Reddie Oneshots

reddie eating disorder fic part 16

⚠️trigger warning⚠️

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Junior year is different than all of the other years. Everybody is worried about college, always talking about it. People have post-high school plans and Eddie can barely think about the next second.

He plans on having a "fresh" school year— hoping that the stress and work from school would take away his eating disorder... it rather added to it. As late summer became fall, his lunches got smaller and smaller, and the losers know from experience not to comment on his portion sizes, as it triggers Eddie and turns into a fight that ends in the losers not talking to each other for days.

Scared about the future, he finds new places to cut but Richie discovers them all when the lust gets the better of them both and Richie tenderly kisses his slits and reminds him that it doesn't make him less of a person. Days become nights and Eddie takes refuge in the soft moments with Richie where he can regress and forget that he's a struggling junior and just think about snuggling and kisses.

Then he surfaces from his underwater dream and the scale isn't low enough, he's eating too much food, and he's fat. Crying out for help in the quietest voice, wanting to stop but needing the hunger more and more every day. It's what centers him in math class and what makes him feel okay.

Called into the guidance councilors office because his teachers are concerned, he lies through his teeth that he's fine, then skips 6th period to break down in the bathroom where Stan finds him with red eyes and a snotty nose.

But he wakes up the next morning a pound lighter.

And that's all that matters.

-x-

-THREE MONTHS LATER-

"I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise"

"He did the mash!"

Richie grins at him zipping up his boots as Eddie bounces to the familiar song watching himself sing without a care in the world. Dressed up as the band Fleetwood Mac, Richie being Mike Fleetwood and Eddie being Lindsey Buckingham.

"You look adorable." Eddie hears from over his shoulder and he smirks, turning to Richie. "You look hot."

Richie pulls Eddie between his legs, looking up at the small boy and rubbing circles into his hip bones. "The losers will be over in 15 minutes," Eddie says softly, stroking his finger along Richie's cheek and then over his lips.

"What are you implying?" Richie says, knowing fully what Eddie means but wanting to hear him say it.

"I think you know what I'm implying..."

"That we could watch an episode of teenage mutant ninja turtles before they get here?"

Eddie scoffs hitting him lightly on the shoulder. "No, stupid. I mean  that it would be a shame if we let us being in these hot ass costumes go to waste."

"I still don't know what you want, Ed's."

Eddie rolls his eyes than sits on Richie's lap fumbling with the hem of his shirt. "Sex."

Richie chuckles and kisses him deeply sticking his hand up his shirt and feeling his back. "There it is."

"They did the mash
They did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash"

-x-

They finish minutes before the losers arrive at Eddie's house with a box of cheese pizza dressed up as the rest of Fleetwood Mac. Beverly, who proudly took the role as Stevie Nicks, hugs Eddie tightly whispering that the white spot on his top complimented his outfit a smirk in her voice.