✓ | flow ( eddie munson )

three. after dark

veda henderson

      It felt like hours before their game of dungeons and dragons finished, sure enough, I checked my watch to see that two hours had passed. There were a few times when Dustin and his friends lost their shit over a dice roll that I laughed rather loudly. Each time, Eddie would look up at me possibly due to my obnoxious laughter and send a small smirk my way before turning his attention back to his game.

   Honestly, I think it's been a while since a lot of them had seen a girl in this room by the way they reacted. 

   Soon enough, their game finished and everyone was leaving. Everyone except Eddie was in a bad mood considering they all lost to him, it was hard for me to contain my laughter as I looked at my sulking brother. 

   "Do you guys need a ride home?" I ask Mike and Lucas as they walk beside Dustin and I. 

   "Yes, please," Lucas replied, offering me a grateful smile as Mike nodded in agreement. I know they weren't exactly children, but I wouldn't want them walking home alone in the dark

   "Munson strikes again," Dustin huffs in defeat, shaking his head as he kept his eyes on the road. 

   "Who's Muffin?" I laugh to myself, reaching the drivers side of the car and unlocking it for the kids to climb in. 

   "I didn't say muffin!" Dustin exclaimed as he climbed into the passenger seat. I paused with my hand on the handle of the car door, my butchered version of the name setting off a light switch in my brain. I glance over the roof of the beige car to watch as Eddie almost skipped towards his own car across the car park.

   "Veda, let's go," Dustin taps on the driver's seat to get my attention. I open the door, leaning down enough to make eye contact with Dustin. Once he got a look at my wide grin, he groaned in annoyance.

   "I'll be right back, Dusty-bun," I mock him with a grin before shutting the car door, laughing quietly at the nickname I can never let him live down. Once I heard his possibly fake girlfriend call him that, I never let it go. 

   I walk around the car, jogging slightly across the car park and towards Eddie as he reached his own car, struggling with his many pockets in search of his car keys. "Eddie!"

   He spins around quickly, the lower half of his body following him as he turned completely and faced me with a cocky smile, watching me slow down my jog as I got closer to him. I stand still in front of him, smiling up at him. "Need something?"

   "Do you happen to know a Ricky Fitz?" I squint up at him, watching his eyebrows furrow before his mouth opens slightly into an 'O' shape, his expression turning to normal as he nods.

   "Well, that depends on what you were after, little lady," He comments, reusing that stupid nickname from the beginning of their game. He seemed to like that it annoyed me slightly. 

   "Well, that depends," I begin, taking a step closer to him. The action caused his smile to falter as he gulped, watching me stand even closer to him than I was before. "Are you available tonight?"

   "I might be," He smiles, stepping back to pull his car door open and stand behind it as if it were a shield, protecting him. "Henderson's house?"