Euphoria // Grunge One-Shots

Truth or Dare - Eddie Vedder

It's been a while since I've properly hung out with the guys, so I'm looking forward to tonight. I haven't seen Eddie for a week either and I really wanna see him again.

Eddie caught my eye about three months ago and the only ones who know are Jeff, who also happens to be my brother, and Mike. I never dared to tell Eddie or ask him out, but I want to change that and try and hang out with him sometime, just the two of us, to see if he's got the slightest interest in me.

As soon as I get home after work, I take a quick shower and get ready for the evening. I eat some left over pizza before getting dressed. I chose to wear my black 'The Beatles' shirt, some ripped denim jeans and, of course, my good ol' doc Martens.

When I'm finally finished it's 7:20 PM, so I decide to head over to Jeff's place, which is where we decided to hang out tonight. I make it there in only ten minutes and let myself in without knocking; the guys are used to it by now.

"Look who finally decided to show up!" Stone yells as soon as I show myself in the living room. I nudge his arm before giving him a warm hug, "I had work to do, you know."

"I know, dear, I'm just messing with you." he chuckles and Jeff immediately glares at him at the phrase 'messing with you', though everyone knows Stone means absolutely nothing with it.

One could say Jeff is a bit overprotective. Only a bit.

I greet the rest as well as I did with Stone, but I can't help to hug Eddie a bit tighter than the rest of the boys. But of course, he doesn't notice the difference,'cause he didn't feel the other hugs.

We're just talking about all and nothing and drinking some beers together, until Dave comes up with the idea to play 'Truth or Dare'. I sigh, I've never been a huge fan of the game, but agree nonetheless, since they're all too enthusiastic about it.

Luckily, Esmé and Debrah made it to Jeff's place as well, backing me up with some female power.

Esmé makes sure she's close to Jeff and Debrah is all over Mike as soon as she's greeted all of us. We all chuckle at the two, they're always so touchy and mushy and it used to gross us all out, but we've gotten used to it by now.

"Alright, I'll start!" I Eddie shouts after he hands everyone a drink and we're all in a somewhat comfortable position in the living room; some on the couch, some on the floor.

I was on the floor, next to Dave, opposite from Eddie and Stone. On the two sofa's were the two happy couples: Mike and Debrah and on the opposite one Jeff and Esmé.

"Dave, Truth or Dare!" Eddie says as he looks at Dave with a grin.

Dave rolls his eyes and grunts, "Dare." he finally states.

"I dare you to down your beer all at once." he smirks, knowing Dave can't handle the alcohol as well as the rest of us. Since he's had a couple already, he'll probably feel it soon.

Dave glares at Eddie, but does the dare anyways. A couple of seconds later, the empty glass is put on the table and Dave shakes his head with eyes closed.

Everyone laughs and I briefly make eye contact with Eddie. God, that smile of his. I quickly look away, though. I don't want things to get suspicious.

The game goes on and on as well as the incoming beers. We're all tipsy at this point, Dave already drunk and Debrah on the edge of falling asleep right there and then.

It is now Mike's turn to play and he chooses me, "Truth to Dare, (Y/N)?"

I laugh a bit as I take another sip of my beer, "Dare."

"Alright," he laughs. Mike sure is drunk as well, "I dare you to give ol' mister Vedder a big smooch after opening up about your feelings."

Mike keeps on laughing, together with Debrah, everyone else is dead silent. Especially me.

There were dares about Jeff snogging Esmé or Mike and Debrah, but they are both a couple and there's nothing going on between Eddie and me (unfortunately) , as far as I'm concerned.

Anger and the feeling of betrayal take me over and I feel some tears starting to role down my face, so I get up and leave the house to sit on the front porch.

Jeff shots Mike a look, "That was an asshole move, Mike." he says harshly.

Eddie, still completely oblivious to the reason I reacted the way I did, has probably the most confused look on his face possible.

Jeff comes to sit next to me and puts his arm around my shoulder, "Don't cry, (Y/N). Mike is just being a dick and the alcohol isn't helping his behaviour either."

I sniff, "I told you guys that out of trust. How can he just say something like that to play with my feelings?"

"I don't know, but he's an ass. Just try and relax a bit." Jeff soothed me while rubbing my back with his hand.

-Meanwhile-

"May I ask what that was about?" Eddie quietly asks Stone, who doesn't have a clue either. But Mike heard the question as well, so answered instead.

"(Y/N) has the hots for you, man. How do you not know? She always looks at you with hearteyes, it's so obvious." Mike goes on with the laughter, though Eddie and Stone finally understand why I acted the way I did and Eddie got up immediately.

"What's wrong with you, Mike? If she told you, I assume she wanted you to keep it a secret. Have some respect for her, dude!" Eddie shouted at Mike and stormed outside, making his way over to me and Jeff.

-Outside again-

Jeff and I heard someone coming outside, so we turn around just to see one of the two people I really didn't want to see right now: Eddie.

Jeff gives both Eddie and me an apologetic smile, but stands up to leave me alone with Eddie. "I'll be inside, making sure everyone goes home, alright?"

I nod and turn my head away from him and Eddie again.

Eddie doesn't really know how to start this conversation, so he just takes a seat next to me and looks down at his hands.

"Mike is a dick, did Jeff already tell you that?" Eddie says and it makes me laugh slightly, though I still feel insanely embarrassed.

"I'm sorry I had to find out like this that you have some kind of feelings for me, (Y/N). I really am. I wished you could've just told me yourself if you were ever gonna tell me."

I don't really know how he means this, but I am done with hiding it, since the truth is out now already. So I am just gonna be honest with him.

"I was gonna tell you actually. I wanted to ask you to hang out with me and maybe ever go out with me, just to know what you think about me, but I guess I don't have to do that anymore. I'm sorry."

Eddie scoots a bit closer and puts his hand over mine, which makes me look up to him.

"Then I'll ask it. Let me ask you out. I want to ask you out." he says and catches me off guard.

He chuckles at my confusion, "I've known you for a short while now, (Y/N). Let me take you out to get to know you better. I can't say I've got the same feelings for you that you've got for me, I've honestly never thought about you, about us, that way, but I'd like to find out if there's something more in this. So let me take you out. I'm sure we'll both have a great time."

I am 100% sure that Eddie is the perfect guy.

"How about I take you out tomorrow? I'll pick you up at 6, how does that sound?"

It takes a while for me to process everything, "Yes, that- that sounds wonderful." I say, still a bit shocked.

He laughs, "Alright. Let's get inside again, it's freezing out here." he says and stands up.

Eddie holds out his hand for me to help me up, which I take gracefully and when I'm stood next to him, he softly kisses my cheek. "Don't let that idiot called McCready ruin this night." he whispers before we go inside again.