୨⎯ "𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑" ⎯୧ | STRANGER THINGS

❝ 𝗘𝗣 𝟯; 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗚 ❞

- Your POV

I was on my way to school. Walking. Since Steve was too sad to take me after Tina's party. "Hey! Y/n! Y/n wait a sec!" I turned around and saw Dustin. "Oh hi, Dustin." I greeted back. He looked like he was in a rush. "We need to head to the library really quick! I have something important I need to research." He told me.

"We're going to be late to school if we stop by the library." I tried to explain. "I'm Mr Clarke's favorite student! We're fine! Now let's go." He argues back. I sighed and got on the back of his bike.

We finally got to the town library. And we rushed inside to the reptile section of the shelves. Books started piling up in his hands so that meant I had to hold some too. Once he finished picking out all the books he needed, we went to the front desk to check them out.

The librarian stared at us for a second and back at the books "Mr Henderson, you know the rules. Five at a time." She told him. "Yep! One, two, three, four, five.." he counted. "Ten. You already have five books checked out." He then started trying to talk everything out which wasn't going to work.

"Hey? What's that up there?!?." I asked while pointing out to nowhere. Dustin grabbed the books when she looked away and we ran out of the library. "Mr. Henderson!" She yelled. "I need my paddles!" He responded while opening the door. "Put it on Steve Harringtons tab! Thanks!" I said while running out. "We don't... do tabs."

"If I get in trouble this is all your fault, Dustin!" I yelled at him. "We're not going to get in trouble, now cmon we're almost there!" We finally got to school, and we were late. I was kind of scared, just barging into science during a lesson. "Hey. entry quietly oka-" I was going to tell Dustin to not make a scene before he slammed the science door open.

"We are so sorry Mr. Clarke. Really we're so sorry.. please continue your class." Dustin said out of breath. "Sorry," I said as well while getting to my seat. Everyone was staring at us which made this worse. Dustin whispered something to his friends then to Max and me. "Av club. Lunch." He whispered before getting called out by Mr Clarke. "Av club." He whispered again, Max gave him a thumbs up and I nodded at him while opening my book.

During lunch, we went to the AV room. Dustin opened the box and we saw some weird creature in there. "His name is D'Artagnan." He told us "Cute right?" He put it up to my face. I pushed his hand away. "He was in your trash?" Max asked him. "Forging for food. Wanna hold him?" He gave the creature to Max. Then she passed it to Lucas. Lucas was grossed out and gave it to Will. Then he handed it to Mike. He wasn't grossed out.

"What is he?" Mike asked Dustin. "My question exactly." He started talking about how he thought it was some sort of Polly wog. He said they were aquatic but this thing was totally not in water. Lucas pointed out that there were also non-aquatic polly wogs, but there were only two in the world. And they couldn't have just gotten here out of nowhere, especially in a trash can.

Then Mike saw that something was moving inside of its body. We all took a closer look and Mike put a light over it which it started to screech. It almost ran off the table before Dustin caught it. He began to pamper it which got some weird looks from us. He explained that Dart hated light which isn't necessarily normal. "I've discovered a new species." He told us.

After school Lucas, Max, Dustin, and I headed to Mr. Clarke's room. "This is the reason we were late for class." Dustin put down his box with dart in it for Mr. Clarke to see. Dustin started rambling on about how he couldn't steal his discovery and stuff. "Dustin just open the trap!" I told him getting irritated. We were then interrupted by Mike telling the teacher that it was just a prank while taking the box. "We need to go right now! Right now!." He yelled at us making us run out after him.

Max and I tried to go in the club room with them but they locked us out. She was banging on the door while I sat against the wall fixing my makeup. "Guys cmon can we go in yet?!" Max asked getting a quick 'no' from Mike. I closed the compact and sighed. We waited for a while, Max was getting irritated now. "Do you have a paper clip?" She asked me. I opened my supply bag and gave her one. She bent it and started opening the lock with it. She opened the door and some weird creature came running out. I got up fast but we got pushed down again by the boys who were rushing out to catch him.

"What was that?!" Max asked. "Dart! You let him escape." Mike told her while running off. Dustin told him not to hurt Dart. Then we all went our separate ways to find Dart. Lucas and Max went together, Will, Dustin, Mike, and I went different ways. I went to the gym, and I didn't see anything so then I went inside the locker room.

Someone else walked in when I was rummaging through the stuff. It was Mike and he pointed a broom at me, which made me jump. "What's wrong with you?!" I yelled at him. "What are you doing in here?!" Mike asked. "I'm looking for that thing." I scoffed at him. "This is the boy's room." He said. "So?" I replied. "Just leave!" He yelled.

"I just don't get why you got so cold all of a sudden!" I yelled at him while walking to the locker room. "I'm not being cold. I just don't want to talk to you." He told me. "Why out of nowhere though? I thought we were cool." I tried reasoning with him. "Well, we're not!" He responded. "But I didn't do anything?!" I tried again. "You're just annoying! And we don't need more members in our party."

"I'm our paladin, Will's our cleric, Dustin's our bard, Lucas is our ranger, and El is our mage." He told me. "El? Who's El?" I asked him. "Someone. No one." He said. "Someone or no one?" I question. "She was in our party a long time ago. She moved away okay?" Mike explains while trying to walk away.

"She was a mage? Can she do magic or something?" I asked while running circles around him. I got kinda dizzy but I wanted to annoy him. "I can do something too yknow! I can be your musician!" I told him, though I only had skill in piano. "That doesn't exist." He said. "It can be now." I grabbed his hand and started spinning him around like a girl. Then began singing careless whisper very terribly.

"Are you impressed?" I asked him while laughing. "No!" He said. He then began to kinda smile at my strange harmonizing. Midway through the song, I improvised lyrics and my voice cracked. He started laughing. "Are you impressed now?!" I asked again. "I guess. But you messed up the lyrics!" He replied.

I started to slow down my circling and began to walk around him instead. But then I tripped, there wasn't anything in front of me but it felt like a forced push. "Woah are you okay?!" He asked me while taking out a hand for me to grab. "Yeah, I'm good," I reassured him while grabbing his hand. "What happened?" He questioned. "I'm not sure it felt like someone pushed me or something. Sounds insane right?" I told him.

I picked up my backpack also some of the pens that fell out of my pocket when I fell. I saw that Mike ran out of the gym. "What's wrong did you see something?" I asked opening the gym door. "No, it's fine. C'mon, let's see if the others found dart." He told me while walking off. I followed.

Mike got a message from Will saying he found him in the bathroom. So we rushed over there. We went inside the bathroom and saw Dustin. "Where's Dart?" Mike asked him. "I don't know.. not here," Dustin replied. Then Mike noticed that Will wasn't anywhere in here. "Where is Will?"

We started searching for him instead. Something was off about him if everyone had to constantly keep an eye on him.

And it wasn't just panic attacks.

⎯⎯ ୨ Authors Corner ୧ ⎯⎯
hii guys hope you liked this one. I lowkey changed it to a Dustin x Reader (for later) because of this chapter tbh. Anyway thanks for reading, might write another tonight lmao.

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