Kate Hopper thought she'd finally had everything taken from her.
With her father gone and her sister all the way across the country, she truly didn't have anything left. Since her father's death eight months before, she'd broken up with her boyfrien...
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STEVE, ROBIN, DUSTIN, and Max had done Eddie the courtesy of bringing him groceries to tie him over in the boathouse until things blew over.
The car on the way back to the lake was mostly quiet, a few mumblings here and there with the radio playing softly in the background. Steve had accidentally left one of his old tapes inside, more specifically the one labeled "Steven" with a heart drawn next to his name that Kate had made him for his birthday last August. It wasn't like he could hide it, either, because most of the songs were songs that he liked because Kate liked them, that or because she had put them on the tape for him. They were all so perfectly about them being in love with one another that Steve couldn't help himself but to listen to it once every once in a while (and by that, he meant listen to it every single time he was alone). Whenever he had pulled it out of the cassette player in his radio, shoving it into his glovebox before they could notice Kate's handwriting over top of the cassette displaying his name and a heart, Robin, Max, and Dustin thought they wouldn't mention it.
"So, uh... does anyone else... know about this?" Robin asked, almost hesitating to answer. "Like, anyone besides us, is anyone else in on Eddie not being a psychopathic murderer?"
"I didn't tell anyone," Dustin said, shaking his head. "Max, did you...?"
She shook her head, making him trail his sentence off. "No, but I can think of someone we should tell."
