#Argyle and Jonathan were bridesmaids

[morganski-19]

The One with the Gossip

The group is hanging out at the café, all in different conversations when Jonathan comes into the bar and flops down on the couch. Camera bag sliding off his shoulders.

“When does this place start serving alcohol?” he groans.

“In about thirty minutes,” Nancy starts, “are you ok?”

Argyle trades places with Robin, sitting next Jonathan. “That bad?”

Jonathan nods, widening his eyes. “Messiest wedding I have worked months. There were so many things and they just piled on top of each other. The amount of bridesmaids and groomsmen that had previously slept together and didn’t know about it was insane.”

Steve and Eddie turn their heads at the same time. “What now,” Eddie says intrigued.

“I love messy shit I’m not apart of,” Steve mutters under his breath.

“It was crazy,” Jonathan sits up, turning toward Steve and Eddie at the side table. “And it all started for the most stupid reason. The guys apparently had a bet when to see how many of the bridesmaids they could sleep with. And the girls didn’t know about it, and a few of them fell with their ‘charms’ and were none the wiser. Until, one of the groomsmen said who won in their speech.”

“Holy shit,” Robin says with a sip of her tea.

Eddie winces. “That is such a dick move.”

“How likely was it that they were part of those fraternities that just liked to terrorize people,” Steve asks. Having almost accidently joined one of these fraternities when he was in college.

Jonathan nods with disgust. “That only scratches the surface. The best man had won, having slept with six out of the seven bridesmaids, and he was engaged to the maid of honor.”

Everyone winces with disgust.

“Not cool, dude,” Argyle says with disappointment. “So not cool. How can people do this to other people. And think that they can get away with it.”

“Because they’re inconsiderate assholes,” Steve says at the same the same time Eddie says “They’re disgusting bags of shit.” They high five each other.

Jonathan lets out a long breath. “And I’m not done yet. It gets worse.”

“Oh my god, how,” Nancy questions.

Argyle stands. “I’ll be right back, continue without me.” He walks over to the bar and starts to talk to the barista.

“He got bonus points for sleeping with the bride. And the second-place winner, was the groom.”

“Holy shit,” everyone says in unison.

Jonathan nods with wide eyes. “And the groom got a bonus point for sleeping with his future mother in law.”

They were too stunned to speak, just letting the silence fill that moment. Argyle returns with a cup of something and places it in Jonathan’s hands.

“What did I miss?” he asks, looking at them all super confused. “Are you guys broken?”

Steve shakes his head, trying to wrap his head around what was just said. “I don’t think I’ve heard that one before.”

“And this is coming from someone who has actually slept with one of his frat bro’s moms,” Robin interjects.

“On accident. And she was his stepmom, that was much younger than his dad, well after I was in college. He doesn’t know, it’s fine.”

“Did that cause another sex ban?” Eddie asks.

Steve laughs. “No, that’s when the figured out that the previous sex ban wasn’t working.”

Jonathan takes a sip of the drink Argyle gave him. “Jesus, that’s strong. Did you bribe them or something?”

“Something like that. Seriously though, what did I miss?”

“Groom slept with the future mother-in-law,” Robin fills in, Argyle winces. “What is with people?”

Jonathan shrugs. “Don’t know. But it was a big wedding that they are not getting a refund for. And I still got cake, well what was left of it.”

Eddie leans forward. “What was left of it?”

“Yeah,” Jonathan nods. “Speeches were right before cake, so the bride took the entire top layer and slammed it over the groom’s head. Followed by the maid of honor taking two giant handfuls and shoving it into the best man’s face. Arguments broke out and all that shit. I stayed back to help clean up.”

“Had they signed the marriage certificate yet?” Nancy asks.

Jonathan sighs. “No clue, don’t care. It’s over and I got paid. A lot. This was not a cheap wedding. Oh right,” Jonathan reaches down into his bag and grabs a takeout container, handing it to Argyle. “Saved you a piece of cake.”

Argyle takes it, opening it and starting to eat it. Nodding his head in appreciation.

The rest of the group looks at Jonathan. “Where’s our cake?” Robin asks, a little hurt.

“You don’t live with me, you don’t get cake.”

