A Kindling Flame (A Steve Harrington and Eddie Munson Love Story)

A Curse in Disguise

"You like me."

We stood there after the kiss, neither of us moving. I refused to move from this place until he said it. I kept the kiss short, but not to worry, we both definitely got what we wanted. 

He leaned his head forward to kiss me again and I pulled my own back, a smirk growing on my face. "Tell me Munson." Eddie huffed and rolled his eyes looking anywhere but at me. My hands moved over his hips and I rubbed them gently with my hands until his eyes met mine again. "Come on, Eds." 

I listened as a shuddered breath left his nose,  his eyes moving back away from mine. "I'm not sure what you mean, Harrington." 

This stubborn ass kid. 

I want to kiss him again. 

"Yeah, fine. Okay." I raised my hands up in surrender and backed away from him until the back of my legs hit the table and I sat down. I looked away from him to fish another cigarette out of my pocket and lit it, raising my eyebrows at him when he just stood there in silence starting at me. 

"Princess I-'

I laid down on the table as he started talking and stared up at the sky. I think it might rain tonight, the storm clouds are starting to come in. Eddie groaned and I could almost hear his eyes roll across from me. "Steve come on, you can't be serious." 

Except, I was. And this was starting to hurt a little bit more as the time ran on. 

"Fine! Yes, I like you! Jesus H. Christ, Harrington. How is it that nothing else can get you off my back but this?"

Okay, rude. 

I lifted my head up and flipped him off, blowing out some smoke in his direction. 

"Harrington. Come on, I told you I liked you, you can't keep pouting." I heard him walk towards me and next thing I know he's standing above me with raised eyebrows as he plucks the cigarette out of my mouth. 

"You could've sounded happier about it, not like it fucking killed you." I tried grabbing it back from him and he just brought it farther away, taking a pull while I rolled my eyes and looked away. "Princess, look. I don't like people. I get with people on an occasion and I definitely don't spend as much fucking time with them as I do with you. So I apologize if I'm a little out of sorts, your majesty." 

I couldn't really find anything else to say. He doesn't like people? I guess it would be hard, especially if he liked a guy from around here. Most of them are assholes. But there's still the girls, and some of them are alright. 

I let out a slow breath and sat up, turning my body to face his and dangle my legs off the side. I placed my hands back on his hips and he took in a sharp breath, staying tense as I laid my forehead on his chest. 

He stood there solid as a rock and it almost made me laugh, so I moved my hands up from his hips around his waist and slowly up his back, pulling him gently towards me. His muscles moved under my hands and he let out a breath before finally letting go and slowly laying a hand in my hair. "It's okay, Princess."

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We eventually had to go class, and I told him I'd try my best to not bother him the rest of the day, which he rolled his eyes at. Asshole. 

I feel like everything just got scarier.

Don't get me wrong, a part of me is fucking running around the court like I just made the winning shot. But it feels weird. We're not dating, but we like each other, but we can't exactly date out in the open. If he even wants to date. Oh god.

"Harrington! Come on dude, what is going on!" Tommy slapped me on the back of the head and we stopped in the middle of the hallway. Where are we going again? I scowled at him and rubbed the back of my head, "what the hell man?" 

"Dude I've been talking to a brick wall for a solid five minutes."

I sighed and rubbed my hands over my face. "Sorry Tommy. Just spacing out." A little bit of worry ran through his eyes and I gave him a tired smile. "This have to do with your girl? She still mad at your or whatever?" My girl. A small laugh left my lips and I looked at him, "no actually, everything is pretty much fine. Just feels weird I guess." Tommy nodded his head and put his hand on my shoulder. "I guess that makes sense."

My eyebrows drew in, "what?"

He shrugged his shoulders and moved his hand off of me as we walked into class. "Well, if you guys are constantly on and off and there's always something wrong, I guess it would feel weird for everything to be right for once."

Holy shit. 

Since when did he get smarter than me?

I sat through our last class in silence spaced out the entire time. I can't belie-

I'm honestly just flabbergasted at the moment.

I opened my locker and a little piece of paper caught my eye. 'Meet me at skull rock tonight at 9, if you can'. A little black heart in the corner told me who it was and for one of the first times in a few hours I let off a genuine smile. I turned towards Eddie's locker and gave him a little nod as I stuck up the note in his view. Eddie bit the inside of his cheek to hide a smile and gave me a nod back before taking out a book and closing his locker. 

I stuffed the little note into my front pocket and hid my face in my locker for a few seconds so the red in my face would hopefully go down. But before I could get that lucky, a hand brushed against my back and someones breath hit my ear. 

"I'll see you later princess."

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