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robin went from having less action than dustin henderson and his imaginary girlfriend, to having more relationship problems than steve can help her sort through in a matter of weeks.

vickie.

lovey lovely, sweet vickie.

it all started with vickie.

steve was right, robin did have a chance. she realised it herself during the prom after party.

robin never thought she’d attend such a thing, but she’d never been to a highschool party before and steve thought she should give it a chance, and vickie had asked her to come.

so she went, and her and vickie had more alcohol than they thought they could tolerate and got a little lose lipped whilst locked in the upstairs master ensuite of jason carvers house. they were sitting in the tub with a bottle of vodka, talking and talking and talking.

vickie started complaining about her stupid ex boyfriend who keeps dumping her and taking her back. and robin started complaining how she’s never even had her first kiss. and then vickie said something about wondering what girls taste like. and robin had said she wonders what vickie tastes like.

and then they kissed.

robin had her first kiss in the tub of jason carvers parents ensuite, with a girl she thought she could fall in love with, and too much alcohol in their systems.

vickie quickly clambered out of the tub and made it to the toilet before she hurled her guts out. robin spent the next hour feeding her water and soothing her back and talking her through it. she called steve to come pick them both up and drop vickie home.

three days later vickie came into family video with her no-longer-ex boyfriend and crushed robins heart.

a week after that, robin started tutoring nancy wheeler in french. nancy had been taking latin all through high school, but she’d get extra credits if she passed with a second language under her wing, and robin was fluent.

and nancy was everything. she was so bright and kind and funny, and she loved to bicker, robin noticed. she always had something to argue with robin about, all in good fun. she had bite, and robin loved it.

she was a little conflicted about forming this little crush on steve’s ex, but she couldn’t keep it to herself like she said she would. the minuet he walked through the doors for his shift she blurt it all out.

he was mostly just weirded out about why robin liked her, because he distinctly rememberd her calling nancy a priss back at scoops. but he actually told robin to go for it, if it seemed like nance was into it.

he just wants her to be happy. and robin really fucking loves him.

also… it’s not like he’d have any unresolved feelings about her still, he was becoming utterly obsessed with eddie “the freak” munson, who was a new regular at family video, who just so happened to only come inside when steve was on shift.

robin started to attempt at flirting with nancy, though, she wasn’t very good at it. she was probably too subtle.

steve gave her some pointers, and then a week later she was like a whole new person. she made nancy visibly flustered three whole times!

score robin.

robin was walking home one night, after a session with nancy, a sappy grin plastered on her face when she found vickie on her doorstep.

once safe inside robins room, vickie broke down and confessed she actually really liked robin and just freaked out after the party. she was so embarrassed and feels terrible about getting back with her now-ex-again boyfriend.

robin likes nancy though.

she likes nancy so much, and tonight when robin called her sweetheart in french (without even thinking, she was just channeling steve’s suave these days), nancy looked at her… and then at her lips.

nancy looked at her lips for a really long time.

she only looked away when someone slammed the library door shut behind them. and then they packed up their stuff and left.

and it really felt like something could happen.

robin was going to call steve and talk his ear off about it tonight, get some advice, and try her luck next week with nancy.

but now vickie is here, telling robin how much she likes her. how sorry she is she messed up. and robin knows how it feels to be queer in hawkins. you don’t get many chances out here.

nancys just a possibility, even though she really likes nancy.

vickie is an absolute, by the sounds, even though she really hurt robin.

but robin doesn’t want to hurt vickie either. she’s a people pleaser.

“i can’t stop thinking about that kiss.” vickie had said, looking deep into robins eyes, “i want you so bad, robin… please?”

it didn’t give her butterflies in the way it did that night when it happened.

it didn’t give her butterflies the way nancy does with the thought of a maybe.

but maybe that will change.

she let vickie kiss her. the kiss was much better than when they were drunk. it was more articulate like this, she supposed.

vickie layed her down in bed and kissed her all over, up and under robins shirt. she stopped vickie before she removed any more clothing, she wasn’t ready for that yet.

they laid in bed and cuddled, and vickie kissed her neck, and asked not to put a label on it yet. she’s still figuring it out, she just knows she wants to be like this with robin. she’s not sure she could handle a girlfriend yet.

robin agreed.

so her and vickie were… something?

something very casual, apparently.

she feels like one of steve’s girls, before he figured out what he wanted. something, but not quite anything.

vickie layed on her chest, and robin stroked her back whilst thinking about the sparkle nancy gets in her eye when she answers a question correctly. about the soft echo of her laugh and how it makes robins heart race.

steve’s going to have a feild day with this. robin was always on his case about how many girls he went through and now… jesus.

so she’s not quite something with vickie, and obsessed with nancy, and torn between the two.

she goes to nancys house on wednesday night for a double study session, they have a test on in the morning.

