Reddie Oneshots

reddie eating disorder fic part 9

⚠️trigger warning ⚠️

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"Mom?" Eddie says, entering his house. There's a trash bag of dirty clothes sitting in by the door and Eddie looks through the kitchen seeing his large mother sitting at their small kitchen table sorting through bills that Eddie left there.

She's even... bigger now. Her large hands consume almost the entire envelopes and her glasses appear small on her face, the rims pressing against her cheekbones. Her curly hair is greasy and unkempt, along with the build-up across her face.

Her eyes move to meet Eddie when she notices him standing there, and she sighs. "Be a dear Eddie and fix me some pasta."

Eddie's eyebrows press together as he feels he's about to fall over from shock any minute. She's gone for a month, and she comes back, asking for pasta? He wishes he hadn't told Richie to go home, that he would call him after talking to his mother. He could really use his boyfriend's comfort right now. Boyfriend. He bites the inside of his cheek from smiling when he says it in his head.

"Eddie?"

Eddie steps into the kitchen. "We don't have any pasta, mom. All of the food is gone."

"Why is it all gone, Eddie?"

"Because it all went bad due to your lack of food shopping and the fact that I don't have $100 to keep our kitchen stocked with your food."

Sonia Kaspbrak places her head in her hands. "Don't tell me you did that starving thing that you did when you were a child."

Starving thing? Eddie will admit it, 1/2 of his starving thing is because he chooses too, he knows how quickly the weight will fall off and frankly he loves the high he gets and how in control he feels. But the other half is because there IS no food for him to eat, he ran out of safe foods a day before he started sleeping over at Richie's house.

"You mean... you didn't go and get food for yourself and your child? That thing?"

She glares at Eddie with a fire in her eyes, almost burning into him. He almost backs down, apologizing to his mother and then obeying her. Like he always does. But he's not standing for it anymore, she's not going to walk over him, blaming her personal struggles on him. He has his own to deal with.

"Excuse me?"

"You've been gone for a month, and you left me nothing. Not even a note. I've been living off the $70 under your pillow and the money that I've saved up. See these lights?" Eddie walks over to the light switch and switches them on and off, nothing happening. "They're off. Because I don't have money to pay the bills, I am a child."

Eddie walks over to the sink next turning the hot water on. "Wait for it, wait for it, oh. There's no hot water either."

Sonia watches him with tiny eyes behind her glasses, anger boiling in her blood. "How dare you-"

"No! How dare YOU?! You've left me alone, your child. I'm only fifteen, mom. You really fucking think I can pay the bills and shit while you're gone?!" Eddie yells, taking the dish rag folded against the side of the sink and throwing it on the floor.

"I'm staying with my friend, Richie. Remember him? Yeah. He's the one who has been taking care of me while you're off screwing around someplace, leaving your child behind."

"That kid is a MESS! Why would you EVER spend time with him? I told you to stay away from him."

"That's funny. I guess your little rules I left behind too. Because guess what?" Eddie smirks and folds his arms across his chest. "He fucked the hell out of me. So... screw you, Sonia."