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“Robin you’ve got this all wrong!” Steve whined, pacing around his room.
“If I’m so wrong then why are you all worked up about this huh?”
Damn that was a good point, why was he so worked up about this? It wasn’t like he actually liked Billy or anything like that. It was just a funny bit that Robin liked to play, the classic ‘Steve and Billy are super gay and in love with each other’.
Which was utterly ridiculous, yeah sure they were gay but that didn’t automatically mean they were destined to be with each other.
Steve scoffed, in lue of a real answer.
“I dunno.”
“Always Mr. Helpful.” Robin sighed, turning back to her phone.
“Didja do the Wordle today? I’m on my third try and I have like one letter.”
Steve thanked whatever god was out there that Robin had the attention span of a gnat, really helped out when there was a topic he didn’t want to discuss.
****
The lunch room always had a distinct smell of mold to it, which irked Nancy to no end, so the group often found themselves eating in the library. Nancy sucked up to the librarian enough that she didn’t even bat an eye when the usual four to five teenagers would follow Nancy around like lost ducklings.
“So, you guys have a date to the prom yet?” Jonathan asked awkwardly as they settled into the soft chairs in the back corner of the library.
Everyone knew he wanted to take Nancy, and that this was his not so sly attempt at figuring out if she had a date yet or not.
“Hell no, you think I’m going to prom? I’m like, way too old for that shit.” Eddie chuckled.
“But you’re our favorite super senior!”
“Swear to God Hargrove-”
Billy just cackled to himself while Robin interrupted him.
“Ok well I DO have a date to prom, so suck it losers.”
“Oh yeah right Buckley.”
“Nah I’m serious, I have hoes out the wazoo.”
Steve let his head fall and hit the table, letting out an over exaggerated groan at Robin’s latest and greatest sentence.
“Ok laugh it up but I am taking the drop dead gorgeous Heather Holloway and you’re taking…” she trailed off, pretending to think, “Oh that’s right, nobody!”
Steve lifted his head and scowled.
“It’s ok pretty boy, I’ll take you if no other upstanding citizen volunteers.”
Steve consciously ignored the blush that rose up the back of his neck and grumbled out a response.
“My hero.”
“Hey you could put that shit on college apps! ‘Takes bitchless losers on dates’, I can see the headlines now.” Eddie quipped, dramatically pantomiming to the group.
****
“Yo Steve-o!” Billy called, jogging up to Steve’s car.
“What, need the chemistry homework again?” he smirked.
“Dude, that was one time, and no.” he huffed, leaning up against the passenger door, looking over the roof at Steve.
“I came to ask you something actually.” he continued.
“You know that, uh, joke? Like the bit that Robin always does?”
Steve narrowed his eyes.
“Like you know that one, well anyways, I just. That’s all to say, or I guess ask, I’m here to ask something-” he trailed off again. “Dude just spit it out.”
“Do you want to go to prom with me?”
“I mean yeah sure, I assumed we would go in a group together anyways.”
“No no no, goddammit Steve, I meant like together. With me. With me as your date. With matching boutonnieres and dumb pictures and all that horseshit.” he waved his hand flippantly at Steve.
“Holy shit really?”
“Yeah really.” Billy answered wearily, he would never get used to the painfully slow processing speed of Steve Harrington.
“Huh. I did not expect this. How long have you…” he trailed off.
“Too fucking long Steve. Now answer the fucking question will you?”
The corners of his mouth perked up without his permission, “Yeah, I’ll go with you. Matching boutonnieres and all.”
“Oh thank fucking God, I was so worried you were gunna say no and then I’d have to kill all the witnesses.”
Steve snorted a laugh.
“Ok, I got practice so I gotta run, but I had to ask that before I lost my mind. See you later.”
Steve watched as Billy jogged off back towards the school, he couldn’t stop the dopey grin from showing. He grabbed his phone from his back pocket and shot a quick text to Robin.
ok mybe u were right… on a totally unrelated note, what color should billy and I’s ties be??