Find My Way Back [Eddie Munson x OFC]

Chapter Twenty-One

As promised, Eddie started bringing Priscilla to work. She hadn't been able to stop thinking about him, even though she was guaranteed to see him at least twice per week when he brought her to the studio. He had shown her a side of him that she hadn't seen yet--a softer side of him that she enjoyed. It was almost as if Eddie was morphing into a perfect combination of Steve's softness and Eddie's rebelliousness.

Naturally, her fellow teachers had a lot to say about him, too. The first day that Eddie pulled up in front of the big windows of the studio lobby, Priscilla could already see them whispering to each other as she dismounted the bike and handed the extra helmet off to Eddie. He had insisted on bringing her to work on his bike. He knew she secretly loved the adrenaline it gave her. It also gave him an excuse to have her close to him and for her to feel like a badass arriving each day.

"New ride?" One of the other teachers asked when Priscilla walked in the door.

"More like new boy toy." Another one chimed in, nudging the other with her elbow and giggling. "Who is he?"

Priscilla walked around to the back of the front desk and dropped her bag on the floor with a thud. "He's Robin's friend." Priscilla stated, hoping to get the two teachers, Kim and Julie, off her back.

"He's hot." Kim stated as if listing off an obvious fact.

"Seriously," Julie agreed. "And he rides motorcycles? You hit the jackpot with that one, Scill."

Priscilla shook her head, resting her elbows on the desk. "We're not together." She insisted. She folded her hands together to give them something to do so she wouldn't anxiously fidget them.

"Yet." Kim added, winking, before strutting off down the hall to Studio B room for her class.

Julie was the one of the two whom Priscilla was closer with. She knew all about Priscilla's ups and downs with Steve and how Eddie suddenly swooped in and made her question everything she had ever known. He had turned her world upside down and Julie was the one to hear all about it.

"You okay?" Julie asked, stepping behind the desk next to Priscilla and draping an arm around her shoulders. "You know how Kim is. Don't let it get to you."

Priscilla shrugged, grimacing. "But she's right. He's hot; he rides motorcycles; he's the complete opposite of Steve; and I like that about him. When I'm on the back of the bike with him, I feel like all my problems float away; nothing is weighing me down; like I'm untouchable, just him and I."

"So it sounds like you know what you have to do, then." Julie said, implying that it was time to let go of Steve.

Priscilla shook her head slightly. "I just don't know if I can do it."

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Later that week, Robin had invited both Steve and Eddie to come over after work and it was going to be the first time Priscilla would see both of them together in a while.

Robin's eyes scanned the wall of polaroids in Priscilla's room. Her gaze jumped from one picture of her and Steve to another of Steve and Eddie and then to another of the three of them. "You've really filled this wall so far, huh?" Robin asked, still looking over all the pictures posted in front of her.

"Yeah," Priscilla responded, attending to putting away some laundry she had been avoiding for a few days. "It's been fun to document the summer."

Robin continued looking at each picture but couldn't find one she clearly remembered Priscilla taking. "Where's that first one you took of Eddie back when you first got here?"