#she brings at least 3 swimsuits but doesn't go into the water

[themaybug]

the weather is getting nicer and you know what that means....... GILLY BEACH EPISODE

[dual1pa]

"you're gonna make me fall in love with you"

steve harrington x reader using she/her pronouns

A/N: ahh the sweet smell of a best friends to lovers fic <3

WARNINGS: 18+ ONLY PLEASE !! language, swimming in underwear (both reader & steve) kissing w/ tongue, boob grabbage, missionary position but no smut occurs

(doesn't follow plot of Stranger Things)

She placed her Converse-covered feet on the leather seat of her best friend, Steve Harrington's beat-up Chevy. He received the "piece of shit car," as he would say, from his parents as a graduation present years ago. It was originally his father's work truck, but he no longer needed it.

"At least you have a car, son," he told him.

All her attention was outside of the car as Steve drove them to their favorite spot at the lake. It seemed as if no one knew it existed since there was never a soul in sight, which was great for the two of them to get away from the hustle and bustle of their small town of Hawkins, Indiana.

The scenery of the drive there was something else - especially at sundown after a warm summer day when the sky was filled with yellow, orange, pink, and purple.

As her hair blew from the open window, she hummed along to Tiffany's 'I Think We're Alone Now' as Steve tapped his hands to the beat of the song on the steering wheel.

Steve pulled into a rocky area where he normally parks the car, went to grab a blanket out of the trunk, and led her to their favorite spot.

Normally, they didn't swim in the water, just lay on the fuzzy blanket, listened to the water and their favorite tunes from Steve’s portable radio, and stared up at the stars.

She and Seve have been friends since middle school, yes, even though his King Steve era where he thought he was better than everyone.

The two of them rarely had fights, and when they did, they quickly made up and went out to get ice cream or head to their favorite spot on the lake.

They found their spot on accident after participating in an extra credit assignment for Ms. Taylor's science class - since the both of them were failing at the time.

Now, a year later, they considered the spot theirs.

Just like usual, empty.

Steve tried his best to lay the teal blanket down flat, but the grass made it difficult.

She laid down first, then Steve. He watched her figure out her next thought as she stared up into the cloudless sky.

"What are you thinking about?" he asked, resting his body on his arm.

She turned her head to lock eyes with him and smiled, "I kinda wanna go swimming."

"I didn't bring a swimsuit," Steve sighed.

She chuckled, "Neither did I," quickly getting up and stripping off her T-shirt and jean shorts, leaving her in a bra and underwear.

Steve had seen her change a dozen times and she could care less as she had no shame about her body.

Without waiting for her friend, she ran into the cold but refreshing water. She dove under the small waves and resurfaced to find steve shoving his pants off, leaving him in plaid boxers.

Once he caught up to her, they enjoyed the water for a while longer then went to air dry on the blanket.

Steve reached for the radio to find a station playing a song they both liked. as if it was fate, one of their favorites played softly through the speaker.

He got up and started dancing and singing the lyrics, urging her to come join him on the imaginary dance floor.

She grabbed his hand to help her off the cozy blanket, grabbed her waist and started swaying back and forth. If she was honest with herself, she could picture a life with Steve.

She could imagine traveling with Steve, purchasing a home with him in the suburbs.

She pictured buying a cute little 3 bedroom home in the Indiana suburbs - definitely away from Hawkins. She pictured the bright green grass and being surrounded by nice neighbors and even getting a pet.

She pictured starting a family with him, though, she would never tell him that, unless the time was right.

Back in the moment, she couldn’t stop laughing at Steve’s horrible singing.

“stop it,” she leaned her head back and let out a loud laugh

“stop what? singing?” he didn’t listen and kept singing along.

“you’re gonna make me fall in love with you if you keep singing like that,” she smiled.

Steve blushed, “we’re literally slow dancing in our underwear, i hope you know that i’m already in love with you.”

That’s all she ever wanted to hear from her best friend, “i’m in love with you.”

He wasted no time to press his lips to hers. they were just how she imagined he would taste: a mix of mint toothpaste and the coffee he drinks daily.

she reached her hands up to comb through his damp brunette hair and moaned into his mouth, urging him to shove his tongue in her mouth.

he gripped her waist, then her butt, then her thighs to feel every inch of her, what he wanted to do for years.

the two laid back down on the blanket and continued their assault on each other. he fit right between her legs, but knew that she didn’t want their first time to be on the muddy ground.

to take a breath from their make out session, he rested his forehead on hers and smiled.

