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It wasn’t every night your parents would leave you to take care of your 8 month old sister, but after your father got a promotion at his job, they wanted to celebrate. You really didn’t want to ruin their celebration, so you offered to take care of little Anna for as long as they needed you to.
The only bad part was that you had to cancel your date with your boyfriend. You were dating Steve Harrington, the “King” of the school. He had told he really didn’t care about that title, and it was a bit stupid. You have been dating for at least 3 months, and your parents absolutely adored him, and you like to think his parents adore you too.
Anyway, Steve had been a bit upset when you told him you had to cancel. You were both going to watch a movie at his house since you worked at the theater and didn’t want to be there any longer than you needed to.
“Come on (y/n), we’ve been planning this for a week,” Steve said over the phone, you sighed.
“I know, I know- maybe tomorrow I can come over,” you said, feeling bad. Steve was silent for a moment.
“I’ll let it slide this time, but you have to promise me that we’ll spend the whole day together.” You furrowed your eyebrows.
“The whole day?” you asked, you can see him nodding.
“Yup! To make up for all the other times you had to cancel!” You scoffed.
“I only canceled once before this!” you claimed, he hummed.
“All day tomorrow so clear your schedule, babe,” You were silent for a moment, before a smile grew on your lips.
“I’ll get to that…I’m really sorry, Steve,” you apologized again.
“It’s alright (y/n), what are you doing anyway, I didn’t even ask,”
“I have to watch Anna, my parents are going out to celebrate or something,” you shrugged, moving on your stomach, holding your phone against your ear.
“You have to babysit?” he asked, his voice changing suddenly, like he was excited. You nodded as if he could see you.
“Yeah- I’m not canceling on you for no reason,” you laughed, Steve laughed as well. Your heart sped up because you really loved hearing his laugh.
“You know what- our date is not being canceled, tell your parents I’ll be there in 10 minutes,” Your smile fell, and you tilted your head.
“What?”
“You heard me! I’ll be there in ten minutes,” You could just hear him get up, and grab his car keys. You sat up.
“Steve! My parents aren’t going to like it if my boyfriend comes over while they’re gone- they might think-”
“Come on- we’re going to babysit, that’s all! I’ll see you in ten minutes! Love you!” Your jaw dropped. Was he seriously going to come over?
“(y/n)?” his voice broke you out of your thoughts and you shook off.
“I love you too, but if my parents turn you away at the door- don’t blame me!” He laughed, and you did too, before the line went dead.
Your parents were just on their way out, your mom’s hair all done up and pretty, and your dad in his best suit, you wondered just where exactly they were going. You held Anna in your arms, not quite sure how to tell them that Steve was inviting himself over and will probably be at the door in 2 seconds.
“We’ll be back around 11, (y/n), the pizza just got delivered so you won’t have to cook…you know where Anna’s food is, and-”
“I know dad,” you cut him off. He paused and just smiled.
“Okay then…well…I think we’ll be on our wa-”
“Hey-um…I kind of had a date tonight with Steve, so I told him our date was canceled,” your mom and dad watched you, listening intently to your words, “And he kind of invited himself over to help watch- and I tried to tell him no- but he wouldn’t listen so…he kind of is-”
“Already here! Hey there Mr. and Mrs. (y/l/n),” Steve was suddenly at your doorstep, smile on his lips, and hair all perfect and thick. You parents turned around, staring at him while you held you breath. Steve gave your parents a smile that had won them over the first time you brought him over for dinner.
It was your mother who turned to look at you first, nodding slowly.
“Yeah…okay…so Steve’s here…” Your dad turned around too, and you can just feel them about to say “go the hell home steve”.
Steve’s eyes caught yours as your parents now stared at one another, as if having some mind conversation with their eyes. You gave him an ‘are you serious’ look, he just smirked and shrugged.
Your dad suddenly turned to you, giving you a hard look.
“What are you guys going to do?” he interrogated, you were about to speak when Steve did instead.
