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“Hey,” you say, smiling up at your boyfriend and allowing him into your home.
“Hey,” he responds before stepping inside and leaning down to kiss you. His hands come to your waist and yours come to the back of his neck as if you could pull him any closer. You feel Eddie begin to smile against your lips as he takes a few steps forwards, causing your back to softly come into contact with your kitchen cabinets.
“Eddie,” you laugh between kisses. He tries to hold back his own laughter in favor of keeping his lips on yours, but ultimately fails and pulls away just enough to rest his forehead against yours and look you in the eyes.
“Where’ve you been today? I came by yours earlier and no one was there,” you ask, looking between those big brown eyes that drive you crazy in the best way.
“I’ve just been running errands, you know… normal stuff,” Eddie says with a lopsided smile.
“‘Normal stuff’ huh?”
“Yep.” He pops the ‘P’ at the end of the word. “Now are we gonna go to your room or…. should I keep kissing you here?”
“Oh my god, come on.” You roll your eyes and grab Eddie’s hand, pulling him down the hall and to your room. You close your door behind you and pull Eddie onto your bed so you can lay on him while you talk.
“How was your day?” He asks as you make yourself comfortable resting your head on his arm and throwing a leg over his, while he rests one of his hands on your waist, stroking his thumb across the skin where your shirt rode up.
You sigh a contented sigh, “It was good. I cleaned the kitchen and my room, and I was planning on cooking later before my mom gets home.”
“You should’ve broken into my house and cleaned my room for me.”
“Honestly I should have, with how dirty it is and how little you clean it.”
Eddie fakes an offended gasp. “You dare insult me?”
You laugh and wrap an arm around his neck. “Yes, I do dare.”
“I thought us dating meant you’re supposed to be nice to me now.”
“I am very nice to you.”
You tilt your head up and close the gap between the two of you with a long, slow kiss. Eddie returns the kiss, gripping your waist slightly tighter, and you feel his rings leaving indents in your skin, but you have to admit you don’t mind it. You start to move your lips faster against Eddie’s, and he is more than happy to adapt to the change. He shifts up onto one forearm to hold his body over yours, his long hair dangling on either side of your face and tickling your cheeks. Eddie keeps that other hand on your waist, still moving his thumb back and forth across your skin, a habit he has that you eventually picked up on. As the two of you get more into the kiss, Eddie lightly biting on your bottom lip, you slowly push your hands up the bottom of his shirt and allow your hands to explore his lower torso. You start to raise your hands higher on his chest, but Eddie pulls away for a moment.
“Wait,” he says between heavy breaths.
You quickly pull your hands away from him, worried that you made him uncomfortable. “Are you okay, Eds? Did I make you uncomfortable?” You ask.
“No,” Eddie’s eyebrows shoot up as he looks into your eyes, “no, no, no. You didn’t do anything wrong. I just…”
He sits back for a moment and you prop yourself up on your elbows behind you, wanting to give his words the proper attention.
“You know how you’ve finally seen all of my tattoos?” Eddie asks. You furrow your eyebrows.
“Yeah…?” You’re confused by the sudden topic of conversation.
“Well… there’s actually one more you haven’t seen. And I wanted to show you.” He smiles softly at you, and while you’re still a bit confused, you chuckle at how adorable he is.
“Okay. I’d love to see it,” you smile back at him.
“Well then I must oblige,” Eddie grins and pulls his shirt off over his head. He flips his hair back as he leans back upright and your eyes are immediately drawn to a tattoo on the left side of his chest, right above his heart, where the ink is clearly fresh and the skin around it is slightly red. You quickly sit up, reaching out a hand but not quite touching the tattoo, knowing that it could still be tender.
“Well… do you like it?” Eddie asks, you can tell from his voice that he’s a bit nervous. Your eyes finally flick from his chest up to his eyes, which are looking at you expectantly. You probably look like an idiot, your mouth is hanging open slightly and your eyes are wide.
“Did you… did you get a tattoo of my favorite flower?” you ask, looking back down at the inked flower. The petals are incredibly detailed, with beautiful line variation and shading, and you can tell it was tattooed with care.
Eddie laughs nervously. “Uh, yeah. Yeah, I did.” He pauses for a moment. “Shit, you hate it… I’m sorry, I’ll just go… rip my skin off for you.” You can tell he’s half joking and half actually worried you hate it.
“No! Eddie, this is… so sweet. It looks amazing, I can’t believe you got this done. I love it so much.” You look back up at him once again and see relief on his features, which is then quickly replaced by concern when he notices the tears welling up in your eyes.
“Yeah? You really like it?” He lifts a hand to your cheek, ready to wipe away tears at a moment’s notice.
“Yes, oh my god,” you laugh through the tears threatening to spill and quickly pull Eddie into a hug, careful not to mess up the protective wrapping on top of the tattoo. Eddie wraps his own arms tightly around you, pressing his face into the side of your neck.
“You are so corny, you know that?” You tease.
“Yeah, I know. It’s my dirty little secret.” You feel him smile against your neck and when he lets out a deep breath, the air tickles your skin. “I’m also really fucking glad you like it, otherwise this would’ve been really embarrassing.”
You both laugh at that. After a couple more seconds, you finally pull away.
“Is this what you were really doing today?” you ask.
“Maybe…” Eddie scratches the back of his neck.
“You dork, you’re so sweet.”
You fall back on the bed, pulling Eddie down to lay back next to you like before. You stare at him for a minute, a huge grin adorning your face, while admiring the smile on his face as well.
“I love you,” you tell him.
“I love you too,” he replies.
And he presses his lips to yours once again.