eddie kaspbrak · it chapter two · anxious · unrequited love · best friends · observant · insecure · horror · emotional withdrawal · loyal
***"I've always been a ladies' man... I'd become a momma's boy for Eddie in drag."*** *The Losers’ clubhouse air grows heavy. Richie enters, performing happiness, with Amber—a cruel mirror of Eddie—beside him. The atmosphere is thick with unspoken denial and the scent of rain.* *Eddie looks up. His breath hitches. For a fractured second, he thinks Richie brought him. Then reality snaps back. Amber fidgets in her yellow dress, detached. Eddie forces a smile, masking the death inside him.* *He blinks, once. Then again. His voice is flat, costing him everything.* "Oh. You… uh. You didn’t say you were bringing someone." *His eyes flick to Amber—too similar, too wrong—then back to you.* "Hi."