Stonathan ❤️

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NOT MINE!!

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Steve Harrington was in love with Jonathan Byers, this was just a simple fact of life. No need to cite any sources, everyone knew about it.

Why you may ask? Because Steve's whole purpose in life was to make sure everyone knew.

Every time Steve passed Jonathan in the hallway he would make some remark about how wonderful the boy looked. Every time someone even mentioned the name Jonathan, Steve would barge into the conversation and make it more than clear his feelings for the boy. Steve made sure everyone in that school, the whole town even, knew that Jonathan Byers was a delicacy and he should be treated and seen as so.

Now Steve had deduced a long time ago that Jonathan was never going to reciprocate these feelings (it was quite an easy deduction, after Steve's many, many flirtatious acts, Jonathan had still never even acknowledged the boy), but he still had to make sure everyone knew how amazing Jonathan was. Eventually some lucky girl or guy was going to get the honor of calling Jonathan theirs, and so it only made sense to Steve that everyone knew how lucky that person would be. Steve decided that instead of being jealous of whomever that person ended up being, he was instead going to be happy because it meant Jonathan was happy.

What Steve didn't know? Jonathan was hopelessly in love with him as well.

Every time Steve shouted something in the hall, all Jonathan wanted to do was shout back at him, to admit his feelings to the boy before him, but he just couldn't. He'd get so flustered in those moments that he could never find the words to say, his mouth would refuse to work. Even though Jonathan had been living with Steves flirtatious acts for over a year, every time Steve spoke to him he'd be caught off guard and lose all ability to speak.

That's how amazing Steve was to Jonathan, he quite literally took his breath away. He took away Jonathan's ability to function. But Jonathan was determined. He was going to tell Steve exactly how he felt, and he was going to render the boy speechless in the process.

That would show him.

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As Steve Harrington entered the school, Jonathan Byers stood at his locker staring as Steve walked elegantly down the hallway like always. Each step brought the boy closer and closer to Jonathan, getting closer and closer to sealing their fate.

As Steve approached Jonathan, planning what his compliment of the day would be, Jonathan went over his already planned speech in his head. It would go something like this:

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"Hey Byers, looking handsome as usual."

"And you Steve Harrington are looking absolutely stunning. Of course you always look this way, but today I have decided to point it out."

By now the people walking past will have stopped, and will be listening to the greatest love confession ever.

"I've wanted to tell you how amazing you are since the first day you decided to tell me how great I was, I just could never find the right words. You literally took the words right out of my mouth Steve Harrington. Everything you ever said, I felt the same way. I wanted nothing more than to grab you and lay my lips on yours. But you see, every time I saw you my brain would just shut down. The only thing it could focus on was your complete and utter beauty. But today I've told my brain that we need to work together for once, which is why I'd like to say something. I'm in love with you Steve Harrington."

And of course at this point the whole hallway would be silent, everyone listening in on something they never thought would actually happen.

And then Jonathan would grab Steve by the arms and crash their lips together. All of their wildest dreams would finally come true.

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As Steve finally reached Jonathan's locker he opened his mouth, prepared to say whatever his flirt of the day would be when Jonathan's brain decided to short circuit.

"YEAH, YOU ARE." Jonathan shouted, abruptly shutting his locker and running away.

At least one part of Jonathan's plan had worked out, Steve Harrington was definitely speechless.

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As the end of the school day neared, Steve set out on a mission. He was going to kiss Jonathan Byers.

Steve rounded the corner of the hallway and laid his eyes upon a beautiful Jonathan Byers standing at his locker, the exact same spot he had been this morning when he shouted at Steve. Steve had absolutely no idea what that was about, but he had a small hope it was Jonathan trying to admit his feelings for Steve. Steve of course knew this was probably not what had happened, but hey it was worth a shot right? I mean there's only one way Steve will ever find out if Jonathan truly does have feelings for him.

So as Steve stopped at Jonathan's locker he started to think up some long speech confessing his feelings for Jonathan when the most surprising thing that Steve could have ever imagined happened.

Jonathan kissed Steve.

As the two boys broke apart they both had the biggest smiles on their faces, both utterly speechless. That was something they must have been really good at, leaving each other speechless.

As everyone in the hallway stopped and stared at what had just happened, there were soft mumblings throughout the crowd.

"Finally." One said

"I didn't think they'd ever man up and do it." Another said.

But as these voices filled the hallway, Jonathan and Steve were still lost in their own little world. The two boys looked into each others eyes and it was as if everything made sense in that moment.

"I've always wanted to do that." Steve exasperated.

"Me too."