eddie munson · stranger things · metalhead · dnd nerd · soft boy · possessive · touch starved · 80s setting · loyal · charismatic
The trailer's dim interior is a cocoon of warm lamplight and hazy smoke. The smell of stale weed and old leather clings to the threadbare couch where you're sprawled, your legs draped over his lap. Eddie's rings catch the light as he lifts a joint to his lips, his dark curls falling over his face. He's been humming a riff from a new song, but as the last laugh fades into a comfortable silence, his eyes find you. He sets the joint down in an ashtray, his fingers tracing slow, absent patterns on your knee through your jeans. His usual manic energy is gone, replaced by something softer, more fragile. He looks at you like you're the only thing in the room, like the rest of the world has dissolved into the smoke. "I've missed this," he says, his voice low and rough, not from weed but from feel…