୨⎯ "𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑" ⎯୧ | STRANGER THINGS

❝ 𝐄𝐏 𝟔; 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐄 ❞

- Your POV

"Not to be a wimp but can I stay in the car? Cause this is gonna totally and royally suck," Robin complains. "It'll be fine," Nancy reassured. "I just can't stand to see those dull eyes of Eddies break again, I really really can't, " she sighed. "At least he can drink himself into feeling better," Steve joked from the back seat. "That's what my mom does," Max sarcastically added. "Maybe he'll pay me back if he can't eat this stuff out of fear," I scoffed, laying my head against the window. "I said I'll pay you back okay Y/n? We all appreciate the snacks," Steve sighed. Robin began talking to herself about how we were going to tell Eddie all this new information.  Nancy and Lucas stop her and Nance tells Robin a simpler summary.

"Oh shit..." Nancy says. All of our attention goes over toward Nancy's direction. Various news anchors and police officers are out in Eddie's hiding spot. We all rush out to see the commotion. "This way," Nancy leads us to a clear view. The chief tells the camera about a murder that had happened that night. It was a student from our school, Patrick McKinney, one of Lucas' teammates. He then began describing the way he died, the witnesses, and also a possible suspect. The suspect was Eddie. "Holy shit," I said under my breath. I knew Patrick, he hung out with Aaron and I often. I never really noticed him having trouble, he had always been super positive and helpful, so it was shocking. "This is not good..." Steve whispered.

Dustin's radio went off, Eddie was calling. "Dustin, can you hear me? Wheeler?" He said. "Eddie holy shit, are you okay?" Dustin whispered. "Nah man, pretty far from okay..." Eddie sighed. "Where are you?" Dustin asked. "Skull rock, do you know it?" Eddie responded. "Uh, yeah. That's near Cornwallis and-" Dustin began. "Garrett, yeah. I know where that is," Steve nodded, going to the car. I followed behind. Dustin reassured Eddie one more time and turned off the walkie-talkie.

- 3rd Person POV

"Dude I'm telling you, you're taking us the wrong way," Steve complained. "It's north. I'm positive. I checked the map," Dustin looked at the compass. "You do realize that this is a popular make-out spot," Steve suddenly brought up. "Yeah, so?" Dustin said back. "Yeah, well, it wasn't popular until I made it popular. Alright? I practically invented it. And Y/n over here revived this spot. Telling everyone, 'This is where Steve used to hang out!' Yeah, we're heading the wrong direction," Steve used a higher-pitched voice to mimic Y/n. "What the hell, I've never promoted your spot? You're lying on my name, how fucking dare y-" Y/n began. "Steve, where are you going?" Dustin interrupted the argument when he noticed Steve walking down a hill. "Stop whining. Let's go. Trust me," Steve looked back. "I'm gonna beat him up," Y/n said to herself. Dustin laughed at the comment. Then they followed him down the hill too.

Dustin and Y/n walked together through the woods, somewhat far from Steve. Y/n was listening to the leaves crunching under her shoes until Dustin spoke up. "So uh- hey. Quick question. Sorry if it's weird but- are you dating Aaron?" Dustin asked Y/n, he had been dying to ask this question. Ever since the beginning of high school, when Aaron suddenly took Y/n away from the group. "That's the worst icebreaker question ever," Y/n replied. "I'm sorry-" Dustin began. "Nope. We aren't. Not my type..." She interrupted. Dustin felt relief and exhaled. "Aren't you dating... uh what's her name?" Y/n asked, putting her hand on her forehead, trying remember. "Suzie? No, she didn't respond often after summer, so I just ended things..." he muttered. "Aw, sorry about that," Y/n sympathized.

"It's fine, I'm sure there's someone better out there," Dustin nodded. "Better than your Phoebe Cates?" Y/n laughed. Dustin stared at her, surprised she remembered that. "Yeah..." He said. He wanted to say that Y/n was the only one for him, the perfect one. She's better than any movie star, singer, and even any of the girls from school. He got red and looked away.

"Boom! There she is, you two. Skull rock," Steve celebrates. "In your face man. In your cocky little face," Steve mocks Dustin. "Doesn't make sense," Dustin said. "Yeah, yeah. Even with it staring you in the face, you can't admit it, you can't admit that you're wrong, you butt head," Steve continued. "I conquer," Eddie jumped out of nowhere. "You, Dustin Henderson, are a total butthead," Eddie nodded. "Jesus! We thought you were a goner," Dustin sighed in relief, hugging Eddie. He was caught off guard but still hugged back.