003 (Billy Hargrove x OC)

Chapter 17

-Billy Hargrove POV-

I grabbed Eleven and looked at Trisha.
She was barely holding on...
She was bleeding, she had fought too much already...

"Sister" cried Eleven.
I could see Trisha fighting, she was trembling...
But then... I saw another tentacle...

"Trisha!" I screamed, I wanted to go after her. But Max stopped me.
I was too late... a third tentacle grabbed Trish and pulled her in...
I saw her eyes looking at me...

"Trish!" I screamed, but she was gone... "No!"
The creature began to crumble... someone had closed the gate.
"I'm sorry" cried Max and hugged me. "I couldn't lose you too"

I hugged her back, it was easy to blame her. But I would have done the same...
I cried and held Max close.
"I'm sorry too" I whispered.

Eleven came to us and hugged us both.
She had just lost her sister... and here she was, trying to comfort us...

Three months later

Eleven and the Byers family were going to move to California.
In the past three months, a lot happened...
My dad went completely nuts, he was going to hurt Max. So I pushed him out of our house.

He left Max's mom, wanted me to go with him. But Susan said I was welcome in her home, and since I was 18, I stayed with Max and her mom. During the day I got a job at the High School, the coach was retiring and wanted me to take over.
But my nights... my nights were filled with nightmares.
Nightmares of the Mind Flayer, of Trisha dying over and over again...

Trish's funeral was with an empty basket, since they didn't recover her body. Her mom was crying the whole time, even though Trish had only been living with them for 2 years... she was a daughter to Mrs. Henderson.
Max took it the hardest. She blamed herself, she was beginning to think of Trisha like a sister...
I helped the Byers pack, Max tried to put up a brave face, but I knew deep inside, she was still hurting...

It was hard for her, seeing another friend leave.
Eleven walked to me and she hugged me.
"Sister" she said and tears formed into her eyes. "She loved you very much"

She gave me a bracelet, the bracelet Trish loved to wear. I got it for her, for her birthday.
"I loved her too" I whispered and hugged her. "Take care, okay?"
"You too" she said.

We watched them leave and I wrapped my arm around Max.
"We'll be okay" she whispered, talking to herself.
"Yeah, we will" I said

Continued in Season 4!

The next chapter is an ending I wrote to end the story earlier.
But then I saw season 4 and I had a lot of ideas for the story in season 4.
So the story will continue! But if you want to end the story on a happy ending, read the next chapter!