Oblivious~Reddie

Chpt 41~sober thoughts

The sleepover was too much for Richie.

He sat in the bathroom for at least an hour, sitting in peace and thinking. He knew that Eddie wouldn't control himself and speak normally seen as he was drunk, so he decided to talk to him another day.

After he came out of the bathroom, all of the drunk teenagers were messing around together whereas Richie went straight to sleep.

Now, it was morning.

Richie woke up on the sofa and looked around him. He saw Stan and Bill asleep on the floor, near to Eddie. The others weren't there? Richie guesses why though.. Bev probably got home early to please her dad, Mike has to do early farm work and Ben? Richie had no clue why Ben left early but he didn't seem to care.

"Anyone up?"

No answer.

"Urghhhhh is anyone upppppp-"

"Shut the fuck up."

Richie's face darted over to look at Eddie who was staring at him angrily. "Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed," Richie mumbled.

"I'm not on a bed.."

"Oh well.." Richie stopped and thought for a moment. "Good!"

"How is that good?"

Richie just rolled his eyes and laid back down. He closed his eyes in attempt to fall back asleep until he heard breathing above him. He opened his eyes and looked up to see Eddie standing over him awkwardly.

"What do you want?"

Eddie seemed nervous and extremely awkward, he was biting his nails and his cheeks were red. "What did i do last night?"

Richie almost choked on his spit once he remembered what happened. "You're just tryna make me say it, to embarrass me," Richie replied.

"What? What is really that bad?"

"You seriously don't remember?"

Eddie shook his head. Richie took a look around and saw Bill and Stan still fast asleep, so he turned back and signalled Eddie to sit down. The boy did so.

"Uhh i'm not gonna say it but-" Richie stopped talking and instead, he turned his head slightly to show Eddie the hickeys.

He heard a gasp come from the boy. "Oh shit. Fuck. I- i did that?"

"Mhm. And you kissed me, a ton of times," Richie added, a little smirk appeared.

"I was hammered, i- i don't even know why-"

"I know Eds," Richie cut in.

Eddie looked down nervously and carried on biting his nails. "Uhm.. Can we not talk about this please?"

Richie knew exactly what to change the subject to.

"Let's talk about Connor, shall we?"

Eddie eyes darted up at the name, he gulped down and instantly began to panic. "W-what about Connor.."

"What bad things did he do?"

"What?"

"You said he did bad things.. What did he do Eds?"

"How much did i tell you.."

Richie stopped and noticed how heavy Eddie's breathing was getting. "You just said Connor did bad things and that's why you was ignoring me, that was before you pinned me down and-"

"Shut the fuck up," Eddie cut in, he looked terrified. "I- i'm sorry Rich."

"I'll only forgive you if you tell me the truth," Richie spoke as he crossed his arms. Although his arms weren't crossed for much longer as Eddie had leaned in and hugged the boy tightly.

"He- hé threatened me Rich," Eddie whispered. They were still hugging.

"What did he say?"

"He said that either he cut me with his knife or i let him do.. Sexual things with you Chee.."

Richie pulled away from the hug and looked Eddie the eyes, tears were pouring down his cheeks.

"What did you say Eds?" Questioned Richie.

"I told him to cut me Richie! I couldn't let him do anything sexual with you.. You wouldn't like it-"

"Eds stop," Richie spoke calmly and placed his hand on one of Eddie's shoulders to relax him. "Did he cut you?"

"N-no! He acted as if i said the second option, i didn't Rich!! I promise." Eddie was fully crying now, tears just kept escaping from his eyes.

"You shouldn't of said the first option anyways Eds-"

"Why?! The second option is worse! But it doesn't matter now, he didn't listen.." Richie pulled Eddie into another hug once again. He heard a whisper from Eddie straight after. "Please be careful Rich.."

"I will.. But this doesn't explain why you was ignoring me?"

He heard slight sniffles from Eddie before he replied. "I need to think and i don't know.. I couldn't face you, it scared me. It scared me that i let you down Rich, it's my fault!!"

"Eds, do not say that! This is not your fault! You told him the first option but he didn't listen, you need to stop blaming yourself.."

Eddie pulled away from the hug and faced Richie directly now. Richie gave eye contact back, he couldn't look away from the glimmer in Eddie's brown, tear-filled eyes.

"Did i say anything else last night Rich?"

Richie began to slightly laugh at the question. "You said you liked me Eddie, and that you think i'm sexy."

"Oh," Eddie laughed. "Guess drunk words are sober thoughts," he mumbled.

"What?"

"You heard me dumbass."

Richie stayed quiet. Eddie liked him. He was being so straight forward. And he wasn't drunk. Then, Richie said something that he didn't even mean to.

"Do you wanna go to the movies later or something? Just us two.."

Eddie expression changed from nervous to shocked. It wasn't long until he giggled slightly and looked up to face Richie. "Sure. As a date?"

Eddie closed his eyes, scared for the rejection. But it was silence, he couldn't handle it.

"Uhm i-"

"Kiddingggg," Eddie cut in. "We can go as a night out because we deserve it, especially after all the shit that's been happening recently." He saw Richie's look, he couldn't tell what he was feeling. He was just hoping that he didn't know that Eddie actually wasn't kidding.

"Yeah.. Makes sense," Richie laughed off. "Pick you up at 6?"

"Sure."