Two Idiots In Love - Reddie

Chapter 13

Richie's POV

I'm sitting at my desk waiting for the clock to turn 10am. After the call with Eddie last night I told my mum what Eddie told me and asked her if I could stay with him until Thursday so he's not alone and she agreed. She gave me $60 for food for both me and Eddie and said she would drive me round to his house.

I've got my bag packed and ready to go by the front door, I'm just waiting to call Eddie like we agreed before I go over.

Finally the clock turns 10am. I pick up the phone holding it to my ear and dial Eddie's number. I hear it ring once before he picks up.

"Hey Rich!" Eddie says sounding happy, which puts a smile on my face.

"Hey Spaghetti! Has your mum left yet?"

"Yup, she left at 9:30am and said she won't be back until around 8pm on Thursday." 

"Great, well my mum offered to drop me off round yours. So can I come round now?" I ask with hope evident in my voice.

"Yeah! Sounds great!" he enthusiastically says. Hearing that makes me chuckle at him.

"Good, see you shortly Eds."

"See you Richie." he says before I hang the phone up.

I get up from my desk and make my way downstairs. I go to the living room and see my mum on the sofa, when I walk in she looks up at me with a smile.

"Have you rang him?" she asks me while putting the book she was reading down.

"Yeah I just did, he said I can come over now." I happily say.

"Alright then, put your shoes on and your bags in the car and I'll take you."

"Okay, thanks mum." I say before doing what she said.

Time skip to Eddie's house. 

We pull up outside the front of Eddie's house. I unbuckle my seatbelt and look over at my mum.

"Thanks for the ride." I say with a smile.

"Your welcome and if there's any problems just call me, alright?"

"I will, see you on Thursday." I say while getting out of the car and grabbing my bags from the backseat.

"See you Richie." my mum says, waving at me and driving off.

I walk over to the front door of Eddie's house, I put my bags on the ground and knock on the door. A couple seconds later Eddie's opening the door with a huge smile on his face.

"Hey Eds!" I say while opening my arms to him for a hug.

"Hi Rich!" he says back, stepping forward and wrapping his arms around my waist as I wrap mine around his shoulders. 

After about 8 seconds, Eddie breaks the hug and picks up one of my bags and stepping to the side to let me in. I grab the other bag and walk through the door with Eddie behind me closing it.

"Alright just head up to my room so we can leave your bags there." Eddie says from behind me. I walk up the stairs and go into Eddie's room. I leave my bag by his desk and he does the same with the other one. 

"So what are we doing today?" I ask clapping my hands together while spinning around to face Eddie.

"How about we watch a movie? With my mum gone we've got the living room all to ourselves." Eddie says with a smile at the end.

"Sounds great." I say grinning at him. We then go downstairs to the living room. 

I haven't really spent much time in here, we normally just walk past it because his mum is always in here, so it's like an uncharted area for me.

Eddie walks over to the TV while I sit on the sofa facing it.  We decide on watching E.T. Eddie puts the movie in and comes over and sits next to me.

We press play on the movie and about half way through Eddie leans on me, but then quickly moves away. I look at his face and see him wince in pain. 

"What's wrong?" I ask while turning to face him.

"Nothing, I'm fine." Eddie says while not looking at me. I grab the remote and pause the movie.

"I saw you wince in pain when you leaned on me." I say moving closer to him, trying to get him to look at me.

"It's nothing, don't worry." he mumbles still not looking at me. That only makes me worry more, he's never kept anything from me before.

"Eddie." I say gently while placing my hand on the side of his face and moving his head to look at me. "What's wrong?" I softly ask him still holding the side of his face.

He's now looking into my eyes and I can see him start tearing up, which breaks my heart. He slowly lifts up his sleeve on his left arm which uncovers a bruise wrapping around his upper arm. As I scan the bruise more, it looks to be in the shape of a hand.

"Who did this?" I say, my voice cracking slightly from me starting to tear up as well. At that Eddie closes his eyes and lets his tears stream down his face. I wipe them away with the hand still resting on his cheek and pull him into a hug. He instantly wraps his arms around me and buries his face in my chest.

I can feel my shirt getting wetter and his body shaking a little from crying. I then rest my head on top of his and let the tears fall from my eyes. I stroke his back trying to calm him down as well as myself.

We sit like that for awhile, me holding Eddie in my arms as we both break down in tears. I can't believe someone could do that to someone as sweet and caring as Eddie. I have a guess who I think did it, I just hope I'm wrong. I'll ask him when he's calmed down and hopefully he tells me who did it so I can protect him from them. For now though, my main focus is calming Eddie down and keeping him safe in my arms.

Hi, I just wanted to say thank you so much for reading my story it means a lot. I know my writing isn't the best but I like to think I'm improving the more I write, so please stick around, it will get better. I hope you're enjoying the story so far and I'll see you in the next one.