❛ you can't just walk away like none of this meant anything! ❜
🐝 * ― 𝑳𝑬𝑨𝑽𝑰𝑵𝑮/𝑩𝑬𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑳𝑬𝑭𝑻 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺.
From the moment Richie told him that his parents were moving him to the other side of the country, a rainy Thursday evening tucked away in Eddie's bedroom, it felt as though a part of him had been torn away from the rest of his body. Beverly had left, then Ben, then Bill. He couldn't let Richie go too.
But what else was he supposed to do after his initial outburst? Aside from pleading with Mr and Mrs Tozier himself - which his pride would never let him do - Eddie could only sit back and watch as Richie prepared himself for a life outside of Derry. Away from Eddie.
He'd even spent the next month planning what he'd say during their goodbye: Something funny, probably. He'd try to be carefree about it, act like he'd miss Richie but not that his sanity depended on the other being with him. But when it came down to it, when they'd spent their last day hanging out at the quarry and were lingering outside the almost empty Tozier household, the words wouldn't come.
"Well. I guess I'll catch you later."
He winced as he turned, chest constricting with the abruptness of the goodbye, but Eddie knew that if he said any more, he risked embarrassing himself with flushed cheeks and snotty tears.
"You can't just walk away like none of this meant anything!"
The tone of Richie's voice caused him to halt more than the words did, feeling like the world's biggest asshole as he stood with shaking fists and clenched teeth. He let himself turn back, silently begging the other not to make this any worse than it already was.
"What do you want me to say?"
