Kate Hopper's life had finally gone back to normal.
With the summer after her senior year in session, she'd soon be leaving behind the horrors of Hawkins behind, returning to New York City in the fall.
Kate only tried to live in the moment as Steve...
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ONCE STEVE HAD finally gotten off of his shift at Scoops, he and Kate began their drive back to the cabin.
After her episode earlier that day, Hopper had taken her out to lunch before dropping her off at the mall. He wanted to talk to her about some things that weren't related to her episode, suggest that maybe she should invite Steve over for dinner. While at first, she protested, considering he got off at nine-thirty at the earliest, and that wasn't even factoring time for him to drive over to the cabin and to change clothes, Hopper insisted. It had been a long time since they'd had dinner together with Steve, the last one being two weeks before on the day after her birthday (the night of her actual birthday, of course, consisted of the best surprise eighteenth birthday party ever).
Whenever Kate had told him that her father had asked him over for dinner, Steve had been slightly confused. He could tell something had been off with her, but he couldn't tell exactly what. The thought that something was wrong with her had been bugging him since he'd seen her that afternoon in the ice cream shop, and that was part of the reason he'd given Robin ten dollars just to let him go an hour early.
Once he and Kate had finally been alone, he decided to ask her about what was wrong.
"Hey, earlier when you walked into the, uh... When you walked in, I..." Whenever he looked over to her and found she was currently giving him a confused look, he sighed. "Are you okay?"
