Is There Someone Else? | Stranger Things 4

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Eddie
"Someone is here," I said with my heart palpating like I'd just overdosed on dopamine.

  "Eddie who the hell would be here, Steve and everyone else is at the Creel house ghost hunting and whatnot." She asked with a shuddering tone.

  "I wish I could say that I knew," I asked looking out her windows. "We need to get into the shed, in your car full of very transparent windows is not going to save our asses," I said silently opening her door and practically falling into a crouch on the ground.

"Eddie what about the noodles?" She whisper yelled from the driver's side. I looked at her with a look of disbelief.

"Please tell me you're joking right now!" I whispered yelled back frantically.

"What? They're good." She shrugged.

"Delilah forget the god damn noodles!" I said waving my arms around wildly. She put her hands up in mock surrender and rolled her eyes, slinking out of the car and onto the gravel.

I crept around the front of the car and took her hand, leading her around the house in a crouched walk stealthily. We slid through the door in the side house and took heavy anxious exhales. "Shit!" She said panicked, hopping around and kicking her legs a little.

"What the hell is that supposed to be!" I asked pacing back and forth biting my knuckles. "You can't start losing it princess, you're supposed to be the rational one!"

"Stop saying princess like that!" Delilah said glaring at me and putting her hands on her hips. I laughed momentarily, waving my finger in her direction limply.

"You're doing the Harrington thing," I said with a smirk. She groaned and threw her arms down.

"Shut up." She grumbled, looking out the window. "Eddie I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm feeling really uneasy right now." She said sitting in the row boat and hugging her knees.

I sat in front of her and crossed my legs, leaning in to whisper closer to her. "Delilah, you mean you're scared. I've seen it since I met you, this thing of downplaying how you feel, I don't know why you do it but you don't have to, not with me, for fuck sake Delilah I'll say it first, I'm terrified right now, I am pissing my jeans right now at whoever the hell is flipping that house upside down looking for me."

She giggled at this and wiped her hands down her face shaking them out. "I'm not going to let anything happen to you, I can't, I promised you."

"No stop that, stop, Delilah, you've done more for me than almost anybody in my life ever has, when the chance comes up you need to get out of here, please?" I begged.

"I knew you were a little nuts but I didn't know you were that crazy freak. I'm not going anywhere, if that makes me a fugitive then so fucking be it." Delilah said sternly, putting a pinkie out with a grin. I rolled my eyes and smiled, locking my pinkie with hers.

"I kind of hope my uncle just has that instinct that I'm alright, I didn't get to say goodbye before I ran for my life," I said quietly, folding my hands together and leaning on my knees.

"I briefly saw my mom before I came here this morning. It wasn't enough really but I feel selfish saying that, I'm sure you'd kill to get 5 minutes to see your uncle." She paused. "Sorry, that was poor wording."

I scoffed. "Don't sweat it Halen, that was kind of funny, but don't feel selfish, everyone has a different circumstance, tell me though, why wasn't it enough?"

"Ever since we moved from Nevada, some shit happened back there and I just feel like I don't know how to connect with people anymore." She said quietly. I looked over at her sudden posture change, so defeated, her shoulders slouched as if the weight of the topic was physically pushing down on her body.