Just Friends...? || Steve Harrington x Reader

S2 || CHAPTER 7

The Mindflayer

You have been walking back to Steve's car for almost an hour. "What do you think this means?" Steve asked you, trying to make a little of conversation. "I don't know. But it's definitely worst." you looked back at him. "It might be smaller now but.." you started "But there are more of them" Steve continued your phrase. You nodded at it. You sighed and kept on walking.

"You're positive that was Dart?" Lucas said, after a while. "Yes. He had the same exact yellow pattern on his butt." Dustin explained. "He was tiny two days ago" Max said, confused. "Well, he's molted three times already." Dustin explained. "Malted?" Steve asked "Molted" you corrected. "Shedding skin to make room for growth, like hornworms." you explained to him. He just nodded.

"When's he gonna molt again?" Max asked "It's gotta be soon" Dustin said. "When he does, he'll be fully grown, or close to it. And so will his friends" Dustin said, looking around with his flashlight.

You had no idea where this things had gone, but walking in the dark with those things around wasn't what you really wanted at the moment.

"Yeah, and he's gonna eat a lot more than just cats" Steve said, you punched his arm. "Ow, what?" he looked at you. You just give him the look for him to actually know he had slipped something. "Wait, a cat?" Lucas exclaimed, stopping Dustin and all of you in your tracks.

"Dart ate a cat?" Lucas asked again "No, what? No" Dustin lied. "What are you talking about? He ate Mews." Steve kept saying. You smacked his arm again "Ow! What!" he looked at you once again. "Mews? Who's Mews?" Max asked "It's Dustin's cat." Steve said. "Steve!" you and Dustin said at the same time.

"I knew it! You kept him!" Lucas said, pushing Dustin by the shoulder. "No!" Dustin lied once again. "He missed me. He wanted to come home." Dustin tried to make an excuse. "Bullshit!" Lucas exclaimed. "I didn't know he was a demogorgon, okay?" Dustin said, now both of them speaking a bit more louder than before.

"Oh, so now you admit it?" Lucas replied back to Dustin. "Guys, who cares? We have to go" Max said. "I care! You put the party in jeopardy! You broke the rule of law!" Lucas talked back to Dustin "So did you!" Dustin yelled at him. "What?" Lucas asked him in confusion "You told a stranger the truth!" Dustin said, rudely pointing his flashlight at Max's face.

"A stranger?" Max scoffed at him. "You wanted to tell her, too!" Lucas exclaimed at Dustin "But I didn't, Lucas, okay? I didn't tell her!"

While Dustin and Lucas kept on arguing, along with Max, you heard a screeching sound in the distance. "Hey, Steve?" you said to Steve, who was next to you and actually not caring about the fight the boys were having. Steve turned to you "Do you hear that?" you said to him. He listened closely, and he seemed to notice the screeching as well.

You two cautiously stepped out of the train wracks and walked a bit down to see if there were any demogorgons in sight. You had your hand on your gun, just in case. "Guys?" Steve called out to Dustin, Max and Lucas. They didn't listened the first time. "Hey, Guys!" you yelled, a bit too loud. They all shut up and looked at you. You pointed with your flashlight to where the screeching was coming from.

"No, no, no. Hey, guys, why are headed towards the sound?" Max said to us while we starting to go into the woods "Hello?" Max called again. You came back for her. "Either you come with us, or you stay here and wait to get eaten by those things." you said to her. "Shit" she muttered under her breath, stepping into the woods with you.