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Trending: #Nonsense, #StevieSingle, #NewSingle
“Stevie Harrington Releases New Single ‘Nonsense’!”
“Stevie Harrington and close friends seen out celebrating a new single!”
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“Oh my god, is that your fucking sigh in their song,” Robin exclaims as she and Stevie listen to ‘Jealous’ for probably the hundredth time since it came out the day before, making the singer wince ‘cause that is definitely her sigh.
“Well, I didn’t think Jeff would actually use that clip,” Stevie says with slight humor in her voice, but stops smiling seeing her friend's side-eye. “It’s not that deep! Besides we have more important things to discuss, you know like my new single that drops in like, oh say twenty minutes!”
Robin’s eyes widen at this as she falls off the couch in excitement, “Holy shit! That’s so soon! We gotta go out to eat to celebrate it! Get dressed, I’ll book us a table at our favorite restaurant. Let’s invite everyone, even Munson, the little dumbass.”
“To be honest, I completely forgot to give Eddie the heads up that I was releasing ‘Nonsense’,” She tells Robin with a ‘yikes’ expression. Robin’s jaw drops, “Dingus! If you don’t text him about it right now and you also need to congratulate him for the new single, Dustin said he’s been complaining again.”
Stevie groans, reaching for her phone on the coffee table, “I haven’t spoken to him since I told him off for canceling on me, he did apologize but I just never answered.”
“Just do it, Stevie. It’s gonna be fine. I’m gonna go call Max, El and Erica so it’ll just be us girls. So, start getting ready.”
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Stevie: hey eds
Eddie Munson: stevie babyyyyy
Stevie: I just wanted to give you a heads up but im releasing Nonsense tonight
Stevie: just wanted to tell you cause well you know it’s kinda about you lol
Eddie Munson: only kinda? ouch :(
Stevie: Shut up! You know what I mean
Stevie: I hope you dont mind
Eddie Munson: ohhhh so is now a bad time to say i do mind…
Stevie: ohhh this is awkward cause well… if you do it’s too late now so…
Eddie Munson: WOw i see how it is absoletly no respect
Eddie Munson: ** absoulry
Eddie Munson: *** Absolutely
Stevie: Wow that was embarrassing
Eddie Munson: you and your children are so mean to me
Stevie: THEYRE YOURS TOO DONT EVEN
Eddie Munson: mmmm idkkkkkk robin kinda looks like henderson
Stevie: IM NO CHEATER MUNSON
Stevie: That one is yours through and through
Stevie: You’re both so annoying <3
Eddie Munson: well theyre all mean asf like you
Eddie Munson: they were hyping up exiled under my text about CCs new song
Eddie Munson: can you believe this >:(
Stevie: I can. Yes.
Stevie: It was a great song btw :)
Stevie: 10/10 banger as always
Eddie Munson: omgomgomgogmfnafk;ns
Eddie Munson: thank you stevie baby
Eddie Munson: jeff got it from a friend so credit to that mystery person
Stevie: They obviously need to write the rest of your songs
Eddie Munson: WOOOOOWWWWWWW
Eddie Munson: tahts crazyyyy
Eddie Munson: how about you write my next song ;)
Stevie: You wish Munson
Eddie Munson: always baby
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“I can’t believe you wrote this song about Eddie,” Erica says bluntly, “He’s such a nerd.”
Max cackles at this as Stevie rolls her eyes, “Don’t even! You used to have a crush on Henderson!”
“I was eleven!”
“That’s embarrassing,” Max jokes but shuts up when she takes note of Erica’s side eye.
“You’re dating my brother, that’s embarrassing. I know so much dirt on him, it’s insane.”
“Alright! Settle down, we’re here to celebrate Stevie’s new song release,” Robin exclaims excitedly, Stevie smiling brightly at her.
“God, it’s so good, Stevie! Don’t let Mike tell you otherwise, I heard him humming it to himself the other day,” El exposes with a laugh.
Stevie gasps at this, “I knew that little shit liked the song! He always tries to hide his face when he likes something like just admit it!”
