too rare to live, too dumb to die

The truth was you were only on the team because Robin were. She was on the team because of a girl. Only you and Steve Harrington knew that though. Robin had planned it and the easiest way to get a place on the cheer squad was to join together with Y/N Carver. The younger sibling of the head of the basketball team. So now that you were changing school, you were forced to sport this green colored outfit. Which was about so far away you could get from your usual attire.

When you were in middle school your family moved, Jason started at Hawkins high but you had decided to stay at your old school. It took an extra while to get there, now that you were in high school you had finally decided to change school. You didn’t really have a ton of friends at the old school, so there was nothing holding you back really. Jason had talked about how big Hawkins was compared to your school so you were hoping to find some likeminded people to make friends with. People  with a great taste in music and stuff like that, not only these cookie-cutter people, like your brother. Hopefully you being a cheerleader wouldn’t stop you from meeting these people. You worked with Steve and Robin at the video store and you knew some of their younger friends also went to Hawkins. You hoped that Robin and the others would be okay with you tagging along with them, at least occasionally.

Since Jason’s girlfriend Chrissy was a cheerleader, you had already joined in on some practices with the cheer squad. Tomorrow though would be your first full day at your new school and later that evening there would be a game in which you had to attend, as the new cheerleader. Yay you…

Next morning:

”Y/N! I’m leaving!” Jason called out from where he stood at the door.

”Alright, alright!” You hurried down the stairs.

”You can’t be serious no.” He shook his head at the sight of you.

”What you held your arms out and spun around.

”That’s not- How are we even related? You look like one of the freaks of Hawkins high school.

It was gameday, that meant that the cheerleaders were wearing their uniforms throughout the schoolday. Which you were, but over the tiny cheercistume you had put on your oversized black jeanjacket, patched with some of your favorite bands.

As soon as you got to school your brother ditched you for his teammates. Leaving you to walk around trying to find your classes alone. Luckily for you, just as you were about to walk in the doors of the school you saw Robin pull up on her bike. You hurried over and as her bike were locked you both headed inside and down the hallways. As you got to talking you found that you had no classes together until after lunch but Robin promised to walk you to your first class.

”Wait wait wait! Who’s that?” Eddie whispered to hia friends as you passed them by.

“Who?” Gareth looked ahead searching for the target. So did the others.

“She has a jacket full of band patches. There a girl in this town with a good taste in music? Look at her. She must be a godess…” Eddie followed her movements closely as she strutted down the hall. Hoping to get a glance of the girl’s face.

”What class is she in?” Dustin asked but none of them knew.

It was now lunchtime. Feeling out of place, you stood looking around for a place to sit down. You walked up and down the area that was looking over all the tables. That’s when you heard your name being called.

“Y/N!?” Dustin exclaimed with a surprised smile on his face.

“Oh my God! Hey guys! You have no idea how happy I am that I ran into some familiar faces!” You hugged Mike and Dustin before looking at the others, greeting them with a smile.

“You’re a cheerleader?” Mike asked even more surprised.

“Go Hawkins…” You cheered sarcastically with a flat expression.

They all chuckled.

“Can I sit with you guys? I haven’t seen Robin around and I-“

“Sure! I mean, can she Eddie?” Dustin spoke turning to the long haired leader sitting at the end of the Hellfire table.

“Uh- ehm, yeah ‘course…” He stuttered barely looking up at you or the others.

“Ah thanks, I’ll just go grab some food. I’ll be right back you waved at the group before leaving.

“You know her!?” Eddie blurted out, hovering over the table.

“Uh, yeah Y/N she’s a friend of Robin, she works at Family Video with her and Steve. She’s really cool.” Dustin smiles.

“Oh she plays Dungeons and Dragons too, she’s actually really good at it. Yeah, and as you saw she’s into all that metal music too…” Mike nodded.

Eddie was speechless. How could they have been keeping her a secret from him. For how long?

“Oh! I just remembered! She’s the goddess you were talking about in the hallway earlier isn’t she!” Dustin teased a little to loud for Eddie’s taste.

“Shut up, man” He hissed as he hit his fist on the table.

Mike and the others couldn’t help but giggle as Eddie got flustered.

As you were returning to the table you saw the boys stopping their conversation, giving you their full attention. Just as you were at the end of the table across from Eddie, two cheerleaders carrying their lunchtrays walked up to you.

