Oblivious~Reddie

Chpt 52~snuggle

The lanky boy had made his way through Eddie's window, only landing with a slight bump on the floor.

"Be quiet dickwad, otherwise my mum will wake up," Eddie demanded. Richie just laughed as he stood up and took a seat on Eddie's desk, taking a look at all the books scattered around on there.

"So you have been revising?"

"Yeah," Eddie shrugged. "Sorry about the mess."

"Mess? My room has my pants scattered around every," Richie laughed. "This ain't a mess compared to mine."

Eddie let out a giggle before patting on his bed beside him, signalling Richie to take a seat next to him. Richie understood what Eddie was implying and quickly got off of seat and made his way to sit on Eddie's bed beside him.

"So why did you come here again?"

Richie was hit with a harsh tone, he was sure Eddie didn't mean it to come across that way though. "Talk to you, about how your acting."

"How i'm acting?! I'm acting perfectly fine, thank you very much!"

"See that right there," Richie spoke as his hand gestured towards the boys mad look in his face. "That tells me otherwise."

"I ain't acting weird, the fuck you on about?"

"The day at the quarry? The morning that we kissed? You freaked out."

"Yeah well.. It was too much for me."

"But you was pinning me down in the closet last friday?" Eddie face dropped at that remark, he sighed in defeat and dropped his body down so he was facing the ceiling.

"I was pissed that night!"

"So?" Richie had fallen back to, they both had their attention to the place ceiling above them. "I know something is up Eds, you can tell me anything.."

"I know.."

"Listen Eds, do you trust me?"

"Yes! Of course i trust you," Eddie quickly replied, he was sure he trusted Richie. But he wasn't telling him because of how pathetic he felt, not the amount of trust.

"I trust you Eds, i need you to believe me that i will not make anything worse. If you trust me, why can't you tell me?"

"It's not about trust Rich.."

"Then what's it about? I tell you all my trauma because i trust you Eddie.. God, i trust you so fucking much-"

"I know," Eddie annoyingly cut in. "You don't understand.."

But if you tell me, i could understand!"

Eddie huffed and quickly scrambled off the bed, he stood and faced Richie. The lanky boy sat upright and faced Eddie, tears were flowing down his red cheeks.

"You're being selfish, Richie," Eddie sighed.

"Selfish?" Richie gulped in disbelief, he didn't mean to be selfish...

"Yes. You don't understand that i'm not ready to tell you.."

Richie looked down at his feet for a few seconds, soon bringing his gaze back up to Eddie. He stood up and walked over to Eddie, not getting too close.

"Can i hug you Eds?"

Eddie nodded, tears were still escaping his blood-shot eyes. Although, he was soon brought into a warm hug by Richie. He didn't feel scared at this, he felt more safe right now to be in Richie's arms.

"I'm sorry," Richie spoke softly. "I didn't mean to be selfish.. I just- i just can't sleep at night knowing that you are bottling all this up and not feeling like you can tell me." They pulled away from the hug, looking deep into each other's eyes which were both filled with tears.

"I know Rich, i just feel pathetic.."

"Pathetic? How?" Richie made sure to keep his voice soft and gently, making sure there was no ways to startle the fragile boy.

"Well.. I just feel pathetic that what happened, i didn't have the guts to do anything. I was weak-" Eddie's voice stopped speaking and instead, sniffles stopped him from continuing. Richie pulled him into another tight hug.

"Listen Eds, you shouldn't feel pathetic.. Stuff has happened to me to like with my dad and Connor, i didn't do anything because i felt weak at the time.. But i still tell you Eds, it's unhealthy to bottle up all your feelings and emotions.. I'm just here to help you Eddie, help you through whatever your going through.." Richie slightly ruffled his hand through Eddie's soft, silky hair.

Then, Eddie pulled away from the hug. He looked up to Richie, wiping away the tears from his cheeks. "P-patrick," he sniffled. "He is back."

"Wait-" Richie couldnt figure out what to say. "Did- did Patrick do something to you?"

Eddie hesitated a bit before slightly nodding.

"Could you tell me what he did?" Richie kept his voice so soft and gently, so quiet to let Eddie know that he was safe and that he could trust Richie. It helped because Eddie knew that Richie wouldn't ever do anything to hurt him like Patrick did.

"Y-yes."

Eddie and Richie took a seat on the bed, Richie kept his fingering intertwined with Eddie's while the boy explained what happened. He didn't leave out any detail, his words did get cut off a few times by the sniffled that escaped from his mouth but that didn't stop Eddie from continuing.

Finally, Eddie had finished explaining. Their hands were still holding onto each other's tightly.

"Fuck Eds, i should've been there with you-"

"No, do not say that Richie! It's not your fault, i promise!"

"I- still though! I just- i can't begin to explain how fucked up Patrick is for doing that!" Richie let his anger out, making sure he didn't raise his voice. One reason for that is so he didn't startle Eddie, second reason was so Sonia didn't wake up to the angry comments coming from her sons bedroom.

"I know Rich.. I'm sorry i didn't tell you sooner-"

"No, no, no," Richie interrupted. "You weren't ready.. I shouldn't of pushed you to tell me earlier.."

"It's fine. I feel better now that you know i guess, i was just scared that you would find me weak.."

"Weak? You kicked him in the nuts and ran away Eds, you did what you could," Richie exclaimed. "I have one thing to say though Eddie, nothing bad.."

Eddie furrowed his eyebrows, tilting his head ever so slightly as he responded with a "okay, go ahead."

"Maybe you could consider going to the police about it? I know it's soon and stuff but.. I don't want Patrick to continue to do these things," Richie suggested.

"But- i- i was scared to tell you.. Let alone the police.."

"I know Eds, i understand.. Just- think about it? Please?"

Eddie shot the boy a slight smile as he nodded. "Okay, ill think about it.."

There was silence following after that, Eddie climbed into bed. He patted next to him to get Richie to lay in bed beside him. Yesterday he would flinch at someone hugging him, but it was different now. Richie knew what happened, Richie was there to protect Eddie, Eddie was safe between Richie's arms.

"Stay over here tonight?" Eddie asked as he looked up to the boy in bed, their bodies still pressed in a gentle hug.

"Of course, i didn't wanna move from this spot anyways," Richie responded with a smile. Eddie giggled as he buried his head on Richie's chest.

"Neither did i," Eddie mumbled just before he fell into a deep sleep with his head laying on Richie's chest, Richie's lanky arms wrapping over his body to show that the boy was safe in his arms.