#yin and yang type shit

[biggestsastielfan]

When was the moment in your life, or more specifically when watching spn, did you come to the conclusion that Sastiel is a really good ship 🎀

I recently just discovered the ship, and I'm trying to find exact examples and good headcanons, yk?

But im mostly just finding destiel and....... forbidden no no sibling shipping with castiel....

No hate, literally, I'm just super curious to hear your thoughts, ideas, and headcanons on the ship

So far, I think that it's fuck!ng adorable and I hate myself for not realizing earlier even tho I've been in this fandom for years now..... 💔💔

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG thank you for the ask so so much

i don’t really think it was one specific moment for me cause when i first started watching spn i fully expected to become a destiel shipper. and my thing was was i was never a deangirl i am a GIANT samgirl so i couldn’t really latch onto destiel when it started happening. also, a person i know like. deadass kinda forced destiel onto me and ITS NOT THAT SERIOUS, but even when i was like “i don’t ship them” that person still continued to… send me destiel propaganda. which is why i have beef with many destielers

and then i slowly become a casgirl and the math sort of checks out. samgirl + casgirl = sastiel shipper ykwim?

though there are a few sastiel moments i LOVE. like when Sam first meets cas in s4ep2. i also love s5ep17, and s6ep10, and s9ep11, basically all of when jack is around cause sastiel is literally his parents, and also s14ep15

sastiel is that kinda shit where although they aren’t shoved into your face like destiel (cough cough no offense i guess,) they’re still enough moments that make it a cute as hell ship

also i’m gonna make a separate post for headcanons cause i have SO many so keep an eye out

tldr; i’m not a deangirl, they’re overall just really cute and i think they’re so less toxic than destiel

[fig-blossom]

In life, it's all about balance. That’s why I have two husbands: a twink gay boy and a butch lesbian. One lives 7 hours ahead of me, the other 7 hours behind. One sends me cute pictures of his dates with his boyfriend. The other sends me sneaky "dick pics" of her hands. Both send me pics of their meals & snacks. All my needs are met as a woman.

[inkyrainstorms]

This panel is so so important to me <333 the guy who would rather die than be genuinely vulnerable, simultaneously the most authentic and most hidden-behind-a-mask character you’ve ever seen— finally asks for help. He admits that he doesn’t know what to do and he’s scared and he needs help. That is incredible.

alternative version w/out the glass and the panel itself under the cut! (Warning, MASSIVE spoilers be wary of the panel if you haven’t read it)

[huneybackup]

why is this how V's route feels

[kylo-skywalkerr]

Okay LISTEN. Kylux has such beautiful parallels and opposites in their life stories that it's almost beautiful.

The height of Ben's life was him being young. He was naturally gifted, had a great family, and a promising future. There were problems, but he had friends, and he was thriving. Then he grew up and renounced his identity as Ben and things went downhill.

Hux's childhood on the other hand was his low point. It wasn't until adulthood that he rose up and became stronger.

Kylo killed his father because he loved him. Snoke saw it as a weakness and made him do it. It tore him apart.

Hux killed his father because he hated him. He needed to thrive and that had to happen with Brendol's death.

Hux is reserved and handles his emotions accordingly, rarely ever doing more than raising his voice whenever the occasion permits it.

Kylo can't control his emotions and only acts in anger, unable to ground himself as well as Hux does.

They're opposites but also so much alike. Violent, self serving, desiring full control over the throne.

So alike yet so different. I mourn the loss of the duel of the fates script because in that they actually did come together. Rey refused Kylo's help so Kylo took Hux's hand. Let him lead, obeyed enough to shave his entire head simply because Hux found it too disorderly. Original Hux was fascinated by the force, he wished he had it. While Kylo's life is ruined by it.

Sometimes, I think that Kylo and Hux's relationship was tarnished just to make Rey and Kylo seem more probable. Those two were stronger together, and the writers tore them apart. But they're perfect together, opposite yet one in the same.

[iguessricciardo]

lewis is out there interacting with fans on twitter meanwhile daniel doesn’t even remember his password anymore

[zombieboyarise]

i like that in many ways tumblr is still the worst website to be on

[the-music-maniac]

It is very exhausting being in western fandom spaces sometimes. Tell me why I just wanted to enjoy a cute oubing ship vid on tiktok, and half the comments section was about people saying you can't ship them???

I wanna complain into the void, so here's a comprehensive of why Oubing/藕饼/Lotus Root Cake is fine (and even if it wasn't, why I don't give a shit):

(Spoiler warning for Nezha 2)

1. "You can't ship them cause they're brothers'": No, they are not brothers. Not by any definition of the word. Not by blood - not even sworn brothers technically, because they only refer to each other as best friends. They each have their own parents - those parents are not related to each other in any way, shape, or form. One of them is a freaking dragon, an entirely different species. Also, they're technically made of lotuses now. They weren't raised together either. Clarifying this point feels ridiculous.

2. "But they used to be part of the chaos pearl": If you wanted to define them by any type of relationship, they are soulmates. This is not me trying to spin them romantically, I mean they are literally soulmates. Their spirits are each half of a single Chaos Pearl, and they each represent opposite halves. They are literally soulmates and yin and yang.

3. "But they're children!": Are they three years old? Yes - and also no. (this is edited: I saw an official post that did say their ages were 3, not 6). They've been alive for centuries as a chaos pearl. I need you to understand that the original entity we saw at the beginning of Nezha 1, IS a creature that has been alive for thousands of years. They had personality too while they were fighting Taiyi. They were made into the pearls by the cauldron. Now, their mortal bodies as we understand it, is 3 (again edited. I originally said 6 cause I wasn't sure whether or not to count the 3 years of pregnancy). But because they're not really human, and their developmental stages therefore don't mirror a human, the movie shows them maturing into an adult form in the span of about 3 years. How do we know this? Ao Bing is the same age as Nezha, and he went from a baby to his adult form in those 3 years. The only reason Nezha is still in a child form is because he has the qiankun circle suppressing him. This is also the reason that putting the circle on his wrist releases his adult form. Also it's sort of maybe implied by the end of Nezha 2 that he may stay permanently in his adult form, since he reformed his body into it while he was in The Soup™. I dunno how accurate this part is so I suppose we'll see by Nezha 3. I would like to point out further that no three year old talks or acts like they do. Ao Bing and Nezha have very complete vocabularies, and are able to understand the complexities of their circumstances. They're both new to the world in this form, but they're not at the mental capacity of a 3 year old. It's like if you were dropped into a new form of existence with an adult brain.

4. "Nooo, why are you shipping them now": This ship is NOT NEW. It's been around since at least 2019. It is WILDLY popular in China. Back when Nezha 1 first came out, oubing literally won an award for best couple. I want you to understand the scale - from my understanding, they beat wangxian in cql. Y'all can correct me if I got this part wrong because I can't find the source of where I read this information, but if it's true, that's wild. I know the award part is correct. There was an official shampoo ad that reads like a shipping comic. Now that Nezha 2 came out, it is still one of the most popular ships. Every other post on my social media has been about Nezha 2 and at least half of that has been Oubing. There are over 2000 chinese fics on ao3 currently. Stop with this "why are you shipping them now", WE'VE BEEN SHIPPING THEM.

5. "It's not canon.": Not that I give a shit what's canon or even what the original creator thinks about shipping usually, but Jiaozi, aka the director of the movie, has stated that while he wrote Nezha and Ao Bing to just be a friendship that he thinks it is fine if people ship them. I'm pretty sure he also said something along the lines of 'people can interpret things how they want' or something.

6. Even if all of the points I made were not the case, I cannot stress enough how little I care about what someone should or should not ship. If you don't like it, just block the fanart/fic/video and move on. I promise society will not crumble because someone decides to ship two fictional characters from a mythology movie. We will be fine.

(Also if you see anyone in the chinese fandom write 藕饼cp, the cp stands for "couple". Just to clarify. They use different terms for shipping in chinese fandoms, they'll say they "ke CP" aka ship a couple)

Some of the comments I've seen make me wonder if people have even watched the movies. 'You can't ship them cause they're brothers', god don't make me laugh.

Don't let them find out that the chinese fandom is also shipping Ao Bing and Nezha from the 1979 cartoon, they'd lose their minds.

[spider-stark]

RECKLESS

paring | foggy nelson x reader

summary | statistically speaking, fucking your annoying coworker is never a good idea. but who cares about statistics?

warnings | MDNI 18+, sexual themes & situations, no real plot (just concepts & vibes bb), your yearly reminder that i can't write smut, not edited we die like foggy in dd:ba (fuck that show)

word count | 660+

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“Holy shit, holy shit, holy–”  

“Foggy!” Your voice was sharp. His face—cheeks tinted rosy pink—was so close to yours that, with the slightest movement, your noses were at risk of bumping together. “Stop. Talking.”  

His breathing was erratic. His gaze flitted between your eyes and your lips, as if unsure of where to look. “Sorry.” A second of quiet, and then: “It’s just—are we doing this? Like, actually doing this?”  

You wanted to kiss him. You wanted to kill him.  

You wanted him to shut up and to never stop talking ever again.  

“Foggy?”  

“Yes?”  

“I mean this in the nicest way,” you told him, though your tone indicated otherwise, “but don’t you think now is a little too late to be asking that?”  

Your skirt was pushed up to your goddamn waist. Whatever skin wasn’t covered by the thin fabric of your panties was pressed to the smooth, cool varnish of his desk. His palms pressed flat against the side of your thighs, fingers occasionally flexing with the urge to squeeze, held back by a most infuriating sense of restraint. 

His hips were wedged between your legs. Even through the barriers that separated you—his slacks, your panties—you could still feel him pressing against your core.  

Hard.  

Thick.  

“Well, you know what they say.” He gave a little shrug, nervous and adorable. “No time like the present, amirite?”  

You couldn’t agree less.  

But this was what Foggy was good at, wasn’t it? Pushing your buttons, getting under your skin. The two of you were opposites. Oil and water, yin and yang. If you said down, he said up, if you said red, he said green.  

And if you said Let’s Fuck, Foggy Nelson was for sure the type of guy to look you dead in the eyes and say: Actually?  

“Franklin–” his nose scrunched at the use of his real name “–I can feel every inch of your dick pressing against my–”  

His grin widened. “How are you feeling about that by the way?”  

You sucked an agitated breath through your nostrils.

“Presently? Not so good, Franklin.” Your glare bored right through the soul of him, menacing as it was in any courtroom as you stressed, “Not. So. Good.”  

You hated this.  

You hated him.  

Just minutes ago, the two of you had been at each other’s throats—a common occurrence during late nights at the office. The catalyst had been stupid. For tomorrow’s opening statement, you wanted to present the teenaged client as wholly innocent. But Foggy—stupid, stupid Foggy!—wanted to paint them as misguided youth. That way, he argued, if the plaintiff brought forth enough evidence to prove the client guilty (which, to be fair, they definitely were), then the jury might still take pity on them if it seemed they’d been failed by a larger system.  

It was risky. Reckless. No better than a blatant admission of guilt, really.  

And that was exactly the point you’d been trying to make—your finger jabbing against his chest, his jaw clenched with frustration—when, suddenly, the Earth shifted on its axis and his lips crashed against yours.  

As a lawyer, you prided yourself on being a person of extreme logic.  

Facts and figures, reason over impulse. You valued sense. Statistics. You never made a move without ensuring that success was not only possible, but probable.  

And workplace relationships? Ugh…  

Let’s just say the numbers weren’t in your favor on that one.  

“Foggy,” you raked your fingers through his soft blonde locks. Tugged, relishing in the way his eyelids fluttered shut, plush lips parting with a sweet, almost whimpering, sound. “I’m only going to tell you this one more time.” Your voice was low, firm. “Stop talking and start fucking. Got it?”  

He was already nodding, already fumbling for his pants, before the last word had even left your tongue. “Yes ma’am,” he choked out, so dutiful and submissive that you forgot all about facts and figures, reason over impulse.  

Fuck statistics.  

You were doing this.  

