MONEY, MONEY, MONEY || EDDIE MUNSON

|| #15: maybe it was real ||

To put it simply, Kathy felt like shit. She was a mess of tissues and smeared mascara. When El got home from Hellfire, she woke Kathy up, ready to ask why she never showed, but Kathy cussed her out.

Kathy would've felt bad if she wasn't a lying bitch, the look on Eleven's mortified face was enough to make her feel a base level of guilt.

Being as she was already awake, she decided to call Willow. She was furious. Who wouldn't be? Kathy could feel her rage over the phone, imagining the vein popping from her forehead, it made Kathy shiver.

"Why can nobody treat my girl right? You're perfect, Kath! Guys are so dumb." Willow complained over the phone.
"Speaking of... romantic partners? How's things with Robin?" Kathy asked sheepishly, she needed to take her mind off of Eddie right now.

"Oh- um. Great actually! We talked it out, and we're cool. She said she's gonna talk to Steve, but that's a whole adventure in and with itself." Willie giggled.

"Great! I'm so happy for you, Low!" Kathy tried to congratulate as convincingly as possible, but if she was being honest, she was jealous.

Suddenly, her father burst through her door. "Kathleen Hopper! What did you to your si- what happened?" Kathy hung up immediately, not even saying goodbye to her friend.

"Um- it's complicated." The wound was still so fresh, she didn't know how to approach the topic without sobbing.
"I got all night kiddo, you can tell me." Kathy highly doubted that. He'd kill Eddie. Even if he was a liar, she didn't want her dad to go to jail.

Still, she begrudgingly told part of the story. "Just stupid boys, you know?" Kathy admitted, her eyes anywhere but her fathers. He sighed, obviously trying to quench his anger.

He came and sat on her bed, doing the whole 'dad hands on knees' thing while letting out a longer sigh. "Look, Kathy. Boys are stupid sometimes. I should know, you know? You cant give up on em', because they'll learn eventually not to be assholes."

"But he lied. I thought he actually liked me, it felt so real. I know it's stupid but- it felt like he was genuine, that he wanted to know how my day was, or what I was wearing to school or whatever. He was so good to me, until he wasn't."

Kathy was tearing up at this point. Too many times she'd been lied too. Too many times she'd been played like a fucking fiddle.

"Maybe it was real."

"What?"

"Boys are bad at pretty much everything. Lying, they have more experience with. But, hiding feelings like love? I don't know, kiddo. Did he look at you like Tommy looked at you?"

Kathy paused, Tommy usually never gave her a second glance. Sure he thought she was pretty, but he didn't value her. When Eddie looked at her, god, it was like everything else in the world was gone and it was just him and her and his beautiful brown eyes.

Her dad could see her was getting through to her, and waved her off. "Goodnight, kiddo." And with that, he left.

Kathy was sat in contemplation for a while. She was still stuck in her stupid school clothes, and jeans aren't the most comfortable thing to sleep in.

She stripped herself of the denim, and the woolly jumper was too itchy to get a good rest in. Her eyes landed on the grey t-shirt Eddie had leant her a few weeks prior. She sighed and shook her head before redressing herself in his shirt.

She felt so pathetic, but everyone's breakup story is pathetic at some point, so she might as well just get it over with now. Content in her- Eddie's shirt and underwear, she slid back under the covers and fell asleep.

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a/n I'm sorry these chapters are so short but their easier to pump out quicker 😭 love you thx for reading ❤️❤️❤️