Basic Instinct [stranger things]

96. Concerns

CHAPTER NINETY-SIX
CONCERNS

The said person who had caught the group at the school just so happened to be Lucas Sinclair.

The Sinclair boy was stressed to say the least. And unlike usual, Aaron wasn't paying attention to anything his best friend was saying, never mind trying to help him with his problem.

He was much too concerned with Kimberley Jenkins to focus on anything else.

Truthfully Aaron had hardly paid any attention to anything what was actually said on the car ride home from the high school at all.

It was Nancy's idea for the group to head back to her house to go over everything, seemingly convinced that would be the best place seeing as they'd have the space and privacy of the basement.

Robin and Nancy were in Nancy's car, leaving everyone else to pile into Steve's.

Dustin was in the front of Steve's car once more, leaving Max, Lucas, Kimmy and Aaron squashed into the backseat.

Aaron didn't care - in fact he'd hardly noticed. He was too lost in his own thoughts, and he wasn't the only one.

Max and Kimmy hadn't spoken once since the group had left the school, neither had Aaron. Although he assumed it had been for different reasons.

Max was most definitely slowly creeping down the same road that both Chrissy and Fred had, there was no denying that.

However Aaron was fighting with every fibre of his being to convince himself that Kimmy would be perfectly fine. That it was nothing but an inconvenient coincidence - that it was his overthinking and nothing more.

He'd sat biting his nails with his gaze never once leaving the view outwith the car window as he allowed his thoughts to consume him while the voices of Lucas and Dustin blurred into the background.

The shock from earlier hadn't exactly worn off, in fact he could feel himself getting more and more overwhelmed with each thought that entered his head.

But just like before, he was so frantic that he almost appeared calm to the eye, he was feeling so much fear that he didn't know what to do with himself.

His usual frantic breaths that usually possessed Aaron while panicked were not present, just like his usual panicked opinions and objects. Rather, the only thing that told the blond just how worried he really was, was the worryingly swift rate of his heartbeat as well as the fact his body wouldn't allow himself to as much as form a full thought.

Everything was a fuzzy blur to him, he wouldn't have even known if they'd arrived at Nancy and Mike's house unless someone spoke to him directly and let him know.

He was aware that Max was in grave danger - and he was greatly worried about his friend. But he couldn't lie to himself and attempt to say that he was more worried about Max than he was for Kimmy.

Without a doubt, Aaron was more worried about Kimmy by a landslide. So much that he could hardly function.

Perhaps he should have felt guilty about this, and if he'd actually managed to calm himself down by even a fraction then maybe he would have. But he couldn't calm himself down, and he didn't have any more worry left in him for the said misplaced guilt.

He couldn't find it in him to blame himself for his feelings anyway. Of course he'd be more concerned for Kimmy, why wouldn't he have been?

He was friends with Max, yes. But the only reason he'd ever seen her that past year or the only reason they'd even exchanged words was because of Kimmy. Because Kimmy and Max were best friends - that was it.