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“Come on pick up,” Steve whispered into the phone.
“Stevie! Sorry I’m just stressed. Are you coming over later? I need a hug.
“About that, I know you have a 11 o’clock flight so I’ll go to yours if afterwards if you want, but do you think you can come over to mine?”
“Uh huh sure. What time can I come over?”
He glances down at his watch it read 3:30. “Um maybe in about two and a half hours. I have some errands to run.”
“Oh okay,” he sounded almost upset, “I’ll be there.”
“Bring the rest of the band. Okay byyeeee.” He slammed the phone down before he could get another word in, “He’s on board.”
“I assumed,” Robin said from on top the counter. While he was on the phone she had stolen a jar of peanut butter and had eaten half of it.
“Gross,” he scoffed, “anyways two hours in enough time right?” He said in a very obviously nervous tone.
“If we hurry it should be more than enough,” Vickie reassured.
“Okay then let’s go!” Steve said.
They arrived at the store in less than 5 minutes, Robin deciding to take full control, “okay party people, let’s split up.” She gave everybody their designated roles and they went on their ways. Steve was freaking out thinking they wouldn’t make it back to the house in time. They ended up being back at the car in less than an hour. “Good work team,” Robin exclaimed as they were driving again, “Ohh my god Steeevveee!” She gasped
“For old times sake?” She said while pointing at family video.
“No Robs, we only have like a hour and a half and we still have to make some phone calls and set up. Speaking of we should have made the calls first. Great”
“Steve everything will be fine, your Prince Charming will arrive,” he decided to ignore that comment, “and everything will be straight out of the movies okay? But please Steve. You can pick the movie. We will all watch it tonight as a big, happy, and stable family. Pleeeeaassee,” she begged and nudged Vickie.
“Oh uh yeah, please Steve.” Vickie said. Robin grinned, it was honestly kind of off putting.
“Fine but let’s make it quick.” They pulled in the packing lot and hopped out of the car.
“Family Video my names Keith-,” he glanced up, “Oh god-“
“Keeiiittthhhh!” Robin walked over and gave him a little side hug, “how much I didn’t miss you!”
“Same to you Robin,” he sighed, “now what can I help you with?”
“Oh y’a know. Looking for a movie.” Then she skipped away into the comedy aisle. Steve nodded at Keith and then followed Robin. “Okay so whatcha thinking?”
“I don’t know, you pick.”
“Really? Thank you so so much!! This is a honor. Hmmm,” she walked down the row of movies with a mocking finger on her chin, “Oooh! Rocky horror!”
“We watched that yesterday.”
“Really? How about grease?” She said while raising her eyebrows
“Eddie literally hates that movie,” he said like it was obvious. It makes him kind of sad that he’s now banned from his own favorite movie.
“Uh,” he glanced around, “Heathers?”
“Me neither, but wow that girl look exactly like Joyce?”
“Are you insulting my mother?” Ever since he moved out of his parents house, he exclusively refers to Joyce as mom.
“No it’s just weird. Anyways it’s settled! Heathers it is!”
Once they got back to Steve’s house they immediately scrambled to get ready. Vickie decorated, Steve made calls, Robin ‘supervised’. Once he finished making the final call they checked the time. 20 minutes to spare. Oh time to hope and pray everyone hurries. “Steve,” Robin rests a hand on his shoulder, “you’re panicking. It’s going to be fine,” she says as the doorbell rings, “see someone is already here.” He stands up and walks to open the door to see people he definitely didn’t invite.
“Lucas? Max?” He says while letting them in. He gave them both a hug, “what are you guys doing here?”
“we were in town… what is going on?” Lucas said while looking around.
“Well, you know how Eddie’s going on tour?” They both hummed in agreement, “we are going to through him and the band a little going away party. Do you think you guys would be able to stay?”
“Yeah, of course. Plus we haven’t seen Eddie in a while.”
“Great! I’ve really missed you guys.”
“It’s kinda sad without my favorite babysitter,” max nudged Steve’s arm.
