Infatuation | Eddie Munson

13- Lord Vecna

"Her body just like... lifted up into the air and, uh..."
Eddie was re-explaining the story to the rest of the group, his voice shaking in the process.
"And she just, like, hung there."

We were surrounding him as he spoke, him not making eye contact with any of us.
"...In the air. And her bones... Uh, she..."

He whimpered at the memory, his eyes still on the floor. "Her bones started to snap," he said more aggressively, his eyes now looking up to us. The room was tense as he continued, "Her eyes man... It- It was like there was something, like inside her head, pulling."

His voice got shakier by the second and it seemed like he would burst into tears at any moment. But of course, Eddie was too stubborn to allow that to happen.

"I... I didn't know what to do, so I..."

The room was deathly silent as we waited for Eddie to continue, "I ran away. I left her there."

He sniffed, his eyes seemed to be full of sorrow as we stared at him intently. He looked back up for a second before immediately turning away and scoffing, "You all think I'm crazy, right?"

He put his hand up to his forehead as Dustin broke the silence, "No. We don't think you're crazy at all-"

"Don't bullshit me man!" Eddie shouted, interrupting the boy. "I know how this sounds."

"We're not bullshitting you," the red haired girl spoke up. "We believe you," the raspy-voice girl agreed.

Eddie shook his head, exhaling.

"Look, what I'm about to tell you might be a little... difficult to take," Dustin said softly.

"Okay," Eddie replied hesitantly.

Dustin continued, "You know how people say Hawkins is..."

"Cursed?" I interrupted.

Dustin look back to me, "Yeah. They're not... way off."

I sent a confused look to Eddie and he looked back to me the same way as Dustin explained, "There's another world. A world hidden beneath Hawkins."

I furrowed my eyebrows. What was he talking about?

"Sometimes it bleeds into ours."

Eddie attempted to wrap his head around what Dustin was saying, "Like ghosts and shit?"

"There are some things... worse than ghosts," Max said slowly.

Eddie and I stared at her in complete confusion, my arms crossed as I tried to process what she was saying.

"These monsters from this other world... we thought they were gone. But they've come back before. That's why we needed to find you," Dustin explained to Eddie.

"If they're back again, we need to know," Max added.

It felt like everything I'd previously known was a lie. From a few hours previous, finding out Chrissy was dead, to now standing here being told the cause of her death was some supernatural shit, and that Hawkins was truly cursed, that the rumours were true.

"That night," the short haired girl, Robin, spoke up. "Did you see anything?"

"Dark particles, maybe?" Max asked.

Eddie immediately shook his head.

"It would almost look like dust, swirling dust." Dustin added to the series of questions.

"No, man, there was nothing you could see or, uh, or touch," Eddie explained, a hint of confusion in his voice. "You know, I tried to wake her, man. She couldn't move."