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kirill-kaprizov · 5 months ago
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i dont know if anyone that follows me right now has read any of my stuff but i just wanted to let y'all know that i finished revitalizing my eddie munson fic "rough" that i posted back in 2022. all 4 chapters have been updated and had little changes made to them. links are under the cut ₊˚⊹♡
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eddies-munsonmoved · 2 years ago
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dealer’s choice pt. 2 /no! i just think i’m two steps nearer to my grave
pairing: eddie munson/oc (cynthia moose) fandom: stranger things wc: 3.3k note: this took for-fuckin-ever, im so sorry. here they are! warnings: swearing, smoking, mentions of drugs and alcohol,
Hopper leaned down, taking his sunglasses off and asked, “where are you two coming from?"
Eddie got nervous, he wanted to say something but this wasn’t his situation and he didn’t want to get Moose in trouble for his weed run. But he was stunned even more by how she replied to the cop.
“Skull Rock.”
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February 1985, Cherry Lane
3:17 pm. The dungeons and dragons curse, she liked to call it. Whenever someone brought D&D up to her in any capacity, no matter if her sister was around or not, she would be roped into babysitting a bunch of smelly pre-teens. (This time it was an offhand comment made by Jeff in her sixth period science class)
“Cyn, please?” Bethany pleaded for the third time this hour. “Mike’s dad doesn’t want us over there for another session, and we have the only area big enough.”
“You mean we have less supervision here. Since mom went back to work.”
Bethany shrugged as her sister sighed and turned the tv off, “please?”
“It’s my only day off this week.” Cynthia muttered to herself. “Fine. But you have to clean whatever mess you guys make down there.”
Not even thirty minutes later, Cynthia’s car was filled by three boys, two girls and they had just finished descending their madness upon Bradley’s Big Buy to get snacks and pizza for the weekend. They were loud and caused a ruckus in the store and she was just glad to get out of there with her dignity.
After piling the kids into the car, she almost turned the wrong way and they all let her know about it, “We gotta get Will!”
As they pulled up to the Byers’ place, she put the car in park and looked at the kids in silence, no one was getting out. “Are you guys serious? Go get him.”
“You have to talk to Joyce.” Mike informed the older teen.
She grumbled as she got out of the car, and walked up to the front door. She put on a small smile as she knocked twice.
“Cynthia, hi.” Joyce greeted, opening the door.
“Hey, I came to get Will, if that’s alright.” She gestured to the car where the five kids could be seen arguing animatedly, “Beth is hosting for their session this weekend, something about Mr. Wheeler wanting them to get out of the house?”
Before Joyce could even respond, Will went zipping between them and jumped into the car, clearly an overfilled backpack swinging onto his back.
“That’s fine, is your mom home?”
“No,” Cynthia drew out. “But I don’t have to work until four tomorrow and if they run extra long, I’m sure Tim could watch them.”
“Okay, I’ll have Jonathan drop by after he gets off work to see if Will needs anything, is that alright?”
“Yeah, that’s cool. They probably wanna get outta here, I’ll see you around.”
Five hours later and they were starting to drive her crazy, they’ve gone through half their snacks and had three pizzas already. She heard another set of screams from the basement and she got up and padded to the kitchen landline and flipped open the phonebook.
Finding the number, she typed it in and held the phone to her ear, listening to the ring for a minute before a man’s voice came over the speaker, “Hello?”
“Hey, is this Eddie?”
“Yeah?” The other line sounded skeptical, “who’s this?”
“Cynthia.”
It was quiet for a moment. “Oh, Moose. What’s going on?”
“Okay,” she chuckled, “not to be a sob story but I’m fuckin stranded at my house with a gaggle of middle schoolers and I really need a smoke. If it’s not too inconvenient, could you run me a bag?”
“Sure, what did you want?”
“I got… ten bucks. So, what? A quarter?” She answered.
“Alright,” He answered, she heard keys shuffling on his end, “Cherry Lane, right?”
“Yeah, thanks, dude.”
“See you in a bit.”
“Mmm-hmm.” Cynthia replied, hanging up the phone before going back to her bedroom.
Twenty minutes later, Cynthia was in the middle of her Blondie cassette when she saw a pair of headlights flash through her window, signaling that someone just pulled into the driveway. She rolled out of bed and grabbed one of her dad’s sweaters and went out to the living room.
