#eddiekaspbrakxreader

yn ln was never shy with her tattoo. In fact ever since she was five she showed anyone who would look, the glasses on the inside of her wrist. Even when she got older and most people had already seen it she didn't cover it like others did, instead never wearing anything that covered her wrist.

Her best friends were the same. Audra made a point of showing the paper boat on her wrist to everyone she met and Beverly never covered the little book on hers even in the winter.

That's partly why Audra found her soulmate Bill Denbrough so quick. The average age was around sixteen but Audra ran into and fell in love with Bill at thirteen after she saw him practicing making paperboats in the library. He had a rose on his wrist like the one Audra wore everyday as a hair clip.

Beverly found her match in the library too. He had his nose in a book and a fire symbol on his wrist representing Beverly's fiery red hair. By fourteen both of yn's friends found their soulmates. She longed to have hers as well so the double dates could become triple dates and she could stop taking double takes at everyone with large glasses. But it wasn't until senior year she ran into a boy with neat brown hair and a small smile she met her soulmate.

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"So that leaves me with yn ln and Eddie Kaspbark." The teacher tapped her clipboard with her pen before nodding and looking back at her class of bored students. "Pair up come on no one here bites."

yn rolled her eyes subtly from her seat near the front and looked around for the boy she was paired with. Eddie Kaspbark. She had heard of him mostly from him being friends with the most annoying boy in school, Richie Tozier. His dark brown eyes met hers from a few rows back presumably looking for her as well. Spotting the empty seat next to him yn swung her pastel bag over her shoulder and carried her pencil case to the spot making a small "oof" as she sat down.

Eddie smiled slightly at the short hc girl as she sat beside him, dropping her bag on the floor by his legs and pencil case at his hand. She finally looked back at him with her eyes that always seemed to have layers of mascara on that more often than not clumped together.

"So Kaspbark any idea on what to do for this project?" He shrugged having not thought about it at all and swiveled into his chair. yn leaned onto the table and tapped her pencil off of it biting her lip as she thought. He saw her eyes gaze around the room before landing on the glasses imprinted on her wrist. His eyes widened at first as he almost recognized them but he quickly shook it off deciding there was absolutely no way his idea was at all logical.

"Well we could do about the whole soulmates thing. Mrs. Mayfield did leave it vague enough for that to be possible. Plus I don't really know much about them aside from the basics honestly."

"You? You don't know much about them?" Eddie asked almost not believing the small girl. She had a reputation to flaunt her tattoo and her two best friends had found their soulmates. How was it possible she hadn't read up on them? Still even if he didn't believe her she shrugged the light blue denim jacket almost sliding off her boney shoulders.

"Just because I like them doesn't mean I'm obsessed. What's yours?" Eddie blinked back at the girl the question not fully comprehending in his head till she shuffled awkwardly.

"M-My what?"

"Your tattoo? Duh." She laughed now her tongue sticking between her teeth as she did. Eddie decided he liked it when she laughed and vowed to try and make her laugh more throughout their three week project. He rolled the sleeve of the oversized beige cardigan slung over his shoulders up holding it towards the blonde girl. She traced the small pattern on his wrist with her pointer finger making sure not to press too hard.

"Birds." She said with a hint of uncertainty in her voice. Eddies tattoo wasn't as clear as others she had seen being more abstract in look. He nodded and pulled his hand back slowly once she stopped tracing it almost wanting to ask her to keep going since it was soothing. "It's cute. Different. I wonder what your soulmate will have to do with birds?"

Eddie smiled a real proper smile back at her for the first time since they had been partnered together. He nodded only slightly not taking his eyes off the small splash of freckles across the girls button nose. She smiled back her teeth showing and tongue sticking between the gap between her front again.

"Yeah...." His voice was softer than usual as he responded. "I do too." He could almost feel the rest of the noisy classroom melt away as yn gulped back and went to say something.

"I-I...."

A shrill sound ring out from behind Eddie that caused the class to cheer and scramble together their supplies as Mrs. Mayfield left the room bringing her empty cup of coffee with her.

