fruity four angst: when they can’t all kiss you at once
I know I literally want angst so bad but please now imagine Eddie, Steve, Robin and Nancy all trying to stick their tongues in your mouth at the same time.
Their lips smushing wetly against yours, against each other’s. The sound of wet kissing and moans and jestingly possessive growls and hums.
Their full mouths all encompassing your own and your nose, so even as you inhale, one of them is taking away your breath. So crowded by their needy lips and hands you can’t even breathe before more of them are swooping in.
Being nearly crushed by four of them clambering to be closer to you, their hands to get a better hold of you, their bodies to press further on top of you.
Their tongues jamming into your mouth, wetly licking at the sensitive corners of your lips, all over your lower face in fact. Trying to lap you up from the inside with pleased hums and eager breaths, tasting you, devouring you. Someone’s tongue jamming down your throat as another squashes against your cheek, wriggling their way closer, someone’s fighting against the others tongue in your mouth, as the other kitten licks at your lips for your attention and to give you their love....
at the fruity four apartment, they don’t have a swear jar but they do have something similar. ever since implementing it, eddie’s wallet has gotten a hell of a lot lighter. not that there’s any correlation….
What order do you think the fruity four can go without a kiss from you
We loooove poly fruity four x reader
Eddie: he can’t go long at all without a kiss. Eddie is leaning over for multiple kisses in a go whenever he’s near you, and he’ll come right over to you himself. He needs physical touch almost constantly. And if he doesn’t get a kiss, his self doubts might start creeping up again.
Eddie’s always going for kisses, so he will notice if they start lacking. If there just hasn’t been a kiss in a little while, the second he thinks of it, he rectifying it immediately, no matter both of your surroundings at the time. And he’s coming back up with a smile.
But if there’s something else going on, or he feels that there might be, he’s testing the waters carefully. He doesn’t want to upset you more, if you are upset at something, or with him. The last thing Eddie wants is him overstepping his boundaries, or you pushing him away... Even if you’re distancing yourself from his love and affection because of something else, not to do with him, Eddie knows he’ll crumble right then and there if that happens. He’d have to leave, and be wiping his eyes on his sleeves as he does.
You can tell Eddie’s emotional pretty quickly. He’s shadowing you like a lost puppy, but he’s also been a lot quieter than usual. You thought maybe he was just in his own head like he sometimes was, thinking about things, but even then he’s making sounds. With one, even short, look, it’s easy to tell Eddie’s upset about something. He just looks so sad, so dejected. You gently grasp both sides of his face, and Eddie’s looking into your eyes with his big sad puppy ones, almost looking hopeful you’d say. And you gently lead him away to a room to talk, asking what’s wrong as soon as you two are out of earshot, even as you’re still moving. You and Eddie don’t move away from touching each other the entire walk into the next room.
If it’s pretty early on into Eddie’s realisation, then he’s just scuffing his shoes on the floor as he casually brings it up. If he’s had time after his realisation to torture himself with it, and really marinade in you not kissing him for longer while he’s aware of it, then he’s a bit more upset talking about it. But he’s always open, because he needs to know what’s wrong. Especially because it will eat him, or he might eat himself.
Eddie will tell you what he’s noticed, but start off with what’s most important in his mind, asking “Why haven’t you kissed me?” You blank, thinking if Eddie’s tried to kissed you earlier today and you accidentally dodged it or something, but Eddie tells you the truth, and your heart melts while listening to him. He’s just looking at you. With those big dark eyes! And your boyfriend looks so sad.
Eddie says it’s been going on even longer than you say/think, even though he’s the first likely to notice, and considering he’s kissing you at pretty much at least once every time he’s in the room with you, it’s definitely less than a day. You really have to talk it out with Eddie. Because even though he’s relieved when you explain it really was nothing, he just wants to go through it. He needs to know if he’s the one kissing you the most, and you don’t even want to be kissing him all the time, a fact you adamantly deny, and Eddie needs to make sure he’s not being overbearing including now! But was your relationship before this okay? Was he okay? Was he doing anything bad? Even though Eddie would swear he’d change for you if you asked, if you asked for less kisses, his heart would break piece by piece in his chest, and it would continue breaking every day until he fell.