Expecting Eddie to be outside, she was surprised when she opened the door to see Jonathan Byers. “Hey, I forgot you were dropping by.”
“I was late.” He muttered.
She widened the door for him to come in and she spotted Nancy coming up the walkway with a smile.
“Hi, Cynthia.”
“Hey, Nance,” Shutting the door behind the couple, she continued, “the kids are in the basement. The last door on the right in the hall will have the stairs.”
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Eddie pulled up to the Moose’s house, Jeff in his passenger seat. They both spotted an extra car parked in front of the house. “Weird,” he shrugged to his friend and bandmate before trying to get out of the van.
Jeff laughed in response before stopping and grabbing the older boy’s arm, “I think she’s coming out.”
Settling back down, he watched Cynthia walk between the parked cars and approach the window he just rolled down.
Leaning against the van, she laid her forearms over the opening, “hey guys, thanks for comin’ out.” She quickly held out a bill between her fingers.
“It’s no big deal. Jeff needed a ride home anyways.” Eddie shrugged once again, passing a baggy into her hand that was still resting in the van. “Actually, Moose, I heard some shit about you today.”
“Oh shit.” She laughed, keeping one hand on the van as she leaned away and put her weed away. Fumbling with something else in her pocket, she tried to change the subject, “do you want some candy?”
“Don’t try to change the subject.” Eddie smiled at her as she leaned back against the van, defeated.
“Fuck,” she groaned. “First, what did you hear?”
“Apparently Hopper chased you down for being… ‘drunk and disorderly’ out on Kerley last night.” He explained as Jeff laughed in the other seat, the younger boy knew the actual story, hearing it from Cynthia in their shared class.
The girl hung her head in shame.
“It’s all good, Moose. It’s happened to the best of us.” That made Jeff laugh even more.
“Sucks you believe that, Munson.” She finally responded, “I wasn’t drunk and disorderly, alright? I was walking home, extremely sober, from the Wheelers’ after Nancy’s mom snitched on me.”
“That’s it?”
“Yeah, it was past curfew so he had to pick me up. That and I’ve been out of the house since Sunday.”
“You’re not home a whole lot, are you?” Eddie asked, slightly concerned.
Cynthia deflected with a laugh and a shrug, “do you want some candy? Last offer.”
“I’ll have some.” Jeff spoke up, holding his hand out.
Reaching over Eddie and handing their friend a small candy bar, Cynthia turned her attention back to the metalhead, “What about you, Eddie? Want some candy?”
“Yeah, of course. Got any chocolate?”
“You’re shit outta luck, dude, I got a sucker or sweethearts.” She laughed, fiddling around in her pocket once again.
Defeated, Eddie set out his hand, “I’ll take the sucker.”
“A sucker for a sucker.” Cynthia laughed, handing him a red, heart-shaped sucker. “See you guys around.”
They watched as she walked back up to the house before turning the van back on. “What’d you get?” Eddie asked his friend when he heard him eating the candy he just received.
“Laffy Taffy.”
Nodding, he didn’t believe his friend. “Sure. Taffy? Jeff, you have braces.”
“I can indulge.” He lied, trying to stop the older boy from wrestling his hand open to find the wrapper.
Eddie was victorious, “a snickers? Jeffrey, I think Moose is playing favorites.”
June 1985 Forest Hills Trailer Park
2:43 pm. Eddie trudged out to his van in the late June heat. He was currently thankful for his KISS shirt that he cropped so the edge of it sat right above the waistline of his jean shorts. After he got in, keeping the door open, he took some time to dig through his cassettes. Ultimately deciding on Blizzard of Ozz before sticking a cigarette between his lips and starting his van to limp to the more experienced mechanics.
Speeding up the road, he spotted a familiar station wagon turn onto the road. Slowing down to let the car pass on the narrow street, he was met with Moose. Wallace had told him the day before that she was asking about him. Eddie’s friend seemed exasperated about the topic.
Setting the cigarette down, he cranked his window open as the driver of the opposite car slowed down by him, “What’s up, Moose?” He leaned out of his van, disregarding the heat.
She seemed unprepared as she shuffled to mirror the older boy, “I heard from Wally that you were back in town and I was out today so I wanted to drop by to see if you had any?”
The boy laughed and ran a hand through his messy bangs, “yeah, I have to go see my guy and get some. Could you give me a ride?”
“Um, I— yeah, that’s cool.”