Definitely, definitely doing this.

a/n - god. if i knew how to write smut? i'd love to continue this. such a fun concept (in my opinion). anyways, hope you all enjoyed this little short piece about the most precious human to ever live (count your days, born again).

as always, could be ooc, but I do my best so cut me some slack lmao

[punkpandapatrixk]

👑Your Destined Person’s Anima vs Persona ♦︎ Timeless Pick A Card

According to Carl Jung, the anima is a man’s feminine (Yin) aspect, and thus unconscious in him. Correspondingly, the animus is a woman’s masculine (Yang) aspect, and thus unconscious in her. The anima is the Masculine’s hidden psychology, essentially.

In the grand scheme of the Cosmos, the Yin is the dark, the magnetic, the VOID—the empty space where all creations are first dreamt. In this dark space, it is up to the Masculine individual whether or not he wants to succumb to the allure of Lilith the Destroyer. In Jungian psychology, apparently, they have this thing called The Devouring Mother LMAO

All things considered, in the name of character development, it is up to the man—if he ever so chooses, which, one must first always make a choice for things to go a certain way—to make the unconscious conscious.

When the Yin and the Yang in a person are united and fully realised, that person becomes what we call Divine~ Man or woman, this person then becomes a more complete Human being. He or she then becomes the master of his/her own Destiny~⛵️

GNOSIS: A Man's Anima Reveals Itself In Sexual Fantasies as explained by Marie-Louise von Franz (entertain the comments section, peeps~)

SONG: Say You Love Me by EXO KAI

MOTHA: Kim Kardashian plays a SAVAGE version of herself in AHS Delicate 😩 by Offensive Tea

deck-bottom: XVIII The Moon Rx, Red Geographer (Marco Polo) & Priestess of Illumination

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Pile 1 – Evil Fuck vs King

‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.’ – Carl Jung

VIBE: Reason by EXO KAI

anima – XV The Devil

Look, babe, we keep it real in this household, OK? XD We don’t know if your Destined Person has Mars/Pluto in the 8th or 12th House—or possibly—Neptune itself in the 5th or 8th House, but essentially, your DP is a person who’s deeply fascinated by SEX and all the taboos surrounding it. They could struggle with having a lot of improper thoughts, quite often, at inappropriate times and places, deep inside.

Your Destined Person most likely watches a lot of porn or indulges themselves in those types of activities/media, and on top of that, prooobably has some mummy issues. At the very least, they could have a strange/unhealthy relationship with their mother figure or have a difficult time accepting/integrating the Yin aenergy inside of them.

Overall, this strange combo of Scorpion/Neptunian qualities in them lends to your Destined Person’s macabre fascination with all things ‘dark and sexual’. Be that as it may, this doesn’t automatically mean that your Destined Person is simply a depraved piece of fuck. Don’t be surprised to know that things changed drastically for them by the time they graduated their 1st (or 2nd if they’re slow LOL) Saturn Return~

persona – 9 of Cups

There is something about the way sexuality is expressed in this Human world that feels strangely fascinatingly depraved, which is genuinely incredibly foreign to your Destined Person’s Soul XD If they’ve felt inexplicably drawn to it, it’s because they want to UNDERSTAND fully what makes ‘sex’ in the Human world so…icky and disrespectful. 9 of Cups here is literally indicating that your Destined Person’s Soul is incredibly pure and altruistic.

And that is exactly why they are endlessly perplexed by the darkness—the sickness is more like it—surrounding SEX in this wicked world which they realised is almost completely deprived of Love. The sheer lack of a soulful cosmic connection in most sexual activities in this world puzzles the living shit out of your Destined Person!

It may take some maturing from your Destined Person until they finally understand that this dark fascination is actually quite common for people with their kind of natal configuration or let’s say, psychology. Their Saturn Return phases will play (or have played) a critical role in their awakening to a Higher Truth that eventually liberates them from the chains of a strange addiction to… yeah…

Divine Human – Queen of Pentacles Rx

At some point in Life—most likely after their, at least, first Saturn Return—your Destined Person understood why some things simply don’t add up for them when it comes to how Humans connect with each other to enjoy these…worldly pleasures; which then led to a great spiritual liberation from all the deceits they’d been told about sex and sexuality in this…mortal world.

Your Destined Person is somebody who’s quite inexplicably cosmic, you know. Either they feel to you like an alien or a fairy. They simply can’t fit into the expectations of ‘normalcy’ in most of Human societies. The depraved things people so take for granted, none of that feels ‘normal’ to your Destined Person. This is someone who’s actually incredibly decent and polite.

Your Destined Person is not the type that wants to hurt you in intimate situations. They probably don’t even prioritise the sensual sensations more than how they connect with you on an emotional level. This is a person who wants to ‘fill you up’ spiritually through a divine sexual activity, which, now that you know, explains why they’ve had to learn to unlearn the lies of sex and sexuality in their younger years ^^v

WHAT IS LOVE🔻💜

honey? – Priestess of Solitude

poison? – Priestess of Faith

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Pile 2 – Many Dreams vs Unworthiness

‘One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.’ – Carl Jung

VIBE: Amnesia by EXO KAI

anima – Knight of Pentacles

There is a chance that your Destined Person has some significant Virgo-Pisces bullshit going on in their birth chart. This is the axis of sacrifice and self-undoing of the zodiac wheel and this in itself could cause a person to ‘self-sabotage’ out of a fear of becoming happier than everybody else. It sounds crazy, right? But people with a harshly afflicted Virgo-Pisces connection tend to be somewhat of a martyr.

In practice, where your Destined Person is concerned, this affliction plays itself out in the form of endless rumination, as well as a sense of not being worthy of what they’re actively daydreaming about. This is almost giving me that main character from the movie Parasite. This guy dreams and plans a lot, but fucks everything up in the end because he’s simply not…capable enough?

OK, that’s a bad example but this aenergy is almost similar to how the guy is portrayed by the very end of the film XD This afflicted Piscean aenergy especially, is making your Destined Person, most likely subconsciously, afraid of letting themselves happy. So then, as a means to reaffirm this ‘belief’ their brains ‘course-correct’ by fucking up whatever nice bit of Reality they’ve manifested…

persona – 5 of Swords Rx

After experiencing the same kind of bullshit for some time, could be a number of years for some, too, your Destined Person could’ve become dejected. This is a very normal human response, right? They could’ve developed some kind of inertia within themselves. Always frozen mid-air when thinking of actually jumping into the next breakthrough or any other sense of adventure. They tend to not take action towards liberating themselves from either boredom or a dead-end of a situation.

A lot of people who interact with them regularly probably only know them as a mild-mannered person who’s quite pleasant to talk to. But deep inside, your Destined Person is raging chaos, waiting to murder someone. They’re sometimes possessed by this strong feeling of wanting to destroy something massive or ruin another person’s Life completely. All because they’re superbly frustrated by the lack of action or excitement in their own everyday Life…

At minimum, this is a person who could struggle quite a bit with regulating envy or jealousy upon seeing another person’s success, freedom and happiness, but most of all, another person’s sense of advancement in Life. This isn’t to say that your Destined Person is simply an evil fuck of a devil incarnate; actually, quite far from it! It’s just that this person has dealt with, really, quite a bit of systemic letdowns from the Universe itself…

Divine Human – Page of Pentacles Rx

Life rarely feels fair when someone’s Virgo-Pisces axis has harsh afflictions. Then again, this is quite literally your Destined Person’s ultimate test of strength and of character. That’s precisely why their Soul chose to be born with such afflictions in the first place. To see how their Human Avatar would navigate this type of crazy in their psyche~★ I promise you that you aren’t destined to marry an actual psychopath LMAO But, let’s see…

In the beginning, your Destined Person could’ve struggled with looking into the depths of their own disturbed psychology. This could be a fear from within themselves and so they refused to do so, but especially if your Destined Person is an XY, this could also be their environment/society’s wrong reinforcement when they say, ‘Boys will be boys, riiight?’ as a means to excuse your Destined Person’s refusal to learn and grow from their failures and mistakes *smh*

Whether XY or XX, your Destined Person’s mother could’ve been a pick-me or straight up a narc; and due to this lack of proper guidance, structure and discipline in your Destined Person’s childhood, they could’ve grown up to embody somewhat of a dark triad personality. In actuality, your Destined Person wasn’t allowed the chance to grow up emotionally or psychologically—honestly, whoever their mother figure was, she failed them.

WHAT IS LOVE🔻❤️

honey? – Priestess of Abundance

poison? – Priestess of Love

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Pile 3 – Lazy Escapism vs Mahoroba

��People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.’ – Carl Jung

VIBE: Blue by EXO KAI

anima – 7 of Wands Rx

Your Destined Person is out with lanterns looking for themselves~ Doesn’t this picture make you think that? ^^ Your Destined Person is a walking paradox to say the least; they are the type that may not always be honest with even themselves. I sense it is because they feel this burden from all around them to be the highest-achiever or the best-mannered or whatever else. Other people have put such high expectations on them that they originally thought they too had to think precisely that way.

In the beginning, your Destined Person might not have known who they were at the core of their Soul. They had only known themselves through the lens of other people’s perception and expectations. Though they might have thought this normal when they were small, at some point in Life—possibly when Saturn made its last aspect at around age 21—your Destined Person was nudged by the Cosmos to go on a Soul-search.

During this time—and all through their first Saturn Return—your Destined Person realised for real for the first time that they are quite a rebellious spirit, and when met with the wrong situations, can honestly be quite vengeful XD At this point, they may have developed some bitter feelings about how they had allowed others to murky their own perception of themselves! This Soul-search could’ve been quite world-shattering for your Destined Person…

persona – 3 of Swords

Most people don’t seem to notice this but a self-denial kind of issue is actually really quite painful on an emotional and psychological level. Like this feeling of not knowing themselves, not embracing their inner child, not allowing themselves more freedom, all of this, upon being realised, broke your Destined Person’s heart so horribly. It was such a deep psychological issue that they may not have found any person to confide in.

Some of their friends, even closest friends, might’ve perceived that your Destined Person was distant from them. They sometimes felt standoffish or simply…well, distant. Not quite there with the rest of them or they could also have avoided hanging out too much with even those closest to them. They became somewhat of a loner. To process their feelings, your Destined Person often disappeared into the dreamscape.

In many ways, I think your Destined Person became quite deluded, if not delusional XD The dreamscape, their escapism, provided so much more comfort and excitement than real life. In the daydreams, they could be so much more real than what they’re allowed to be in the real world… So when you realise the reason, it’s really quite sad and poignant.

Divine Human – 6 of Pentacles

Your Destined Person is truly a Divine Human in that they do truly have such a generous, charitable heart. If this is your main pile, a common ground here is that your Destined Person is so much more kind and gentle than appearances may give—even if they’re already perceived as kind and gentle~ It’s almost unbelievable that someone as pure as this still exists in today’s world, especially if your Destined Person is an XY LMAO

This person, all they wanna do in Life is to be good and to love people and share good times and promote good deeds. Alas, that was very childish of them tsk tsk tsk… It took them a real smacking on the head to realise they’ve been victim to so much gaslighting practically their entire Life. Because in this wicked world, ‘goodness’ is weaponised by bad people to victimise actually good people.

A total mindfuck, yeah, took them a while. As they grow older, your Destined Person learns to balance between what is ‘fake short-term good’ and what’s ‘divinely good in the grand scheme of the Cosmos’. All in all, whether or not they have the technical knowledge, your Destined Person is actually a WITCH. Some of the most powerful witches out there—an alchemist of the highest order😉

WHAT IS LOVE🔻💚

honey? – Priestess of Inspiration

poison? – Priestess of Energy

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[the-dumpster-fire-of-life]

Ok but imagine 42! Miles with a s/o who's literally the complete opposite of him in terms of aesthetic but she helps him when he's the prowler. Like nobody would expect the sweet, energetic, girl with the "Mabel pines" energy to be the gal in the chair for the prowler and making his weapons and at the same time being his girlfriend. They're a literal force to be reckon with.

Complete opposites but totally work

(I love this and so sorry it took so long but enjoy!)

