"Being a freak?" he asks. "Yeah, I mean, you get to be who you want. Who you are. People say it makes you a freak, but they only mean you don't fit into the little box they've imagined for you."
He smiles again and says, "Y'know, the, uh, the royal you."
Eddie doesn't remember a time when he wasn't looked at sideways from most of the people in Hawkins. He's lived in that trailer with his Uncle Wayne for most of his life, before that it was a different trailer with his dad until his dad was arrested. People thought they knew his parents, they thought they knew his uncle, and they thought they knew him. Wayne never fought against it and honestly, Eddie is glad.
He likes who he is. Most of the time anyway. He has his flaws, everyone does, but he's glad he's never pretended to be anyone besides exactly who he is.
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He smiles again and says, "Y'know, the, uh, the royal you."
Eddie doesn't remember a time when he wasn't looked at sideways from most of the people in Hawkins. He's lived in that trailer with his Uncle Wayne for most of his life, before that it was a different trailer with his dad until his dad was arrested. People thought they knew his parents, they thought they knew his uncle, and they thought they knew him. Wayne never fought against it and honestly, Eddie is glad.
He likes who he is. Most of the time anyway. He has his flaws, everyone does, but he's glad he's never pretended to be anyone besides exactly who he is.