“You sure?” he asked, she nodded, “meet me at Bell’s Auto on Pine? I have to bring this beast in.”  He patted the door for good measure.
“Sure thing.”
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Eddie slowly pulled into Bell’s right in front of the garage doors and was surprised to see Moose already there, moving bags from the front seat and setting them into the back. When did she pass him up?
He got out and watched as she pushed a cooler onto the back seat, “How’d you get here so fast?”
She jumped in surprise, somehow not noticing Eddie behind her, with a laugh she replied, “you took an odd turn, I just went up Main.”
“My way’s faster.” He defended his ‘odd’ turn. He felt a bloom in his chest as she laughed at what he said. It was then he noticed that their outfits were nearly similar.
“Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say, Munson.”
The drive was nearly silent, only the wind and the occasional puff of a cigarette occupied the car.
Cynthia pulled her hand in from the outside and glanced at the boy next to her, “there’s a box under your seat, it has some of my tunes in it. Find something you like.”
“You gonna have anything my speed?” He half-joked. He grew hopeful when he looked over at her, a smile on her face and AC/DC on her tee.
“Don’t start, Eddie.”
It took him a couple minutes of picking up a case and looking to see what it was before he found one that was clearly made at home and the cover just said Summer ‘82 (KISS, Crüe, Blondie, Whitney). Popping it into the radio, he waited, listening, until the beginning notes of Sure Know Something started.
“Where did you find that?”
He thought he did something wrong for a second before she turned up the music and started bobbing her head. “It was at the bottom of the box.”
“Good pick.” She complimented, taking a puff of the cigarette between her fingers.
Another 20 minutes down the road, Eddie instructed her to pull over to a small, shaded path, “wait here, I’ll walk the rest of the way and be back in a bit.”
“Okay,” she sighed, relenting. Cynthia wanted to just drive him up but he told her that his guy didn’t like people knowing where he lived. “See you in a bit.”
For the fifteen minutes that Eddie was gone, Cynthia mindlessly flipped through one of her sister’s old wrestling newsletters in between killing the odd mosquito that made its way into the warm car.
The current summer air reminded her of the days that her dad would take her and Beth to swim out at Jordan Lake in east Hawkins. She could feel the sadness building in her chest as she reminisced about days that were long gone; melting down onto the leather bench, she tried to breathe, pushing away tears that were about to spill out.
When she finally calmed herself down, she opened her eyes. They were blurry and when she looked up and out of the passenger window by her feet, she saw a blurry figure. She flinched hard, “son of a bitch.” She gasped as she wiped her eyes and saw Eddie, smiling with concern in his eyes.
Reaching forward, she pulled the lock up and let Eddie in, “scared the hell outta me, man.”
“I could tell.” He snickered, “takin’ a nap, Moose? Am I that boring?”
She laughed as she scooched back into the driver seat, “You’re thrilling, bud. I was resting my eyes.”
“Okay.” He relented, settling into the seat, he put a bag onto the floor by his feet as he watched the girl next to him lay her head on the steering wheel. “You alright?”
When she didn’t respond, Eddie hesitantly put a hand on her shoulder, “hey.”
She peered over at him from behind the hair that curtained her in like a shield, “I’m alright.”
Eddie pulled his hand away as she leaned back against the seat as she gathered her hair into her hands.
Giving a small smile, Cynthia actually looked over at him. “I’m good. Long day.” Tying her long, dark hair into a bun before she started the car, “let’s get outta here, yeah?”
On the way back, Eddie had pointed her to a left turn and continued in the winding woods, he insisted continuing around the lake would be quicker to get back into town.
“So what happened to your van?”
Eddie picked at his rings, “I just got back from Saginaw, fucked up my tires pretty bad on the way back. Also just general wear and tear.”
“You do drive like a mad-man.” Cynthia laughed.
“I’d call it efficient.”
“Whatever you say, Munson,” she playfully rolled her eyes. “What were you doing in Michigan, if you don’t mind me asking?”
He pulled his eyes from the road and watched as they sped through the trees, he rubbed at his slightly tanned arms nervously before he eventually answered, “I went to visit my mom.”
“Oh,” Cynthia readjusted her grip on the wheel and took a glimpse at the boy in her passenger seat, “how’d that go?”
“Alright.” Eddie shrugged, shrinking into himself. “Yeah, I had to break the news to her that I got held back. Again.”
