Steddie ||Outcast||

II

TW// Mentions of drug use and hallucinations
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"You know, you're not what I thought you'd be" Chrissy said smiling. "What? I'm not the Pervy gay creep your boyfriend thinks I am? No way!" Eddie says sarcastically. Chrissy couldn't help but laugh. Eddie liked her, she had a nice laugh. "You have a beautiful laugh sweetheart" Eddie says. "T-thanks." Her face turns a light pink. "No one's ever told me that before." She says.

"Wow... your boyfriend really does suck." She laughs again at the comment. "Yk he's really not that bad once you get to know him, he just has trouble opening up to people that's all. Kind of like Steve."

Eddie's eyebrows raise at the statement. "What about Steve?" He asks really wanting to know. "I knew you liked him" Chrissy yells. "Wth are you talking about" Eddie asks. "Oh don't wth me, you KNOW what I'm talking about. Your entire demeanor changed when I brought him up." Eddie turned a dark shade of scarlet.

"It's okay I won't tell anyone, but I'm pretty sure everyone knows already." "What." Eddie says shocked. "I mean yeah you make it pretty obvious, always staring at him like a love sick puppy." Eddie lets out a frustrated sigh, "does he know" he asks.

"I don't think so, but if you keep this up then he will." "Alright Alright, enough of this what happened to him, why is he scared to open up." Eddie asks. "He didn't say why specifically, we just know him and Nancy apparently saw some fucked up stuff last year. We think it has something to do with Barb but idk." "Barb? As in the barb that died?" Eddie whispers.

"Yep the one and only." Now I'd love to stay and talk more but I seriously have to get home or my parents will quite literally break every bone in my body.  Eddie laughs at that, waving goodbye to Chrissy as she starts walking home. He figures he should start heading home as well, then begins his journey to his uncles trailer.

"Where have you been boy." Eddie's uncle asks as Eddie walks into the trailer. "Just out, working on a project for school." "Is that code for 'I finally got a boyfriend, you don't have to worry about me living in this trailer for the rest of my life." Eddie fake laughed at his uncles sarcasm. "Haha very funny."

Eddie loved his uncle, he was there for him when his mom passed away. And was there when his dad couldn't do his basic fatherly duties. He excepted Eddie for who he was and Eddie would be forever grateful for that. You can't find a lot of support for gay men in the 80s, especially in Hawkins Indiana.

Just as Eddie was about to change into his pajamas he got a text.

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Chrissy Cutting ham 🔪🐖

Hey Eddie! I just wanted to let you know there's a party going on at Steve's place right now.
It'd be great to see you here :)

Idk Chrissy, I'm not really welcome
to these kind of things.

It's fineeee I'll just say you're with me

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Eddie didn't respond, but next thing you know he was out the door again making his way to Steve's house. It was only about a 15 minute walk from his trailer. He was nervous as he walked up to the door, but eventually mustered up the courage to knock.

And just to his luck the one and only Steve Harrington answered the door. He looked surprised, "Eddie what are you doing here?" Steve asked nervously. Eddie didn't respond, he couldn't help but stare at the man that was nearly towering over him.

"He's with me!" Chrissy shouted, snapping Eddie out of his trance. "Uh yeah okay" Steve mumbled moving out of the way.

You know how in those movies someone walks into the party but nobody really wants them there, so the music stops and everyone stops to stare at the newcomer. That's what Eddie felt like right now.

He was damn near ready to go right back out the way he came. But Chrissy must have new what he was thinking because she grabbed his arm and sat him on the couch right between her and Steve. Jason glared at the man but didn't say anything. An awkward silence fell over them. As if there wasn't a bunch of horny drunk teens behind them.

"So" Chrissy smiled. "How about we play truth or dare, every dare or truth you skip on you have to take a shot of this baby." Eddie knew exactly what that was. Spirytus Vodka, it's so strong you can take a single shot of it plain and wake up somewhere in Peru with no idea of where your clothes went.

"EDDIE." Eddie jumped, "truth or dare." Chrissy asks. "Uh truth?" "What are your honest opinions about everyone sitting here right now."

"Lets see..." Eddie says, thinking out loud. "Your boyfriend is a douche who doesn't know how to treat a woman, Andy and Patrick want to be relevant so bad but they aren't so they follow Jason's every footstep, Steve isn't really a bully he just doesn't know how to think for himself, and Nancy... well I'll let Steve handle that one." He says making a small gesture over to Jonathan only noticeable to Nancy. "And you Chrissy, I actually like you."

Chrissy laughed, but everyone else wasn't so happy with his response. "Now." Eddie says smiling, deciding to take a small portion of the brownie he had brought from home to help him get through the night. "Jason truth or d-" Eddie was cut off by Steve, "Hey what are you eating." "It's an edible." Eddie replies

"Let me get some of that." Steve says, Eddie hands over the "brownie" and continues on with his question. "Jason truth or dare." "Dare, I'm not a pussy." "Okay then, I dare you to kiss me." Eddie was just joking obviously, he knew the blonde wouldn't be able to go through with it. And just as he suspected Jason took a shot.

"Eddie, was the brownie old? I don't feel good." Eddie's smile immediately dropped. "Steve.." he says slowly. "Where's the brownie." "I ate it." Steve says rolling his eyes, "I let you in, the least you could do is let me eat the brownie." As Steve said this he felt like he was going to be sick any second.

"STEVE YOU FUCKING IDIOT I TOLD YOU IT WAS AN EDIBLE, WHY WOULD YOU EAT IT ALL." "EXACTLY" Steve yells back. "It was edible so I ate it." Eddie stares at him, amazed at how stupid the boy actually is.

"Steve it's not edible, it's AN edible. As in theres DRUGS in that shit, which also happened to be ECTASY." "Well it didn't look like Ectasy" Steve said trying to defend himself. The room was getting louder as they spoke. "It was baked into the brownie man, and it was a pretty big fucking brownie."

Steve doesn't respond this time, he's sweating and covering his ears. "Stop yelling at me." He says, he looks as if he's going to cry. The next second he was puking all over Nancy's dress. Everyone looked beyond worried. "It's okay, it's not enough to make him overdose. But he'll be tripping out the rest of the night." They all sighed with relief.

Steve hurled again. "Alright man lets get you to a bathroom yeah?" Eddie says whispering. He knows how sensitive the ears can get when on this stuff. Which is why the party needs to be shut down immediately.

"Hey im gonna take him to the bathroom, get everyone out of here. You guys can go home Ive got him."

"No way I'm leaving you here alone with steve." Jason protested.

"Fine by me if you want to clean his vomit, watch over him while he continues to vomit, and give him a bath then be my fucking guest." Eddie was not in the mood for his bs, he needed to make sure steve was okay.

"Alright Munson, but if steve tells me you tried pulling any weird shit you're done for." Eddie just walks away, bringing Steve upstairs to where he was told the bathroom was. Even when cleaning off the sweat and puke on his face, steve still managed to make Eddie's stomach do little backflips."

Steve looks up from the toilet and yells "The mind-flayer, it came back it's here." Scaring the shit out of Eddie. The poor boy was now squirming and hyperventilating. "Hey it's okay you're just hallucinating." Eddie says softly, rubbing gentle circles on the boys back. Which he's guessing somewhat worked because Steve was no longer yelling bloody murder, but he was still shaking and crying.

At that Moment the only thing Eddie could think to himself was "wth is a mindflayer."

Chapter 2 ✅