But luckily, thank God, you didn’t ask that. And you came to give Eddie some affection, hugging him close and swaying with him, while you talked. Both of your lips pressing to each other’s bodies, giving small kisses, but talking, and breathing against each other the entire embrace too, your lips always resting in that hug on each other. Not only to make up for lost time, and apologise, but mostly because you wanted to hug your love because he was sad.
You promise things just got away from you, you’re sorry you didn’t notice, you were super in your head today, and when you weren’t, you were having conversations you really had to think about. It wasn’t that you forgot about him either, time just got away. It always went fast when you were with your loves. You promised you loved nothing more than kissing Eddie, and the others, all the time. But you told him you loved how much he kissed you too.
You and Eddie swoop in at the same time, highly tuned to the emotions in the air, and knowing now was the time for your big kiss. Eddie doesn’t let your lips go. His hands have held you in every position, and even by the time you’re both laughing into the kiss, and your thumbs have swept those small fragile tears that escaped Eddie away long ago, he’s still not letting go. You’ve both spoken multiple times during the kiss, and even as you try to speak now, tell Eddie you’re just trying to move with him to sit while you kiss, Eddie’s lips are clinging onto yours. Pulling them in, pushing against them, his mouth lips teeth attaching itself to your lip and keeping you so close you can’t move away from him.
His laugh is music to your ears as you’re doing all this though, and so is yours to him. You keep laughing about the bed, you want to keep making out with him on the bed, so Eddie swoops your thighs up, and swallows your gleed gasp, and not kissing, but both of you just smiling as you press your legs together, wrapping your legs around his own thighs before sitting on the bed with you. There. Now you didn’t have to move away from his kisses to sit. Eddie calls you mean. But then you’re helping to pull him in as he’s crawling half on top of you. Both of you smiling because all you want to do is kiss, and hold each other. And Eddie’s so full of how much he loves you, a fact he always knows. And that you’ll always prove to him how much you love him too.
Steve: he is a busy body, so he might be out all day, before collapsing into your body and asking you and Eddie to just carry his corpse to bed. So him being out all day and then tired from helping everyone out, makes sense he wouldn’t have as much time to think of the less demanding things he hasn’t done. So although it might take him slightly longer to notice because of how much he puts on himself, he probably gets more worried than Robin or Nancy quicker once he realises, if he doesn’t get a kiss. Especially since he at least always usually gets kisses in the mornings and at night.
But also, he gets especially worried quicker, and he probably realises sooner with the amount of time he has with you compared to Robin, because of his past experience with relationships. With what his parents were like, and he’s made peace with Nancy about their past before this, but he still doesn’t feel great about his own past. You not kissing him really sets a pit in his stomach, if he’s okay and more secure in his sudden realisation, then he may just come up to you and kiss you, or purse his lips, or even ask for one.
But if he doesn’t feel confident enough, if he’s thought you’ve pulled away on purpose, then he’ll crawl to bed alone, once he realises, with a pillow hugged close to his stomach, that he occasionally needs to hit as well. He worries there’s a reason you haven’t kissed him. No, he’s pretty sure there must be one. You don’t like him anymore, or at least not as much. He’s done something wrong, he knew he’d fuck up again. Of course he would. Or maybe you just saw how he still wasn’t good enough. Not that he’d tell anyone this. Unless one of the others came up to him already knowing something was wrong, because they know that Steve needs to be asked in specific ways because he might not just say it straight away. After all, he doesn’t want others to feel like they need to help him, when he’s the asshole, and he’s the one who’s supposed to be looking after others, which doesn’t mean making them worry about him on top of their own issues, over his bullshit. At least, that’s the unhealthy thinking he doesn’t fight off when he goes down rabbit holes like this.
He doesn’t want to talk to anyone. He’s not worth that right now, and if you’re upset with him, either the others are too, or they should be, because he’s a fuck up. He knows he’s noticed as MIA because he’s not doing his usual responsibilities, Eddie said it the moment he came to find him. But Eddie didn’t get at him for not doing something. Instead he asked Steve what was up? And when Steve, who wasn’t grumpy with Eddie, because everything was only Steve’s fault anyway, barely answered like it was just too much to, Eddie changed his question into what’s wrong? Steve still wouldn’t say. He didn’t need you guilted. That’s not why he wanted you to come back to him. He also didn’t need his partners worried. Especially when they’d just find out he was shit. He didn’t want them to know what was wrong, because what if they figured he was wrong? Steve just wanted to be alone. Even though what he actually wanted was you. Or rather, you wanting him. If only he hadn’t been found. What if he just kept ruining things? His head hurt.
