sleepovers
pairing ; nancy wheeler x fem!reader
prompt; giving their lover one of their shirts, when they don’t have one to sleep in
wc; 1k
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It was just a sleepover, no big deal. You have done them countless times before, this should be no different.
Just because you and Nancy had recently gone from friends to girlfriends didn’t mean that the fortnightly sleepovers needed to change at all, right?
Right.
That’s what you kept telling yourself as she approached the front door of the wheelers house as you had done a thousand times before, with a bag over your shoulder full of your skincare, pyjamas and a few snacks.
If this were no different to usual, then why were your hands feeling tingly.
After knocking, your hand went back to holding onto the strap of your bag.
It was only a few moments before your favourite wheeler opened the door for you with a beaming smile on her face. That eased your nerves a little but not much.
“hey, c’mon I got everything set up upstairs.”
She took your hand in hers and led you through the house and up the stairs to her bedroom.
Instead of the usual camp bed set out on the floor that you would usually sleep on, she just had fresh sheets on her own bed along with spare pillows for you.
She just wanted to make sure you were as comfortable as you could be in her bed with her.
“ you don’t have to sleep with me, but I thought it might be better than the camp bed. “ she said as she shut the bedroom door behind her, watching as you set your bag down on the floor by her bed and perched on the edge of it.
Nancy’s eyebrows furrowed softly at your clear discomfort.
“ everything okay, y/n ?” she asked as she walked across the floor to sit down beside you.
There was no point in lying to her and telling her everything was fine, because it was clear you were on edge.
“ I- I don’t know. I just, I don’t know what to do now that we’re dating. I don’t want anything to change but I know that it has to and I’m just scared”
that was the first Nancy had ever heard of any of your worries about being together. When you had first gotten together just under two weeks ago, you had been nothing but ecstatic. But now that she knew of your concerns, it hurt her a little that you hadn’t told her earlier.
“ why didn’t you tell me ?” she questioned, shifting slightly where she sat on the bed, pulling one of her legs up to cross under the other.
“ I hadn’t thought about it until today.” Your lifted your hand to push a strand of hair behind your ear.
“ well..” Nancy shifted in her seat again, moving slightly closer to you and taking your hand into hers. “ nothing has to change that we don’t want to change. I can get the camp bed back out if you would rather sleep on that. That doesn’t have to change”
“no, I want to sleep in bed with you, that’s what people who are together do, and you give really nice cuddles.”
A soft laugh fell from nancy’s lips as she lifted your hand to press a short kiss onto the back of it.
“ now, how about we change and then we can go downstairs and watch a movie?”
You didn’t say anything in response and only nodded, standing from Nancy’s bed to crouch down infront of your bag, pulling out a pair of comfortable shorts and then rummaging around for the tshirt you had sworn you packed.
A soft sigh left your lips as she sat back on the floor, annoyed at yourself for being so wound up about things changing that you forgot a tshirt.
Across the room Nancy was pulling a sweater over her head and pulling her hair out from beneath the collar of it.
So instead of doing anything, you just pulled on your comfortable shorts and left on the shirt you had been wearing when you came in.
“ ready? … why haven’t you changed ?” Nancy asked as she walked around her bed, moving to take off her jewellery.
“ I forgot a shirt to sleep in, so im just gonna sleep in this. “ you shrugged, standing to go downstairs.
“ no you’re not, lemme get you something “ she said casually, walking back over to her dresser and pulling out one of the tshirts she usually slept in to give to you.
It was a soft pink one with a faded image of a white cat on the front, you had seen her wear it on multiple occasions when you had stayed over.
She handed the soft folded fabric to you before continuing in her endeavour to take off her necklaces.
While she did that, you slid the soft pink fabric of her shirt over your head, smiling softly when the smell of Nancy’s perfume engulfed you.
Before you could even thank her, she had taken your hand and lead you downstairs where there was a bowl of popcorn on the table and a blanket laid over the back of the couch.
“ what movie are we watching?” you questioned, sitting relatively near the middle of the couch where Nancy joined her momentarily after.
“ silk stockings, its an old fifties movie I found at the video store, thought it looked good “ Nancy shrugged as she pulled the blanket over both of your legs and picking up the remote from the couch beside her, playing the film and curling up closer to you.
She reached for your hand under the blankets, having not told her family about you two dating just yet. As far as her parents and siblings were aware, this was a regulsr fortnightly sleepover.
Only two both of you, this was the first of many sleepovers that would be disguised as friendly and routine, but was really just a way to get around their parents figuring out they were together
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(Going to the home improvement store. Stranger things edition)
Fell in the cacti while wandering around the gardening section: Steve.
Being yelled at by employees while frantically ascending the Forbidden Orange Stairs: Argyle. Max
Taking sick af selfies in the lighting aisle: Robin.
Trying to take a leak in the display toilets: Holly
Tokyo drifting one of those flatbed carts down the aisles: Dustin
Lying on the fucking flatbed, holding on for dear life: Will. Lucas.
Lovingly touching all the carpet samples: Jane. Suzie.
Stealing paint chips for aesthetic purposes: Nancy.
Just wanted some goddamn light bulbs and everyone ruined it: Mike. Joyce. Jonathan. Kali
In the car sleeping: Jim
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I love that Steve has been making googly eyes at Nancy the entire season, and people are saying they got queer-bated because they made up some sort of gay romance between him and Eddie in their heads. What?! At no point did I even suspect that the two would ever be anything. There were zero hints about that. None.
I love that Mike has been in love with El for the past 4 seasons, but now it’s a complete surprise that the show is focusing on their love story, just like it has for the past 4 seasons.
I’m sure Will will come back next season and be important outside of his supposed sexuality or outside of Mike and El.
Am I mad that Eddie is dead? No. Am I sad? Hell yes. I wish he could’ve made it. I was devastated when Bob died as well. But I understand why they do what they do.
I cannot fathom any of the main characters that have been on the show for (at least) three seasons, dying. Definitely not the core group from S1. Definitely not Max or Erica or Robin. So I understand why they introduce a new character each season, make us love them and then kill them off. Because it creates an emotional impact. If people we don’t care about, die, the threats in the show would not be as impactful as they are. And I most certainly don’t want the core group to die. Not one single one of them.
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