"So did you ask her to hangout yet?" Steve looked over with a curious smile. "You guys looked pretty comfy."

"Yeah. Not as comfy as you and Mr. Madonna." He raised an eyebrow, "Mr. Madonna? Really?"

"What? It's the best I could think of!" Steve laughed and shook his head, "my man's a material girl."

"Anyways back to the original subject. Did you? How's it going?" Robin immediately started picking at her fingers, "well- I did and of course she said yes but I don't know what to do with myself. Like what is she expecting? I don't even know if she likes girls. I- I just asked her if she wanted to hang out this weekend and she said yes. That was it."

An amused smile painted Steve's face. Robin's always been like this, despite her constant nagging on Steve, she was always a worrier. "Well it's only wednesday Rob, you still have a couple days to make some plans. Just don't overthink it alright? She obviously likes you."

"Is it obvious?" She looked at him cautiously, "well, to me and Eddie it is. He said you guys make a cute couple." Her demeanor brightened and she leaned towards him, "did he actually? Did you see her hand on my arm?" Steve was nodding his head, he couldn't help the smile growing at his best friend's bliss. "Yes he did and I agree. And yes it was quite adorable Robin. Might be one of the cutest couples I've ever seen."

"We're not a couple Steven." He crumpled his nose at the nickname, "ew, never ever again. I think I actually prefer slut puppy to that. And you two are close enough. You just gotta make the right move eventually." He wiggled his eyebrows at her and she gagged, unamused. "Yeah, like you did with Eddie? Was it the constant horrific flirting or the begging him to always be around you that got him to date you?"

"Hey! He wanted me! He was just- scared, plus he was flirting with me too, let's not forget that." Robin rolled her eyes, "yeah I've tried, and failed." He just shook his head and pulled into her driveway. "I don't know what you're talking about. We're a cute couple, unstable- but cute." Opening the door she stepped out and looked through the window. "Maybe you are, but I'd never say it to your face Harrington."

"Bye Stevie."

"Bye idiot."

As soon as Steve stepped in the house he could hear the phone ringing- his peaceful time away from everyone being stolen from him. "Hello" it was a bored, unamused tone. "Harrington! Steve! Thank god, I've been calling here for like an hour, where the hell have you been?" Steve was concerned at the worried tone in Dustin's voice.

"What's wrong? You know I drive Robin home from school." A loud groan was heard and Steve was no longer concerned, but slightly peeved. "Will you please- and I mean this, please take me to Hellfire tonight? Before you say no! I couldn't find Eddie to ask him to take me, and my mom has some stupid meeting or shit like that I don't know. Please, please, please,-"

"Oh my god Henderson okay! Fine!"

There was a pause. "Really?"

"Yeah sure, I've already done everything I need to do today. There's no reason I couldn't. It starts around 6-7 right?"

A longer silence. "H-how do you know that? Why do you know that?"

Now Steve was the silent one, "I.. talked to Eddie a little bit whenever I picked Robin up from school."

"You talked to Eddie- when you picked Robin up for school."

"I- I did do that. Yep."

"Uh huh. And you're completely fine with driving me to Hellfire tonight."

"If you keep asking me about it- no Henderson, no I'm not."

"It's just- weird." A silent pause. "Wait! Does that mean you'll watch this time?!"

"And this conversation is over. When am I picking you up?"

He could hear him grumbling curse words through the phone, "six thirty."

"Alright cool I'll be there at six fifty, bye dude." Before the yelling could get to bad he slammed the phone down and sighed against the wall.

And the phone started ringing again.

"Henderson for fucks sake!"

"Woah woah dude calm down, it's Keith your highness."

He sighed, "shit I'm sorry man. What's up?"

"They're almost done putting the windows in. So do you wanna like- come in tomorrow and help me clean up the shelves and everything. Obviously paid."

Fucking finally. "Yeah, yeah of course. What time?"

"Uhh, let's go with like- ten. Is ten cool with you Harrington?"

Steve could hear the small amount of spite when Keith said his name, which is fair. He's never really liked him- which once again, is totally fair. "Yeah dude I'll be there, thank you."

"Yeah whatever." And the call was over. How sweet

In a couple weeks Steve will have enough saved up to finally rent an apartment. To get out of this hell house, hopefully before- if his parents ever get back home. They'd been gone for at least a month now, but he's the only one that seems to notice the lack of them. It's been like this since his junior year, they just kind of stopped caring and decided he could take care of himself- which he can. But it'd be nice to have some type of family.

He could feel himself getting frustrated and hit the wall, trying to keep himself from tearing up.

And the fucking phone rang again.

"Okay I don't give a fuck who you are, what the fuck do you want?!"

"Uhm, hi?"

Steve froze at the sound of his boyfriend's voice and relaxed himself farther into the wall. "Hi baby I'm sorry. I've been standing here since I got home."

He heard a stifled laugh and rolled his eyes. "It's okay. Henderson just called me- he wants to know what's going on between us? He said he talked to you- I don't know it was a lot of yelling. You're driving him to hellfire?"