This was stupid. He was. He knew it anyway. But he bet you were kissing the others just fine. Steve probably was the one not giving you enough time, and now he was here spinning it, feeling sorry for himself. A gut punch feeling left when he heard not words, but the clear voices of Nancy whispering to you, once she’d left his room.
When you come to ask him what’s wrong, after Eddie and Nancy had tried unsuccessfully, Steve just puts the covers over his body further, turning away in bed, with a pout on his lips that he doesn’t realise is there. He also didn’t care that he felt like a big baby, he didn’t, he just wanted you. And he wanted you to kiss him, and hey, why hadn’t you yet? Where had his kisses been? Surely he deserved them. Were they not as important to you, because Steve loved sharing at least good morning and good night kisses with you. He debates about excusing, saying he’s sick. He doesn’t want people looking after him, especially when he’s fine, and lying, but he also doesn’t want to think about telling you. Is he really going to get your honest response if he does say why he’s not himself? Are you going to kiss him only because he reminded you, so Steve wouldn’t truly know the extent of your pull back, or just to pacify him?
But then when you eventually get it out of him, you don’t laugh even in a crooning way, you don’t look disappointed, or disgusted, you just look surprised. You apologise, and throw yourself on top of Steve, which does make him hug you back, because of course. He actually closes his eyes in the relief he feels, at knowing you two are okay, that you still love him just the same. And you two make sure to have a big long talk. As soon as Steve gets the all green that you actually do want to keep kissing him, that there was nothing wrong, he keeps trying to kiss you throughout your talk. He waits until he’s sure, but then he’s looking at your lips, and keeps moving forward, holding your hand softly so you stop placing it over his mouth while he keeps trying to kiss you.
But then he’s pretty happy, because once you two have had a loving talk, he gets to swoop your head close, and before the words can leave his lips, you ask exactly what he was going to by saying “Can I kiss you now?” And Steve really lays one on you. Romantic, but then loving and sweet as well. Both of you laughing through your noses between kisses, Steve making lots of little happy sounds as he holds your face, and makes sure you really are on top of him, caged in so you can never ever escape and deny him his kisses again. Very happily moaning into your kiss with sounds of pure joy as your hands rummage through his hair as you two go. Steve gets really pleased when he asks you to kick the door closed when Robin and Eddie interrupt, and you do so, to give Steve all the time and attention and love in the world, that he works too hard in, and sometimes finds lacking. And not only does Steve make sure to cover you in kisses everywhere, but he even jokingly asks where his nose/temple/chin/shoulder kisses are in return, as soon as you’d finished swooning over his.
Robin: she gets sad when you haven’t kissed her for a while, and runs away from it. Especially because you have all four of your life partners as lovers, who also love you. And while the others don’t have as many either, Robin only has you and Nancy as the girls in the group. She knew it was inevitable occasionally, but sometimes during group sex, you two were both busy with a boy each, and you’d try to include her with what she’s comfy with, but sometimes Robin feels like if you didn’t like her as much, everything would fall apart, or that she’s expendable or something, even though she knows that’s not true, and you’ve never really given her a reason to think that. But having not kissed you in a while, she doesn’t want to make anything worse.
She might ask Steve about it, or Nancy, or Eddie, but she also thinks they might say something. Or encourage her too, before she could fast forward through every thought in her head before she spoke to you. She was sweaty right now. Also, not that they would, but if any of the others looked at Robin after she told them her thoughts, and they said “what? Y/n’s been totally normal with me. What’re you talking about?” a part of her might just shrivel up. Robin knows what she should do, and what she’s going to vomit out in like two hours anyway, but she knows Steve or someone would tell her just to talk to you, and she’d rather just go crazy with them for a second, although Robin’s sure Steve would also let her do that as well if she wanted. And Robin does want to talk to you. And she also doesn’t. And she wants to word vomit everything, then hide away from you, but also have you save her from her own metaphorical tower in the castle after.