Mabel Pines!Reader

You guys work very, very well together

I can't even describe it very well but it's like yin and yang

He was absolutely gobsmacked on how smart you actually could be

Because not mean, he thought of you as a sort of airhead for a while

But he actually found it quite cute or adorable on you

But he did find out very quickly that y'all have very, very different aesthetics

To be frank you look like a rainbow threw up on you

While Miles is all gloomy and dark over there

So safe to say you throw some glitter in him and force him to be colorful

He finds it hard sometimes to keep up with your energy

But it good for him

His mama absolutely LOVES you

She sees how much Miles loves you just due to the light you bring into his eyes

You can give this man anything and he will pretend to not like it but raise hell if you try and take it back

You guys proudly watch the news of worried women and men on TV talking about jobs you guys pulled and tryna catch you guys

Y'know those sassy guys we see in Tiktoks?

He's that sassy guy with you when you make him mad or annoyed

Knees facing the other way with his whole body while he side eyes you

But he can't resist you for very long

He actually was quite shocked when he found out you had a little dark side

He always saw you looking on the bright side of things

So you partaking in his Prowler activities, much less MAKING the shit for them, absolutely shocked him

He found it quite hot though I can't lie

You're absolutely right when you're completely different but work so well together

Even Uncle Aaron saw it

He uses you sometimes as a little diversion

A fake damsel in distress might I say

He never actually puts you in danger a you can very much so handle yourself but he's always lurking around the corner in these situations

You are an absolute monster at anything Miles needs

New gloves? Done

New mask? Done

Fucking Ray gun? Why didn't he ask sooner? Here, it's in your bag

You absolutely stick little stickers on his crap as well

You can't help yourself

But he absolutely loves it

You sit in the chair looking all pretty but can turn intimidating real quick as he's sitting on the arm chair

Y'know those scenes where the bad guy asks their "dumb/weird" henchman like

"I have no idea…how about we ask (Name)?"

Those type of scenes and you can come up with the best shit he didn't even think of

Absolutely soul mates

Anyway, enjoy this little scene I made:

Miles breathed heavily, leaning against the wall on the rooftop to the door to go back down to his home. He was dressed as the Prowler, breathing labored from a fight.

Miles tried to breathe the best he could, even succeeding for a moment before his eyes snapped open as he heard the shudder of a phone camera and a flash.

Miles' eyes widened, hand in front of him as the flash died and he saw you standing there, blank faces and camera held out in front of you.

Miles and you stared at one another for a moment, nothing to say at all.

"Is that carbon fiber?" You suddenly spoke up.

"...what?-" Miles blinked, barely able to process this before you almost jumped on him.

"Ooh! How did you make this?!" Miles couldn't even breathe and before he knew, his helmet was in your hands as you went on.

"This material is tough enough but you know I could make a much better one if-" you rambles on, an excitement to your voice Miles knew all to well as you flipped over the mask in your hands

"Wait– hold on." Miles held his arms out, effectively causing a pause in your rant as you stared back at him.

"Y'know who I am…right?" Miles asked, slowly and almost trying to be intimidating.

"Um…the Prowler?" You muttered, utterly confused as you tilted your head, holding the helmet to your chest.

"Yeah?!" Miles exclaimed, eyes wide and hands held out like he was trying to get a point across.

"Mhm. Is this like…a trick question, or…?" You asked, completely unbothered by it all as you looked down at the mask, examining it as you merely glanced up at him.

"No! Just- why are you so calm about this?" Miles asked, shocked as well.

"Well, it's not really shocking. You sorta have the backstory of a villain, anyway." You shrugged, staring dead at him.

"...seriously?"

"Well, kinda. Sorry, is this like a bad time for you?" You asked, still not handing over the mask as you held it over your head, almost trying to put it on.

"No, just, you can't tell anyone about this." Miles said, grabbing the mask to hold it in place and off your head, almost dangerously close to your face.

"I mean, I'm not? But-" you started and Miles almost rolled his eyes at your excited expression.

"I can help you!" You stated, biting your lip in excitement as you almost glowed from the glitter on you.

"Help…me?" Miles raised a brow.

"Yeah! Everyone thinks I'm dumb, but I have dirt on everyone. Everyone. And, not a lotta people notice I'm there so I can get you a lot of info, or like- routes and stuff. I'm also good with my hands."

You went on proudly, Miles looking between you and your hand which held his helmet.

It took a moment, Miles going over it all in his head.

He finally sighed.

Miles opened the door to the stairwell, gesturing inside as your eyes widened in shock before you actually smiled, hurrying inside quickly as you rambled on.

Miles followed after you, a seemingly annoyed expression on his face, but the dust of pink across his cheeks from your smile gave him away.

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[sugar-petals]

Hi caro 🌹Why does hyunjin look so good in a buzz cut even though he's a soft dramatic ? Wth 😂

BUZZCUTS & KIBBE BODY TYPES

quick answer: because hyunjin is too hot to look terrible, ever

long answer: i'm personally not a fan of it, the long hair is his signature. from a technical standpoint, it's not dyed as i wish it was, too. not all buzzcuts are created equal: i would bring it closer to the head, and color it darker. zayn style. his barber was always the shit.

one could say zayn's face is carrying it, but it's fair to put hyunjin in that level of beauty as well, i think. although zayn is a classic type of sorts, though, maybe SC. i changed my mind about him being a TR. his body type is too rectangular, chiseled. niall is more yin, for instance. and many classic men have a reputation for being visually perfect and at a medium 5'9-ish height, which zayn is. male Rs are smaller and way softer. jimin is the #1 example, still.

that being said, classics do buzzcuts semi-better since that hairstyle is ultra-symmetrical. although it wasn't well-executed, it looks cute on taehyung (who's certainly in the classic family, too).

still, kibbe only recs going that short to gamines anyway (e.g. natalie & kristen below) as they are short in statue — the kibbe principle is "putting same things to same things" to create beauty — and he is right. the buzzcut belongs to G much like tousled hair belongs to Ns, sleek hair to Ds, the middle part to C, and curls to R.

there's a reason why XG's rapper cocona blew up when she chopped her hair off, just like cheetah did for unpretty rapstar back then. unsurprisingly, cocona is a gamine.

now for hyunjin, the close-cut buzz is sort of suitable for him since dramatic types are typically advised by kibbe to show off their bone structure, and being bald (or close to) accomplishes that.

him wearing outfits suitable for his SD type also contribute to it looking good (especially your 3rd image has a nice shimmery, but sturdy SD fabric jacket). versace suits SD, and a head to toe look can compensate for a haircut outside your ID.

it does show off his beautiful face! and the fluffed up texture is quite yin. but hyunjin's dark waves (bring them back 😭) have been universally flattering and i haven't seen anyone who hates it whereas the new cut has people calling him a human kiwi 😅

as a rule of thumb, sharp yang men do well with either very long or very very short hair, shorter than gamine even, since D and SD are about extremes. so, i think going that cropped has its merits. jin being SD already showed us how good it can look on that type. it does come down to having a gorgeous face. i still can't get over how huge of a transformation it is for hyunjin, it's crazy.

[twstfanblog]

Do you ever think about how weird earth religions have to seem to twisted wonderland? Cause even to outsiders here, some of these religions rituals are fucking weird sounding.

Like, my Yuu is catholic (slightly to the left tho. More like folk catholic christopagan type shit) and id imagine him explaining communion in the worst way possible

"So. Your main ritual is cannibalism?"

"Well metaphorically yes. Although if Jesus could turn water into wine I see no reason why He can't turn wine into blood"

"...and you do this why?"

"it brings us closer to God"

"Dawg do you know how fucking insane that sounds?"

And my other Yuu isn't religious but he is a massive nerd with a weird fixation of ancient Greek religion (projecting) so imagine explaining a Dionysus madness ritual to the Guys

"yeah so just a shit ton of people- usually women- would all get together and just drink wine like it was their last day in Earth and dance and stay up for days until they temporarily went insane and then they just released that whole mess of a situation into the public"

".... And what happened to the public?"

"well one key aspect if this ritual was tearing apart a living offering to Dionysus with their bare hands, and sometimes that offering was a person so..."

"..."

"y'know..."

My Yuu is a semi practicer of Chinese folk religion. She's also half Chinese with a grandmother that really held onto those traditional ideas of yin and yang balance

She never really talks about her homelife or what her family was like in her home world. But, Yuu keeps having little slips of random things that confuse everyone.

Ace: Man, Deuce. You're acting insane right now.

Yuu: Of course he is. Probably had a lot of chicken recently.

Ace: What does...that have to do with anything???

Yuu: Chicken is a yang food. Boys eating too much yang makes them wild.

Deuce: Poultry is...bad for boys?

Yuu: Mainly chicken. Eat more duck.

Ace: Why duck???

Yuu: Its a yin food.

Deuce: How???

Yuu: It's wet and cold if you think about it.

Ace: Why are you eating wet and cold duck?????

Religion isn't gonna really come up in any of my fics past Yuu having to explain their altar once Ace and Deuce start coming over to Ramshackle a lot.

Yuu gets to give the wonderful origin story of Li Nezha...and explaining nothing.

[ninja-confession-go]

Long rant about Jay (not a hate rant quite the opposite actually)

I hate that they got rid of Jay's mechanic/inventor traits as time went on. And instead of just bringing those traits back they keep introducing characters to fill In that role.

Like Im sorry but why are 3 of the 4 gals apart of the main group into mechanics or deals with tech in someway??? Why is Wyldfyre the only gal who doesn't have an interest In tech????

Nya, Sora and Pixal all fulfill essentially the same tech role and while that's fine as they can easily fulfill different aspects, my issue is WHY NOT BRING JAY'S SKILLS BACK THEN?

They r clearly not afraid of multiple characters fulfilling similar roles so why was Jay the only one who's mechanic skills were stripped away?

Like his skills were so important in the earlier seasons he helped out so much and even got the bounty for fuckin fly?? Like his skills in machinery was also a reason why wu chose him too so to strip that away just makes no sense?

Like I'll forever be salty about this, his intelligence in machinery was so interesting to see especially when u consider the comedic kinda of character he's supposed to be. They could easily made him the mad scientist type of inventor/mechanic but they just hate fun and whimsy and would rather he be just comedic relief and nothing else I guess.

THATS ANOTHER THING

I hate how they treated Jay like he was stupid in later seasons too. They really dumbed him down instead of being the smart comedic relief he's the dumb comedic relief and I HATE it. bro literally deals with mechanics and made shit from scraps if there is one thing he ISNT, is stupid.

Like if they had just made him, let's say not emotionally intelligent i could understand. This is my own personal headcanons coming through, but i don't think he was around many other humans aside from his parents and occasional mail man growing up, and while i dont think he means to come off as a jerk, he tends to say shit without thinking it through as we have seen ALOT and that could be chalked up to him dealing more with machines than people. So If they had just focues on his lack of emotional intelligence, THAT I could understand and would have been fine with. Obviously this is more my own headcanon coming through but u get the idea

But they just made him more all around stupid and I just find that so hard to believe.

I hate how none of Jay's backstory has been explored too.

They introduced a mind shattering revelation that Jay's adopted and proceeded to do...nothing with it.

WHYYYYY???

It would have been so cool to explore that but no, it gets no mention or focus at all aside from that random coversation betwen Unagami and Jay in the season that absolutely should have been a Jay season but for some reason wasn't. Like why bring it up then lol

I also hate that all of Jay's conflicts tend to involve Nya. Like I know they yin/yang but cmon bro, not every conflict Jay goes through has to focus on his relationship with Nya. Let this man get SOME interesting characterization that isn't based around Nya CMON

I saw a few posts on here talking about Jay's characterization and I just had to jump In with my two cents cuz it's crazy how they brutalized him in later seasons. The Fandom tries their hardest to keep the mechanic aspect of Jay alive and I appreciate that so much cuz it's a crime they got rid(or forgot or whatever) of it later on

If u can't tell I'm a Jay fan who's mad their fav was done SO dirty LOL

.

[idiotgojo]

Frat satosugu would be so vile..OMFG, like so obnoxious..I feel like Satoru would be open about it and Suguru is just in the background watching him do all the shit with a smirk on his face and he'll just mock the person by being "polite" and "gentle"💀

So true they're yin and yang for a reason

Satoru has such a cool demeanor on the outside and does his best to live up to his name but behind closed doors he's a nervous wreck TT he's trying his best guyssss :(((

SUGURU on the other hand is probably on the quiet, sit back and observe types but IS A FREAK IN THE SHEETS!! BELONGS TO THE STREETS!

