Trouble In Hawkins || Steve Harrington

37 | Freaks

March 20th, 1986

"You can turn you're music back up after I get out and your down the street." I turn Eddie's stereo down as we get closer to my house.

"Right you snuck out." He laughs at me. 

"Plus it's past midnight and my mom will lose her shit, so try not to be loud when you pull up to drop me off." I tell him and he tries his best to not be loud as he parks. 

"See you in the morning, Ky." He waves as I get out. 

"By Ed." I giggle running around the house climbing through my window. 

As soon as I get in my mom turns on my light with her arms crossed, "It's past midnight on a school night. Where were you?" She points to my bed for me to sit down so I do. 

"I was hanging out with a friend and we lost track of time. I'm sorry." I mess with fingers. 

"What time did you sneak out?" She taps her finger on her arm. 

"After you went to bed so 9 o'clock." I tell her the truth. 

"I'm disappointed in you. You've been a mess since the break up with Steve. Get to bed now." She leaves my room so I change and go to bed.

The next morning I get up and get dressed for the day. I put on the Hellfire club shit Eddie gave me so I could support them, I wear some ripped jeans with converse and top it with Billy's jean jacket. "You taking the bus today or wanting a ride?" I walk into Dustin's room unannounced as he talks to Suzie. 

"What did I say about knocking?" He snaps at me.

"You never knock on my door anymore. So?" I ask as I hear a blasting stereo and loud van pull up outside. 

"I'm busy fixing my one D minus. When the hell did you get a Hellfire shirt? You're not even in the club." He sees it. 

"Eddie gave me one of his extra ones. I sleep it it most of the time but I'm showing support today. My ride is here." I leave his room. "Bye mom." I rush outside hopping into Eddie's van.

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"Then there's Heidi tomorrow night, but the problem with Heidi is that she's going out of state for college. Do I wanna start a another relationship that has no point other than sex? I mean, I don't know. Does that make sense to you?" Steve rants to Robin but she ignores him for three reasons. Wants to look good for Vickie; tired of him being stupid for not going back to Skylar; and she hates talking with him about other girls that's not Sky. "Robin are you listening?" He shouts at her. 

"Something about sex with Linda."

"No, I'm taking about Heidi!" He snaps. 

"Cut me some slack, please. Your love life is one of labyrinthine complexity. All because you decided to screw up the perfect relationship with someone who actually loves you. You abandon her when she actually needed you. Yes, she pushed herself away from everyone but you should have forced yourself to be there. You were there the first time so why not the second time? Plus it's 7 in the morning, we have a stupid pep rally, and I woke up looking like a corpse." She tells him irritated.

"You're worried about a pep rally? You expect me to believe that? We both know what this is about. Okay, I'm not buying that. This is about Vickie. You know what else I think? You gotta stop pretending to be someone else when you're around her. You just gotta be yourself. Also I get it I fucked up the best thing in my life but at least she doesn't 100% ignore me. We're somewhat friends still because of you and Dustin." He says making her laugh. 

"One; you're literally quoting me to me you do realize that. Two; you two are awkward when it's just the two of you near each other. There has to be someone with you both... you two aren't friends it's more like acquaintances now. It's been almost two months when are you gonna get your head out of your ass and get her back?"