soulmates~reddie

chapter twentyfour

'Richie!'

Honestly, it was quite the sight.

Richie laying shirtless and unconscious in Eddie's hallway while the brunette was frantically trying to wake Richie up.

Eddie pulled his phone out of his pocket and called the first contact in his phone. An ambulance wasn't really nessecary because he didn't hit his head or something but Eddie needed someone to calm him down.

The phone went over just one time before it got picked up, "Stanley Uris spea-" the blonde one started but was immediatly cut off by a distressed Eddie, "Stan! Thank god. Richie just fainted on me and I'm freaking out and I don't know what to do and I can't breathe and-" Eddie rambled but was interrupted by Stanley softly shushing him.

"Sshh, calm down...just breathe in through your nose, out through your mouth...in through your nose, out through your mouth..." he repeated his words a couple of times until he heard that Eddie had calmed down. "Now, tell me what's wrong."

"Richie fainted and I don't know what to do." Eddie breathed out.

"Wait..Richie? Why is Richi- nevermind, just...try lifting his legs..that makes the blood flow back to his brains easier." Stan instructed Eddie. The brunette put his phone on speaker, laying it beside him and did as told.

Soon enough Richie's eyes fluttered open and Eddie flew the taller male around the neck, "Oh, thank god, you scared me." Eddie said.

"What happened?" Richie groggily asked.

"You passed out on me, dude. I started freaking out." Eddie answered back.

"I'm assuming he's awake again?" Stan's voice was heard through the telephone, "Just make sure he eats something..prefferably something salty to get his blood pressure up again." Eddie thanked Stan and hung up after saying goodbye to the boy.

Richie had sat up by now and was leaning with his back against the wall. The brunette grabbed Richie's shirt off of the stairs and handed it to him before sitting down in his lap.

Richie had pulled his shirt over his head and was now being straddled by Eddie, "Are you okay?" he asked, while grabbing Richie's face between his hands to see if he had a concussion, to which Richie nodded. Well, nodded as best as he could with his face in between Eddie's hands.

Eddie doubted his response but he was not about to argue with Richie when he had just passed out, "You want something to eat?" he carefully asked. Richie nodded so the two boys stood up to go downstairs.

Eddie gave Richie some crackers, which the boy started eating greedily but Eddie noticed there still was something wrong, something heavy that hung around them. He went from leaning against the counter to walking up to Richie and wrapping his arms around his torso, "What's wrong?"

"Nothi-"

"Don't say it's nothing Richie, I can feel that something is up."

Richie sighed and put the crackers down on the counter, wrapping his arms around Eddie too, "I don't want to lose you." Richie breathed out.

"What? You're not going to los-" but Richie cut him off,

"Eddie, we'll be on opposite sides of the country...you're going to NYU and I'm going to UCLA."