodbye, angrily placing it back onto the table.