#on one hand she is a bit annoying abt how she approaches her topics

[reddie-to-go]

Can you write abt Eddie being possessive with Richie?

Eddie hardly ever got jealous. In fact, he barely even noticed when people flirted with Richie. He had sort of gotten used to it back when they had been best friends. Back in tenth grade when Richie had a major growth spurt and girls and occasionally guys started paying more attention to him.

Eddie hadn’t really paid attention to is back and that didn’t really change when they had started dating their first year of university. People would still flirt, but now Richie brushed them off or ignored them.

Which was the complete opposite of how Richie was. If anyone even looked at Eddie the wrong way he would pull Eddie closer and glare daggers at them. It probably didn’t help that Eddie was terrible at telling when someone were flirting. It had taken him two years to realized that Richie was flirting with him. how was he supposed to tell that the girl that was talking to him was “obviously into you” as Richie had put it?

There were three times Eddie had been the one to get possessive.

The first had been in class, and he hadn’t been the one to point it out

~~~

Eddie, Richie, Bev, and Stan had psychology together in their second year of university. The class was pretty standard, mostly just lectures. But on Friday they had group discussions where they would break off into groups of 10 and talk about the topic of the day.

Richie, being Richie, always had something to say and would usually be the one leading the discussions. It was about the fifth week of classes. Stan, Bev, and Eddie had gotten to class before Richie and were talking about the previous weekend. Bev stopped talking when a guy walked by there table and sat a few seats behind them.“That’s the guy that’s always flirting with Richie.” She whispered to Eddie once he had taken his seat. Eddie’s brows furrowed as he looked around the room confused.

“What are you talking about, what guy?” Eddie asked, turning in his chair to look behind him.

“Way to be conspicuous Eddie.” Stan rolled his eyes and look at him shaking his head.

“There no way you don’t notice the way he always tries to be in a group with us.” Bev pointed out, raising an eyebrow at him.

“Or how he always Stares at Richie,” Stan added on. He nodded his head towards the guy they were talking about.

“I thought that was just a coincident. And he stares at Richie because Richie is always talking.” Eddie defended, finally seeing who they were talking about.

He was in his early twenty’s and they were right, he was always sitting somewhere close to where they were.

“Oh come on Eddie. He asked him if he wanted to be partners on the group presentations,” Stan shook his head again. “How are you so oblivious to this.”

“When did that happen!” Eddie asked loudly. He definitely would have remembered that. Bev laughed as Stan shushed him.

“Last week when you were talking to the prof. don’t worry, Richie said no” Bev explained quietly.

Eddie turned his head to look back, not being as obvious this time. the guy was staring at the door. Eddie watched him sit up taller in his chair and look towards the door with a small smile. Eddie turned and saw Richie walking towards their table. He looked back and watched the guy’s eyes follow Richie as he approached.

“Traffic was a bitch today.” Richie exclaimed as he flopped into his seat beside Eddie. Eddie was still looking behind him at the guy, who was still staring at Richie. His eyes shifted and then the two of them were looking at each other. Eddie gave him a dirty look and turned to look at the front of the room.

Bev was laughing from her spot beside Richie and Stan shook his head, an action he did a lot around the two of them. Richie looked at the three of them confused.

Class started with Richie still confused as to what was going on. The teacher wrote the topic for the discussion on the board and instructed them to get into groups. After some moving around from everyone in the room, groups were made, and to Eddie’s frustration, the guy was in there’s.

Their group of 10 sat around a table, Eddie sitting closer to Richie then strictly necessary. The guy sat across from them. Eddie hated that Stan and Bev had pointed out this guy because now that was all Eddie could think about. For the first half of the class, he didn’t look anywhere but at Richie.

Eddie glared at him and reached under the table to take Richie’s hand in his. Richie looked over at him confused and then smiled and leaned over to him.

“What’s up Eds.” He whispered, squeezing Eddie’s hand. Eddie just kept scowling across the table. Eddie pulled their joined hand out from under the table and placed them on the table in front of them.

The guy’s eye’s dropped down from Richie’s face to their interlocked hands and then raised up to lock eye’s with Eddie. Eddie’s head turned to the side slightly as he gave the guy a challenging look. He quickly looked away embarrassed, turning to face the wall.  

“Um, Eddie,” Richie said from beside him. Eddie looked over at Richie and saw that he was almost laughing. Over Richie’s shoulder, he saw that Bev was laughing. Eddie looked around their group and noticed that everyone was staring at them. Eddie blushed and dropped his hand to his lap.

Stan cleared his throat and started talking, bringing everyone’s attention to him. Eddie stared down at the table until he felt Richie take his hand from his lap and hold it in his.

That was the last time they had that guy in their group for class discussion.

~~~

The second time was when the two of them were on a date.

Richie had whisked Eddie away to a fancy night of a movie and dinner at Olive Garden. The two were having a great night, the movie they had seen was great and Eddie was excited to get to dinner, he loved Olive Garden.

They had just been seated when it started.

Their waitress was a blonde girl about their age. She brought them to their table, touching Richie’s arm as she lead them.

