Impossible Wishes - 1.part // Reddie Fanfic

18. beep beep Richie

Eddie had made plans with Richie to come over in the afternoon after lunch on Saturday. Richie's parents were supposed to leave for Augusta on Friday and they were not supposed to be in town until Sunday afternoon.

Eddie wasn't surprised that Richie was left alone at home, but he wasn't used to it, given the fact, his own mother wouldn't leave him alone for more than a few hours at home.

Eddie still felt like he was a child, it bothered him, but no matter what he had told his mother, she was still treating like when he was younger. Eddie was convinced that she would not like it when he would tell her that he might want to leave her and study at university, so he had decided to wait until she would be in a good mood to tell her because she surely wasn't that Saturday morning.

Eddie didn't know if it was because he had told her he was going to sleep over at Bill's house again because they wanted to celebrate his birthday, which was a lie again, or not, but he knew he would wait for another moment.

When Eddie had woken up in the Saturday morning, he started working on his essay for the AP Psych class which he was supposed to hand in on Monday. He knew he wouldn't have time for that later and he already couldn't concentrate because he kept thinking about Richie. It was noon when he was done with it, and his mother called him for lunch.

After Eddie was full, he went to get ready. He started packing everything he thought he would need while he was wondering if he should also take the Walkman Richie had given him for his birthday with him, but in the end he decided to leave it at home and hide it somewhere so his mother wouldn't find it because he knew she often searched his room. Fortunately, he had several places in his room where he had already hidden a few things including the letters from Richie, and she didn't know about them.

When Eddie had everything he needed in his backpack, he changed into better and more representative clothes because he didn't want to go to Richie's house in sweatpants. Then he went to say goodbye to his mother, and told her that he would come back the next morning.

At first, he had expected her to give him another lecture on how he didn't spend any time with her anymore, but she just said goodbye to him, and told him to be safe, so Eddie took his backpack and a jacket, and left.

Richie had told him in advance to ring the bell when he would arrive. Eddie hoped that his mother would not see him going to the house that was just a few feet from their house, but he believed she wouldn't because when he had left, she had been sitting on the couch in the living room watching TV as usual which meant she wouldn't pay much attention to him.

When Eddie was walking to Richie's house, he remembered that the rest of his friends were probably at the Barrens at that very moment. Eddie had apologized to them in advance for not coming, and fortunately, the others didn't mind. He didn't want to lie to them, but he needed to come up with an excuse because he had to give them a reason why he wouldn't be there that day, so he had told them he was going out of town with his mother, and the others understood, however, he also promised to come there the next weekend. Eddie didn't know what Richie had told them, but he was sure he had made an excuse as well.

Less than a minute had passed and Eddie was standing in front of the door of Richie's house. He was nervous, but he knew he couldn't just stand there for a long time because he didn't want some of the neighbors to notice him because they might tell his mother where he was about to spend a night at, so he rang the bell without a further thought.

After a while, Richie opened the door for him while he was obviously glowing with happiness from the moment he had laid eyes on Eddie. ''Hi babe,''' Richie greeted him, and Eddie could already see that he wanted to grab his hand and kiss him, but before Richie could do anything, Eddie walked quickly past Richie, and stepped into the house. Eddie knew deep down that the neighbors wouldn't probably notice him, but Eddie didn't want to risk anything. He was just paranoid. He had always been.