Strange Things In Hawkins.

Strange Things In Hawkins Chapter 25

Emily's POV.

Today was the day we were going to get it out of him. No more headaches or nightmares. I called the party over the walkie and told them the plan. We were to meet at my house because my mom had already left for work so the house was empty. They all agreed and said they would pick each other up on the way over.

I sat in my living room waiting it would be a while till they got here. I was nervous I didn't know what to do or think. I was scared. I wanted all this stupid crap to be over.

And not just for my sake but for the rest of the party and Dustin and Hopper. I wonder how Hopper was dealing with this I hadn't really asked him.

I knock came from the door. I stood up and answered it. El and Mike stood in the doorway. "Hey guys" I said letting them in.

"Hi" El said to me.

Mike was holding her hand. Probably because she was nervous out of her mind. We all walked back to the living room and sat down. "How have you been?" Mike asked me.

"Other then all the craziness ok" I said. He nodded.

"How are you doing...dad wise?" He asked. How did he know about my dad.

"How'd you kn—-"

"It was on the news" he said.

"Oh....I'm ok I don't see him a ton anyway so I don't really notice" I said.

"Ya my dads like that to,I mean he always home. But not really there" he said looking at the ground a bit.

"Mike" I said wanting to change the subject for both of our sakes.

"What's your favorite D&D monster?" I asked. His face lit up at the mention of the game.

"Ummmm probably....the Demagorgen or the lathiathin" he said. I nodded

"Those are good ones" I replied. Then there was a awkward silence. It was making me uncomfortable.

Lucky a knock at the door stoped it from getting worse. I let Lukas and Max in. They said hi and went to the living room as well.

"I bet you Dustin's going to get here with Steve" Lukas said. Everyone else nodded.

"What is with you guys and Steve?" I asked.

They didn't answer "Steve means a lot to Dustin and me ok!" They all jumped back a little at my tone.

"He's like a big brother to us!" I yelled.

"Em calm down!" Lukas said.

"No it's not ok that you guys do that to us. Dustin feels really bad when you guys tease him about hanging out with Steve" I got up and stormed outside. Not even waiting for them to give a response. I decided to take a small walk. I went around my house and into the patch of woods. Even though we had gone through a lot in the woods. I still liked them.

They were soothing to me. I heard a branch break. I spun around to nothing. Then I heard another. I was on alert now. Something was following me.

I was deep in the woods at this point so I decided to turn back. Again I heard the breaking of a branch and again spun around. Only this time I saw what it was.

It was a dog. A huge dog. Looked like a German Shepherd it was growling at me baring it's teeth. I knew that running would be pointless so I stood up taller and waved my arms making sure not to look it in the eyes.

I yelled at him to go away back home. But he just kept growling. Ok that didn't work next best thing would be to bok it to a tree but there were non with low enough branches here.