#I have NONE

[piratefishmama]

Fake it Till you Make It | Part 13

“Buckley residence”

“Melissa, my second favourite Buckley! Hi, it’s Steve, is Robin there?”

“Oh Steve! Yes, yes one moment, I’ll just—weren’t you on holiday with your parents aaaand—?” he’d been calling Eddie his ‘partner’ for the week leading up to the big holiday. Never dropping any names, but given he’d found a sort of second home at the Buckleys… they were relentless in finding out who he was dating.

Since it’d never be Robin.

He wasn’t falling for it, no matter how deep they’d been into flower power back in the day. If he came out, Robin would end up coming out in solidarity and he knew she wasn’t ready yet so—“Yep, calling from Chicago airport, bit of a time sensitive call” he wasn’t giving it up.

“Oop, I’ll grab her—” there was a scuffle on the line then a quick “ROBIN, STEVE’S ON THE PHONE” another quick scuffle later and suddenly

“Aren’t you supposed to be on a plane right now, Dingus?”

“I’m in Chicago! Just checkin in on my baaaaaby, how’s my little bun today? Any morning sickness yet?”

“Robin!!”

“Mom get off the phone!!”

“Hahaha I’m kidding Melissa! Can I talk to Robbie alone though?”

“Unbelievable, you kids are turning me grey.”

“You’re as beautiful as ever though!” The other line clicked off, and Robin’s snickering laughter was all that remained. “One day she’s gonna stay on just to call my bluff.”

“But that is not today, again, aren’t you supposed to be on a plane? What’s up?”

“…Okay so, hypothetically, if you were fake dating someone you… I dunno… maybe, sorta… click really well with, can laugh with, and maybe sorta like a little, would you—”

“Steven Leopold Harrington do you have a crush on your boyfriend?”

“Fake, fake boyfriend, Robbie, fake. And that isn’t my middle name.”

“You’re not DENYING it! It's not even been a DAY yet, Steve!”

“No, I’m not—well… I’d call it more an interest than a crush, but that’s why I’m calling you, what would you do?”

“Pine uselessly for years, you know this.”

“Got it, pine uselessly” He could do that. He was doing that already, sort of. He’d watched in squinty eyed rage while a newsstand cashier with a nose ring flirted with his fake boyfriend while he grabbed a drink to down during the wait between flights. It didn’t go anywhere, Eddie barely even noticed, but Steve noticed. Steve noticed everything. “You really should ask Vi—”

“NO. Listen Steve, as the kids would say, you have found an ‘ultimate cheat code’ to asking your crush out, listen closely now, don’t want you to miss it… you’re already dating him!”

“It’s fake though!” Luckily his parents were off showing Eddie a cool mural they found last time they flew through. No chance of them hearing him.

“So?! Just act like it’s real! It’s like a test, you have a week to see if you’re actually growing ooey gooeys for this guy, and at the end of it, you’ll know if you wanna keep him.” Brilliant in theory but one small hiccup

“What if he doesn’t want me at the end of the week?” The fact that he hadn’t had a solid date in forever before the scheme looming over his head and heart like a dark cloud of suffering.

“I will eat my own shoe. Trust me dingus, trust me. He’ll want you, just work that mysterious Harrington Charm I’ve heard so much about. You’re already half-way there, you get to kiss him already.”

“…Okay, it’s gotta be the real stinker shoe though, you know the one.”

“The skunk one?!”

“Yep. The skunk one.”

“But we were gonna use that on—” Kevin, they were gonna hide it in Kevin’s office after he refused every holiday request Robin put in for a month after she, very politely, shot him and his advances down, why they still had it was… a mystery. They kept forgetting to get rid of it. “Fine, the skunk one. I will eat the skunk shoe, that is how confident I am that Eddie will want you, now please go and spend time with your way cooler than you boyfriend before your parents turn him into a normie.”

“Miss you already.”

“Miss you more”

“Miss you most.”

“Hang up.”

“No you han—” she hung up, and Steve couldn’t help but laugh about it knowing that undoubtedly. She’d be laughing on her end too.

The second flight was much easier to get Eddie onto. In fact, after they spent the hour between flights milling around the terminal, Eddie led him down the gangway, hand in hand, demanding he hurry up or “they’ll leave without us, my precious little harlot!!” there was no rush, they were actually first in line at the gate in front of his own parents, whom Eddie beat to the front of the queue, dragging Steve with him, still ribbing him for the mile high club thing.

He was not going to live that down any time soon.

