Trapped

Dig Dug

Lyn waves to Lucas who was riding his bike past her before pulling into her driveway. "Mews! Mewsy! Mews! Mewsy!" Claudia was in the front yard waving a cat toy around. Lyn sigh as she got out of the car, hoping she would be able to find the cat fast. If not, she knew she would be up all night driving around town looking for her.

"Hey mom, did you check if she was in my room? She blends in sometimes with the yarn." She approaches her mom.

"Yeah, I even take them all out to see if she buried herself in them but she wasn't there. You didn't see any cat that looked like her on the ride home, did you?" She looks paranoid with the way she kept looking up and down the street.

"No, I didn't see any cats," Lyn told her.

Claudia turns around to make her way back into the house. Lyn drags her feet as she follows behind her. "Dusty, baby, you're sure she's not in your room," She asks her son who was on the phone.

Dustin put his hand up to tell her to be quiet as he spoke with someone. "Uh-huh. Thank you so much, Mr. McCorkle. Thank you so much. You are a true lifesaver. All right, this was great. Thank you. All right. Have a good one. Bye-bye, now. All right. You, too." He hung up the phone and turn to them, "All right, great news."

"They found her?" Their mom sounded so relieved that someone had found her baby.

"No. But they saw her wandering around Loch Nora." Dustin spoke to her in a calm tone that one had to have when speaking to their mother when she got like this. Lyn narrow her eyes, how did that lazy cat get all the way across town.

"How did the poor baby get all the way out there?" Claudia let out a few happy tears.

"I don't know. Lost, I guess. But they're going to look for her. And I'll stay here, just in case they call again. And you're going to go help look? Yeah? Yeah? Give me a hug. Give me a hug. Go get her." Dustin pulls her into a hug. "You're going to find her." He let his mother go.

"Okay." She put on her sunglasses. She grabs her keys and purse.

"We can find her." He nods to encourage her to go out of the door.

"We can find her." She repeated and opens the door.

"I love you." Dustin gave her the pearly smile she loved so much.

"I love you." Claudia said to her son before turning to her daughter to also tell her, "I love you." "I love you too, mom." Lyn smiles at her.

"All right, go." He waves his hands. She nods her head and shut the door. Soon after, they heard the engine running and her pulling out the driveway. "Alright, help me look for weapons that could take out a small Demogorgon." He speaks as he began to search the closet. He pulls out his old hockey goalie pads.

"What?" She gasps.

"Will was right, Dart is a Demogorgon. He grows to be twice the size of Meows, maybe more. I came home to him eating her in my room. I have him locked in there right now." He explains while continuing to search the house.

"I'll get the crowbar from the garage." She ran out to the garage to grab the tool that would be used as a weapon. She went back into the house to see Dustin laying baloney out, instead of stopping to ask questions she ran to her room.

She got a scrunchie from her vanity to give herself side braid and a bun at the end. She grabs her smallest can of hairspray and the lighter that originally belongs to Lonnie Byers. She tucks them both in the back pockets of her shorts.

She went back into the living room to see Dustin wearing his goalie pad, hockey mask, oven mitts, and a hockey stick in hand.

"You're going in with no protection." He looked her up and down. She was wearing black shorts with fishnets underneath and combats boots on. She had on her favorite Bride of Frankenstein off the shoulder sweatshirt.