-This nighT-

+Chapter Twenty-Three+

I wake up and check my alarm clock. 11:36!?

I can either take an absence for the day or show up a few hours late. Mom would kill me if I picked the first option, by the time I get there it will be lunch anyway. So I should probably start getting ready.
-time skip-

Well, I was wrong.
By the time I got to school it was PP class. Oh sorry, PE class. I don't like PE, I only like volleyball. That's it. Today, my class gets to run around the track; we usually run around 8-13 laps depending on your stamina and how fast you're going.

Whenever we run around the track I run one lap, check to see if anyone's looking, then duck in between two buildings behind some trashcans. No one can see you. So I did that. Even though I won silver at state I still hate running.
After waiting a few minutes I hear talking in the alleyway I'm in.

"Where were you this morning? I missed first period." Nancy? I peak around the trash can and see Nancy and Steve.

"I figured Jonathan would take you." Oh, shit.

"Wha... What are you talking about?"

"Jesus, you really can't handle your alcohol.You remember going to Tina's
party last night, right?"

"Yes."
"And then what?"

"I remember dancing, and, spilling some punch. You got mad at me because I was drunk, and then you took me home."
That didn't happen? He took me home...

"No, see, that's where your mind gets a little bit fuzzy. That was your other boyfriend. That was... That was Jonathan."

"I don't understand."
"It's pretty simple, Nancy. You were just telling it like it is."
"What?"

"Oh! Do you not remember? Well, apparently, um...we killed Barb and I don't care, 'cause I'm bullshit. Our whole relationship is bullshit, and... I mean, pretty much everything is just 'bullshit, bullshit, bullshit'. Oh, yeah, also, you don't love me."

"I was drunk, Steve. I...I don't remember any of that."

"So that makes everything that you said... It's what? Just bullshit, too?"

"Yes!"
"Well, then tell me."

"Tell you what?"

"That you...you love me."

"Really?" Nancy looks at him disbelievingly.

Suddenly the gym door burst open.
"Harrington! Dude, we need you, man. That
douchebag's killing us. Let's go!"

"All right!"
"Come on!" The guy runs back inside.

"I think that you're bullshit." Steve gives one last look to Nancy and goes inside.

Nancy stands with her mouth agape, scoffs, then heads to wherever she's going. I wait a few more minutes than go outside to finish my 'last lap'.
-time skip-
(At home)
I went home from school early. Something about me is off I can feel it.
*ring* the house phone rings.
I walk over to pick it up.
"Hello, Henderson Household, you're speaking to Y/n."
"Y/n! Just the person I wanted to talk to. It's me Joyce. I need you to come over to my house I have an important question; it's an emergency."

-time skip-
(Byers Residence)
"Does this look familiar to you?" She lays out a paper in front of me.
On it is the squid monster.
"I..."
"Y/n, please." She says after I hesitate a moment.
"I recognize it."
"You do? From where?"
"I've been getting these dreams of the Upside Down for as long as I can remember. It's from there. How...how do you have a drawing of it?"

"Will drew this one..." she points at the one I looked at.
"And I drew this one, from the TV." She walks over to the TV where you can see a static outline of the squid monster. Creepy...