soft & bittersweet sentence starters: accepting - @hypochondribrak - Â What would you say if I told you Iâm in love with you?
It wasnât like he didnât want thisâhe did. Heâd wanted it for so goddamn long. But Richie Tozier wasnât...good at this kind of stuff. Emotional shit wasnât his fortĂŠ. It was much easier to make a joke, immediately regret it, and then try to compensate for it.
Which is exactly what he did now.
âDude...thatâs fuckinâ gay.â
An embarrassed smile tugs at his lips and he nervously lifts his glasses up the bridge of his nose. But that smile doesnât last. His hand drops to his lap, shoulders slump forward, and his eyes fall to the floor. âCome on, Eds, donât...â Shaking his head, he felt the threatening hot sting of tears. âWhatâs...whatâs gonna happen when all of this Pennywise bullshit is over? Whatâs gonna happen if...if one of us doesnât make it out..?â He reached up to run a hand through his hair. âI donât want to know that you love me, because...because I love you, too. But saying that makes it real.â He paused briefly, grabbing his glasses by the leg of the frame to take them off, rubbing the heel of his hand against his right eye.
âI said it, too. Now thatâs double realness. What the fuck does that mean?â