"Oh that's the bell." She changed her mind last second pulling her jacket back up and picking her bag off the wooden science room floor. Eddie slunk back in his seat and packed his pencil case cursing the bell mentally for not letting her finish.

"So you should come around to mine after school. I have a laptop we can do research there." Eddie nodded watching the girl leave the short white skirt flowing around her legs before he realized something and called her name making the whole class turn to look at him.

"yn!"

"Yes?" He swallowed ignoring the twenty pairs of eyes on him trying to focus only on yn's ec ones.

"Well umm... I don't have your address." His cheeks now had a small tint of red spreading across them as yn laughed and made her way back to his table. He felt the other students eyes drift off to other places the only ones still watching him being yn's friend Audra.

"Do you perhaps have a piece of paper at your disposal?" She asked in a britsh accent trying to calm the tension she has felt build after Eddie called after her. Eddie scrambled around in his bag before handing her a small crumpled piece of paper to write on. She clicked down a biro and scribbled her address down in scrawled cursive before handing it to Eddie. He nodded back stuffing it into the front of his bag as the girl made her way to her impatient brunette friend now calling her name.

"Bye Eds!" She threw over her shoulder as she left the classroom before breaking into a giggling conversation with Audra who went a few looks Eddies way. He sighed and fell back onto his seat running his hands through his hair.

"Eddie spaghetti! There you are! Started getting worried you ran off." His friend with black curly hair yelled at him as he strolled into the class receiving many eye rolls from the few remaining students. "Come on man lets go to lunch."

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yn made finishing touches to the PowerPoint as Eddie corrected her grammar mistakes on their conclusion beside her. The only noise that was heard in the girls room being her typing and his writing after her speaker died midway through a Taylor Swift marathon. "Hey ln?"

yn hummed in response not looking up from the screen until she heard Eddies writing stop as he sighed. He looked worried and fiddled with the hem of the polo shirt he wore that day. "Yes?"

"Do you think we'll still be friends when this is over?" yn closed the laptop down setting it aside so she could turn to fully face the dark haired boy she could now consider a friend.She held out her pinky a happy glint in her usual gloomy eyes covered in mascara.

"Let's pinky promise on it. I do kinda like hanging out with someone not kissing their dumb soulmate every ten seconds for a change." Eddie put his own pinky up allowing to girl to connect them. Eddie could almost feel her climb towards him slowly.

"And I like talking to someone who doesn't do stupid accents and make inappropriate jokes every ten seconds." yn smiled not letting go of Eddies pinky and getting closer till his phone made a noise beginning to vibrate. She jumped back nearly falling off her bed as Eddie picked it up sighing as he saw the name on the screen.

"Speaking of the devil it's Richie. I'll just tell him to-"

"No!" yn said quickly before Eddie could click the decline button. "No. We need a break and we could have some fun with him. From what I've heard he's a great conversationalist."

Eddie groaned and shook his head as he tapped the accept button warning yn she'd regret it as the familiar face of his best friend came on screen. "Hey douchebag why is your room pink?"

"No-Richie I'm with yn. We have a science project together right." yn watched the boy on screen nod in sudden realization feeling his eyes look at her instead.

"Oh yeah the ln girl. Hey what's the deal with your tattoo? Everyone else seems to have seen it but me." yn sighed and moved closer to Eddie on the bed so she could see the boy properly instead of just from the distance

"Well I heard you were annoying and a trashmouth and neither of which are things I like." She pulled the sleeve of her pale pink sweater up holding the glasses towards the camera. Eddie watched in silence hoping it wouldn't go the way he thought it would. "It's just glasses could be anyone really."

yn could see Richie's eyes clearly widen even though the quality of the screen wasn't the best wasn't the best. He leaned away from the screen and she heard scrambling around and cursing wearing large rimmed glasses eerily similar to the one on her wrist. "No way..."

"Yes way." yn took the phone from Eddies hand and asked to see Richie's tattoo. After a few seconds of scrambling and white noise he held up the small tattoo showing a mascara bottle. In fact it was the mascara bottle yn used to apply the layers and layers of mascara as she always did. She smiled back at Richie and asked for his phone number opening her laptop again so she could put it in her notes.

