It's Not That Complicated (Steddie)

Anything would be better than this

TW: LGBTQ+ slurs, violence, slight gore

"I'm hungry." 

Steve sighed and shook his head. "Of course you are. And what a surprise, we're at my house. Again. Let me guess; pizza?" 

Robin nodded enthusiastically. "Of course! You can do that, right, Dingus? Maybe you'll find a girlfriend." She joked. Steve rolled his eyes in response and flipped her off. 

"You're just sour." Robin stuck her tongue out. 

"You wish!" Steve said as he exited the back porch and set out to go order another pizza. The bell rang as he entered, and Eddie was working again. He looked bored as ever, this time his hair in a bun. He was chewing on a nail as he stared out a window.

"Hey, Eddie, another pepperoni pizza, please." Steve came up to the counter and smiled. "See, I knew you would be coming back again." Eddie winked. Steve made a funny face at him and he laughed. "You wanna soda with that?" Eddie asked. Steve shook his head and took out a crisp twenty. "Keep the change." 

"Ooh, richy richy!" Eddie teased as he jumped over the counter with the pizza box.

"You know I can carry that, right?" Steve asked, slightly annoyed but also relieved."How can I be sure about that?" Eddie asked, genuinely. Steve was about to nod, then thought again and surrendered. "Alright, I get it, I can't carry a thing." 

"Hey, that's not what I said! Don't twist my words!" Eddie pouted. Steve found himself staring at his lips and quickly turned away.

"Anyway, your friends sure do like pizza." Eddie mentioned.

"Yeah, it's even worse when you have to interrupt their make-out session." Steve sighed. Wait, fuck, he wasn't supposed to say that-

"Damn. That's when you know it's serious." Eddie said, with an awfully convincing straight face. Steve snorted and nodded in a silent agreement. "I'm always the third wheel and it's kind of annoying sometimes." Steve complained. "I don't know how many more single jokes I can take." 

Eddie laughed loudly. "Find some people you like. Go on a walk and talk to people, I don't know. I, yes, very surprisingly, have not yet found myself somebody as well." 

"How surprising, with your wonderful charismatic personality and handsome looks." Steve said sarcastically. "Jeez, you didn't need to be that rude about it." Eddie said while miming tripping and hitting Steve with the pizza box. "Not the hair!" Steve said.

"Jesus, obviously not the hair." Eddie said. "What a nightmare." 

Steve chose to ignore that sentence and instead thought about how if he showed up with Eddie,  he would get teased about finding a "girlfriend".

"That's it!" He said aloud.

"What?" Eddie asked, confused. "What's it?"

Steve stopped in his tracks and Eddie did as well. Steve faced Eddie and said;

"Date me."

"So.. technically, you want us to "fake date" as to stop your friends from annoying you, and to stop you seemingly being the third wheel." Eddie said after Steve explained. Now they were sitting on the hard sidewalk, Steve crossing his legs and Eddie hands back, legs out. "Uh, pretty much." Steve said, no other way around it.

"Am I getting something from this?" Eddie asked. "Because if not, there's no way I'm doing this."

"It's pretty much going to be for a while, so, two hundred dollars?" Steve offered.