( so, he's been back in the dating game awhile. he's not as rusty as he was back in his little sailor outfit (and whoo boy, if Eddie finds his polos slutty!), Steve is more or less back in the swing of things. but he's also never flirted with a girl that accused him of having a slutty waist or wearing slutty poured on polos, and look, what if he's reading into things? Dustin would probably disown him for making things weird with Eddie, because Steve got a wire crossed somewhere and was looking for more that wasn't there.
so, You know anybody into slutty jocks in polos? Maybe a hot rocker girl with dark eyes and goddamn skull rings and jeans so distressed I really struggle to understand how they stay on at all? is just too on the nose. gotta proceed with caution, here. who the hell knows, maybe she really is just calling it like she sees it (slutty, the whole boy is slutty, head to toe). maybe, MAYBE! Eddie just flirts with all her friends, that's just. you know. cool. Steve is fine with that. yeah. )
Absolutely. If you aren't sure about the slutty polo and waist situation, I'll cover up a bit more.
[ She does kind of flirt with all her friends, but it's usually less on the "telling them they look slutty in a way that makes it obvious it's definitely a compliment" end of the spectrum and more on the "tackle them to the ground and make fun of them for their haircut" end instead.
She definitely doesn't spend an embarrassing amount of time staring at their asses in their stupid slutty jeans, or contemplate just how much of their waists she can span with her hands, or watch the way their hair flops with a morbid kind of fascination. Her hair could never behave the way Steve's does, like gravity is just a suggestion and it's not feeling like complying, thanks. Her hair just goes everywhere all the time and she's stopped trying to corral it.
Look. The point is, Steve dresses like a dorky suburban mom and it's distressingly attractive because he's a hot boy with a hot body and fuck. She wants to bite him again. ] it's very kind of you to look out for the rest of us, steve. watch out for your wrists, too. wrists can be surprisingly slutty, not a lot of people know that.
( slutty polo? sure. slutty waist? okay. dresses like a dorky suburban mom? nope, lost him there, good thing that was a "why am i into this" internal monologue only. )
Hold on, wrists? How are wrists slutty? Everybody knows fingers are the sexy part of the hand. Get real.
[ He does! And she's into it!! It's terrible!!! ] false. i mean sure, fingers are sexy, you're not wrong there. but the wrist... that's the good stuff. a guy with nice wrists can get any girl all a-flutter like a victorian maiden.
[ Also false, she absolutely has, because she's watched Mike get picked up from Hellfire more than once. Karen Wheeler is a babe. Steve should be flattered by the comparison. Ted Wheeler looks like he's made out of library paste. ] it's a compliment! i just said you had nice wrists and that they COULD be considered slutty. not that they themselves were slutty. i mean if you want me to keep going i can list all your other slutty body parts.
[ She will hate his sweaters. Hate them so much she'll want to see one on her bedroom floor. ] hey, i never said it was a bad thing. just that if you go around looking slutty and biteable you gotta be prepared for people to bite you. especially when you give them permission. this one's on you, harrington.
oh baby, you ain't seen a lecture yet, believe you me.
[ Eddie can and happily will launch into a full on hour-long presentation about any topic if given the opportunity. Steve better prepare himself for diagrams about slutty wrists and ankles. ] then what were you angling for?
( Steve feels strangely stupid, now that he is sober, and apparently he tried to hit on Eddie and she took it as invitation to chomp on his forearm instead of what he intended. how do you explain drunk logic when you aren't drunk and have it make any sense. )
My mouth. I wanted you to know what my mouth tasted like. Not my arm.
[ When he puts it like THAT it seems really obvious. Now she's also feeling stupid.
In her defense, she's really not used to boys like Steve hitting on her. Either they're a lot more crass about it — she's been asked for a blowjob while actively selling drugs before, like giving away a service for free in the middle of a cash transaction makes any sense at all — or they look at her like she's some kind of wart-covered toad. She wasn't prepared! ] first of all, you probably just tasted like beer and weed and i know what that tastes like. but also, if you wanted to make out you could have just said!
( somewhere, somehow, Robin can SENSE he's striking out. another tally has been drawn on the "you suck" side. )
I was trying to be... I don't know. Flirty? But now that you've brought up the whole beer and weed thing, probably for the best you decided to bite me instead.
hey, i never said i didn't like the taste of beer and weed.
[ Robin needs to slow her roll, okay, there's still time to get a tally mark on the other side of the board. ] do you need a demonstration? here. watch and learn. hey steve. your slutty little waist and dorky polo shirts have bewitched me. you wanna make out?
( damn. she's good. as always Eddie makes this shit seem so easy!! Steve really thought he was good at flirting with girls, before he tried to flirt with Eddie. )
Yeah, I definitely do. Though, I don't taste like weed and beer right now, if that's what you're into.
[ He can't see her silently freaking out and chewing her fingernails down to little nubs while she waits for his response. Hopefully if he's repulsed now that he's not drunk and/or high they can play it off as a joke.
Hopefully he's not...
Oh. He's not. Okay. Shit. That's great. Nice. ] i think i'll find a way to soldier on through the disappointment.
