[ normally, richie would fire back some sort of insult at that, or maybe a witty joke. something to change the atmosphere, to put things back in his own control. when people were laughing it was easy to hide the things you didn't want them to see.
but he can't do that right now. he's too taken in by that wheeze, by the way eddie jumps when he touches him, when --
they're in bed together for the first time and everything is quiet, because it's 3am and they can't make noise or eddie's mom will hear them. it's too hot to sleep, so they're just in their underwear and when richie presses his too-tall, too-skinny body up against eddie's back he hears that sound, a booming echo in the silence. ]
Eddie --
[ he doesn't think before he reaches down to wrap his fingers around eddie's wrist, trying to keep him there. richie doesn't know what to do but he doesn't want to be left here by himself with those memories. ]
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but he can't do that right now. he's too taken in by that wheeze, by the way eddie jumps when he touches him, when --
they're in bed together for the first time and everything is quiet, because it's 3am and they can't make noise or eddie's mom will hear them. it's too hot to sleep, so they're just in their underwear and when richie presses his too-tall, too-skinny body up against eddie's back he hears that sound, a booming echo in the silence. ]
Eddie --
[ he doesn't think before he reaches down to wrap his fingers around eddie's wrist, trying to keep him there. richie doesn't know what to do but he doesn't want to be left here by himself with those memories. ]