Stand by me - steve harrington

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      𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒌𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑.

    𝑾𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝑰 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒍, 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅. 𝑰 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒅𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅.

    𝑮𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒍. "𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆.." 𝑨𝒔 𝑰 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈.

    𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝑰𝒎𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒎 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑.

    𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒊 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒍 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒓. "𝑶𝒌𝒂𝒚, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏." 𝑰 𝒎𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒅.

     𝑳𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒔. 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒆.

     𝑪𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒎𝒆. "𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌."

     𝒀𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎. 𝑰𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉? 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒑 𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒉.

    𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒉𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅...

𐬾🝮🜚⚘☾𐬾

     "Holy shit-" I yelled rolling out of bed. Catching my breath I tried to understand what just happened. Was that a dream? It felt so..real.

     I thought I would just shake it off I always have these scary dreams my mind makes up. Getting up to get ready for school I tried blocking that..𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, out of my mind but I just couldn't.

𐬾🝮🜚⚘☾𐬾

    Once I got to school I listened to my music to calm me down a bit. Getting stuff from my locker I felt a tap on my shoulder. Jumping by the touch I turned to find Nancy.

    "Nancy?" "Hey Ashley." She said giving me a small smile. "What's up?" I gave one back. "Um, have you seen Barb anywhere?" As she asked a furrowed my brows.

      Barbra being absent? No way, that girl never missed a day of school since kindergarten. "No I haven't, I just got here. Sorry Nance." I said closing my locker as I rubbed her shoulder for reassurance. I could tell she was a little iffy about her not being at school yet.

𐬾🝮🜚⚘☾𐬾

        Finally finding Jonathan after not seeing him all day I ran towards him. "Jonathan, wait!" I yelled as he stopped to wait for me. "I haven't seen you all day where have you been?" I asked. "Sorry i've been doing stuff.." As he replied I furrowed my brows and looked to where he was looking at.

      Steve, Tommy, Carol and another girl was standing next to Jonathan's car. "Hey man, hey Emerson." I rolled my eyes at the sound of Steve saying my last name.

      "What's going on?" "Nicole here was, uh, telling us about your work." Steve said with a bit of aggression in his voice. "We've heard great things." "Yeah, sounds cool." Tommy said cutting Carol off. "And we'd just love to take a look. You know, as...connouisserus of art." Steve said as I furrowed my eyebrows.

      What was he talking about? "What?" I asked as Jonathan hurried to him to get in his car. "I don't know what your talking about." As he was about to get in Tommy swung by him and snatched his bag in a second. As he tossed it to Steve he begged for his bag back. "Man, he's is totally trembling. He must really have something to hide." Steve said as he looked around at all of us.

      I was having enough of their shit so I stepped  up myself. "Just give him the bag Steve." I said looking dead straight in his eyes. Looking back at mine he shook his head. "No." He said taking pictures out of Jonathan's bag.

      As they all looked at the pictures I could see Jonathan stiffened. "Yeah like this isn't creepy at all." Carol smacked her lips with her bright pink bubble gum in her mouth. "Yeah you should definitely stay away from that creep Emerson." Steve insisted.

      I still didn't get the memo for what was going on till Nancy came next to me herself. "What's going on?" She asked me while I shrugged my shoulders.

      "Here's the starring lady." Tommy called out. Nancy asked what they were talking about as Carol called out "This creep was spying on us last night. He was probably gonna save this one for later." As me and Nancy looked in confusion I looked Jonathan and to Nancy as Carol gave her the picture.

      Looking over it looked like Nancy taking her shirt off. As we both looked at him in confusion Steve started talking again. As I heard the sound of paper ripping I turned back to steve. "So, we'll just have to take away his toy." "No, please, not the camera." Jonathan begged as Tommy held him back.

      "No, wait Tommy, it's okay. Here you go man." Steve said as he was about to hand Jonathan back his camera. Just as he was about to grab it Steve dropped it and we all saw it break on the street.

        As I heard Tommy's annoying laugh I looked at Steve dead in the eye with anger stirring in me and my eyebrows furrowed. "Dude!" As me and Steve looked at each other for a couple of seconds I could see he got jittery. "Come on, let's go the game about to start." As the all left I stared down Steve as he walked away.

       I didn't think he was this much of an asshole to be honest but, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈.

       As I helped Jonathan pick up the pieces of his camera I noticed Nancy picking up pieces of paper in a hurry to get back to Steve as she left with a 'sorry' smile.

      As I helped Jonathan I patted his shoulder. "I'm sorry about your camera." He looked at me with glossy eyes and got in his car.

𐬾🝮🜚⚘☾𐬾

         Once I got home I looked at my window. Just staring at it gives me the creeps. I decided I would take a nap. I desperately needed it.

As I heard ringing I decided to get up and answer the phone. "Hello?" I asked. "What..?"

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒐 𝒊𝒎 𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒎 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒋𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒉𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒖𝒖 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒍!!