Steve Harrington, aka, King Steve was undoubtedly the most popular guy in school. All the ladies wanted him and the guys either envied him or wanted to be him. He had his closer friends, Tommy and Carol but not even his closest friends knew his secret. Steve Harrington was transgender, female to male. The only person who knew was his dad but his dad didn't pay enough attention to him to tell everyone anyways.
It was a normal Monday morning, Steve pulled up at school and headed inside. It was a normal, boring day. Though he had PE today, to hide his binding, he wore a vest and made the excuse of "I get cold easier, so extra layers". Tommy didn't question it, Tommy was followed Steve everywhere. Steve probably considered Tommy his favourite, and as much as he hated to admit it, he might have a small crush on him. But Tommy's probably homophobic so Steve pushed these feelings deep down, like everything else.
How did he push these feelings down? Nancy Wheeler, at first. But that all went downhill.
[Flashback]
At Steve's house party, Nancy and him had gone upstairs. He had given it the biggen and said about sleeping with Nancy but what no one knows is that that is more than literally impossible. Once they arrived upstairs, Nancy got changed and sat down with Steve.
"Steve... I need to tell you something but... you might hate me after it?"
"What's up Nance?"
"I'm- I don't like-"
Nancy took a few deep breaths.
"You're great Steve- and i know you want to have sex but-"
"I can't have sex Nance."
Steve was looking at the ground, clearly in distress.
"What? What do you mean?"
"I'm trans, i'm biologically a female."
Steve placed his head into his hands, clearly having a very dysphoric moment.
"I'm sorry... I just- I trust you Nance, you're the- you're the first person i've ever told-"
Nancy was silent for a minute and that made Steve's heart rate pick up, until he felt Nancy's hand on his shoulder.
"Trans or not, you're a man Steve. But... the thing is... I'm a lesbian."
Steve looked at Nancy, shocked for a second.
"You are??"
Nancy nodded.
"I wanted to tell you because- I trust you too, but, in more of a platonic way."
"Oh-"
"Yeah-"
After a few seconds of silence, the two started to laugh.
"Alright then, how about this, we say we had sex. No one finds out about your secret, no one finds out about mine. Deal?"
Nancy nodded
"Deal."
They both stayed 'dating' for a while but then staged a breakup, though, they stayed close friends.
[Back to present]
Steve grabbed his lunch, thanking the lunch lady and heading towards his usual table. When he arrived, his friends were arguing with another table.
"Hey, what's going on??"
"These freaks won't shut up"
Tommy snarled,
"You started it!! I'm sorry, are we damaging your ego?"
A brunette curly haired boy laughed.
"Oh here comes King Steve to save all his little subjects, oh i'm sorry, should i bow?"
The man with dark brown hair called out, also known as Eddie the freak Munson.
"Just leave it guys, come on. Let's just eat."
Steve sat down, ignoring anymore comments from the 'freak' table. Steve was eating and glanced over at the table, he made eye contact with Munson and he winked at Steve with a evil smirk. Steve looked away straight away.
"Steve?? You listening??"
Tommy snapped in Steve's face.
"What??"
"I said there's a new guy coming tomorrow, people are saying he's pretty tough."
Carol giggled.
"Looks like you're gonna have competition, Steve"
Steve rolled his eyes.
"Sure i will"
A new guy couldn't be that tough, Steve brushed it off. He finished his lunch and finished his lessons, he did some homework with Nancy and then headed home.
Once he got home, he started dinner. He wanted to make something simple tonight so he just made some spaghetti bolognaise, he set out two plates and served them. One covered in foil while he ate his own. Once he finished, he went into his room and started listening to some music. His music wasn't to loud but loud enough to the point he didn't hear the door open. It wasn't until he heard a plate smash that he turned off his music and ran downstairs. He rushed into the kitchen and seen his plate of spaghetti bolognaise on the floor, his dad angrily near the plate.
"Dad...? Are you okay...?"
"I fucking told you... I wanted Steak."
He was slurring his words, he was definitely drunk.
"Oh- I got home kinda late and i forgot to leave it out to defrost, I can-"
Before he could even finish, his dad had his by the collar and pushed up against the wall.
"WHEN I SAY I WANT SOMETHING, YOU GET IT. OKAY?!"
Steve was looking away from his dad, terrified.
"DO YOU HEAR ME?!"
"Yes- sir-"
His dad harshly threw him to the side, grabbed another beer from the fridge and left Steve on the floor as he headed to the living room. Steve steadied his breathing, having to do this process 50 times in the past. At least he didn't get beat today. He eventually headed upstairs and got his pjs on, taking off his binder. He got into bed and eventually drifted into sleep, not knowing what tomorrow would bring.
[909 words!! so cool!!]
