Jonathan and I drove Nancy home after we collected our things from the red room before finally pulling up to our own house. I hopped out of the passenger seat and shut the door as quietly as possible, in case my mom was asleep.
Jonathan locked the car and started toward our front door, me trailing behind him. He turned the house key into the door knob and swung the door open, but he paused before stepping into the house.
"Jesus, Jonathan. What if mom had been asleep, you idiot?" I waved my hands around while trying to push past him.
Jonathan continued to stare at whatever was on the couch. I started to panic.
"Is the monster back?" I whispered to him urgently.
He still didn't respond. I sighed exasperatedly and pushed him aside, my eyes landing on my mother sitting on our couch. And Lonnie was next to her.
"Hey, kids," my dad said, leaning forward to rest his elbows on his knees.
"What's going on?" Jonathan asked on behalf of both of us.
Joyce looked over at Lonnie before responding. "You're dad's, uh, gonna stay here tonight. O-on the couch."
"Yeah, I'm here as long as you need me, okay?" Lonnie added.
"Shocker," I said bluntly.
He decided to ignore my comment. "How are you guys holding up?" he asked.
Jonathan ignored his question and instead looked over at the blue tarp on the wall I had just noticed. He marched over to it, lifting it out of the way to stare at the new gaping hole in our living room.
"What happened?" I questioned as I walked over to my brother.
"Don't worry about that," Lonnie immediately dismissed.
"Mom," Jonathan said suddenly. "That thing you saw before, did it come back?"
Joyce's mouth fell open and her brows knitted together. Good, she needed to realize this was real.
"Jonathan, that's enough," Lonnie ordered.
Jonathan just glared back at him. "Can we talk?"
"Preferably alone," I said.
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"You need to leave," Jonathan demanded as soon as we entered his room.
"Look, I know you both are upset. We all are. But you both need to listen to me. Your mother is sick. Really sick," our father said.
"Yeah. Well, you being here, you're just making things worse, like always--" Jonathan started.
"Worse?" Lonnie interrupted.
"Yeah, you are," I defended my bother.
Dad pointed in the direction of the living room. "She took down that wall with an ax. She said that Will was inside and that he's talking to her."
"Maybe he was. You choose to ignore everything that happens in this family, even before you decided to leave us," I shrugged.
"Listen, (Y/N). This isn't some joke. Your mom was half frozen to death when I got here," my dad turned his attention to me. "Trembling, scared out of her mind. You come in here and you start feeding into her hallucinations or whatever the hell you wanna call it, you're gonna push her right over the edge. You hear me?"
Jonathan and I just glared right back at him.
"Look, I'm on your side. I'm here to help. I'm gonna make things better around here for all of us," Lonnie tried to reason.
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Through The Strangest Things || Steve Harrington x Reader
Fanfiction"It was only one thing. Only one little thing that happened to make me fall in love with you. One simple thing, and I don't understand how that's possible." "It only takes one flame to start a fire." +*+*+ The stranger things are happening in the s...