“Well we were supposed to see a movie- so we’re going to watch a movie,” he suddenly held up some random movie you couldn’t tell what, “After Anna goes to sleep of course- we’ll mostly just be babysitting- also…” he looked at your dad, “Congratulations on that promotion, that’s really, really cool,”
Your dad smiled, “Thank you Steve,” you watched the interaction with wide eyes, “It’ll be really good for us,” Steve nodded.
“I bet, I bet- and Mrs. (y/l/n), new haircut?” Your mother smiled, “Looks great!”
“You’re too sweet Steve…how long will you be here?” she asked, he held his hand out to you.
“Until you guys come home, so she won’t be here all alone,” his eyes met yours, and your cheeks brightened up. Your parents were silent, before your dad nodded.
“Alright- if it gets too late…I better see you on the couch,” he pointed at Steve, who nodded quickly, his hair not even moving.
“Of course…you two have fun tonight…”
You chewed the inside of your cheek. Steve Harrington never ceased to amaze you. When your parents finally left, it was just you, your boyfriend, and Anna. Steve stood before you, holding both his arms before him.
“Smooth, am I right?” he asked, you just shook your head, fighting a smile.
“I can’t believe my parents even fell for that- that was lame,” you laughed, he shrugged.
“I’m a pretty good guy if you haven’t noticed- I can do a lot of things,” You reached out and hit his shoulder lightly, before trying to get passed him. He suddenly grabbed your free arm, and leaned down, pressing his lips to yours.
Anna began to whine once you pulled away from Steve, he looked down at her, resting his hands on his hips before reaching out to grab her. You handed her over.
“Someone must be hungry,” he said, resting her on his hip. She just began to cry, calling out for their mom. Steve frowned, “Nope…mama’s not here- it’s just your sister and her handsome boyfriend,” You rolled your eyes playfully as you wandered over to the kitchen, and began to prepare her food.
Steve entered after, a crying Anna still in his arms.
“So let’s see what’s on the menu, ah there’s a pizza…obviously not for you…” he snatched away one of the jars of baby food you had just set down, holding it close to his eyes to read, “A vegetable mix…wow it must suck be a baby,” You just watched, amused by him.
Anna stopped crying for a moment, starring at the food. Steve noticed and scoffed.
“You like this stuff? Well…if it gets you stop crying…”
“Oh my god Steve,” you suddenly laughed, he turned to you, eyes shining.
“What?”
“You’ve never been this way with her, and now you are and I think it’s become my favorite thing about you,” you smirked, taking back the babyfood and opening it.
“Your favorite thing about me? What was it before?” he asked, curious as he set Anna down in the high chair, next to the small table.
“I’ll tell you later,” you winked, and Steve smirked softly.
“Good. Keeping it pg, I like that (y/n), knowing there’s a child not even a year old here,” you shook your head while you let out a laugh. Steve was suddenly next to you, hands leaning on the counter behind him.
You turned around, looking up at him with Anna’s food in your hands, “Grab some plates for us yeah?”
“Oh yeah…you must not be able to reach them…well good thing I’m here…your parents made a good call letting me stay you know-”
If it were possible, you would be on the floor laughing right now because he was being so damn weird and funny right now. You knew he could be this way, but not as much as he was right now. You kicked him lightly.
“Just shut up and do it!” you said, not serious of course. Steve sighed.
“Since you asked nicely…I guess I will…” he reached over after you walked pass him and set down Anna’s food in front of her.
After you were done eating, you changed Anna’s diaper and proceeded to put her to sleep. Well…not you…Steve was doing most of the work.
You both sat there in the living room, the movie Steve brought playing on the television, and Anna laying on Steve’s chest, asleep. Steve looked as if he was about to fall asleep…honestly it was the cutest thing ever and probably was the moment you realized you wanted to be with Steve forever until you both died.
You thought back about when Steve first asked you out, you had known him for quite a while, and didn’t really pay much mind to him until you started to work at the theater. He came in quite a bit, but always with Nancy Wheeler, his exe girlfriend. You didn’t know her that well either, but you knew he had been dating her for a long time.
