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You met Eddie for the first time when you saw him talking with Chrissy

You knew she had problems with substance use/was interested in doing drugs, so you followed her to the forest when you didn’t believe her explanation of “going for a calming walk”.

You first told Eddie off

You thought he’s just some dealer who wants a customer from Chrissy and acts nice just because of that

And he was just starry eyed, looking at you scolding him.

“I don’t think he hears you anymore,” Chrissy whispered to you.

The boi was in love from that moment forward.

You had dragged Chrissy away from him and made her promise she wouldn’t take drugs again.

But the next morning, she had fallen a victim to something the police called a demonic sacrifice of some sort, and the body was found from Eddie’s home, his uncle’s trailer.

Chrissy’s boyfriend and his gang were certain Hellfire Club had something to do with it — more specifically, Eddie.

You knew Eddie wasn’t a murderer though.

He was weird, but in a class clown way.

Not in a creepy, murderous way.

Him advertising he’s worshipping the devil was clearly just messing around.

But the more people chanted about him doing it, and the fact that Eddie had disappeared…

You hated to admit it but you couldn’t help but think what if.

You ended up joining Dustin and his friends in search of Eddie anyway

You wanted to hear his version of what happened.

He had been hiding in a fishing shed all this time

And you thought he tried to kill Steve once you found him, which momentarily made you think the rumours were true

But Dustin calmed him down and he realised you weren’t there to hurt him.

He told you what happened

It sounded like he had gone mad

But others believed everything

You thought they were all mad

But they explained

And that’s when you learned about what all the strange disappearings and other events in Hawkins had been about

Supernatural activity wasn’t in your list of potential reasons, but apparently it was the actual explanation

Eddie comforted you about Chrissy

He told you that Chrissy came to his door later that night, asking for pills

He had hesitated because you had been so angry at him earlier that day

But he had agreed anyway

You walked through the forest and just talked about everything

And actually found out that you had a lot in common, even when you thought you would have nothing

He confessed he had admired you from afar for a long time

But he thought he would never have chances to get to know a cheerleader

Especially when a lot of your team was creeped out by him purely because he made a lot of devil jokes

He didn’t realise that one day the jokes would come back to bite his ass

You confessed you thought he’s cute

But the team was the reason why he didn’t pursue it further

They told you that he stands out as a woman beater

“I knew I shouldn’t listen to them,” you laughed now.

Fast forward to the last battle.

You jumped back to Upside Down the moment Dustin came back and told you Eddie tricked him to leave him behind.

You ran with tears in your eyes, scolding yourself for never telling him you had fallen in love

And once you reached him, he was already down.

The bats started to fly away the moment you saw him.

He laid there eyes closed.

“No no no, Eddie,” you begged him. “Wake up.”

He didn’t.

You sobbed, pressing your forehead against his.

And…

He drew in a sharp breath, making you stagger back.

“Eddie?” you gasped.

“Hi,” he croaked out.

You jumped into his arms, just in time for Dustin to rush back to you.

“Guys?” he panted, hands on his knees.

“He’s okay,” you choked out. “He’s all right.”

“I didn’t think playing dead would work on those fuckers,” Eddie murmured, before he groaned. “Still, they did nasty damage.”

You glanced back at Dustin. “Try to reach someone, we’re going to need help to get him out of here.”

Dustin nodded, running back towards the trailer, and you stroked Eddie’s hair back from his eyes.

Eddie smirked. “I guess I got the cheerleader princess after all. I kind of want to see Jason’s face when he learns that.”

“First we need to clear your name somehow,” you replied. “But I can’t imagine it being harder than all of this.”

Eddie hummed, bringing a hand on your cheek. “A kiss to make my pain better?”

You laughed, leaning down to finally, fnally, pressing your lips to his.