Stranger Things Works

Piss Off Your Parents ; Eddie Munson

"Happy birthday, princess." Looking up from my lunch, I spot Eddie Munson standing over my shoulder with a small smile, one daisy between his fingertips. The girls at my table snicker under their breath, my cheeks warming and I reach out to take it from him, our fingertips touching briefly.

I stutter a bit, looking back at the girls at my table, their eyes widening in annoyance at Eddie's presence. With a huff, I stand up from the table, wrapping my fingers around his upper arm to pull him away from my lunch table. I can feel the basketball team's eyes on me, along with the cheerleaders I just abandoned, their gazes judgmental and scrutinizing.

"Where we going?" Eddie asks with a laugh as he stumbles behind me, capturing my hand in his as he tugs me into the janitorial closet. He presses me against the door without a second to think, his eyes fluttering across my expression with a soft smile. "Did I embarrass you?" He teases, nose nudging against mine as I hold the daisy between us. "Don't want your cheer friends to see you with the local freak?"

"Stop." I shove him lightly, hating when he talks so negatively of himself. "I just can't handle their judging." I huff, hands resting against his chest as he presses a gentle kiss to my forehead. The silence is comfortable as my eyes flutter shut, my forehead leaning to rest on his chest.

"Welcome to adulthood, kid." He whispers against my hairline, lifting his hand up to cup my jaw, his lips finding mine as I smile, loving the feeling of his lips against mine. It had been a week or two since we've had a moment to be together and the last time was him sneaking into my bedroom late at night so my dad didn't find out.

It had been my best kept secret.

From my parents, my friends in cheer and the basketball team, and from anyone and everyone who knows me. I'm sure it would've rattled the world to learn that the twenty year old, repeat senior was seeing an almost eighteen year old girl. So now that I'm eighteen and have the right to whatever I want- whoever I want- I'm going to make the best of it.

"Eddie-" I whisper, pushing him away from me as he groans, his hands moving to rest on the door beside my head, caging me in.

"C'mon. Been waiting for this day for like a month now." His voice is pathetically close to a whimper, breathy and needy as his eyes search through mine. "Got you a pretty flower and everything. Just wanted to congratulate my girl on her special day." He hums, so sweet and kind as I roll my eyes playfully.

"My father would kill you if he found out about us." I whisper, wrapping my arms around his neck as his nose scrunches, shoulders shrugging and his hands dip lower on my back, resting on the curve of my ass.

"I'm not afraid of the big bad Mayor of Hawkins." He chuckles, pecking my lips lovingly as my thighs clench, loving the feeling of his body against mine, his lips lingering a bit as he whispers. "Plus, that's the fun of it. Daddy's girl with daddy issues, screwing the town bad boy. I can't think of a better way to piss off your parents." I tug on his hair playfully, watching him roll his eyes. "Let me take you out tonight. We can go back to my place after, celebrate your new found freedom of adulthood." My heart wants nothing more than to agree, to allow him to take me out and take me home, solidifying whatever our relationship or friendship has been for the last few months.

You could only have so much fun sneaking around.

"Are you asking me out on a date?" I quiz with a smirk, his cheeks flushing as he leans down to rest his forehead on my shoulder. "How chivalrous." My fingers brush through his hair as I giggle at him, loving how he goes from bad-boy with tattoos, to a big softie in the matter of minutes.

"I'll pick you up at 8." He says in a hushed voice, leaning up to capture my lips in a heated kiss, my lips instinctively parting to accommodate him.

"I'll be waiting."