~My Stella~ •|Steve Harrington X OC|•

Chapter 3

Asteria's POV

We turned to look around and found a demodog, as Dustin would like to call it.
"Hey buddy." Dustin neared it. I was about go behind him but Steve pulled me back and kept his arm around my waist.

Even If I had feelings for this guy, now is not the right fucking time to blush at his actions. That's right. I like Steve 'the hair' Harrington. Since high school started. I liked him, but he decided to sleep around with every other girl out there.

I had a tough time after going to California. I was actually glad we got to work together last year. But yea, he's got feelings for Nancy. I can't do shit.
"Aster! Let's go!" He whispered yelled to me putting his hair back in place, god was that hot.

I snap back to reality and ran. I was behind them as usual and we ran. Suddenly the ground began shaking.
"Steve! They're coming. Send the kids." I yelled from behind. Fuck this is scary. Shit scary.
I ran after them as Steve sent one by one up. Dustin finally got up when we saw the bunch appear.

Steve pulled me back to his chest as the those came closer. I heard Mike and the others scream, Steve's grip tightened and both of us closed shit out eyes turning away. But it wasn't like we thought.

They ran straight past us. I realised I was holding on to Steve's hand as he was holding on to my body.
"Eleven." I heard Mike say.
She's closing the gate. I hope they're ok. The both of us took off our bandanas. He held me up as I pulled myself up to the ground.

I lent my hand to Steve and he climbed back up too. I lay on the ground, catching my breath and so did Steve. Fuck that was scary.
"You alright?" Steve asked.
I chuckled
"Gorgeous as I'll ever be, Harrington. What about you? Missing a bone or two?" I asked sarcastically
"You wish." He smiled back and got on his feet

The lights went blindingly bright and I knew instantly who it was.
El. I hope she'll do it. We decided to head back. Steve and I decided to take the kids to the hospital and call Hopper and Joyce there.

I'm aching everywhere to be honest.

I got on my bike.
"You think, I can join you too?" I saw Mike.
"Sure bud. Promise you'll hang on tight." I said as he hopped on. I gave my helmet to him.
"You two better be in one piece when we get there." Steve said.
He might be a douche. But he's not that bad. I chuckled and sped through.

"Aster. Do you think El did it?" Mike asked.
"Sure as hell. She's the most badass person I know." I said smiling
"Nah. You're the most badass. Especially when you kicked Max's brother in his crotch." He snickered.
"Oh my god. Don't we need to check on him? I'll do it once I drop you off." I said.
"Also, do you like Steve?" I chocked on his question.
"Mike! How could you ask that? He's your sister's boyfriend." I said
"Nah. they're better off. " He said

We reached the hospital and then we all got checked in.
Soon enough everyone appeared. My and Steve were taken into the same room, the nurse was utterly shocked about the blood stains.
Thankfully my head didn't need any stitches. She wrapped it and did my face, so did Steve. We both threw glances at each other time to time.

Seriously, being close to him was dangerous. The way he held me close during the demodog attack underground, the way he effortlessly lift me, and heavens sake when he corrects his hair. Everything he did was perfect. Fuck.

My eyes followed his abs when the nurse asked to look for wounds underneath. Ugh! Kill me Harrington.
I raised my tank top, which revealed my blue abdomen. Which I forgot existed.

"Umm..that doesn't look new." The nurse said.
"I'm sorry, forget you ever saw that." I said trying to hide.
"I can't not say this to your parent-"
"No! No. Please don't. Not my dad." I said.
"He has to come sign the papers anyway. It's mandatory." She insisted
"He lives in California. He wouldn't come here, so don't bother. I'd be a major in like 3 months." I said.

"Guardian?" She asked with pity eyes. I hate that. I hate whenever they pity me.
"No." I said putting my head down.
"Ok. But promise you'd take care of it. I'll ask one of the people who came with you to sign the papers." She said.
I gulped down the lump formed in my throat and nodded.
"Take some rest in here and you can leave by morning. That's to the both of you." She said.

I forgot Steve harrington was here.

I felt tears dropping down my eyes. I wiped some off but it's still pour. I tried to ba as quiet as possible. But then Steve Harrington was on his knees before me crouched down.
"Hey. Hey. It's okay." He said pulling me to his chest.
This was making it worse. I was crying even more. I tried to pull away but he wouldn't let me.

"It's okay, let it out." He said rubbing my back.
"You're such a kid, Denvers." He chuckled trying to enlighten the mood.
"This kid is high maintenance, Harrington." I said with a smile and pulled away
"There's the smile." He said before siting beside me.

"I'm sorry, about your shirt." I said point out my rear stain.
"Eh, doesn't matter, it's already got all the blood, sweat, everything." He said
"I can't wait to go home and shower. My parents are out as always. Gotta apply for college too. God this is gonna be a bad year. I mean I'm the basketball team captain. But I feel like I won't come up to the expectation." He said.

"We'll try, Harrington." I said.
"Also, why the hell did you let Max drive? Are you crazy!" He started.
"Oops." I said before darting away out the door.
"Asteria Josie Denvers get your ass back here, you idiot." I heard him yell behind me.
Joyce! I ran behind her. She started laughing. It's been a while since I saw her laugh like this.

"What are you two up to. Go get some sleep. Tomorrows probably gonna be a big day." She said with a chuckle. We spotted Jonathan and Nancy on the other side of the room.
"He's trying to kill me." I said Hiding behind her.
"You almost killed me! What were you even thinking. You get your pretty ass back here." He yelled again as I started running back to our room.

Just then, the nurse came in.
"I TOLD YOU CHILDREN TO REST. GET YO ASS BACK IN THAT BED RIGHT NOW." she shrieked.
The both of us shut up and got into bed.
"Will Byers is up. You can meet him tomorrow. Now drink this soup and eat that bread before going to sleep. Got that?" She said. We both vigorously nodded our head.

After chit chatting, we fell asleep like a log. I actually needed it after 4 days of travel and 1 day of trying to survive. This was essential. I thought about Will the whole time. So much things that Poor boy's been through.

Just as I slept, I was falling again. Into deep nothingness. It was that again. Just void. And I was breathing hard and fast. Then I hit the ground. I could actually feel the pain in the back of my head.
"Aster..." I heard a voice. Static and unclear.
"Who's that.....who the fuck is that!" I yelled but no voice.
I stood up. Then I saw it, the spider. Just like in Wills drawing. No.
This cannot happen.

"Who is this? What the fuck is this!" I tried running , but it was starting to feel cold. Then I was on the ground as veins caught my hand and legs. I screamed but no sound.

"Help! Help!" I tried but no sound.
I felt the veins swirl around my neck and then inside my mouth. I couldn't breath. I tried to pull my hand but no use. Eventually it tightened and all the air left tin my body went out. Just as I was about to give up, the veins let go.

"-ster! ASTER!" I heard Steve.
But I was still in the void. But now I felt ground.
"Aster! Open your eyes. Fuck!" He was wiping stuff off my forehead and neck. Then I woke up and sat up. Gasping for air.

"Aster!" Steve pulled me into a hug.
"What the fuck happened, right now? You sounded like something was strangling you." He said.
"Something was. It's been haunting me lately. I feel like falling through a black void. But then today I ended up in the ground. I saw the huge ass spider, from Will's drawings. But the building, it was new. I have a feeling this isn't over yet, Steve." I said

"Hey, Aster. You're just stressing. We burnt the hive, el closed the gate, Will's safe too. See. It's nothing" Steve said as he stood beside me.
"Yea. It's probably nothing." I mumbled to myself. He asked me get get some sleep and went off to his bed.

It's nothing. Just nightmares.