"Yeah, I am. I don't know- he found it weird that I talked to you at school today. He was acting, suspicious." Eddie chuckled deeply and Steve's stomach did flips. "Of course he was, it's Dustin. It's probably fine. I don't even know why we haven't talked about telling them yet."

Steve froze, "well- you know I- I've never really talked about. This until a couple weeks ago, when I told Robin about us and when we first talked and stuff. But other than that- I haven't really talked to anyone about it so- it's just new. I promise I'm not embarrassed of you or anything, that's definitely not it! I just- it's like I haven't come to terms with it- just the fact that I love you and that I want to be with you."

He could here Eddie sigh through the phone, he couldn't tell if he was upset or disappointed, but he didn't like the thought of either. "Harrington don't stress yourself out about it. It's a lot to go through I understand. We'll take all the time we need okay? I want you to be comfortable and okay with all of this. I know- I know we rushed into and I'm sorry. I really am Steve, I just- I do love you so much and I wanted to be with you. I know you didn't have time to get comfortable or think about any of it. I really am sorry."

He could feel it, the burning in his eyes as he closed them shut as tight as possible, taking long breaths. "Please don't apologize." It was quiet, Steve felt like if he talked any louder it would push Eddie away further, make him feel worse. "Y-you didn't do anything wrong Eddie. This relationship- it's not just you. It's the both of us. We can talk about it tonight, right? All of it. I want you to have fun at your stupid club tonight. And when I see you I'm gonna kiss you because I love you and I miss you. And fuck that rhymed."

Eddie laughed, but he could hear his voice cracking- he was crying too. "I love you." He whispered into the phone, a small smile ghosting over Steve's lips . "I love you."

"I'll see you soon love."

"Okay."

"Okay?"

Steve laughed quietly, "okay."

It was silent for a second before Steve hung up the phone, smiling to himself. Goddamnit.

He didn't do anything for the next hour. He just smiled and did small chores around the house before slipping some shoes on and grabbing Eddie's vest from his room. He was now sitting in front of Dustin's house at the time he promise, honking the horn profusely as his head hit the back of his seat in frustration.

The door finally swung open and the boy walked out, slamming it behind him and running to the car. "Wipe your feet. Wipe your feet!" And he did, inside the goddamn car. "Asshole."

"We're going to be late and I'm going to be in deep shit so will you just drive Steve? Drive!" He rolled his eyes and backed down the driveway before slamming on the gas and flying down the road.

"Is that Eddie's vest?" Steve tensed up and continued to face the road. "Yes?"

"Well why do you have it?"

Shit. "Because.." Got it! "The dumbass didn't know how to clean it and I told him it smelled like shit so he told me to do it for him."

Dustin slowly nodded his head, "what's the difference between washing that and everything else he owns?"

"It's- denim?"

Along with the slow nodding, his eyebrows were now knitted together. "But- why are you wearing it?"

Steve feels like he's gonna break down at any minute, fromm stress- from literally anything that could get him out of the conversation.

"I just wanted to make sure I got it to him Henderson, you know I can forget things."

"Right.. right okay. So you're giving it back to him tonight- when you drop me off?"

No- no see he definitely doesn't want to do that. He wants to keep and never fucking take it off. But he dug himself a fucking hole and now he has to. But it doesn't really matter- Eddie's just going to give it back.

"Yeah Henderson. I am."

The lying to his friend was starting to get to him now, he could tell Dustin doesn't believe him. Because 'it just doesn't add up' like he would say. And I guess if you don't believe in King Steve having a heart and not being able to befriend the freak. He hated that now, his heart burned at the sound- thinking back to the way Jason said it with so much malice. He can't imagine how everyone else is at school. He doesn't want to imagine.

And now his heart hurts more.

"Henderson you'd tell me if you ever needed my help right? Like if you were getting bullied or needed help with school or something?" He parked the car in front of said school and looked over at him. The boy's confused look just grew with the words. "Yeah man, of course. Just because I'm friends with Eddie now doesn't mean I- care about you any less. Plus, you couldn't help me out with school if you even wanted to, but nice try."

The two laughed and got out of the car, walking in to the school. He was becoming giddy at the thought of seeing his boyfriend, but tried to calm himself down since it was only going to be a second. "So- you and Eddie. You're really friends now?"

"Yeah Henderson. I promise. We're cool." He opened the door and Dustin walked in, patting Lucas and Mike on the back. "Henderson, you're late."

Except Eddie wasn't looking at Dustin, he was looking directly at Steve.

"Yeah dipshit over here refused to pick me up on time." Steve rolled his eyes and Eddie's eyes flickered down to the vest, a small smile growing on his face. "Well dipshit, if you had told me earlier, maybe I would."

Steve didn't take his eyes away from Eddie, because for some fucking reason. Seeing him sitting in the stupid fucking throne at the end of the table, did something to him. He definitely looked like a dungeon master- hell Steve would call him master at this point. He looked so- dominant, important- hot as fuck.

