Steddie (trans eddie)

"Runaways"

8 year old Eddie: mom! Look I made a sandcastle!!! Mom: very nice *goes back to looking at her phone* 8yoE: you don't like it? Mom: no leave me alone 8yoEdd: oh ok... *takes apart sandcastle and rebuilds it* do you like it now? Mom: NO JUST LEAVE ME ALONE *kicks sandcastle* 8yoEdd: *stares at her* your mean *crosses arms* Mom: yeah whatever.

{A year later}

9 year old Eddie's POV:

Hhmmmmm I don't really feel like a girl? But I am a girl, should I tell mom? No mom is mean- "Esme!" Ew why is she calling me *walks into the kitchen* "who the hell is that?" I ask my mom who looks at me shocked "don't say such foul things around him, I don't need him turning out like you" excuse me what did you just say? "Your no longer my mother" she just rolled her eyes "anyways, meet Steve!" I look at Steve hiding behind my mom's leg and feel a little pity for him so I guess I will introduce myself "....hi.. " Steve said in a quiet voice "hello my name is Esme" "..... " well he is quite the opposite of me

9 year old Steve's POV:

I've been hanging out with Esme and she's really fun to hang out with but it seems like every time someone calls Esme a girl Esme gets upset? Maybe a little angry? Maybe I should try calling Esme a boy? Maybe he would like that better? "Hey Esme?" He looked a little disappointed in the name but answered anyway "yeah?" "Want some ice cream?" "YEAHHH ICE CREAM!!" then I went to go ask for ice cream while Esme was still sitting there playing video games "uhm can we please have ice cream?" Hopefully she says yes! "Sure" yes! *gets only one cup* "what about Esme?"  "She gets none" "why?" "Because" "why" "beca-" "why?" "Fine" haha she tried it.

       {After they got their ice cream}

I was looking at Esme's video game while eating my ice cream "you can play on it if you want" Esme said I tried to play but to be honest I suck, I died 14 times on a level and I could see Esme out of the corner of my eye and he was trying not to laugh so I just quit the game and went back to eating my ice cream.

9yoEdd:

Mom got me a dress and I just hid it so I didn't have to wear it and she called me irresponsible because I "lost" the dress I'm happy she buys me pants. Suddenly Steve comes running up to me and pulling me "We gotta go!" He said as were still running. We ran all the way to the woods and when we finally found a place to stop we sat down and caught our breath, we were in some kind of abandoned house but it still looked nice,  I wonder what he was running from. When he caught his breath he explained and while he was talking I saw that he had a black eye "what the fuck happened to you?" I asked him mid explanation "my parents, don't worry it's normal, anyway-" his parents did that to him? And it's normal for him? But why are we running? "Are you listening?" Oh I forgot he was talking "yeeeess?" "Yeah right, anyway I was saying that I ran here because your mother was coming to take you away and I tried to stop her that's how I got this *points at black eye* she was trying to take you to someone called Wayne? She said she didn't want you anymore" oh well that's comforting to hear "nothing new" I said in a bored voice. "But! I brought clothes, food, games, walkie talkies so if we get lost or caught we can still talk to each other, wipes, more clothes, water a lot of it, juice, sleeping bags, pillows" I just looked at him in shock, he had 3 bags and he fit all of that in there, wow.

                   {Later at night}

9Steve:

I hear people calling my name from a very long distance "Esme! Esme!" He still didn't wake up, I hear the voices get a little louder "Esme wake the fuck up!" I said shaking him. He finally woke up rubbing his eyes and I was already packed up, "come on I hear people calling me! Hurry up" he quickly got up and grabbed 2 bags and started sprinting with my hand in his we went farther into the woods and I took out one of the flashlights as we were walking "you didn't mention you brought flashlights" "I forgot about them" we kept on walking deeper into the woods and we found a cabin, it was small and it seemed like nobody lived there so we went in and got set up, we were pretty sure they would take a good 3 days until we had to move again, the cabin already had furniture and it was very clean it also had a refrigerator and there was ice so that's cool, I can heal my eye. Since Esme is a deep sleeper I didn't want to go all the way to the living room if we had to leave so we slept in the same bed.

I can't believe we're 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 now.