together

Chapter 3

Richie watched as Eddie slowly opened the stall door then pulled Eddie in for a hug as much as Eddie fought he didn't let go

RICHIE POV

I let go of Eddie and then looked him in the eyes and told him

"look what you saw...with Olivia. That was nothing. She kissed me, and I was gonna tell her that I'm with you but then she said "Hey isn't that Eddie?" So then I ran after you, please don't be upset Ed's, cause I can't have sad spaghetti" I said softly. I held his chin but he stopped me and said,

"I don't think it's our time,not yet." and walked out the door. I sat down on the floor and a tear ran down my face.

EDDIE POV

I walked out of my third period class and saw Richie with Olivia, he looked over at me and i could tell he was upset... it looked like he had been crying, not the Olivia noticed or cared enough to see what was wrong, but I couldn't go over there it would make it all worse. I hate this situation, I never should have told him. I turned around and saw Bev and Ben so I walked up to them and acted normal, they didn't suspect anything was up and that was good, a way to keep my mind off things. I was supposed to have fifth period with Richie, but I walked into class to see that he wasn't there.

EDDIE POV (TW: ABUSE/SUICIDAL THOUGHTS)

It's been a week and Richie still hasn't been to school. I was walking home today as always, I would pass Richie's house, usually I just kept walking but today I stopped...and walked up to his front door...and knocked. A tall, curly hair boy answered with bruises on his face. I gasped holding back tears from the sight of it. Who the fuck thinks they have the right to hurt Chee

"Rich...what happened?" I said worried. He just stood there, I kept asking questions, not able to process what I was seeing but I knew this wasn't helping. I could see that he was hurt and I didn't like that he was hurt.

"Richie," I said softly, "I'm sorry that I hurt you." I wanted to hold him, I wanted to cry on his shoulder ,I wanted to tell him I loved him. But everything was ruined because of me.

"Hey fag" Richie's mom said as she walked to the door I could smell the alcohol on her breath. I backed up in fear, and my eyes began to water, I knew exactly who hurt him.

"Look what you did to my boy, you made him a fag too." I didn't pay attention to her. I only paid attention to Richie who had tears streaming down his face. He was blocking her, he was blocking her for me. So she couldn't come out and hurt me too. He still cared. I wanted to run home and cry, but I stood there...in fear thinking about what would happen to Richie if i did. But then he closed the door.

Later at Eddie's house

I sat on my bed staring at the wall when my phone vibrated. I looked at it to see a text from Richie, it said

"please don't tell anyone about today they'll take me away from my mom." I didn't reply. I just sat there reading it over and over again. Two more texts appeared saying

"do you want me to be taken away?"

"Maybe i should just do this world a favor." I read the last text tearing up