I wont deny that they've probably jerked off together ,,,, WHO SAID THAT WHAT

[hellfirehottie]

California Dreamin' - Eddie Munson

Chapter Twelve - Jaws (REVISED REUPLOAD)

content warnings: tooth rotting fluff, 18+ themes! Smut! (mutual masturbation, oral f!receiving, m!handjob, m!edging, softdomOC/softdom!Nina, cum eating if you squint. Mentions of stress and poor mental health. descriptions of abuse from a parent and parental alcoholism. Lovestruck couple, Eddie is a pervy awkward adorable dork and I love him. Period jokes.

Long chapter to make up for lack of uploads oops!

"Show me where the delicate stops,

Show me what you've lost, and why you're always taking it slow,

Show me what wounds you've got, show me love."

Jaws - Sleep Token

Monday / 4:45PM / The Diner

Nancy: (excited) “Sooo, tell us how the date went!” 

Nina: (shyly) “It was good.” 

Nancy: “Oh come on, we need more details than that!” 

Nina: “It was… eventful.” [Nancy and Robin raise their eyebrows, probing for more details] “We went for a picnic at the park-“ 

Robin: [interrupting] “You’re welcome.” 

Nina: “-And went on one of those little rowing boats on the lake-“ 

Nancy: (gushing) “How cute!” 

Nina: “-And Eddie fell in the lake-“ 

Robin: [rolling her eyes, amused] “How Eddie.” 

Nina: “-And then got food poisoning from a suspicious Chinese takeaway.” 

Nancy: [blinking, trying not to laugh] “Well that’s… something.” [Robin snorts while giggling] 

Nina: [mixing her milkshake with the straw] “But I liked it.” [blushing] “One of the nicest dates I’ve been on, actually.” 

Robin: (excited) “So this is it? Are Eddie and Nina finally sitting in a tree?” 

Nina: [rolling her eyes] “Very mature, Rob.” [sighing] “But yeah, I hope so.” 

Nancy: “So are you going to tell him about your Mom then?” 

Nina: (surprised) “How the hell do you know about that?” 

Robin: [arms up, defensive] “I didn’t tell her!” 

Nancy: [nonchalant, grabbing a handful of chips] “I put two and two together.” 

Robin: [teasing, nudging hips with Nancy playfully] “Ever the detective.” 

Nina: (uneasy) “I don’t know… I want to, I just don’t want to freak him out.” [self-loathing] “It’s his first relationship-type-thing, I don’t want him to run for the hills.” 

Robin: [reaching over to hold Nina’s arm comfortingly] “He wouldn’t do that, he’s crazy about you.” 

Nina: [muttering to herself] “He’s a fool for it.” 

Nancy: “We’re serious Nina, we’ve never seen him like this with anyone!” [light-hearted] “Besides, it’ll be a good thing if you tell him! Your first big serious life conversation together; you can tell a lot about a man by how he reacts to that kinda stuff!” 

Robin: [slurping her milkshake, pondering] “Isn’t it funny how you are terrified of love and don’t know how to trust, and Eddie has so much love to give but is so inexperienced and doesn’t know how to give it?” 

Nina: (sarcastic) “Gee, thanks Robin, you should be a psychologist.” 

Robin: “I’m being serious! You guys even each other out! He can teach you how to trust and you can teach Eddie how to love. You’re like yin and yang, you’re made for eachother.” [slurping her milkshake obnoxiously, deep in thought] “I should be a psychologist.” 

Nina: (teasing) “You’ve gotta be mentally sane to be a psychologist, sweetie. Maybe try a circus clown.” 

Nancy: “Or a relationship counsellor for the mentally insane.” 

Robin: [At Nina] “Seems like I’m doing a good job so far.” [Nina throws a chip at her] “Hey!” 

Wednesday / 6:30 PM / Eddie’s room

[Nina and Eddie are studying in Eddie’s room. Nina has been talking for the past ten minutes about Pythagoras Theory, but Eddie has been staring at her face, her lips, for the past ten minutes.] 

Nina: “Why are you looking at me funny?” [wiping her mouth] “Do I have chocolate on my face?” 

Eddie: (coy) “I want to kiss you again.” 

Nina: (blushing) “We’re supposed to be studying.” 

Eddie: [with a shit-eating grin] “So?” (Cheeky) “We can take a break. We’ve been working really hard.” 

Nina: (laughing) “I’ve been working really hard, you’ve been staring at me for the past ten minutes.” 

Eddie: (cheeky) “Just admiring the view.” 

Nina: [can’t hide her smile] “We need to study, Eddie, you need to study.” 

Eddie: “I will once you kiss me.” 

[Nina rolls her eyes but scooches over to him, pressing a quick kiss on his lips. She pulls away and Eddie groans.] 

Eddie: “That wasn’t a proper kiss.” 

Nina: (laughing) “Eddie!” 

Eddie: (charming) “A proper kiss, then I’ll study.” 

Nina: [faking annoyance] “Fineee.” 

[Eddie cheers and slides up the bed, sitting next to Nina. He takes her face in his hand, rubbing his thumb gently over the cupid's bow of his lip, smiling down at her. 

He softly slots his lips over Nina’s, smiling when he feels her lips kiss him back. Eddie hums contently into the kiss as Nina threads her fingers through his hair.] 

Eddie: (content) “There, happy now- umph!” [Nina grabs him by the curls and brings his lips crashing back onto hers. Eddie smiles into the kiss again, it’s all teeth but they both smile and kiss happily. Both of Nina’s hands slide into Eddie’s hair and she lies back on the bed, Eddie crawls on top of her, needily chasing her lips. He pulls back, breathless, eyes wide with hunger] “Thought we were studying?” 

Nina: (grinning, sultry) “We’re taking a break, right?” 

[Eddie groans softly at her words and kisses her again. Nina slides her tongue into his mouth and they kiss deeply and passionately; Eddie’s hand glides up Nina’s thigh to grab a handful of her ass.

Nina’s hand holds his hip and side under his shirt, causing Eddie to shiver with want. He moans and pushes Nina down onto the bed, his lips trailing kisses along her jaw and neck. Nina takes in a sharp breath as Eddie bites along her collar bone, hands gripping Eddie’s hair hard, her legs spreading for him to slot himself between.] 

Nina: [breathing heavy, arousal heavy in her voice, mind dumb] “We- we should keep studying.” 

Eddie: [mumbled into her neck] “Five more minutes.” 

Nina: “Eddie… if we start, we won’t stop.” [Eddie snorts and laughs between kisses] 

Eddie: (cheeky, eager) “Then we won’t stop.” 

Nina: (giggling) “Eddie!” 

Eddie: (lustfully) “You say that like you aren’t spreading your legs for me, sweetheart.” 

[Nina pulls Eddie back by his hair harshly, he bites his lip through the pain, eyes wide, whimpering, aroused.] 

Nina: (devilishly, taunting) “Say stuff like that and I’ll make you regret it, sweetheart.” 

Eddie: (softly) “Fuck.” [He crashes his lips onto hers again and Nina giggles into the kiss] “Can’t get enough of you.” 

Thursday / 11:30PM / Eddie’s trailer

[Eddie is sitting on the couch in his pyjamas; baggy tartan bottoms and a black vest. Nina is watching him fondly, lovingly, as he watches the movie playing on the television, mindlessly strumming his guitar.] 

Nina: “Eddie?” 

Eddie: [turning to face her, smiling softly] “Yeah?” 

Nina: “Would you show me how to play guitar?” 

Eddie: (giddy) “Really? You want to?” 

Nina: (shyly) “Yeah. You make it look fun.” 

Eddie: [grinning] “Come here then.” [Nina shuffles off her end of the couch towards Eddie] 

Nina: “Um, how-?” 

Eddie: [patting his lap] “Sit here.” [Nina raises her eyebrows, he blushes, smirking] “I’m not being a perv, I promise, just trust me.” 

Nina: (nervous) “I’m kinda heavy, I’ll crush you.” 

Eddie: (pervy, mischievous) “The only heavy thing about you are those whopping great ti-“ [Nina rolls her eyes and turns to walk back to the couch, Eddie gently catches her arm before she can] “I’m kidding, I’m kidding, c’mere, just sit between my legs if you’re unsure.” 

[Nina slowly walks towards Eddie again, he lifts off his guitar so Nina can nestle between his legs. Her uneasiness is settled by the warmth of Eddie behind her, his arms wrapped around her, his long hair tickling her neck.] 

Eddie: [manoeuvring to grab his guitar again, speaking softly behind her] “Lemme just grab this.” [Eddie puts the guitar strap around both of them and sits the guitar on Nina’s lap.] 

[The space between Nina and Eddie is a lot closer than before. Her skin shivers as she feels Eddie’s carefully timed breathing on her neck. Eddie’s heart races as he notices the goosebumps on Nina’s neck and his gaze looks fondly on Nina’s face, warm with the ambient lights of the living room lamps.] 

Eddie: [after clearing his throat, softly in Nina’s ear] “So, Um, Can I?” [Nina nods and he wraps his arms around Nina, gently taking his hands in hers] “Put these fingers here.” [His larger hands guide Nina’s fingers to the chords, gently pressing them against the strings] “And hold this here,” [he puts the guitar pic in her hands, she fumbles with it before holding it against the strings] “And strum these strings here,” [he cups her hand as she gently strums the guitar, she smiles softly as the guitar hums its notes] “There, you played a G chord.” [He rests his chin on her shoulder, looking at Nina fondly as she looks down at the guitar] 

Nina: (happy, content) “Show me another one.” 

Eddie: (gently) “Move these fingers here,” [he manoeuvres Nina’s hands] “And stroke these two strings,” [He lets Nina stroke the strings without his help this time] “That’s a D chord.” 

Nina: [shuffling her hips backwards into Eddie’s, getting comfy] “Another!” [Nina feels Eddie’s arousal against her back] “Eddie, are you-?” 

Eddie: (rushed) “That’s, er, that’s not what you think it is!” [Nina looks at him amused, eyebrows raised] “Well it is, kind of, yeah I am hard but it’s,” [going pink] “It’s not a horny boner, it’s an romantic boner-“ [Nina tries to hide her laughter, eyebrows raised in amusement] “A boner of affection.” [Eddie looks at Nina desperately as she bursts into laughter, he groans and lays his forehead on her shoulder; his embarrassment turns into a smile when he hears Nina snort in her cackling laughter.] 

Nina: (teasing) “It’s okay Eddie, you give me romantic boners too.” 

Eddie: [blushing, embarrassed, hiding in her neck] “Shut up.” 

Nina: (teasing) “You give my heart a boner.” 

Eddie: (whiny) “Stop!” 

Nina: (teasing) “Is it the guitar? Or me? Or me playing the guitar?” (amused) “‘Cause if so I better put this down before it gets too R rated in here, it’s a school night.” 

Eddie: (cheeky) “You, always you.” [lighthearted, staring at her shoulder, can't look her in the eye] “You think I’d be used to being constantly hard around you by now.” 

Nina: (surprised, flattered) “Really?” 

Eddie: “Oh yeah.” [voice low] “You give my heart and dick all of the boners.” [Nina snorts with laughter again then looks deeply into Eddie’s eyes. Their lips briefly brush before Nina looks at the clock, noticing the time.]

Nina: “Crap, is that the time?” [they look at the clock reading 11:52pm] “I should head home, I was meant to be home hours ago.” 

Eddie: (hopeful) “You could stay here, if you want?” [blushing] “I could drive you home in the morning.” 

Nina: (heart-warmed) “We’ve got school in the morning and I’ve got to be up earlier tomorrow.” 

Eddie: (yearning) “I could drive you home?” 

Nina: (fondly) “I drove here, silly, what about my car?” 

Eddie: [blushing] “Oh, right.” 

Nina: “I’ll see you tomorrow, yeah?” 

Eddie: (glum) “Yeah, okay.” 

Nina: [trying to cheer him up] “And Saturday, at Steve’s? I could stay over after, if you want?” 

Eddie: (excited) “You’d want to?” [Nina nods shyly] “Yeah! I mean, yeah, that sounds cool.” 

Nina: [grabbing her bag, pressing a kiss on his cheek before heading to the door] “See you tomorrow, honey.” 