She had to bring it up, after realising and a spiral of looking over everything, a few hours later, she needs to bring it up or she’ll burst. When you sit by her because you notice her looking nervous, and ask her what’s wrong, Robin shoots herself over to hug you. With how quick your girlfriend moves, and the way she clings to you, you’re immediately asking “Robin, what’s wrong?!” But the fact she shakes her head, and doesn’t want to move away when you try and pull back, pull her apart, to talk to her, the fact she doesn’t want to start this conversation, or have you look at her, makes you know it’s more serious. You have to gently coach her with soothing words you know calm her, rubbing your hands on her arms as you slowly peek back, shuffling your bottom half closer so you can ask her what’s going on.
Robin gets very quickly soothed by you when she explains it seems like you two haven’t kissed in a while, and you explain too. You two quickly talk through how nothing’s wrong between you two, and it just happened, and you’re sorry it did, not only sorry for your love, but sorry because you’ve missed out on her kisses as well. You discuss it all, over what else made Robin upset, and going through every detail of the past day or two, that Robin latches onto because she loves hearing you talk and talk much like she will too, especially when she wants to know the details like now. You go through it all, making sure Robin really is okay, and know she’s loved, tenfold, going through everything she wants to talk about and making sure she truly has the floor. And when you’re both finally as secure as you could be in your relationship, and you’ve talked through everything, Robin ends up leaning in for her kiss first before you can, even as she’s still sniffling the last of her cries, but she pulls back smiling, with her hands on your face. She’s just so happy with you.
And Robin is very happy for you to spend the rest of the day, and the next, focusing very much on Robin and her happiness, giving her all the attention and affection she’s been lacking. You tell everyone for dinner, that you’re all going out together tonight, and to Robin’s favourite restaurant. Of course, you sit with Robin in the car ride, and in the booth, Eddie on your other side because he beat Nancy there, knowing she wouldn’t run in a restaurant. Robin’s even clinging to you when you’re both getting ready to go out. You go with her to her bedroom, putting on one of her jackets, both of you almost tripping Steve, and then Eddie, at the bottom of the stairs, because you’re tying each other’s laces there. And Robin is koalaing on you on the short walk to the car, both of you giggling into each other’s ears, as you bounce her while you carry her. In the restaurant, you’re pressing small little kisses to Robin’s shoulder throughout the night, and even leaning on it, and Robin gets to lean on your head, while you’re both sleepily stuffed, Steve going over to pay and Eddie in the bathroom. Robin doing most of the talking with Nancy, and lighting up inside with how cozy you are on her. And how both your knees have been stuck together the entire night.
And even the next day, you sit next to Robin on the couch, holding her the entire morning, even as one of the others comes up to ask if you’d like to do something, you have to pass this time, saying “Sorry I can’t, I have plans with Robin today.”
Nancy: is pretty busy. She focuses on other things quite a bit, like her career, and doing checks on people (and her weapons), making sure the house stays standing, she’s even got back into tennis now. Plus she understands you can be busy too. You two can do other things together, like have conversations, or a simple touch on the arm while you both share the kitchen. As long as she’s seeing you, she’s happy and secure in her relationship. And of course, she knows you’re okay. So she might not realise it for a little while, that you two haven’t kissed, even if you’ve been around each other, unless it becomes obvious.
And even then she just sees it as a coincidence of circumstance that it hasn’t happened in a couple of days, so the next time she sees you, she’ll be sure to give you a smooch, even if that’s in passing as you’re both walking through the hallway or something. She’s not worried, unless she’s given a reason to be worried. Then her Nancy Drew mind may be turned on a little.
But Nancy’s first course of action even then, after waiting to see where you are if you are home, and then seeking you out, is to swiftly and softly grab your elbow so she can lean in for a kiss. As soon as she’s leaning back, then she’s judging every facial and body expression of yours. Just to see if something actually was up.
And when she realises it truly was nothing, she’s very satisfied. Giving you another kiss, if you haven’t leant in for one already, and promising that right now she’s just very quickly going to finish up something (her work she abandoned when she had a new theory to sniff out and test) and then she’s going to come downstairs and she’s going to cuddle with you on the couch and hang out with you. Because she feels like she hasn’t in forever, and she could do with some nice relaxing time with her love.
If someone mentions something to Nancy though, even innocently, that might stick. Nancy might be doing some more covert investigative work. Checking if you’re kissing the others, or acting any differently around them, or differently with them compared to her, and that compared to all your usual nuances in your relationships within the relationship.
