The fruity four calling each other endearing pet names to confuse everyone
It starts off as a joke between Steve and Robin, calling each other babe casually cause why not? It’s funny until Dustin hears them and immediately latches on their backs saying “oh my god, you guys are dating, I knew it” and this time he’s persistent on making them admit it.
Then, like an angel sent from the above (words Steve would not use to describe the man in any other situation), Eddie walks in Family Video and Steve decides to make one sober bad decision. He smiles at the metalhead and says, “hey baby, wasn’t expecting to see you here today.” And Eddie, bless him and his cute surprised expression, is shocked at first but then takes one good glance at Dustin and then at Steve and Robin and somehow grasps on the situation. He stops next to Dustin, pinches Steve’s cheek and says, “why, can’t I come just to see your pretty face sometimes, angel?” and maybe Steve blushes a little, maybe but that’s besides the point. The point is that it gets the little nerd to shut up and he looks like his head is going to explode trying to comprehend the situation.
To Dustin’s utter disapproval though, they don’t stop. The three casually keeps calling each other pet names, ranging from babe and baby to honeybunch, pumpkin, sugar and so on. Dustin can’t make heads or tails of it, seriously, who was dating who?
What’s even more frustrating is that no one seems to find it weird other than him.
They’re sitting on the floor of Mike’s basement, doing a little dnd play. Eddie’s sitting on one end of the table and Steve has his legs thrown over Eddie’s laps, his head on Robin’s thigh and he has a bag of chip in his hands. And that’s not the end of it, he’s sitting up every two minutes to feed Eddie and no one seems to bat an eye at them. He even wiped salt off Eddie’s lips with his thumb a couple of times and went back to laying on Robin’s thighs like his fingers weren’t on a man’s lips seconds ago.
At one point Nancy comes downstairs to ask, “hey guys, movie night after the kids go to bed?” Eddie and Steve show her a thumbs up and Robin excitedly yells “Yes! I get to choose the movie this time by the way.” Nancy nods and turns to leave when Eddie calls after her, “Nance, love, get me a glass of water please?”
“Yeah sure-” but surely, surely, Nancy isn’t a part of this right? There’s no way Nancy Wheeler was going to call Eddie Munson babe or something like that- “babe”
Dustin groans and Will chuckles next to him. What was Will getting here that he wasn’t?
And then Robin stands up, jogs over to her and kisses her cheek saying, “let me tag along, baby” and honestly? Dustin can’t take it anymore. He slams his hands on the table, shouting, “NO, no one leaves. I need answers, right now,” and this time Will actually starts laughing.
(It takes a minute for Steve to tell him that he’s dating Eddie and Robin’s dating Nancy and they were only calling each other pet names to confuse him and twenty minutes for Dustin to get over it because, really, the hints were right there. How the fuck did he not realize sooner?)
