•Tainted Love• Stranger things

3.9

Maddie Pov:

I gasped awake, I looked around. It was dark. There were dark gray doors all around me. What the hell. There was a hallway between two of the doors and I could see more doors in the hallway. "What the fuck is this." I muttered as I stood up.

"BILLY!" I yelled out. "MAX?"

What is this?

"HELP!" I yelled. "HELP ME!"

I screamed until the darkness changed into the first house I lived in. I watched as my young self was staring out of the window. A younger version of my brother was in the driveway. My mom was packing stuff into a car. I then realized. . .

This was a memory. She was leaving us.

Younger me ran towards the door and opened it, I followed little me as she ran out of the house, yelling at our mom, begging her not to leave us. She got into the car, as Billy grabbed younger me so I couldn't run.

"We're going to be fine." He whispered as younger me stopped fighting him and calmed down.

It changed again, my dad appeared. And so did young Billy. My dad was yelling and arguing with my brother about baseball.

They were practicing and Billy didn't want to slide, So younger me grabbed the bat that was on the ground and ran towards my dad and hit him in the back of the knee. He fell to the ground, groaning as younger me kept on hitting him with it. Younger me looked up at Billy and dropped the bat and they ran, they ran past me and I turned and watched as they did.

Now, a memory of my mom and dad arguing.

Another, my dad grabbing Billy and pushing him into the wall. Younger me screamed.

Another, a guy comes pick my mom up. She tells little me that she will be right back, that she is going with a friend and to not tell my dad.

Another, Wills fake body being pulled out of the river. I wanted to scream until i couldn't anymore.

Another, it was flashes. Mike about to jump off the cliff. A knife to Dustin. Me jumping off the cliff.

Another, darkness appeared and disappeared. Billy and Max, yelling at each other like father once yelled at Mom. Another, me and Billy arguing. Another, me crying as my dad and brother argued.

Then, my worst nightmare. July Fourth. I was eight. Mom was gone. Dad was drunk. Billy and dad had just got into an argument about Billy quitting football.

Billy had left the house. So my dad went after young me, he had pushed me to the floor. He had hit me multiple times. I yelled for help as he beat me, I yelled for Billy, minutes later he came back inside as I felt my father's foot slam into my body.

Billy hit our father on the head with a wine bottle, it shattered and fell to the ground, our father passed out. I was crying as he helped me up and brought me into a hug. We locked ourselves into Billy's room that night, listening to some music mom had left us, we listened to the fireworks that people were lighting, and we fell asleep, it was a bad day, but we were together. 

I looked around, trying to find anything that could lead me to somewheres safe. There was some happy moments but mostly bad. I then saw darkness again. Red started to appear, the red was forming into things. Not sure what..

"Why hello,"

I let out a scream as I turned around to a man. "Are you shitting me-"

"I'm here to help you." The tall man with blonde hair said. He was wearing all white but had blood on him.