Eddie: “Wait!” [Nina turns around, confused, Eddie stands up and takes her in his arms and kisses her passionately] “There, now you can go.” [Nina smiles and reaches for the door again] “Wait!” [he shyly presses a kiss on her forehead, blushing] “Now you can really go.” 

Nina: (softly) “Goodnight, Eddie.” [She walks across the gravel to her car, waving goodbye as she drives off] 

Eddie: (sighing) “Goodnight, Nina.” [he pouts and closes the door reluctantly.] 

Saturday / 9:30pm / Steve’s house

[Eddie, Nina, Robin, Steve, Jonathan and Nancy are at Steve’s house. Nina is in the kitchen getting a drink, when Eddie comes up behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist, cuddling her from behind.] 

Nina: [jumping] “Jesus, Eddie, what are you doing?” 

Eddie: [nuzzling into her neck] “Coming to find you.” 

Nina: [grinning] “I’m right here, getting a drink of water.” 

Eddie: [kissing her cheek] “Missed you.” 

Nina: [laughing softly] “I’m only on the other couch.” 

Eddie: [showering her in kisses, she giggles] “Too far away, can’t do this when you’re on the other couch.” 

Nina: “Can’t do this here anyway, no PDA in public, you know the rules.” [Eddie huffs, pouting, not letting go] “We’ll be home in a few hours, can’t you be patient?” 

Eddie: (cheeky) “No.” 

Nina: [rolling her eyes, dragging Eddie back to the living room] “Come on.” [he groans playfully but follows her anyway]

[Nina sits beside Eddie on the couch, to his surprise. The gang continue their conversation as Nina slides her hand under the blanket between her and Eddie, taking Eddie’s hand in hers, interlocking their fingers. Eddie looks down at their covered hands and smiles contently to himself.] 

Tuesday / 8:30PM / Nina’s room 

Eddie: [walking through Nina’s bedroom door] “Hey gorgeous, Mrs Buckley let me in- Nina? Are you here?” 

Nina: “Down here.” 

Eddie: (confused) “What?” [he walks past the bed to find Nina lying on the floor staring at the ceiling, he looks at her and smiles ] “What are you doing down there?” 

Nina: “Having floor time.” 

Eddie: (amused) “And what is floor time?” 

Nina: “No questions are allowed during floor time.” 

Eddie: “Ookay…” [looks at Nina’s blank expression, becomes concerned] “Are you okay?” 

Nina: “That was a question.” [Eddie flinches, Nina softens, bottom lip threatening to quiver] “No, I don’t think I am.” [looking at Eddie] “Come lie with me?” 

[Eddie shrugs off his jacket and dumps it on the bed, walks around to Nina’s side and lies down. He turns his head to look at Nina, who is still staring at the ceiling.] 

Eddie: “I know I’m not supposed to ask questions, but do you want to talk about it?” 

Nina: (quietly) “Not yet, no thank you.” 

[Eddie pauses for a moment, contemplating] 

Eddie: “So, tell me how floor time works then.” 

Nina: “We speak in statements. Can use metaphors or scenes from movies or song lyrics or anything really to explain how we feel, but the other person can’t ask questions. And no judgement.” 

Eddie: (thoughtful) “I see.” (Contemplating) “Well today I had the burger from the canteen and it was nice, and I saw two raccoons fighting over a pretzel outside during English. Oh, and a song came on the radio that reminded me of you, so that made me happy.” 

Nina: [finally turning to look at him] “Yeah?” 

Eddie: [smiling softly at her] “Yeah.” [he tucks her hair behind her ear] “Hi, there.” 

Nina: (softly) “Hi.” 

Eddie: “Tell me about your day.” 

Nina: [looking at the ceiling again] “Played basketball in Sport which was fun. Robin got hit in the tit with the ball, which was funnier than it should have been.” [Eddie sniggers] “Had pizza for lunch which was not nice. Got a migraine in History so I got sent to the nurse.” [growing quiet] “Had a meeting with Miss Kelly.” [growing quieter still] “My mom called again this evening.” [Eddie opens his mouth to ask questions] “No questions.” 

[Eddie’s mouth closes and he looks back at the ceiling. They sit in silence for a few moments.] 

Nina: “I don’t want to talk to her. I don’t know what to say.” 

Eddie: (thoughtful) “Maybe don’t say anything until you know what to say.” 

Nina: [deeply concentrating on the ceiling] “I don’t think I have anything to say to her.” 

Eddie: “Then don’t.” [taking Nina’s hand and threading their fingers] 

Nina: “I don’t want to go back there.” 

Eddie: “California? Or to your Moms?” [catching himself] “Sorry, sorry, no questions.” 

Nina: (softly, fragile) “Both, I think.” 

Eddie: [frowning] “Then don’t. Stay here.” [booping her on the nose] “With me.” 

Nina: [smiling softly, heart warmed] “You make a compelling offer.” 

[Robin and Steve walk past Nina’s room.] 

Steve: (confused) “What are they doing?” 

Robin: (matter of fact) “Floor time, duh.” [looking at Nina proudly] “She’s growing.” 

[Steve raises his eyebrows and shrugs, they both exit.] 

Nina: “Whenever Robin and I used to call, we used to do floor time. We used to call once a fortnight and put the world to rights.” [blinking away tears, one sheds, Eddie notices] “I knew this would be a safe place to come.” 

Eddie: [now lying on his side, watching Nina] “You can tell me anything, you know? I’m here for you.” 

Nina: “I know.” 

Eddie: “I don’t think you do.” [Nina looks at him confused] “I want to know anything and everything, Nina. I want to know you at your worst so I can smile with you at your best.” [Nina’s lip quivers] “I’m here for you.” [unsure] “Right?” 

Nina: [sniffling back her tears, laughing sadly] “You’re so poetic and you don’t even try.” [Eddie grins and laughs] “Robin is wrong about you.” 

Eddie: (confused) “She is?” 

Nina: “She thinks ‘cause you’re inexperienced you don’t know how to love.” [turning on her side too] “But I think you know exactly how to love.” 

‘Cause I think I’ve finally found someone worth loving, Eddie thinks. 

[Nina looks deeply into Eddie’s eyes and kisses him passionately, tears still running down her cheeks] 

Nina: “I’m getting better, I promise, I might not look it but I am-“ 

Eddie: “Nina, you don’t have to explain anything to me-“ 

Nina: “I do! I’m, just, ugh!” [tugging her hair in frustration, sitting up now] “I’m not used to people-” [gesturing with her hands] “-caring. I don’t want you to think I don’t trust you, cause I do, I do so much Eddie!” 

Eddie: “Nina, Its okay-“ 

Nina: “I’m just not ready yet, I-“ 

Eddie: “Baby steps.” 

Nina: [panicked] “I want to, I-“ 

Eddie: “Baby steps.” 

Nina: [nodding, unsure] “Baby steps.” 

00:00AM - Nina’s room 

[Nina is lying in bed, asleep. The clock reads midnight. Nina thrashes in the moonlight of the open window, sweat drenching her body.] 

Nina: “Stop, you’re hurting me…” 

[A gust of wind blows through the room, her journal opens to a blank page.] 

[Dream sequence: 

The creaking of stairs, a shadow on the wall.

The smashing of glass, a grandfather clock chiming midnight. 

Nina: “Mom, please!” 

A thud at the bottom of the stairs, The red and blue lights against the wall. 

The blood stained glass, the blurring of time. 

Nina is standing in front of Robin’s house at midnight. The rain pours down over her head, mixing in with her tears. 

Robin: [concerned] “Nina, is that you?” [she sees Nina’s suitcase] “What’s happened?” 

Nina: [bottom lip quivering] “It got bad again.” 

Nina stands in front of Eddie’s mirror. The lights flicker above her and her Mom is screaming at her in the reflection, but no sound comes out of her mouth. 

The screaming goes from silent to progressively louder and louder, until it’s so loud the lightbulb above her explodes.

End of dream sequence.] 

[Nina wakes up with a gasp, clutching her chest. Her clammy hands grip onto the fabric of her shirt, feeling her heart beat rapidly with fear.

She lies back down and blinks away her tears, registering the dream. She holds onto her chest until she feels her heartbeat steady.] 

Nina: (croaky) “Damn it, not again…” 

[Nina stares at the ceiling waiting for sleep to come, it doesn’t.] 

01:23AM  / Eddie’s room

[Eddie is lying in his bed, strumming his guitar absentmindedly, his room aglow with the light from his alarm clock. 

He hears a gentle tapping on his window. He freezes in fear, uncertain of what the noise is. 

He gazes at his window and sees what looks to be a small rock being thrown at his window. Carefully, he climbs out of his bed and hides to the side of his window. Another rock is thrown.]

Eddie: (uncertainly) “Is someone there?” 

Nina: (whispered) “It’s me!”

Eddie: [to himself] “Nina?” [he opens his window, looking out confused to find Nina standing outside in her pyjamas] “What are you doing here?” 

Nina: (embarrassed) “I couldn’t sleep. I, erm, had a bad dream. I didn’t want to ring in case you were asleep and didn’t want to knock on the door in case Wayne was asleep.” 

Eddie: (amused) “So you thought you’d knock on my window and scare the shit out of me?” 

Nina: (bashful) “I didn’t know what to do.” (embarrassed) “This was stupid, I should go.” 

Eddie: (loudly) “Wait!” [Nina shushes him, Eddie cringes and smiles] “Come inside, it’s okay.” [Nina smiles and stands on the pile of wood outside Eddie’s window, waiting for him to let her through. Eddie looks at her amused as she holds onto the window frame] “You can use the front door, you know?” 

Nina: [smiling] “Where’s the fun in that?” [She hops through the window, her legs getting stuck as she does, causing her to tumble through the window landing with a ‘thump’ on the floor] “Oops!” 

Eddie: [watching her adoringly as she lies on the floor, hair splattered and shirt ridden up to show her stomach] “Hey there angel.” [he extends his hand out which she takes, he pulls her up] “Everything okay sweetheart?” 

Nina: (shyly) “Yeah, I’m okay.” [tugging her shirt down] “I just can’t sleep. I was just wondering if you couldn’t too.” 

Eddie: “Lucky for you, I can’t.” [smiling widely] “Come here.” [Nina climbs into bed by Eddie’s side, cuddled into his chest] “What’s on your mind?” 

Nina: (lying) “Nothing in particular, I just can’t turn my mind off.” [looking up at him lovingly] “What about you?” 

Eddie: [sighing] “Same.” [stroking her back under her shirt] “I’m glad you came to me.” 

Nina: “Me too.” 

Eddie: “I hope you can trust me with this kind of stuff more.” [kissing her forehead] “I’ll be here whenever you need me.” 

Nina: (whispered) “Thank you baby.” [nuzzling into his shirt] “You smell good.” 

Eddie: [laughing] “Thank you.” 

Nina: (quietly) “I like sleeping next to you.” 

Eddie: [smiling against Nina’s forehead] “I like sleeping next to you too.” [kissing her forehead again, hearing Nina’s breath slow and her relaxing in his arms] “I really do.” 

Thursday / The Byers’ house / 3pm 

[Nina flops down beside Eddie on the couch, bored of revising, laying her head on his lap. She sits and watches him adoringly as he talks passionately about his D&D campaign to Dustin and Mike. Nina pokes his dimple with her finger, giggling to herself.]

Eddie: [stroking her hair, amused] “You having fun down there?” 

Nina: “You have dimples.” 

Eddie: (teasing) “Observant as always.” 

Nina: “They’re cute.” 

Mike: “That’s my queue to leave.” [he walks off to find El, leaving Dustin on the couch by himself] 

Dustin: “Mike! Don’t leave me with them!” [looking at Nina and Eddie] “I’m gonna grab… something.” [he leaves the room]

Nina: “Now I’ve got you all to myself, yay.” 

Eddie: (amused) “You good?” 

Nina:  “Yeah. Happy.” 

Eddie: (smiling) “Good.” 

Nina: “You make me feel good. You make me happy.” 

Eddie: (beaming) “Good. You make me happy too.”  (concerned) “Are you sure you’re okay?” [he lightly strokes the dark bags under Nina’s eyes with his finger] “You look tired.” 

Nina: (dryly) “You sure know how to compliment a girl.” [before Eddie can interject, she responds] “I’m okay, just not sleeping well at the minute.” 

