All I talk about is Steddie

Steve doesn’t actually mind the curse that much, because he eats whatever he want and jerks off whenever he wants—who cares if other people think he’s gross or ugly when all he’s guilty of is having a good time? Not to mention he’d tried all sorts of diets for a while at his parents’ insistence but just ended up miserable and somehow (because of the curse) even fatter. Being a big guy isn’t as terrible as society makes it out to be. He *likes* his body. His old friends were all kind of assholes anyway, it’s a relief to be done with them and the parties they kept commandeering his house for like they were entitled to it. His grades are fine, it’s not like any of this is making him stupid; he graduates from high school, collects an inheritance from his late grandparents, and lives comfortably without having to work. His parents basically give him the house as a bribe not to be seen in public with them anymore, but he’s over how superficial and conditional their love has always been anyway. 

He doesn’t go out much, opting instead to hire people to clean his house, cook for him, and do his shopping (all he really buys are groceries and clothes, so it’s pretty straightforward). The kids of some of these people are welcome to hang out around the house while their parents work. Steve first befriends Dustin by offering him a $20 to read the book he brought with him out loud, which turns out to be The Hobbit. After a while he starts letting Dustin and his friends play DnD in one of his spare rooms. 

One thing Steve doesn’t bother with is the exterior of the house. The roof is in good repair and regularly checked, but other than that the place kind of looks abandoned. Local rumors abound, alleging that Steve has some sort of hideous deformity that causes him to be a shut-in, or that he’s actually dead. Enter Eddie Munson, newly moved to the area to live with his uncle since his dad landed in prison, who knows how to pick locks and feels too restless to stay in the trailer one night while Uncle Wayne is still at work. He slips into the supposedly abandoned house and follows the sound of moaning to where Steve is sprawled in bed, eating and pawing at his big, jiggly body and… Eddie can’t tear his eyes away. 

Maybe Eddie is a few years younger than Steve in this, not much of an age gap. He knows he’s gay and has had just enough experience to know what he likes, and big hairy guys are definitely on the list. This one looks at him with sultry hazel eyes and doesn’t even question his presence, just moans, “Can you get me more?” And Eddie does. Steve eats himself full and dozes off into a food coma. 

Eddie comes by the next night, before Steve is quite so stuffed to capacity, and they talk. Steve strikes him as remarkably self-assured, very comfortable with himself. A little needy maybe, but he doesn’t have a lot of friends. Eddie can relate, especially starting at a new school where everyone knows it’s not his first try at senior year; he’s short on friends too. Eddie reads books to Steve, starting with Lord of the Rings since he’d liked The Hobbit so much, and he’s much better at doing all the voices than Dustin. Steve is enamored—and Eddie is 19, so he’s allowed to have a little crush. He doesn’t know that Eddie likes him back, content for now just to have a new friend who feeds him without taking money for it and whose smile and laughter gives him butterflies. 

By the time Steve and Eddie are friends, new rumors have started circulating about the Harrington house. Did you read about this Dungeons and Dragons cult? Apparently these *kids* are going *there* to play it! The Hawkins PD keeps getting calls about preteens spotted going inside and, frankly, Chief Hopper is sick of it. His adopted daughter plays that game, it’s just pretend wizards and nerdy math. He doesn’t believe in curses but he knows that Steve’s parents had basically abandoned him in his late teens for superficial reasons, and he feels for the kid. Shame that he turned out a shut-in, but there are worse things to be. 

People have seen Eddie going into the house too, now. He’s a metalhead, always going around in leather and torn denim, who lives in the trailer park and sells drugs to help his uncle make ends meet. So when he sells to Chrissy Cunningham and she skips town, Chrissy parents and her boyfriend Jason basically muster up a mob. They chase Eddie, who goes to ground at Steve’s house. So they break into Steve’s house, in the process also hurling insults that vilify Steve’s lifestyle—which, rude. He’s not bothering anyone, whereas they all just STORMED HIS HOUSE. Steve stands up to Jason in particular, vehemently defending Eddie’s innocence, even waddling to stand protectively before him and getting a wallop to the head from Jason for his trouble—which is when the cops show up and Hopper chases them all out. 

Steve has fallen to the floor, head bleeding so hard he can’t see out of one eye, dizzy and nauseous and absolutely concussed. Eddie is trying to stem the flow of blood with a kitchen towel or something. But Steve stood up against bullies; between that and Eddie pressing a quick kiss to his lips while begging Steve to remain conscious, that’s apparently enough to break the curse. Before Eddie’s very eyes, Steve not only shrinks back down to his original athletic size, absolutey swimming in the multiple-XL clothes he had one, but miraculously heals. 

Steve looks down at himself and pouts. “Damn. I kind of liked being big… Guess I’ll have to start all over.” He looks up at Eddie with a shy smile. “I don’t suppose there’s any chance you’d want to leave Hawkins with me?” And Eddie is all set to graduate this time, finally, so he says sure, he can always get his diploma in the mail. 

Wherever they move, they run into Chrissy there and do that Spider-Men pointing at each other meme; she’d run away from home and now lives with her girlfriend, Robin. They all become friends.

Dustin writes both of them letters because he’s adopted Steve as his older brother and Eddie for his valuable DM experience. (A few years later he’s graduating high school as valedictorian and flips off the whole town in their honor. His mom Claudia, who always liked cooking for Steve, cheers the loudest.)

Steve and Eddie are boyfriends who are enjoying growing Steve’s new starter belly together, and they live happily ever after. The end. 

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