The game of love (Eddie Munson x masc reader)

Every curse has a breaking spell

Y/n's POV

We all sit down in silence and stare at Max as she continues writing whatever she's working on.

"I know you guys are staring at me," She says.

We all look away, grabbing something close to us pretending we weren't staring, I take a book from the desk as I act like I've been reading it.

"What, sorry?" Steve says, acting dumb.

"Did you call us?" I question.

"You said you needed something?" Lucas asks.

"Just hanging out" Steve adds.

"How you think your eyes boring into the back of my head is protecting me from Vecna, I don't know," She says, "You can look at me now"

"Thank you, sorry," Dustin says, as we all stop doing our things and look at her.

"Sorry," The three of us say.

"For you," She tells Dustin handing him a letter.

"For you", she repeats handing Steve another of the letters.

"Another one for you" I take her letter softly smiling, my name in the centre of it.

"And, um, you," She says handing Lucas his letter, "Oh, and, um, give these to Mike, El and Will, if you can ever get a hold of them again" She adds handing Lucas three extra letters.

"What are you doing? No, don't, that's not for now, don't open it now" She tells Dustin off as he goes to open it.

"Idiot," I say turning to look at him.

"Don't, okay...I'm sorry what is this?" Dustin asks her holding up the letter.

"It's um, it's a fail-safe, for after, if things don't work out" She explains, and I turn to look at Steve worried.

"Wait, woah, Max, things are gonna work out" Lucas begins telling her worried.

"No!" She shouts interrupting him, "No, I don't need you to reassure me right now and tell me it's all gonna work out, because people have been telling me that my entire life and it's almost never true, it's never true, I mean, of course, this asshole curses me, should've seen that one coming," She says. You can tell how upset and angry she is.

She takes a deep breath and looks away toward the game table as she makes her way to it, grabbing Dustin's walkie-talkie.

"If we go to East Hawkins, will this reach Pennhurst?" She asks Dustin, turning to look at him.

"Of course, yeah"

"Why are we talking about East Hawkins?" Steve asks, the three kids turn to look at him, and he immediately gets the hint, "No, no, no!" He shouts.

Max gets her bag and walks out of the house, Steve gets his jacket and runs after her, Dustin, Lucas and I follow behind both of them.

"Max, Max, seriously, seriously I'm not joking, I'm not driving you anywhere," Steve tells her.

"Steve, if you think I'm going to spend what is likely the last day of my life in the armpit that is Mike Wheeler's basement, then you're out of your mind. So either take me where I need to go or you're gonna have to tie me down, which is technically kidnapping of a minor, and if I live to see another day, Steve, I swear to God, I will prosecute" She tells him stopping next to his car as she tries to open the backdoor.

"Open the door," She tells Steve, glaring at him.

"Uh, no"

"Steve don't be such a dick, just get her to where she needs to go, it's not like us staying here is going to protect her from Vecna," I say looking at him from the other side of the car.