Eddie was running late for Hellfire again so Gareth and I had managed to get there a little earlier than everyone else, I was slightly worried because Eddie had told me to read some sort of D&D manual since he wanted me to play during the next club meeting, which was now. I tried to read it but it was ridiculously confusing, I wanted to be able to play D&D but I think I'll leave that to the guys for now.

Things with Eddie had been great, the kiss hadn't made anything awkward between us. In fact, things were better than ever. There was something oddly fun about kissing every time we were alone, the risk of someone catching us together, the princess of Hawkins High kissing Eddie 'the freak' Munson, it was a scandal that would spread through Hawkins like wildfire if anyone had ever found out. Having to be cautious was all part of the thrill.

"You think he'll be upset if I don't play?" I ask Gareth as I laid upside down on the Hellfire couch.

"This is Eddie we're talking about, the dude's got a major crush on you. He won't care." Gareth tells me with a laugh.

"Okay, woah, he doesn't have a major crush on me, Gareth." I shake my head in disagreement.

"If you actually believe that then you're even more oblivious than I thought." he laughs, sitting down next to me.

Hm.

"I know you guys kissed." he adds, smiling a little, knowing he's not supposed to know.

"What? How?"

"Because I woke up that night and realised neither of you were in my room so I looked out my window and, lo and behold, I see you guys by my pool."

"Even if I hadn't witnessed that, it's still incredibly obvious there's something going on, all this sneaking around. You guys aren't as discreet as you think you are." he continues.

"Oh god." I cover my face.

If Gareth can tell that Eddie and I have something going on then other people might be able to, and then Mike might find out and then he'll end up blackmailing me with it.

"Nothing to be ashamed of, it's quite sweet, two friends have their first kisses with each other and now they can't stop because they've been introduced to the wonderful world of kissing and it's great."

I just blinked back at him, slowly mentally processing what he'd just said.

First kisses? Plural? Was that Eddie's first kiss too?

"Speaking of kissing, I get to see my girlfriend again in a few days which I am very excited for. You should come meet her, I think you two would get along well."

"You have a girlfriend?" I ask in shock, almost yelling the question, he's just never mentioned her before.

"Yup. Her name's Hope, she plays guitar and she's cool as hell. She's better than Eddie at playing the guitar but you can't tell him I said that." Gareth jokes.

"Don't need to tell me, I heard." Eddie strolls into the room and leaves his stuff by his throne, "And we both know that's completely wrong."

I watch as Eddie checks a few things at the table, he glances at me quickly before glancing away but he does a double take.

"Val, why are you upside down?" he asks me.

"Because I'm stressed and all the blood flow to my brain is making me less stressed. It's therapeutic."

"Fun fact, if you're upside down for too long then all the blood pools in your brain and you die." he tells me nonchalantly, "That therapeutic feeling might just be you slowly dying."

"Thank you, Eddie, that was a really fun fact." I reply sarcastically with a smile, immediately rolling onto the floor so that I could sit back up normally, I ended landing with a thud.

...

After Hellfire, I'd gone back to Eddie's trailer. It was quickly becoming a regular occurrence, sometimes we'd smoke but sometimes we'd just hang out like we were now.

"Okay, wait, try this one on." Eddie passes me one of his shirts from his closet.

He sat down on his bed and turned so that he was facing the wall, a pointless idea since he'd seen me in a bikini anyway, this wasn't much different.

"You don't need to turn around, you've already watched me fully undress before, this is only half." I tell him, referencing when we were at Gareth's pool. I began to take my shirt off.

"That's completely different." he scoffs, "And I didn't watch you, you just happened to be in my line of sight."

"Right, mhm." I dismiss his excuse as I put his shirt on.

I gave myself a quick glance in the mirror and realised I actually really liked how I looked in his shirt looked on me. It was another one of his band tees for one of those metal bands he likes, I'd tried to listen to some of Eddie's favourite bands but they weren't really my taste, they were still cool though and I liked that Eddie and I had opposite tastes in music.

"You can turn around now." I let Eddie know.

He turns around to face me and I'm instantly greeted with a smile as his eyes scanned my body, carefully taking in the view.

"Woah." was all he could get out.

"It's a little big on me but it's cool, I like it." I smile as I see myself in the mirror again.

"Keep it." he tells me, "Looks way better on you anyway. I've got another one for you to try, hold on."

Eddie started rummaging through his closet again, flicking through his ridiculous amount of black tees, when I thought about it I realised that I didn't think I'd ever seen him wearing any colour except black.

"Do you not have anything a little more colourful?" I ask, laughing a little.

"I can't believe you actually just asked me that." he shakes his head, passing me another one of his shirts, "Try this."

Eddie sat back down on his bed, not turning around this time. I began to slightly pull at the shirt I was wearing to make it clear I was about to take it off, but he was still staring right at me.

"It's rude to stare, Munson." I use his own words against him.

"Well, you said I didn't need to turn around so I'm not." he says confidently.

That confidence completely disappeared the minute I took my shirt off, he was a flustered wreck. His eyes widened a little as he tried to blink his thoughts away, not sure where to look.

"You're such a dork." I laugh.

"Can you blame me? I have the prettiest girl in Hawkins standing here shirtless in my room."

I put on the shirt Eddie had given me to try on, this one had little rips in it and seemed to be worn more than the first one.

"How do I look?" I ask Eddie.

"Perfect, but..." he begins, suddenly looking like he's deep in thought, "Kinda preferred when you didn't have it on."

Like I said, he's an absolute dork.

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OKAY i have something to say which some of u may not like but i'm still unsure LMAO basically i'm kind of still debating whether i want smut in this story and i'm leaning towards not including any smut

before anyone complains hear me out plz 😭 i started off on wattpad by writing stories that had a lotttt of smut so i don't mind writing it at all but i really don't think a smut chapter would add to the storyline of this book in any way LMAO (obviously val and eddie will have their first time at some point but i probably won't write that as an actual chapter, just allude to it if that makes sense??)

basically if you came here for smut i am sorry to announce that u probably won't find any here in the near future however (u didn't hear this from me but there's a lot of good eddie smut on tumblr so go support those writers they're great) 😇😇

i also might be starting my own book of stranger things oneshots so if any of u are interested then keep an eye out 🙏