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Soul flowers aren’t a ticket to true love, he knows that well enough, but they do mean importance, significance, permanence. And so far no one has ever loved Steve significantly or permanently enough to leave some. Maybe that means he’s broken. Maybe that’s why he can’t leave any for her.
So Steve lets Jonathan take Nancy home that night, and tries not to feel too bitter about the matching bracelet of roses on Jonathan’s hand.
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16 Mar 2026
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It starts like this: Steve, waiting in his car to pick up Dustin and friends from a session of their Chutes and Ladders club or whatever. Waiting kind of impatiently, to be honest, even though it’s not like he has anywhere else to be because Robin’s busy tonight and, as he well knows by this point, saving the world doesn’t get you a girlfriend or glory or even a second age-appropriate friend, it just gets you another evening shift at Family Video and a long personal to-do list.
In the spring and summer of 1986, Steve Harrington contends with the biases of the day, hatches several plans, and finally really gets to know Eddie Munson.
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16 Mar 2026
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Steve and Eddie and the truth of the gay sex bet.
“And stand in the crowd of unwashed freaks. No thanks.”
“That’s not very nice. Thought you weren’t a bully any more.” He pouts like he’s trying to be cute. Jesus.
“We’re friends,” says Steve, hoping his smile is as nasty as he means it to be (he’s been practising with Robin so it better be), “so it counts as banter.”
Eddie pulls a face. “A friend would come to see me play.”
“I wouldn’t want to cramp your style.”
“You wouldn’t, honey bear.” Eddie bats his eyelashes sweetly.
Steve shoves him. “You’re buying me this milkshake, Munson.”
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16 Mar 2026
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Mike doesn't know when he started caring why Steve and Eddie are friends now, but Dustin has made him curious. Eddie and Steve were enemies before, sort of. So why are they now best friends? They've just got to do a bit of surveillance to work this puzzle out. If Mike accidentally finds out he has feelings for his best friend along the way then... well, shit.
“At least I’m not using binoculars.” Mike shoots a derisive look over at Dustin. “Like we’re not in the middle of the high street, if they spot us how are you going to explain away those, huh?”
“Bird watching,” says Dustin. “My new hobby.”
Lucas punches him on the arm. “God you’re so fucking stupid.”
“You gave them to me!”
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16 Mar 2026
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“Is this what we do now? Mark our lives out with cassettes?”
Or: Steve Harrington gets into Real Music. After the events of the spring of 1986, Steve and Eddie stumble through the summer by soundtracking every second of it… Treading a fine line between indisputable classics and annoying-on-purpose cacophonies.
It’s a clash of musical titans. And every mixtape counts!
[Sequel to ‘The Worst Mixtape Ever Made’. Now complete.]
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16 Mar 2026