Eddie noticed but decided not to say anything. Beside this probably wouldn’t even be their waitress.

She was.

Eddie rolled his eye’s as she took their order and laughed exaggeratedly loud at the stupid jokes Richie made. Of course, Eddie thought Richie was funny, but most normal people didn’t and especially not as funny as this girl was making him seem.

Whenever she would bring them refill or check up on them, which was way too often, she would touch Richie’s shoulder and make flirty faced down at him. Eddie was seriously annoyed.

The last straw was when their bill came and Eddie noticed a small number written at the bottom of it and a heart at the end. Eddie grabbed the bill and tore off the bottom of it. he stood and took Richie’s hand, pulling him towards the front.

When they got to the hostess stand Eddie put some bills down in front of the waiter that was there. Richie talked with the waiter, something about university, as he rang them up and grabbed change.

Their waitress from before came up behind the hostess stand and inserted herself into the conversation, saying something about a campus party coming up that Saturday.

Eddie had had enough. He grabbed the front of Richie’s shirt and pulled him down for a kiss. Richie was taken aback and by the sounds of surprise coming from beside them so was the waitress.

Eddie smiled when he felt Richie kiss him back. he pulled away and took the money from the waiters waiting hand.

“Sorry, we’re busy.” He turned to the girl and said, shoving the change into his pocket, taking Richie’s hand and pulling him out the front door.  

~~~

The last time had been at a party.

Eddie stood outside, sipping from a plastic cup. He had one arm wrapped around himself trying to keep warm. Bev stood beside him, occasionally blowing smoke into the air. Bev had dragged him out stating that she couldn’t find any of the others to go with her and she really needed a smoke.

Eddie, not wanting her to go alone, agreed to go. It wasn’t like he had any real excuse for not going. He hadn’t seen Bill, Stan or Mike in a while and Richie had gone to go get a drink about fifteen minutes ago. Eddie figured Richie had run into someone he knew or maybe found someone offering a joint.

Bev through the end of her cigarette on the ground in front of Eddie, dug it into the ground with her foot and grabbed his arm, pulling him towards the front door.

“Thanks for coming, Eddie.”  She half yelled over her shoulder at him, the music making it hard for Eddie to hear her. He nodded at her and let himself be pulled through the house back to the living room where Bev had found him.

The two scanned the room for anyone they knew and spotted Stan sitting on a couch alone, nursing a drink. They pushed their way past people towards him. Bev dropped down to sit beside him and Eddie leaned against the arm of the couch.

The three of them talked for a bit about nothing in particular. Eddie had found out that Mike and Bill had known some guys that were here from a class they all had together, and they were in the backyard participating in a beer pong tournament. 

Eddie left to go get a drink and when he came back into the living room he noticed Bev and Stan whispering about something and glancing across the room.

Eddie approached them with a confused look. He turned over to where they were looking and saw Richie leaning back against the wall on the far side of the living room. A girl was standing with him. leaning her head on his shoulder and looking up at him. Richie had his head back, looking up at the ceiling and laughing. Eddie could tell he was right about Richie founding someone with weed, he looked completely stoned.

The girl did as well as her head lulled to rest in the crook of Richie’s neck.

Eddie stomped over to them, grabbed Richie’s arm and pulled him. the girls head rocked forward as she lost her support.

“EDDIE.” Richie yelled as he threw his arm around Eddie’s shoulder. “I’ve been looking for you everywhere.” He whispered into his ear.

“Excuse me, we were talking.” The girl said grabbing onto Richie’s other arm.

“I’m sorry, but me and MY BOYFRIEND are leaving.” he pulled Richie away from the girl and towards the front door.

Richie leaned hard on Eddie’s as they exited the house. Eddie walked them over to a tree in the front yard and sat down, leaning against it. Eddie wrapped his arm around Richie’s waist and pulled him closer. Richie nuzzled his hand face into Eddie’s neck.

“Why don’t you ever stop them?” Eddie asked quietly. Watching as people stumbled around the yard.

“stop who?” Richie mumbled into his neck.

Eddie paused for a second. Maybe he was being dumb. He was probably overreacting. At this point, though he couldn’t just not say anything and Richie most likely wouldn’t remember it tomorrow anyway.

“People that flirt with you.” Eddie finally said. Eddie felt Richie’s head move as he looked up at him. Richie stared at Eddie for what felt like forever.

“I don’t care what other people do Eds,” Richie finally said, reaching his hand up to cup Eddie’s chin and turn his head to face him. 

“I only care about you.” He finished, leaning his head in to press a kiss on Eddie’s lips.

Eddie smiled and kissed him back, wrapping his arms around Richie’s neck.

They sat wrapped together outside for the rest of the night. Richie would glare at anyone who approached them, saying that no one was going to come between them anymore. Eddie rolled his eyes and smiled, resting his head on Richie’s shoulder.

Eventfully Mike found them, saying that Ben had shown up to drive everyone home.

Eddie only got jealous over Richie three times. After that, he didn’t feel that he had to.

So I know it's not my usually smutty stuff but I still kinda liked how this turned out, hope you did too!

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