“you don’t have to go.” nancy said, when robin started packing up her things and pulling her shoes back on, “you can stay for a while, if you like.”

robin felt so nervous she couldn’t even give nancy a verbal answer. she took her shoes back off and settled down on the end of nancys bed as they started to chat.

“have you ever kissed a girl?” nancy asked after a while, and robin was sure her heart stopped.

“uhm… yeah.” she muttered, her hairs standing on end.

“what was it like?” nancy asked, her eyes darker than usual. it made robin nervous.

“i don’t know… i don’t have anything to compare it too.”

“oh.” nancy nodded, “would you kiss a girl again?”

“i… uh, i guess.” she swallowed.

“…would you kiss me?”

robin didn’t answer, and nancy took that as a yes. thank god she took that as a yes, because nancy kissed her.

nancy kissed her and it was the best feeling in the world. better than her first kiss with vickie.

they kissed and kissed and kissed, and robin laid her down and kissed nancy everywhere that vickie had kissed robin the other night.

nancy pushed robin back out of the way and sat up on her bed, and unclamped her bra and slid off her pants, and laid back down. and now robin was kissing an almost naked nancy, letting her hands slide over the soft curves of her body.

nancy sounded so pretty under her like this, she wanted to keep her there forever.

robin let nancy help take off her clothes, and soon enough they were both almost naked and grabbing at eachother as they kissed.

“have you ever done this before?” nancy whispered.

“no.” robin swallowed, “have you?”

“not with a girl.” she said, and kept kissing robin.

nancy took her hand and pulled it down over her body, guiding robins fingers to slip under the waistband of her underwear.

robins brain short circuited for a moment. she had no idea what she was doing, she didn’t even really do this herself. steve had talked about doing this a fair bit, he’d explained to her why he likes it so much and what tricks he used to gain his reputation for it. so she had some understanding, but no idea how to put that into practice.

never mind that though, she was here now, and she was going to figure it out. she kept kissing nancy, trailing her lips down along her jaw as her fingers wandered over the brush of hair on nancys pelvis and down to where she was wet.

she wasn’t very responsive, which wasn’t helpful, but she did moan a few little “yeah”s when robin was pretty sure she found her clit.

okay, robin was being bold.

she pulled her hand away and crawled between nancys legs, carefully peeling her purple underwear away before laying down and coming face first with her heat.

steve talked a lot more about eating a girl out than he did about fingering her. robin gave it her best shot, and that seemed to get a bit better of a reaction.

the taste was strange, kind of like what steve described but also different. it wasn’t unpleasant though.

nancy came on her tongue and robin relished in it, feeling giddy with how well she’d done. after that, nancy put her clothes back on and said it was late, robin had curfew in a bit.

she wasn’t wrong. robin hurriedly put her clothes back on and ran out the front door, and her lips still tasted like nancy.

she got home and called steve to tell him everything.

the next day at school, the girls sat their test and didn’t talk much. robin was so nervous and easily flustered, she she doesn’t know what to say to a girl after she takes your virginity… well, kinda? steve said it counted enough.

they didn’t really speak much at school those two days, they didn’t have any classes together and they didn’t have another tutoring session scheduled in until next week.

on friday night, vickie called and asked robin to come over.

right. robin kinda forgot about her.

she went over to vickie’s with full intention on ending whatever they had started. she was going to tell her about nancy, and ask nancy to be her girlfriend the next time their paths crossed.

she did say all of that.

but vickie convinced her to stay.

“just one night with you? please? i like you so much, robin.”

robin didn’t know how to say no again.

they kissed, and vickie got between robins legs and made her tremble and moan. she hated that she was thinking about nancy the whole time.

robin stayed the night and steve picked her up in the morning.

