Ho Hey - Eddie Munson

Boat house

Adira lost her patience and pushed the door open fully, shinning her flash light around the room, "Hello?" she called out softly, allowing her eyes to skim over the room, looking for anything out of the ordinary or that could help them find Eddie, "Eddie? Rick?" she called out again and walked in, the rest of the teens following closely after her

"Is anyone home?" Robin adds, she was right behind Adira, using her torch to look around the room. She was followed in by Dustin, then Max and then finally, Steve. They all stuck relatively close together but looked around at different parts of the shed

"What a dump," Steve says, looking around the messy boat house that looked as if it had been abandoned for a long time. 

"All the girls probably say that when you take them to your room," Adira told him with a snicker. Steve rolled his eyes and then mocked her laugh, by attempting to copy it. Adira rolled her eyes, reached over and whacked the boy on the arm with a scowl

"Bully," Steve muttered out with a pout, rubbing his arm softly. Even though she hadn't hit him hard and it didn't hurt, he shoved his arm up in her face and rubbed it, as if to tell her that she should be sorry for hurting him, but she just shoved him away with a playful grin. Steve then passed his torch to Adira and grabbed an oar that was hanging on the wall

Adira raised her eyebrows at him and gave him a confused look, "What the hell are you gonna do with that?" Adira asked her brother in confusion. She watched as he bounced it in his hands a few times before making his way to the middle of the shed where the boats were and then suddenly began to roughly jab the tarps that were covering the boats

Adira quickly shot forwards and grabbed Steves arm, "Hey hey hey, what are you doing? Eddie could be under one of these, you could hurt him," Adira quickly told her brother, her voice filled with concern. Eddie couldn't help but feel his whole body warm up at her words, surely that meant that she didn't think he had killed Chrissy right?

Steve just ignored her and began poking the tarp again, only this time he did it a bit softer. "Steve, what are you doing?" Adira scowled again, annoyed that he hadn't listened to her the first time and now she was having to repeat herself, she didn't understand why he wouldn't just pull the tarp back and see if Eddie was under there

"He could be under there," Steve said and shrugged his shoulders. He just wanted to quickly find Eddie so that all of this could be over and done with, he was tired of wasting his time out here on a wild goose chase.

"So take the tarp off!" Dustin exclaimed as he rushed over to Steve and realised what was happening, "You cant just keep hitting it!" Adira nodded her head, agreeing with Dustin

"If you are so brave, you take the tarp off," Steve shot back and went to hit the thing again but Adira stepped forwards and went to take the tarp of, "hey, woah woah woah, no way missy." Steve quickly told her and pushed her back with the oar. Adira just rolled her eyes and made her way over to the two people in the group who weren't annoying.

She walked over to Robin and Max who had found some food rubbish over in the corner of the room, "Hey look at all of this. Someone was here," Max quickly said as she began to shift through some of the rubbish, it was clear that it was only a few hours old maximum.

"Maybe he was here and heard us. Got spooked and ran." Robin says as she looks at the rubbish, but unlike Maxine, she didn't plan on touching it and neither did Adira

"Oh well you don't need to worry about that, Steve will get him with his oar," Adira chimed in sarcastically, pointing her thumb lazily over to her brother from over his shoulder, "show us all the big guns huh?" Adira told her brother sarcastically

"Look I know that you think you're being funny you little loser, but considering that everyone in this room has nearly died a hundred times, personally, I don't actually find it fu-" Steve was cut off by something jumping up and out of the boat quickly, causing Dustin to scream and Adira to let out a small squeal. 

Everyone quickly stumbled back, Adira accidentally stumbled into Robin who practically wrapped her arms around her in a protective manner as they all looked at who had jumped out of the boat.

"Wait! wait! wait! wait! wait! wait!" Steve kept on chanting over and over, as Eddie Munson came out from under the tarp, pressed a blade against Steve's neck and then pushed him up harshly against the wall

Adira didn't even need to think before pulling herself out of Robins grip and making her way over to Eddie quickly, "woah hey hey, Eddie, please, Eddie. Stop!" Adira quickly cried out to him, her face was pale with fear as she saw her brother with a knife to his throat. Eddie quickly looked over at Adira and calmed down instantly, glad that he hadn't just been imagining her voice. He pulled the blade back a bit, faltering as he saw the look on her face

"Thats my brother! Thats my brother Steve. He isn't going to hurt you okay? I promise, just please let him go," Adira begged the boy

"He's not gonna hurt you, right, Steve?" Dustin asked Steve, stepping out from behind Adira. Eddie looked between Adira and Dustin, he was terrified, and seeing them seemed to slowly begin to calm him down.

Adira could see the familiar look in Eddies eyes, she could practically feel the pure terror that was radiating off of him, she felt bad for him. Steve nodded his head softly, "right, yeah," he choked out, scared for his life as Eddie 'the freak' Munson held a knife to his throat

"Steve, why don't you drop the oar?" Dustin asked Steve who dropped the oar like he was told. The oar made a loud noise, scaring Eddie who quickly put the knife back up closer to his throat like it had been originally

"Eddie no, he's cool. Hes cool, Dustin and I wouldnt let him hurt you!" Adira quickly told Eddie, trying to calm him down again, he wasn't thinking straight, his mind was in survival mode

"I'm cool man, I'm cool," Steve choked out, raising his hands in defense as Eddie glared down at him, a fire in his eyes

"What are you doing here?" Eddie asked him suddenly, finally talking

"We were looking for you," Adira told him and Eddie turned around to face her once more. Robin moved in front of her slightly, concerned that he would try and hurt her next.

"We are here to help," Robin informed him, giving him a calming smile. Eddie stared into Adira's eyes, trying to figure out if he could trust her or not. If he made the wrong decision right now, all of this could go to shit in a matter of minutes

"Eddie, these are my friends," Dustin explained to him, motioning to the others around the room, "You obviously know Adira... and you know Robin, from band," Dustin explains and Robin makes a make-shift trumpet with her hands and makes a few noises, trying to jog his memory and defuse the tension

"And this is my best friend Max," Adira spoke up, pointing over to the red head who was standing behind Adira, peering out over at Eddie with an unreadable expression on her face as she stayed close to Adira

"The one who never wants to play D&D," Dustin chimes in, trying to use terminology so that Eddie could understand that Max and Robin were close to them and that he had nothing to worry about, they weren't here to hurt him, they were here to help him, "Eddie, we are on your side. I swear on my mother!" Dustin exclaims, trying to break through to Eddie

Eddie shakes his head softly, trying to figure out what to do next. 

"Right guys?" Dustin asks them all

"Yep," Max says quickly

"Right yes, on Dustins mother," Robin quickly stutters out

"Come on Eddie, we are on your side," Adira explains to him, her voice was calm and soft

"Yeah Dustins... Dustins mother," Steve says as Eddie glares at him, pushing the blade further and further into his neck. Adira hesitates before taking slow steps towards Eddie and placing her hand on his shoulder

"C'mon Eddie," she begged him and finally he pulled the knife away from Steves neck and backs away slightly 

Steve lets out a long wheeze as he leans over and grasps his neck, trying to catch his breath, "Jesus christ," he muttered out and Adira ran over to her brother, throwing her arms around him, a relieved sigh falling from her mouth as he wrapped his arms back around her