Trauma Finds Love | Eddie Munson

PROLOGUE

Summer of 1985:
Everything seemed to be as perfect as I could imagine it. I got a job as Scoops Ahoy in the new Starcourt Mall along with my brother, Steve Harrington and a girl named Robin Buckley. I was dating Billy Hargrove...sure he could be a bit of a prick sometimes. But I loved him. And he loved me.

Steve never really approved of the relationship and made it really obvious but he luckily never got in the way of it. Everything seemed perfect. Everything was perfect.

That was...until one random night while I was serving customers the lights randomly went out. And not just in the shop...or the mall...but in almost all of Hawkins.

"That's isn't gunna work dingus." I heard Robin, who was at the cashier, say. I turned around and saw Steve switching the switch rapidly. I raise my eyebrow at him. "Do you really think that doing that is going to magically turn on all the lights in the mall?"

"Maybe it will" he shrugged and increased his speed on the switch. I rolled my eyes and gave an apologetic smile at the cutsomers.

Suddenly, the lights turned back on just as Steve switched the switch upwards. "Let there be light" he extended his hand and went back to the customers. I sigh and continue to serve ice scream as well.

Little did we know, that was only the start to yet another year of paranormal upside down things. That would cause trouble, trauma, heartbreak, and much more on an emotional rollercoaster.

Lost story short, Robin, Steve, Me, Dustin, and Erica Sinclair...yes Erica Sinclair...we all got stuck in a russian elevator. Tried to break out, eventually did but we got drugged. Dustin and Erica broke us out that smelly room, got chased by russians, and were eventually able to escape them.

Steve confessed his feeling to Robin to which he got rejected since she was into girls. Got scolded by Dustin, and saw Russians get killed thanks to Eleven. We found out that those Russians were using a big machine thing to open the gate, causing the mind flayer to go all crazy and possess my boyfriend and some random girl named Heather to melt people and turn into this big monster thing.

Eleven almost died because of that thing, which was huge by the way, but Billy gave up his own life to save El.

Flashback:
We all ran out of fireworks that we were throwing at the monster and I ran down the stairs to go to Max. Only to look up and see Billy standing in front of the Monster, gaurding Eleven. I watched wide-eyes as the monster clawed this weird things into him, before finishing him off with a bigger claw right into his chest.

"Billy!" Max yelled from next to me. "Billy, no!!" I shouted as he fell to the ground. I ran up to him as Max sat across from me on the other side of Billy's body. Tears were falling out my eyes and onto him. I couldn't lose him. Not now. Not ever...

"Billy...Billy, c'mon get up, please. Billy, get up, please, please" Max pleaded. I took Billy's hand in mine not wanting to let go. "I'm sorry" Billy choked out. He slowly turned his head to me, as much as he could, and slightly squeezed my hand, not being able to do much.

"I love you..." he said hoarsely. I sobbed and looked at him "i-...i love you too..." I whispered against his hand. He let out his last breath and I sobbed even more.

Max was shaking his body pleading for him to get up. I knew it wouldn't do much. I looked at her and she looked at me. I was a crying mess. "Billy!" Max sobbed out. I crawled over to Max and immediately took her into my arms as we cried together.

Billy was gone...and there was nothing we could do about it

End of Flashback

After all of that happened I was still heartbroken. But I pushed myself forward. I had to remain strong. At least for Max who became like a little sister to me. We helped each other mourn towards our loss but we seemed to be getting better.

Robin, Steve and I eventually got another job as the Family Video and started working there. Everything seemed to be getting back to normal.

That was until 1986...where our lives became more at risk than they ever were.

a/n: Im not sure if this prologue was a little too long or not but I needed to fit everything in. I hope you guys liked it. School starts in like 4 days so I'm not sure I'll be able to work as much on this but I'll try my best. Love you guys 💕

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