Insane in the membrane-Stranger things

Chapter 26

The group made their way into the open room as Steve pulled a pocketknife out of his shorts and cut into the box, the quintet looked down at it. ''That's definitely not Chinese food,'' Steve sighed.

''Aw man, I really could have gone for some chicken fried rice and some dim Sims right about now,'' Jess rolled her eyes.

''Uh...maybe you guys should, you know stand back,'' Steve exclaimed.

Robin and Erica stepped back but the two Henderson siblings stayed beside Steve. ''No,'' Dustin exclaimed.

''Just...just step back okay?'' Steve demanded.

''No,'' Jess now said.

''Step back, seriously?''

''No! No!'' Dustin and Jess both said in unison.

''If you die we die,'' Jess implied.

Steve finally just gave in. ''Okay,'' he shrugged. He unscrewed the top of the metal container that was in the box, it clicked open to reveal a set of more unscrew able boxes Steve unlicked this only for it to be a large glass cylinder of green goo. ''What the hell?''

''One hundred percent not Chinese food,'' Jess exclaimed.

''What is that?'' Erica asked, just as confused.

Suddenly the room that the quintet were in started to shake and move. ''Uh...was it just me or did the move just move?'' Jess asked, holding onto the back shelves for dear life.

''Booby traps,'' Erica whisper yelled.

''You know what? Let's just grab that and go,'' Robin suggested grabbing the glass green goo cylinder from Steve.

''Which one do I press, Erica?'' Dustin asked.

''Jut press the damn button, nerd,'' Erica rolled her eyes.

''Which one? I'm pressing the button, okay?''

''Press 'open door'.''

''I'm pressing 'open door,' ''Dustin screamed.

As the door wouldn't budge the quintet had now trapped themselves and the room was now falling at the speed of what felt like a million miles per hour for Jess, she clung to Steve's hand for comfort and had her other hand clinging to the shelf behind her. She closed her eyes as she squeezed Steve's hand so very tightly, she felt her stomach and body tense up and tighten, it felt as if her stomach was doing backflips on a loop. Jess hated falling, she hated the thought of being in an enclosed space that seemed to be dropping down faster than a rollercoaster, in fact to Jess this felt like one big rollercoaster and she didn't do rollercoasters. Suddenly Jess felt bile beginning to coat her throat, her stomach starting to churn as she felt like she was going to throw up, this was all just too much for her. When she slowly started trying to snap herself back to reality she realised that she was squeezing her boyfriend's hand tightly as he was doing the same but the faster and the longer they fell the more it felt like a fucking nightmare for Jess.

''Shit! Shit!'' Dustin screamed out.

''We're going down! We're going down!'' Steve yelled.

''Yeah, no shit Harrington,'' Robin yelled back.

Dustin was now pressing as hard as he could at the different buttons. Suddenly the room came to a sudden stop, slamming the group onto the floor, Jess smacked her head on the ground as she fell back into Steve's chest and the cardboard box fell onto Steve's groin area. ''Ow, my groin! It fell on my groin! Jessie bear, get this off of me,'' Steve demanded. Jess pushed with all her might and willpower to get the box off of her boyfriend's crotch, once it was off Steve pulled himself up as he grabbed a hold of his girlfriend's hands. ''You okay?'' he asked, now cupping her cheeks examining her face for any injuries.