The three of us

The lost dice

I wake up from my loud ass alarm clock.
I slammed it a little too hard, because it immediately shuts up. It NEVER shuts up that fast.
I smirk and open my eyes slowly.
I look around my room: my shoes are next to my bed, my window is open and I smell the fresh air.
It rained tonight, I love the smell of rain.
I step out of bed and open my closet.
I pick out my red sweater and my mom jeans and put them on.
Then I put on my red converses and I grab my headphones.
I walk downstairs and grab the cereal box, a bowl and a spoon and sit down.
Hopper is reading the newspaper next to me and Joyce and Jonathan are probably still asleep.
'Are Will and El in the cabin already?' I ask.
'Hm?' Hopper asks without looking up from the newspaper.
'If Will and El already left.' I say again.
'Yeah.' Hopper says, taking a sip of his coffee.
'Okay.' I take a bite of my cereal and swallow it.
'Steve and Dustin are picking me up at 9am today.'
Hopper looks up now.
'Okay, make sure you guys get home around five.'
I nod and put my empty bowl on the counter.
The doorbell rings. 'There they are.' I say.
Hopper waves at me and I open the door.
Steve and Dustin are both smiling and waving.
'Hi.' I say.
'Hey, Y/N.' Steve says.
'Hi!' Dustin says.
I raise my eyebrows. Odd. They never say hi.
'What's going on?' I ask while closing the door.
Dustin looks at Steve madly.
'What? There's nothing wrong.' Steve says.
'You guys are acting odd.' I say laughing.
We walk down the street and enter the woods.
'How are we acting odd?' Dustin asks.
'You guys said hi. You never say hi, you just look at me with a cranky face.' I say.
'Oh, oh, oh. Sorry, we said hi, Y/N.' Steve says.
'Stop whining, I just thought it was weird.' I say.
We laugh and look at the cabin in the distance.

We walk in on Will, El, Mike, Max and Lucas setting up our DnD game.
'Hello there.' I say.
Will and El look up and smile at me.
'Hi, guys.' Max says, without looking up.
I sit down next to her and Dustin and Steve sit on the other side of the table.
'Alright.' Will says. 'We're starting.'
Will is always the dungeon master. It's one of his great talents.

'DUSTIN, ROLL THE DICE!' Steve yells.
'SHUT UP, STEVE!' Dustin yells while rolling the dice.
The dice rolls off the table and disappears.
'What the hell?' Dustin says.
'Where'd it go?' Mike asks.
'It's gone. Let's search for it.' Max says.
We all search for the lost dice, while Dustin and Steve are arguing.
'It's your fault the dice is gone, Steve.'
'It's your fault, Dustin. You rolled it!'
'YOU GAVE ME STRESS, STEVE!' Dustin yells.
'Jesus Christ. Calm down, man.' Steve says.
Dustin sighs dramatically and they search too.

'Guys, I found the dice, but I found something else too.' Will says.
We all gather around in a corner of the cabin.
Will is holding some sort of capsule and the dice.
There's a letter in the capsule.
Will lays it on the table and we all sit down.
'What are you waiting for? Open it!' Lucas says.
Will opens the capsule and reads the letter:

Hello, there.
I'm a scientist. I've lived in this cabin my whole life. I wrote this letter for the next founder.
I invented a new creature. It's a special creature, I can assure you. It looks like an octopus.
You'll see what's so special about it.
It's buried here, right here, under this cabin.
Remove the loose planks and dig. You'll find it.
Be careful. Don't share this.

'Yeah, let's do it.' Max says.
She stands up and gets a paper and pencils.
'Will, El, lets draw this bitch.' She says.
'What?' Will asks.
'We're gonna draw what we think it looks like.'
Will and El look at Max and they start drawing.
Mike, Lucas, Steve, Dustin and I look at them.
Max looks up. 'What are you guys looking at? Go, remove the floor, go dig.'
We all nod.
'Mike, we gonna do the floor?' Lucas asks.
Mike nods and they start removing the planks.
Steve, Dustin and I go outside and grab shovels.
We wait for Mike and Lucas to finish and go inside.
'Alright, let's do this.'
We start digging in the dirt.
There's a lot of worms. 'Ew.' I say.
'Why do we always have to do the hard work?' Steve whines.
'Yeah, why?' Dustin asks.
'Stop whining, start digging.' I say.
They shut up and we dig.
I hit something with my shovel.
'Guys. I found it.' I say.
We start digging around it until we see a paw.
It's not a paw, it's an arm. An octopus arm.
'What the hell.' Steve gasps.