“Y/N! Come with us! You have to sit with us!” They gave you big smiles as they pointed to a table further away. Looking over you saw a table filled with cheerleaders and next to them sat the basketball team, and your brother glaring your way. You could tell he was not happy and a part of you wondered if he had sent the two girls to get you.

You offered the Hellfire table an apologetic look.

“It’s fine, see you later Y/N.” Dustin assured you.

“I’m sorry, talk to you later, alright?” You said as the girls lead you away.

You sat down with the other girls and looked over at your brother. You flipped him off as he mouthed ‘don’t even try to…’ to you. Returning your attention to the food on your tray, you did not indulge in the gossip and conversations of the other girls.

“Why is she even cheering? That’s so not Y/N…” Mike spoke as you were still the topic of conversation at the Hellfire table.

Eddie couldn’t keep his eyes off of you as you now sat on the other side of the cafeteria.

“Yeah, she seems to be so….” Gareth started his sentence.”

“Get her to be a replacement for Sinclair.” Eddie demanded looking at Dustin and Mike.

“What? But she’s a cheerleader. At the game Sinclair is playing at.” Gareth spoke.

“She would fit in better here in the Hellfire club though…” Dustin agreed.

“I should ask her shouldn’t I? Or I can invite her to our gig?” Eddie was brainstorming ideas on how he would be able to talk to you.

“I mean, she’s your godess…” Dustin made fun of him earning some chuckles from the others but Eddie ignored him.

“I should go over and talk to her. I’ll go over there now.” He nodded standing up.

“Eh, that’s not a good idea. Talk to her later in the hallway or something… don’t go over there now.” Dustin and the others tried to shut down his idea. To no avail as he headed for the table full of cheerleaders.

You sat at the very end of the table, with your back to the Hellfire table you didn’t see him coming.

“Uhm…” Eddie cleared his throat getting your attention.

“Hi!” You lit up as you saw him.

“Hey, I’m Eddie we met earlier at the-“ he pointed at the table where Dustin and the other sat, watching Eddie and Y/N.

“The Hellfire Club, right. What’s up? Eddie right?” You smiled, making him lose his ability to remember why he’d even come over here.

“Uh I was just… you have a great taste in music, at least by the looks of it, your jacket I mean…” he rambled.

“Yeah, you too.” You giggled pointing at one of the patches on his vest, you had the same one on your jacket.

He blushed, covering the lower half of his face with some of his hair.

“I was just going to ask if maybe you’d want to come see my band play? Next Friday?” He asked as he got a paper out of his pocket.

You took it and looked over the page. By now both the cheerleaders and boys on the basketball team had stopped and started to follow your conversation but neither you nor Eddie seemed to have noticed.

“That’s cool, I’d love to!” You beamed up at him, handing him the paper back.

“Cool, nah, that’s fine you keep it.” He gave you a more confident smile now.

But the paper was ripped out of your hand and as your eyes looked away from Eddie you noticed your brother.

“Do we have a problem here, freak?” Jason spoke standing right in Eddie’s personal space.

“No. Were just talking about my band.”

“No one gives a shit about your band. Or your devil worshipping music. Don’t talk to Y/N.” Your brother warned Eddie as he ripped the paper into shreds.

“Jason-“ you started.

“This is a land of free speech, I’ll talk to whoever I want to.” Eddie looked Jason dead in the eye.

You felt your stomach turn and your heart beat a little faster, scared of what your brother could do to Eddie but also excited to see someone stand up to your brother.

“Not to my sister you’re not.” Jason said. You could see the surprise on Eddie’s face as he looked back down on you. He didn’t say anything more.

“Now leave if you don’t want your ass kicked, punk.”

“Jason, enough.” Your brother’s girlfriend spoke up noticing that you were getting upset.

Known to be the only one to be able to calm him down, Jason listened and walked back to his seat but not before making sure Eddie left you alone.

You watched as Eddie made his way back to the others at his table.

Some of the cheerleaders had already left the table. You had kind of lost your appetite after what happened and so after you’d seen the Hellfire club leave their table you waited a short while before hurrying out the cafeteria. Out in the hall you caught up with Dustin, Mike and some of their friends.

“Hey…” You looked through the bunch and scanned the people around them. Dustin seemed to notice.

“He’s in the woods behind the school.” He let you know with a smirk.

“I just need to apologize for how my brother acted…” You explained.