“Don’t make his ego bigger then it needs to be!” Robin called out from the door. As they were talking about 10 of the 30 people that they invited walked through the doors. He let out a huge sigh of relief. He walked towards the guests and thanked them all for showing up.
As it hit 6 he told everyone to “get ready but also take your time because Eddie is almost always ‘fashionably’ late”. They decided against the whole turning off the lights and hiding thing. Plus Steve’s sure Eddie knows what’s going on. He hears the doorbell ring and everyone immediately goes silent he has everyone in a position so when he opens the door they won’t get caught too quick. He walks to the door and slowly opens it. “Hey guys!” He exclaims trying to hide his fear. The band all says they’re version of hi’s and steps in.
Everyone perfectly chorus’s a loud “surprise”. And to Steve’s amazement they all actually looked surprised. Eddie turned around to face Steve.
“Stevie, you did all this… for me? For us?” He says while gesturing in the vague direction of the band.
“Of course I did. You guys deserve it.” He says but was cut off by Eddie giving him the tightest hug he’s ever gotten. He smiles to himself and hugs him back.
“You’re welcome.” They break the hug and Eddie goes to see and thank everyone who came he watched his face light up when he notices Lucas and Max. He doesn’t even notice Gareth is right next to him. “Hey.”
“Thank you. It honestly means a lot. This is awesome. I’m sorry if I ever acted like I hated you. I mean… I kinda did but that’s not the point. You’re a really good dude Steve.”
“Thank you,” you could tell he genuinely meant it, “and I mean you guys are going on tour for 3 whole months. You deserve a crappy party at least.”
“Trust me this party is not crappy,” he smiled (which trust him is weird for Gareth) while walking back to the rest of the party. And he was actually right.
“Well,” Robin smiled, “the party was a hit.”
“It really was,” Eddie chimed in, “thank you again guys.”
“Yes yes we’re so cool and nice, now let’s start the movie,” Robin said while grabbing their arms and skipping to the couch. They all sat down Eddie, Steve, Robin, and Vickie on the couch and the band on the floor in-front of them. Steve had never noticed how small his couch was. Throughout the whole movie all he could think about was how Eddie was practically on top of him. And Eddie could tell something was up.
“You okay? You’re very,” he waves his hand at him, “tense.”
Steve laughs to play it off, “yeah I’m fine.” After this comment he tries to relax a bit. So much so that he allows him self to slowly slide his arm off of the back of the couch and onto Eddie’s shoulder. He swears he sees Eddie blush but it’s a little dark and he doesn’t want to jump to conclusions. He thinks to himself how weird this is. Why is he so nervous it’s not like he likes Eddie. That’s his best friend. Right?
The movie ended soon and it was surprisingly good. Eddie loved it saying that’s it was his new favorite (go Steve!). Every one agreed on two things from the movie.
1. Christian Slater is a capital H Hot man. (even Robin agreed.)
2. And again wow Veronica really looks like Joyce.
The band left thanking them over and over again. The 4 of them remaining cleaned a little and then all decided it’s really late and they should get going. They said their goodbyes. Once Steve arrived at Eddie’s he hugged him again this time impossibly tighter and for a lot longer. “Thank you again Stevie.”
“You are so so very welcome,” Steve sighed, “3 months. Wow.”
“I know,” they pulled away both of them were about to cry but neither of them brought it up, “try not to miss me too much.
“Impossible,” they hugged one last time and went to bed before either of them actually cried.
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Wow. Part 3. I actually am starting to really like how this is turning out. I really think you guys will LOVE the next two parts. End of part 4-beginning of part 5 is kinda sad ngl. You’re in for a treat 😉. As always, comment or reblog if you want to be added to the tag list. I love all of the support I am getting. It truly means a lot you guys are the best 💚. I hope you enjoyed and thank you so so much for reading!
ALSO the current part count is 9! But I’ll probably push it to be 10 because it’s prettier. Sorry if 5 is a little short btw. I have a bad habit of trying to write a piece of one part and then it kind of just spills. Idk why but I don’t really like to make them super long.
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