The flight, in theory would give him a lot of time to think though. Nine hours. In seats that were too far apart. His parents in the middle of the cabin in a semi-enclosed pod-like structure comprised of two seats and a desk between them which they both shared to work on some paperwork, and he and Eddie on opposite sides of the plane.

Which sucked. Because he couldn’t hold Eddie’s hand.

He couldn’t make sure Eddie was okay, and that alone really dug into his time to think about things, because his brain was quite stuck on the fact that Eddie was alone on the other side of the cabin likely going through it as the second flight excitement could only last so long, and that just wasn’t okay.

Eddie couldn’t even do anything to pass the time, he’d packed all but one of his notebooks in his checked luggage, Steve was pretty damn sure he'd go insane if he had to just sit there with nothing to do for a whole nine hours.

So, they teamed up. From opposite sides of the cabin, because somehow Eddie just understood what Steve wanted him to do without having to be told.

It took them a joint effort all of one hour into the flight to puppy-dog eye his parents into switching seats with them.

This allowed them to pick at each other’s ‘gourmet’ meals, Eddie stealing several of his steak fries, and Steve stealing both the last bite of his steak, and two of his orange slices, it allowed Eddie to ramble on about the D&D campaign he was plotting to send the kids through when they got back, allowed Steve to subtly plant the idea into Eddie's mind that maybe... maybe he might be interested in seeing what that looked like.

Maybe they could hold the first session at his place when his parents went away again. Plenty of room! He could watch for once, instead of ribbing Dustin for it and purposefully never getting the name of the game right.

All leading to them both settling in their reclining seats, wrapped up in blankets, facing each other's smiling faces, and falling into an incredibly easy food-coma slumber for the remainder of their flight.

Both wishing the seats were just... a little closer.

Part 15

[valewritessss]

So I just found out people on this app have irl friends who they also interact with here. So is it just me that has friends that I don’t share a single interest with? This account is my secret and none of my friends know about it and I would like it to remain this way

[mimorugk]

Domestic HalsinDurge save me, save me domestic HalsinDurge

[winchester27]

How we feeling for Buddie S8?

[mari-animates]

Y'all I get all my MHA news from @yugiohz I STILL don't know what bakudeku is

[silentgravesdontexist]

Truly, I am not god's strongest soldier. Bc I just have a draft of a Hoshina drabble that's so not self-ship coded. Like what— where did that come from? Hahahaha

[paperkoifish]

User Paperkoifish 2023 promare comeback real?? 🤨🤨(fake)

[spiralingemptyness]

I got my midday nap privileges taken away… don’t ask

no thoughts head empty = school doodles to show I’m alive (ft. Shitty lighting and realizing I need to practice drawing hats and not smudging the paper more)

[eddiesghxst]

eddie x mermaid!reader? 👀

yes she’s definitely still in the works !!

currently doing the last chappy to pof and then eddie and mermaid r my next target🤭

in the mean time, here they are being cute, sigh

[yoloyeahhh]

i think my gender may just boil down to “hot mess”, cause goddamn nothing feels more gender than how i look straight out of an accidental nap

[dgaftilwedie]

next person to badger me abt college is getting cursed

[timandlucy]

Okay but the fact that their riding together started with a Tim test and ended with a Lucy lesson 🥺🙈😂😏🤗🥰💐🎁🎂

[the-thoughts-in-my-silence]

i think by saving myself all the hurt and emotional scars and by protecting friends from the truth i just might not have friends to protect anymore

[akingdomscrypt]

It's so weird to me that I have this whole big universe in my brain, all sorts of characters and plot points and shit. But y'all only know, like, the very tip of the iceberg?? There's so much shit y'all don't know! And the only reason y'all don't know is bc my dumb adhd brain LOVES to procrastinate doing the things that I love?? Doing??

I have only properly introduced TWO out of the SIX reader-insert characters. THERE ARE SIX OF THEM. ALL WITH DIFFERENT STORYLINES/BACKGROUNDS AND PERSONALITIES

this is all a roundabout way of saying if y'all have any questions or shit like that abt the AU, please do not hesitate to ask. ESPECIALLY as I post more and shit gets confusing. I will answer! As long as it doesn't spoil anything..

I know I haven't posted much and it's not that popular or anything I WILL ACCEPT THEORIES or even just rambles/random commentary. Doesn't even have to be about the AU, any random questions/comments are graciously appreciated.

have a price

hehe. i'm in love

[albatris]

I get to go to SPOTLIGHT tomorrow

[dani-ya-dig]

I think Aaron and Brachium should kiss. Send tweet.