“can i call you mine? all mine?” he asked, placing a piece of hair behind her ear.

“that’s all i’ve wanted, steve harrington.”

he reached up to grab at her breast but she stopped before she got too turned on.

“as much as i want to, take me back to your place and take me in your bed?” she said, kissing his neck and down to his chest.

she’s never seen him pack up so quickly.

[cherrybombfangirlwrites]

happy sts!! flipping the question around: what are your characters like at the beach?

~Morri (@memento-morri-writes)

Happy STS! Fuck yeah lets gooo! We're doing all the main casts for my main three wips for this bad boy:

FSF

Tris is relaxing on a towel or beach chair. A little insecure about her body in a feminine swimsuit, especially because it makes her look more like a man, but the others give her some confidence. She's staying in the shade with Kaye and they're reading books with Elliot <3

Lan is the snack master and constantly yelling at the others to drink water and put on sunscreen, especially Snow cuz she burns easy. They have a wide variety of snacks, and at least six different kinds of sunscreen

Snow wants to play all the games and make all the sandcastles. Erica, Triveya, and Sapphire are helping her and feeding the chaos.

Hestia and Kaye won't go anywhere near the water. They'll stay far up on the beach in the shade with books and their lovers thank you. Hestia ends up falling asleep on Elliot's lap while he's reading.

Sapphire is pulling pranks because she thinks it's funny, mostly moving people's stuff over a few feet while they're in the water or grabbing people's ankles. harmless but hilarious pranks like that. She also asks to be buried in the sand and realizes too late that she can't get out as the other chaos instigators leave her. Raven comes and digs her out

Cass and Erica are in the water and will stay in the whole trip if they can, barely coming out long enough for lunch or to make sandcastles. They attempt a Percy Jackson style underwater kiss, but it doesn't work very well. They're holding hands and kissing as much as possible.

Elliot is reading books in the shade and he can't be bothered to do anything else. He does think Hestia looks gorgeous in her swimsuit, and when she falls asleep on his lap he wouldn't move her for anything

Raven is very competitive and athletic, he likes water games, but would prefer games up on the sand like beach volleyball. (Sapphire thinks he looks very hot in his swim shorts and no top). He thinks Sapphire looks like the most beautiful person on the beach in her cute little pink tankini (bikini but the top is a tank top).

Triveya ends up burnt to a crisp. Luckily Lan planned ahead and brought aloe vera. Triveya pulls pranks with Sapphire, builds elaborate sandcastles (and even brings some little sand creatures to life with magic), and is dunking people

TCIO

Nickelle is the group's personal ice machine. She does have to stay hydrated a ton because her powers make her more seceptible to heat. She's in the water most of the time and attempting to dunk people

Asher is the group dad. He brought all the beach games, will do everything with everyone, and gets everyone ice cream on the way home. His boyfriend Damian would rather relax in the shade, but doesn't mind going down into the water for a bit

Gabby is mostly there for instagram pics- but not just her's, she's getting amazing pics of everyone. She would mostly like to stay in the shade and do her nails, but wouldn't mind some swimming or sandcastle building

Bryson is the group mom, he has all the snacks, and HE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN if you don't regularly drink water and apply sunscreen. He has a whole bag just for snacks, and six different kinds of sunscreen

Kylee, Chase, and V are the chaos instigators. They're pulling pranks (especially Kylee), burying each other, dunking people, and just in general almost getting the whole group kicked off the beach.

Kylee burns easily has major sensory issues with sunscreen, luckily Bryson has an extra soft and smooth one that's not oily or sticky. She asks to be buryied, only for Chase to grin and walk away. Nickelle comes and digs her out.

Chase is making a very detailed and elaborate sandcastle that's almost as tall as he is. He will bite if you come within ten feet of it. No, not even to help, you'll do it all wrong- He also burns easy and Bryson is hounding him every fifteen minutes to reapply sunscreen. He is fine with the water, but would rather not

Jason is just there for the Instagram pics. He apparently has his family yacht somewhere close by. No he's not sharing. The rest of the group leaves him and Chase hacks his credit card to get everyone popsicles and cotton candy, not that Jason would notice because there's so much money on the card it barely made a dent.