“Shit, man. I’m sorry.” It was silent in the van for what seemed like forever, only the radio playing between them. She didn’t really know how to respond. “At least now you get to finish it out with Jeff and Wallace.” Maybe not the right thing to say but it could be comforting.
He gave a small laugh, “Yeah, stupid might cancel out somehow.”
She peeked at the boy to her right and gave him a nudge on the shoulder. “Trust me, it does. How do you think we got Tim outta there?”
“Oh, yeah. Henderson.”
“Yeah,” Cynthia was caught off guard by his response. “What happened with you guys? He says you were his first friend when he moved to town.”
“I guess. Then he went full dark side on us.”
Cynthia felt bad laughing, knowing it would egg Eddie on in his incoming rant. “Dark side? Wow.”
“Yeah! We were cool at first when school started then he just dropped us.” He started waving his hands as he talked. “Then he started sports and hanging around guys like Bull and Tommy B. We tried to be cool but—“
“How long has that truck been behind us?” She interrupted, looking in the rearview mirror.
“I don’t know, but it does look like a—” He tried to turn around to look properly before Cynthia laid a hand on his arm, making him sit forward.
“Oh fuck, it’s fucking Hopper. Oh shit.”
“Are you sure?” He leaned over, looking in the mirror on his side of the car while shuffling his bag further under the seat.
“Yes, I’m sure. The fuck is he doing out here?”
“He’s a cop, Moose, isn’t it kinda his job to be out here?”
Running a hand through her hair, she kept her speed moderate. “I guess. Shouldn’t he be dealing with shitbirds over at the mall?” She didn’t have another moment to chill out before the blue and red light started flashing on the truck behind them. “I can handle this, just sit there and look pretty,” she tried to crack a quick joke.
Eddie nodded with a quick laugh as they pulled into the dirt and waited for the cops to walk up the car.
“What’s goin’ on, rat-stache?” Cynthia nodded at Callahan as he appeared at her passenger window.
“Really?” We pulled you over and you’re gonna under—” The younger cop was cut off.
“Cynthia Moose.” Hopper greeted, setting his hat on the top of her car. “And,” he leaned down, getting a better glimpse at the guest in her car, “Eddie Munson, didn’t know you were back in town.”
“Yeah, just last night.”
Hopper scanned the odd pair and waited for a smart remark from the Moose girl akin to the one Callahan received. When she didn’t speak up, he said, “Your mom called the station today. Wanna tell me why?”
“I don’t know, man.” Cynthia was genuinely taken aback. “She knows I have the car, I have work tonight.”
“I need something better than that, last time we got a call like this, we found you out by the Pinelli’s up in Merrick Park after six days.” He was losing his patience with the girl.
“Dude, I—“ She was getting frustrated, there was really no reason for this. “I don’t know. I brought Beth to her softball game at noon and that’s it.”
“That’s it?” Hopper leaned down, taking his sunglasses off and asked, “where are you two coming from?”
“Can we keep this between us? She’s not gonna be happy with me,” Cynthia rambled on, “I just got my shit together, my mom can’t know about this. Please, Hopper?”
Jim Hopper sighed and, with a stern nod, told Callahan to go back to the truck.
Eddie got nervous, he wanted to say something but this wasn’t really his situation and he didn’t want to get Moose in trouble for his weed run. But he was stunned even more by how she replied to the cop.
“Skull Rock.”
The cop was taken aback, repeating, “Skull Rock?” to the teens in the car incredulously.
“Yeah, man,” Cynthia replied, becoming more confident in her lie, “why do you think we got a cooler and blankets back there? We had a picnic and.. Hung out.”
“Okay.” Hopper nodded; not really believing the pair but knowing Cynthia’s past boyfriend, he took it into consideration as he peeked behind them into the back of the wagon. “This true, Munson?”
Eddie looked beyond Moose’s dark, pleading eyes and straight at the Chief, “Yes.”
He didn’t want to deal with this, but he found that it was better to deal with Elaine Moose’s calls regarding her oldest sooner rather than later. Sighing, wiping sweat from his brow, “Get back to town, go see your mother. I won’t mention this.”
Cynthia let out a deep breath, “holy shit, thank you.”
“Yeah,” Hopper grabbed his hat and stepped away from the car, “get outta here.”
Eddie also let out a breath as he heard the engine turn over and they started rolling.
