In The Stars / Steve Harrington 3

Chapter 18

I listen to my music as Steve and I look around. We walk into the livingroom and my song ends. I quickly restart the loop and Steve looks over at me. "I wish we had a longer loop." Steve says and I look up at him. "Fourty-six minutes isn't bad." I say with a shrug.

"I think there are bigger concerns like what if by listening to this over and over I get sick of it? Suddenly it's not my favorite song song anymore. Will it still work or will Metallica like loose their magic powers?" I ask him and he shakes his head. "Metallica, never." He says and I tilt my head to the side in curiosity. "You're a Metallica fan?" I ask him surprised. "Uh yeah, now I am." He says and I smile. "Really?" I ask him. "Mega fan, they saved your life." He says and I smile. "Besides we're hot on this creeps trail. We're gonna find Vecna and kill him before he even thinks about messing with you again." He says with a smile as he puts a hand on my shoulder.

"In fact I bet if we hit these suckers in the right combo we might just open a door to Vecna's secret layer." Steve says as he walks over to the old piano in the room. He presses some keys and nothing happens. "Boom." Steve says with a smile. "You are such a dork." I say with a smile as I come up beside him. "I thought you were a cool kid Harrington." I say to him. "I'm not cool?' He asks and I laugh. "I've really missed that." He says. "Missed what?" I ask him confused. "Your laugh." He says and I blush.

I look down as my Walkman stops rewinding. "All done. Work your magic Metallica." I say with a smile as I go to put my headphones over my ears but I stop as I see a light flicker on beside me. "I promise I'm gonna stop asking this but, you're seeing that right?" I ask Steve. "Yeah." Steve says as we walk to the lamp. I touch the lamp and it turns off. "Look." Steve says and I turn around to see a lamp in the hallway turn on. We walk towards it and as we make it to the lamp it turns off and a light above us turns on. We follow the lights and Steve and I share a worried look. "Let's get the others." I suggest and Steve nods.

I quickly walk upstairs and get Robin, Corey, Nancy, and Dustin while Steve gets Max and Lucas downstairs. We all go back to livingroom. The chandelier lights dim and brighten while we all watch it. "It's like the Christmas lights." Nancy says quietly. "Christmas lights?" I ask confused. "When Will was in the upside down the lights came to life." Nancy explains and I nod.

"Vecna's here, in this house just on the other side." Lucas says and the lights flicker out. "I think he just left the room." Corey says from beside Robin. "Did he hear us?" Max asks worriedly from beside me. "Can he see us?" Lucas asks from beside Max. "Headphones." Steve says as he looks at me and I nod and put on my headphones and start playing my music. "Wait, wait, everyone turn off your flashlights and spread out." Nancy says and we do as she tells us. "We won't be able to see if we turn off our flashlights." Steve says but we all ignore him.

"I got him! Got him!" Robin yells out and everyone quickly runs to her. "I got him." Robin says as she holds up her glowing flashlight. "Bella." I hear a familiar voice wisper. I quickly turn around to try and find the source of the voice but I see nothing. "I had him." Robin says and I turn around to see that her flashlight has gone off.

"Woah, woah." Steve says as his flashlight lights up. "Oh I think he's moving, he's moving, he's moving." Steve says as he follows the light of his flashlight out of the livingroom, down the hallway, and up the stairs where it goes out. "Shit, I lost him." Steve says and I look around. "No you didn't." I say as I see a light coming from under a door. I look back at them and open the door to see stairs leading to the attic. I walk up the stairs and Steve follows closely behind me. The others follow shortly after and we all circle up around the glowing light bulb in the center of the attic. "Flashlights." Dustin says and I look down at my flashlight to see it glowing. I look over at Steve to see his flashlight glowing as well.

"Okay, what's happening?" Steve asks. The flashlights start to glow brighter and I grab Steve's hand. Suddenly one by one our flashlights start to shatter. We all scream as the glass hits our faces. I gasp as I feel blood trickle down from my eyebrow and cheek. "Shit." I curse under my breath. "Hey, hey, hey." Steve says as he comes over to me and puts his hand on my face to examine my cuts. I hiss in pain and Steve removes his hand from my face. "Let's get out of here." Robin says and we all nod in agreement.

"Hey Nancy do you have a first aid kit in your car?" Steve asks. "Steve I'm fine." I try to protest but he ignores me. "I have one in my backpack." Dustin says and he takes off his backpack and throws it to Steve. Steve catches it and takes out the first aid kit. Steve throws Dustin back his backpack and I sigh in annoyance.

Steve, Dustin, and I get in the trunk of the Wheeler's car. Steve sits in front of me and I sigh. "Steve I'm fine." I say and he shakes his head. "You're bleeding." He says and I roll my eyes. "I've been through worse." I say as I take off my brother's blue jean jacket and show Steve my scars from the demodogs two years prior. "I remember that and you were just as stubborn back then." He says and I laugh. "Just stay still." He says and I give in. I lean forward as Steve cleans my cuts. I hiss and Steve mumbles a small "sorry" while I shake my head signaling that it's okay. Steve puts a bandaid on my cheek and my eyebrow. "They're both pretty deep but they should heal. At least you'll have two new badass scars." He says and I smile. "I guess so." I say and Nancy pulls into the grocery store parking lot. "Eddie needs a restock." Corey says and we nod and get out.