“damn, bobbie… you’re a right little slut now.” steve had laughed, “i think you have spent too much time around me.”

on monday, robin caught nancy after school. nancy offered to give her a lift home after robin had asked to chat.

in nancys car, is where robin used every bit of confidence she had to ask nancy to be her girlfriend.

“girlfriend?” nancy put her foot on the break and looked at robin strangely, “i’m not… i have a boyfriend, robin.”

robins face paled, “what?”

“i’m with jonothan… he’s just in california.”

“but i- we slept together… we had sex, nancy.”

“it’s not like that.” nancy pressed, “i’m- im not queer so it doesn’t count as cheating, okay? it doesn’t count with girls.”

robin jumped out of her car and ran the rest of the way home. she called steve over to console her, and he bought a tub of her favourite icecream and chocolate topping, and they are the entire thing.

robin felt horrible. she thought her and jonothan had broken up. she only knew they maybe got together because of steve.

“i should have warned you.” steve sighed, wiping robins tears with his thumbs, “she cheated on me, you know? i should have told you. i just wanted you to have something.”

it wasn’t until a week later, when robin was taking her puppy out for a walk, that she bumped into vickie. she asked how it went with nancy, if they were together now. robin had told her no, nancy doesn’t like her like that.

vickie joined robin and harry (after debbie harry of course) on their walk. vickie kissed robin again, and this time it felt okay.

it felt nice to be kissed, after getting heartbroken like that.

she invited vickie inside, and she stayed the night.

robin saw vickie most days for the next two weeks, and they’d hold hands and cuddle and kiss and more. it felt awfully close to a relationship, and steve was telling her she should just bite the bullet and initiate a relationship. get herself a girlfriend.

it’s clear vickie likes her a lot.

and it’s going to help her get over nancy even faster hopefully.

it will also be a big fuck you to nancy.

robin is sure steve’s only on this high horse of love today because eddie just asked him on a date. apparently it was the most perfect date steve had ever been on. they got take out at sat on top of eddie’s van and smoked a cigarette together, talked for hours, and made out for more.

they’re going out again tonight. steve thinks they’re going to have sex.

robin is very happy for her best friend but she also wants to punch him.

why can’t her relationships be that easy? girls are so hard.

she’s gonna do it, she thinks. she’s gonna ask vickie tonight.

she didn’t ask vickie.

they just had sex like they usually do, and then vickie got a call from her ex boyfriend.

robin was scheduled to stay the night, but when the pair started arguing over the phone, robin crept out the window and walked to steve’s.

next time, she said to herself.

next time, she said again the next day.

next time, she said for the millionth time it felt like, three weeks later.

steve dropped her off at vickie’s again, on the way to pick eddie - his now boyfriend - up to go to the movies. robin had been invited, all of eddie’s friends were going too, he was introducing steve to them.

robin wanted to be there for that, to hold his hand and talk him up to all of eddie’s friends. but steve insisted she go to vickie’s and ask her.

no more next time.

robin and steve sat in his car, out the front of vickie’s house for five minuets, hyping her up.

she walked up to the door, giving steve the thumbs up when she knocked, and bounced on her heels. she was going to ask before they have sex. that’s the plan.

vickie kissed her and pulled her inside the second she opened the door. robin was pressed back up against the wall, moaning with her touch.

“my parents will be home in half an hour, we’ve gotta be quick.”

okay, so it’s happening after sex. that’s cool.

they fucked, cleaned up, got changed and blasted some pop just in time for her parents arrival home.

“hey, so… about us?” robin said, sitting up on vickie’s bed and watching her as she added to a painting on her desk.

“oh, i wanted to talk to you about that.” vickie smiled.

this was very good. robin felt those wonderful butterflies stir up her stomach again. over these past weeks she’d been falling back into her tragic feelings for vickie, only, they weren’t so tragic now.

she still thought about nancy from time to time, but vickie was at the forefront of her mind these days.

“go on.” robin offered with a smile, because she’d rather vickie be the one to ask than her. it’s too nerve wracking.

“well…” vickie shrugged, “i know you’re so into nancy, and don’t get me wrong, this is great. but shane wants me back… he proposed.”

oh.

that’s not what robin was expecting at all.