“Holy shit, holy shit.” The girl basically chanted as they picked up speed, heading back to town.
“Hey, Moose?” It was his turn to interrupt as he leaned his head back against the car. “If it’s alright, I’m never riding with you anywhere ever again.”
Letting out a quick laugh before she pushed a cassette into the radio, she replied, “Understandable.”
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andythelemon · 5 years ago
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kirill-kaprizov · 1 year ago
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falling and falling until i...
pairing: eddie munson/oc (cynthia moose)wc: 1.5k note: god these two are so dumb thank u. also technically a part three to dealer's choice BUT it can be read as a stand alone <;3 warnings: swearing, smoking, mentions of drugs and alcohol
Eddie forgot her name, and at this point it’s too late to ask her.
or 3 more times Eddie and Moose meet-up. All told from Eddie’s perspective.
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MARCH 1984
“Your dad is Lionel Moose, right? The cop?”
“Yeah, he retired a year, year and a half ago.” The girl explained, kicking at the dirt beneath her feet, dreading the inevitable follow-up question.
“Oh. And how is he doing?”
Eddie sat beside the girl on the bench, almost pressed together, facing opposite directions. She was nearly silent, trying to sputter out a response… and as she did, he felt guilty.
“Shit,” he mumbled to himself, feeling like he should’ve known this. Hell, he probably did (small town and whatnot.)
Peering over at Moose, he didn’t really know how to comfort this grieving girl, she was basically a stranger.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t—”
She cut him off with a raise of her hand as she looked up, making proper eye contact for the first time in this rendezvous. Her deep brown eyes seemed weary as she said, “no, you’re fine. I’m mostly normal about it now.”
He sighed, mentally kicking himself, “no, man, I shouldn’t have brought it up.”
Word vomit was Eddie’s forte.
“How about this?” The upperclassman proposed, “I cut you a deal this time: fifteen bucks for the half.”
Glancing back at Moose, she let out a chuckle, eyes still watery, “is it that easy to get a discount? I just gotta put on the waterworks for ya?”
“Just this once, Moose.” He jokingly rolled his eyes, proud he was able to make this girl laugh after he almost made her cry.
“Sure,” She smiled as he looked away and set his little black box onto the table.
Next thing he knew, their arms brushed together momentarily before a bill between a pair of slender fingers came into view next to the aforementioned box. Eddie took the pair of ten dollar bills and he still felt her big, sad eyes on him, as if she was studying him at this moment.
He didn’t say anything as he glanced over and she was still staring. But once she realized he was looking back at her, she tore her eyes away quickly with a near smile gracing her face.
There were a few moments of silence as he sorted everything out, “here you go, Moose.” Eddie handed over a baggie and a five dollar bill.
“Thanks,” she mumbled, pocketing both the items. “Probably be a week or two before I seek you out again. Just as a heads up.”
Eddie nodded, packing up the box  and sliding it over as he watched her stand up from the table. “Sure thing, I’m pretty easy to find. Here or the arcade, sometimes the body shop on Pine.”
She walked away, nodding, and before she left the clearing, she turned back and with a smile on her face, she gave him a kind wave and said, “See you around, Eddie.”
It occurred to him at that moment while he gave a polite wave back that he never got her name.
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DECEMBER 1984
Eddie didn’t eat school lunch most days, usually opting for bringing his own assortment of snacks. But who could resist pizza day? Nobody.
He stood in line alone, next in line to grab a tray, when he felt a tug on the pocket of his jean vest. He didn’t react right away as he heard giggles behind him. Jesus, it was probably some sick prank. Unfortunately, his curiosity got the better of him and he peered over his shoulder.
Behind him in line was Moose, a sheepish look on her face as a trio of girls skittered away and left her in the lunch line alone.
“Hey, Munson.” She greeted, slipping a piece of notebook paper into the front pocket of her overalls.
“Hi, Moose.” He felt mostly at ease as he turned around with a chuckle, slipping a hand into the pocket that was just messed with.
Despite having a moment of relief, he remembered the few conversations he had with Jeff and Wally concerning the last time he actually spoke to the girl behind him. They were convinced that she asked him out back in October, which is coincidentally the last time they spoke. (Not like they really talked outside of her buying weed from him or when he’d pop up wherever she found herself working for the time being.)
