Should I stay or should I go

Chapter 24 E pluribus unum

What's going on? Poppy said and PJ picked her up

He's here

Poppy started to cry

Lucas was holding author

Ashley pov

There was a blood monster

Holy shit I said and I held Nancy hand

Shit

Nancy, Ashley

Run

Damn

Then we got out of the door

Abigail pov

We walked somewhere

Hey, hey, hey, two at a time

Ashley pov

We ran and cried

Then I started to break down into tears

Oh, my god

I started to scream

Before we died I'm so sorry Nancy for thinking this post was stupid

I forgive you

Jonathan

Jonathan

Abigail pov

We tried the button but it didn't work

Stairs

We went upstairs

We barge in

Jesus

What the f-

Go

Nancy Ashley

Ashley pov

Are you girls okay? Are you girls okay?

Abigail pov

We ran outside

Then it went down a stream

Mia newby a cop said

Yes

I'm so sorry he said

What

Your sister Jennifer got into a car accident and died

Then she went down on her knees and cried

I just hugged her

Then later we put out pictures of Bruce, billy, Jenny, the hollaway family and Mrs Driscoll

It can't be good for her to be in there for this long

Mike, you need to relax

What if she gets brain damage or something?

Mia was resting her head on my lap and crying

Oh, shit, is that, like, a real thing?

No, it's not, he made it up

Mike doesn't know what he's talking about

Oh and you do?

No, I

Then they went to Nancy, Jonathan and Ashley

El dump you

Yeah, if front of his friends and us I said laughing

Then they started to argue again

Then El came in

What's going on?

Nothing, nothing

Just a family discussion

Oh

I found him

Found who?

Then later

We sat down

What's he doing now?

Then El got a glass of water

And that's not normal, right?

Billy staying in his room on the fourth of July?

No, that's not normal

He wants to find him

Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of, if we go to billy, then the rest of the flayed know where we are

It's a trap, I agree, we'll be ambushed

We won't be surprised

We'll know that they're coming and we kick their flayed butts

You mean El with kick their butts

It's too risky

Yeah, and unnecessary, killing the flayed won't stop the mind flayer

We have to find out where it's spreading from

We have to find the source

Billy knows it

Billy's been there, to the source

Yeah, but

It's a trap, I know

We can't go to billy

But I think there's another way

A way for me to see where he's been

El, I know you think you have to do this, but you don't

It's just, you've only done this before once

And your mom, she loved you, and wanted you to know what happened

And Billy's mind is, is sick, diseased

The mind flayer is in him

He can't hurt me

Not in there

We don't know that

Mike

I need you to trust me

Yeah

Just, be careful

Then she put the blind on

Then there was something wrong with her

Something's wrong

El, are you okay

Are you okay?

I'm okay

What's going on?

I'm, on a beach

Okay, I may be dense, but the last I checked, there weren't any beaches in Hawkins

What else do you see?

A woman, with a 5 year old girl, she's, pretty

I, I think she's looking at me

There's a boy

It's billy and the 5 year old is leni

Mommy leni muttered with tears in her eyes

It's California

It's a memory

I think I see it, the source

About an hour later

She started to cry

No

El, you're okay, it's, it's okay

El

Then leni Started crying on Max chest

1982

It was the 4th of July and mom was baking

Hi mom

Hey, baby

What are you doing?

Baking a 4th of July cake, do you want to help

I nodded

Hello, my bakers dad said and kissed mom lips and kissed my head