Smoking About You

Chapter Nineteen

The elevator started to lift up, taking the group up to the floor Mike had chosen out of rush

Steve was still leaning on Billy for support with standing. Everyone seemed to not have minded it

𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥? 𝘏𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭.

The elevator shook as it stopped. The group glanced at each other as they waited for the doors to open

When the metal doors had opened, they were greeted with a gloomy hallway, and the party slowly went out one by one.

There were a few lights that had been on while others were off, and some flickering

Steve pushed himself off up Billy, having the strength to stand up by himself. He pressed his hands into his back to stretch

Argyle started to walk to the left. He was followed by Chrissy, who had Eddie beside him, and Mike was with Eddie.

"Should we really separate?" Dustin asked, "They're already gone.." Robin put her hand on his shoulder

"Come on dingus we'll find them again." He shrugged and went with her, Steve, and Billy, who headed to the left.

As they went down the corridor, there were fewer lights shining down from the ceiling

Once Steve thought it was too dark, he turned to Dustin, "Got a flashlight in that backpack of yours Henderson?"

Dustin rolled his eyes, taking off his backpack to unzip it and grab a flashlight he predictably had

He tossed it to Steve, in which he caught it and turned it on, facing the direction he was walking.

"Hey Harrington -" Billy said to get Steve's attention, Steve rotated with the flashlight, making Billy close his eyes due to the brightness

Billy put his hand up, blocking the shine from his eyes, "Can you come over here with that?" Steve walked to him, Robin and Dustin coming with

Billy held the flashlight in Steve's hand, beaming it towards the wall where he had seen something.

The four looked closely at the marble-like wall, Dustin pointed to large scratch marks against the wall

"Holy shit." Robin said, leaning over Dustin, "Do you think it was a demogorgon?" Dustin asked

"What the hell a demogorgon?" Billy asked, having the others looking at him in shock.

"You don't know what a demogorgon is?" Robin asked, raising a eyebrow, he only shook his head

"Crawls on all fours, has no face, looks a little grey?" Dustin described Billy made a face when realizing, "Oh those little shitheads, yeah, I know them."

Robin laughed at the name Billy had called them, "Come on, let's find the others, see if they saw something."

The boys backed away from looking at the wall and went with Robin's lean back down the hallway

The flashlight Dustin gave Steve started to flicker, "Oh, come on." Steve hit the side with his palm, the light then shut off.

"Nice going, Einstein." Dustin said, walking to take back his flashlight. He started to unscrew a part to look at the batteries

Billy rubbed his forehead, trying to relieve an ache, "Are you feeling alright?" Robin asked, standing in front of him

He looked, "Yeah, it's just.. there's like this clicking noise." He put his hand down, "A clicking noise? Like a clock?"