“Oh my god! It dropped Stevie! Make a quick post!”
“Holy shit! Okay! Everyone pose real quick!”
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Five Years Ago…
“Wayne! It’s not that big of a deal!”
“Not a big deal? Boy, have you lost your mind?”
“Okay, I know it’s bad. But, I think Stevie will understand and think it has character,” Eddie says, not sure if he’s trying to convince his uncle or himself.
Eddie had thought it was a good idea to cut his own hair again including his bangs this time around and it didn’t go too well. He was sure that one side of his hair was longer than the other and his bangs were definitely slightly crooked.
He knew his girlfriend wasn’t superficial by any means but he did know how she felt about his hair, how he should take care of it more and chopping it unevenly was definitely not what she meant.
“Well, good luck to ya, ‘cause she just pulled up,” Wayne tells him as he walks past him with a pat on the shoulder. He goes straight outside to greet the girl with a gruff hello.
“Hi, Mr.Munson! Is Ed up?”
“Oh, he’s up alright, ‘causin a ruckus. Good luck in there and know that I understand if you don’t react too well to what you see,” Wayne says with an amused expression taking note of Stevie’s confused one.
Stevie makes her way inside, noting the whole trailer is a bit too quiet, “Ed? Where are you?” She hears a thump leading to the bathroom followed by harsh cursing.
“Eddie,” She questions outside the bathroom with a knock on the door, the cursing ceases immediately and silence engulfs the air around them.
“Eddie? What are you doing in there?”
She was met with more silence for a brief second before the bathroom door creaks open, she sees Eddie peek out a bit, her mouth dropping seeing his bangs.
“You didn’t! Oh my god, Eddie your hair,” Stevie exclaims as her boyfriend walks completely out of the bathroom, his shoulders hitched up to his ears.
“It was an accident! I thought I could do it,” Eddie defends himself not wanting his girlfriend to react poorly but what he doesn’t expect is for her to start to laugh at him.
“pfft- hahahah! Oh my god, Eds, you look so dorky. I can fix it but oh my god, I need one pic of you please,” She tells him while trying to catch her breath. Eddie lets out a sigh of relief, that’s when Stevie notices that Eddie was actually scared to see her reaction.
“Wait, did you think I was gonna be like upset or something?”
“Kind of, I don’t know, maybe you’d break up with me for how dumb I look now.”
Stevie frowns at this, “Eds, I don’t care about that stuff. I really like you, okay? I would never break up with you over something like this!”
“I know, I know, it’s still embarrassing though. Can you help me please,” He tells her with a pout making her giggle at how ridiculous he looked.
“Yes, you absolute dork!”
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“Oh my fucking god!”
“What the fuck did you do!”
“Oh god, Eddie! We can’t even call our go to stylist to fix this fucking mess,” Jeff exclaims as he stares at Eddie who is holding a pair of scissors as he stares at himself in the mirror with his tongue between his teeth in concentration.
“I got this… okay actually I think I fucked up a little,” Eddie says after cutting through his bangs staring at himself in the mirror, “Oh yeah, definitely crooked.. fuck.”
“Well, I’m not calling Stevie,” Jeff says while walking away as the others follow, murmuring the same.
“Why would I even call her?” Eddie says defensively, lying through his teeth knowing she would be the first person he’d call.
“You always call her,” Gareth says, snatching his friend's phone and facetiming Stevie’s phone, “Here, show her what you did.”
The phone rings for a second before the singer's face comes up looking confused, “Eddie? Did you mean to facetime me?”
Eddie has the phone angled away shooting a glare at Gareth who laughs walking away, “Hey Stevie baby, no sorry. Gareth called you.”
“For a good reason!”
Stevie’s eyebrows raise at the shout, narrowing her eyes suspiciously, “Why won’t you show your face? You do something you shouldn’t have, Munson?”
Eddie groans in embarrassment covering his face with his hand as he shows himself on camera.
“What am I look– Oh my god! Again,” Stevie cries out with a laugh, Eddie grimaces at this, “Did you cut the rest of your hair too?”
