Find My Way Back [Eddie Munson x OFC]

Chapter One

Since their first day of kindergarten, Priscilla and Robin had been best friends. Robin had found a dandelion during recess and gave it to Priscilla, dubbing her as Robin's official best friend from that day forward. Robin had been one of her best and only friends she had. Priscilla couldn't imagine spending a single minute without Robin by her side. She and Robin shared everything with each other. Priscilla remembered the day Robin came out to her. She told Robin she had already known. "The closet was glass, Robin." She joked, but she was glad her best friend was able to live her truth out loud.

Robin remembered when Priscilla dated Steve for a brief amount of time during their freshman year in high school. She teased Priscilla for going after "the hair" Harrington. Steve was a year older than them in school and Robin was shocked that Steve, of all people, was open and willing to date a freshman. Priscilla couldn't believe she had actually dated Steve once upon a time. What had her freshman self been thinking? Steve had been popular in school but once he graduated, he turned into a much more humble version of himself. Around that time is when Robin grew a little closer with Steve. Working together at Scoops Ahoy one summer helped, too. Robin would fill Priscilla in every day on Steve's constantly failing love life. Robin kept a whiteboard behind the counter with two columns titled 'You Rule' and 'You Suck'. Each time Steve failed to impress a girl that came into the ice cream shop, she would write a mark under the 'You Suck' column. Unfortunately for Steve, there were more marks under the 'You Suck' column than he would have liked to see.

One day, close to the end of August of that same summer, Robin spilled to Priscilla that Steve confessed that he had feelings for Robin and she stopped Steve hard in his tracks, breaking the news to him that she only liked girls. Robin and Priscilla joked and laughed about that moment for weeks to come. Another mark under the 'You Suck' column for poor Steve.

Robin and Priscilla had been inseparable best friends up until the day Priscilla had to move away. It was their sophomore year at Hawkins High and Priscilla's dad got a new job in Pittsburgh, forcing Priscilla and her family to move over three hundred miles away. Priscilla still remembers the day she left Robin behind.

"You promise you won't forget about me, right?" Robin held Priscilla's hands in hers as she said her final goodbyes to her best friend.

"I will never forget about you." Priscilla assured. "I'll call you every night and I promise to visit every chance I get."

Priscilla kept her promise and visited whenever she could. It would usually be for a few days to a week at a time, most often during the summers. Priscilla never found a better friend than Robin. She spent the remainder of her high school years flying under the radar and just trying to get by so she could be finished with that part of her life and move on to college where she could come and go as she pleased, not have to answer to her parents' constant worrying, and visit Robin whenever she wanted. But college proved to be much more challenging and straining on her and Robin's relationship than she had expected. Priscilla found herself consumed by her coursework and more invested in her romantic relationships than she was in her friendship with Robin. Robin tried to understand that Priscilla was living in a different world than she was, but it hurt that her best friend had almost completely forgotten about her.

After Priscilla graduated from college, she promised Robin she would make it up to her. She admitted she had been a shitty friend the last couple years, being more invested in herself than in their friendship. She was determined to make this right.

"I'll come stay with you the whole summer." Priscilla offered. "That is, if you'll have me that long. I miss spending every single day with you, watching movies, going on walks in your neighborhood, teasing Steve over his failing love life. It'll be fun. You and me. This summer will be ours. Besides, I need to figure out what the hell I'm doing with my life now that I'm done with college and coming "home" seems like the best thing for me right now."