Eddie watched in silence both happy for his two friends and upset. He was upset that yn ln wasn't the three artistic birds on his wrist no matter how much she walked on her tippy toes like she was about to take flight. No matter how much she wanted to get away, leave with the winds to another town even county far away.

No yn ln was just mascara. Mascara to show she liked having long lashes to flutter at teachers to get her way or at nerdy boys to make them do her bidding.

She wasn't the artistic birds on his wrist that they had discovered meant his soulmate was more of a bird metaphorically than a literally.

"Well you don't want to get wet do you?" Richie shook his head holding a hand above his eyes so the rain would stop hitting his glasses. "So why don't we run?" 

Before he could tell her what an awful idea that was she took off running, pulling him behind her. Her face was already soaked, the rain being more heavy than they originally thought but the girl was still giggling happily. Richie on the other hand was complaining saying if she got sick it wasn't his fault.                                                                                                                                                            However once he saw yn giggling as drops of rain hit her eyes or jumping slightly if a puddle came in her way he couldn't help but smile admiring how she seemed to turn everything into a game.                                                                  

 Soon enough he too was jumping and laughing even picking up (yn) and swinging her around, feeling so giggly from the weather. Then the streets got more busy than the small lane the restaurant was on but that didn't stop them zigzagging around people and laughing if someone told them they were being immature. Richie even tried to give one the middle finger before (yn) slapped his hand down and apologized sending Richie a half hearted glare.

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Once in the dryness of their apartment yn finally realized how wet she was from her soaked hair like rats tails and dress clinging to her like it was part of her body. She began to shiver only realizing she was also freezing at the exact same time. "Told you." 

“Oh shush Mr Spin-Me-Around." yn remarked digging through her dresser to find a wooly pair of pajamas. Richie laughed from the kitchen where was making them hot chocolate.

"I didn't drop you though. So that's an accomplishment." yn rolled her eyes, unzipping her dress and throwing the pajamas she had decided on over her instead. Still her wet hair hit her back and face uncomfortably and she felt too tired to blow dry it herself. 

 "Richhhhh?"                                                                                                           

 "Yesssss?"                                                                                                             

"Can you blow dry my hair?" Richie appeared in the doorway holding a cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream and sprinkles towards the girl batting her eyelashes on the floor.

"What?" yn took a sip of the drink letting out a small "ah" as the warm liquid ran down her neck before looking back at her boyfriend and pouting.                   

 "Please? Just this once can you blowdry my hair I won't be able to sleep with my hair like this but I'm so tired." Richie rolled his eyes and sat on their double bed.

"Only if you give me a blowj-"                                                                                 

"Wow there bucko I'm going to stop you there. I'll give you a blowdry and kiss if you do." She sat on their bed feeling his fingers run through her hair as the hot air hit her scalp making her shiver from the feel. Richie stopped complaining once she promised and even began to enjoy it once she sighed happily leaning more towards the heat he was controlling

Next it was his turn which took much less time than (yn)'s who only had to stand over him with the device for five minutes since she was smaller. She didn't complain however since she had promised him she would do it if he did it for her and actually got very into it, sticking her tongue out as she brushed his hair down and held the dryer as the same time.

Once he was done Lori turned the machine off and landed on the bed beside him, legs crossed, with a small oof. Richie turned to her a smile on his face as he spoke. "Didn't you promise something else too love?"                                      

yn rolled her eyes before pressing a quick peck to his lips and falling back onto the bed her head hitting on the pillow. "Sorry if that was rubbish I'm wrecked."     

 Richie fell beside her his own head hitting the other pillow as he did. "Nah you're never rubbish. I like the word shitty better." yn smacked him playfully before climbing under the duvet her eyes already beginning to close once she was under the covers. Richie did the same and feeling his girlfriends back against his his own eyes began to close.                                                               

"Rich?"                                                                                                                   

"Hmmm?"