Trauma Finds Love | Eddie Munson

Chapter 6

Juliet Harrington

By the time we arrived it was already dark. Steve pulled into the driveway to Lipton's house and Dustin rung the doorbell. We all had flashlights in our hands. Robin and Max seemed to be looking inside the house, flashing their flashlights through the window.

I was standing next to Steve, having my flashlight shine towards Dustin. After no one answered when Dustin rung the doorbell, he rung it again...and again, and again, and again. He tapped it rapidly until Steve spoke up. "Oookay. Well that's settlwd, he's not here."

Dustin knocked on the door after getting impatient with the doorbell. He shouted at the door "Eddie! It's Dustin!" I rolled my eyes and walked to the window flashing my flashlight through it to see if anyone was inside. Which it seemed that no one was.

"We just want to talk, okay?! No cops! I swear! We just wanna help!" He started banging on the door and I huffed in annoyance. "Eddie!" he started ringing the doorbell again and I was getting fed up. "Eddie!! Reefer Rick!!" He shouted as he continued banging on the door "Don't scream that!" Steve scolded him.

I started walking over to Robin and Max when Steve spoke up behind me. "Hey, hey, hey...where are you going?" I looked at him "I'm just going with Max" He nodded and shined his flashlight right in my face. "Don't go too far yeah? It's dark." I cover my eyes with my hand and nod before walking to where Max was.

Max started walking away from the group and I followed her. "Hey, where you going?" The continued walking "Just to see if there's anything here." Max had become like a little sister to me. Especially since Billy's death. We got a bit distant from one another but we were still friends. I followed her to where she pointed her flashlight and there seemed to be a boathouse.

"Hey, guys!" Max called for the group. They looked over at us before walking towards us. We walked to the boathouse shining our flashlights everywhere. We found the door to the boathouse and Robin pushed it open slowly. "Hello? Is anyone home?" I looked around. It was very much a dump compared to my house. The door was very creaky and creaked everytime someone walked in.

Actually, it was the door and the floor. I couldn't even take a step without the floor creaking annoyingly. We all pointed our flashlights around the boathouse to see if we saw anyone.

"What a dump." Steve commented. I looked at him and shook my head as I continued to look around. I heard a click noise and turned around to see Steve had turned his flashlight off. I threw my hand up dramatically "What are you doing?" He just looked at me before grabbing an oar and started hitting the tarp on the boat.

Dustin looked at him and repeated my own question. Steve looked at him before continuing to hit the tarp. Once again Dustin asked him what he was doing before he finally answered. "He might be in here" I watched as he continued to stupidly hit the tarp with the oar. "So take the tarp off!"

"If you're so brave, you take the tarp off" Dustin didn't answer and I just kept watching Steve hit the boat.

"Hey, look over here" Max called. I moved over next to her and she pointed her flashlight at some cans. "Someone was here"

"Maybe he heard us. Got spooked and ran" Robin suggested. I shrugged "Seems like something he'd do"

Dustin spoke up from behind us. I looked at him "Don't worry. Steve will get him with his oar" He said sarcastically. Steve was still hitting the tarp and I walked over to them.

"I know you think you're being funny Henderson, but considering the fact that everyone in this room has nearly died about a hundred times, personally, I don't find it funny in the slight-"

I cut him off my snatching the oar from his hand. "Okay you guys are being stupid." I reached for the end of the tarp when a figure suddenly jumped from under it and pushed me against the wall. I grunted and felt a sharp glass against my throat as everyone in the room started yelling.

Dustin ran over and started yelling "Woah, woah, woah, woah! Eddie! Eddie! Stop!" He kept repeating his name until Eddie finally looked at him. I was breathing heavily with my back pressed against the wall. Steve had the oar in his hand again which I found rather stupid.

"It's me...it's Dustin! This is Juliet! She's not gunna hurt you..." He said more calmly now. Eddie turned his head to look at me and I looked back at him with wide eyes. "Right, Jules?" Dustin asked me. I was barely able to get the words out but I slightly nodded before replying. "Yeah...right"

Dustin turned to Steve who was glaring at Eddie with the oar in his hand. "Steve...why don't you drop the oar..." Steve looked at me and I begged him to do so with my eyes. He gave in and place the oar on the wall but it fell causing Eddie to press the glass harder against my throat making me wince.

"They're cool! They're cool!" Dustin shouted extending his hand towards Eddie. Eddie looked at me before finally saying something "What are you doing here?" He asked shakily.

Dustin answered with "We're looking for you." Robin then spoke up "We're here to help" Eddie looked at them. "Eddie, these are my friends...you know Robin. From band." She imitated a trumpet in her hand. "This is my friend Max, the one who never wants to play DnD" Max waved at him and Dustin spoke up again. "Eddie...We're on your side" He said slowly

"I swear on my mother!" He suddenly yelled out. "Right, guys?"

"Yes, yes we swear"

"yeah, Dustin's mother"

"Yeah sure, Dustin's mother"

Eddie looked at me and I slightly nodded. "Yeah...D-Dustin's mom..." He stared at me for a second before finally letting go. I sighed in relief and dragged my back down the wall. Steve walked over to me "You okay?" I nod at him before holding my neck and steadying my breath.

I finally get myself straight and see Eddie slide himself down the wall with a scared expression. I sit down on a box that was there and kept my hand around my neck. Robin had also come to check on me and stood next to me with her hand on my shoulder.

"Eddie...we just want to talk" Dustin said leaning down to be face to face with Eddie. He tried to grab Eddie's hand slowly but he flinched away. "Okay?" He said extending his hand towards Robin and Max who tried to get closer.

Robin kneeled herself next to Dustin. "We want to know what happened"

I moved myself from the box I was sitting on to kneel myself next to Robin. Steve moved over too, to get closer to me.

Eddie sniffed before looking at me shaking his head "You won't believe me" his voice was shaky, scared...I couldn't help but feel bad for him. Max spoke up "Try us"

a/n: not much conversation between eddie and juliet but we will have some moments with them for the next few chapters. Let's be patient guys.

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