I Was Made For Lovin' You (A Steddie Fic)

I Was Made For Lovin' You

November 1987
The year after the Vecna's downfall

Trigger Warnings: emotionally absent and neglectful parents, past trauma regarding love

Content warnings: smut (*** indicate the beginning of the smut and end), alcohol, smoking

Steve wasn't sure how long they drove for. Since he wasn't allowed to know where they were going, that meant he also wasn't allowed to drive so he fell asleep.

His nap was nice and absolutely dreamless, just a hour of pure nothing.

Eddie called him a passenger princess once he woke up, which he pretended to be affected by but secretly enjoyed.

"I'm a king you ass hole."

"Does that make me a queen?" Eddie turned to look at Steve, just for a second before he returned his eyes to the road.

"Maybe."

Eddie smirked and Steve blushed. They had been dating for a while, but Steve still felt the same sense of wonder they did when they first started, the happiness of being with someone who honestly liked him back.

Steve knew he was the reasons his last relationships failed, he was either not ready for commitment or he just messed it up. With Nancy he screwed up at the very beginning and it only got worst from there, he thought he had done better, he had thought he had become a man she would enjoy and love being with.

But he hadn't been. It had all been bullshit.

Steve looked at Eddie and his chest aches with something strong and intense, he knew the name of the emotion but he didn't let himself acknowledge it.

He knew what he had with Eddie was better, more intense than any other relationship he had. Steve had survived Nancy wheeler breaking his heart, but he wouldn't survive Eddie.

A small part of Steve was terrified Eddie would break him, but the biggest part of him thought about Halloween night when Eddie told him he was stuck with him. Steve was holding Eddie to that.

"Are we close? My ass is killing me." He pouted.

"Oh?" Eddie smiled, blindly reaching for his hand. Steve started playing with his rings immediately. "About twenty more minutes big boy."

"Where are we going?"

"Still not telling you. You'll see in twenty minutes."

Steve rolled his eyes but he couldn't fight the smile plastered on his face. He couldn't remember the last time he left Hawkins that wasn't to go to some hell dimension.  And while his boyfriend was being vague on the details, he could tell Eddie was really excited so that just added to his own excitement.

Eddie turned the radio up when a familiar band started planting, Steve couldn't think of the name but he remembered hearing it before and enjoying it a lot.

He found himself mouthing along to the words and Eddie was full out singing it. Steve wished he had a camera, it would've been a great picture.

When the song finished up Steve asked "what band was that? I've heard them before right?"

"You have, it was Kiss." Eddie smirked.