V is pulling all the pranks. they're grabbing people's ankles, dunking people, etc. They are also very competitive and want to play soccer or volleyball on the beach. They beat everyone by a landslide.

Galaxy Destroyer

Corie is hanging out in the shade with Hades. She doesn't mind at all, unless it's been for a while and hasn't gotten a minute to herself the whole day- then she's handing him off to someone else for a couple hours. If Hades wants to go look at seashells or play in the shallow water, she will absolutely take him. She can't fully get in the water because it will water log her cyborg parts, but she can get her feet wet (special leg sock for her prothstetic leg). If someone asks her to bury them, she's leaving them in the sand with a grin

Knox is the tired uncle/reluctant chaperone. He will yell at people to drink water and wear sunscreen, but he's unprepared and ends up buying a bunch of ice cream for people. He spends most of the day trying to keep them from getting kicked off the beach

Nova can't go in the water because it will mess with her wiring/internal workings. She also has to stay in the shade because too much sun will overheat her body like a computer does. She's happy to relax in the shade and read books.

Astra is pulling all the pranks and causing as much chaos as possible with Pandora and Aries. They almost get the group kicked off the beach.

Pandora wants to look at and study all of the ocean life. She's over by a tidepool somewhere writing stuff down in a journal and just ogling at all the sea stars and other little ocean creatures. Otherwise, she's causing chaos with Astra and Aries.

Aries is either with Pandora, or pulling pranks and causing chaos with Astra. Xey also love the water and don't want to leave (xer species home planet is mostly water)

Hades is happy as a clam. He wants to go in the water, look at all the tide pools, and toddles around looking for seashells and building the cutest little sandcastles. The crew will attack anyone who comes too close to or insults his little masterpieces and they give Hades all the praises for his mounds of sand with leaves on top.

Thanks @memento-morri-writes !

[poison-note]

This is gonna be a rant about my grandma and her recent actions at Easter and a little before so if you wanna skip this one go right ahead it's gonna be a doosy.

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My paternal grandma (60's-f) has simply been a giant cunt all week and today. Her birthday was Friday, we did stuff then, and she wanted everyone to be together for Easter. She was supposed to be in charge of eggs and candy and stuff. However, everyone was coming for Easter.

My uncle (40m), his wife and 3 kids. Our back neighbor (65), his son (30s)and sons wife(late 20s), and 2 grandsons. My maternal grandparents. And my dad's basically adopted sister (40s).

So in anticipation for all of this PG was asking me(19nb) and my brother(15m) if we wanted to egg hunt or if we just wanted Easter baskets.

I said naw just give me a basket im going to help the little ones. My brother however was super into egg hunting. He was excited about it.

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The week leading up to this she kept complaining about everything that needed to be done and counting eggs and on and on. Full disclosure I was at my dorm all week until Friday (Also went home tuesday) so some of this is accounts from my family.

In anticipation for all the eggs and shit- my mom, our neighbor, and my maternal grandmother were buying and bringing more eggs and candy and stuff for the baskets. Almost all of the eggs that were hunted on Easter were ones my maternal g-ma bought. Hundreds of dollars in eggs. We ended up with over 300 eggs. If we were dividing them between all of the 'kids' (7 of us) that is more than enough eggs for everyone plus our Easter baskets.

She kept refusing help to stuff eggs or make baskets and kept complaining that she wasn't done yet and it was much. My maternal g-ma literally come over Saturday to just stuff eggs and she was like no ill do it later.

She finally accepted help when I came over to help and I stuffed over half of those eggs.

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And there is the whole pool situation. She bought a pool 2? years ago. This pool was set up on my parents side of the yard last summer but she didn't take care of it or anything so the water got green and gross so when we put the pool back up we put it on her side of the yard.

She doesn't like it there. She complains about that. It's been months since we put the pool back up. She's mostly stopped complaining about the location.

HOWEVER, when we put the pool back up our neighbor was like "hey I will maintain your pool completely if I can use it whenever I want". Dope. She agreed. He takes care of the pool- it is literally plugged into his house now. He does everything to it. He pays for all of it. This has been happening for about half a year at the least.

