S O F T C O R E // Steve Harrington X Reader // Stranger Things

18. Suzie, Do You Copy?

It was the summertime and I had finally got a job for the season. It was at Starcourt Mall. The new big thing to hit Hawkins. I was working at the Gap. Turns out retail was kind of my thing. Steve was slinging ice cream at the Scoops Ahoy ice cream parlor. He was a sailor which kind of made it hard for me to be seen with him. But I got free samples. Hunter was also at a camp as well, he went with Dustin so the house felt a bit lonely. It was currently night time and I felt like ice cream. When I arrived I saw Robin working I smiled at her. "Hey, is he working?" I asked her and she smiled.

"Hey, dingus. It's your girlfriend." She said and the door to the back opened.

"There's my favorite customer." He said to me and he came around the front.

"Oh, please. Don't I know it. Can I get a rocky road?" I asked him with a smile and he looked at me.

"Always. I take it your not working tonight?" He asked me as he started to scoop my ice cream. I wasn't tonight but I was tomorrow.

"No, but I'm working tomorrow. I hate that our shift patterns aren't the same." I said to him as he handed me my ice cream in a cone. I took it from him with a smile.

"Well, if your not doing anything tonight I can come over." He said to me with a smile and I smiled at him. I would like that.

"I would love that. My parents aren't home tonight so even better." I said to him with a smile. That was when the power went out and I grabbed Steve's hand.

"That's weird." He said and he went over to try the lights. I was thinking back to everything we'd faced already.

"Maybe there's a reason for the outage." I said as I started on my ice cream. Steve then started to flick the lights on and off again.

"That isn't gonna work, dingus." Robin said to him and he looked at her.

"Oh, really?" He asked and he tried it numerous times again.

"Steve, it's not working." I said to him and he kept trying. Maybe the power was going out everywhere in Hawkins.

"Yeah, it's not working." He said to us both.

"We could've told you that." Robin said and a few minutes later the power went back on again. And of course Steve was flicking the switch.

"That was strange." I said to them both.

"Let there be light." Steve said as he tended to the other customers. I was hoping this was just a normal power cut. Nothing much to it. I wandered around the mall after that and then made my way home. I'd started watching something on the television before I heard a knock on the door. "I heard you needed some company." Steve said as I opened the door and I smiled at him letting him in before closing the door. Thankfully he'd changed out of his uniform.

"All the company in the world." I said to him before kissing him. With it getting more passionate he then carried me upstairs to my room. Leaving the door open behind him. When I woke up I smiled at the sight of him passed out beside me. I then glanced at the clock. "Shit! Steve! We gotta go!" I shouted at him as I saw the clock.

"What? What's going on? Let's just go back to sleep." He said to me as he wrapped his arm around me pulling me back down.

"Steve, we're going to be late for work." I said to him and that's when he sat up.

"Shit!" He shouted and we both got out. Changing immediately. "I'll drive you." He said to me and I smiled.

"Thank you, I love you so much." I said before kissing him and he went to deepen the kiss. He then pulled away.

"No, we don't have time. I love you too." He said making me laugh. I knew that he was glad to have left a toothbrush at my place now. We then started on our way to the mall. I managed to make it to the Gap just in time.

"Y/n, it's good to know your still barely on time." My supervisor of the day told me. I wasn't impressed with this. And there was no point in me ever trying come up with an excuse.

"Let me guess you didn't change your clock over. I didn't either." Gabrielle, my colleague, said to me and I nodded at her. I was glad someone was in the same position.

"You'd be right and my boyfriend did not want to get up this morning." I said to her with a smile and she smiled at me.

"Your dating Steve Harrington, right? What's that like?" She asked me and I looked at her with a smile.

"It's good. He's not what everyone thinks. And now that we've graduated and we're still together, just proves that we are meant to work together." I said to her with a smile. She then smiled at me.

"You two are cute together. I'll give you that. Hopefully you can stay together for longer." She said and we went around our shift. Once I'd finished I waited for Steve to finish and when he did. He drove me home.

"Is your brothers light on?" He asked as he pulled up to the house and I looked at him with a smile.

"He's back. Steve, he's home." I said to him with a smile and I got out the car. "Thank you, I love you." I said to him and he smiled at me.

"I love you - -" I started before I closed the door. He then got out. "I'm coming in with you. I was about to say that." He said as he ran over to me and took my hand. I unlocked the door and opened it.

"Hey, sweetie and Steve." Dad said. He was still in his uniform. I guess I forgot to mention, he'd joined the Hawkins police department. Hopper's orders.

"Hey, is Hun- -" I started before he came running down. My little brother.

"Y/n! He shouted as he ran over to me. "Y/n, I have so much to catch up on. I have so many inventions to show you as well." He said to me and that's I smiled at him.

"That's cool bud. I'd love to see them." I said to him with a smile. I did want to see them.

"Hey, Hunter." Steve said making himself known to Hunter.

"Oh, hi Steve, now I'll go get the stuff. Sit down in the living room." He said to me and he ran back up to his room. I smiled at this.

"He's been waiting all day for this Mija." Mom said to me and Steve and I then went to the living room. "Hi, Steve." She said to him with a smile.

"Mrs. Solace, always lovely to see." Steve said as the two of us sat down on the sofa. He then wrapped an arm around me and I leaned into him. Hunter than started to show us all of his new inventions he made when he was away. It finally felt like a family again.