A small smirk grew on Eddie's face and Steve tore his eyes away, ripping the vest off. He held it up in his hand, "here I washed this for you since you couldn't figure it out." A confused look painted Eddie's face and he watched as Steve's eyes flickered to dustin. Eddie got up out of his throne and walked over to him, hesitating before taking it out of his hand and putting it on.

"Thanks, I still think it looks better on you though." Their faces were close- to close and Steve could feel his breathing start to shake. He whispered the last part for just Steve to hear and looked him in the eyes. "I'll see you later, right?"

Steve nodded his head and stared into the man's dark eyes. "Give me two seconds guys- I need to talk to Harrington real quick." Eddie grabbed his arm and walked the two out of the room, closing the door behind him.

"What are you-" Eddie's lips were on his before he could finish and he felt like he was melting. His hands were cupping Steve's face and he was rubbing warm circles with his thumb. He pulled away and kept his eyes closed as he leaned their foreheads together. "I missed you, and I'm gonna miss you. Plus you did owe me a kiss." A smile grew on both of the boy's faces and Steve pulled him for another kiss, wrapping his arms around his neck. He could feel fingers ghost over his neck, but they were gone before he was sure they were there.

"I love you." Steve stroked his cheek softly and smiled against his neck.

"You know I love you." He said it against the top of his head before kissing it gently.

"Well I told Robin that her and Vickie were the probably one of the cutest couples I've seen." He leaned against the locker and smiled up at Eddie. "Really now?"

"Yep." He popped the p and Eddie leaned down to lock him in his spot. Placing his hand beside his head. "Okay, and where are we on that scale?" They both were smiling from ear to ear as they looked at each other. "Oh I think we're definitely the cutest."

"Ever?"

"Well maybe for this year."

Eddie leaned down and rubbed the side of Steve's neck, kissing him softly. "86' baby."

"It's definitely your year."

Eddie laughed and placed their foreheads back together. "Without a doubt."

"You're going to give that back to me right? When you come home?" Eddie sucked in a breath and stared silently into his eyes. "Home?"

Steve leaned up and kissed his nose, "home."

"Y-yeah of course. It's yours now."

"What, are we married now?"

"Do you want to be?"

Steve laughed and smacked Eddie's arm, "I think you should probably graduate first."

A flash of fear went through Eddie's eyes but he ignored it. "You already thinking about marrying me Harrington?"

"I don't think that's legal."

"Well, I don't do a lot of things that are, to be fair."

"Don't you have a club or something? I swear there's a reason I came here." Eddie swooped down and kissed him one last time, Steve's head falling against the locker in surprise. "I'll see you soon okay?"

He laughed and smacked his arm gently, "I'll be okay Munson." Eddie's eyes flickered towards the door and Steve could feel him trying to wait to run in there. He reached up and kissed him slowly, Eddie reacting immediately and grabbing his hips, pushing them against the locker. "You do know you're driving Dustin home right?"

Eddie pulled away, "but I didn't-" He was pulled in for another kiss and hands wrapped in his hair, tugging gently. "Fuck, fine. Fine, okay." Steve smile at him and gave him one more quick kiss. "I love you. I can't believe how soft you are for me dungeon master."

Something flashed across Eddie's face, "don't call me that."

"Oh my god you weirdo. What kind of stuff are you into?"

Eddie leaned down and kissed him again, slower this time. "So many things, so little time."

Steve laughed quietly, trying to hold in the curiosity that struck him at the words. The handcuffs

"You're not like- into super weird stuff. Are you?" Eddie contemplate for a second. "what counts as super weird?"

"Yeah I honestly have no idea." Eddie laughed and rubbed there noses together.

"However I might've been looking for-" He had to think of a good reason to be going through Eddie's bag. "- another shirt to steal from you and I might've found-"

Eddie immediately started laughing and his held flew back. "Why is this funny?" Steve was so, so confused at his boyfriend's behavior

"You found the handcuffs didn't you?!" He was still laughing, but Steve just stood there with his arms crossed and an eyebrow raised. "I swear to god I just brought those as a joke to freak you out!"

Steve smacked him on the back of the head, "you asshole! What is wrong with you?!"

"What? I'm sorry! It was a joke I promise baby- unless you want to use them."

Steve deadpanned and smacked Eddie's arm. "Go play your game."

"It's not a-"

"Eddie." Eddie leaned down and kissed his forehead softly, releasing some of Steve's silly frustration. "I don't still have to sleep on the couch tonight right?"

Steve kissed his cheek softly and pulled away slightly, "I'm still thinking about it. Now go. I'll see you later. Have fun."

"Do you mean that?" Eddie looked at him with wandering, amused eyes.

"Maybe a little."

Eddie pulled him in for one more kiss and pushed off the locker, "I love you."

"I love you too."

Steve watched him walk back in and laughed at the yells and curses thrown at him, walking out of the school with a sweet smile on his face and his body tingling.

Also my mom wanted me to ask you guys what we're having for dinner! Love you!!