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š”ˆš””š””š”¦š”¢ š”š”²š”«š”°š”¬š”« ([personal profile] satanicpanics) wrote in [community profile] abraxaslogs 2024-09-24 04:47 am (UTC)

You’d be shocked, but there’s not a whole lot of partying going on at the dive-iest of the dive bars, Steve.

[ Those places were usually more sad than anything, but a venue was a venue and Eddie is quick to leave the argument there, turning his focus toward racking his brain for ideas instead. When he turn back to share them, he’s aware they aren’t his most creative, but he feels like he’s offered a variety of options, and—

Shit. Shit, shit, shit—

Before, it could have been written off as a fluke, but now Steve crowds into his space and it seems very purposeful. Eddie would know. Invading peoples’ space is his thing, and more often than not, it’s just to be strange and off-putting. But this isn’t strange or off-putting. It’s…kind of charming and it all shakes Eddie to his very core.

Ironically, outside of the feeling of fear, it really does take a lot to properly rattle Eddie. He was never thrown off by the disinterested, lukewarm crowds he performed to back in Hawkins. Not one of the daily insults or judgmental looks ever made him stumble. But now—he feels really rattled now. Not enough to run, but enough to make his eyes widen and his head swim, and—shit, there it is again. The way his heart skips a beat and then leaps right into his throat, so quickly and with such force that he’s afraid it’s going to leap out of his chest and onto the dingy Family Video carpet.

It’s a bizarre feeling, and one seems to be growing more and more acquainted with. He’s kind of afraid to put a name to it, but he finds himself thinking that, yeah, maybe Clarisse kind of did kind of have a point...and, shit, he absolutely doesn’t know what to do with that.

You trust me, right? Luckily, that snaps him out of it--sort of. He’s still very aware of Steve’s hand on his wrist, but he manages to blinks back to some semblance of reality.
]

Uh—Honestly?

[ Only with all that remains of my young life, dude is what he would like to say. But god, that seems like too much. Entirely too much, so Eddie reels it all in and does what he usually does. He puts on a show of pretending like he needs to think about it, like he’s weighing every possible option—and in the end, he just grins like he can’t carry his own joke all the way through to the punchline. ]

I’m almost offended you even need to ask. But, uh…obviously.

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