Of course, if you kiss her while she’s doing that, then all is solved pretty much! Nancy will have her newspaper in her hands, very slick she realises, but she’s watching over it as you and Robin flick each others noses over and over, getting closer to each others faces, with upturned chins and wider smiles each time. When you turn to Nancy, in the silence of recognising her eyes on you, Nancy gives you a smile over her paper, one you grow back in return, and Nancy also exchanges one with her other girlfriend.
Nancy knows there’s differences with everyone’s relationships with each other, and she’s not checking this out because of jealousy, she just... she needs to know if she’s done anything to change your affections towards her, or not. Because if it’s that, then she wants to change that, before it leads to a blow out, or a scenario where she tries to kiss you, but it’s too late, and you outright angle your head away from it. Nancy realises she’s catasrophising a little bit, but she also feels slightly bad, she wants to make sure she’s been giving you enough of her time. She knows she’s busy.
But also, maybe you’ve been on your own little mission too, maybe you thought Nancy was pulling away, but not just with kisses, in general? Maybe Nancy had accidentally seemed to spend more than with the others than you? There were too many paths to explore. Even when she’s checking on you, she’s at least in the same room as you, spending time with you like that. And usually you or the others invite her over, noticing her in those times. So she does get more time closer with you, doing things with you. She’s tried to sit next to you sometimes in those times, during her short intel collection.
But she eventually does talk everything out with you, after realising you might not be upset with her, but she still wants to talk about it. And also make sure she is giving you enough of her, she knows she throws herself into a lot of things, and a lot of things are important to her, but you, her family, are the most. But when she says she feels a bit silly, that she knew she was being, smiling as she’s reassured after her straight up talk with you, you hold her and tell her that that’s not true. It wasn’t silly, obviously you love her and none of that has changed of course, but if she ever is even a little unsure or worried, then she should ask, she should talk to you, just like she did now. Her feelings are never silly, and you’re so happy that she’s so amazing, and talks through them with you. Nancy kisses you harder after that. She always tends to love you more every time she speaks to you, and each time she isn’t sure how that’s even possible.
But also, Nancy feels so relieved, she gets softer in the exterior than she is sometimes. Just wanting to hold you back, and so thankful to have you in her arms, smiling as she ticks her cheek onto your shoulder, and feels you pressing kisses all over her hair.
When all of the four are holding you, looking bcak at you after your first kiss after this, they look at you so blissed, that they’re holding their world in their hands.
The lead up to the yandere fruity four trying to get you to live with them? 🤤
(Long post so under cut)
You’re already in a romantic relationship with them. And you end up staying the night most nights. Because a lot of nights you just choose to do so, which they love! You love them, so of course you love staying over! But sometimes it’s from your own volition, or they’ve just made you too comfy, or they’ve promised “nooo just one last conversation” and you get too sleepy. Nearly falling asleep on someone’s shoulder, before Steve is carrying you up the stairs to the bed he has set in his house, just for you. The other three running ahead giddily (but trying to stay somewhat quiet for you) as they get everything set up. Eddie pulling back your covers, Robin holding the teddy they bought you to place in your arms, Nancy switching off all the lights.
One time Robin cried to the other three, because she swore you weren’t going to stay the night, when you hadn’t stayed all week! So when Steve got you a fruit tea you’d asked for when he offered that night, he’d instead given you some sleepy time tea. It wasn’t drugging you! It was just tea that helped you sleep! You took that tea all the time when you were struggling, it was literally just the tea bag, with extra honey covering it up. Which was good it wasn’t an actual drugging because Nancy had the same idea. So you were lolling off of Robin’s shoulder, and your legs were falling off of Eddie’s lap, after your second cup in fifteen minutes. The four all giving each other the ‘we’ll talk later’ look, as Robin stroked your warm back, putting on her bed time voice, before Steve could switch off the tv.
You’ll sometimes go days without leaving, because they always find a way to sucker you back in. Even if you guys go out that day or night, you’ll still end up sleeping over! So much sometimes, you don’t even notice you haven’t gone home yet. Or if you do, you’ll still be convinced to stay another night! After all why wouldn’t you? They are your lovers. Even the fact they always smell so good (at one point they started wearing perfumes/colognes/deodorants etc they thought you’d like, then melted with their love for you when you said that they smelt nice, themselves). Sometimes you’re too sleepy, occasionally falling asleep in their car as they’re ‘driving you home’, but you were out way too late and tuckered out from a day of excitement, that they might as well just drive straight past your street, and carry you from the car, up to your room, taking off your shoes, and putting you to bed.