“i like you, but shane is normal, you know? i think i’ll take him back.”

normal.

that word. robin hates it. it’s haunted her though out her whole life.

everyone told her she was a far cry from normal. she’d look at her own reflection and point out everything unnormal about herself. she knew she wasn’t normal, growing up, liking girls isn’t normal.

steve had promised her it was. he promised her she was normal.

but here vickie is, saying she’s not.

and it hurts.

“what we’re you going to say?” vickie asked.

robin felt very sick.

she told vickie it was nothing. she was happy for her. congratulations.

she walked herself home. steve would be in the movie by now. he promised he’d call her after the movie, from a pay phone, to see how it went.

she sat by the phone, waiting waiting waiting.

eventually, he called.

“bobbie…” he sounded so sad, “why’d you go home?”

she tried her best not to cry, “she’s getting engaged to shane…”

“oh-“

“because he’s normal.”

“fucking- god.” steve mumbled, and he sounded angry, “make sure you’re dressed, im coming to pick you up.”

“no.” she sobbed, “you need to be with eddie’s friends-“

“they’re not you, bobbie.”

“please, steve…”

she heard steve sigh, and then there was a clatter on the other line. it sounded like he’d dropped the phone and steve shouted “hey?!” and then more mumbled conversation before a clean voice came back through, but it wasn’t steve’s.

“hey, it’s eddie- i know, stevie. shh!” he mumbled into the line, “it’s eddie. look, steve wants to leave and get you, but apparently him being here means a lot to you for some reason, so steve and i are going to come pick you up and bring you back to gareth’s house, we’re all about to head there anyway.”

robin agreed to that, because a distraction sounded good. some good people around her sounded lovely. she doesn’t know much about eddie’s friends, but some are in band and some are in drama, and they’re nice enough.

she likes eddie a lot. she thinks he’s wonderful for steve.

robin made sure she looked okay before sitting on the front porch with harry. he was a golden retriever, only two months old. such a tiny thing. she loved him with her whole heart. steve is jealous that harry’s taken his place as number one best friend, but robin knows harry’s taken her place on steve’s list too.

when steve pulled up, it was eddie who jumped out and ran full pelt for her.

“you have a puppy!”

robin laughed and watched eddie kneeslide halfway across her lawn and over to harry, who was very excited to meet him. steve came following behind, giving harry a good scratch behind his ears before sitting next to robin.

“you are normal, bobbie.” he said, bumping their shoulders together, “more normal than ed at least.”

“hey!” eddie snapped with a grin, learning down to conspire with harry, “you think i’m normal, don’t you, pup?”

once in the car, eddie had given robin front seat with the proviso he gets to bring harry and cuddle with him in the back. robin agreed, it would be nice to have her little companion at her side all night.

she told the pair everything. filled eddie in on it all; her first kiss with vickie, what happened with nancy, the past month with vickie too.

“i know how you feel.” eddie said, moving his hands up and down in the air as harry tried to catch them, “you’d think small town queers wouldn’t get this drama, but i think we get more. i had this whole thing with jonothan byers back in the day.”

robin felt a little more at ease knowing she wasn’t alone in all this. there are other other out there like her. other people who’ve grown up being told they’re not normal, fucking up like this time and time again, and they eventually get a happy ending.

hopefully robin will find hers soon enough.

or at least a girlfriend that she really likes, who really likes her back and is okay with the concept of labels and being a little left of normal.

is that so much to ask for?

once they got to gareth’s place and made their way out to his pool house, robin got easily acquainted with all of eddie’s friends. they were nice guys, and they all loved harry.

they’re also all queer, robin learned, which was extra comforting. jeff and grant we’re together, and gareth’s bisexual, but he has a casual girlfriend at the moment.

about an hour later, two drinks and a quarter box of pizza later, robin was in deep argument with jeff in weather back to the future or the goonies was the movie of the year. robin thinks back to the future, jeff thinks goonies.

“hey, robin…” eddie said, tapping on her shoulder with a mischievous grin, “come with me?”

“ah… okay.” she chuckled nervously, putting her drink down and following eddie towards the door.

