𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍

𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐒

𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘

𝙺𝙸𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁𝙻𝚈 𝙲𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙳𝚈

These children were putting me off having any of my own and that was not good. I had listened to them for multiple hours bicker and try to decide who dressed as who and which one took credit for the whole idea..I'm pretty sure I'd be the one taking all of the credit but they could dream, I guess.

"Do you know how to ride a bike, Kim?." Dustin asked as we walked the empty street side by side, his bike handles in his hands as he pushed it instead of rode it.

"Of course." I said flatly, looking over to Mike who had his arm around his new lover, El. They were cute, but way too young. "Why?." I asked him with furrowed brows.

"Just making small talk. You seem to be in your head about something." Dustin picked up on my mental issues rather quickly, even though it was plainly obvious I had problems.

"Aren't we all?." I asked with a quiet snort, knowing that our problems never actually went away, they just kind of disappeared for a while.

"Not like you. There's always something with you." He said truthfully, causing a smirk to break out on my face.

"How is it, that you..Dustin Henderson..can figure me out faster than my own friends?." I asked and turned my head to look at him, feeling the nippy breeze against the back of my exposed neck.

"Because I'm not blinded by love or loyalty. Yeah, we're friends, but we're not close enough for it to be oblivious to the naked eye that you're struggling." Dustin responded, his eyes flickering over to Mike who was laughing loudly at something El must've said.

"My mum kicked me out." I told him, feeling that same pang in my chest as the night it happened.

"For what?." He sounded shocked as he asked me.

"For this." I held up the engagement ring attached to my hand and sighed, not having realised just how difficult all of this would become.

"What?." He asked me in a high pitched tone, my words unbelievable to him. "Okay..let me get this straight..she chucked you out because you're happy?." Dustin asked with a confused expression.

"You won't understand unless you've met her, Dust." I chuckled at how little he knew. "Ask Steve." I said with a smirk. "I'm sure he'll be able to tell you more than enough about Maureen Cassidy." I finished as we finally approached the culdesac that Mike lived on.

"We'll see you guys later!." Mike shouted to us as he and El ran off, giggling like little school girls.

"Uh..what the hell?." I asked him as I watched the two children running away from us down the road, tugging onto each others hands.

"Don't take it too personal." Dustin scoffed and turned his bike around. "It's been like this since they finally made it official. You know..they've ditched us every single night since. They're driving me insane..more than Steve does and that's saying something!." Dustin made a loud noise with the back of his throat at the fact, the pair of us knowing that Steve Harrington genuinely was a pain in the ass.

"That's rough." I chuckled and followed him down the road.

"Yeah." Dustin replied before the air around us became mute, only the sound of our footsteps crunching in the mushy layer of snow beneath our feet.

As much as the children grinded my gears and made me want to rip my hair from its roots, they still meant a whole lot to me and there was nothing I wouldn't do to keep them from harms way.