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chapter xiv. the mind flayer
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BELLA WAS SAT BESIDE STEVE IN SILENCE, he had came and checked up on her and saw her crying so he resorted to comforting her by holding her. He didn't ask why she was crying or what happened with Mike, he just held her as she cried. Bella felt a weird safety with Steve, like he could protect her from the world, and she liked the way he didn't ask any questions and just went along with it.
She sits on the counter, her head laid on his shoulder and her eyes trained on the floor, Max kept giving her worried glances making sure she was okay. The red head was worried about her but didn't say anything, not wanting to make the situation worse. Dustin was also worried about Bella, he had never seen Isabella give off much emotion, let alone sob her heart out too Steve Harrington, basically a stranger.
Hopper slammed the phone onto the receiver after a long 30 minute shouting match down the phone, with a short break when he's put on hold. "They didn't believe you, did they?" Dustin asks, turning his head too the chief, he was the only party member stood up, if you didn't count Steve who was letting Bella lay against him.
"We'll see."
Mike slams his hands on to the table making Bella jump and shift uncomfortably, she hadn't realised he was in the same room as her and suddenly feels a strong urge to grip onto Steve's jacket, shifting closer too him. The Harrington notices but doesn't say anything and turns back too the conversation, "We'll see? We can't just sit here whilst those things are loose."
"We stay here," Hopper tells the teen boy sternly, "And we wait for help." He leaves, walking down the corridor and heading into Will's room where Joyce was. Bella fiddled with the sleeve of Steve's jacket, her head still laid against his shoulder as she was basically at behind him now. Max notices her change in stance, almost as if she was using Steve to protect her from something. The Harrington either doesn't care or doesn't want to mention it, is what Max guesses.
The red head knows something bad went down with Mike and Bella in the bedroom and it just added too the growing pile of people Bella was mad at. Steve shifts into Bella a little, as if they can get closer even more, feeling the urge to protect the child against what ever it was that was bothering her. He couldn't work out if it was Mike, Lucas or just the whole thing, either way, it was obviously becoming uncomfortable because Steve knew that Bella hated soft touch unless it was for some sense of protection.
