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3:57 PM
Eddie: guys
Eddie: omg
Eddie: my professor is making everyone get in a single line to pick up one tiny sheet of paper. there’s like a million students in this class
Nancy: ???
Eddie: and class is over
Robin: oh that’s annoying
Eddie: i’m gonna pee my pants
Steve: 👎
Nancy: Steve??
Steve: @eds are fr or are you capping
Eddie: idk yet
Robin: pls don’t say capping steve
Nancy: Omg I forgot to update. My story is going to be in next month’s newsletter!
Robin: LETS GO NANCE
Steve: whose newletter??
Eddie: yay nancyyy
i’m dropping this class
Robin: the school’s newsletter idiot
how are your pants eddie?
Eddie: uh
not to bring the mood down but
bad
Steve: can u leave?
Nancy: Just leave!
Robin: what do you mean by bad
4:12 PM
Eddie: where is steve?
is he is the dorms?
Robin: i think so
***
Steve picked up the phone on the first ring. “Uh huh?” he said, setting his switch controller down.
“Are you home?” Eddie asked quietly.
“Mhm,” Steve said, already standing.
“Can you bring me a change—“
“I’m on my way,” Steve said, grabbing his keys.
Eddie signed across the line. “I’ll see you in a second, Eds,” Steve said as he closed his dorm door. He was pretty sure his car had one of Eddie’s pre packed emergency accident bags sitting on the back seats.
After a short drive, Steve went up the stairs to the building where he knew Eddie had his Psychology class. He had Eddie’s location, but it wasn’t specific enough to find his precise whereabouts. But Steve had a pretty good idea of where he’d be.
The bathroom looked empty at first glance. “Eds?” Steve called.
“Here,” Eddie said softly from the farthest stall.
Steve shuffled down and knocked lightly. Eddie opened the door and let Steve in.
“Hey,” Steve said, leaning against the wall. “You okay?”
Eddie sighed through his nose as he stripped out of his soiled jeans. They were black, so Steve wasn’t able to see just how wet they were. Based on how they stuck to his skin as he peeled them off, it looked like a significant amount.
“This is why I wear black.”
“Did you make it at all?”
Eddie nodded. “I… I started going as soon as I saw the bathroom. I swear it’s like my bladder freaks out as soon as it knows,” Eddie explained as he used a wet wipe on the inside of his thighs.
“That’s called latchkey incontinence,” Steve said.
“I know what it’s called,” Eddie replied as he pulled on the pair of boxers. “Since when do you know about latchkey incontinence?”
Steve shrugged. “The internet,” he replied.
Eddie pulled up his second pair of pants of the day. “Fair enough.”
“Wanna stop at the dining hall before going back to the dorms?” Steve suggested. Eddie nodded and folded up his wet pants to put inside the plastic bag that was packed.
They drove to the hall across from their dorm building and Steve parked in the student parking lot.
To his surprise, Nancy and Robin were at the hall at the same time, sitting at a table in the back, their usual spot. Once Steve got his food and Eddie got his energy drink, they joined them.
“Hey,” Steve said as he sat down across from Robin, who set her phone down to smiled at the two of them. Nancy had a book pulled out and was drinking coffee.
Eddie ran a hand through his messy mullet and cracked open his drink. Caffeine was good at settling Eddie’s anxiety (especially after an accident), and did a good job of canceling out the ADHD if it was a busy school day. He’d also kind of developed an addiction to them since starting college.
“How was class?” Robin asked Eddie.
“I’ve had worse,” he answered. “Aren’t you suppose to be in class right now?”
“I’m skipping,” Robin said as she took a forkful of food.
“Nice,” Steve said as he ate.
“Why do you only get mad at me when I skip?” Eddie asked.
“Because you’ll fail if we don’t,” Nancy butted in, even though it looked like she had been reading.
Eddie just shrugged at that and continued sipping his drink.
***
11:28 PM
Eddie: gn gay people
Nancy: We literally just saw you, Eddie 😭
Robin: good night baby boy
Steve: gn baby boy
HEY that’s my thing robin
Robin: you literally share a dorm with him stupid u don’t need to text it
Eddie: stop fighting there’s enough me to go
around
Robin: you wish i wanted u like that
Eddie: GN
Robin: GN
Steve: GN
Nancy: Good night!
***
Thankfully the sun hadn’t yet come up when Eddie awake to wet sheets.
“sh*t,” he muttered as he slowly sat up and pulled down his comforter to see that his nighttime underwear had leaked again. It was probably that damn energy drink. Eddie was used to waking up with the thick, subtle wetness between his legs. He definitely didn’t miss the feeling of ice cold pissy sheets sticking to him.
He reached over and turned his lamp on to see the damage better. It had been a least a month sense he’d last done his sheets in the middle of the night, and that night had been because he ran out of protection. Not that he wet the bed every single night, but he was in college. He drank. He partied. It was smarter to wear his nighttime underwear every night just in case. And his roommate was his boyfriend, so it wasn’t like he was having to keep it a secret thankfully.
Steve was still asleep as Eddie stripped out of his soaked pull-up and wet pj pants. The spot on his navy sheets wasn’t huge, and it mostly only leaked out on one side, but he’d obviously still need to do a load of laundry. Which was definitely the worst part about living in a dorm building as a bedwetter.
As quietly as he could, he pulled off his wet bedding and tossed it in his hamper, which already had yesterday’s bathroom mishap pants and underwear thrown in.
He managed to make it to the basem*nt laundry room unseen, probably because it was 5 am and a weekday, and started his load quickly. He decided to just wait until the cycle was done washing and scrolled on instagram while he waited to turn his sheets over to the drier.
When he got back to the room, Steve was awake and the sun was starting to come in through their window.
“Hey, sleepyhead,” Eddie said as he came back into the dorm.
“What time is it?” Steve groaned, rolling over to his phone.
Eddie opened a red bull and decided to get dressed for the day. “Early. Sorry.”
Steve flopped back onto his twin bed. “Mm. Why are you up?”
Eddie took a sip of his drink and sat at his desk chair. “Leaked.”
“Again? You need a better brand.”
“I’ve used this brand my whole life—“
“Maybe they’re getting too small.”
Eddie blushed and spun himself slightly in his chair. Obviously he knew he was pretty much at the max weight for the XXL Goodnites, but Wayne had bought that brand for him since he could remember. It was the brand he was familiar with.
And maybe a part of him wasn’t ready to let go of wearing a brand of nighttime underwear that was made for kids. Maybe he wasn’t ready to be an adult who still wet the bed.
“You’re saying I’m getting fat?” Eddie said to try and escape from the conversation.
Steve rolled his eyes and opened his phone. “No, of course not.”
***
6:45 AM
Eddie: steve just called me fat.
Steve: i literally did not do that
Eddie: you basically did
10:36 AM
Robin: why were you nerds up so early
Nancy: Says the girl who doesn’t have a single 8am class this semester.
Robin: bc i’m smarter than u
Steve: i didn’t call eddie fat btw
Robin: @eddie your sheets are done drying by the way. just walked past the laundry room and saw them
Eddie: thanks! next time just go ahead and get a megaphone and let everyone in the whole building know i wet the bed last night!
Robin: you got it buddy! 😘
Eddie: hate u (thanks. i’m coming to get them now)
