steddie!!! ‘Eddie is always jumping headfirst into everything, acting first and thinking later; so when Steve senses hesitation from him worry blooms in his chest’
lex!!!!! thank you for sending this in!!! this is SUCH a good first line omg, and i have thought of a million different directions i could take this in, but my mind kept spinning back around to this one, so i hope you like it!! (also i definitely planned on cheating here and doing 5 paragraphs instead of 5 sentences because i have A LOT to say to this one, but uhhh it turns out i've got MORE than 5 paragraphs in me for it sooo..... oops?)
Eddie is always jumping headfirst into everything, acting first and thinking later; so when Steve senses hesitation from him worry blooms in his chest. "You haven't— you're not saying anything," Steve says after another silent second stretches out between them. "Why aren't you saying anything?" He'd expected an instantaneous answer from Eddie: an ecstatic and resounding 'yes' and maybe even one of those giddy, uncontrollable grins of his that Steve loves so much — the kind that pulls up the right corner of Eddie's mouth before the left side follows and pops both of his dimples so vibrantly. Instead, Eddie is quiet. Contemplative. He's got his thumbnail between his teeth, and his eyes are big and wide and round with a serious sort of shine in them that makes Steve nervous. Makes him worry. Like, did he just screw it all up with this question, with this proposition? Was he moving too fast? Was it— too much? "That's—" Eddie starts, hesitates again, drops his hand to his lap where he starts to pick at the loose string on the hem of his shirt, "I just— you really want that? With me?" Steve's brow furrows, lips pursing into a frown. He reaches out to steal Eddie's hand away from his t-shirt, wrapping it up in his own, squeezing it and looking right into Eddie's eyes. "I'm asking you aren't I? Not anybody else," he says. "It's kind of embarrassing how much I want it. Like—" he bites his lip, figures in for a penny, in for a pound, and bares his soul, "god, I had to— I had to stop myself from asking you weeks ago, man. Like I probably would've asked you right after our first date if it wouldn't have scared you off. That's— that's how into you I am. It's," he laughs again, ducks his head, "it's ridiculous." Eddie's eyes are still shining as he stares back at Steve, but the nervousness is gone, so is any hesitation. His lips are pressed together, but it's so obvious that it's because he's trying to hold back his smile, and Steve knows from just that that it's got to be one of those megawatt ones. When it finally becomes too big for Eddie to contain, it bursts across his face, bright and sunny, and he sways forward into Steve's space. "Fuck, Steve," he laughs, and his hand comes up to cup Steve's jaw. "What kind of an asshole would say no to that?" He asks. "Of course I'll move in with you." He moves even closer, eyes twinkling as he whispers, "For the record, I would've said yes weeks ago too." And he leans the rest of the way in to seal it with a kiss.
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