#i like jealous eddie lol

After months of begging and pleading and bugging his parents, Richie Tozier gets contacts one weekend in early May, 1990.

He goes to school that Monday with a new sense of confidence, and is pleasantly surprised at the compliments and second glances his new look earns him while he goes about his day.

He gets to lunch feeling pretty good about himself, and accepts the Losers’ ‘Ooo’s’ and ‘aahh’s’. He nervously looks across the table to see if Eddie has any kind of interest or positive reaction, and is surprised when he kind of scrunches up his nose and raises an eyebrow, unimpressed.

“You looked fine before,” he grumbles.

“E-Eddie,” Bill chides him, kicking him softly under the table.

“What?” he cries. “He did! Fuck what everyone else thinks, I like your glasses, Rich.”

Richie is a bit taken back by the sudden admission, but is pretty pleased about it too. Even more so when he wears his glasses again the next day, and Eddie is uncharacteristically clingy and complimentary.

He doesn’t get it, but fuck, he takes what he can get.

It’s only twenty seven years later that Eddie finally admits that he actually thought Richie looked nice without his glasses too, but did not enjoy all the extra attention girls had been giving him, and wanted to put a stop to it.