"Normal is just an illusion. What's normal to a spider is chaos for a fly."
In which four teenagers are taken from their "normal" lives and are thrown into chaos.
A/N
This is a revamp/retelling of my discontinued fanfic of the same name.
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"Mews!"
Mabel flinched at the sound of Claudia searching frantically for her cat. She wanted to cry because she knew that Mews was dead, but for them to be able to tell Claudia she'd have to know about the events that went down a year prior.
"You're terrible."
Dustin rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest as he watched his mother outside, "You want to tell her that a monster from another dimension ate her cat?"
Mabel huffed, "I shouldn't have to tell her that. Her cat should be alive."
"Okay, I admit it." Dustin frowned up at her, "It was stupid of me to keep Dart a secret but I knew you'd be pissed."
"Why I ought to-"
"She's coming back!" Dustin ran over to the phone and picked it up right before Claudia walked back into the house.
"Dusty, baby, you're sure she's not in your room?"
"Uh-huh." Dustin spoke into the phone and nodded his head toward his mom.
Claudia looked over at Mabel next, "Did you see Mews in your room?"
"No, I'm sorry."
Technically it wasn't a lie. She didn't see her in her room at all. It wasn't the entire truth since she did know where Mews was.
"Thank you so much, Mr. McCorkle." Mabel raised her brow at Dustin's words, "Thank you so much. You are a true lifesaver. All right, this was great. Thank you. All right. Have a good one. Bye-bye, now. All right. You, too." Dustin hung the phone up and faced the two women in the room, "All right, great news."
"They found her?"
"No." Dustin said, "But they saw her wandering around Lock Nora."
"How did the poor baby get all the way out there?"
Mabel shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know. Lost, I guess. But they're gonna look for her. And we'll stay here, just in case they call again. And you're going to go help look?"
"Yeah? Yeah?" Dustin was truly trying to usher his own mother out of her own house, "Give me a hug. Give me a hug." He wrapped his arms around his mother and popped the door open behind her in the process, "Go get her. You're gonna find her."
"Okay."
"We can find her. We can find her." Dustin grinned up at his mother, "I love you."
"I love you."
"I love you. I love you. All right, go." Dustin shut the door and the second it was closed. His fake smile dropped from his face, "All right"
Mabel shook her head, "You're terrible."
"Did you plan on telling her that Mews is dead inside of my bedroom?" Dustin turned around and faced her, "Exactly."
"Do not exactly me, Dustin." Mabel gave him a pointed look, "You better be lucky I am not going absolutely ape shit on you right now."
