Before They Start Dating Steve Already Calls Eddie Short Stuff (the Same Way Eddie Calls Him Big Boy)

before they start dating steve already calls eddie short stuff (the same way eddie calls him big boy) but one time he slips up and calls him hot stuff instead. eddie won’t let him live it down until their wedding day

NANCY WHEELER in STRANGER THINGS

Steve opens his eyes slowly, the harsh light streaming through the blinds he forgot to close, hits him directly in the eye. He winces. He stretches. He notices that there’s a warmth tucked against his back. He freezes.

It wasn’t a dream, that he’d confessed to Eddie and Eddie has received it in kind.

It wasn’t a dream, that they tumbled together into Steve’s bed after midnight giggling and shoving until they got comfortable.

It wasn’t a dream.

Eddie shifts in his sleep, attempting to hide from the light as he buries his nose into Steve’s back. His hair is splayed out around him, his eyes squeezed shut and his hand balled into a fist in Steve’s shirt.

For the first time, in a very long time. Steve feels a warmth spread across his chest from his heart. A mixture of contentedness and relief. Relief because he was needed by someone, relief because he didn’t lose one of his best friends, relief because he was here.

He shut his eyes again, rolling over to face Eddie and pressing a kiss to his forehead, feeling the lines smooth out over Eddie’s face as he did so. He buried his face in his hair and let out the breath he didn’t realize he was holding, as he slowly drifted back to sleep.

Steve would go through the Upside Down hundreds of times, if it meant he could have this moment again and again and again. In the quiet, golden light of the early morning, Steve finally felt like he belonged.

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Once Eddie is over his “first time in the Upside Down” freak out, he tries to lighten the mood by, as always, being ridiculous. Which means that he does a breathy Dorothy Gale impression: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Hawkins anymore.” Steve has a silent laughing fit for several minutes.

Steve wishes someone would’ve told him beforehand that dating Eddie meant cheesy pick up lines that he would deliver questionably well and he will always blush at how smooth Eddie. He even pulled the yawning then wrapping his arm around Steve trick which turned the entire night into a make out session. Steve had to up his game with his flirting, he tried to match Eddie’s energy and occasionally he would get a nice blush to form over Eddie’s cheeks making him turn away from Steve. Both of them always try to out flirt the other only to realize that they can barely look at each other in the eyes