S O F T C O R E // Steve Harrington X Reader // Stranger Things

4. The Body

With Will's body being discovered it just showed that Dad was guilty. It wasn't long until their was a knock on the door. I saw the flashing lights from my bedroom window. Police were here again. "What are you doing here? My kids are already going through enough." I heard Mom say to them.

"We just went to check over the house, I understand how your kids are feeling." The officer said to Mom, I was peering over from the top of the stairs.

"Then you'd understand that now isn't a good time." Mom said but they still checked the house, once it got to morning I was dreading what school would be like.

"Hunter, let's go." I said to him from the bottom of the stairs. Mom walked over to me.

"None of you are going to school. I can't have you kids being tortured at school over something that clearly isn't true." She said to us and I looked at her.

"People don't scare me mom. It's this town." I said to her, she looked at me.

"I get that you feel like that but it's for your own good." She said to me and I sighed. I then went down to the basement. I then took my school bag that was down there and just went to school. I got pushed into a locker as soon as I arrived.

"Hey, she hasn't done anything. Leave her out of whatever your thinking of." Eddie said while walking in front of me.

"You didn't have to do that." I said to him with a smile, he picked up my book that was on the ground.

"I had to, I can't see my favorite Solace get pushed around. But are you ok?" He asked me as he escorted me to my locker, I nodded.

"I think so, I mean this isn't affecting me a lot but mainly Hunter. He's the one that's pained." I said to him he leaned on the locker next to mine. Once I opened it I saw posters.

"Hey, don't let any of them get to you. Stand up to them." Eddie said to me and I looked up at him.

"You know what maybe I will." I said to him as I rushed into the cafeteria, yes I had started school late. "To the students of Hawkins High! You can go on with all of these little ways to try and get under my skin but it won't work! Your all pathetic going after a family that is innocent. I'm sure if I looked into your families I'd find some pretty shocking shit! So you can all shut the fuck up and move on! Thank you for your not so precious time." I said before jumping off the table I stood on, I smiled.

"Are you feeling happier now?" Eddie asked me with a smile as we walked away, I let out a relieved sigh.

"Very much soon." I said to him, we then went to class and I saw the principal walk in.

"Y/n Solace, my office now." He said to me, I then followed him out.

"What's the matter?" I asked him as we arrived in his office.

"One, what you did today in the cafeteria was against our schools policy but I know that your going through a lot so I let it slide for you this once. Now the second is I have police wanting to talk to you about a party at Steve Harrington's house we're just waiting on your mom to arrive." He said to me and we went silent.

"Well, I've got nothing to hide so they can talk all they want." I said to her before Mom arrived looking disappointed, we then went to the cafeteria.

"So why exactly did you go back to Steve's house yesterday with Miss. Wheeler?" One of them asked me and I looked at him.

"Because I wanted to know if Barb was still there in the back of the Harrington's estate which then when we saw the bear or whatever." I said to them and they looked at me.

"And you never saw a face because we went there and there was no bear or no car." They said to me, I looked at them.

"Well surely her car was still there, it was there yesterday and there's no where Barb wouldn't driven off and left us." I said to them and one of them looked at me.

"Miss Solace I get that you've been here for two weeks but did she ever act off character or maybe mention running away?" One of them asked me and I shook my head.

"She aways seemed the same in the weeks that I've known her." I said to them and one of them looked at me.

"Do you think that she might've been jealous that you've been talking with Steve Harrington and getting closer with him? Especially when you went up to his room and changed clothes." One of them said to me, I shook my head.

"There's nothing like that between me and Steve were just friends who talk." I said to them and they both nodded.

"That's all we need from you Miss. Solace thank you for the cooperation." One of them said to me and I nodded. We then started going home and Mom wasn't happy with me.

"Y/N Maria Solace, why did you lie to those officers? You and Steve just friends?" She asked me and I looked at her.

"Okay, that night we slept together is that all you want to know? But I swear that's none of their business! Their business is to find Barb because something isn't right here!" I shouted before going up to my room. It wasn't long until I heard something hit my window. I looked out and saw Jonathon and Nancy.

"Let's go!" Nancy shouted at me, they knew some kind of information. I then climbed out my window to them.

"That thing we saw in the woods, it wasn't a person or a bear." Nancy said to me as we walked to Jonathan's car. I looked at the two of them.

"Then what is it?" I asked them both, I would love to know this.

"We don't know, which is why we're going to hunt it." Jonathon said to me as we all got in the car. I was just hoping that we could prove Dad innocent over this. But for now monster hunting was the only thing that we could do. But firstly we were looking at the pictures again.

"And you're..." Nancy asked him as he started doing something.

"Brightening. Enlarging." Jonathan said making me and Nancy hum in response.

"Did your mom say anything else?" Nancy asked him.

"Maybe another description of this thing?" I asked him and he grunted at response.

"Like, um, where it might have gone to, or..." Nancy asked him as he was concentrating.

"No, just that it came out of the wall." Jonathan said before there was a ding and he sighed. He then took the picture and started to develop it.

"How long does this take?" She asked him.

"Not long." Jonathan responded before it went quiet.

"Have you been...doing this a while?" She asked him, I mean I'd say he had been.

"What?" He asked her.

"Photography?" We bing asked him.

"Yeah. I guess I'd rather observe people than, you know..." He said to us before stopping.

"Talk to them." Nancy said to him with a smile.

"I know. It's weird." He said to us, it wasn't at all.

"No!" Me and Nancy said to him.

"No, it is. It's just, sometimes...people don't really say what they're really thinking. But you capture the right moment...it says more." Jonathan said to us, well I understood where he was coming from.

"What was I saying?" Nancy asked him, I hadn't seen these pictures.

"What?" Jonathan asked her confusedly.

"When you took my picture." She said to him with a smile.

"I shouldn't have taken that. I'm, uh,...I'm sorry. It's just- -" Jonathan started, could the two of them kiss already.

"That's it. That's what we saw." Nancy said, this thing was a monster.

"What the fuck is that thing?" I asked the two of them. Jonathan gasped.

"My mom...I thought she was crazy 'cause she said that's not Will's body. That he's alive." Jonathan said to us, this was all the evidence we needed.

"And if he's alive- -" Nancy started.

"Then Barbara." Jonathan started.

"Then Barbara is too." I said to the two of them, I still couldn't get over this. And I thought Hawkins would be boring. It looks like I was completely wrong.