Two Idiots In Love - Reddie

Chapter 4

(warning: abuse)

Eddie's POV

As I was closing the door my mum came out from the living room into the hallway and stood in front of me blocking the way to the stairs. Shit! She looked mad.

"Your FIVE minutes late!" she shouted taking a step closer to me.

"I'm sorry, I lost track of time." I said trying to sound sincere.

"That's no excuse! I told you to be back at 12pm and you got here at 12:05pm!" she shouted taking another step closer to me.

"Don't be so dramatic." I said before I could think about it. As soon as the words left my mouth I instantly regretted saying them. Her face turned a dark shade of red as she lifted her hand into the air and quickly brought it back down on my cheek causing my head to jerk back. It stung so bad, my face immediately heating up where her hand made contact. I looked back up at her, tears threatening to spill but I wouldn't let them. I wouldn't let her see me cry. I wouldn't give her the satisfaction.

"Go to your room!" she shouted moving to the side and pointing to the stairs. I wanted to shout back at her, but decided against it. I ran past her and went straight to my room slamming the door behind me.

I dropped my bag on the floor and went over to my bed curling up in the middle making sure I lay on my right side so I wouldn't put pressure on the cheek she slapped and I finally let the tears fall. I was trying to be as quiet as I could so she wouldn't here me.

I hate her, she always shouts at me for the pettiest things. I thought when I stood up to her about the gazebos she wouldn't be so bad after, but she seems to have gotten worse.

I just want to move out and have nothing to do with her, I wish that I could live with Richie. It'd be great, Maggie is lovely to me and I'd get to spend everyday with Rich, but he doesn't even know about it, he knows how controlling she is but doesn't know about the hitting. I'm scared that if I tell him or anyone, mum will find out and things would get much worse. So I don't say anything, I just wait until the day I can move out and go to college so I won't have to deal with her again.

I start drifting off to sleep, still crying slightly, thinking about the future where I'll be far away from her.

Richie's POV

"See you Richie." Eddie said with a small smile before he rushed out of my room and out the front door.

I hope he gets home in time and doesn't get in trouble with his mum. After the whole placebo thing, I've been wary of how she's treating him, I hope she's not as bad now he's confronted her. It was real brave how he confronted her though, when he told me about it I was so proud of him, I always knew he had it in him.

I got up going over to the TV turning it off and putting the controllers back. As I went over to my desk and sat down I remembered how he called them gazebos, it was so cute. Of course I didn't correct him on it, I didn't want to embarass him and plus it's cute how he thinks that's what they're called.

As I was thinking about it my phone started ringing.

"Hello?" I said picking the phone up and putting it to my ear.

"Hi R-richie." a voice I recognised to be Bill said.

"Hey Bill, what's up?" I asked while leaning back in my desk chair.

"Are y-you b-busy?"

"Nope."

"W-well do you w-want to hang out at the q-quarry?"

"Yeah sure. Who else is available?"

"Well I j-just rang Stan and B-bev and they're free, Ben was w-with Bev and he's says h-he can c-come. I was going to ring M-mike after you. Also I t-thought Eddie might be with y-you?"

"Actually Eddie just left and I don't think Mrs. K will let him out for the rest of the day, so that's a no for him." I said trying to hide the sadness in my voice.

"O-oh, w-why isn't he al-lowed out for the r-rest of the d-day?" Bill said sounding concerned.

"He stayed the night. And you know how she is with him." I said sitting forward in my chair.

"Y-yeah, she is p-prot-tective of him. Anyway I h-hope he's alr-right."

"Yeah I do too." I said looking down at my lap.

"Alright w-well, I'll s-see you in an h-hour."

"Okay bye Bill."

"B-bye Richie." I then heard a long beep indicating he ended the call. I put the phone down and went over to my bed lying down on my back.

Alright I don't have to leave until about 12:45pm, I'll just set an alarm and go to sleep for a few. I turned to my clock setting an alarm for 12:40pm and lay back down facing Eddie's side of the bed. I hope Eddie got home on time and is alright. I'll ring him later to see how he is. I close my eyes and start drifting off to sleep thinking about Eddie.