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Robin: Two years ago I married my best friend

Robin: Nancy’s still mad about it, but Steve and I were drunk and thought it was funny

[ellewritesandrants]

Fem!Billy gets pregnant with Steve’s baby post Starcourt and moves to California for college where the Byer-Hoppers’ already are.

There's a more detailed version of this in the works but I want to share the bare bones of it anyway.

Everything starts when Billie reunites with her mom who finds her after the Starcourt incident was reported on and she’s there for her recovery. Billie graduates valedictorian with a full ride to Caltech and UCLA. She tries to invite Steve to come with her to California but he thinks she wants to stop the friends with benefits agreement they have.

Steve’s actually been thinking of ending it since Nancy’s been making moves ever since she and Jonathan broke up. Billie thought they were actually together. She cries to her mother about shitty boys and they make the move early. Max and her mom come up right before school starts only to find out all together that Billie’s pregnant with Steve’s child.

The Byer-Hoppers’ live in the house beside Billy’s mom’s house because she became friends with Joyce when she took care of Billy during her recovery and when she found out about the neighbor selling, she immediately brought it to Joyce who was sick and tired of her boys being put in danger in Hawkins. Billie takes a gap year and she ends up giving birth to a beautiful baby girl who has Steve’s eyes but her coloring.

Strangely enough, Jonathan became really close to her since he was friends with Argyle who was her best friend. He was a big help with everything, partially due to his guilt in not preventing his little sibling’s miscarriage due to Lonnie’s abuse which was part of the straw that broke the camel’s back.

He loves babysitting little Sophia and he uses Billie as his muse for his photography classes which gets her a foot in the door as a model which she starts doing on the side to pick up a bit more money once Sophie’s out of her terrible twos.

Billie’s mom and her new step-dad are ecstatic to have Sophie there in their house because they’d given up on having children after all of the damage that her mom has been through so Sophia was really a blessing in disguise. They have absolutely no problem spoiling their daughter and their grandkid.

Cue the party having a reunion in California because Max, Will and El and graduating high school and heading to college. They decide to do it in California so that they could show the others around their favorite spots and because Hopper and Joyce were finally getting married and they were doing it on the beach in California.

Steve gets the surprise of his life when he finds out that Billie’s not only in the line up as a bridesmaid but that her daughter was going to be the flower girl. All of the Cali teens adore Sophia but Jonathan kind of acts like her dad because after so long, Jonathan and Billie became best friends and there’s a hint of something more brewing between them.

Joyce was absolutely playing matchmaker by pairing them together and getting Steve with Nancy because she didn’t know they tried again and failed again. Imagine Steve’s surprise when he sees a blonde kid with his eyes run up to Jonathan calling him Daddy and to see Billie chasing after her, looking even more beautiful.

Apparently, it was a running joke between the Cali Teens that Billy was the mom and in that case, Jonathan was the dad and Sophia got confused and thought it was real so they all just played along.

Steve spends the entire wedding prep trying to win Billie back while Jonathan tries to finally make moves on her. Her first dance that night is Jonathan followed by Steve. In the end, Sophia has two dads so she’s the one who really wins.

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(not sure if it sent, so apologies if you're getting two of these!)

okay rosy i've had a long think about this. here is my answer:

i think it would be really, really funny if el accidentally uses/gets her powers back in front of a member of the general public and the pizza party has to scramble to explain:

"will does gymnastics" (mike) "uhhh yeah he's actually really gifted, he's been doing it since he was...three" (argyle) "what?" (jonathan)

this one doubles as worst case scenario and specific hope: if joyce dies i will be so supremely upset. she's going to work so hard to get hopper back, i just know it, and she's already done so much to keep her family afloat in seasons 1 through 3. if she doesn't even get a happily ever after courthouse wedding with a little baby blue pillbox hat and a small bunch of blue hydrangeas then what's the point?? (also, in case you're wondering, she wears a blue suit that looks a bit like this except not quite as. elaborate sjkdhfjksdfs. nancy and el are her "bridesmaids" even though it's a courthouse wedding. just in case you were curious hskdfhjskfs. sorry for the essay but not sorry for my specific vision. 😌)

u always get me 🥺 really bringing the specifics and yes i was curious thank you sjdksjdkj. im acc very excited for the dynamic between argyle, jonathan, will & mike next season like i feel like they could have that hsm 'the boys are back' energy. can't explain that btw 🤣🤣