Sometimes you’re convinced with the prospect of an amazing breakfast that morning. Sometimes you’re hungover. Sometimes there’s ‘danger’ afoot, so it’s either better for you, the others would feel safer, or you’d feel safer, staying. Sometimes it’s the fact you know you guys are gonna have really good sex, or, the sex lasts a lot longer than you thought, it was just so good, you wanna keep going, and/or you’re too tired, and your whole body is like jelly, so you have to stay, with them helping clean you up and giving you lots of loving aftercare too. And sometimes of course, it really is that you love them, and they’re just so cute, and you love them so much, that you don’t wanna leave!
They did once say, if you stayed, not only would they get you McDonald’s breakfast, but they’d take you out that day, and you guys could go wherever you wanted! You said they’d do that anyway, if you called them up and asked them tomorrow. They had to admit, you had them there. That was definitely true. They wouldn’t even hold back in a teasing ‘ah ah ah we told you so’ way, because they wouldn’t be able to help it. They knew they’d give in immediately, if not easily anyways, and so did you, it wasn’t even worth arguing the fact. Although they did say joining you in the shower in the morning would be easier if you stayed. Although, again, not impossible, if you asked it of them without the former step. Like they’d say no if you asked them to ‘help’ you bathe.
It’s also not too hard to convince you, purely by being themselves. They’ll be kissing on you, smiling with dramatic “No!!!”’s when you mention leaving, collapsing on you so you can’t get up. Eddie miming getting hit right in the heart a bunch of times when you announce that. Saying “you’re such a good girl/boy/darling, don’t leave” cooing at you. Hugging you, all touching you fondly, affectionately, stroking your back, massaging your hands, tucking your hair, rubbing your cheek, tickling you, etc. All trying to smother you with love, kissing and snuggling all over you. And God are they adorable when they do that. They’re so cute as they sweetly try to convince you to stay, all with giggles, and dramatic gasps, and whiny pleas. One time you had Eddie’s nose smushed into your cheek, Robin’s face in your thigh, Nancy in your shoulder, and Steve in your chest, all begging with smiles and cute pouts “Nooo! Don’t goooo..! Not yet. Pleeeeease?”
Even all four have individually tried at one point to convince you to move in with the whole “Please? Please please please please please please please”, not stopping until you were laughing so hard you couldn’t respond. One time all four tried that method together, at the same time, and that was... definitely a more rambunctious attempt off them.
They are also not at all afraid to beg. They will happily do so. They’ll get down on both knees and nuzzle into your legs while clutching at your pants, with puppy eyes up at you, pleading with such cute voices. Whatever you need, or want from them, that will sway you, they’ll do with heart eyes for you. As much as they’ll do whatever they can to convince you to move in, they are equally wrapped around your fingers <3
If they think something would help, they would probably do it, basically.
They probably also aren’t afraid to cry in front of you, to try and sway you that bit more. Breaking down a little and saying how much better it feels when you stay the night. Not blaming you or anything, they don’t accuse you of not actually loving them because of it, nothing like that, at all. But crying as they say they miss you. And they get scared at night, they worry about you, you know what the upside down was like, you’ve been there with them. And also scared themselves, and wanting you. That they just want to be able to crawl to your room, or have you hear them crying, so you can hold them, and promise them that it’s going to be okay. So they can snuggle into you, and feel your warmth, and smell you, and hear you whispering in their ear as you comfort them.
Or the knowledge that they’re not counting down till you have to leave, they can just hold you as you both watch tv until you fall asleep (which happens anyway), that they don’t have to worry about rushing or planning things, that they can just be with you. Or simply that they just miss you. They want you to stay, so it feels like your whole family is secure. All there, together, like you should be. You definitely have to stay that night, with whoever broke. Holding them the entire night in ‘your’ room as they cry into you, needing you.
They have to be a little careful though. It’s kind of a big subject for them, and one time when one of them casually said they just wanted to finally be a ‘proper family’ with you, all four burst into panic when you started tearing up. Insinuating that you weren’t a proper family. Because of you, too. Something they quickly rectified, apologising over and promising that’s not what they meant, as the others agreed and comforted you too. They hate seeing you cry, hate it, and it hurts them even more if they’ve caused it. Luckily you did know pretty quickly that they didn’t mean it like that. If anything, the way they apologised as well made it indisputable, but they did learn to be just a tad more careful around the subject. They especially didn’t want to let slip any... any thoughts of their side hidden to you, that only the others knew about. Because they shared it too, if not on varying levels.
