A fresh start (Eddie x fem y/n reader)

The white devils shirt

"H-Hi, I'm y/n.."
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⚠️Mention of drug use, just a little, not y/n⚠️

As you introduced yourself to the class, you tried to look up and look at least a little bit confident. Like you said.. a fresh start, you have to change and be better. You don't want what happened to you, to happen again.. "yes I'm y/n! I'm quite new to this place since I just moved here.. Uhm.. yeah I'm looking forward to this year and to graduate.. hopefully." You smile at the class and just observe them.

You could see some jocks, wearing that green and white Hawkins jacket, yeah, the basketball players. There was quite a mix of people actually, and you liked it. There was a little goth group there. They did give off a little weird vibe but they couldn't be worse than the basketball guys. In the back you also saw two guys with the same shirt as Dustin. And wait.. you hadn't really realised it until now. Eddie had been wearing the same shirt. He must be a part of the group Dustin wanted you to meet. As you continued to scan the room the teacher started speaking. "Okay thank you y/n. But next time.. don't be late. You can sit down at the back there." She pointed at the desk in the back where this girl was sitting all alone.

You walked over to her, feeling the eyes of some people as you walked to the back. "Hey!" You smiled and sat down, not breaking eye contact with the girl. "Hello, I'm Ruth, it's nice to meet you!" She smiled brightly and closed the book she was reading. You did as she did and introduced yourself to her before the teacher started speaking again.

As the class started you just zoned out, looking through the window that gave a great view over the ugly parking lot. "Wanna know about some of the people in the class?" Ruth leaned in, whispering to you. You just nod and follow her finger as she points to different people in the classroom.

"We start with the basketball guys. Most of them are not that relevant, but Jason...You have to know him, he is in charge of the basketball team, a true leader. And he's an actual dream, holy shit." She just giggles and discreetly points to this girl that was sitting next to him. "That's Chrissy, his girlfriend. She's the head cheerleader, but there's a rumour going around that she's starting to act all strange and weird. The rumours says it's because of Jason.. that they have actually broken up but doesn't tell anyone because they want to be 'the perfect couple'. Behind them are the goths, they don't say much, they just talk to themselves or people within their group. So I wouldn't really try to be honest. You're not dressed right for them." She giggles yet again and nods towards another group of people. The people with the white devils shirt. "That's the nerds and geeks." You look over at her. "What did you say?" You ask, that wasn't really what you excepted. Somehow you got really defensive over the group without even knowing them. "They are the hellfire club. They play a game called dungeons and drums or some shit, not really sure what it is. So two of them are in this class. And the leader of the group is in another. His name is Eddie, but we call him the freak." You cough a bit, but really just to get her attention. "Why do people call him a freak?" You ask in a stern voice, really not understanding why. "Because the game they play is just not good, it's some satanic shit. You can even tell from their shirts. And Eddie.. he's also a metal head. It really does speak for itself, doesn't it? And he really is just a freak. He is also the schools drug dealer. Usually just deals weed, but I've heard he does other things as well. He even carries all the drugs around school in this little lunchbox."

You look down. Oh. That's what the box was for. That's why he hid it and didn't take any food out. He was a drug dealer.. fuck.

The first person you like, the first person you meet is a fucking drug dealer?! You start to tense up, it just triggers something within you. The reason why? You knew exactly why you got triggered and mad by it. It stressed the shit out of you.

You didn't want to this about the bad memories from your home, your real home. But you couldn't help yourself when you started to think about your mom. She used drugs, and tried to hide it for years. But she was horrible at it, always had to stay late for 'work'. Came home quite late, high as fuck, almost not remembering where she lived. And that one time when you decided to ask her.. she got pissed. Slammed the door in your face, leaving for days before she came back. Not ever mention it again, but everything just got worse from there.

That wasn't even it. Your ex. That fuck. He was just.. not good..

"Hey.. hey.. are you okay?" You snapped your head to the side, not realising you had zoned out completely. You awkwardly smile at Ruth and chuckle. "Yeah sorry.. sorry. I was just thinking about this Eddie guy. I think I've seen him actually."

"Are you sure? You really did zone out there." She laughs so the teacher notice, looking at you guys in a stern way. Making you both just nod, confirming that you wouldn't speak again. And you were happy that Ruth didn't get to ask even more.

As the class continued you just scribbled some horrible drawings in your notebook, because that's what you were told to do by your old school counsellor when you were having some flashbacks or bad thought. It never really worked, after seeing several different people you kinda stopped believing in help. Of course not help in general, but help through school. Their advice was always the same. Have you tried walking? Have you tried to write down your thoughts? Have you tried this and that..?! At one point you thought you had tried everything, well, not moving. So that's what you did, you moved to Hawkins. Out of all the places you could move, you moved to the little town called Hawkins.

——Little time skip——

Eventually the bell rang and you were quick to pack everything together and put it in your backpack. You almost ran out of the classroom, just wanting to get home. The plan was to go and rent a movie and eat some snacks, really just chilling. You walk to your locker that you'd gotten earlier that day, open it and put all your new books inside. Most of this stuff you didn't before walking to the woods, and meeting Eddie. Eddie.. you look down and lean towards the locker. "It's so fucking typical." You whisper to yourself before you close up the locker. Then you head outside, looking at the parking lot. "Yeah shit.. I didn't drive today." Yeah you had a car.. you just never used it because it was horrible looking, and you didn't want to drive that car the first day of school. You didn't really want people to see you with the car.. so walking it is.

As you're about to turn around you can see Eddie leaning against his car, checking his watch a lot. He was smoking a cigarette, looking down and around him at times. It definitely looked like he was waiting for someone. You were not going to lie, he looked good. And smoking definitely suited him, you already knew that he was a smoker tho. You could tell from the smell earlier.

Suddenly you see that he drops his cigarette, stepping on it and twisting his foot, he looks up, following someone with his eyes. You follow his look. Who the hell is he looking at? Oh.. it's Chrissy, she's walking into the woods. You look back at Eddie, but he was gone. Did he follow her? What the hell were they doing together? Chrissy the head cheerleader with Eddie the freak Munson? That didn't make sense. Unless she was buying drugs tho.. that would make sense. You didn't know too much about any of them, but Chrissy didn't seem like a drug user, drug addict or whatever you wanted to call it. You had seen plenty of them.. so you knew one when you saw one. She didn't seem like it, but you never know. People can surprise you. Maybe that's why you were told that she had been acting weird lately? You shake your head out of your thoughts. "It's not my business.. it really isn't..."

But you couldn't help yourself, you were curious about it...