"Her dreams were hazed with smoke and some would call them nightmares. But, she saw the thing she wanted most amongst the haze and found herself at home."
|| Book 2 in the Eden Lawson Series ||
|| Stranger Things S4-S5 ||
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" Nice to see you, too, Michael. "
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'Fuck!' Eden yelled.
She shook her hands after she'd dropped the burnt toast onto the plate, listening to Jesse and Billie babble to each other in the next room. She leant against the bench, letting out a long sigh as she let her eyes fall shut. Nothing had gone right that morning. She was already running late to go to Lenora Hills, she'd burnt herself with her hairdryer and now she'd ruined a simple lunch.
'Mum!' One of the twins yelled, toddling into the room.
'Yeh, baby?' She turned to them with a smile.
Jesse rambled on about something in his own language, Eden nodding her head as she smiled softly. She chuckled, scooping her child up into her arms as he pulled him into a tight hug. Billie crawled through the door before she fell onto her bum, looking up at her brother and mother. Eden let a soft sigh come from her lips, knowing that she was overreacting. She was nervous to go see her family, for in the year she'd been in San Clementine, she had only visited twice and without the twins once. She paused when the phone rang, slipping Jesse onto her hip as she crossed the room.
'Hello?' She answered.
'Eden,' Jonathan gasped.
'Jonny? Are you ok?'
'Eden, uh- I- El's been arrested.'
'What?'
'Mum's gone to Alaska and- And Eleven hit some girl with a roller skate and now they've taken her away. And Murray's here and Mike's here. And- And I'm too stoned to think straight-'
'Jonathan, calm down.'
'I need you.'
Eden drew in a deep breath, looking down at Jesse as he played with the ring that laid against her chest.
'I'll be there soon,' She mumbled, before hanging up the phone; 'The things I do for my family.'
She grabbed the notepad from the bench, apologising to Lindy profusely for the mess and simply stated that she had a family emergency before she rushed from the house with the twins in arms.
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Eden tucked her sunglasses up onto her head as she entered the police station, pushing the pram in front of her. She paused in the foyer as the door shut behind her, scanning the room for familiar faces, but came up empty. She approached the front desk where an older woman sat, looking over the top of her glasses at the computer before her.