Pulling a neatly folded piece of paper out of the pocket that was being messed with, he laid it on the blue tray and it read, in very sloppy handwriting, ‘GOT ANY?? :)’
“Jesus Christ,” he mumbled to himself as he started going through the lunch line, the girl with the note right next to him.
As the pair dished up together, they made plans to meet out behind the school, opting to not go to the clearing on account of the snow that was coming down pretty heavily the whole morning.
Eddie was already outside, jacket zipped up and a cigarette between his fingers when Moose walked out grumbling to herself, an angry look on her face.
“You alright?” Eddie asked, taking a drag.
“No.” She stopped beside him, leaning against the brick. “Ate shit coming out of the gym.”
He looked down and winced when he saw her jean overalls tattered on the knees; dirt, snow, and blood coating the area. “You should probably go to the nurse.”
“Think so?” She kicked her leg out, peering at the mess over her oversized jacket. “Yeah, it’s usually pretty bad if the denim gets ripped, right?”
“Usually.” He shrugged. “Maybe this can wait until later if you just want to go there now?”
“No,” she protested, lighting brushing the dirt off the knees of her pants, wincing as she did so. “I need to wrap this up before school ends. I’m going for a drive right after.”
“Busy night, Moose?”
Shrugging, she straightened back up, digging through her pockets. 
He watched her in silence, really trying to imagine if he said yes to her invitation to the Halloween party. And the more he thought about that scenario, the more he didn’t believe his friends. Admittedly he wanted to say yes that day but then he remembered who her friends were and he couldn subject himself to that (as selfish as it sounds). 
If she were to ask again.. maybe—
“Here you go.” Her hand was in front of his chest, a bill between her fingers.
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AUGUST 1985
He would’ve thought Moose was one of the victims in the mall fire if he hadn’t actually seen her in passing twice since she got back from wherever she disappeared to after they got pulled over back in June.
Eddie didn’t expect her to poke her head out of the back door of the Palace Arcade with a smile and a “hi, Eddie.”
“Moose, hey.” Eddie greeted, making eye contact with the girl as she came outside and holy shit— she looked good. Hot, even.
She was wearing a vibrant bikini top with the bottoms peeking out from under a pair of baggy jean shorts and her dark hair was put up haphazardly.
He tried to keep his eyes on her own as she sat down, but as her large, dark eyes met his, he had to look away. Unfortunately for him, the only other thing his stupid, stupid brain wanted to look at was her chest as she sat down opposite him.
She was speaking, but he wasn’t processing a single word until he finally looked back up at her face and then he heard her. “Eddie?”
He was embarrassed, trying to play it cool, “yeah.”
She laughed, shaking her head and taking a clip from the back of her head out of her long, dark hair, “how you been? Van alright?”
“It’s, yeah— I’ve been good. Van is awesome.” Eddie stated, focusing way too hard on his lunch box full of weed. He had to change the subject. “What’re you up to this evening?” 
Moose shrugged, pulling all of her hair onto one shoulder with a sigh, “I’m taking my sister and her friends for a little evening swim.”
“Need to show ‘em it’s not as fun as it sounds?” Eddie suggested with a laugh.
“Exactly.” She smiled at him. “They’re all starting high school next week so I need to do that before some fuckwit of an upperclassman tries to.”
“Speaking from experience?”
Nodding, she was kind of taken aback by the followup question, momentarily forgetting how curious Eddie Munson was, “my freshman year; first boyfriend.”
Eddie couldn’t help the words that spilled out next, “and how long did that last?”
“Wow,” she laughed, still playing with the ends of her hair, “two years too long. And yours?”
“My what?” Eddie questioned, his eyes starting to wander once again.
“Your last relationship.”
“Oh. It was a while ago, six, maybe seven months?”
Moose hummed, once again leaning against the old picnic table, “would I know her?”
“Don’t think so.” He shrugged, laughing it off. “Yours?”
“Oof.” Moose nodded, playing with her chipped nails, “I’m pretty sure you do.”
“Really?”
“Don’t think too hard about it,” she shrugged, “might hurt yourself.”
“Yes ma’am. What can I do for you today?”
Slapping a bill onto the table, she answered, “twenty bag.”
Eddie nodded, tearing his eyes away from the girl opposite him and sliding the twenty dollar bill under his black box before he began to rummage through it.
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eddies-munsonmoved · 2 years ago
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"Can I say something now?" "I wasn't done yet, but go right ahead."
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