(He’s) Just a Phase — Part 0
Part 1
It was 1989 when they broke up.
It was quiet. It was quick. It was devastating.
Most of all, Steve knew it was all because of him. If it had been another timeline with drastically different events, Steve was sure that his apartment wouldn’t feel so cold, so empty. In another life, Steve wouldn’t have made the same mistakes, and Steve would be in an apartment that actually felt like home.
That was not a wish that Steve could dream of anymore.
Steve was stuck in an apartment that felt too much like his parents’ house in Hawkins. Nothing in the apartment was his. The apartment held no memories or no warmth. Besides the furniture, one wouldn’t believe that anyone lived there. The apartment was clean — too clean. Cleaning meant that there wouldn’t be a reminder that there used to be something, or rather someone, that caused his heart to beat out of his chest or that caused him to feel safe.
Cleaning merely helped on the surface because underneath it all, Steve knew the truth.
Eddie was gone all because Steve hadn’t been ready.
Steve, now, wasn’t sure he would ever be ready. Even if the breakup left a giant black hole in his chest, the terrifying reality of being out scared the living shit out of him, but despite the terror that courses through his veins at the thought of telling someone, Steve hadn’t been strong enough to tell those closest to them or be proud of their relationship in safe places.
There were things Steve could blame for his hesitation. He surely could blame his parents, specifically his father, but it didn't matter. Steve made Eddie a victim of his insecurities. It didn't matter how patient Eddie had been; Steve would never have been ready for what Eddie wanted.
It wasn't until October of 1993, four years after Eddie left his life, that Steve did an unspeakable act, at least in the eyes of the Party.
Steve signed on to his walkie-talkie, newly bought months prior when his old one started to fall apart, and said his goodbyes. Not forever, but for now.
Robin had tried to show up at his apartment but was met with the sight of the landlord giving a tour of an empty apartment with a door that had an engraving of ‘E+S’ in Eddie’s shaky handwriting.
No one knew where Steve had gone. He had fallen off the grid.
He, however, was just under their noses. It was easy to hide in plain sight when no one had actually seen you in a long time. Sure, phone calls occurred, but life had gone on, and being spread out across the country made it difficult to meet, especially when everyone was an adult working some sort of 9-to-5. At first, not seeing any more made dread curl in Steve’s gut, but now, it was a safety net.
It was best that no one recognized Steve Harrington because he was about to ruin himself to the world, all in order to show Eddie Munson that he loved him more than the universe itself, and he was going to do in the only way that Eddie would listen, and that was with a busted guitar from the thrift store and mediocre voice.
All that Steve had to worry about was how Eddie was going to hear him from the top. After all, just a year after their break up, Corroded Coffin made it big.
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they gave heather and sierra sooo much yuri potential in the first few episodes of world tour and then they ruined it because the writers hate to see socially inept girl bosses winning. they gave us the girlfriends scene but at what cost…
NO BC THEY LITERALLY DID!!!!!! Episode 1 Heather WILLINGLY teams up with Sierra in the first challenge and everything literally falls from there. But the writers KNEW they would be too powerful if they stayed together like that so literally in the middle of the season they barely interact and it sucks BOOTY! It doesn't start picking back up until like the Australia episode I think and tbh, that's like the best part. They literally gave us Rapa Fruity... But yes they has so much potential to be a powerful duo in early tdwt but THEY DIDNT!!! BOOO!!! THIS SHOW IS YURIPHOBIC!!!!
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idk what even happened with cc because i was so obsessed with it around summer 2019, i was screaming crying throwing up (not literally) every time an episode came out, staying up until 7 am reading dadvid fanfiction, buying merch, talking pretty much only about camp camp every day. once that was over i figured “aw babys first hyperfixation” but NO because that literally never happened again and i have been comparatively VERY normal about every show i watched afterwards
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Thinking about how my ideal dynamic for a relationship is one in which we are of the same standing from a social perspective. Like, I have no IRL friends, and I'm trying to break away from some toxic family. I have nobody I want to introduce a partner to, and likewise I wouldn't want to end up getting awkwardly thrust into a partner's family or group of friends because it'd just make me anxious and raise my guard the entire time. It might be cold to say out loud, but I just doubt I'd be able to bring myself to care for those extra people. I'd rather have a partner who is in a similar situation to me where we can just support each other in an "us against the world" kinda thing. I hated being on the receiving end of this next thing, but in all honesty, I would probably be the "he hasn't talked to me ever since he got a relationship" person. I feel like I'm just built in such a way that I want to devote myself solely to one special person, and once I find that person, I feel like others are gonna matter significantly less to me. Idk. Sounds harsh, but idk.
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