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Stede’s POV
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“Stede you have to find a date for my Halloween party!”, Lucius says leaning over the counter to get a better look at Stede sitting on the floor rearranging books.
“Lucius I’m never going to find a date.”, Lucius sighs “Stede you need to find someone. Everyone at the party is coming with someone!” Stede sighs this time but louder. “If I say I will try to find someone will you stop bothering me right now, I am quite busy with these books.”
Lucius smiles and crosses his arms. “Now that’s what I call a deal, good luck with the books boss I gotta go or I’ll be late meeting Pete for dinner.”, Stede looks up at Lucius.
“Have a wonderful dinner with Pete tell him I say hi.” “Will do Stede don’t stay here too late you need some rest.”, and with that, Lucius walks out.
8 rolls around and Stede decides to finally go back home. He gets in his car and has a peaceful drive. Stede walks into his apartment and locks the door. Stede takes a shower and eats some dinner.
10 o’clock rolls around and he lays down for bed except there’s one problem whoever just moved into the apartment next to him is making a fuck ton of noise.
Stede lays in bed restless, he tries putting a pillow over his head to drown out the noise but it doesn’t seem to get any better. Stede decides it’s time to confront the noise or he’s gonna go crazy.
Stede gets up and heads for the door, he takes a couple steps arriving at the cause of the sound. He takes a breath and knocks once then twice, stede hears the sound of shuffling around.
“One second mate!”, a very desirable voice responds from the other end of the door. As soon as the words process in Stede’s mind the door swings open revealing the most beautiful man Stede had ever seen.
Standing in front of him was a tall man with beautiful black and silver hair pulled up into a bun with two strands framing his face, the man had a dark purple cropped shirt on and tight black jeans. The more Stede looked at him the more beautiful he got, tattoos covering just about every inch of skin he could see.
“Hey, can I help you with something? Or do you knock on everyone’s door with your mouth open like a fish out of water?” The man said way too softly and laughed.
Stede blinked a couple of times, shut his mouth and opened it again trying to regain his confidence. “Well a pleasant evening to you but not for me, you have been making a lot of ruckus keeping me awake.” Stede tried to say threateningly but it more came out like he was asking for this strange man to make even more noise.
“Oh I’m so sorry man I didn’t realize that I was making so much noise or the time, I’ll keep it down promise.” Stede feels like he just kicked a puppy he kinda wants to start crying. He just yelled at this beautiful man for doing god knows what, Stede doesn’t even care about the noise anymore.
“Well just try to keep the noise down a little at night if you would be so kind.”, Stede says with a soft smile, and of course, the man has to smile back and it’s the most beautiful thing Stede had ever seen.
“Will do, I’m Ed by the way.”, Ed reaches his hand out. “Stede.”, Stede says in almost a whisper, He swiftly takes it. Ed’s hand is so soft and warm, Stede gently lets go of it.
“Have a good night Ed.”
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“Have a good night Stede.”
And with that, Stede is back in his apartment but this time with an extremely red face and butterflies. Stede went to lay back down but all he could think about was Ed. The apartment was eerily silent Stede almost kinda missed all the noise, but mostly he missed Ed and he hoped to see him again.