Eddie was completely willing to let bygones be what they were.
He did a shitty thing unintentionally. Steve has been doing shitty things for years with zero consequences. They’re even, right?
It’s not like he’s ever going to see Steve again anyways. He doesn’t throw parties anymore and Eddie doesn’t even have a VCR to warrant going into Family Videos.
So, bygones. As in, bye, gone to the stabbing feeling in his chest when he thinks about what happened for too long.
“Robin Buckley’s being weird.”
Eddie blinks back into the chaotic mess of the art room, “Isn’t she always weird?”
“I mean,” Jeff shrugs. “She been glaring at you the entire class. Did the same thing yesterday, too. I don’t even think she’s blinking.”
Eddie looked over his canvas and, yeah. She’s glaring at him. He turns his frown upside down and gives her a little wave which - “Oh. Oh no.”
“Dude,” Jeff hisses. “She’s coming over here.”
The nervous energy that typically hovers around a Robin is strangely absent when she stops next to his table. It’s a little intimidating. As is her cryptic ass greeting, “It’s been four days. You need to apologize.”
“For what?” He asks and then realizes what this is. “Did Steve Harrington really send his coworker to bully me?”
“I’m more than his coworker,” She scoffs. “And that’s not the point. You need to apologize to him. For-.”
“Apologize for what, not watering my club down to make him comfortable?”
Thats not what happened and Eddie knows it. He knows he crossed a line but he doesn’t understand it and it makes him defensive. He can’t make himself shut up, “You can tell him I’m sorry he can’t take a joke.”
Robin’s eyes narrow and then she turns around, calling across the room, “Mrs Keller, does this paint stain?”
Robin nods once to the teacher and then immediately turns around and flips Eddie’s paint tray into his lap. She grabs the bottle of paint he was using and coats him in blue paint before dropping the bottle on the floor.
Her voice is low and unapologetic even as she grabs a handful of napkins for him, “He doesn’t even want an apology. Do it anyways.”
Eddie is left stunned, as is their deathly quiet class, but Robin just turns to the teacher and declares, “I will accept my detention now.”
