#IDK IF THIS MADE ANY SENSE MY BRAIN WAS TOO FOCUSED ON SILVER FOX STEVE WITH A BEARD

[steveshairychest]

Steve used to be afraid of growing old.

He used to fear the day his hair would start to grey and his skin would start to wrinkle. His father hadn't aged well and Steve feared that was also to be his fate. He used to care so much about how he looked because that's all he had going for him; it's all anyone noticed about him.

No one took the time to sit down and get to know the real Steve, not Steve 'the hair' Harrington.

But then Eddie came along. Eddie, with his big smile and loud laugh and endless questions. He asked Steve questions Steve had never even asked himself.

"What do you want to do with your life?"

"Who do you want to be?"

"Why are you using your mother's anti-wrinkle cream?"

Eddie came barrelling into Steve's life and made him realise that getting older isn't something to be afraid of. It's something he should welcome with open arms because there is still so much he hasn't done, still so many wonderful things he hasn't seen.

He's sat around worrying about silly things he can't avoid, like grey hair and bad knees, instead of going out and living his life.

He doesn't want to waste away in Hawkins worrying about what he'll look like and what people will think of him. He wants to travel the world and eat new foods and get his first grey hair with Eddie by his side.

Because he knows now that no matter how much he changes with age, no matter how wrinkly and frail he gets, Eddie will love him regardless. Eddie will still hold his hand and call Steve his 'beautiful boy'.