Two Idiots In Love - Reddie

Chapter 23

Richie's POV

After a few minutes, everyone pulled back from the hug but I kept my arm around Eddie's shoulders as everyone stepped back.

"How do you feel?" Mike asked him.

"I'm okay, a bit sad but she wasn't the best mum." he softly says, briefly looking up at them. "I never told you how bad she actually was."

"W-what do you mean?" Bill asks, with a worried look on his face.

"I don't want to talk about it." Eddie says turning away from everyone and looking out at the lake.

Everyone's quiet, until Stan speaks up.

"So, what it's like living with the Trashmouth?" Stan asks Eddie who turns around and looks at him with a small smile.

We then all sit back down in a circle while Eddie tells them what it's like living with me. 

After a while of Eddie joking around and the others cheering him up with jokes he finishes with.

"So I'm basically stuck listening to all his shitty jokes and I can't even escape him anymore." he says with a grin as everyone bursts out laughing. 

"But seriously, it's actually great getting to live with Richie." he says, turning to me with a soft smile. "He's the greatest best friend I could ask for."

I'm so overwhelmed with love for this precious boy that I don't even think about it when I reach over and pull him into a hug, wrapping my arms right around him.

I feel his arms go around my waist and his head rest on my shoulder. I completely forget about my surroundings and get lost in this sweet little spaghetti boy.

That is until I suddenly remember our friends sitting next to us.

I slowly pull away from Eddie, but still keep him close to me as I turn my head to look at everyone who are all already looking at us.

"You two are so cute!" Bev says with a smirk.

I feel my cheeks heat up at her words as I look at Eddie and notice his has as well.

"Well thank you love, but I think the cuteness you're referring to is all coming from the spaghetti boy sitting next to me." I say in a British accent as I gesture to Eddie.

"Shut up." Eddie says while gently whacking my arm.

Everyone laughs and we fall back into conversation.

A couple hours later

"It's almost time for dinner, so I better start heading back now." Ben says while standing up to which we all follow.

"S-same, we should probably all start m-making our way home." Bill says.

We all walk back up and through the trees to our bikes.

We say good bye to one another as we all split off in different directions.

When we got to Bill's street we say goodbye to him before we continue on to my house.

I can't stop thinking about what Eddie said, he's seriously the sweetest.

When we get to my house and dump our bikes outside, we go into the house and tell my mum were back before going up to our room.

We sit on our sides of the bed and I turn my body to face him.

"Did you mean what you said?" I ask him in a serious tone.

"When?" 

"Earlier, about me being a great friend."

"Actually I said, 'greatest best friend', and yes. I did mean it." he says with a smile as he giggles a bit to himself. "Also when Bev called us cute earlier, she definitely meant you." he says with a smirk as he looks me in the eyes.

I feel my cheeks heat up and I'm at a loss for words as he continues looking at me with that heart stopping smile of his.

At that moment we hear my mum shout us down for dinner. Eddie gets up and goes round to my side of the bed, chuckling a bit as he grabs my hand, dragging me out of the room and down the stairs.

All throughout dinner I felt my cheeks heat up whenever mine and Eddie's eyes met.

I tried to stay focused on the food,  but Eddie was so compelling that I couldn't.

After dinner, me and Eddie helped my mum wash up the dishes before we went up to our room.

"So, do you want to decide where we put your stuff so we can move it in here tomorrow." I ask as I close the door and turn around to face Eddie.

"Yeah, sounds good." he says with a sweet smile.

We then tidy up the room a bit to see how much space we have and start planning where we're going to put his stuff and moving some of my stuff in the process.

Two hours later

We both collapse on our bed, both knackered from all the sorting out we just did.

"Do you want to watch a movie." I ask, not really wanting to do anything more.

"Yeah, sure." Eddie breathes out from next to me.

I reluctantly stand up and make my way to the TV, sitting down in front of it. I pull out a random movie which happens to be The Goonies and pop it in.

I put the box down and collapse back onto my side of the bed.

I sit up a bit so that I can see the TV, which Eddie copies and press play.

About five minutes into the film, Eddie drops his head onto my chest and lies into my side. I pull my arm out from under him and wrap it around him, pulling him more into me. Which he lets me do.

I look down at his face and see a small smile appear on his lips.

I start thinking about what he's been saying recently.

Has he been flirting with me?? No, as if he would flirt with me.

But he has called me cute three times now and every time he's said it, he's had a smirk on his face. 

Oh, I don't know! I'll try to up my flirting with him and see what his reaction is.

I just hope he does like me so that I don't potentially fuck up our friendship if I'm wrong.