Kate Hopper thought she'd finally had everything taken from her.
With her father gone and her sister all the way across the country, she truly didn't have anything left. Since her father's death eight months before, she'd broken up with her boyfrien...
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THE KIDS HAD quickly given Kate the rundown of what was going on, after some much needed reunions.
Chrissy Cunningham, captain of the cheer team, had been brutally murdered and it had looked like Eddie Munson, resident freak, drug dealer, and member of the Hellfire Club, had committed the crime. Of course, they had already figured out that Eddie hadn't done it, but something coming from the Upside Down had. Another kid, Fred Benson, had also been killed by Vecna, as they'd started calling the murderer. Now, though, it was coming for Max.
Of all the things Kate was expecting to come back to, that certainly hadn't been close to anything she'd imagined in the car. She hadn't seen the murders coming, and by the way Dustin had described the way that Chrissy and Fred had been killed, she certainly didn't have any desire to experience nor witness it. Her stomach hurt at the thought of it. She hadn't known Fred Benson in the slightest, but she'd talked to Chrissy a few times. Even if she didn't know Chrissy that well, she had been a sweet girl, someone at Hawkins High who she didn't have a problem with. Neither of them deserved this.
No one did.
When Dustin, Lucas, Max, and Robin were filling Kate in, Steve had taken Nancy aside. "Why didn't you tell me she was coming?"
"What?"
Steve watched Kate carefully from the other side of the room. "After she... Whenever she got here, she said she wasn't going to tell me she was even coming. Why didn't you... Nance, why didn't you tell me?"