“i want you to meet somebody.” he smiled, “she’s my best friend- like, you and steve level best friends. she wasn’t going to come out tonight originally because she already met steve and had heaps of homework. but i thought you’d get along.”

“oh…” robin nodded, looking down at her feet as harry ran up and nuzzled against her ankles.

eddie nodded his head towards the door and lead her out. she saw steve standing by the pool, his arms folded and his hip popped to the side like he always does, and he was talking to a girl she didn’t recognise.

the girl looked like a metalhead, so it made sense her and eddie were friends. dressed in a plaid skirt and ripped stockings, big chunky boots and a leather jacket.

eddie grabbed robin by the bicep and dragged her over to the girl and steve. steve had that same cheeky grin as eddie, and robin was immediately filled with nerves. the closer she got, the prettier the girl looked.

and the more familiar.

“hey, rob.” eddie smiled, sitting his hands on the girls shoulders as he stood behind her, “i want you to meet chrissy cunningham- without the fake smiles and pom poms.”

chrissy elbowed eddie in the gut with a grin.

oh my god, it was chrissy cunningham. chrissy… looking completely different and completely hot.

eddie chuckled, grabbing steve as he slowly backed away, “chrissy just got out of a long term relationship with a dick because she realised she likes girls-“

“eddie!” chrissy hissed.

“she thinks the dorky ones are super cute too.” steve supplied, running inside behind eddie and slammed the door shut.

oh god.

at least chrissy was just as embarrassed about this as robin was, by the looks.

“uhm… hi.” chrissy giggled- yep, robin loves her giggle already. she sounds so sweet. how can someone so hot, who looks dangerous, sound that fucking sweet?

“hi…” robin giggled too.

“is this your puppy?” she said, pointing down at harry.

“ah… yeah.” robin muttered, bending down to pick him up, “his names harry- like debbie harry, from the band-“

“blondie?” chrissy smiled, “i love blondie.”

“me too.” robin laughed nervously, “i am so in love with debbie.”

chrissy blushed, “me too- i kinda started dressing like her when eddie introduced me to the dark side.”

robin downright snorted, and chrissy laughed so brightly at her.

“i’m sorry about your… uhm…” robin swallowed.

“that’s okay.” chrissy shrugged, “jason’s an asshole anyway. i don’t even like guys, i think.”

“oh, me either…” robin smiled, “except for this guy. i love him so much.” she scratched harry behind his ear.

“he’s such a cutie.” chrissy reached out to pet him him, and harry nuzzled into her hand.

“you wanna hold him?”

“are you sure?”

“of course.” she smiled, and handed the puppy over. chrissy cuddled him tight and harry seemed like he loves her already.

well, if harry loves chrissy so much, then robin supposed she has to find a way to keep chrissy around now. you know… for harry’s sake.

“you should come on a walk with us one time.” robins said with all the boldness she could muster, “sometimes when it’s hot, we stop for icecream, don’t we, harry?”

“that sounds nice.” chrissy smiled, her cheeks the prettiest shade of pink, “it’s supposed to be really warm tomorrow.”

“i’ll probably walk him around one… we go by maple and through lakeside park before heading up the main street, if you’d like to join.”

“i can meet you at the park?” chrissy looked down at harry as he licked her cheek, “someone’s excited i think.”

robin laughed easily, “yeah, he likes you a whole lot.” she didn’t even mean to say what she said next, it just kinda came out before her brain could catch up, “he seems to always get along with pretty people best.”

chrissy looked up at her silently, a little flustered with robins comment. when she realised what she had said, her own cheeks turned the brilliant shade of crimson. chrissy laughed nervously and scratched under harry’s chin as she smiled.

“must be why he loves you, then.”

oh! robins insides were on fire. it was like a hellswarm of butterflies in there.

“so tomorrow, one?” chrissy asked, clearing her throat.

“uh… yeah.” robin nodded, “at the park by maple.”

chrissy smiled brightly, and robin already had the urge to kiss her. she had such a pretty smile. robin already knows this is probably going to be another disaster, if not something perfect.

“it’s a date?” chrissy smiled.

a date.

robins never been on a date before. she’s going to have to ask steve for pointers.

“yeah…” she giggled, “a date.”

idk what this is tbh i wrote it at like 4 am sleep deprived

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