𝐢 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟

ii. BEST FRIEND

    

THE NEXT day, Icarus and Chris again, went to get ice cream and Steve serves them. "Hey, do you wanna hang out later?" Steve asked and Icarus looks at Chris. "Oh, Chris and I will be going to a movie.." He says as he licks his ice cream.

"We never get to hang out.." Steve said, as they had said the night before and Icarus nods. "Yeah, but I promised Chris.." He says and Steve nods. "Cool.." He looks down, opening the cash register. "I'm sorry.." Icarus says and Steve just hands him back the money. "I'll see you tonight though, right?" He says and Steve shook his head.

"No, I can't, my dad gave me shit for last night.." He says and Icarus nods. "Whatever.." He mumbled, turning away and walking back over to Chris. Robin opens the windows and Steve sighs.

"You are oh-for-six, Popeye." She says and he turns around to face her. "Yeah, yeah, I can count." He nods his head and she smiled. "You know that means you suck. Especially at being a best friend." She says and he sighs, looking away.

"Yep, I can read, too."

"Since, when?" She asked then put the board away as he walks over. "I'm just worried!" He says and she looks at him. "Of what? Of what he'll think of you?" She asked with amusement.

"Just tell him the truth," she says and he looks at her. "I can't just tell him I couldn't even get into Tech and that my douchebag dad's trying to teach me a lesson, he'll think I'm a loser. I could be out there, spending time with him, my bo-best friend but instead I'm stuck here, making three bucks an hour.. And not to mention, I have no future.. He'll totally never wanna talk to me." He says.

"The truth's better.." She says and he looks at her, rolling his eyes. She points behind him and he turns around. "Ahoy, ladies." He says.

At one of the stores, Icarus sat outside the changing rooms, eating the rest of his ice cream when Chris walked out in a pair of blue jeans. "Do these look nice? Make my butt look fine?" He says, asking the last part in a teasing tone.

Icarus rolls his eyes, "they look fine.. Why do you need new pants?" He asked and Chris turns around. "Because I ripped one of my pairs... doing something." He nods as he smiled a bit.

Icarus gave an amused look. "Hey, we should go swimming today." He grinned and Chris rolls his eyes. "To get stared at? Hell no." He says then walks back into the changing rooms.

"Hey, do you speak other languages? I'm just curious. I wanna get into learning Spanish." Icarus asked and Chris peaks his head out. "Sí, da, in fact, I learned Spanish, Russian and Italian. I totally recommend you do learn Spanish, it's a great language." He says before going back into the changing room and Icarus just slowly nods.

"Let's just go to the movie already." Chris said and Icarus sighs. "I wanna go swimming, we should go tomorrow." He says and Chris walks out with the pants that he had just tried on.

"Maybe." He said and walked away. Icarus stood up and followed him to the cash register. "Come on, I really would love to go swimming and besides, I have no one else to go with. Jonathan and Nancy are working at the Hawkins post, Steve's working at Scoops, you're the only one that I'm able to hang out with." He complained.

"Fine, but only if you shut your trap."

Later that night, Icarus was at home watching television and eating macaroni and cheese when the phone started ringing. He sighs, getting up from the couch and running into the kitchen. He grabs the phone and held it to his ear.

"Hi." He says and he knew it was Steve when the person sighed. "Hi." Steve replied and Icarus smiled. "Stevie.." He says and then just waited. "Right! I-I called to.. tell you something.." He says and Icarus furrows his eyebrows together.

"Yeah? What is it?" He asked and Steve sighs. "Um.. I.. I.." He stammered. "Steve?" Icarus said, twirling the cord around his finger as he looks down. "I love you." Steve says and Icarus chuckles. "You're so weird.. I love you too." He says.

"You're weird." Steve says and Icarus rolls his eyes. "Um.. can we talk tomorrow? Come to Scoops when you're free." He says and Icarus smiles to himself. "You're not breaking up with me, are you? That's what talking usually means and I'd rather not do it in person." He tells him.

"No! What? Rus, no, I love you, I'm not breaking up with you.." Steve said and Icarus chuckles. "Oh, okay.." He says as he looks down before looking up at the clock. "Then what is it?" He asked and Steve sighs. "Something.. important." He says and Icarus just slowly nodded his head.

"I'll see you tomorrow then.." Icarus said as he smiled. "No.. no.. Can we stay on the phone a little while longer?" He asked and Icarus smiled wider. "Okay.. what are you doing right now?" He asked and Steve sighs. "Perv.." He whispers.

"You're the one who wanted to stay on the phone! So... tell me." He says and Steve smiles. "I'm in bed, looking at photos.." He says and Icarus grins widely. "What kind of photos, perv?" He asked and Steve blushed. "Photos of us.." He says and Icarus smiles more softer this time.

"You are such a sap.." He says and Steve rolls his eyes. "Oh, gosh, I just found a yearbook. You have long hair in it. Aw, you look adorable!" He cooed and Icarus rolls his eyes, leaning against the wall. "I will hang up, Steve Adam Harrington." He says and Steve scoffs. "My middle name is not Adam."

"Then I'll just keep guessing until you tell me what it is. Is it Ryan? Brian? Freddie? Oh, Mark?" He says and Steve sighs. "It's Morgan.." He whispers and Icarus smiled. "Steve Morgan Harrington? That's so cute!" He cooed this time.

"Shut up."

"You love it."

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

authors note aw spoiler alert, they have an argument next chapter :)