[Oh. Okay. That was... Yeah. Not what Richie had meant to say at all. Way to go, idiot. Just blurting out your feelings like that when you two are just getting to the point of holding hands?
Richie goes beet red and has to focus on not dropping Eddie's hand immediately, like it was on fire. ]
I... uh. Yeah, man. I was... Fuck. Okay. Yeah, I was in love with you.
[Richie looks down at his own food and shovels some eggs into his mouth. He can't look at Eddie as he says this. ]
And you weren't obvious. I just thought you were torturing me all that without realizing it. But yeah. I was kind of obsessed with you. Carve-your-initial-on-the-kissing-bridge level obsessed. Which might be a lot to drop on you right now. But. Yeah. Yeah, I was in love with you.
[He coughs and shoves his face into his mug so it will muffle him as he mumbles.]
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Richie goes beet red and has to focus on not dropping Eddie's hand immediately, like it was on fire. ]
I... uh. Yeah, man. I was... Fuck. Okay. Yeah, I was in love with you.
[Richie looks down at his own food and shovels some eggs into his mouth. He can't look at Eddie as he says this. ]
And you weren't obvious. I just thought you were torturing me all that without realizing it. But yeah. I was kind of obsessed with you. Carve-your-initial-on-the-kissing-bridge level obsessed. Which might be a lot to drop on you right now. But. Yeah. Yeah, I was in love with you.
[He coughs and shoves his face into his mug so it will muffle him as he mumbles.]
Dunno if I ever really stopped...