Hawkins... A new town for y/n. You needed to get away from everything, and here, in Hawkins, you will have a fresh start. New people will come into your life, and you want to be the best version of yourself. The best part of it all? No one knows you...
You look at him and smile. Who could it be? This.. guy..
⚠️A little anxiety⚠️ ———
*TIME SKIP*
After Dustin had showed you pretty much every single corner of the school, you yet again didn't know where to go. And you wasn't going to lie to yourself, you didn't want to be there much longer, there was so many people all over the place and the stressed the shit out of you. You were already so exhausted after running after Dustin around campus, hearing so many people talk loudly, laughing and shouting. Right now, all you wanted was just to home home to your little house. There.. it was quiet, very quiet. No sounds really. It was so quiet that you could hear the silence, if there was one single noise, you could hear it. You wanted that, just for a little while.
After you had left Dustin, you decided to find someplace quiet, just for a little while. You walked around school, thinking of all the places where it could be slightly quiet. You realised that campus could never be quiet, but perhaps the woods right next to the school? There wasn't anything there, and if there was, you could just leave right?
You decided to walk towards the woods, crossing the field that the jocks used for their boring stuff. You couldn't help but to start thinking about if this was the right choice for you. After just one day at school, you panicked. You felt very much alone and needed space already, needed to get away. How was this going to work? You started walking faster into the woods, heartbeat started to raise, breathing faster and heavier. This had to be the right choice! You left everything back there, in your former home. You couldn't stay there after what happened, this place had to be better, right? It just had to be. Nothing could be as bad as that place. People couldn't be that bad here... please.. they simply can't.
You suddenly notice that you're standing by a bench in the woods, it looked like a nice spot. But the noise in your head was just too loud so you couldn't really focus on the actual silence around.. or the person walking up from behind you.
You turn around to get a look at the forest around you, taking it all in. But as you turn around you didn't except what you see, there's a guy standing in front of you, making you jump and let out a quiet scream as you back up a little.
"Woah. Woah. Hey hey hey...Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." He looks at you, looking you up at down, he was quick to tell that something was wrong. "You okay?" He asked, somehow looking like he was genuinely concerned about you, even though you haven't seen this guy before.
"Fuck, you scared the shit out of me! Why would you sneak up on someone like that?" You ask him in a annoyed voice, even though you weren't really mad at the guy, he really just scared the shit out of you. He just giggles at your response and sits down on the bench, putting him lunch box on the table. "I didn't really sneak up on you. This is also my spot, I always come here. Didn't expect to see someone here." He says with a smile and lean forward on the table, placing his elbows on it and resting his head in his hands. "Sit down."
You looked around, not really knowing what to do. You came here for silence, but you got a boy who scared the shit out of you instead. "There's nothing to worry about, okay? No one ever comes out here. We are safe, I promise." He says in the sweetest and most calming voice, making you turn back to him and smile slightly. You sit down across for him and smile very weakly.
"I'm Edward, or Eddie, everyone calls me Eddie.. of the freak, which you have probably heard." He giggles a little bit, but you could tell that he wasn't happy about that nickname, you tilt your head to the side, quite interested in this man already. There was just something about him. "No.. Eddie, I haven't heard that. I'm new here so I haven't heard about a freak, Eddie or Edward.. yet" you laugh at him and he does the same, looking down a his lap and then up again. "Okay.. new kid. What's your name then?"
"First of all, I'm not a kid. And my name is y/n." You say as you take your backpack off you back and place it on the bench, pulling out your lunch. "Sorry for taking your spot, I just.. I-I needed some peace and quiet. Hope you don't mind.." you look down, scared that he wants you to leave so he could be alone. You would understand it tho, but he seemed so nice and chill. He seemed like someone who understood that you just wanted some space.
"Oh. Not at all. I go here all the time when I need some space, it's a really nice spot." He looks around and then down at his lunchbox, hiding it slightly, which is something you notice, but not something you were going to acknowledge. Maybe he just didn't like eating in front of people?
You could hear a noise from behind you, making you turn around quickly to have a look. You let out a deep sigh when you saw that there was nothing. The sigh was both a sigh of relief and disappointment in yourself, being this anxious for no reason at all. As you turn around you meet Eddies eyes, they were stuck, looking at you with a worried look. You just laugh it off like you always do, like you have always done. "Do you ever feel like you're loosing your mind?" You ask with a laugh, because that's what you did, humour and sarcasm was how you coped with stuff. But somehow you could tell that Eddie understood that you actually meant it, but he just went along with it. "Uhhh you know... just on a daily basis." He chuckles. "I mean I feel like I'm losing my mind right now sitting in front of this random pretty girl on my spot in the woods." He laughs a bit more, and you do the same. But you are quick to look down, simply because he called you pretty. You were always weak when it came to people saying that you were pretty, beautiful and stuff like that. And nicknames? Goood they made you blush. Fucking everything made you blush.
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And of course he notices this and has to do something about it. "What it is pretty one?" You roll your eyes, luckily without him noticing, fiddling with your lunchbox. As you look up at him, you could see a smirk across the boys face.
