Eddie is beginning to wonder if heāll ever reach a point where Steve couldnāt reduce him to this state.
This state beingā¦ transfixed. Eddie is sure he must look like a lovesick cartoon. In fact, if he could manage to drag his gaze away, heād probably find red hearts circling around his head in a halo, popping like little bubbles.
But Eddie canāt move his eyes. Canāt even close his mouth either.
Steveās talking to him too, which is most definitely worse ā heās totally missing every word. He can see Steveās lips moving, pink plush lips wrapping around words but fuck, that was a total trap because now Eddie is just looking at his lips. He tries to refocus, to listen. His eyes just wander back to what he was staring back at the first place.
Was Steve like this all the time? Just a walking around looking so damn delectable?
Or is it Eddie, just a starved man whoās been living off stolen glances, for as long as he can remember? For once, heās learning, heās allowed to look.
And by God, is he looking.
Steveās not even doing it on purpose either, which probably makes the whole thing funnier. Eddie knows what his boyfriend (boyfriend! he thinks giddily in his mind) looks like when heās cleaned up to impress. He can spot the way Steve preens beneath Eddieās lingering gaze.
This is not that. Today, Steve is just cleaning, a usual Sunday morning ritual.
Heās got some old sport shorts on and heās clearly grown a bit since he first got themā unless Hawkins has always been giving out slutty little shorts to the basketball team (They havenāt. Eddie would know if they did.)
Heās wearing one of his wife-beater singlets too. Itās a little on the scrappy side though, considering itās nearly see-through with how worn it is.
Honestly, in Eddieās humble and gay opinion, itās stupidly hot. The dark hair dusted across of Steveās chest is visible beneath it, the shirt showing off the shape of his broad chest. Even better, his happy trail is visible and goddamn, if that doesnāt make Eddie happy, he doesnāt know what will.
But itās not even that.
Quite frankly, Eddieās rather embarrassed that heās basically blue-screening because Steve is pulling out the cord out from the vacuum cleaner.
Butā¦ but heās yanking it up towards his chest, slow and strong repetitive motionsā that take enough effort to make his biceps bulge with every tug.
Eddie canāt stop watching. The cord must be several metres long and heās not sure if he should be cursing it or thanking it for the view he gets; Steveās tan arms flexing and rippling. Try as he might, Eddie canāt help imagining how they must look when Steveās got his hand arounā
āāhello? Are you even listening to me?ā
Steveās voice cuts into Eddieās dangerously side-tracked thoughts and he pauses his tugging at the same time. Itās the thing that finally allows him to break his lustful stare at Steveās arms. Oh God, he just got all hot and bothered over his boyfriend doing the vacuuming.
āHello.ā Eddie says back, because that was the first word to register in his brain. āI mean- yes. Iāmāā
Eddie decides mid-sentence that heās not getting away with the lie. He pivots. āOkay, no, I didnāt hear that. Would you please tell me what you just said, oh lovely sweet man of mine?ā
Ever the butterer-upper, he was. Thank God it works on Steve. He rolls his eyes a little but thereās an adoring grin on his lips.
āMan of mine,ā Steve mutters amusedly under his breath. He drops the vacuum cord on the carpeted floor and leans down the grab the handle of the vacuum. āYou just kinda froze when you came in. I was asking if everything was okay? Iām just doing this room then Iāll be done, if you donāt like the noise.ā
Eddie adores that Steveās taken his silence as though he might be afraid of the vacuum cleaner or something. He nearly snorts aloud at how far from the truth it is.
āUh huh.ā Eddie nods, not bothering to correct him. He jerks a thumb behind him, pointing at nothing. āIām just gonnaā¦ā
He spins on his heel and exits left stage, fast as he can while still looking normal (heās unsuccessful, as he leaves a baffled Steve behind him.) As he enters into the kitchen and decides to fix them both a pot of coffee, Eddie lets himself giggle over the pure absurdity of what just happens.
Itās mortifying. Itās hilarious. He can never tell Steve.
Except, when Steve comes to find him in the kitchen and trades a kiss for some coffee, Eddie canāt help it. All he ever wants to do is make Steve laugh.
He decides itās worth the embarrassment when Steve laughs so hard coffee comes out his nose.
Steve teasingly promises that heāll to try be less distracting, then rescinds his words at Eddieās abject reaction (āDonāt you dare.ā) looking far too smugā in a delighted sort of way. Preening, in that way Eddie loves.
Their first kiss, as Eddie slides onto Steveās lap and loops his arms over his shoulders, fingers dancing on those tasty arms, tastes a little bit like coffee. Their mugs grow cold, untouched.
Eddie doesnāt mind ā heās too busy finding out that the rest of their kisses taste like something between sunlight and Steve.
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Thinking about these Misty Invasion teasers got me wondering which one belongs to each love interest. So hear me out before the official trailer gets released tomorrow!
The couch and frost on the panel is definitely for Zayne. There were several instances where heās been over MCās apartment, on the couch, and leaving articles of clothing behind, heheā¦ š¤
Tell me how this wash basin looks like something straight out of Sylusās bathroom at onychinusā headquarters. It just screams his aesthetic fr fr.
I want to guess this might be Xavierās? The soft lights illuminating on one sideā¦ I hope that this is at his apartment bc we love having MC sleep over.
All that remains is this one for Rafayelās? Is it safe to assume that we will be traveling somewhere with him? It wouldnāt be the first time weāve traveled and stayed in the same hotel room together either.
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Not to over analyze qFoolish because it will never be THAT serious, but it was interesting earlier when Bagi asked him to tell him about himself so she could trust him more, and he just... vaguely answers. He gives a few jokes like oh bananas and capybaras, but then says 'There's a lot of things I like, and very few things I don't like'. Any other egg parent would probably list their egg immediately but I feel like it's 100% deliberate he didn't mention Leo, or even Vegetta for that matter
I don't know. I think it's just one of the small ways he tries to protect either himself or what he cares about by not letting others know what's close to him. And man when I think back to when Mouse said he didn't care about Leo, he just strained a laugh and didn't answer. Sometimes I wonder if the way Forever and Mike treated Leo in the past made him all the more afraid of showing his affection so she wouldn't be a target to get back at him
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