One true love | Eddie Munson

5 : E D D I E

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6:30 on a Sunday night, and I was debating on going to that stupid costume party that Hailey invited me to. Did she invite me? She said everyone was invited, so maybe she only invited me because she felt bad for me. In that case, I'm not going.

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7:00 on a Sunday night and I was sitting in my van a block away from Tina's house, trying to maybe convince myself to turn around and go back to the trailer and sleep. It wasn't a true Halloween party since Halloween was a week from today, but there were a lot of people dressed up in costumes walking past my van, meaning that sooner or later I would have to get out and make my way inside. I managed to wear the same thing I about wore every single day.

It felt unnatural for me to be in such a crowded and loud environment. I walked past the first crowd at the front door and then made my way past the second larger crowd who consisted of everyone rubbing off each other on the dance floor. I got a beer and looked around trying to see if I recognized anyone. I saw Gareth who was currently a freshman who joined the Hellfire club around a week ago. I saw Nancy who wasn't with Hailey, but getting followed by Steve, what felt a bit off about the whole thing is that Nancy looked annoyed to be around him which I personally never saw especially during passing times in the hallway. Nancy bumped into me as she was getting some punch.

"Oh, sorry" She slurred her words a bit and raised her eyebrows as she took another cup full of punch

"Nance, I think you've had enough, yeah?" Steve spoke to her gently and tried taking the cup of punch from her

"Nooooo, Stop it Steeeeveuh" She groaned, and then Steve let go of the cup not thinking and just wanting their argument to stop.

Hailey walked in from being outside and saw that Nancy and Steve were arguing, and began making her way over. Then she saw the punch go flying all over Nancy.

"Shit, Nance, I'm sorry." He sighed trying to fix it, but Nancy just pushed aside him and held Hailey's hand going upstairs to what I would imagine would be the bathroom.

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After that little incident, the party went on and everyone was having fun again. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Nancy and Hailey never came back down, and that's when out of the corner of my eye I saw Peter rubbing up against some other girl on the cheer squad and they were making out on the dance floor. It was disgusting, and the worse part was that Hailey probably had no idea it was happening.

I think I've had enough of this party, so I go upstairs to see if I can find a room to just have some space to hear my own thoughts. I walked in on some pretty hard sex, I quickly shut the door, but damn they were going at it. I'm surprised nobody's heard them. I finally got to a quiet bedroom. It looked like a guest bedroom and had a motel type of decor, which was strange considering that Tina's house was super modern.

I heard some voice from the bathroom inside the room, so I decided I would go hide in the closet, because if they walked out and I was just standing in the middle of it all it would be the most awkward experience of my life. I'd have to change my name and move to a different state... Honestly, that didn't sound like the worse idea at this point.

Hailey walked out of the bathroom and went looking for some towels. She looked through the dressers and was about to open the closet doors before Steve walked in asking where Nancy was and just barged into the bathroom. Hailey looked almost twice as annoyed as Nancy was, and not it showed because Steve locked himself in there to talk to Nancy. Hailey pretended to leave and then opened the closet doors to hide there.

"Shit," I said looking up at her, and she jumped but hushed me quickly before sitting across from me.

"What are you doing here?" She looked at me confused.

"You invited me to the party, did you forget?"

"Not what I meant, what are you doing hiding in a closet?" She questioned

"Well, I could be asking you about the same thing, but I won't" I chuckled, "I wanted a break from the noise, and I thought a closet would be the best place for that" I shrugged

"Fair enough. You enjoying yourself so far?" She asked peaking through a small crack she left

"I guess, if you call that fight entertainment and watching every guy on the dance floor making out with a random girl entertainment also, then yeah I'm enjoying it."

Hailey laughed and fixed a piece of her hair behind her ear. She definitely didn't know about Peter, but I don't think now would be the best time to bring it up.

"How bout you? You enjoying the party?" I asked

"It's definitely is... interesting with my best friend fighting with her boyfriend ever since she started hanging around Jonathan Byers it's been a rocky road for them, and she lost her other best friend Barb." She explained to me and shrugged, "It's all very dramatic."

"Yeah, and what about you and your boyfriend?"

"What about us? We're the same, nothing new, except he's been buying me flowers which I think is just so sweet." She blushed softly and looked down to fidget with her rings.

"Right, happy as ever." I rolled my eyes subtly and away from her so she wouldn't notice. "What are you dressed up as?" I asked looking at how she wasn't in her normal soft girl attire.

"Well, Nancy wanted to do matching costumes with a twist, so she's a goth cheerleader and I'm a goth rockstar." She giggled a bit and looked at me, "Got my inspo from someone I know"

"Are you supposed to be me?!" I asked a bit shocked, but I found it quite hilarious.

"Shhh" She hushed me because I had raised my voice, "In a way, but I got your hair wrong." She giggled and looked at me, "I'm glad you made it to the party." Her gaze softened along with her smile.

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The next chapters going to be in Hailey's POV so get ready for that because a lot of stuff is going to go down 0_0 but, nothing bad... or maybe I'll just leave it up to y'all to guess. Anyways, much love, and I'm off to write chapter 6