Love is the Craziest Thing Yet

Chapter 3 // Holly, Jolly

   That morning I woke up around 6:00, could've been even earlier, I don't know, I was too tired to see. All I know is that it was just barely daylight. I was woken up by the voice of Nancy and my Mother arguing about where she had been all night because apparently, she had just gotten home from Steve's. They couldn't pick a better spot to argue than right outside the door to my room? There was no way I could go back to sleep now. After we got back from the party last night, she stayed at my place. I turned around to see her still fast asleep, which is what I should be doing right now. I decided I would go ahead and sneak downstairs to check on El. It's been about 10 minutes since Nancy and my Mom had quit arguing, so I was sure I wouldn't get caught, and neither would El.

When I went into the basement, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas were already down there, yes, at 6:30 in the morning. Don't ask me what they're doing because I surely don't know, I never do. In fact, nobody besides them ever knows what they're doing. They were talking about some "Operation Mirkwood" thing and showing off the supplies they were supposedly going to bring on their mission. Dustin was also trying to test El's powers and see if she could make things levitate. Which, of course, didn't work. I sat there for about ten minutes listening to them go on until I finally broke it up. El was the only one who had noticed me the entire time I was standing there, she gave me a small wave.

"Wait, wait, I'm lost. You guys make no sense. What's our plan?" I asked the three boys who were bickering in front of El.

"It's called 'Operation Mirkwood', Rue." Mike abruptly replied to me. I scoffed back at him

"Okay, well then what the hell is 'Operation Mirkwood'?"

"After school, Dustin, Lucas, El, and I are-" "You mean, after school, you, Dustin, Lucas, El, Robin and I are going to do what?" I corrected him. He gave me an annoyed facial expression. Of course he did, he was Mike after all.

"We're going to find the Demogorgon and fight it so we can get Will back!"  Here we go again with the D&D crap.

"There's no such thing as the Demogorgon!" Thank you, Lucas.

"So, to simplify it, we're going to look for Will again, but with a bunch of supplies and weapons?" I asked because that was the only logical thing that I understood from what I had overheard.

"It's more complex than that, but basically, yes." I looked down at my watch, it was around 7:00 now. We always left at 7:30 since it took longer to bike than it did to drive there. Because of that, I decided I was gonna go and wake her up.

As I was reaching for the doorknob, Robin just so happened to open the other side of the door at the same time.

"Hi,"

"Hey, good morning."

"Good morning to you too." She rubbed her eyes, still half asleep.

"It's 7:15, we have to get going soon. Do you want breakfast?"

"Yeah, yeah. Sounds great."

After School...

Robin and I were taking our bikes off of the rack while I was telling her what I knew about the plan for this evening. When we turned around, Steve had taken Jonathan's bag and was looking at some sort of photos, refusing to give them back. About this time, Nancy had walked over there with them.