The Real World | Eddie Munson | pakora078

Chapter Eight: The Music's Cure

Steve had picked us up from skull rock in his car. Eddie was sat in the back of the car with me and I had to cover him with a blanket. My hand was just under the blanket so i could hold his soft hand and let him know that it was gonna be okay.

"Sorry we took a while. Dustin's compass stopped working and he wouldn't let me just drive there!" Steve said.

"For the three hundredth time, Steve, my compass is not broken."

"Where exactly can we go with a wanted man?" Lucas asked.

"You really shouldn't be talking Lucas. How could you? Why would you tell them where he was hiding?!" I argued, raising my voice slightly.

"I'm sorry okay? I was going to tell you but with everything going on with Max, i forgot. I finally had a chance to fit in with the popular guys, and they saw me on the walkie talkie talking to you when you were at the school. I had no choice but to tell them where Eddie was- or i feared they wouldn't like me anymore and i wouldn't fit in."

"Really? You done this for popularity? You risked both of our lives, Jason shot a bullet and it skimmed both of our heads!"

"I had no idea he'd carry weapons- alright?"

"Can we stop at the graveyard please?" Max asked.

"What? Now?" Steve answered.

"Well, yeah. Just before we head back."

"Yeah but don't be long, we are transporting a wanted man."

"Oh yeah Sam," She turned back and passed me a letter. "I gave the others there's already. Don't open it now, it's for after. If things get messy."

"Max... you're gonna be okay."

"Everyone keeps telling me that, but it's not okay. I'm not gonna be okay, Chrissy and Fred weren't."

Max got out of the car and headed to what i'm guessing was Billy's grave. Steve, Lucas and Dustin had got out of the car and leaned on it watching her in case anything bad happened.

I would've, but i wanted to stay in the car with Eddie. I lifted the blanket slightly so i could fit underneath.

"Hey." i smiled, he once again gave a faint smile.

"Hey." He replied.

"This is fun, being under a blanket." I laughed.

"It's fun for you, you're not hiding." He chuckled.

"I am hiding, i'm hiding from Jason. He might shoot me." I smiled.

"Yeah, you're right. That dude is crazy psycho."

"You wait until he finds out it wasn't even you, he'd be real silly for going after you like that."

"I'm glad you're here with me." He said with a soft tone.

"I am too. I wouldn't leave you to deal with all this on your own. They wouldn't look after you the same way as i do."

His hand was still holding mine, both of our hands were in the middle of us, on both of our laps.

"Your eyes, they're really beautiful." I said.

His cheeks went a little red, he was flustered and that's what made him cute.

"Are you blushing? Is Eddie the banished blushing?"

"No, of course i'm not." He said embarrassed.

"You're cute when you're all embarrassed." I said. "Guys? What's going on?" Dustin and Lucas came running into the car panicking grabbing all the music they could see.

"I'll go and see what's happening, just stay low. Don't take the blanket off." I said, and gave Eddie a small kiss on the cheek and a smile.

I don't know why i gave him a kiss on the cheek, i just felt like it.

The boys were all crowded around shouting random words and jumbling through with music.

"Robin said music helps!!! And she's in a trance! What's her favourite song?!" Dustin yelled.

"Kate Bush, Running up that Hill- where is it man?!" Lucas answered.

I sat down next to them and helped look for it too.

"It's here!!" I said, and Steve took it and placed it into Max's player. It began to blast through her headphones and now we had to wait.

"How do we know this is going to help?! She could die any second!" Steve panicked.

"Robin said she'll explain later- now we have no time right now!" Dustin responded.

I'm guessing the music thing was what Robin and Nancy had found out at the mental asylum.

Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building....
Say if i'could.... oooh...
Be running up that hill...
With no problems...

Max began to levitate, the same way Chrissy and Fred did before they died. This couldn't be it- she wasn't going to die now was she? It hasn't been 7 days. Well maybe it had... in terms of time...?

"Shit! Shit! Shit!" I yelled.

Come on baby,
Come on darling...
Let me steal this moment from you now..
Come on angel,
Come on,
Come on, darling
Let's exchange the experience...

The music was still playing yet nothing was happening.

Lucas was shouting, Dustin was shouting, even Steve. I was on the verge of tears, this couldn't be her fate.

It was like the world stopped, when she fell back down onto the floor in Lucas' arms.

"Oh my god! I thought we lost you!" Lucas was whispering, as she was panicking about holding his arm breathing heavily.

"I'm still here? I'm still here..." She had a sigh of relief, still breathing heavily.