Trapped in Love

Act 1: Ch 7

Act 1: Ch 7
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE BATHTUB

"holy fuck. do you think they-" Valerie started to panic as she watched Lucas jump down. He had already been panicking since they first arrived there.

"come on, let's go!" he shouted up at her. she sent a nod and climbed down out of the tree. she didn't land as good as Lucas did and it would've have been funny if they weren't in this situation. she quickly gotten to her feet though and they both hopped on their bikes and began pedaling away from there... fast.

"Mike!" she yelled into the walkie-talkie that was in one hand. "Mike!" she yelled louder, waiting for a response, her voice crackling a bit.

"son of a bitch!" Lucas shouted, between breaths as the two friends looked at one another, both having worried expressions on their faces.

"Mike can you hear me?!" the girl shouted again. this time she gotten a response but it was barely understandable over the static. Mike had been breaking up.

"Lucas thinks they know about El! the bad man are coming!" Valerie continues to shout as she struggled to keep up with Lucas, who was ahead of her. he turned back and gestured her to come forward.

"Tell them to meet us on Elm and Cherry street!" he instructed while Valerie nodded and closed her eyes for a slight moment. the pressure from the wind had been hurting them.

"Elm and Cherry street! Meet us there!" she spoke into the walkie-talkie one last time before continuing to bike. eventually she caught up with Lucas.

after biking as fast as they could and their legs all feeling like they would fall off after this, they had meet up with the other three again and Mike eyes widen.

"go!" Maryland shouted frantically as she turned to see the vans turning the corner.

"shit! shit! shit!" dustin panicked as Mike looked around, yet continued to bike as fast as he could with El holding onto him.

"faster!" mike screamed out and Valerie felt herself becoming overwhelmed. she was confused, lost, worried. quite frankly if handing Eleven over would end all of this then she was down to do so. she wanted this all to end.

just as she thought nothing could get worse, another white van pulled up. however this one in front of them and didn't stop driving towards the kids who continued to bike. Maryland felt herself become sick when she saw the van closing in.

"What the fuck! I think i'm going to pass out!" she shouted as dustin looked over at her, worried written in his expression.

"Hang in there Val!" dustin shouted back before turning his head forward. just as he looked away from Valerie the van that was charging at them flipped.

"what the hell.." Valerie muttered before looking over at El. She smirked slightly while whipping her nose.

yes, El had made the van flip. even if Valerie was pissed at her, she couldn't help but be slightly impressed and the relief was huge.

getting over there shock, the kids continued to bike and ended up in the same junkyard that everything went down in.

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"this is Randolph road, right here," Lucas had draw a line next to the stick he placed down so the other three could get an understanding at what he and Valerie saw. "and it goes all the way around and this is the lab, right here. the gates gotta be there, it's gotta be." he explained, putting a can in the middle before looking up at the others.