I Notice

Chapter 14: Trailer gate

"Dustin! Dustin! Dustin!" Steve yelled causing me to run down the stairs.

"Can you hear me? Dustin! Du... Hello? Hel... Hello?" Steve continued to yell.

"Maybe he really does have rabies." Robin said to us. I chuckled and looked at her smiling. She's funny.

"Hello! Hello?" Steve kept yelling.

"What are you doing?" I questioned.

"Hello! He's here. Henderson. That little sh¡t, he's here. He's like... He's in the walls or something. Just listen. Dustin. Dustin! Dustin! Dustin! Dustin! Can you hear me?" Steve yelled.

Me and the others went silent and tried to listen.

I heard him but I couldn't make out what he was saying.

"All right, either this kid can't hear us or he's being a total douche bag." Steve said.

"Will found a way." Nancy said shooting her head up.

"What?" I said confusedly.

"Will. He found a way to speak to Joyce through the lights." Nancy said walking over to a lamp.

"Lights?" I questioned.

She tried to turn on the lamp but there is no electricity in the Upside Down.

"Try the switch." Steve said.

Nancy tried flipping the switch. "It's not working." She said giving up.

I looked up at the chandelier. It looked like a gold dust. "Guys? You seeing this?" I spoke up.

We all began to stare at the gold dust. We placed our hands on it. It felt weird.

"It... Tickles." I said looking at Eddie.

"It kinda feels good."

"Does anyone know Morse code?" Nancy asked. I know I didn't.

"Wait, does SOS count?" Eddie said. We all looked at him blankly. "Is that... Is that good?"

Eddie tapped SOS into the light to get Dustin's attention.

Once we got his attention we all ran upstairs. Into Nancys room. We all huddled by her bed.

"We're not moving it, but we're gonna unplug it."Dustin said. He unplugged it but the light stayed there.

"Try it now." Dustin yelled to us.

"Okay. Um... Uh..." Nancy wrote "HI" in the glowing dust.

"Hi"! Hi! Hey! Hi. That worked!" Dustin yelled.

"Yes! Yes! Hi!" Eddie yelled at the glowing dust. I laughed and smiled while looking at him.

Nancy began to write "Stuck" In the dust.

"Stuck." Stuck." Dustin said.

"Yes. We are. They're stuck in the Upside Down." Steve said behind me.

"Uh, you can't get back through Watergate?" Dustin yelled to us.

" What the hell's Watergate?" I said with a confused expression on my face.

"Cause it's in water and it's a gate." Robin said to me.

"Oh. That's cute." I said.

"Um, no. It's..." Nancy trailed off while writing more on the glowing dust. "Guarded" She wrote.

"Okay. Uh, Watergate's guarded."Dustin said.

" Perfect." I said with a huge smile.

"We think we have a theory that can help with that." Dustin yelled to us.

"Genius child." Robin said relieved.

" We think Watergate isn't the only gate. That there's a gate at every murder site." Dustin said to us.

"Does anybody understand what he's talking about?" They questioned.

"No. No idea." They said.

Nancy wrote a question mark in the glowing dust.

"Okay. Seriously? How many times do I have to be right on the money before you trust me?" Dustin yelled angrily.

"Jesus Christ. This kid's gotta get his ego in check." Eddie said.

"It's his tone. Right?" Steve said in response to Eddies comment.

"Okay. So... So how far is your trailer?" Nancy asked Eddie.

"Seven miles." Eddie said.

"Nancy? Uh, I know your house here is, like, weirdly, creepily frozen in time and sh¡t, but haven't you always had bikes?" Robin said.

We ran outside and grabbed bikes. We all hopped on a bike and began to ride down the roads. After what felt like hours we got there.

"Right here." Eddie said as we pulled up at his trailer.

"That's gotta be a Guinness World Record. Most miles traveled interdimensionally." Robin said making me giggle.

I jumped off of my bike and tried to walk to Eddies front door but as soon as I stood up a wave of dizziness hit me. I stood there blankly for a second.

tick.

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I shot open my eyes and it was nothing. Everything was black. I heard water moving behind me and I immediately turned around. I saw the same women. I began to walk over to her. She quickly turned around making me gasp.

Everything was black again. I quickly opened my eyes. I was back. Eddie was standing in front of me. I looked around me. I was on the ground.

"Did I pass out?" I questioned.

"I think so" Eddie said throwing his hand in front of me. I grabbed his hand and pulled myself up. We began to walk into his trailer not letting our hands separate.

"Just inhaled a bunch of that crap.It's stuck in my throat." Steve coughed out.

We all walked into the trailer and there it was. The gate.

"This is where Chrissy died. Like, right where she died." He said. I made my grip on his hand tighter.

Something in the gate started moving.

"I think there's something in there."

"What the hell is that?" I said. Something poked through the gate and the whole group let out yells.

I walked over to the gate and looked up. "No way" I said while laughing. The whole group then walked next to me.

"Holy shit, this is trippy." Robin said next to me.

The kids ran to Eddies room and grabbed his mattress. They put the mattress on the floor so we could land on it.

"Those stains are, uh... I dunno what those stains are." Eddie said. I looked over to Robin and we both giggles.

"Not quite sure how these physics work. But, uh... Here goes nothing." Dustin said as he threw a sheet through the gate. "And if my theory is correct... Huh. Abracadabra. Holy sh¡t. All right, pull on it! See if it holds!" He said having Steve pull on the sheet.

The sheet stayed and I had a huge smile on my face.

Robin climbed up the sheet and pulled herself up. She fell through and landed on the mattress. "That was fun." Robin said as she stood up.

I began to climb the rope. Once I was about to land everything went black.

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