the freak (eddie munson)

5

Rose Vila Wheeler

        "So you just left him there alone!?" Robin and Steve are both standing in front of me as I sit on the counter going over the past events that just occurred nearly ten hours ago.

"I didn't know what to do! I was freaked out and I was just saying shit!" Thinking back on it now, telling Eddie to stay there by himself was the dumbest idea ever. I don't know if that thing got him.  I don't know where he is. He could be in jail. He could be possibly anywhere. And I'm wasting time sitting here doing nothing. But I just can't bring myself to move. I've been completely and utterly petrified. I'm traumatized. All over again.

"So you have zero idea where he is?" Steve asks pacing around.
"No. And stop pacing you're stressing me out, and don't be so loud someone could walk in." He stops dead in his tracks and turns to me slowly with his hands on his hips looking like an old mother.

"What am I supposed to do?"
"I don't know not pace?!"
"You're stressing me out by not doing anything!"
"I'm traumatized!" We argue back and fourth before

I hear the sound of Robin's voice, "Guys!"
"What?!" We both simultaneously say turning towards Robin.
"Look..." she's facing one of the TV's that's currently on and it's the Today's News. All of the TV's inside of this place is taken over by the news.

Shit.

The police is at the trailer park.

We all silently watch, it's just a single chief police officer explaining a high school students death. No gender, no name, no detail at all.

Just the unfortunate disturbing death of a sixteen year old high school student at Hawkins high. Stating the brutal inhuman murder. Taken place at the trailer park. 

"Okay no names. We're in the clear." I say.
"We don't know that. We don't know if they have him or not." Steve says, his eyes never leaving the TV.

"Steve if they had him they'd show him in the back of a police car or something stating that their hero's for capturing the terrible monster who 'killed' her. They didn't even say it was her who's dead they also didn't say they found her in his trailer." We continue to watch in silence.

"I'm pretty sure everyone knows he lives in this exact trailer park." Robin states, and my heart begins to race.

"We need to go find him now." I say standing up tearing my eyes away from the TV.

"What? Are you crazy!? Rose, you're a main suspect right now." Steve says standing up with me.

"I am not!"

"Uh yeah, you are. If someone called the police because they saw something they shouldn't have, it's highly likely they saw you running away too. Meaning they've seen you. It's not safe." Robin is silent, completely zoned out chewing on her nails and Steve stays criticizing me.

"Steve. When do you plan to go then!?" Eddie could be dead right now.

"When it's dark that way no one can see you."

"That's like sixteen hours away!" By then Eddie would be starved. Completely famished. His corpse is probably rotting.

He sighs, "And besides I'm already inside a video game store completely in the public eye where anyone could see me and no one has said anything."
"Yeah but it's still not sa-"

The door swings open, "Hey Steve," Dustin and Max come waking in.

"What are you guys-"
"How many phones do you have?" He interrupts.
"What are you talking abou-"
"How. Many. Phones. Do. You. Have." He yells.