Steddie ||Outcast||

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TW// Use of the F slur

Eddie couldn't fall asleep, he had this random burst of energy. He didn't know why but he did, so he decided to make breakfast.  Grabbing a skillet from one of the few cabinets in his trailer, and the eggs from the fridge. He began cracking them "I like that sound" he laughed.

In fact, he liked the sound so much he kept doing it, leaving him with at least 20 cracked eggs and an extremely overheated skillet. "Wth are you doing" Mr. Munson yelled. "Making breakfast" Eddie said, as if it was the most obvious thing ever. "It's 2 in the morning Eddie put that shit away and go to sleep, you have school in the morning." Mr. Munson sighed before making his way back to his room.

Eddie did as he was told. Except for the sleep part, instead he went on a run, a very long run. Eventually he did decide to sleep, running back to his uncles trailer  and almost instantly falling asleep on the couch.

2hrs later his alarm rang, he felt like absolute shit. Not even bothering to brush out the mess he calls his hair, he made his way to school. Listening to Metallica on his walkman he felt like today was actually going to be a good day, despite how shitty he felt. Until it wasn't, Jason and his posse saw Eddie walking by and felt the need to trip him. Making him fall face first into the concrete. Giving him a bloody nose and breaking his Walkman in the process.

Jason bent down pulling Eddie's head up and whispering in his ear, "when are you just going to give up, nobody wants you here faggot" and with that he walked off. The group laughing as they followed him into the school, amongst that group happened to be the Steve Harrington. Except he wasn't laughing, he couldn't help but feel a little bad for the guy. But as usual he said nothing and continued walking as if nothing had happened.

While Eddie on the other hand wanted to cry. That was the Walkman his mom had given him before she passed away. Now it was gone, nothing but cracked pieces of glass and plastic.

"Holy shit Eddie are you okay?" Dustin yelled as he ran over to the older boy. "Yeah I'm fine, just a bloody nose. Nothing I'm not use to." "Okay but still, lets get you to the bathroom" Dustin said, a hint of worry lacing his voice. As if his day couldn't get worse, as they  were walking to the bathroom. Eddie saw Steve eating Nancy's face in front of one of the lockers. Yeah he knew Steve was straight, he knew nothing would ever happen between them, but it still hurt.

After making sure Eddie was okay Dustin made his way to class. Eddie following a few minutes after. "Lets see... Steve and Nancy" Steve smiled at that. "Jason and Vickie, Robin and Jonathan," and.... Eddie and Chrissy." "WHAT" both Eddie and Jason yelled. "Jason, you and Chrissy never get any work down when paired together. I think Eddie would be a better fit for her, until you both can prove that you can work without getting distracted this is what's happening. Now all projects are due by the end of next week, you're dismissed."

Eddie couldn't wait to get out of there, but first he walked over to Chrissy and told her to meet him at skull rock later to work on the project. She simply nodded and went on about her business.

After school ended Eddie started walking home, then jogging, then running. Damn there was that burst of energy again, with the wind in his hair he was laughing. He felt relaxed, well that was until he ran straight into another person.

"Shit are you okay?" The man asked reaching his hand out to Eddie. "Yeah I'm- I'm fine" he said grabbing onto the hand. Eddie then realized who he was talking to. Steve Harrington was right in front of him, he couldn't help but stare. His perfect hair, his jawline, the way his Adam's apple moved when he talked. Everything about this man was just ethereal, Nancy was a lucky one.

"EDDIE" Steve yelled, causing him to snap out of whatever trance he had been in. "You good man" Steve asked. "Yeah..." there was an awkward silence, Eddie just couldn't stop staring and it was starting to make Steve uncomfortable.

"Well then, I'm just gonna go okay?" Steve said, as he began to walk away. Eddie doesn't know what came over him but he yelled "wait!"  Steve paused. "Do you, uh or I mean would you want to come over to my place. To watch a uh movie or something tomorrow." Eddie blushed. Steve noticed; he shifted uncomfortably in his spot.

"I can't man, I've got a date with Nancy tomorrow." Steve noticed the man looked a little dejected. "But um maybe the day after? if you're free." Eddie's eyes lit up, Steve noticed. "yeah, yeah that's, that's great yeah I'm free." Eddie said. "Cool cool..." another silence ran over them, Eddie felt it was more content silence, Steve felt it to be more confining.

"Well I'll see you around man" Steve said reaching out to give Eddie a fist bump. "Yeah for sure bro" Eddie said going in for a high-five. Eddie cringed at his actions, Steve noticed. Steve just kind of laughed it off and left, wanting to get out of there as soon as possible.

Eddie knew he was acting stupid, but still ended up getting a hangout sesh with Steve, so he felt like he had won. "Fuck I need to meet up with Chrissy." Eddie then began walking to skull rock, not stopping by his trailer because his interaction with Steve had thrown him off schedule.

Once he got there he saw Chrissy sitting at the picnic table that was set up. Eddie quickly walked over wanting to get this over with Asap. "So what are we doing here." He asked making himself as comfortable as possible. "What I thought you knew" she said with a blank stare. At this point they both realized they had no idea what the fuck this project was supposed to be about, and ended up spending the next few hours getting to know each other.

A/N: YEAHHH FIRST CHAPTER WOOOH