Don't Call Me Baby (Billy Hargrove)

-Chapter twenty three-

Emilia

By now, it was starting to get dark, the sun was starting to set and we had been out preparing for this evening for hours. I mean we were eating at the diner for a good hour, and then sat there talking for what felt like two. Then Steve wanted to make some more stops at these random stores, and on top of that we had to stop at some auto repair shop to get some gadget for his car, so more than half of the day was gone.

I still felt like shit for leaving Billy, but Steve needed me for support, and Nancy is my best friend so I had to be here to mend the two back together. Even if it did mean ditching my boyfriend, and skipping a whole day of school. I knew Billy would've noticed my absence from school, he always does, so eventually my lie would unravel, and I'd have to tell him the truth. That's what played on my mind for majority of today, but for now I shoved the thought away and focused on Steve.

'Go up there, knock on the door and get your girl' I state confidently to Steve, who nods vigorously before swinging his door open but quickly shutting it again. He turns to me with a nervous look on his face and he begins to rant.

'Wait, what if she isn't home, I mean it is a school day' Steve says.

'It's six thirty in the afternoon, she has to be home, remember what we talked about Steve, be apologetic, be genuine and be loving, got it?' I question as I clap my hand on his shoulder, I give him a reassuring squeeze on the shoulder when he nods and gets out of the car.

I watch him from the passengers seat, the red bouquet in his arms as he mumbled to himself. Steve was always good at talking to girls, that was just the way he was, ever since we were like six years old he would always be able to chat to girls confidently. Even when we were heading into our pre-teens he was always so smooth, but now as I watch him stumble on his words to try and talk to Nancy, I figured that this relationship was special.

I'm snapped out of my day dream when I see Dustin coming out from the Wheelers property, he runs onto the pathway and grabs Steve and starts to force him to the car, which causes me to push my door open and poke half of my body out of the car.

'Dustin? What are you?-' I start to question him as they move to the car, and he basically shoves Steve toward the drivers seat.

'It's Dart! We have to hurry up'

We sat in the car and listened to Dustin's story on why he was at the Wheelers house in the first place, and of course it was to find the other boys to help him with Dart. I was still full of questions as he explained, but I still needed answers. Dart had apparently begin to shed and grew bigger over the last few weeks, and this morning Dustin discovered that Dart ate Mules, so not only were we all on danger, but now we had to explain to Mrs.Henderson about her missing cat.

'I knew that Dart was bad, Dustin I told you to keep an eye on him! Scratch that, you should've gotten rid of him, who knows what could've happened to you!' I exclaim as I turn around from the passengers seat to face him, he gave me a sheepish look as I growled him. Steve beside me agreed with me as I scolded Dustin, although he didn't really believe that Dustin had a pet slug, that could potentially be a demogorgan, and which is sounds like it is, and we're all going to be in deep shit over it.

'I'm sorry, we just bonded and I couldn't separate with him' Dustin says lowly and I sigh heavily before reaching over and resting my hand on his knee.

'Look, I don't mean to bite your head off, but I'm just concerned for your safety, and thank god you're safe' I say softly to him and he gives me a nod, I flash him a small smile before turning back around.

'We're here' Steve announces as we pull up infront of Dustin's house. It seemed empty, and Ms. Henderson's car wasn't in sight, so she must still be at work. We all get out of the car and follow Dustin's instructions, which included grabbing the bat Steve had in the boot of his car.

We follow Dustin down by the side of the house to the entrance of their cellar. I was a bit apprehensive at first when he lead us to the doors, but for Dustin's sake, Steve and I took the lead. I mean Steve took the lead, I just stood infront of Dustin while holding the flashlight.

Steve turned around and gave me a nod before I flashed it onto the cellar doors, I wince as Steve counts down before reaching out for the handles and yanking the doors open. But when we peer inside, there's nothing in sight.

'Maybe he's further in' I state lowly, and they agree with me before we all follow behind Steve as he walks down the steps, I hand him the flashlight and he moves around the room. There isn't a sign of Dart anywhere, which on one hand was a good thing, but on the other was completely bad, because now he out loose and we had no idea where he is.

'Oh no' Dustin says as he goes over to the spot that had some weird excess skin on the ground, he lifted it up and we stared at it before we discovered the hole in the cellar wall.

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I'm like trying to link the stories together, and I know it's not a weekday when this happens, and most of the detail is different, but the structure and storyline is the same. I'll just alter the story chapters so it's got Emilia added into the scenes from the show, but the script will be a bit different ♡