Eddie: “You can stay over whenever you want, y’know.” (joking) “I’ll even let you be the big spoon.” [Eddie grins proudly when Nina laughs] 

[Nina makes grabby hands at Eddie’s face to which he rolls his eyes, checking around the room to see if anyone is looking, before pressing a soft kiss on her lips.]

Nina: (whispered) “Thank you.” 

Friday / 5pm / Eddie’s trailer

Nina: [tugging at her hair, dropping her bag on the floor] “I’ve got biochem due on Monday and Lit due on Friday and ugh, three extra pages for my art assignment due the week after and-” 

Eddie: “Breathe.” 

Nina: [oblivious] “-And a history report due on the same day and a tonne of revising to do for Math, why does Math have to be so damn difficult.” 

Eddie: (amused) “Breathe.” 

Nina: [frustrated] “And then psychology, Jesus, psychology, Pavlov and his conditioning theories can kiss my a-” 

Eddie: (smirking) “Jesus, Nina, breathe.” [Eddie grabs Nina by the shoulders and sits her on the couch]

Nina: “I can’t breathe, I’ve got too much to do!” [Eddie rolls his eyes at Nina’s dramatic] 

Eddie: “C’mere, silly.” [He pulls her into his lap, she’s rigid at first but relaxes eventually] “You’re getting yourself worked up, you’ve got this, you know you do!” 

Nina: (whiny) “But I need to do well!” 

Eddie: (comfortingly) “And you will, you’re the smartest girl I know! You need to relax, you’re stressed.” 

Nina: (dryly) “What makes you think I’m stressed?”  

Eddie: “Your nose creases in the middle when you’re stressed, you look like a mildly annoyed bunny.” [Nina laughs and Eddie beams proudly]

Eddie: “You know what’s good for relaxing?” (whispered, smirk thick in his voice) “Orgasms.” 

Nina: (snorting) “You’re terrible.” 

Eddie: (cheeky) “I know, but you love it.” [nuzzling into her ear] “You could teach me how to get you off…” 

Nina: (surprised) “Really?” 

Eddie: (shyly) “Yeah, I’d like to…” (hopeful) “Can I?” 

Nina: [wriggling in anticipation, stuttering] “Y- yes… Are you sure?”

Eddie: [lustful, head cloudy, fingers trembling with nerves] “Please.” [Eddie looks at Nina nervously, unsure where to place his hands] “I, er, can you-?”

Nina: “Eddie, come here.” [Nina stands up from her position cuddling him, much to Eddie’s disappointment] “How can I make this easier for you?” 

Eddie: [standing up too, eager, desperate but joking to ease his nerves, hiding in her neck and pressing a kiss on her shoulder, shy] “Well, I’m a visual learner.” 

[Nina laughs a loud laugh and he smiles into her skin, comforted. Nina pauses for a moment, thinking]

Nina: [aroused but shy] “Well… feel free to say no, but we could… I don’t know… I could get off and you could get off, and we could watch each other? That way we can watch what the other likes and-“ 

Eddie: [realising, excited] “You want to masturbate in front of me?” [Eddie trembles with want] “Fuck yeah, I’m down.” 

Nina: “You don’t think it’s weird or gross?” 

Eddie: (confused) “Why would I think that? I think it’s hot as fuck.” 

Nina: [shrugging] “Some people aren’t very liberal when it comes to self pleasure.” [smiling, heart racing] “Shall we go to the bedroom?” [Eddie nods enthusiastically, running to his bedroom, stripping of his belt and shoes as he does; making Nina laugh lightly] 

[Nina sits in front of Eddie on his bed. She clears her throat nervously suddenly, feeling shy under Eddie’s expectant gaze.]

Eddie: (awkwardly) “So… how do you want to do this?” 

Nina: (laughing awkwardly) “I’m not sure.” [looking at Eddie] “What do you think?” 

Eddie: “You could, erm…” [scratching his neck awkwardly, coughing, shy] “Lie back on the bed and I could watch?” 

Nina: “Sure…” [Nina leans back on the bed and beckons Eddie to join her] 

[After kissing softly for a few minutes the kiss becomes heated; hands grabbing at each other, tangling in each other's hair. 

Nina pulls Eddie’s shirt off over his head, kissing and biting his neck. His eyes flutter shut and brows furrow with restraint, chest falling and rising quickly with anticipation.

She pulls back to look deeply into his eyes as her hand slides down his torso and strokes him over the denim of his jeans. His lips part as his eyes flick between hers and her hand that strokes the outline of his hardening cock. 

Eddie bites back a moan as she teases along the hem of his jeans, slowly undoing the button and zipper. He excitedly kicks his jeans down and off onto the floor, breath ragged as Nina continues to stroke him over his boxers.]

Eddie: (breathless) “What are you doing?” 

Nina: “Watching you like this gets me wet.” [Eddie whimpers; Nina pulls his hard cock out of his boxers, wrapping her hand around him.] 

Eddie: (softly) “Oh, god.” (shyly) “Is… is he okay?” 

Nina: (confused) “He?” 

Eddie: (embarrassed) “My…. You know.” 

[Nina bites back a giggle, looking down at Eddie’s thick length in her hand. Her mouth waters at the sight, relishing at the precum leaking from his pink tip.] 

Nina: [practically purring, kissing his neck] “He’s wonderful.”

[Eddie’s arms ache while hovering over Nina, but he remains there, watching in a daze as she strokes him up and down. She rubs her thumb over his tip, softly paying attention to the pink leaking end of his cock. He buries his head in Nina’s neck as his thighs tense, overwhelmed by Nina’s touch. Nina lies underneath him, studying his reactions to her teasing touch: his parted red lips, flushed cheeks, wide glistening eyes and laboured breathing. Nina moved to take off her clothes.]

Eddie: “Wait!” [Eddie shuffles to the foot of Nina’s bed, back against the bed frame, Nina looks at him, confused] “Do it slow for me.” 

[Nina smiles shyly and sits upright in front of Eddie, slowly pulls her top off over her head. Eddie fights to stop himself from drooling at the sight of her full breasts in a black lace bra, unbuttoning her shorts to slide them down her legs. 

She leans forward into Eddie, both closing their eyes as they kiss softly again, and as she pulls back, Eddie finds her bra has been discarded somewhere on the floor. Eddie moans at the sight, reaching out to gently stroke her pierced nipples with his thumbs, cupping her breasts.

She lies back flat on the bed, legs spread apart for Eddie to see. He pulls her underwear down and off onto the floor, biting his lip at the sight of her naked in front of him.]

Eddie: “Fuck. This is so hot. You’re so beautiful.” [Nina blushes] 

[Nina goes to cross her legs but Eddie holds them open with his hands, taking the sight of her in. His mouth parted in awe, his fingers gently stroking her skin like he would the strings of his guitar.]

Nina: “You ready, baby?” 

[Eddie watches intently, wrapping his hand around his length but not moving it.]

Eddie: “Ready, princess.” 

He’d seen porn before, of course, but this felt different. Seeing Nina with her legs spread open and slick coating her felt more personal, more erotic. Knowing he caused Nina to be this turned on caused him to shiver. It awakened a desire in him that porn would never be able to compete with. His mouth watered at the sight of her. 

Eddie: (muttering to himself) “Fucking gorgeous.” 

[He slid his hand over her large breast, giving a soft squeeze, feeling himself getting harder at the sight before him. 

Nina puts on a show for Eddie, stroking her fingertips over her bare chest, along the curve of her stomach, over her hip bones, and down to her aching core. 

Eddie watches with hooded eyes, squeezing softly at his reddening tip, teasing himself. 

Nina sighs with pleasure as she slides two fingers through her wet folds, rubbing her fingers over her clit. Her eyes flutter closed, humming with content. Eddie moans softly at the wet sounds coming from Nina’s movements.]

Eddie: (amazed, aroused) “Wow, you’re soaked baby.” 

Nina: (smiling) “You turn me on, handsome.” 

[Eddie starts to slowly stroke himself up and down, watching Nina’s every move. When Nina opens her eyes her jaw drops slightly with arousal, loving the sight of Eddie pleasuring himself in front of her, over her.] 

Nina: (shy) “So, erm, this, here, is the clit. You need to be gentle, cause otherwise it can hurt.” [She shifts in the bed, making herself more comfortable, still rubbing slow circles on her clit] “Some people like it sucked, some people like it slapped or nibbled, but it’s always nice to rub it gently in circles. Soft licks with your tongue feels great too. Depending on how turned on I am, you can rub a little bit harder, faster, but I can guide you. ” 

[Eddie’s eyes go wide, his Adam's apple bobbing in his throat, squeezing the head of his cock before giving a few shallow strokes focusing just on the end. He chews on his lip, watching as Nina’s chest rises and falls as she squirms from her own touch.

Nina watches intently, spurred on watching Eddie as he pants, tugging himself quicker now. Her mouth parts in awe as she watches Eddie’s head lull back, his hair sweeping across his shoulders, swallowing deeply with anticipation.]

Nina: (aroused) “So when it comes to fingering,” [Eddie’s eyes open as he studies Nina’s movements] “I usually use a toy as it gets to the spot I need, my hands are too small. But I don’t think you’ll have that problem…”  

Nina eyes Eddie’s long, thick fingers, craving them inside her. 

Eddie: [heavy lidded, licking his lips, horny, quickening his pace] “You have sex toys?” 

Nina: (flirty, teasing) “Oh honey, you don’t know the half of it.” 

[Eddie heats up at the thought, need twisting in his stomach. He imagines Nina lying in her bed late at night, crying as she came, legs shaking, mewling his name. His balls ache at the image.]

Eddie: (aroused, voice thick with want) “What do you think of when you get off, beautiful? Do you think of me?” 

Nina: (breathless) “Yes, Eddie, only you. I think of your hands - oh god your hands,” [she dips her fingers inside herself] “Your mouth, your cock deep inside me- oh god!” 

Eddie: “Jesus Christ.” [Eddie speeds up his hand movements, eyes glassy] “What else, tell me.” 

Nina: [moving her fingers faster, moaning] “I think of you pinning me down and making me cum over and over and over.” 

Eddie: [groaning, head back on the bed frame, flustered] “Fuck, Jesus, I want to so bad, you have no idea, baby.” 

Nina: [moaning louder now, back arching off the bed] “I think of you fucking me so loud and covering me in hickies so everyone knows I’m yours.” [legs beginning to shake] “Fuck, this is really is hot.” 

[Eddie pulls Nina down the bed by her thighs, draping her bent legs over his, so he has a better view of her. Nina whimpers as he uses one hand to play with her tits, the other quickly stroking over himself.]

Eddie: [biting his lip, restrained] “I’m not gonna last much longer baby, you’re killing me right now.” 

Nina: [writhing in front of him] “I’m nearly there baby, wait for me.” [She goes between quick circles on her clit and dipping her fingers inside herself, her head pushing into the pillow behind her] “Oh, fuck! Feels good, honey.” 

[Eddie edges himself towards his climax, picking up the pace and pinching his balls between his fingers as Nina moans and her legs shake over him. He slows down and grasps tightly at his heavy red leaking end to stop himself from coming too soon.]

Nina: (panting, restless) “Oh god Eddie! I’m nearly there, oh god!” 

[Eddie picks up the pace once again, almost edging himself, body tingling with want, desperate for release.]

Eddie: “Say my name when you cum baby, please.” [grabbing his balls, mind racing, babbling] “Fuck this is so hot, you’re so hot, oh my god I’m so lucky- fuck!” [his thighs tremble and balls grow taught] “Baby please, I’m so close, I want to cum so bad!”

Nina: (euphoric, glowing) “Fuck, Eddie! Fuck, fuck, fuck! Oh I’m coming baby, oh I’m coming! Eddie!” [her legs clamp shut as her thighs tremble, her hips thrusting up and down, humping her fingers inside her, moaning loudly] “Fuck! Oh my god!” 

Eddie: “Shit, shit, shit! Oh god!” [looking at Nina who is lying writhing in bed, legs shaking, coming down from her orgasm; Eddie still chasing his own, desperate] “Can I cum on your tits? Please?” 

[Nina spreads her legs and pulls Eddie towards him; him kneeling between her parted thighs. She wraps her wet hand around his length, making Eddie’s eyes go wide, firmly stroking him towards his climax.]

