Call it quits |Eddie Munson|

FIFTEEN

The group walked through the forrest, the sky still flashed with red but there were no longer swarms of bat thingy's in sight. Julia walked, together with Nancy and Robin, up front, as the two boys followed behind.

"Couldn't we have tried a road, or something just slightly less creepy?" Robin complained.

"And be in the full sight of those things? Hell no." Julia muttered before Nancy answered Robin.

"I think we're getting close. We're almost out of here. Don't worry."

Behind them Steve and Eddie caught up with them.

"Eddie." Steve started. "Eddie. Hey, man. Uh... Listen, I just, uh... I just wanna say thanks."

Eddie looked at him unsure what to say.

"For saving my ass back there."

"Shit. You saved your own ass, man. I mean, that was a real Ozzy move you pulled back there."

"Ozzy?" Steve asked confused.

"When you took a bit out of that bat." Eddie tried again, Steve still didn't get it. "Ozzy Osbourne? Black Sabbath? He bit a bat's head off onstage..."

Julia had been slightly listing to the conversation and turned around.

"And a dove's, but that was a few months later... And he was actually aware it was a live dove this time, unlike the bat, he believe to be rubber." She chuckled before turning back around.

"YES! Thank you, D!" Eddie said happily, as at least someone knew what he was talking about. Unlike Steve who was still very confused.

"I don't--"

"You don't know? It doesn't matter. It was very metal, what you did. That's all I'm saying."

Steve nodded to himself. "Thanks."

Eddie was very uncomfortable with the silence that followed so continued talking.

"Henderson told me you were a badass. Insisted on the matter, in fact."

Eddie had finally grabbed Steve's attention. "Wait, Henderson said that?"

"Oh yeah. Shit. That kid worships you, dude. Like, you have no idea. It's kinda annoying, to be honest."

Steve had to stop himself from grinning to hard. Dustin looked up to him. He did not know how much he needed to hear that.

"I don't even know why I care what that little shrimp thinks, but, uh, I guess I got a little jealous, Steve." Eddie admitted. "I guess I couldn't accept the fact that Steve Harrington was actually a good dude."

Robin, who had been eavesdropping as well, grinned wildly.

"Get a room you two!" She yelled back, Julia laughed at the comment and shook her head.

"Hey, just stick to your own conversation, 'kay?" Steve yelled back making the two laugh even more, even Nancy grew a smile.

The boys shook their head before Eddie continued.

"Rich parents, popular, chicks love him. Not a douche? No way, man. No way. That, like, flies in the face of all laws in the universe and my own personal Munson doctrine."

Steve laughed and shook his head.

"Still super jealous as hell, by the way. " Eddie went on. "Which is why I would have never jumped in that lake to save your ass. Not under any, uh... normal circumstances."

There was a crack in the woods followed by growling in the distance. The five of them stopped in their tracks, waiting for their destiny. To their luck, nothing came so they quickly started walking again.