Scary Love// Steve Harrington //

"Spaces between us, hold all our secrets"

Frankie woke up in a guest room in Steve's house at about two in the morning. She could hear something from a couple rooms down and went to investigate. She immediately regretted it and went to go throw up in a bathroom.

Of course, they're having sex! What did she expect? That kiss meant nothing! He felt sorry for you.

She started to throw up everything she had that day and was crying too. She's felt like such a fool.

When she was all done, she grabbed her things and decided to walk home. She couldn't be there, not right now. As she walked out she heard something in the woods and came to a halt.

"Hello?" She called out but there was no response so she kept on walking.

A couple of twigs snapped so she stopped again. "Who's out there?" She asked.

Then she saw a shadow and quietly ran towards it. She grabbed the person's shirt. It was Jonathan Byers, Will's older brother, an old friend of hers.

"What the hell are you doing out here?" She smacked his arm.

"Nice to see you too." He said sarcastically as he held his arm.

"What are you doing out here?" She asked again.

"Looking for Will, thought I would take a chance since the rest of this town is doing such a shitty job." He said in a bitter tone.

"He's fine, I just know it. He can hold his own, look who raised him." She patted his back.

"Why are you leaving? It's late." Jonathan stood up.

"I don't wanna talk about it." She looked down and her voice was steel.

"Well, we haven't hung out in a while, wanna come over?" He asked with hope, he missed his friend.

"Is this your way of trying to get me to sleep with you? I knew you always liked me." She said jokingly.

"Damn, you saw right through me." He chuckled.

"Yeah, please. I already told my mom I wasn't coming home anyway, and I miss you." She said with honesty.

"Aha, see I knew you always had a thing for me." He shoved her. "Now you wanna tell me what's wrong?"

"Only after you admit that the real reason you're near the woods behind Steve's house is because Nancy was there." She said as they started walking to his car.

"What are you going on about?" He acted like he didn't know what she was talking about.

"You mean you forgot that you told me about your big fat crush on my cousin?" She teased.

"Shh!" He looked around.

"What?"

"Shh." He walked to the spot she found him in and signaled for her to get down.

There sat Barb, at the edge of the diving board, a cloth wrapped around her hand. Jonathan picked up his camera and snapped a picture. Blood was falling into the pool and just as Frankie thought about how gross it was something snatched Barb from her spot. Jonathan was still snapping pictures. Frankie was in shock and couldn't think straight. Where did she go? She was becoming frantic.