"What? Seriously?" Eddie asks, lighting up in a grin. "You didn't have to get me something for a thing I should've done two years ago."
Ever since he failed to graduate the first time, his pride a little wounded, Eddie has treated it like a joke. Like something not really worth doing, because if it was, he would have done it in the first place, no problem. But he had always kind of cared. He had wanted to graduate, even if he knew it would never get him out of Hawkins.
And hadn't that turned out to be true?
"That's really cool of you," he says, more sincere. He takes the box and then looks at Chrissy. "Can I open it?"
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Ever since he failed to graduate the first time, his pride a little wounded, Eddie has treated it like a joke. Like something not really worth doing, because if it was, he would have done it in the first place, no problem. But he had always kind of cared. He had wanted to graduate, even if he knew it would never get him out of Hawkins.
And hadn't that turned out to be true?
"That's really cool of you," he says, more sincere. He takes the box and then looks at Chrissy. "Can I open it?"