𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍

𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐘 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐊𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓

𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘, 𝗦𝗘𝗫𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧

𝙺𝙸𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁𝙻𝚈 𝙲𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙳𝚈

I was entirely fed up. My entire being was drained from life and there was only so much more shit I could endure before I couldn't survive anymore. All i had ever wanted was peace, and for the first sixteen years of my life I would've considered myself lucky, but then I moved to Hawkins.

This town was cursed, and now so was I.

I kept my mouth shut for the next five days after Friday, not wanting to speak about the situation or about anything at all. I had been working so hard to keep myself clean and try to bring back the girl who had every reason to be alive, but somehow she had gotten lost in this new world and was a lot harder to find. Everything was starting to feel like a loss, and I didn't know how to deal with it.

Eddie was adamant on making me feel worthy again, and I adored his attempts, but they just didn't work they way he had planned.

He had me stay over at his trailer on Friday because he didn't trust my mother enough for me to be going back to her so soon, and even Wayne refused to let me out of his sights that night. The bruise was almost black by the next morning, and I had no way of covering it up. Not even concealer would've made that mark invisible. On Saturday, I stayed in Eddie's bed up until the night sky began to rise over us, either sleeping or crying. Eddie would occasionally check on me, but I would pretend I was asleep if I wasn't already. I wasn't ready to talk to anybody about it just yet. When Sunday came, I finally plucked up the courage to leave the bed and somehow convince Eddie that it was time for me to go back and face my fears, to which I was met with nothing but silence from both of my parents.

Dad was supposed to go back to work that Sunday, but I'm not sure the timing was right just yet.

On Monday, I skipped school and stayed at home with the boys, waiting for the now greenish - yellow bruise to lighten up so that it could be covered and nobody but the people who witnessed it would ever know that my life wasn't as easy as i made it out to be. Tuesday rolled around and Eddie forced me to do at least half of the day, to which I ended up doing the full day because he was trying so hard for me, and I didn't want to disappoint him anymore than I already had.

And so far for today, I had been to my second to last meeting and talked to the strangers about how it's easier to forget the drugs when something terrible happens in my life, but that there's only a small space left in me for the anguish before i gave up. Ilene had ended up pulling me aside and asking if more personal help was necessary, but I declined and left her standing alone and rejected. Half way on my drive back to school, I decided to ditch it and go home. I wasn't really in the mood to listen to anybody ask me questions or try to talk to me, I just wanted my bed.

Unfortunately, I couldn't even have that as when I pulled into the driveway, I noticed Billy's beautiful car already parked up in front of my house.

I sighed and pulled the keys out the ignition, pulling my bag into my grasp and pushing open the car door before slamming it shut and locking the car behind me. I walked up to the window of Billy's car and saw him sat in the drivers seat with a cigarette against his lips.

"Having fun?." I asked him as his window was rolled down. Billy looked at me and smiled.

"I am now that you're here." He smirked and grabbed the handle to push his door open. I stepped back as he stepped out of the car. "I had a feeling you wouldn't go to school, so I decided to come pay you a visit." Billy said and took a drag of his cigarette as he leant back onto the car.