COMPLETE UNTIL SEASON FIVE
In 1980s Indiana, Judy Hopper and her group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, they unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries. In the midst, love and...
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Slowly, the Hopper family got into their usual rhythm. Judy, El and Hopper were back in the cabin, acting the same as before any of the last week had happened. Well, not completely. Hopper had let loose much more, he seemed to have a weight lifted off his shoulders now that everyone knew about El.
She had pretty much the same rules, but Hopper told El that she could have her friends come over - sometimes. There was just a lightness in the air that wasn't there before. Even still, no one could erase the fact right in the middle of the town, there was once a portal to another dimension, ready to let loose upon things that the world would never be prepared for.
Even though El closed the gate, saving everyone, Judy could see she was still scared. She was just a kid, saving the people she loved time and time again, and she'd only just begun to really live.
Judy felt the same, different but the same. If she thought about it too long, she'd grow sad over the fact that she fought an alien creature before she even had her first kiss. As funny as it may have sounded, it made her sad. Things were so strange and everyone went back to normal too fast, like nothing had even happened. Judy couldn't handle it like everyone else. She hated laying awake at night thinking about it all, while everyone just moved on.
Since the night since the gate had been closed, which had only been a few days, Judy thought about Steve every night. Whether she was awake or sleeping, she thought about him. What he might be thinking or doing. If he was scared too.
She thought about it all, even as she rode her bike down the road to his house. She couldn't take it anymore. Not knowing what he was doing or thinking. She had to know.
Walking up the front steps to Steve's house, Judy's hands began to sweat even in cold November air. She knew they'd gotten too close for her to be nervous about talking to each other, but she just couldn't help it. She was nervous about that damned kiss. How inconvenient it was that they didn't actually die in each other's arms. Even thinking about it now made her want to cringe, but the door swinging open in front of her, shocked her suddenly.
"Judy?" Steve said, standing in the doorway. His eyebrows were close together in confusion and his hair was wet, hanging in front of his brown eyes.
"Hi," Judy said in a whisper underneath her embarrassed smile. "I was just, um, checking in on you."
Steve's eyebrows stitched closer together and Judy knew he was taken aback by her being there. She would've just ran away right then and there, but her feet were cemented to the ground beneath them. "I just, remember the last time this shit happened, no one talked about it again. I didn't really want to do that this time, you know?" she tried to explain. "Not talk about it, I mean."
Steve slowly nodded his head, "Yeah," he whispered. Moving his body from the doorway, Steve stepped aside and held out his hand to show Judy her way in. "You wanna come in?"