“Yeah… Well, I’m sure he’ll be overjoyed to see you…” Dustin winked.

You blushed but hoped it wasn’t noticeable.

“Where do I…?” You asked looking around.

“Out that door. And you’ll see the trail going into the woods… You want us to come with you?” Dustin offered.

“No. Thank you, I’ll find it. See you guys!” You smiled and waved at the group in front of you.

As you got there you hurried down the small trail. You heard what you thought was Eddie’s voice talking to someone, this made you stop in your tracks to listen. Slowly you moved closer and as you stood behind a tree you could get a glimpse of Eddie. Upon hearing a girl laughing you moved further to your right. Her voice was familiar and as you caught a glimpse of her too you saw none other than your brothers girlfriend, Chrissy. The last person you would think to hang around someone like Eddie but also the last person you thought Eddie would be hanging around with. But then again, you didn’t know him that well, if at all.

You heard her thank him before standing up from where she was sitting at a table.

As Chrissy left you made your way out of behind the trees, catching Eddie’s attention at he closed what looked like a metal lunchbox.

“You hang around with all cheerleaders? Or just the ones officially connected to my brother?” You winked as you sat down.

“Uh, no…” Eddie chuckled scratching his head

“How do you know Chrissy?” You asked.

“I don’t… not really. She wanted something and I…”

“Is she cheating on Jason with you??” You looked

“What!? No! I sell.. uhm..”

“Does she buy drugs from you!? Are you her plug!?”

“No, I mean, yeah but this is the first time it ever happened…” Eddie admitted.

“Oh…”

“She seemed… are you two close?” He asked.

“She’s really sweet, God knows why she fell for my brother…” you rolled your eyes but earned a chuckle from Eddie.

“She seems really sweet. We were in the same talent show once, she’s a good cheerleader too.” Eddie spoke talking about Chrissy.

“Do you have a crush on her?” Your eyes narrowed, interested in what he would answer.

“Oh gosh no. I didn’t mean it like that…” he responded awkwardly and somewhat uncomfortable.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable…”

“No don’t be sorry… So, your last school? Were you a cheerleader there too?” He asked you, sitting down across from you.

“Oh no…” you shook your head. “I was the outcast. Into rock n’ roll, D&D, y’know…” you looked up into his eyes, he gave you an understanding nod.

“Yeah, I know…”

“But as long as you have good friends, who cares what others think of you..” you shrugged.

“You miss your friends? I mean from your old school?” He asked.

“I didn’t really have friends, I was spending most of my time at the library… I played D&D with some guys from the AV club that’s about it, I don’t really miss them though” you laughed, remembering those times.

”And a boyfriend?” Eddie spoke quietly.

”What?” His question surprised you.

”Do you have a boyfriend?” He asked again, taking a deep breath as he shifted in his seat, internally regretting that he even asked.

”Nah, I don’t have a boyfriend. The school wasn’t like this one, no cool guys there at all…” You chuckled, occacionally exchanging glances with the boy in front of you.

”And there are a lot of cool guys in this school..?” Eddie raised an eyebrow. Secretly scared that you had your sights on someone.

”You’re a cool guy…” You offered and felt your cheeks heat up.

Eddie looked up surprised at what you said.

”Thanks…” He hid his reaction in his long curls.

You looked at him making sure you hadn’t made an ass of yourself. You didn’t think so.

It had turned silent and just as Eddie was about to break the silence so did you.

“Hellfire seems cool!” You tried to not sound awkward.

“Yeah, it is, you should come to one of our meetings some time.” He smiled.

You nodded trying not to blush.

“This is kind of a stupid question… are you going to the game tonight?” You asked him.

“Heh, I’m not… we have a meeting tonight.” He explained.

“Alright, just checking…” you nodded understanding.

Getting up from your seat you put your backpack on again as it was time to head back to class.

“Maybe!” He called out getting your attention. “Maybe, uhm we are missing one player, if they can’t find a replacement… maybe I’ll see you at the game..?” Eddie sounded insecure.

“Okay, sounds good.” You smiled, before starting to walk again. “Oh and Chrissy’s gonna be there too!” You shouted from a far, turning around to see his reaction as you winked. He rolled his eyes with a chuckle.

“I don’t think I’ll notice anyone else if you’re down there busting out your little dance moves!” He replied while mockingly doing some cheer moves.

“See you ‘round Eddie!” You laughed.