You noticed when they stopped coming, and being just a bit nosy, you figured out that they were no longer together. You also noticed that he was starting to notice you, like in the hall of school as you went through your locker you would catch him starring, or how in class he was suddenly sitting next your seat or that he came to the theater quite a bit everytime you had your shift. You were pretty sure you caught him outside once, and the moment you clocked in, he ran inside. It was beyond confusing, until the day came when he approached you.
“You’re (y/n) right? You work at the theater?” he asked, leaning next to your locker. You slowly nodded.
“Yeah..” oh you would know, you had thought, why don’t you tell me my whole work schedule,“Why?”
“I’ve seen you around a lot,”
Of course you’ve seen me around when you’re somehow everywhere I’m going to be
“Well…we do have English together…” Steve pointed at you.
“We do…hey so I wondering since you work at the theater-”
It was that moment you realized why he was “stalking” you, he just wanted what everyone else wanted when they knew you worked there!
“I’m not getting you free movie tickets for you and some random girl!!” you slapped his hand away. He looked at you with wide eyes, before looking around because you had said that really loud.
“What? No! I wasn’t going to say that- I wasn’t even thinking that- wait you get free tickets?”
“Of course I do, I work at the theater,” you stated, “But they aren’t for random people I meet, got it?” Steve looked bewildered, before leaning forward.
“No- I was going to say this…since you work at the theater…you must like movies so…wanna go see a movie with me?”
You blinked, feeling your heart stop slightly. Your eyes were on each other for a moment, something clicked between you two…you felt it and so did he.
“You know I get in free, so now you’re trying to get me to go with you as a date! That’s real nice of you, Steve Harrington,” you sneered, shaking that feeling away. Steve blinked.
“No! It’s not- I was asking you out on a date! Was it not obvious?” he stopped you from closing your locker. You stared at him for a moment, eyes squinting still not sure, “…we don’t have to see a movie…we can go out, get something to eat…hang out…watch the sunset…whatever you want,” he smiled, showing his pearly white teeth that seemed to just sparkle. You were beyond confused, but completely flattered. He wanted to date you?
It took a moment, before your cheeks burned up and you gave a small smile, “Seriously?”
“I wouldn’t be asking you if I wasn’t serious, (y/n)…”
You licked your lips softly, before nodding.
“Okay.”
He smiled, releasing your locker.
“I’ll pick you up after your 4 o’clock shift on Saturday…” You blinked.
“HOW DO YOU KNOW MY SCHEDULE?” You blurted out loud, Steve just laughed loudly, eyes sparkling when they met your horrified ones.
You let out a loud laugh after the memory replayed in your mind, so loud that Steve suddenly jolted awake from his spot on your couch. He blinked, seeming to be confused at where he was or why there was a sound asleep baby on his chest until his sleepy eyes fell on you.
“Keep it down over there,” he murmured, rubbing his eye, “We’re trying to sleep…” You just laughed quieter this time.
“I’m sorry, I was just thinking about how you tried to use me to get free movie tickets…”
Steve grunted.
“That was a really shitty way to ask you out on a date…” he chuckled, remembering exactly what you were talking about.
“Well…it wasn’t that shitty if it worked,” you said, Steve smiled and nodded, reaching out to grab your hand.
“I guess so…”
You held his hand, feeling how perfect his felt in yours. You were honestly in love with Steve. The way he talks, the way he looks, the way he laughs, the way he looks at you, the way he asked you out, and the way he handles your little sister with so much care and fun and so much more. Wow. You loved the hell out of him.
“You know what…she can sleep in her crib now,” you said, feeling the sudden urge to kiss Steve all over his stupid face come over.
“But we’re so comfortable,” he whined. You smirked.
“I still have to tell you what my old favorite thing about you was…”
It was at that exact second Steve’s eyes perked open, wide awake, and asked, “Why the hell isn’t she in her crib yet?”
You laughed, watching him stand up, careful not to wake her, and speed-walk towards her bedroom like his life depended on it.
You were really happy you ended up having to cancel that “date”, and you were pretty sure Steve was too.