Something Stranger ~ [ Steddie ]

Chapter 7; Rising Heartbeat

Eddie POV
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"What are you two doing?"
"Oh- Nancy- sorry I was just tired"
"Seems to be more than just you"
"Oh- hehe, yea, I assume he hasn't slept in a while."
"Is his he sleeping on your shoulder? Ooooo!!"
"Robin cut that out!"
"Very interesting."
"Just- he's sleeping don't bother him."
"Awww- that's so-"
"Shut up Robin."
"Quit it you two, we need to get back to Lucas, Dustin and Max. If we got to Eddie's trailer we can get back."
"How are we suppose to get there without getting mauled by bats again??"
"Bikes."
"Steve, you and Eddie.. i don't know, do your own thing, but have him awake in three."
"Come on Robin let's go get them ready."

The voices I heard were mummers to me, I couldn't make out what they were saying, I was dreaming, but I could also hear what was happening in reality. It was strange, my dream involved me right here .. laying with Harrington. But in this dream we were talking, laughing, and being close. I wanted to just, stay here. But just as the thought entered my mind, I could feel my eyes opening. I looked around a bit, and saw that I was all cuddled up to Steve. "Someone's awake." He looked over at me and smiled. I yawned and got up, he didn't even seem to mind that I was sleeping on his shoulder, even the thought of that gave me butterflies. I've basically come to accept that I have a massive ass crush on Steve, I can't even deny it anymore. But he's straighter than a line. It would never work. I stretched a bit as Steve got up, he reached out his hand for me to grab, and I held his hand as he pulled me up. He gave me a strange look, almost like, admiration? I don't think so, probably not. He gestured for me to follow him and we walked down the hallway, I started to be able to hear Nancy and Robin's voices, and once we entered the garage I could see them both prepping some f " DDD Where are we going?" I asked, rubbing my eyes, as Harrington had a hand on my shoulder. It didn't even come into my consciousness that it was happening, but the tiredness my body was under just tuned it out. "We're going to your trailer, there's a gate there." Nancy replied, she noticed the confusion on my face, but I didn't say anything. "Ok, we're ready to get this started."Nancy said aloud, she handed me a decently large bike and we got onto the bikes.

We rode through the town of hawkins, it was almost extraordinary to see all this wildlife of.. complete danger and murder around. After a long, atleast fifteen minutes, we got to the trailer park. We sighed of relief as we opened the door. Nancy and Robin went to go look at .. this thing on the ceiling. I looked over, flashbacks going through my brain. It was in the exact spot that Chrissy had been killed. This was all too much for me, I went over to what used to be my room, and sat down on my bed. I layed my back down and stared at the ceiling, wasn't exactly a good sight since there was these vines everywhere. "Hey." I could see Steve entering the room. "Seems like we always end up alone." He laughed and sat down next to me on my mattress. "I don't mind that much, I like it just being me and you." I smiled and looked away, realizing I just said that without thinking. He smiled as well. "Your pretty cool, Eddie Munson." He laughed, I think he noticed i embarassed myself. He grabbed my chin and turned my head to look at him. My face went red, he tucked the hair in my face behind my ear and stared at me, I looked back over at him and we shared a moment of eye contact. I managed to stumble out some words, "Your really cool too, Harrington." He smiled again. I could that he was rubbing the back of his neck a lot, I heard Robin joking with him once that when he's nervous, he does that. He's nervous?

I took a mental deep breath. Steve looked at me strangely, I smirked at him as I pushed him back on the bed, he looked surprised, but he didn't fight against me. I could see he was a bit red, I decided to take initiative, "What's wrong Harrington?" I laughed, and I could see he was staring at me in some sort of admiration. "Your cute." I said, brushing the hair out of his face. I pulled his face closer to mine. "Wanna see something sweet Harrington?" He mustered out a little nod after a couple seconds. I pulled his face closer to mine, and closed my eyes as-

"We need you two over here, what are you even doi-  ...Woa." I heard Robin say in the doorway, Steve immediately looked over to her, as she smirked and walked away. "ROBIN-" he shouted, getting up and chasing her. I chuckled, following them out to the main room of my trailer. Nancy looked confused at Steve chasing Robin around, but ignored it. Suddenly we saw a stick jabbing through a vessly like whole in the ceiling. It was Dustin. Him and Nancy were talking about how trippy this shit was. Dustin was standing on the ceiling.. but it was the flood to him- it's hard to explain. He threw down a rope for us to climb up. Nancy went first, and was able to make it, then Robin went. I gestured for Steve to go, and he grabbed the rope. But he didn't move. Dustin called to him to hurry up, but Steve let go of the rope. "Steve?" I called to him, I shook him, and turned him to face me. The one thing I had feared became a reality. I saw Steve's eyes, rolled into the back of his head.

Oh please god no.

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