Princess, Knight and Dragon ✔️ Reddie

If It's Alright With You

'Richie, where are my new swimming goggles?' Maggie hollered through the open window.

'They're already packed,' Richie hollered back, heaving a suitcase into the back of Eddie's car.

She whined, 'But I wanted to show them to Poppy.'

Eddie clambered out of the driver's seat, chuckling. 'She'll see them when we get there.'

Maggie frowned, then disappeared from the window sill.

Eddie came around to the back of the vehicle just as Richie closed the trunk with a thud. 'Think we're all set.'

'Our first vacation together,' Richie whistled.

The first vacation of many, he hoped. They were doing the road trip that they'd talked about since Eddie had been gifted the car, taking themselves and Maggie down to Florida. At Maggie's suggestion, Ness, Kimberley and their daughter Poppy had been invited too.

It was obvious to both Richie and Eddie that they would be visiting Mike whilst they were down there, but Richie had managed to rally the remainder of the Losers for a surprise simultaneous appearance, of which Eddie had no clue.

'This is a make-or-break moment, you know,' Eddie said.

Richie smirked, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

'Oh, I don't know,' he trilled his lips. 'Last vacation I had, there was this clown in the sewers.'

'Aw, come on, I'm not that scary,' Richie joked, going to stand behind him.

'I guess that was really our first vacation together,' Eddie said, grimacing.

Wrapping his arms around Eddie's waist, Richie stressed, 'But this is our first vacation together.' Lightly, he kissed Eddie's neck, tracing up the tendon.

Richie loved it every time he got to say that he and Eddie were together. Coming out to Beverley had been so terrifying, but once Richie realised that he might just get to spend the rest of his life with the man he loved, he could hardly wait to tell the Losers, with Eddie's permission of course.

Even that started to not feel like enough, and so the new couple quickly told their friends in New York, including Ness and Kimberley and some other colleagues of Eddie's so that Richie could begin attending corporate dinners as Eddie's date.

Once they'd been to even the first one, someone tipped off the paparazzi outlets and speculations of Richie's sexuality hit the tabloids. One lucky photographer managed to snap a picture of Richie and Eddie in a romantic entanglement and, after a surprisingly positive reaction from the readers, Richie decided to announce himself to the world.

A few social media posts soon blossomed into articles and then televised interviews. While his fan-base had altered, it had most certainly grown, and Richie finally was able to set pen to paper on a new show, Months of writer's block morphed into endless streams of new material, the coming-out special which would debut after this summer beach trip.

'Careful, Rich,' Eddie breathed, shrugging out of Richie's passionate embrace even as he blushed. 'Maggie could come out any moment.'

Richie gasped, 'Gosh, then we'd just be one big gay family.'

Snorting, Eddie leaned back onto the trunk of the car. 'Not what I meant.'

'Is it the worst thing if she sees us kiss?' Richie whined, stepping closer so that Eddie had to crane his neck upwards.

Eddie's longing gaze dipped to Richie's lips, 'I just want to make sure I've given her an adjustment period. Time to wrap her head around the idea of us.'