You think or you know? I could use a bit more confidence on this one.
( he cannot fuck things up with Eddie by taking a risk on a makeout she isn't sure she won't be disappointed by. dustin would LITERALLY murder him. and for his slutty wrists and slutty polos, Steve's confidence just ain't where it used to be. )
fishing for compliments already and you haven't even kissed me yet. is this going to become a pattern, sweetheart?
[ There's like a 0.002% chance she'll be disappointed by Steve making out with her. Even if it's just for the novelty factor, she'll have a good time. And if he's terrible at it, well, that'll give her more ammunition to make fun of him with for the rest of time, so that's a win in her book. ]
[ How could he not be sure if they were compliments? She's not going to go around telling him his chest hair is sexy or something, that would be so weird. ] steve, what part of me biting you makes you think i don't want to kiss you? if i wasn't interested i would have just pushed you out of your chair and told you to fuck off.
sounds like you hang out with the wrong kind of girls, honestly.
[ She'd typed out something a lot more defensive at first but made herself delete it and try again. She's capable of some restraint! Also, she's stuck on the I don't want to screw things up with you part. Huh?? ] look. we'd been drinking. i thought maybe sticking my tongue down your throat would be really awkward for like a million different reasons. sorry for looking out for you.
( welcome to the entire basis of his character arc, eddie )
Yeah, I get it. That it could have gone bad, I mean.
( hence the fact tipsy Steve was the one with the balls to try and make a move. sober Steve is the more responsible one, that doesn't want to ruin a friendship with want kiss pretty girl. that doesn't want to make things weird and uncomfortable when they're sharing Henderson custody and who knows when the world is gonna try and end again. but... it's out there. right? tipsy Steve shot his shot, and sober Steve confirmed it.
so might as well just ask what he's wanted to ask for awhile now. )
It still could be, you know. Awkward. So if you still want to look out for me, you better let me know quick, before I ask you what you're doing tonight.
[ Steve may have fallen off his pedestal, but she spent four years of her life going to school with him, there's still a part of her that looks at him and thinks King Steve, the jock with the good hair and bitchy friends, the mean-girl bullying they'd indulge in with anyone who didn't keep their heads down. He was never cruel to her, not directly, but some patterns of behavior are ingrained early on and hard to break.
Plus, y'know. She's only a mere mortal. Getting rejected by the hottest guy at school — yes, he's not in school any more, shut up — would bruise her ego pretty solidly.
Better to make it weird by biting him. Obviously. ] eh. i'm not really all that responsible. you're sober now, you're on your own.
( honestly she has a point sometimes you just gotta put a boy in his place canines first )
What are you doing tonight? I'm really hoping it is making out with me in the back of the movie theater, but I'd hate to assume.
( unbelievably, he still feels out on a limb on this. despite the bite mark still in his arm and this entire goddamn conversation. it's like he's back in the sailor suit, his chances of failure tallied on a whiteboard behind him. it's just a lot harder to ask a girl out when you already know you like her, turns out. )
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Date: 2022-10-03 03:28 am (UTC)so, You know anybody into slutty jocks in polos? Maybe a hot rocker girl with dark eyes and goddamn skull rings and jeans so distressed I really struggle to understand how they stay on at all? is just too on the nose. gotta proceed with caution, here. who the hell knows, maybe she really is just calling it like she sees it (slutty, the whole boy is slutty, head to toe). maybe, MAYBE! Eddie just flirts with all her friends, that's just. you know. cool. Steve is fine with that. yeah. )
Absolutely. If you aren't sure about the slutty polo and waist situation, I'll cover up a bit more.
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Date: 2022-10-03 03:39 am (UTC)She definitely doesn't spend an embarrassing amount of time staring at their asses in their stupid slutty jeans, or contemplate just how much of their waists she can span with her hands, or watch the way their hair flops with a morbid kind of fascination. Her hair could never behave the way Steve's does, like gravity is just a suggestion and it's not feeling like complying, thanks. Her hair just goes everywhere all the time and she's stopped trying to corral it.
Look. The point is, Steve dresses like a dorky suburban mom and it's distressingly attractive because he's a hot boy with a hot body and fuck. She wants to bite him again. ]
it's very kind of you to look out for the rest of us, steve. watch out for your wrists, too. wrists can be surprisingly slutty, not a lot of people know that.
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Date: 2022-10-04 04:02 am (UTC)slutty waist? okay.
dresses like a dorky suburban mom? nope, lost him there, good thing that was a "why am i into this" internal monologue only. )
Hold on, wrists? How are wrists slutty? Everybody knows fingers are the sexy part of the hand. Get real.
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Date: 2022-10-04 12:56 pm (UTC)false. i mean sure, fingers are sexy, you're not wrong there. but the wrist... that's the good stuff. a guy with nice wrists can get any girl all a-flutter like a victorian maiden.
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Date: 2022-10-05 01:48 am (UTC)I don't know, Munson. No other girl has implied my wrists were slutty.
I'm starting to think this is personal.
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Date: 2022-10-05 01:57 am (UTC)it's a compliment! i just said you had nice wrists and that they COULD be considered slutty. not that they themselves were slutty.
i mean if you want me to keep going i can list all your other slutty body parts.