“No… I only got to my bangs.. I didn’t think they looked bad. Then I looked in the mirror,” He confesses, making Stevie laugh harder.
“Call Nancy and tell her you need a stylist,” Stevie says looking away from the camera, Eddie frowns not wanting to call anyone else now that he had her on the phone.
“Can’t you come fix me,” He asks, noticing how Stevie’s face kinda twitches but can’t understand what it means.
“I’m sure you can find someone else to fix it,” Stevie says softly with a small smile that Eddie can immediately recognize as fake.
“Hey, is everything okay?”
Stevie hums in response before nodding, “Yeah! Don’t worry about me, maybe ask one of the girls in that opening band, like Alexis or something.”
Eddie's face drops slightly at this, “Wait what?”
“I gotta go! Talk later, Munson.”
Eddies face drops further at his last name being used, “What the fuck was that?”
Jeff, walking by, notices his friend standing in disbelief as he stares at his phone.
“You good, dude?”
“Did something happen with Stevie?”
Jeff tenses up a bit at the question which Eddie notices, “Tell me now.”
“Not my place to say, all I can say is, you’re definitely too nice,” Jeff says finally before walking away leaving Eddie standing there in more confusion.
“Hey Nancy!”
“Hey guys– oh my god, eddie your fucking bangs!”
“It’s not that bad!”
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“How the fuck this song is about you is beyond me,” Nancy says as Stevie’s new single fades out, the rest of the band murmur in agreement as Eddie squwacks in defense.
“You just don’t get me like she does,” He says with a dreamy sigh making everyone groan in feign disgust.
Eddie pulls out his phone as the song starts up once again, “Don’t turn it off, gotta analyze it.”
Jeff shoots a look at his friend that is too distracted on his phone to notice, “This song was made with you in the room. The fuck you mean analyze it? What are you even doing?”
Eddie freezes his typing before glancing at his friend, “Nothing.”
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Eddie: FUCHDSLFE STVEIEBABY ABSOLURTE BANGER
Eddie: YOURE AO TALENTED UGH WANA KISS YOURE BEAUTIFUL BRAIN
Eddie: WHOEVER ITS ABOUT MUST BE SOOOOOO HOT AND SEXY AMD THE BEST EVER
Eddie: AND SO HUMBLE ANDA TOTALLY DOWN BAD FOR YOU AHAHHAHWANUEBS
Eddie: YOURE SO PRWTYY AND TALENTED PLEASE WRITE A SOMG FOR ME
Eddie: ILL DONANYTHIGN PLEASE
Eddie: PLEASE PLEAS EPLEASR
45 unread messages…
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“Eddie! Wait up!”
Eddie hears behind him before freezing and cursing himself, it’s not that he didn’t want to talk to Alexis, she was great but it felt awkward for him to talk to her alone when he usually talked to her for Gareth.
He plastered a fake smile and turned around, “Oh hey, what’s up?”
“Are you going out right now?”
Eddie hesitates but nods, hoping she didn’t try to tag along. He wanted to see if he could manage to sneakily call Stevie and hang out with her even if it was just for twenty minutes.
“Great! I’ll join you!”
Eddie feigned excitement wanting nothing more than to scream and throw a tantrum, he wanted nothing to do with this woman.
Eddie did his best to stay engaged in conversation with Alexis but was getting fed up with her high pitched laugh which wasn’t fair to say but Eddie hated how she ruined his plans to see Stevie.
He caught himself zoning out more than once as she spoke thinking of what Stevie could be doing in that moment.
“Eddie? Is everything okay,” Alexis asks with a frown, reaching over to place her hand over his just as a couple of fans started to make their way over.
He grimaces at this and nods, taking his hand away but not quick enough for the fans not to notice who smiles brightly at them.
“I’m so sorry for interrupting you two, could we get a picture,” they ask nicely, Eddie smiles and gets up immediately.
“No worries! You weren’t interrupting anything! Let’s get this pic!”
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“Dude, you’re too fucking nice.”
Eddie hears as he walks into his shared apartment with Jeff, he stops dead in his tracks in confusion.
