Keep Safe || Jopper ||

1948

Hawkins
1950

As I walked into school I felt my nerve build up I was six years old and my mom and dad were leaving me in this big and scary place 'School' "But please don't leave mom" "Joyce hun we will see you later have a good day" "Mommm" "Sorry love you" With that my mom left and i was sitting at my desk a bunch of wild kids running around i noticed some of them from when i would walk to the shop with my dad but i would always rather read a book then going outside actually having to socialise all I had was my cat 'Furry' I begged for a year to get her suddenly the door burst open and a man walked in "Dont be shy and get the hell in here" suddenly a boy about my age a little taller and he wore raggy clothes walked in shyly behind him "I'll see you when you get home from school" and that guy that looked to be his dad walked out, I seen a tear drop from the boys eye but he quickly wiped it I had never seen him around before, so I do what anyone with no friends do and I walk up to him and hold out my hand "Joyce, Joyce Horwitz" "J-Jim, Well James, James hopper but people always call me hopper" he shakes my hand and I lead him to the seat beside mine "I need friends so do you" Hopper looked at me "Friends then" "Forever" I lept forward and hugged him

"So what's your favourite colour" "blue what about you" I picked up a purple crayon for my picture "purple".
A little while later we were took outside to play "Hey hopper want to play on the swings" "Yeah let's go" We start to run to the swings and we both jump on one "I bet I can go higher Horwitz" "No way Hopper" as we were picking up a bit of speed some kids from the class above walked over to us "Hey get off this is our swing set" "I don't see your name on it" I smiled but hopper got off the swing looking scared "Hopper get back on don't listen to those jerks" "Yeah hopper listen to the lady and see what happens" "Joyce we should go" "Yeah Joyce" "Kiss my ass" with that the two guys dragged me of the swing but hopper suprisingly kept on the guy who was talking to us and started beating him to be honest I don't know were the two of us found the courage but hopper was dragged of the boy by a teacher from that day nobody tried to mess with us.

Two days after hopper was supposed to come back to school "Hurry up mom" My mom was trying to butter me toast "No getting you or that hopper boy in trouble okay" "Yeah okay" As my mam place the toast on the table a gobbled it up and jumped of my chair "Come on lets go" The school wasn't far from my house it was about a five minute walk but I nearly ran I was so excited to meet my friend again "Have a good day sweety" "Thanks love you" And I ran into my classroom hopper was sitting at his desk with his head down in his arms I ran up to him "Hopper your back" "Joyce?" He sat up and I hugged him "Your really brave hop" "Thanks but not as brave as you" "I would not have done what you done in a million years" I sat down in my desk next to his "My mom asked if you'd like to come over tomorrow after school she said you'll have to ask your dad though" "Yeah im sure he'll say yeah" I had found my bestfriend forever "Wanna be best friends" "Yeah!" I hugged him again.