'i fall apart (down to my core)' by eds_kas on ao3
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"You're so fucking stubborn!"
"Yeah? That's because I'm right. Just give up and admit it."
Eddie groaned loudly and as a grin grew on Richie's face Eddie's hands started to shake in anger. He gripped onto the kitchen counter to not stomp over to Richie who sat by the kitchen table and smack that grin right off his face.
"If you don't lose that fucking grin right now I swear I'm going to strangle you." Eddie hissed between his teeth and if looks could kill Richie would be stone cold dead by now.
"I just find it so adorable that you actually think you're right—"
"I am right!" Eddie almost screamed at this point and he could feel his blood boil under his skin. "It was on Bev's nineteenth birthday we surprised her with a party, not her twentieth."
"Oh baby, you would be right if you weren't so wrong." Richie's voice was soft and loving, which only made Eddie even angrier.
Eddie took a deep breath and closed his eyes to not lose it completely. There wasn't anyone on Earth Eddie loved more than he loved Richie, but there also wasn't anyone he could get so angry with as he got with Richie. Especially in situations like this when they argued about who was right and who was wrong. Especially when Eddie knew he was right. Which he almost always was and at this point he started to think Richie argued back only to piss him off.
"If you're so sure you're right, then let's bet on it," Eddie finally said and opened his eyes. "And then we call her and ask."
Eddie expected Richie to give up and admit he only messed with him, but he nodded his head. Shit, did he really think he was right?
"What kind of bet do you have in mind?" Richie asked.
The answer rolled off Eddie's tongue so fast he didn't get to think twice about it. That's how sure he was that he was right.
"The vibrator. In public."
If Richie only screwed with Eddie to get on his nerves he would admit it now. There was no way he would agree to that if he wasn't one hundred percent sure he was right. Because Eddie knew Richie knew exactly what he meant by betting on the vibrator. A few months earlier Richie had bought a remote control vibrator which he loved to use on Eddie but Eddie never got to use it on him.
Eddie raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms over his chest. "If you're so sure you're right then you wouldn't hesitate."
Richie swallowed hard and clenched his fists. "It was on her twentieth. I know it," Richie whispered, almost to convince himself. After a few moments he stood up and walked over to Eddie, his right hand outstretched in front of him.
