Imagining a silly little scenario where Eddie and Steve become competitive shit talking friends
Like it’s so bad that Robin rolls her eyes anytime one of them gets going. They can’t even play monopoly without making stupid bets. They turn jumping on a trampoline into a competition of who can do more flips and she ends up having to stop them from hurting themselves
And then one day Steve makes a comment about Eddie. A comment that will go down into history as the One That Started It All. They’re doing something stupid and athletic so obviously Steve is gonna win but maybe Eddie has his shirt off because it’s hot outside, right? Steve pokes him in the belly and makes some comment about him being a beanpole and oh. Oh, that’s too much.
“The fuck does that mean?” Eddie asks, looking so offended that Steve can’t help but laugh. He gestures wildly back at him.
“You know. You’re all….gangly and stuff,” Steve says, only brightening at the glare he gets in return. “You’re skinny. A shrimp.”
And Steve should have known better.
“Fuck you. I can not be a shrimp,” Eddie says, holding an offended hand to his chest. “My greatest motivator is spite, Stevie. If you wanted to ogle muscly Ed, all you had to do was ask.”
“Wh- what does that even mean?” Steve asks, both shocked and not shocked by the homoerotic turn to their conversation. He’s used to that part, as much as it always makes his face burn.
“It means you’re on,” Eddie says with a shrug, as if Steve has started something. “I’m not a skinny shrimp AND I’m gonna get ripped.”
Steve doesn’t mean to laugh. That was the final nail in his own coffin.
From then on, Steve has to witness the worlds strangest turn of events. Eddie Munson, actually working out. Using protein powder and cutting down on smoking. Slowly but surely going for actual real life runs in the morning and Steve is just-
He didn’t think Eddie was actually this petty.
And then it all comes to head when finally one day they have everyone over for a pool party and fucking Eddie shows up and whips his tshirt off poolside and he’s like. He’s like actually fit. He’s fit. Like it happened over night but it didn’t and it was months ago and Steve had almost forgotten about the stupid not-bet but
How could he have forgotten? Because now he can’t stop staring at Eddie’s actual abs. He has abs. And biceps? That’s not normal, none of this is normal. Robin let’s out a whistle and Eddie sends her a middle finger as Dustin asks Eddie how much he can lift now. As if that isn’t a completely bizarre question, holy fuck.
And it’s worse when Eddie finally noticed his staring and has to gloat about it. That’s much worse.
“Like what you see?” Eddie asks discreetly by the backdoor as the kids splash in the pool. Steve wasn’t aware Eddie could BE discreet.
“Not sure what I’m looking at,” Steve says, remaining nonchalant despite the actual honesty god v line staring him in the face. God. He might actually like men. Or Eddie. Is it just Eddie? “Did you really get fit just to spite me?”
Eddie isn’t even about to deny it.
“Of course I did,” Eddie says, hand to his chest again like all those months ago. “I also wanted to see your reaction.”
“I’m not having a reaction,” Steve says automatically, looking away from both Eddie’s dumb smirk and his dumb arms, crossed in front of his dumb chest. “This isn’t a reaction.”
“Mhm, that’s why you can’t stop staring at me, sure,” Eddie says, only making Steve’s face burn more. “I’m really sorry I have to do this but you’ve left me no choice.”
And just like that, without warning, he scoops Steve off the ground into a limb flailing bridal carry and marches him over to the pool. He tips Steve right over the edge, laughing the entire time.
Steve spits up water and glares and glares until Dustin pulls on Eddie’s ankle and sends him right after Steve.
(Later on, Eddie will apologize by fucking Steve missionary style into his bed upstairs, his very first time with a man and he can’t help but want to go all the way despite the fact that he was so sure of his straightness not long before. Eddie might even let Steve cum all over his abs.)
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