On a happier note, they say you might as well move in! They already all live together in Steve’s house, you should join! You keep saying you are thinking about it, but they just have to keep convincing you, they can’t help it. And you never seem to find it annoying. They’re able to bring it up all the time, in ways that make you just smile, or laugh, or even teasingly roll your eyes. But when they hold onto you even more as you both share a giggle, you feel even closer to them.
“If you were living with us this wouldn’t be an issue!” Is ‘jokingly’ tossed around, even for things that would not be affected by that at all. But the in jokes, and the reminders of how much they want that, want you, always do brighten a spark in you a bit more.
You living with them would be a dream! They all love you so much, and you’re their family! They want to all be together. They can’t see any negatives to you moving in that second.
Also, with how much trauma they all have, it makes them less anxious, less likely for another to have to call you because someone’s having a panic attack in the locked bathroom, and will only come out for you, if they know you’re really safe. Who’s to say some upside down hellspawn won’t come out and attack you at your house? And if you live with them, they can protect all of their lovers/platonic life partners, at the same time. You’re all under the same roof.
And you know you’ll be safer with them too. They know what lurks out there. Plus, you know they’d do anything to protect you. At the same time, sometimes you want to protect them, you worry about them, so you want to stay to be the one protecting. Even though you don’t realise sometimes Steve or Nancy wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, doing a sweep of the house with their bat/gun, until they’re satisfied you’re all safe. Sometimes you really do just wanna stay, or can be easily convinced to, because the trauma of the upside down, or any other fears, is a lot. And not only do you know you’re with people who understand you, and are prepared, whether to handle you, or to fight back against otherworldly shit, but you’ll know they’ll be able to protect you too. And not only that, but cuddle and soothe you until you feel safe enough to sleep again, sandwiched between your loves.
And they’ll do anything to convince you! You’re constantly brought presents. Whenever you come over, whenever one, some, or all of them come over to you, whenever you meet up with any of them, they’re gifting you something. Usually not a super small or cheap thing either. Those are usually bought during your dates/hang outs. So chocolates, a new tape, pizza for dinner, things like that, or things you’d already buy when out, eg if you’re going all around the mall together they’ll buy you clothes, are extra on top of those gifts. And you’ll never pay for a meal. Or pretty much anything when you’re out with them.
When you’re living with them, they’ll provide for you too, as all four already do with each other, they promise, so they’re showing it’s basically the same thing and how good it’ll be. Also end of date gifts. If you were out, usually someone bought you something, that they kept hidden until it was almost over, and then surprise you with it, saying they picked it up earlier bc they knew you’d like it. They love that they can still surprise you, even when you think your time’s almost over. Plus there’s the added bonus of getting a few extra minutes before they have to leave you again :(
They even buy things for your room. For, you know, when you do move in, they’ll joke. Just showing you an extra thing they’ve put in there, that they know is you, to make it feel like home. You do spend time there a lot anyways. Usually someone or a couple of someone’s sleeping in your bed with you, or you’re in theirs. You all have massive beds, big enough to fit all five of you in if needed. You hardly ever sleep alone when you’re at their house. And why would you? You’re all dating.
Eddie definitely sneaks into your room too. Just climbs through the window with a big grin on his face, cause he missed you. Or sometimes because he’s crying, and he really needed you. Robin attempted this once, after the others heard of Eddie’s escapades; she had to be saved from the roof by you and Steve. Although Steve did climb through once or twice after learning Eddie had done the same. Although his were usually visits. Unless you asked him to stay. The second you ask that, Steve’s jumping into bed with you, or convincing you to let him drive you back to his. The only reason he doesn’t stay the nights he comes, like Eddie mostly does, is he feels the need to protect everyone in the house. So unless you ask, he’ll probably go back, after a cheeky visit for a few goodnight kisses.
One time everyone tried to sneak into your room at the same time. Surprising you when instead of being greeted by Eddie’s wonderfully catastrophic falling into your floor, or Steve’s rapping knocks, you had Nancy being shoved in by her butt, turning back and barking an “I know!” back at Steve, before smiling at you, your other three lovers following suit. Your bed was not quite as big. So it was a bit of a squeeze everyone trying to fit on the bed. People lying on top of each other, and mostly on top of you, to suffice.