We live in Texas it's fuckin hot rn and it humid, ok. When we were discussing Easter plans neighbor was like cool were gonna get in the pool during Easter weekend sometime. My paternal grandmother said "um no the pool is too cold. No one is getting into MY pool this weekend."

Bro not your decision that is a joint owned pool. You might have bought the physical pool but neighbor takes care of it and it's on my parents property.

She was CONSTANLY bitching about the pool and how it was too cold and we were gonna get sick. It's almost 90°f outside and it's 80% humidity it's fine god.

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She told us (being my parents, brother and i) that my uncle wasn't going to bring the girls swimsuits with them because the girls had the 'sniffles' and they didn't want them getting sick in the cold water.

What actually happened was she did not communicate anything about the pool to my uncle or his wife but to my little cousin who is barely 11. She manipulated my cousin into thinking the pool couldn't be swam in and she then communicated that to her parents.

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Besides just the egg hunt she wanted to be in charge of a menu for our lunch and then proceeded to not make anything and to push it all on my parents. Her plan for 18 people (potentially 20 cause my aunt and her husband were going to come but got sick) was my dad's turkey he made, rolls, and salad.

Anyone who has ever hosted an event knows that is not enough for that many people.

My mom realized we had basically nothing for lunch late Saturday and my parents rushed to the store to get other stuff at like 10 at night. They got me some stuff to make muffins and cupcakes with cute little wrappers and toppers.

I woke up at 7am with my dad so he could cook the turkey and I could make muffins and cupcakes.

She walked into our house at about 9:40 to complain about counting eggs and about the mac-n-cheese she decided to make.

The meal turned out pretty good despite her. Our neighbor made Brussel sprouts at my mom request and his daughter in law made these really good spice bars. And my uncles wife made deviled eggs. And my parents got all kinds or fruits and veggies and cheese.

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So the egg hunt. Obviously over 300 eggs is a lot. Her plan was to count them and at the end divide them so each kid had the same amount ok that's fine but there were over 300 eggs so if you aren't super communicative it's easy to loose track.

Our neighbor my brother and I all helped her hide those eggs. My brother starts hiding eggs and she say "oh you don't get to egg hunt cause you are helping hide them".

Which what. But ok whatever they're getting divided later he'll get eggs.

She is incredibly rude the entire time we're hiding eggs so when my dad's adopted sister shows up I'm like oh ya ill walk you in the door and help you with your stuff. -I'll be back in a sec. We talk inside for a while then I come back out and she complains about how long I took.

And she had started a tally of what eggs were hidden where. I was putting a tally for each egg bc I wasn't told anything different when she explained what it was. She saw that I was putting for each egg she dropped her eggs grumbled and gasped and yelled "that was supposed to be a tally for every ten eggs!!!".

"How was I supposed to know that? You didn't say anything."

She was like I guess it doesn't matter now ugh stomped off and hid the rest of the eggs.

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So I get my Easter basket- it's the same basket as all the other kids got EXCEPT mine has less in it. And my little brother's basket has less in it than the other kids.

Again I'm like fine whatever I'm having a good time around my other family I can be pissed about her favoritism later.

She gets all the eggs and divides them up. She does not give a single egg to my brother or me. I didn't say I wanted any- fine as much as the basket sucks I don't need eggs. But my brother wanted eggs and he wanted to hunt for them too and you didn't let him?!?! AND MOST of those eggs were bought by my maternal grandmother and my mom in the expectation that some of them would at least go to my brother.

At that moment I was on the other side of the yard busy with entertaining kids and it didn't really cross my mind. And my parents were also doing other things.

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I didn't do a deep look at my Easter basket until later in the night after everyone had left and the eggs and left with the kids. My mom was asking me about what eggs we got and I was like 'we didn't get any'.

To say my parents are pissed is an understatement. It's about a lot more than just the Easter eggs, stuff I won't get into for privacy reasons.

She comes over and my dad is so pissed off that he knows he needs to cool down so ilhe tells her to leave. She does not. My mom tells her she needs to apologize to my brother. She does but then come in the dining room to try to defend herself and starts just fucking lying.

I haven't ever snapped at my grandmother before but I yelled at her last night I got so pissed off.

This is part of a much bigger problem with my grandma but she's got some attoning to do for this and other stuff.

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Otherwise my Easter was nice and fun and I love seeing my little cousins. They're so goofy and sweet.