Gareth who's on Eddie's ass for MONTHS once he starts dating Steve.
He laughs at him all the time for falling for The Hair. He says Eddie is a poser for falling in love with a jock. He makes a ton of jokes about how Eddie is gonna end up as a miserable suburban housewife.
It's starts out funny, but slowly turns into a real fight between the two of them.
By Dustin's birthday party, they're giving each other the silent treatment.
Cut to the next day: Gareth shows up at Eddie's door pleading for both his forgiveness and his help because he realized last night he was in love with Chrissy The Princess Cheerleader Cunningham.
Steve watches him grovel from behind his coffee mug with a smirk on his face, but he doesn’t dare to tell him that Chrissy called earlier to ask how to woo a metalhead. He's gonna make the nerd work for this.