“What? You keep saying this but I don’t understand what you mean!”
Jeff groans from the couch as he looks over at his confused best friend, “I mean, you’re too friendly with everyone! Specifically, our opening band's lead singer, that ring any bells?”
Eddie frowns at this before remembering what happened earlier in the day, “Oh fuck, if this is about me being out with Alexis, I didn’t want anything to do with her! Can you believe she just fucking invited herself out with me! I wanted to sneak away to talk to Stevie, maybe go see her but nooo! Some random ass chick follows me!”
Eddie groans loudly as he walks over face planting into their shared couch, Jeff laughs as discreetly as he can but knows he failed as soon as Eddie looks up at him with a glare.
“You can come out Gare!”
Eddie sits up confused at Jeff calling out Gareth who walks out of the guest bathroom with a sheepish look, Eddie sits confused for a few more seconds before his mouth drops dramatically.
“You thought I’d betray you like that! No, no, you thought I’d betray my heart and soul Stevie! I can not believe the disrespect!”
Gareth groans at Eddie's dramatics, “I know! Jeff already told me off for even thinking that! It’s just I think she’s so cool and I was scared you were starting to see that too with how much I force you guys to go out with them too.”
Eddie stares at Gareth with an unimpressed look, “I mean this with the most disrespect. No one will ever be as cool as Stevie is to me, no one can compare or compete so don’t even bother getting in your head about it. She’s the only one I want.”
Jeff cackles as Gareth’s mouth drops, “Dude! You don’t have to go that far.”
“No, no, he had to. I told you man, you got upset for no reason.”
Gareth sighs, waving his hand, “Yeah, yeah.”
Eddie grunts as he flops back onto the couch before remembering what his friend had said, “What do you mean by I’m too nice by the way?”
Gareth and Jeff groan in unison.
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Trending: #Nonsense, #StevieSingle, #HotBillboard100
“Eddie Munson, seen out getting cozy on a date with Alexis Matthews once again!”
“Stevie Harrington, new single hits Hot Billboard 100 in less than a day!”
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“Oh.”
Robin hears behind her, straining to turn to look at her friend in the backseat, she makes a questioning sound.
“Well, he definitely saw her, they were seen out by some fans and they seemed very comfortable,” Erica says bluntly before making a pained noise as Max elbows her in the side, noticing Stevie’s face and mood dropping instantly.
She winces as the brunette plasters an obvious fake smile with glassy eyes, “It’s a good thing I have a busy schedule this week,” She says in an attempt to make a joke but falls flat as her voice wavers towards the end of it.
Max scoffs before hugging Stevie as best as she could while wearing a seatbelt, “Don’t act like you’re okay, you hated seeing me do that when things between Lucas and I weren’t great, so I won’t let you do the same.”
Stevie smiles genuinely before letting out a shaky breath, “I just don’t want to cry when I’m not in my house.”
Erica clicks her tongue, “Valid, you’re better than me, I would’ve caused a scene.”
This breaks the tension as the girls laugh knowing she wasn’t bluffing.
“Let’s just get this interview done with, hopefully then we can have a girls night and El will be in by then,” Robin says, all of them nodding in agreement, Stevie doing her best to stay positive as the sinking pit in her stomach grows thinking of how much her and Eddie’s relationship is changing.
She knew it was her own fault, pushing him away and even going as far as to name the girl in question who has been in all of the tabloids alongside his name. She can only hope they can stay decent friends.
She’s startled out of her thoughts as she gets a text.
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Jeff :0 : Stevie.
Stevie: Jeff.
Jeff :0 : don’t even
Jeff :0 : yk what ima say already
Stevie: ???
Jeff :0 : DONT BEOLOEVE THE INTERNET
Stevie: :O
Stevie: You mean to tell me everything on the internet, BEYONCES INTERNET, isn’t true?!?!!
Jeff :0 : i hate you.
Stevie: right well here we are
Jeff :0 : just trust me please its not what you think
Stevie: gtg ttyl shawty
Jeff :0 : WHAT NO WTF
Jeff :0 : NO TTYL SHAWTYA COEM BACK