Chapter 11: Dropping Magnets

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I was at home cooking up dinner. Hopper and El were gonna be spending the night to celebrate Will going into highschool. As I was preparing to cook,Hopper walked in.  He smiled
"Hey Joyce".
"Hopper! Hey!" I smiled "your early".
"I figured I'd help you out".
“Oh you don’t have to, it's fine”
"But I want to," Hop said with a smile.
"Come on, it could be fun, what are we making?"
"Well, Will ask for steak, mushrooms and some grilled vegetables so I guess we're making those," I responded with a smile. Hop nodded and opened up the fridge and got the food out that we needed before closing the fridge. When he did, however, the  magnets on the fridge held up many pictures. He blinked.
"wha-". I tried to put them back on .
"it's like they just…stopped magnetizing". I went to Will's room where he had a few metal boards on the ground. I looked at Hop.
"we…need to investigate this".

We went to my shop,and the same story was there.all our magnets had fallen,same with at hops work and at his house. It was weird. Strange. And honestly freaking me out “This isn’t normal is it?”.
"No…not really,but considering what happened over the last 2 years at the lab i'm not shocked " Hop said with a shrugged
“Well then what are we doing shouldn’t we be searching for an answer to this ?” I asked nervously. Hop looked at me raising an eyebrow
"what are you suggesting,ms.byers?"
“Could anyone know the answer to this ?” I asked
"doubtful". Hop answered with a shrug "unless….we check the lab for clues“
“Let's go then! Right now!”
"right……now?'
“If the lab is opened again I won’t let it stay that way. It's so dangerous and Will can’t relive that!”.
"Speaking of will,he seems to have grown close to Corey. Are you gonna adopt him like I did with El?"
“Hop. This is not the time , can we just go to the lab? Please if there’s any danger I want to clear it out now!”
"ok ok…. let's go-"

We arrived at the lab and we walked inside.
“It’s closed-?” I said. Hop chuckled and opened the door.
"After what happened it was shut down,so if we're gonna find anything it would be a small clue".
“Let’s look around then! this has to do with the magnets .. right?” I said hoping I wasn’t starting to get paranoid over nothing. As I looked around I looked at the location I saw Bob get killed. I winced and Hop put his hand on my shoulder.
"you ok, joyce?". I snapped back to reality.
“oh uh.. yea..” I said unconvincingly. Hop hugged me before looking at me.
"Are you sure you're ok to do this?"
“Of course I’m good, don't worry..”. Hop nodded and we walked around.
"We should check the computer lab".
  “yeah let’s go”. We walked to the computer lab where we powered them up right away, checking each file to try and see if there were any leads.
“Did you find anything?” I asked. Hop shocked his head.
"nothing that I can understand,it's all in a forren language. I think we're going to need some help from a friend".
“Who?” I asked.
"...Murray"
“Let's go do anything to find an answer. I mean all this is very weird…” I responded. Right as we were about to leave the radio fizzed into life.

"portail ouvert.Monstre sorti. Esprit emprisonné .Enfer perdu".

I looked back.
“Huh ? What did that just say?”
"No idea," Hop said, looking at me.
"but I recorded it,so let's bring it to Murray." I smiled and started to go.
“Smart, let's go!”.

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