A smile painted Eddie's face as he pulled away. Steve let out a a sigh, but whether it was of relief or sadness towards the loss of contact, he couldn't tell. He kept his eyes to the floor as he tried to catch his breath, seemingly forgetting to breathe everytime Eddie's around. The other man let out a chuckle, "I'll sleep in the guest room Steve." Steve's eyes flew up to look at him and Eddie was still smiling, still staring at him. Steve let out a sigh, putting his hand on top of the one on his cheek, "are you sure?"

Eddie groaned and looked up to the ceiling, "if you keep doing that, no." Steve took his hand and kissed his knuckles. "Okay fine, I'll see you in the morning then." Steve dropped Eddie's hand and went back to cleaning up the rest of the mess. He turned back to see Eddie staring at him and gave him a smile, "you do remember where the guest room is, don't you?" Eddie smiled back at him, "yeah, yeah I do. Good night Harrington." He watched Eddie leave the room and finished cleaning up the rest of the kitchen before heading to bed.

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"Fuck" Steve groaned as Eddie kissed along his neck, biting on the sensitive spots. They were in the guest room of his house, his parents being gone again. Steve flipped them over so he was on top of Eddie, to which the bottom rolled his eyes. "You know, one day I'm gonna be on top." Steve laughed and kissed Eddie's neck, sucking on the space between it and his shoulder. Eddie moaned and tugged on Steve's hair, earning a groan from the man on top of him. "And the day you are-" he kissed down Eddie's stomach. "-is the day I let you fuck me."

Steve woke up with a jolt, sitting up his bed. He was sweating, and he felt hot everywhere.

Everywhere.

"Fuck." He ran his hands over his face and through his hair. He was a mess, a hot mess mind you, but a mess. He got out of bed and went to the bathroom to take a shower, relieving some of the tension in his muscles. He leaned his back against the wall and sighed, letting the water fall down his face. He couldn't keep having dreams like that, or else every morning is pretty much going to be shit.

Eddie could've kissed him. He would've let him, he wanted him to. And steve doesn't know why he didn't. I guess I should just be glad he stayed here. He ran his hands through his hair one last time and got out of the shower, wrapping a towel around his waist and opening the door. "Jesus Eddie!" The man was standing outside the door, leaning on the wall next to it. "Sorry I had to pee dude." Steve rolled his eyes and realized how exposed he actually was when he felt Eddie's eyes raking over his body. "Eddie-" He tried saying something to him, but Eddie walked around him and slammed the door. What the hell?

Steve rolled his eyes and walked back to his room, slamming the door back at him. He put on a large blue crewneck and a pair of grey shorts. He sat on the side of his bed and laid back, closing his eyes. He heard a small knock on his door and it opened, Steve turning his head for a second to see Eddie on the other side. Steve rolled his eyes and turned his head back to the ceiling. "Look Harrington I-" Steve sat up, "you know what? I don't care." His lips made a thin line as he looked at Eddie through the door. Eddie stepped into the room a look of confusion taking over his face. "What?" Steve stood up, "I don't care Eddie. I. Don't. Care." He ran his hand through his hair before continuing. "I've been trying. Trying with you so we could have some sort of a normal relationship. For Dustin's sake and mine. But you just have a stick up your ass 24/7. I can't do it anymore. I tried. And obviously you don't want anyth-"

Eddie walked up to Steve and put both hands on his cheeks. "Don't finish that sentence. You have to know it's not true." Steve brushed both hands off of him and stepped back. "No, I don't. You act like you want me one second and practically brush me off the next. So excuse me if I thought something other than your exact thoughts. Because I can't read your fucking mind Eddie." Steve sat on the edge of his bed and put his head in his hands sighing. Eddie sat down next to him and let out a deep breath.

"You know, the day you told me we would have to take a break. It was the worst day of my life. You seemed so nervous about finally finding someone that liked you and you liked back. Someone you could be with. You seemed happy. I didn't want to hold you back from having a normal life so I let you go. Obviously it didn't work out for you, but you seemed happy every time I saw you two together. My heart broke, but I was still happy for you. Nancy gave you something that I couldn't."

A tear fell down Steve's face. "That doesn't explain why you're acting like this now." Eddie sighed, "because steve, I'm not going to pull you back into something you already left once. Something that's going to hold you back from having a normal life." Another tear fell, and another, until Steve realized he was crying. He had loved this man once. He never told him, but he knew he did. He could feel it every time they were near each other.

"I'm going to go now. I'm sorry Harrington." Eddie got up, only to be stopped by a hand grabbing his. "No, don't leave. It's like three in the morning and I already asked you to stay."

"Harrington-" Steve rolled his eyes. "Jesus would you just shut up and lay down with me." Eddie hesitated for a second, but complied and sat on the side of Steve's bed taking his vest and leather jacket off. He got under the covers and waited for Steve to join him. He didn't expect the other man to cuddle into him however. So when Steve got under the covers with him and cuddled himself into Eddie's chest. Eddie froze up, but almost immediately melted into Steve's touch, wrapping a hand around his waist. Steve leaned up and landed a kiss on Eddie's adams apple, "that's better."