This does not include the times any of the four have snuck into your room, very much without your knowledge, and they meant for it to be that way...
I mean, they do have to check up on you, since you’re not living with them. Make sure you’re okay. Make sure there’s no upside down monsters, no robbers, no... hopeful romantics, outside your house. Plus, they miss you more. Sure you have clothes and toiletries and stuff in their house, plus they own have their own little stashes, but they’ll have to come back to grab things, that still smell like you. Or check out brand new things they haven’t seen yet.
But when they’re in your room without your knowledge late at night, they’re usually very soothingly, and lovingly, stroking you as you sleep, smiling over you. Sometimes just watching you for a while, even that makes them happy, makes them feel better. Getting into bed with you, for no matter how short a time, just cuddling you, in such a way you won’t wake up, but being able to hold you still. They just miss you so much. Plus, they have to make sure you’re okay. They can’t breathe if they get worried about you, until they go over to yours and see with their own eyes, that you’re fine, and still breathing.
Of course, importantly, they’ve all also had a big talk with you. About the intricacies of moving in. About what you wanna wait for until you’re ready. About how it will work; Eddie’s already got his van half empty, same with Steve’s trunk, which he cleans whenever people have put their stuff in there. They’ve also talked about how nothing will change. How they promise they love you so much, that you don’t need to worry about any anxieties you have, if you think they’d like you less after you move in, or that, God forbid, they’d fall out of love with you, because that’s literally impossible. They could never not love you. And they are extremely serious about that fact. You already know how the household works, just from being in it so often. And all the important details have been discussed at length. And you know you don’t have to be worried if you wanna ask them anything else, they’re always open ears for you, they’ve reminded you of that fact a million and one times :)
They’ve even got a surprise party set up, for when it finally is moving day. Something Robin and Eddie have wanted to hint at you about, even if they all wanna keep it a surprise for you. They don’t need to entice you with a party anyway, even if they get anxious without you, they know that. You have plenty of reasons you want to move in, you’ve already basically agreed just without a date set! Although you do kind of suspect they might have something in the works planned, if not only because it just seems like them, after this time waiting for the day.
Even though they really want you to finally say yes and set a date, they don’t force you. They know they don’t need to either. You’ve already said an eventual yes. And they know that their little tactics are working. I mean, how can you not be convinced, when all four of your lovers and crooning for you to please do this. To do this thing that will make you all happy!
But, it’s also nice to see how hard they try. That knowledge that they’re not just suddenly going to stop putting in effort into you and your relationship, once you are fully with them. You know their love, and acts of it, aren’t going to diminish at all. That’s not them. They love you, they’re not trying to manipulate you into it either, at least not in a bad way you’re sure, they truly will always love you.
the only person who wears a bra in the fruity four apartment is steve when he feels like adding a little zest to his outfit…other than that it is a strictly bra free zone !!
One thing is, if you had really bad executive dysfunction (like with depression, ADHD, etc) then not only would the fruity four take such good care of you, but they’d also make sure you never felt bad about it.
Anything you need help with, one of them is already extending a helping hand. If something’s going on, and there’s a reason it’s worse atm, they’re all sitting down to make sure whatever’s bothering you is fixed. And they know sometimes it just happens, there’s no reason behind it, and they won’t get mad at you for falling behind, even if you’re scared they will be. Once you explain about your ed, they really try their best to be understanding, I think some of them have even experienced it too (definitely Eddie has).
You’re their number one priority. So they’ll either lift you up and go help you do the thing you need, or they’ll take care of it for you if they can so you’re not stressing. They get in a semi-bad habit of doing the things themselves, because they don’t want you to feel bad or worry, and they want to help! Even if sometimes they know they should let you do it yourself, just with their help, they can’t help taking care of things for you! They’re doing it for you before they can even think about it. Or they’ll even tell you how it’s not important, and nothing to even worry about doing at all.
They just try to make sure you know that they could never think any less of you for what, struggling with an actual neurological issue, that already makes you feel bad for not being able to deal with it in the first place? They couldn’t do that to you. Their number one priority is just making sure you’re looked after, you’re loved, and you fully know it.
