𝐌𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐎, steve harrington

Chapter 21

It had been about a month since Olivia had told everyone and especially Max about being half sisters, to which the red head was surprisingly quite happy about. She liked the idea of having a sister that she never got, and the two had only grown closer through time. Everyone was surprisingly happy with it as well, but Mike, Lucas, Will and Eleven were all shocked, understandably.

Olivia hadn't heard from her dad in almost a year, since he had left and the divorce between her parents had been finalized. Ever since then, her mom was drinking more than usual and she would find herself always cleaning up around the house or replacing the money they needed with her money she earned from her job at Scoops Ahoy, with her boyfriend and their friend, Robin. She knew her father being gone was taking a great toll on her mother, but there was nothing she could say or do to make her feel any better. She never had a good relationship with her dad, but sometimes she would wish that he never left so her mother would regain her usual spunk and they wouldn't be suffering in debt. Because of this said dept, Olivia and her mother had to move somewhere closer to their old home town, meaning the girl was back living only minutes away from the Wheelers, and even closer to the rest of the kids and her boyfriend.

Olivia had been driving the car as Patty sat in the passenger seat, the mother and daughter being gone for a week for a job offer that her mother had run upon, which the two were both sure that Patty wouldn't be able to hold since they had learned a lot from the job, that being. They were. Strict. A part of Olivia secretly didn't want her mother to get the job, meaning if she did, they would have to move two hours away from her home, which she would dread since her whole family had been so close.

Olivia had only thought about her boyfriend, the kids and everyone else that was back at home. She hadn't seen any of them for a week, and her and Steve had only called each other four out of seven days of that week since he and Robin had to pick up the slack which Olivia left back at the job.

She was twirling a piece of her dark chocolate hair in between her fingers, the window cracked open a few inches as the summer breeze peaked through. The car was packed with luggage which they brought to their trip for the job offer, her mind stuck on her family back in Hawkins.

As she drove onto the main road heading torwards the center of town, she quickly smiled to herself, sliding her sunglasses over her head. She looked around at the many closed shops around town, which made her smile fall as she remembered most of those shops closing due to the new Starcourt Mall opening only twenty minutes down the road, meaning lots of people were losing their jobs, but quickly gaining them back for smaller and less paying ones.

Shortly after, she was pulling into the driveway of their new house, nudging her mom's shoulder so she woke up. She pulled the keys out of the car egnition before sliding them in the grey jacket of Steve's old jacket, which she had declared hers. She wore jean shorts and a black tank top underneath it with converse.

She walked into the house, flicking on the lights as Patty walked in after her, her brows furrowed. "Don't you want to see your friends before it gets late? They haven't seen you all week."

Olivia quickly nodded, checking the time to read 7:28. She turned around to her mother. "Yeah, of course I do. But don't you want me to stay here and help you unpack?" She questioned, pointing her thumb behind her at the car in the driveway.

"No, no, it's okay. We can do that tomorrow. It's late anyways, just, go see your friends. You can take my car." Patty told her daughter, the eighteen year old girl quickly smiling. She took her mother's keys off of the rack, running up to her car after saying goodbye. The mother and daughter had taken Olivia's car on the job interview trip since it could go more miles than her car, but Olivia didn't care much about that since she never really goes anywhere anyway.