falling for him<3 //steddie//

chapter 8: eddie are you there?

⚠️!TW!⚠️
Steve ~
"Sorry i tried to get here as fast as I could. There was a bad wreck at the traffic light by the hospital." "So he wasn't at school?" I ask robin. "No, he wasn't in science or the math class we have together. He wasn't even at lunch!" I start to get worried. "He probably just went to his house and slept. I don't think he's been getting a lot of sleep. Can you go by his trailer and see if he's there? I just want to make sure he's okay." "Yeah of course."

After robin left, I grabbed my walkie and asked "Hey has anyone seen Eddie today?" "Nope, he wasn't at school today." Dustin said. "Yeah I didn't even see your car at his trailer when I passed by it on the way to school this morning." Mike also stated. "Okay thanks guys." I put the walkie down and started to panic. Robin finally came back to my room with a worried face. "He was sleeping wasn't he? I knew he was tir-" "Steve-" "What? What's wrong?" "Steve, he was in a car wreck. I'm so sorry."

I stopped. No. No he wasn't. "Haha so funny Robin." I said sarcastically. She didn't laugh. "Y-you are joking right?" She shook her head slowly. I start to cry. I felt like I was going to pass out. "NO HE'S NOT!" I cried. "YOU'RE LYING TO ME! STOP LYING TO ME!" "Steve I-" she tried to hug me. I pushed her away. "GET AWAY FROM ME!"

She looked at me with tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry Steve. I walked by his room on the way here. I saw a doctor in there with him and asked what happened. He told me a drunk driver crashed into him." "W-was he awake?" "No. He was hooked up to a ventilator. I'm so sorry Steve." I grabbed my cane that I had been using to walk and stood up. "Where is he?" I softly asked.

"I can take you to his room." She walked next to me to the I.C.U and all I could think about was our last conversation. The last time he kissed me. I start to tear up again. "We're here Steve." We stopped in front of a closed door. "Do you want me to go in with you?" Robin asked, trying to be as sincere as she possibly could. "No. I can do it." Robin opened the door and shut it behind me.

I walked closer to his bed. He had a cast on one of his arms and a tube down his throat. He had sewn up scratches on his face. "E-eddie. I'm here." I sat down next to him and held the hand without the cast. "We're planning to take him off the vent tomorrow." I look up and see a doctor.

"He should wake up after. When you were first admitted, he stayed with you every minute of every day. He carried you in here when you first got attacked. He wouldn't leave your side." Tears started to roll down my cheeks. "Can he hear me?" "We think so." I look down at him. "I'm here. I'm right here Eddie. You're gonna be okay." I said weakly.

"I can discharge you so you can stay with him. I think you're ready." "Y-yes please." I looked back up at him. "Thank you." The doctor gave me a polite smile and handed me discharge papers to sign. I signed them and he handed me a bag with some clothes from the lost in found since mine from that night I got attacked were all bloody and had holes in them.

I sat back down and the door opened. It was his uncle Wayne. "How is he?" "They're going to take him off of the vent tomorrow. He can hear you if you want to talk to him." "Hey Ed. As soon as you wake up, I'm going to make lasagna! I know it's your favorite." He started to tear up. "It's gonna be okay."

He looked up at me. "How are you doing Steve?" "I'm okay. They discharged me. I'm going to stay with him tonight if that's okay." "Yeah, yeah I will be here in the morning." "Okay. Goodnight." "Night." As Wayne left the room, I talked to Eddie about what happened and I told him they discharged me. "I can't wait for you to wake up tomorrow."

I laid down in the recliner next to his bed and pulled the blanket they had handed me over my body. I reached over to Eddie and kissed his forehead. I woke up when I heard a doctor calling my name. "Steve we're going to take his vent out now." I jumped up and started to hold his hand. I watched them unhook it and pull the tube out. "It might take a few minutes for him to wake up." He assured me and Wayne.

Eddie ~
I woke up to Steve and my uncle standing over me. I was confused. "What happened?" I asked. "You got in a car wreck." Steve said sniffling. "Hurt yourself pretty good Ed. Had us all worried." My uncle Wayne said. "Oh." I was still confused. I don't remember the crash at all. After a while my uncle left and Steve got his radio out and set it on my table.

While he was reading a magazine, a song started to play. It was by iron maiden. All of the memories start to flood in. It was the song I was listening to it before that car crashed into me. "Hey Eddie are you alright? Do you want me to turn it off?" "This was the song." "What song Eddie?" "The song I was singing before the car hit me." He immediately turned it off and started to hug me. "It's okay. You're alright now Eddie."

I started to sob into his shoulder, remembering the fear I felt for the split second before the car collided into me. He started to gently run his fingers through my tangled hair. "We're going to be okay Eddie." I clinged to his shoulders even more because I hated the thought of letting go of him.

He looked at my face and wiped my tears away then, he kissed my forehead and started to hug me again. "Are you okay Eddie?" "Um... y-yeah I think so." He slowly started to let go, still holding my hand that didn't have a cast on it. I was scared to let go.

A/N: hey readers! i hope you enjoyed this chapter! thanks for reading! much love♥️ (also, no more sad chapters for right now! sorry for all of the gloomy chapters lately! and, thanks for all of the views! i hope you guys are enjoying the story!)
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