Stay Calm~Reddie

"𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕞𝕪 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥 𝕜𝕚𝕤𝕤"♫

It had been a three days since Richie's chat with Bev, four days since he made the biggest mistake. By kissing Eddie Kaspbrak.

Richie was sitting in his maths class on a boring Wednesday, his mind constantly stuck on Eddie. He wanted to speak to him. He wanted to know why the fuck he kissed back, but he wasn't ready for that type of rejection.

So instead of him needing losing his mind in his maths class (which none of his friends were in) he asked the teacher to go to the toilet.

"Sir, can i go to the toilet?"

The teacher snorted. "You should've went at break, Richard."

"I didn't need to go at break though, i need to go now," Richie spoke back with a smug look. "Do you want me to piss on your chair?"

A few students in the class snickered whereas the teacher just grunted and rolled his eyes, obviously annoyed at Richie's attitude. "Fine. Don't be long."

As soon as they words left the teacher's mouth, Richie hurried out the classroom. He did need the toilet, hut he also wanted to get out of that hot-ass classroom. He was planning on skipping too, not like he hadn't done it before.

Richie's urge to piss suddenly vanished once he opened the door to the bathroom, and noticed a familiar boy washing his hands. Richie just walked in, but once the boy turned around once he was startled by the noice.

It was Eddie. Of fucking course.

"Oh, hey," Richie awkwardly greeted as he made his way past him. "What's up?"

Eddie could hear the shakiness in Richie's voice. "I'm good." His reply was blunt, but that was enough for Richie to just nervously nod at him and stay quiet. The only sound was the tap running and Eddie's quietly whistling while he washed his hands. But that silence ended, as soon as Eddie notice Richie pull out a cigarette.

"Smoking? In here?" He scrunched his nose.

"Mhm," Richie hummed back as he lit the cigarette and leaned his body against the wall. "I'm nowhere near you Eds." A small smile appeared on Eddie's face, which made Richie shoot back one as well.

"I know."

Awkward silence, again.

Richie hated it, he really did. He wanted to talk to him about it, had it been long enough? It's been like 4 days, Richie wasn't paying attention to the days in all honesty. "Hey, uh- Eddie?"

"Yes?"

"Uh- sorry about Saturday night," he blurted out awkwardly, the lit cigarette was still being held between his index and middle finger. "I shouldn't have.. You know, kissed ya." he forced a chuckle, only for a second before his face went back to serious. "I just-"

"It's fine," Eddie cut in, as if he was tired of hearing Richie ramble on. "I guessed that you may have a reason for it, so it's cool."

"Yeah," Richie awkwardly spoke as he took a bit of his smoke. "Thanks."

"It's okay, what was the reason?" Richie almost chocked on his spit, he didn't even know what to say. He didn't have the balls to tell the truth now? He didn't have a reason to say right now? Fuck, why didn't he plan this. Why didn't he plan an excuse to why he kissed him?!

"Uh- reason for what?" Richie hoped this could give him extra time to think of an excuse, but it didn't help that Eddie responded almost instantly.

"Reason to you kissing me," Eddie responded. "There's got to be a reason, can i know?"

"Uh- yeah," Richie blurted. "Stan- he uh- he dared me to? Yeah, he dared me to kiss you to see how you reacted."

The look on Eddie's face after he spoke made Richie's heart shatter. Eddie's mouth closed to stop from speaking anything, his shoulders fell back down, and his eyes.. They were full of confusion and disappointment.

Richie just guessed this was because Eddie just found out that his first kiss was a dare. Well, it wasn't. But he didn't know that.

"Oh," was all Eddie replied with. "That was my first kiss."

"Shit- i know," Richie blurted. "I'm sorry, really sorry.. I-"

"It's fine, i'll see you around Rich," Eddie shrugged as he quickly turned his body round and headed towards the door. Richie could only catch Eddie's face dropped into a look of sadness because he couldn't see it anymore.

"Wait, where you going? Maybe we could-"

"I gotta get to class," Eddie harshly interrupted. He opened the door to the bathroom and left in an instant, his little legs rushing away.

All Richie could do was groan and continue to smoke, still not getting the image of Eddie's sad face out of his head.