A/N: This was originally posted on my tumblr (in second person, but as ffn doesn't allow this I turned the reader into Kat, an OC), but I saw how little there was about my bby Steve Harrington here so thought I'd try to contribute. I hope you enjoy!

(let me know if you see anything still written in second person narrative, I did my best but I may have missed something).

The next morning, Katherine saw Steve in passing in the hallway. She had to do a double-take; he looked like shit. He didn't even seem to notice her, he was too deep in thought, so she left him to it.

It wasn't until lunchtime that she saw him again. She was sat with her friends in the cafeteria when he came in looking a little worse for wear, eyes searching the room and stopping on her. Katherine gives him a small smile, which he returns tenfold, striding over to her table.

Her eyes widen a little in shock – what the hell was he doing?

Kat hears her friend squeal quietly as she elbows her gently in the stomach, alerting everyone at the table to the approaching boy.

"What the hell is Steve Harrington doing walking towards us?"

While he may no longer be 'King Steve: The It Guy of the School', Steve was still pretty popular, and while Kat's friend group wasn't unpopular, it was definitely weird for him to just walk over and engage her in conversation. Which is exactly what he did.

Leaning his hip casually against the table, he nods in greeting at everyone else before turning his attention to her. "Hey, Katherine… So, I thought maybe we could sit together? Today? For lunch?" Whilst he started off sounding confident, she had to refrain a giggle as he nervously rubbed the back of his neck.

Kat could hear her friends exchanging quiet squeals of excitement and confused questions behind her, and Steve shot them a quick smile and wink as he seemed to gain some of his confidence back.

Smiling slightly as Steve turned back to her, she picks her bag up from the floor, throwing her friends a quick "see you later, guys" as she stands and follows Steve to a table in a quieter corner of the cafeteria.

A smoother person would've played it a little more hard-to-get, but, hell, how often did this kind of thing happen? Never before to her. She'd had boyfriends, obviously, and other guys who had been interested, but Steve Harrington actually putting in the effort to make conversation with her? Sit with her? She wasn't gonna say no to that.

Kat had figured that yesterday was a fluke – she'd simply caught his eye in the library because he was bored or alone, but now? Now he seemed… Genuinely interested. Her heart fluttered at the thought.

"So..." She started, mocking him from yesterday as she sat down across from him. "You look like shit," honesty is the best policy, right? "What's up with you?"

Steve shrugs, muttering something about not sleeping enough. He certainly wasn't going to admit to her that he hadn't slept because he was so busy reading Nancy's copy of Crime and Punishment, just like he wasn't going to admit that he'd searched all around the library for her before coming to find her in the cafeteria.

She can tell he isn't letting her in on the whole story, but she's not one to pry so she lets it be.

"Well," Katherine starts, throwing a smile in his direction. "Exhaustion looks good on you, Harrington." She watches as his eyes light up at her compliment as he smiles widely. It was cute (not a word she'd ever thought she'd associate with King Steve but here she was) .

"Thanks! It, uh... I bet it'd look just as good... On you..." He trails off at the end, his face cringing in embarrassment.

This time she couldn't hold it back; she burst into laughter, drawing a little attention from some of the tables around them, even more so when Steve joins in, resting his head in his hand in shame.

"Sorry, I -" Katherine cuts herself off with a giggle, unable to help herself.

"No, I'm sorry - I swear, I swear I'm usually so much smoother than that."

At this her heart skips a beat and she looks over at him, biting her lip to quell her smile. "Oh, yeah? Is that... What you're trying to be? Smooth?"

Kat can't help but tease him as she leans forward over the table, causing him to mimic her actions. "Because guess what?" She lowers her voice, looking around as if she were trying to keep something a secret. "You're not doing a very good job."

She starts to giggle and he's quick to join her with a deep chuckle at his own expense. It's only when she looks up at him that she notices that neither of them have pulled away, leaving them so close that she can see every small detail of his face. Including the fact that his eyes flicker down to glance at her lips.

Instinctively she darts her tongue out to lick her lips, which only serves to attract Steve's attention to them once more.

Just as she sees Steve begin to move towards her, the cafeteria doors bang open and a group of loud students walk in, the loud noise making both Kat and Steve jump away from each other. She looks down, coughing awkwardly as Steve rubs the back of his neck in a way that Kat is quickly learning means he's nervous. Cute.

She glances up at him at the same time he does and both of them smile, a little embarrassed.

"So..."

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