Nina: [breathless, pupils dilated, aroused] “Cum on me, baby.”  

[Eddie throws his head back with a loud groan, cum soaking Nina’s hand, her hip bones, stomach and tits. His thighs shake and he flops back on the bed, exhausted.] 

Eddie: (panting) “Shit, that was amazing.” [looking at Nina, lovestruck] “You’re amazing.” [Nina smirks as she picks up some of Eddie’s cum on her fingers and sucks them into her mouth, Eddie’s eyes widen with arousal] “You’re the devil woman.” [Nina giggles] 

Nina: “Satisfied, Munson?” 

Eddie: “You’ve blown my mind.” [grinning at her, looking at her cum soaked naked body] “Jesus, I don’t think I’ve ever cum so much in my life.” [lustfully, determined, eyes glossy] “Show me how to do it, I want to do it.” 

Nina: (breathless) “You want to try?” 

Eddie: (voice thick) “Please baby.” [looking deeply into her eyes] “You think you can cum again for me?” 

[Nina nods feebly as Eddie moves once again between Nina’s spread legs. He wipes two fingers through her wet pussy like Nina did before gently pushing his thumb inside her. 

She shivers at the feeling as he pulls his thumb out and rubs circles on her clit like she did before.]

Eddie: (aroused) “Like this?” 

Nina: (breathless) “Yeah.” 

[Using his other hand he slowly pumps two fingers in and out of her, waiting for further instruction. Nina lies on the bed, chest heaving, watching Eddie who looks irresistible with glowing skin and wild hair.]

Nina: (sighing contently) “Just like that, baby.” 

Eddie: (lustfully) “Does that feel good?”

Nina: (growing desperate) “Yeah, that feels good. Curl your fingers inwards just a little bit.” 

Eddie: [eyes glued on Nina] “Like this?” 

[Eddie smiles proudly, eagerly as Nina’s hips raise from the bed, her head pushing back into the pillows as she moans.]

Nina: “Yeah, just like that honey!” 

[Eddie pumps his fingers in and out of her slowly, using his other hand to gently rub  her clit, wanting to take his time. He relishes in the way she squirms underneath him.] 

Eddie: (lustfully) “Play with your tits for me, baby.” 

[Eddie bites his lip as she plays with her tits and her thighs tremble, loving how she responds to his touch whilst being covered in his cum.]

Eddie: “God you’re so beautiful, I’ve dreamed of seeing you like this- so perfect for me. You’re so wet for me. Been dying to taste you, Christ I wanna taste you.” 

[Eddie confidently dips his head down and licks a bold stripe up her core, tongue lapping over her clit. Nina whines, hands threading through his hair and knees buckling, as he picks up the pace with his fingers.]

Eddie: [determined, eyes glossy] “This okay?” 

Nina: (loud, unashamed) “God Eddie, yes just like that!” 

[Eddie groans against her as she tugs his hair harshly, he pins her down and licks determinedly over her clit, rubbing that sweet spot inside her that had tears forming in her eyes.]

Nina: [voice and legs shaking] “Eddie, Eddie baby, I’m so close, oh my god! Oh please! Oh fuck! Oh, I’m gonna come, Oh I’m coming!” 

[Nina throws her head back in pleasure, her mouth forming an ‘O’ as she climaxes again, her legs shaking violently as she chants a chorus of “yes”, “fuck”, and Eddie’s name. She claws at his shoulders and tugs at his hair making him groan with lust.

They flop down beside each other on the bed, panting hard.]

Nina: (hazy, laughing lightly) “You’re a fast learner.” 

Eddie: (relieved) “I had a great teacher.” 

[Nina laughs in response. Eddie rests his head on hers, smiling wildly.

Eddie gets up to grab a towel to clean them both off then returns to her side, cuddling into her chest.]

Eddie: “You feel less stressed now?” 

Nina: (smiling) “Oh, definitely. Though I suppose we should revise for exams and shit now since we gave up early this afternoon.”

Eddie: (whining) “Oh, come on!” (Dramatically) “You can’t make me cum like that and then expect me to do work!” 

Nina: (laughing) “Positive reinforcement baby.” [Winking] “You’d know if you studied psychology.” 

[Eddie whines when Nina tries to move him off her. She smiles and cuddles back into him, kissing each other softly in their post-orgasm haze.] 

Nina: (unsure) “Eddie… there’s something I kinda wanted to talk to you about.” 

Eddie: (filled with dread) “Oh god, don’t tell me I did it wrong…” 

Nina: “No, no! That was perfect. It’s, just, uh…” 

Eddie: “Yeah?” 

Nina: (smiling softly) “Nevermind.” [cuddling back into Eddie] “Just wanna lay here with you for a while.” 

Sunday / 9:30 PM / Nina’s house 

[Nina is sitting on her bed, blow drying her hair. She hears a tap at the window, looks at the window in confusion, but when she finds nothing, continues to dry her hair. 

A second knock is heard against the window. She sets the hair dryer down and looks out the window.] 

Eddie: “Ppst!” 

Nina: (confused) “Hello?” 

Eddie: “Ppst?” 

Nina: “Eddie? Is that you?” 

Eddie: [from behind a bush in the garden, muffled] “Am I really that predictable?” 

Nina: (snorting) “Yes.” [Eddie reveals himself from behind the bush, grinning] “What are you doing here? It’s late.” 

Eddie: “I’m bored. Thought I’d take a leaf out of your book and climb your window.” 

Nina: “Oh I see how it is, come on over whenever you feel like, let Nina the rodeo clown entertain you?” 

Eddie: (cheeky) “Pretty much, yeah.” 

Nina: [rolling her eyes] “Come on up.” 

[Eddie climbs up the lattice and through Nina’s window] 

Eddie: (charming) “Hi.” 

Nina: (softly) “Hey stranger.” 

[Eddie pulls Nina into a tight hug. He nuzzles himself into the side of her neck, inhaling her freshly washed hair] 

Eddie: (muffled) “Just wanted to see you. I won’t stay long.” 

Nina: “You okay?” 

Eddie: “Yeah, I just want your company. The trailer gets a bit lonely when you’re by yourself a lot.” 

Nina: (smiling) “Stay as long as you want. We have to be quiet though, I think Mr and Mrs Buckley are asleep.” 

Eddie: (teasing)  “At nine thirty? What a wild life they’re living.” 

Nina: [nudging him playfully] “Just ‘cause you’re nocturnal doesn’t mean the rest of Hawkins is.” 

Eddie: [leaping on Nina’s bed, snuggling under her duvet, she rolls her eyes] “Maybe I wouldn’t be nocturnal if I had a bed like this, Jesus it’s comfy.” [Eddie shuffles over something hard] “What’s this?” [he pulls out Nina’s journal] 

Nina: [snatching it off Eddie] “Nothing!” [he looks at her with raised eyebrows, teasing] “Fine, it’s my journal.” [she looks down at the nearly full journal, embarrassed] “Miss Kelly is making me do it.” [scratching the paper with her nail, nervous] “Kinda like a written therapy thing, I don’t know, it’s kinda stupid.” 

Eddie: “It’s not stupid.” (Cheeky) “Am I in it?” 

Nina: [blushing, trying to hide her smile] “Maybe.” 

Eddie: [eyes glittering, winking] “All good things I hope.” 

Nina: (proudly) “Always.” (nervous) “There’s actually something I’ve been wanting to talk to you about.” 

Eddie: “Shoot.” 

Nina: (timidly) “About why I left Cali.” 

Eddie: (cautiously) “Okay…” 

Nina: “I know I told you I ran away, but I didn’t tell you why. See, the thing is…” [she looks at the journal, pages bursting at the seam, and runs her fingers over the pages. She looks up at Eddie and swallows her fear] “The thing is, I left because of my Mom. She, er, she’s an alcoholic you see-“ [she begins tearing up and looks down at the journal. Eddie’s eyebrows furrow with concern] “And, well, long story short she got violent one night.” [struggling, a bubble in her throat, Eddie’s face begins to crumble] “When the neighbours heard and rang the police, I packed my bags while she was in jail for the night and drove all the way here.” [letting out a deep breath] “There, I finally said it.” 

[Eddie sits, blinking for a few moments, fiddling with the corner of Nina’s blanket.] 

Nina: (nervously) “Say something, Eddie.” 

Eddie: [proud, smiling gently] “Baby steps.” 

Nina: (softly) “Baby steps.” 

Eddie: (cautiously) “Is this like floor time or can I ask questions?” 

Nina: “You can ask questions.” 

Eddie: “Did you get hurt?” 

Nina: [fiddling with the journal, quiet] “She pushed me down the stairs.” 

[Eddie clenches his fingers into a fist which he hides behind his back, his bottom lip pouting, a bubble in his throat. He clears it before speaking] 

Eddie: “Has she hurt you before?” 

Nina: [looking at Eddie briefly before looking back at the journal] “Yes.” [tucking her hair behind her ear, showing the scar on her neck] “This is the worst it got.” 

Eddie: [taken aback] “What happened? You don’t have to tell me if-“ 

Nina: [pushing herself, making light of the dark topic, laughing lightly] “She threw a glass at me, it smashed against the wall and kinda ricocheted into my neck. Good aim, huh?” 

Eddie thinks back to the bbq at Steve’s house; the picture of Nina - no more than fourteen years old- smiling in the hospital bed, with no hair and stitches curving from her neck to behind her ear. 

Eddie: “Nina… I’m so sorry.” 

Nina: [picking off her nail polish, embarrassed] “That’s why this is my second time doing final year. Last year-” [Nina takes in a big breath, her speech coming out rushed] “Well, things got bad and I had to take some time out of school and-” [anxious] “Basically I dropped out, I got a job to try and save money to move out, and then I started school again in September and-” [She looks at Eddie’s face, eyes sullen with sadness and feels ill with guilt] “Then everything happened a few months ago and that’s how I ended up here…” (worried) “Is it too much? Do you want to leave? I-“ 

[Eddie immediately grabs Nina and pulls her into a hug, wrapping his arms tightly around her and smothering her in his chest] 

Eddie: [mumbled into her hair] “I’m not going anywhere.” 

[Nina hums happily, nuzzling herself into Eddie’s shirt] 

Nina: “Thank you, Eddie, for being so cool about everything.” 

Eddie: (softly) “Thank you for trusting me.” [he presses a kiss on her forehead] 

Nina: (hopeful) “Do you want to stay here tonight? If you don’t want to be home alone?” 

Eddie: “You think the Buckley’s will mind?” 

Nina: (grinning) “They don’t have to know.” 

[Eventually Nina falls asleep in Eddie’s arms. He lies away, mind racing, holding onto Nina tightly, protectively.] 

Eddie: [stroking Nina’s skin, whispering] “I will do everything I can to protect you.” 

Tuesday / Eddie’s trailer / 5pm 

Eddie: “One more time.” 

Nina: “No, Eddie.” 

Eddie: “Come on! Just one more try! I promise I’ll get it in this time.” 

Nina: “No! Last time you got me in the eye!” 

Eddie: “I’ll aim better this time, I promise!” 

Nina: “No! Your room is covered in peanuts! Besides, you’re supposed to be studying.” 

Eddie: (whiny) “But I’m bored!” [persistent] “You do it to me then?” 

Nina: (laughing) “No! Not since you choked and I had to give you the Heinrich.” 

Eddie: [blushing] “Yeah, that was my bad.” [huffing, dramatically spreading over the bed] “I can’t study any more, my brain hurts.” 

Nina: [chewing her pen, writing down notes] “Your brain always hurts.” 

Eddie: “Rude.” 

Nina: [closing her physics book, looking at Eddie] “Want me to test you?” 

Eddie: (cocky) “I’ve done physics three years in a row babe, I’ve got it down.” 

Nina: (cheeky) “If only you were as good at English.” 

Eddie: [flinging peanuts at her] “Also rude. Are you on your period or something?” 

Nina: [gobsmacked] “Eddie!” 

Eddie: “Has the crimson curse been bestowed upon you?” [Nina swats at him, red faced, this eggs Eddie on] “Is it shark week in the Sloan household?” [Her jaw drops, she grabs the pillow to hit Eddie, he laughs loudly, dodging her] “Is it slasher week at the video store?” 

