Your parents decide to relocate after an incident the summer before your freshmen year of high school, one that leaves you irrevocably changed.
But after three years away, you decide to stop running from your demons and return to Hawkins High for y...
You were more nervous than you wanted to admit as you looked at yourself your prom dress. You guessed you just weren't sure if Eddie really wanted to go. He had agreed to, but you knew school events, other than D&D, weren't exactly his favorite.
You hoped being with you was enough to make it fun. Being with your friends. And how you looked in your dress. You picked one you knew would drive him particularly crazy: a red one.
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You were just finishing clasping your necklace and adjusting it to lay just right between your breasts when you heard the knock at the door.
You hear your dad open and Eddie's voice make its way up the stairs.
"Hello, sir," you hear Eddie say, as you hear the sound of your dad pat Eddie's back.
"Well now, there's a gentleman," he said to Eddie. Your dad had warmed up to Eddie a lot since the bedroom confrontation after the winter formal. "I'll go get her." He turns to walk up the stairs and Eddie's eyes follow him up so that they both see you waiting at the top of the stairs.
"Holy shhhhhh..." Eddie begins to say before quickly remembering your dad was right in front of him, choosing to turn the explicative into what he hoped sounded like an exhalation of appreciation for your beauty, which, it was.
You see your dad give a quick and amused side eye back toward Eddie before his smile widens at the sight of his little girl, all grown up and finally seeming to stand on her own two feet for the first time in years.
"You look wonderful, peanut," he says, a term of endearment he hasn't used in about just as long.
"Ohhhh, did I miss the big reveal?" you hear your mom squeak, heels quickly tapping down the hallway to the staircase, Polaroid camera in hand.
You feel your cheeks get hot and you put your hands to them. You find it hard to look at Eddie's adoring smile.
You're then surprised to see Garrett walk through your door as well. Tossing his car keys up and down in his hand.
"Garret?" you laugh.
"What? You didn't think I was going stag, did you?" Stacy says, suddenly passing you on the stairs to meet her date.
"Wait...you two know each other?" you say, shaking your head, not quite sure how you missed this. Stacy was THE prom committee and you were her best friend.
"I didn't want to tell you because I didn't want to hear the inevitable speech about not hurting him. We've gotten to get to know each other, oddly enough, through the drama between you and Eddie. I really like him. And I didn't really want to jinx that until now...." she turns to you, halfway down the stairs and bites her lip.
You can't even be mad. As much as you've been there for each other for years as friend, the complications of this year had you both keeping things from one another...and quite frankly, you're dealing with worse than your best friend keeping her crush a secret.
