Better babysitter // Steve Harrington x Reader //

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I was sitting on my bed now, looking at the photo of me and Barb until I heard a phone ring.

I got up to answer the phone that was next to my bed. 

"Hello?"

"Y/n I need you to come over, right now." I recognized the voice immediately, it was Nancy.

"Why? What's wrong?" 

"Just...come over." And just like that, she hung up the phone. 

I walked over to my closet and I picked up the first outfit I could find.

I put the clothes on and I walked over to Nancy's house.

I rang the bell that was outside of the house and her mom opened the door. She told me that Nancy was in her room. I thanked her and walked over to Nancy's room.

I opened the door of her bedroom and I saw Nancy sitting on her bed shivering.

"Nance, what's wrong?" I asked her. I was worried, she looked like she saw a ghost.

"I, I saw something." She handed me the photo of Barb sitting by the pool. I took it and inspected it but the photo looked pretty normal to me. "There in the corner." She pointed at the corner with her finger

I looked at the corner and saw a silhouette of what looked like some kind of monster. I looked at Nancy and then back at the picture, I didn't know what to say.

"Yesterday I went back to Steve's house and I think that I saw this thing," Nancy said.

I remembered that I took the photo of me and Barb with me so I decided to take it outside of my bag to inspect it as well. I looked at the photo once again to see if I could find something new and then I saw it. At the right corner of the photo, you could see what looked like an arm. But it wasn't a "normal" arm, it looked exactly like the creature's hand.

"I know that this may not have anything to do with this. But, when I was going home I felt like someone was watching me and, and what if this was the thing that was following me." I said while handing Nancy the photo.

"Don't worry, we'll find this thing that took Barb from us," Nancy said.

***

We decided that the best thing was to speak with Jonathan. 

We were in a coffin shop now sitting on the chairs in the hallway. His mom told us that we could find him here since he was buying the coffin for his younger brother Will, whose body the police found dead in the lake last night. I still couldn't believe that two of the people I knew were dead now.

Jonathan was looking at the photos now. "It looks like it could be some kind of perspective distortion, but I wasn't using the wide angle." He handed me the photos and I took them. " I don't know. It's weird."

"And you're sure you didn't see anyone else out there?" Nancy decided to ask.

"No." Jonathan looked at the floor. "And she was there one second and then, um...gone." He finally looked at us after saying that. "I figured she bolted."

"My dad and his coworkers think that she ran away. But they don't know her. She wouldn't just run away." I said.

"I went back to Steve's..." Nancy was the one speaking now. "and I thought I...saw something. Some weird man or...I don't know what it was." It got quiet. Jonathan and I didn't know what to say. "I'm sorry. We shouldn't have come here today. I'm, I'm so sorry." As she said that she got up from her seat and I did the same. We were about to leave until Jonathan stopped us.

"What'd he look like?" He asked us. Nancy and I both turned around to face him.

"What?" Nancy asked looking at Jonathan confused.

"This man you saw in the woods. What'd he look like?" He asked again.

"I don't know." Nancy stopped for a second, trying to remember what he looked like. "It was almost like...he, he didn't have--" 

"Didn't have a face?" Jonathan asked. I raised an eyebrow. How did he know that? 

He started to explain that his mom saw this thing before. Nancy and I were confused but also glad that we weren't the only ones who saw this thing.

***

After we developed the picture, we could now see the creature more clearly.

"My mom...I thought she was crazy 'cause she said that's not Will's body. That he's alive." Jonathan said while looking at the photo.

"And if he's alive, then maybe Barb is as well." Both of them looked at me when I said that and nodded.

***

The next day we had to attend Will's funeral.

I was wearing the only black dress that I had in my closet and basic black high heels.

"Fear not for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God." The pastor was reading from the Bible but I couldn't really focus on what he was saying. The only thing I could think about right now was the creature.

I looked to my left and saw Mike, Dustin, and Lucas talking. They didn't even look bothered. I shushed them and they stopped talking. 

After the funeral, Jonathan and Nancy went to talk somewhere and I decided to go and talk to the boys that didn't seem bothered that their friend "died".

"What's going on with you three?" I asked them. 

The boys turned around, looking scared. They all started to talk at once but Mike cut them off. "We're just really sad that Will is gone, my mom, she said that uhm,..." He looked at Lucas and Dustin for help.

"His mom said that the best way to deal with sadness is with a smile. We decided that we shouldn't cry." Dustin butted in and Mike and Lucas nodded at his response.

"Yeah, but it's been really hard on us," Lucas said and Dustin started to fake cry.

"You guys are really bad liars. What's really going on?" I think that deep down I was hoping that they knew something about Will that I didn't know.

Before they could answer me I heard someone calling my name. I turned around and saw that it was Nancy who was calling for me.  I turned back to the boys who still looked scared. "This is not over," I said. They nodded and I went to Nancy to see what she wanted. 

She told me about the plan that they had to kill this thing.

I couldn't wait to kill this bitch that took Barb.