Josie Byers has always been different to her family, she wasn't a freak.
When her brother Will goes missing, her mom is Acting out, thinking he was in the walls while Johnathon was too busy with Nancy Wheeler to help. So she seemed help in unlikely...
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"I wish I was Russian after the stunt you pulled!" I say as she gets into the car. "I'm sorry! I thought i was helping! I regretted it straight after I didn't think that kid would actually do it for a couple quarters, I hope Billy didn't freak out I'm really sorry!" Robin says and I laugh. "Your a strange girl you know that, I don't understand you." I say and she looks worried. "I'm not strange I just have a bunch of uncalculated urges." She says and I look at her with a weird expression. "Yeah I can tell. I don't mean it in a bad way Robin." I say grabbing a joint from under my seat. "You have drugs everywhere how hasn't your parents found them?" She says laughing. "I never told you my parents haven't found them." I say teasingly. "It's obvious, you would be like chaperoned if you had been found out, I know your mom remember?" Robin says handing me the lighter I was looking for. "Smartass." I say lighting it.
"Where do you live?" I say and she looks confused. "Why?" She says and I gesture to the road. "Oh! Right I live near chief hopper, his new house in the forest." She says gesturing for me to make a turn. "He moved?" I say as she tells me the way. "Yeah a few months back, he's weird he goes into the forest everyday with food and comes back without it, like he's giving it to animals or something, he's a weird guy." Robin says as we pull into her road. "What like donuts and stuff?" I say pulling outside her house. "No like packs of Eggos, he must buy hundreds a week." Robin says as she unbuckles her seatbelt. "Thanks for the ride, I'll see you tomorrow, well a few hours now." Robin says and she runs off into her backyard to sneak back in.
When I get home it's around 5am, Bob will be up in a few minutes, he's an early riser, well he tries to sneak out before we get up but he's loud so we wake up anyways. I try and sneak into my bedroom where I see Will sitting on my bed with the lights off. "Holy shit Will what the fuck are you doing?" I whisper and he grabs onto me. "Where were you?" He says, he seems scared. "I was out why?" I say sitting next to him, he's shivering. "Why are the windows open! It's freezing how aren't you cold?" I say rushing to close them. "I'm really hot." He says "your shivering will, don't be stupid." I say grabbing a blanket. "How was trick or treating? Did Johnathon stay with you?" I say, Johnathon was at the party. "It was good, I got loads of candy, so did Johnathon." He says, lying through his teeth. "You stayed with him the whole time?" I question. "Yeah." Will lies again. "Even when he was with me at a party?" I say and Will goes silent.
"I told him to leave, nobody else had a chaperone, I didn't want to feel even more like a freak, my older brother shouldn't have to make sure that I'm safe trick or treating." He says and I hug him. "Understandable, was that ginger girl with you? Max." I say and he nods. "She's nice." I say. "Yeah dustin and Lucas have huge crushes on her!" He says laughing slightly. "Oo someone's in love!" I say laughing too. "She not catch your eye then?" I say and he goes silent again. "Oo maybe she hasn't but someone else has!" I say poking him, he's still silent. "Okay fine don't tell me about her but you better tell me before Johnathon! He will never let me live it down!" I say and he forces a laugh. "Your freezing this blanket is doing nothing! Get into bed it will be warmer! You have to get up in a hour get some shut eye!" I say and he rolls his eyes and gets out of my room to get an extra hour sleep.
