Insane in the membrane-Stranger things

Chapter 32

When they had calmed down a little bit, they hid behind the door. ''And blend,'' Dustin said, opening the door and blending in with the others who had just come out of the theatre. ''Now we just have to get on the bus with the rest of these plebes and home sweet home.''

''Uh, Dustin?'' Steve questioned.

''What?'' Dustin asked.

''Yeah, we might not want to go to your house,'' Steve replied.

''Why?''

''Well someone thought it was a good idea to tell the Russians your full name,'' Jess rolled her eyes as she smacked Steve across the head.

''What is wrong with you?'' Dustin asked.

''Dude, I was drugged,'' Steve rolled his eyes.

''So?''

''So?

''So, you resist. You tough it out. You tough it out like a man,'' Dustin told his friend.

''Are we sure Steve is a man? Are we sure he isn't still a child?'' Jess teased. Steve just glared at his girlfriend. ''I'm kidding, Stevie.'' She pressed a kiss to his temple.

Suddenly Dustin spotted one of the Russians. ''Abort! Abort! Abort!'' he exclaimed. ''Shit.'' He ushered his friends and sister away to the escalator as they slid down the middle of it. Steve went first and then Jess.

''Weeeee!'' she beamed as she slid down and Steve caught her in his hands. ''Man, that was fun. I wanna do that again.''

Steve just laughed and they watched as Robin, Dustin and Erica slid down one after the other. They rushed around the mall looking for a place to hide, they hid under the counter of the first shop they saw, and Jess squeezed her eyes shut as Steve clutched a hold of her hand. She didn't want to admit she was terrified but Steve could tell by how hard her fingers were digging into Steve's palm, it hurt him but he tried not to show it as the Russians behind them started to say things in Russian and began approaching them.

Suddenly there was the loud sound of a car horn, Jess jumped and she opened her eyes slowly, when she stood up the Russians were all on the floor as the car had been flew over towards them all, blood splattered all over the floor.

Jess beamed when she saw El and the rest of her friends, by god was she pleased to see the people she cared so much about. Jess, her friends and boyfriend rushed over to them as the party along with Nancy and Jonathan rushed over as well.

''Holy shit, you flung that thing like a hot wheel,'' Dustin beamed, running to hug Mike and El.

Jess pulled her best friend into a massive hug and squeezed her tightly as Nancy did the same. ''I was so worried about you, Jess, what have you been doing?'' Nancy asked, pulling away. ''What happened to your face?''

Before Jess could respond, Lucas interrupted her speech as he talked to Erica. ''What are you doing here, Erica?'' he asked his little sister.

''Ask them, it's their fault,'' Erica sassed, gesturing to Jess, Steve, Robin and Dustin with her thumb.

''True, yeah. Totally true, it's absolutely our fault,'' Steve implied.

''I don't understand what happened to that car,'' Robin exclaimed, not picking up on what was happening around her.

''El has superpowers,'' Jess shrugged as if it was no big deal.

''I'm sorry?'' Robin questioned.

''Superpowers, she flew it with her mind, come on catch up,'' Steve exclaimed.

''That's El?'' Erica questioned, shocked.

''Who's El?'' Robin raised an eyebrow, still confused on everything.

''I'm sorry who are you?'' Nancy questioned, pointing at Robin as she suddenly felt a little bit of jealously that her best friend might have replaced her and Nancy blamed herself for not being there.

''I'm Robin, I work with Steve and Jess, although she doesn't work she just hangs out with us,'' Robin replied, smiling.

''She cracked the top secret Russian code,'' Jess implied.

''Yeah, which is how we found out about the Russians in the first place,'' Steve exclaimed.

''Russians? What Russians?'' Max questioned.

''Hold on, did they do that to your faces?'' Nancy asked.

''Yep, those commie bastards punched and slapped me plenty of times,'' Jess replied. ''Stevie over here, even got knocked out.''

''Don't expose me, Jessie bear,'' Steve whined like a little child.

''Well it's true,'' Jess just shrugged.

''Those were Russians?'' Lucas questioned.

''Some of them,'' Erica answered.

''What are you talking about?''

''Didn't you hear our code red?'' Dustin asked.

''Yeah, I couldn't understand half of what you were saying,'' Mike replied.

''Goddamn low battery,'' Dustin sighed.

''How many times do I have to tell you with the low battery?'' Steve said like a sassy angry mother.

As Dustin and his friends had started arguing, while she noticed El drop to the floor and groaned in pain. ''El! El!'' she yelled as the party, Erica, Steve, Robin, Nancy and Jonathan rushed over.

''What's wrong with her?'' Erica asked.

''El, what's wrong?'' Jess asked, rubbing her arm softly.

''My leg, my leg,'' El replied in deep pain.

Mike rolled up the jeans that she had on and pulled off the bandage that covered her wound, there seemed to be something crawling around in there. Jess looked away as she clutched a hold of Ell's hand, once again she couldn't deal with the sight of blood.

El was screaming and crying, Mike was just questioning her asking her if she was okay as his girlfriend didn't reply except for just screaming over and over.