The Beat Of My Heart

Light River

Word Count-1300

F-slurs in this chapter
Not used in harmful ways
Please be careful and have a lovely time
Soft Reddie Ahead
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In the beginning there was light

That light was Eddie Kaspbrak, in the beginning of the morning. The sun wasn't what gave Richie's world light, it was Eddie. If the sun decided to stop rising Richie wouldn't worry for a second. He didn't depend on the sun like he did Eddie, or at least it felt that way. Eddie lay in the soft bed of Richie Tozier's and let himself be engulfed by waves of comfort, knowing that nothing could hurt him in this state. Well nothing except for the thing that made him feel safe. Eddie was comforted by Richie,but burdened by the thought of Richie not wanting to be with him. In whatever way that was. Both boys scared shitless to move just lay there until

"Good morning love, want a spot of morning tea?" Richie says yelling into Eddie's ear with an old British nanny voice

"Shut up" Eddie whines as he rolls over to cover the Trashmouth' trash-hole

"AHA come on Ed's let's go get some breakfast!" Richie says

Richie races down the stairs while Eddie took some time to wake up, while Eddie was about to walk out of the room he saw papers, so many papers. They where all on Richie's desk and over flowing the trash can. Eddie wondered what was in these papers so he decided to snoop around. They obviously weren't important so he thought Richie wouldn't mind.

"They're lyrics" Eddie whispered in a confused tone

The lyrics were very confusing since it looked like they were word vomit on a page. The losers could never read Richie's handwriting so he usually had to print them out and type them. Eddie could only make out a few words, and the words he could figure out scared him.

F- Slur ahead

He could only make out the first two sentences and then a few he stopped when he saw some scribbled lines that said:
Such a Freak
A fucking fag

No more F-Slur

Eddie couldn't read any more scared of what he would find. So he took a few of the crumpled up papers and stuffed them in his fanny pack.
(These lyrics are from Trees by McCafferty they will come into play later)

He ran down stairs to find Richie cooking ramen for breakfast. Eddie didn't expect anything more or less from Richie's cooking. As Richie took the boiling water off the stove he started humming, of course Eddie didn't know what the time was but he enjoyed it nonetheless.

As Richie thought to himself, his mind went everywhere.

"I wonder if this is gonna turn out good, I haven't tried the flavor, it's like pork something, I don't know but hopefully me and Eddie like it. After all I'm cooking for two." As Richie thought all of that to himself he laughed thinking of how the fact that Eddie is the size of a baby matched up with his "cooking for two" joke.

"What's so funny?" Eddie asked while squinting his eyes

"Me" Richie says as he snorts pointing to himself with a gay ass hand flick

"Yeah yeah whatever wise guy" Eddie says as he laughs

Eddie walls over to the pot of water and stands beside Richie

"That's not a lot of water" Eddie said concerned

"Well do you want more I don't think you need that much?" Richie said squinting his eyes and pushing his glasses up

"Wait you're not eating any?" Eddie asks

"No I uhm already ate a lot last night" Richie said while looking at a pill bottle next to the counter

Eddie undertood and wasn't happy. Richie has ADHD and had to take medication during the day. He took 58 milligrams of vivance every morning and it would take the boys appetite away from him. Richie would not eat until his medicine wore off in the middle of the night. Eddie knee how unhealthy that was but wouldn't say anything since he didn't want Richie not eating at all. Yet, It was still weird for him to be taking his medication on the weekend.

"Why'd you take your meds today?" Eddie asked innocently not wanting to alarm Richie

"Well I just thought that since we have to practice a lot today I needed to focus and since we have to talk about our gig tonight" Richie said with jittery hands, "I only took half" he finally said making Eddie a bit more relieved

"Ok well there's only going to be party food at the party so we're eating before ok?" Eddie said almost as a demand instead of a question

"Ok ok sure Ed's" Richie said laughing while flipping the noodles into a bowl for Eddie and emptying the flavor packet with it

"Yum" Eddie says starting to guzzle down his food

Once he's done Richie is already upstairs either brushing his teeth or hopefully practicing some form of hygiene. Edie decides to walk up stairs since he also has to keep clean.

As Eddie walks upstairs he hears Richie singing at the top of his lungs.. he singing September. One of his favorites. When Richie ends that song and Eddie is still waiting outside the door hoping to hear more, he gets his wish. Richie starts singing lyrics familiar to the ones written on the page he found. Eddie takes a step closer to the entrance and Richie must have hear because he quickly shut up.When Eddie finally enters the room he sees Richie topless rummaging through his drawers looking for a shirt. Eddie is speechless. Richie's body was like a river or a nice lake that had all kinds of twists and turns and jagged edges and undiscovered spots. It was a river that was soft like milk and was the same tone. Richie was pale but Eddie liked to see it as fair skin. He wanted to be a boat that Richie's river could guide and engulf in fun adventures. And lead him tot he best destinations imaginable.

"Ya just gonna stare Ed's or" Richie dragged out the "or" hoping Eddie would finish for him.

"Yeah why don't you put a shirt on dickwad" Eddie said while throwing a shirt at Richie that was behind his dresser.

The shirt was a nice floral green one with tiny yellow flowers dotted all over

"M'kay Ed's" he says as he puts the shirt on, "how do I look?" He alas turning to a mirror and then back at Eddie

Eddie bit his lip feeling those fish in the river filling his stomach with the feeling of excitement and exposure.

"Looks good on you" Eddie's face flushes and goes over to Richie tucking his color in and fixing it like a mom would.

"Thanks Eddie Bear" Richie said looking down at Eddie both of them locked in each other's loving gaze

Eddie playfully pushes him and changes into some clothes in the bathroom

"You ready to go short stack"  Richie says ruffling Eddie's freshly combed hair

"Shut up fuck face" Eddie said in an angry tone walking down the stairs

As Richie left he saw a picture of his mother, leaving his mouth with a sour taste and his thoughts painted with worry. He did know why the thought of either of his parents worried him so much. Well he knew why but he didn't want to think about it too much. Instead he let his thoughts focus on his wonderful friends. Letting the light they brought him wash over him in waves that he couldn't escape and didn't want to.

"Come on dumb face I didn't mean it" Eddie said with a worried expression

"Oh I thought I was pretty?" Richie said fake pouting and then smiling at Eddie

"Whatever let's just go" Eddie said grabbing Richie's hand and walking out of the door.

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Word Count-1300

Ok so I hope you guys enjoyed this is a bit of a short/filler chapter but it had some soft Reddie in it
This song is going to be extremely important to the plot and I personally love this song and I hope you will enjoy it as well

As of now I'm not feeling my best and haven't been able to work on the chapters. Especially since these chapters will be getting heavier. But this chapter was a bit therapeutic and I'm hoping that writing will begin to be a good release for stress.

Thank you my lovelies for being so patient. Have a lovely time

With Woe,
Kaizer