Things Change // Steve Harrington [On Hiatus]

Chapter 1

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"We Ran Into The Demogorgon"

Gracelyn wipes down one of the tables at Benny's diner.

"Grace, why don't you head home. It's getting late and I know you got a test coming up." she hears Benny say from behind the counter.

Gracelyn stops, looking over to him, "You sure Benny?" she asks.

"Yep. Head home, kid, I can finish up." he says.

"Thanks, Benny." she says, walking behind the counter to discard the rag and grab her jacket, putting it on, grabbing her bag, she heads to the door, "See you tomorrow, Benny." she says over her shoulder.

"See ya, kid.".

Gracelyn climbs into her car, she tosses her bag into the passenger seat and starts the car, then heads home.

Pulling into her driveway, she puts her car in park and turns it off. She grabs her bag from the passenger seat and climbs out.

She unlocks the front door, closing and locking it behind her, "Mom? Dustin? I'm home!" she calls out, getting no response. She hums, shrugging her shoulders, 'Mom must be working and Dustin is probably still at Mike's' she thinks, heading to her room.

She hangs her bag on the end of her bedpost. Changing into some sweatpants and a sweater, she grabs her textbooks and notebook from her bag and climbs onto her bed, arranging her books around her on the bed, pushing her glasses up.

About an hour later, she hears the front door.

"Dustin, that you?!" she calls out, just as her brother appears in her doorway.

"Yeah. You still studying for that test? You already know you're gonna ace it." He says.

"Yeah, well, if me and Johnathan are ever gonna go to NYU I need to for sure be perfect." she says, smiling. She and Johnathan Byers had been best friends for years, pretty much each others only friend, the two wish to go to the same collage, their dream collage.

"You two definitely will." Dustin says, making his sister smile, "Whelp, I'm going to bed." he says, walking towards his room.

"Night, Dusty." she says, then gets back to studying.

Gracelyn wakes up to her alarm, groaning she reaches to turn it off. Yawning, she searches around her bedside table, with blurry vision for her glasses, finally finding them, she puts them on, stretching, she climbs out of bed and get's ready for the day.

Grabbing her bag from the end of her bed, she heads to the kitchen, upon entering, she sees Dustin eating breakfast at the table; she walks over behind him, grabbing and lifting up his cap, she ruffles his hair, making him groan.

"Why do you always do that?" he says, sounding only a little annoyed.

Gracelyn chuckles, placing his cap back on his head, "You're my little brother, it's part of my job to annoy you just a little bit." she says, smiling, she leans down and gives him a quick hug, before sitting across from him.

Grabbing some toast from the plate in front of her, "How'd the D&D campaign go?" she asks, before taking a bite from the toast.

Dustin groans, "We ran into the Demogorgon." he says.

Gracelyn gives a small cringe, "That's tough." she says, when she was younger she use to join in on their games, but as she grew older, she spent more time on her studies then games; she does miss those days, where she could hang out with her brother and those boys more, "So what'd you do?" she asks.