Richie was pacing back and forth in his room. He was freaking out. Beverly was coming to his house to help him with the terrible idea he had. Richie and Eddie had been secretly dating for a month and they hadn't had a real date yet.

Beverly somehow managed to convince him to take Eddie on a surprise date. It was a terrible idea. He threw up almost twice and was feeling sick again. What if Eddie hated it? Would he still want to be with him?

He looked in the mirror at the outfit Beverly suggested the day before. Did he look ugly? His glasses always threw off his appearance. Did Eddie like his glasses? Was he thinking it over too much?

The day prior ~

"Richie! You have to! You've been together for a month and you haven't even gone on a date!" Beverly said shaking Richie. "It's not technically a month yet! That's tomorrow!" Beverly squealed. "You have to!"

Beverly was a huge Reddie shipper. She was the one who actually gave it the name. Richie could only talk to Beverly about this shit. She was the only one who seemed to know anything about this stuff.

He wanted to tell Stan about it because he's his best friend but he didn't seem to care. Stanley seemed weird lately but Richie didn't want to pester him about it.

"Fine!" Richie finally gave in. Beverly ran to his closet and threw some clothes at him. All his wardrobe was, was button-up shirts and shorts. She found the ones in the best shape and threw them at him.

Richie sighed and shook his head.

~ Present time

Beverly barged into Richie's room. "Are you ready?" She said looking at his outfit, happy with her choice. Richie shook his head no. "I have thrown up almost twice! Why did you convince me to do this!?" Beverly smiled and shrugged.

"Don't act like you don't want to," She said. She fixed his hair before forcing him downstairs to call Eddie.

Richie called Eddie to invite him over. He said he'd be over in 10 minutes and Richie started panicking again. He started pacing back in forth in the hall. "Bev! I can't do this! Do I look like I know how dates work?"

"Richie! Just do what you always do with him! Just at the end watch a movie with him, one he actually wants to watch, and kiss him! And like I said yesterday, give him the flower from your room, the fake one, so he can have it forever!"

Richie had a fake sunflower in his room that he always saw Eddie look at. He had mentioned a few times that he thought they were pretty but he couldn't have real sunflowers because his mom. Richie always though yellow matched Eddie, it was a happy innocent color.

Richie sighed. She was right. He just had to be himself. Beverly ran upstairs and grabbed the flower. When she came down she was screaming incoherent nonsense. She shoved the flower at Richie. "He's down the street!" She said excitedly. She is way too excited about this.

Richie felt his face heat up. Here goes nothing. He put on his shoes and heard a knock on his door. "Go get 'em," Beverly said winking at him. Richie rolled his eyes and she left out the back door.

Richie took a deep breath and opened the door. Eddie stood there in a sweater he stole from Richie and those stupid red shorts that went way above his knees. He loved how Eddie looked in those. He especially loved how he looked in his sweater.

"Can you stop gawking and let me in?" Eddie said. Richie snapped out of it and blushed. That probably wouldn't be the last time he did that today. He stepped back and Eddie stepped inside.

"I um... I got you something." Richie mumbled. Eddie looked confused. He didn't think Richie was even capable of getting something for someone and keeping it secret. "What is it?" Eddie asked excitedly. Richie gulped and revealed the flower.

"You always stare at this when we're in my room and I thought you should have it. I know you love sunflowers and I want you to have everything in the world," Richie said handing Eddie the flower.

Eddie felt tears form in his eyes. Richie remembered that? He didn't even think he noticed when he looked at the flower. Eddie threw his arms around Richie and hugged him. Richie smiled and wrapped his arms around the smaller boy.

"I was wondering if you wanted to get ice cream and then um maybe watch a movie at my house. You can pick this time," Richie said when he let go of Eddie. Eddie's eyes lit up. Richie never let anyone pick the movie. E'er. No seriously, he always picked the movie.

"I'll take that as a yes, Eds," He said grabbing some money off the counter.

After they got ice cream and fought over which flavor was the best the entire way back to Richie's. Eddie ran upstairs to pick a movie before Richie could even protest. Richie followed to see the movie he picked. Pretty In Pink. Richie facepalmed.

"You want to watch that?" Richie wined. Eddie pouted. "You said I could pick." Richie rolled his eyes and pressed a kiss to Eddie's pouted lips. Eddie blushed, shocked. He didn't see that coming and Richie never kissed him out of nowhere. He quickly turned the movie on.

He didn't wait this time to cuddle into Richie. Once Richie was sitting in a way that Eddie could comfortably squeeze into his arms he took the chance and ran with it. Richie was glad he did it so quickly. He loved being this close to Eddie.

When the movie ended Eddie kept going on about how Duckie should have ended up with Andie. It was stupid that she didn't they were clearly meant for each other. Richie decided to throw his input in.

"Yeah, but did you see how she looked at the other guy? She just liked him more. Duckie was like her brother," Richie said messing with Eddie's hair. Eddie turned around and gave him a dirty look. "You can clearly see she likes Duckie in some way more than a brother at the end!"

"I don't think so Ed's, them dating would be like me and Stan dating. That'd be weird," Richie said. "Ew! Don't make me picture that," Eddie said scrunching his nose. Richie's heart dropped when he did. He was so fucking cute when he did that.

"Their relationship doesn't matter Ed's," Richie said. Eddie was about to talk when Richie put his hands on Eddie's waist and pulled him towards him. "You know who's does? Mine," Richie said before kissing Eddie deeply. Eddie fell into Richie and let it happen.

They'd only been dating for a month but Richie couldn't get enough of kissing him. He'd been in love with the kid for 4 years and if you think he'd pass on the opportunity to kiss him, you're dead wrong.

"Happy one month," They both said at the same time as they pulled away.