mostly just getting into jonathan's head
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Jonathan doesn’t know what counts as the first time he met Steve Harrington.
Was it when Tommy Hagan first zeroed in on him in the sixth grade and Steve was never far behind? Jonathan would make eye contact with Steve, sometimes, just before Tommy shoved him to the ground or against a locker; Steve always looked away first.
Or was it the gas station last year, when Steve called him Jason while Jonathan glared out from behind the counter the whole time? In the days after, he’d gone back to that moment more often than he’d like to admit; usually, it was to think some variation of that’s probably the worst thing to ever happen to him, me not selling him beer so I don’t lose my goddamn job. Meanwhile.
(Meanwhile: As in, while Jonathan wasted his time on Steve Harrington, Will almost died. That would turn out to be a recurring theme of their relationship: Moments of catastrophic distraction, always at his brother’s expense.)
Eventually, after a few detours, Jonathan comes to the conclusion that the first time he really met Steve was in ninth grade, when he and Fred Benson got stuck taking the basketball team’s yearbook photos.
Series
- Part 3 of A Catalog of Non-Definitive Acts