Awnings (Reddie Modern AU boyxboy)

Epilogue: Summer's End

Eddie and Richie were making out on Richie's bed, which was definitely helpful for Richie to keep his mind off of tonight.

It was the last week of summer. One more week until they start their senior year together. They'd been together for almost three months at this point. And Richie wanted to be able to hold Eddie's hand between classes in the hallways.

So he was going to come out to his parents tonight and then the losers tomorrow. (He wanted to wait on the losers in case his parents didn't take it well so he could at least end on a better note.)

But he wasn't thinking about that right now.

Richie lifted himself up into a push-up position over Eddie. Eddie smiled up at him and it put a huge grin on Richie's face. His eyes raked over Eddie's neck down to his bare chest. He missed giving him hickies there; as summer began and they all went to the quarry to swim more, Richie had to stop so the losers wouldn't see. He now could pretty much only put hickies in between Eddie's upper thighs where they could be hidden by his swim shorts. There were some there now. Eddie loved getting hickies and Richie loved giving them to him.

Richie also wasn't scared of sex anymore.

Richie looked back up to Eddie's face where his eyes were sparkling with admiration for the boy hovering over him. Richie loved the way Eddie looked at him. He hadn't noticed it at first, but he guessed Eddie had always looked at him that way.

"You're pretty," Richie said.

Eddie reached a hand up to the side of Richie's face and took another second to scan him over, loving how his curls flopped down around his cheeks, how his pecks strained in this position, the smile lines by his eyes. He was beautiful.

"I love you," Eddie whispered.

They started saying that last week. Richie had said it first. Eddie couldn't tell if he had meant to or if it had slipped out when they were out on the awning. Eddie had said it right back immediately. Effortlessly.

Richie dipped his head for a quick peck. "Love you more."

"Do not."

"Do to."

"Do not, Dickwad."

"See, I'd never call you that so that proves I love you more... Dickwad."

"Fuck you."

"Go again? No time. Maybe tomorrow." Richie kissed him one last time before rolling off of the bed to put on some clothes.

"You're right," Eddie said when he looked at his watch.

He jumped up, put his clothes back on, and then walked to Richie's desk to use his laptop. He logged into Skype and joined a call with some of his New York friends, "Sorry I'm a little late guys, lost track of the time."

Richie stayed at his bed and took Eddie's summer homework from his nightstand to look it over for a second time. He'd circled all of Eddie's small mistakes last week and was checking to see if everything was perfect now. It was.

So he picked up his guitar and started strumming slowly. He was trying to teach himself "Like Real People Do" by Hozier because Eddie really liked that song.

He hadn't been paying much attention to Eddie's conversation until he heard his name being said about half an hour into their conversation.

"Yeah, tonight's the night. Kind of nerve wracking for him," Eddie said.

Richie put down his guitar and walked over to his desk where his glasses were. As he was putting them on, Eddie shifted forward on the chair so Richie could reach one leg over and sit behind him, which he did, immediately wrapping his arms around Eddie's middle.