love me - stranger things²

[025] flashing lights.

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE

flashing lights.

THE WORLD WAS DARK, FLIMSY TREE BRANCHES CRACKING QUIETLY UNDER THEIR FEET AS THEIR MOTHER SOURCES HUNG EERILY ABOVE THEM. The sky continued to crackle, any sound that hadn't originated from themselves causing the five to snap their heads over quickly, their hearts pounding in their chest out of fear. "Couldn't we have tried a road, or something just slightly less creepy?" Robin questioned, Jennifer and Nancy, walking along either side of her while the two boys strayed a few steps behind, Steve scanning the grounds with the flashlight from the back.

"I think we're getting close. We're almost out of here. Don't worry." Nancy attempted to reassure, her legs already tired from walking.

"Eddie!" Steve called out. "Eddie. Hey, man. Uh... listen, I just, uh... I just want to say thanks. For saving my ass back there." Steve slowly lures out, leaves crunching beneath them.

"Shit. You saved your own ass, man. I mean, that was a real Ozzy move you pulled back there."

"Ozzy?" Steve questioned, confused.

"When you took a bite out of that bat. Ozzy Osbourne? Black Sabbath?" Eddie counted off, waiting for Steve's moment of realisation. "He bit a bat's head off onstage."

"I don't-"

"You know? Doesn't matter."

"No." The two ended awkwardly, Eddie failing to get his point across.

"It's very metal, what you did. That's all I'm saying." He finally finished, Steve thanking him before an awkward silence fell upon the two. "Henderson told me you were a badass." Eddie continued. "Insisted on the matter, in fact."

"Wait, Henderson said that?"

"Oh yeah. Shit. Kid worships you, dude. Like, you have no idea. It's kind of annoying, to be honest. I don't even know why I care what that little shrimp thinks, but, uh, guess I got a little jealous, Steve." Eddie says aloud, Steve listening on quietly. "I guess I couldn't accept the fact that Steve Harrington was actually a good dude." He slightly teased, stretching out his name. "Rich parents, popular, chicks love him. Not a douche? No way, man. No way. That, like, flies in the face of all the laws in the universe and my own personal Munson doctrine." He rambles on.