Babysitting and Bloodbaths

1981 - 1983

So hey I'm Jodi, Jodi Byers and sadly I have chosen to give up my precious time on telling this little story about Steve Harrington and I, and it is quite the story, now I could spend the beginning of this giving a long, boring, time wasting backstory so instead I will try my best to condense everything and then we can get into the juicy stuff, okay? Buckle up buttercups it's about to get messy. 

First lets start with me, who am I exactly? Well I am Jodi Byers (as I have already mentioned) I was born February 26th 1967, but I wasn't the only one born on that date, so was my twin brother Jonathan, the not so little, little freak is 16 minutes younger than me and I feel like that says a lot about who we are as siblings. Our mom is Joyce and our dad is Lonnie Byers (I would call him something else but I don't think my mom would like me using such a word), I also have a younger brother Will, he's sweet but troubled should we say, we'll get into that later but for now we're fast forwarding to October 31st 1981.

October 31st 1981 - My friend Eddie and I got invited to our first high school party, we went dressed as Zombies and I just wanna say if it was a competition we totally would've won. The party was hosted by the walking asshole that is Tommy H but I didn't mind fraternising behind enemy lines because it meant free booze and getting to laugh at the pricks I called my peers.  So I may or may not have taken advantage of the free booze... maybe a little too much, you see Lonnie the man I'm supposed to call my dad had left the week prior and I may or may not have heard him saying he never wanted me but that's totally whatever definitely hasn't scarred me for the rest of my life, anyway I'm meant to be getting through this quickly.

While in my drunken daze, I manage to find my way into a bedroom, just to get away from all the excitement for a bit, I plopped down on the bed and tried to steady my thumping head, I hear a cough coming from the other side of the bed and I roll and peer over the edge to see Steve Harrington laying flat on his back, dressed as a vampire, he looks at me, I look at him, he sits up, so do I.

"Steve Harrington?" I ask as if he wasn't one of the most popular boys in school, he nods. "I haven't seen you since like 7th grade. You probably don't remember me I'm Jo-"

"Jodi Byers, yeah I know who you are." He smirks, I blush. "I mean how could I forget the fastest girl in Hawkins middle school? You still do track?"

"Yeah, you're on the swim team right?" he nods sort of smugly. "So what are you doing, hiding up here?" He gets up and sits on the bed next to me.

"Wanted to escape Nicole, apparently she's got a bit of a crush on me but uh I don't exactly feel the same way, she's cool but not my type." He scans me, trying to work me out. "What about you?"

"The music was a bit too much and I lost my friend to Tommy's dads record collection." 

"Eric?"

"Eddie."

"Oh right yeah, Munson, you two are quite the pair." I give him a puzzled look. "Just you're so different but so similar you know?" I shake my head. "Anyway, you free tomorrow?"

"Oh I'm not sure, why?" I'm taken aback by his forwardness. 

"Well they're showing Carrie at the cinema, and I have no one to go with, you like horror movies right?"

"Yeah, how did you know?" He points at my Texas Chainsaw Massacre shirt. "Oh right." I take a second, thinking over what he's just asked me "Uh sure I'd love to."

"Cool it's at 20:30, I'll meet you there?" I nod, he gets up and heads to the door "It's a date." 

'It's a date' he said 'it's a date' like it was nothing, but it was everything to me. After a few more 'it's a date's we started going together, at first it was kinda awkward, he was popular and I wasn't exactly a social butterfly, but after a month it was great, everyone loved me. they thought I was weird sure but I was the King of the schools Queen so they had to like me. We were happy, naive, immature, and innocent but happy nonetheless. Then October of 1983 rolls around.