Nina: [wrestling with Eddie] “Oh my god, Eddie! You’re such a dick! Shut up!” 

Eddie: [struggling against Nina, laughing hysterically] “Is it your strawberry week?” 

Nina: [Eddie’s forearms in her hands, he’s pinned to the bed, she looks at him confused] “Strawberry week?” 

Eddie: [grinning] “It’s Japanese.” 

Nina: [laughing] “I hate you so much.” 

Eddie: (cheeky) “Nah, you love me.” 

Nina: [even more embarrassed, letting go of Eddie] “Yeah, yeah, whatever.” [she sits back on the bed] 

Eddie: [throwing peanuts in the air, finally getting in his mouth] “Nina, I did it!” [pouting] “Awh, you weren’t even looking!” 

Nina: [reading a past physics paper, focused] “Well done Eddie, good boy.” 

Eddie: [smirking] “Calling me a ‘good boy’? Are you trying to turn me on?” 

Nina: (flustered, exasperated) “You are impossible today, have you had extra sugar or something?” 

Eddie: [grinning, visibly fidgeting] “Dustin gave me sour worms at lunch.” 

Nina: “Lucky me.” 

Eddie: “Hey, Nina!” [she ignores him] “Nina!” 

Nina: [can’t hide her laughter, can’t resist him] “What?” 

Eddie: [twinkly eyed, dimples showing] “Wanna make out instead of studying?” 

Nina: [hiding her grin in her work] “Our exam is next week. We can make out once I’ve quizzed you.” 

Eddie: (sarcastically) “If in future I can get a copy of our make out schedule so I can prepare a bit better.” [Nina giggles] “Bring some gum so my breath doesn’t smell like peanuts.” 

Nina: [amused, throwing him some gum] “Have at it, Munson.” 

[Eddie’s eye’s light up, now properly paying attention, excited] 

Eddie: [pestering] “What do I get if I pass the test?” 

Nina: (dryly) “World peace, good things for the rainforest.” 

Eddie: (groaning) “You’re no fun.” [Nina looks up at him, one eyebrow raised] 

Nina: (coy) “Want to make it fun?” [Eddie looks at her confused, she pats the space between her legs] “Come sit here.” 

[Eddie cautiously shuffles over the bed, sitting cross legged in front of Nina.] 

Nina: “No baby, like this.” [she takes his shoulders and shuffles him around until his back is pressed against her chest, her legs parallel to his longer ones] “Just like that.” 

Eddie: “Wh-what are we doing?” 

Nina: [softly in his ear] “For every question you get right, you get a reward.” [lips ghosting his neck] “Is that okay?” 

Eddie: [heart racing, excitement bubbling in his stomach] “It better not be you feeding me peanuts.” [Nina giggles behind him and he smiles] 

Nina: “Better than peanuts, honey.” [she places a light kiss on Eddie’s neck, he fails to hide his shudder] “So…” [she flicks to the paper, opening the first page, Eddie shifts nervously] “A Newton is equal to what?” 

Eddie: “A kilogram-meter per second squared.” 

Nina: (surprised) “Well done, that’s right.” [she kisses his neck again, soft and slow, he gulps] “A machine performed right joules of work in two seconds. How much power is delivered by the machine?” 

Eddie: (confidently) “Four Watts.” [Eddie can feel Nina smile against the skin of his neck, he gets goosebumps] 

Nina: “That is correct.” [Nina kisses him twice down his neck; once behind his ear, nibbling it as she moves lower to the curve of his neck] “Good job. If the resultant force acting on a body of constant mass is zero, the body’s momentum is…?” 

Eddie: [biting his lip, distracted by Nina’s hand rubbing up and down his arm and back] “Erm… Can you repeat the question please?” 

Nina: (smug) “Of course.” [her nails begin to lightly scratch down Eddie’s back, he visibly shudders this time] “If the resultant force acting on a body of constant mass is zero, the body’s momentum is?” 

Eddie: (stuttering) “C-Constant.” 

Nina: (smiling) “Excellent.” (whispered in his ear) “Take your shirt off, handsome.” 

[Eddie eagerly leans forward and pulls his top off over his head then leans back into Nina’s comforting embrace] 

Nina: [in between kisses, she can feel Eddie’s racing pulse under her lips] “What important conclusion was drawn from Davisson and Germer’s experiment using scattered electrons?” 

Eddie: [breathing laboured, eyes watching Nina’s hands as her nails tease down his torso, so close to his belt] “I- Um, I-“ 

Nina: “Need a hint, baby?” 

Eddie: (breathy) “Please.” 

Nina: “The electrons formed a strong diffraction pattern.” 

Eddie: (eagerly) “The electrons acted like waves.” 

Nina: “Knew you had it in you.” [she sucks lightly into the crook of Eddie’s neck, leaving a red mark, Eddie moans softly and drops his head back onto Nina’s shoulder] “A quarter of a wavelength is equal to how many degrees of phase?” [Nina’s fingertip teases along the edge of Eddie’s boxers poking out from his jeans, his stomach tenses and he feels himself harden] 

Eddie: “Nina, please…” 

Nina: (smirking) “Do you need me to repeat the question?” 

Eddie: (desperate) “I need you to touch me.” 

Nina: (aroused but unrelenting) “I am touching you, baby.” 

Eddie: “I-“ [struggling to form words, mind racing] “Fuck, I… 90, it’s 90 degrees.” 

[Nina slides her hand under Eddie’s jeans and squeezes his hard length over his boxers, she feels him twitch in her hand] 

Eddie: (groaning) “Jesus, Nina…” 

Nina: [rubbing back and forth, Eddie tries not to buck up into her hand] “A bit of a harder question now.” [Eddie’s eyes close with restraint and frustration, he bites his lip hard] “In Bohr’s theory of the atom, what force is responsible for electrons in their orbit?” 

Eddie: “I- erm- what?” [gulping, looking down at Nina’s hand rubbing over his hardening cock, precum now staining his boxers, he groans] “Please, please… Can you, um, repeat the question?” 

Nina: “Sure.” [she kisses his neck softly still, he becomes more restless] “What force is responsible for electrons in their orbit according to Bohr’s theory of the atom?” 

Eddie: “I… it’s… Wait, I know this…” [panting, hips moving gently against Nina’s hand, he groans in frustration] “It’s the force of… the force of…” 

Nina: (teasing, soft) “The force of?” 

Eddie: [eyes screwed shut] “The force of attraction between the proton and… and…” 

Nina: “And the electron.” [Eddie lets out a sigh of relief] “Good job, baby.” [Eddie whimpers] 

Eddie: [rushed, desperate] “Please baby, touch me, I need-“ 

Nina: “Keep getting the answers right and I will, Eddie.” [He groans, stomach tensing, head flung back into the crook of Nina’s neck] “Multiple choice now. The wave nature in light is demonstrated by which of the following? Is it A,” [Nina unbuckles his belt] “The photoelectric effect? B,” [Nina unbuttons his jeans] “Colour?” [Eddie whines] “C, the speed of light?” [she unzips his jeans] “Or D?” [She grabs his hard pulsing cock under his boxers through the gap in his jeans] “Diffraction?” 

Eddie: [chest and neck reddening] “Jesus fucking Christ!” 

Nina: (cheeky) “Not the right answer Eddie, want another go?” 

Eddie: [drooling, watching Nina’s thumb rub up and down his length as she holds him] “I, erm, C, it’s C, oh fuck Nina I can’t concentrate when you do that, it’s C!” [he lifts his hips to chase her hand] 

Nina: “That’s wrong, sorry baby.” [Nina uses her hands to push Eddie’s hips back down onto the bed to still them] “We’ve just answered a question on it, think, honey.” 

Eddie: (rushed) “No, No! Don’t stop, I’m begging you, please don’t stop! [thinking hard] “D! It’s D!” 

Nina: “Good boy.” [Eddie melts into Nina] “Describe to me how a one way mirror works.” [whispered in his ear] “And lift your hips up, honey.” 

[Eddie immediately lifts his hips and Nina pulls down his jeans and boxers, exposing himself to Nina. His breath comes out in shudders and pants as she wraps her hand around him fully now.] 

Eddie: [watching how his cock leaks in her hand] “A one way mirror… a one way mirror… it, um, fuck, it works by light, or some shit.” [he wraps his hand around hers around his cock, desperate for her to move her hand] “Please Nina, I don’t know, I don’t know the answer! Please touch me, I’m so hard it hurts.” 

[Nina begins to move her hand up and down his length, Eddie releases her hand with a content sigh, body relaxing under her touch] 

Nina: (softly) “A one way mirror works by reflecting light differently depending on the light intensity of either side of the mirror. If there's no light on the other side of the mirror, there’ll be no reflection.” [kissing his neck] “Think you can remember that, baby?” 

Eddie: (moaning) “I’ll never forget it.” 

Nina: “Just a few more questions and then we’re done.” [Eddie breathes a sigh of relief] “What type of glass is the lense of a magnifying glass?” 

Eddie: “Convex.” 

Nina: (smiling) “Great!” [She moves her hand gently up and down his length, her thumb rubbing circles on the underside of his tip, causing him to moan louder] “State Coulomb’s law.” 

Eddie: [through gritted teeth, nearly in tears] “You really think I can do that right now?” 

Nina: [Letting go of Eddie’s cock] “Unless you want me to stop…?” 

Eddie: “No, no, please don’t stop!” [she holds him and begins her movements again] “It’s, I er, the electrostatic force between two point charges,” [Nina’s hand rubs over his slit, gathering the precum. She rubs his reddening head in the palm of her hand in circles, Eddie goes cross eyed]  “Oh god Nina, fu-“ [he buries his head in her neck, panting desperately] “The point charges are directly proportional to the product of their charges and… and…” [Nina speeds up her movements up and down his length, Eddie’s thighs twitch] “Oh my, fuck, Jesus Christ I-“ [through gritted teeth] “And are inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, fuck!” 

Nina: (cooing) “I’m so proud of you baby.” 

Eddie: “Please, no more questions Nina, I can’t, I’m so close already, I-“ 

Nina: “Just one more then you can cum.” 

Eddie: [shaking, nearly at breaking point, one arm wrapping behind him to thread his fingers through Nina’s hair to keep her kissing his neck] “Nina, please!” 

Nina: (softly) “Just one more, you can do it baby.” 

Eddie: [softly to himself] “Fuck, fuck!” 

Nina: “We’ll do an easy one, since you’ve been so good.” [Eddie moans, his arm is gripping Nina’s tight as she jerks Eddie’s throbbing cock] “Define resistance in an electric circuit.” 

Eddie: (rushed) “Resistance is the opposition to the flow of an electric circuit in a conductor. It’s measured in Oh! Shit Nina I’m- ohms! It’s measured in Ohms!” 

Nina: “Eleven out of Eleven, great job honey. come here.” 

[Nina leans back on the pillows on the bed and takes Eddie with her, Eddie still encased between her legs. His body is sweaty and red, and he twists and jerks against Nina’s movements, unable to sit still as she edges him towards release.] 

Eddie: (desperate) “Kiss me, please, kiss me.” 

[Nina immediately turns herself to kiss Eddie, he moans into the kiss as her pace on his cock speeds up. His eyebrows furrow with pleasure as she bites his lip, he contorts his body around to hold Nina: face as they kiss; he clings to her desperately, melting into her. 

As they part; Eddie’s sweaty forehead and fringe is pressed against Nina’s as they look deeply into each other's eyes; Eddie’s wide pupils staring into Nina’s loving gaze. She softly pecks at his lips as he lets out a string of puffs and moans, unable to keep quiet or still.] 

Eddie: “Nina, fuck, baby, I’m gonna cum, I’m gonna cum, please let me- Oh fuck!” 

[Before he can stop himself, he flings his head back and moans loudly as his body tenses and he orgasms hard in Nina’s hand, his cum coating Nina’s hand and the majority of his chest. 

Nina kisses softly and gently down Eddie’s neck and shoulder as he breathes through the remainder of his orgasm. Eddie goes quiet, eyes closed, almost blacking out from the intensity from his climax.] 

Nina: (softly) “You okay, handsome?” 

Eddie: [breathless, panting, exhausted] “I love studying with you.” [he smiles as Nina giggles] 

Next chapter: Chapter Thirteen - Do you wish that you loved me?