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:08 am (UTC)I'm starting to think it'd be just about anything.
Maybe I'm fine having (maybe) slutty wrists and shirts and waists, you ever think about that?
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:11 am (UTC)hey, i never said it was a bad thing.
just that if you go around looking slutty and biteable you gotta be prepared for people to bite you. especially when you give them permission. this one's on you, harrington.
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:32 am (UTC)( a lot of wasted effort, if that is the case. since the only thing that bothers him about it is that he doesn't really remember that well. )
Just so you know, asking you what I tasted like wasn't angling for you to bite me.
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:39 am (UTC)[ Eddie can and happily will launch into a full on hour-long presentation about any topic if given the opportunity. Steve better prepare himself for diagrams about slutty wrists and ankles. ]
then what were you angling for?
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:57 am (UTC)My mouth. I wanted you to know what my mouth tasted like. Not my arm.
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:03 am (UTC)[ When he puts it like THAT it seems really obvious. Now she's also feeling stupid.
In her defense, she's really not used to boys like Steve hitting on her. Either they're a lot more crass about it — she's been asked for a blowjob while actively selling drugs before, like giving away a service for free in the middle of a cash transaction makes any sense at all — or they look at her like she's some kind of wart-covered toad. She wasn't prepared! ]
first of all, you probably just tasted like beer and weed and i know what that tastes like. but also, if you wanted to make out you could have just said!
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:23 am (UTC)I was trying to be... I don't know. Flirty? But now that you've brought up the whole beer and weed thing, probably for the best you decided to bite me instead.
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:29 am (UTC)[ Robin needs to slow her roll, okay, there's still time to get a tally mark on the other side of the board. ]
do you need a demonstration? here. watch and learn.
hey steve. your slutty little waist and dorky polo shirts have bewitched me. you wanna make out?
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:44 am (UTC)Yeah, I definitely do. Though, I don't taste like weed and beer right now, if that's what you're into.
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:50 am (UTC)Hopefully he's not...
Oh. He's not. Okay. Shit. That's great. Nice. ]
i think i'll find a way to soldier on through the disappointment.
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Date: 2022-10-09 08:47 pm (UTC)( he cannot fuck things up with Eddie by taking a risk on a makeout she isn't sure she won't be disappointed by. dustin would LITERALLY murder him. and for his slutty wrists and slutty polos, Steve's confidence just ain't where it used to be. )
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Date: 2022-10-09 08:51 pm (UTC)[ There's like a 0.002% chance she'll be disappointed by Steve making out with her. Even if it's just for the novelty factor, she'll have a good time. And if he's terrible at it, well, that'll give her more ammunition to make fun of him with for the rest of time, so that's a win in her book. ]
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Date: 2022-10-09 08:56 pm (UTC)( Eddie compliments as weird as she flirts, but, you know. he's like 90% sure. )
I'm just saying you don't have to "soldier through" something you don't wanna do.
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Date: 2022-10-09 08:59 pm (UTC)[ How could he not be sure if they were compliments? She's not going to go around telling him his chest hair is sexy or something, that would be so weird. ]
steve, what part of me biting you makes you think i don't want to kiss you? if i wasn't interested i would have just pushed you out of your chair and told you to fuck off.
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Date: 2022-10-09 09:15 pm (UTC)[ She'd typed out something a lot more defensive at first but made herself delete it and try again. She's capable of some restraint! Also, she's stuck on the I don't want to screw things up with you part. Huh?? ]
look. we'd been drinking. i thought maybe sticking my tongue down your throat would be really awkward for like a million different reasons. sorry for looking out for you.
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Date: 2022-10-09 09:24 pm (UTC)Yeah, I get it. That it could have gone bad, I mean.
( hence the fact tipsy Steve was the one with the balls to try and make a move. sober Steve is the more responsible one, that doesn't want to ruin a friendship with want kiss pretty girl. that doesn't want to make things weird and uncomfortable when they're sharing Henderson custody and who knows when the world is gonna try and end again. but... it's out there. right? tipsy Steve shot his shot, and sober Steve confirmed it.
so might as well just ask what he's wanted to ask for awhile now. )
It still could be, you know. Awkward. So if you still want to look out for me, you better let me know quick, before I ask you what you're doing tonight.
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Date: 2022-10-09 09:30 pm (UTC)Plus, y'know. She's only a mere mortal. Getting rejected by the hottest guy at school — yes, he's not in school any more, shut up — would bruise her ego pretty solidly.
Better to make it weird by biting him. Obviously. ]
eh. i'm not really all that responsible. you're sober now, you're on your own.
[ Ask her, Steve. ]
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Date: 2022-10-09 09:43 pm (UTC)What are you doing tonight? I'm really hoping it is making out with me in the back of the movie theater, but I'd hate to assume.
( unbelievably, he still feels out on a limb on this. despite the bite mark still in his arm and this entire goddamn conversation. it's like he's back in the sailor suit, his chances of failure tallied on a whiteboard behind him. it's just a lot harder to ask a girl out when you already know you like her, turns out. )
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