wires, steve harrington

thirty-one.

meadow raised a brow. "and i'm assuming you're eddie, right?"

he shrugged his shoulders. "yeah, guess so." he smiled. "you know, henderson didn't tell me that you knew about the campaign, you should've joined."

normally, something like this would remind her of the situation with billy. long hair boy, kind of weird, flirting with her, or whatever was happening here. but meadow strangely had a feeling that the two boys weren't anything alike. despite what she'd thought of eddie prior, something about his smile seemed genuine, as well as his offer.

she nodded her head. "yeah, i would've, i was busy tonight, though. looks like you guys didn't need me though, right? you got the cult?" meadow asked, tuning to look at her brother.

mike nodded for him. "yeah, and vecna came back!"

meadow's brows furrowed. "i thought he'd died weeks ago?"

"yeah, we thought so, too!" dustin replied, putting his hands on his hat. "but it was okay, we fought him to the death."

his sister's brows raised. "oh, to the death, huh?"

eddie watched this conversation with amusement. meadow had heard all about eddie; how he'd been there for her brother and his friends when the rest of the school saw them as losers. for that, she was forever grateful for him. she also knew that, no matter how much steve hated it, dustin looked up to eddie.

"so, older.. henderson," the other teen spoke, "i've heard a lot about you from younger henderson."

meadow's brown raised again. "is that so?" she looked over to her brother. "good things, i hope."

eddie smiled. "he says you're a d&d master yourself."

she scoffed. "i wouldn't say master, but i have learned a thing or two playing with these distinguished gentlemen."

"you should join us next time, henderson."

"you can call her meadow." dustin said, wanting to have his nickname back.

eddie smiled again. "meadow." he maintained eye contact with her. "you know, you really should've joined the campaign tonight." he said, and she cleared her throat awkwardly.

"yeah, well i was on a date, so i had to miss out on this one. i'm just here to take dustin home."

"a date?" eddie's brow raised and his smile widened, and meadow internally cursed. what was her life?

"with steve harrington." dustin piqued, moving to stand by his sister. "they've been dating for like.. two years or something now."

she couldn't read the expression on eddie's face as he took in this information, but she put a hand on her brother's shoulder. "yep. good ol steve. okay, now let's go, please, mom wanted us home asap, remember?"

dustin lead the way outside, and they both found steve waiting in his car for them just outside the door. "how'd it go? did you win?" steve asked, sticking his head out of the window to get updates on the campaign.

steve didn't normally care about d&d, and he definitely didn't want to get caught dead playing it. but he did care about dustin, and therefore wanted to know about what was important to him.

"yeah, we won big time!" the boy replied with a smile, hopping into the backseat as his sister got in the front. "meadow got there right after erica rolled the winning twenty! it was incredible, the best match ever. i wish you guys would've seen the whole thing. eddie likes you already, you should come to the next-"

steve then raised a brow, looking at dustin through the rear view mirror. "eddie was there?" he turned to look at meadow.

"no, you are not doing this again."