Smoking About You

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Steve put his hand around the door knob and pulled it open. He put his head out, looking left to right

"Billy?" He called out. He waited for a response from Billy but received a different one instead

A demogorgon crawled out of one of the rooms. It turned towards Steve and started to run quickly to him.

Steve slammed his door close, putting his back against it. He felt the demogorgon's hand break through the door

It scratched around for him, as it did Steve picked up the spiked bat he brought with him

He stood back and waited for the monster to push through the door. Once it did, he hit it across the head.

The demo-dog tumbled over whining, Steve raised the bat in the air, slamming it down on the demogorgon's back

He took in some deep breaths as he saw it stopped moving. He then remembered Billy was here

Steve ran out of the room and to his own room. It was empty. He went through the door to his parents' room, and there was nothing there either.

Steve walked into the hallway, hearing a twist of a door knob. He watched as the bathroom door opened

He held the back up ready, and Billy then glanced out, "Steve?" He questioned while stepping through the door

Steve lowered his bat, "Yeah, it's me." Billy moved closer, wrapping his arms around him.

At first, Steve was shocked. It wasn't new to him for Billy to hug him, but now, 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥, 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦.

"Um..." Steve cleared his throat, "Your stomach. Is it okay?" He asked, "Oh yeah. I just threw a bandage around it."

"That's it?"

"That's all it needed. Anyway, how the hell did you even get here?"

"We actually went through the lake."

Billy looked around the hallway, "We?"

"Oh, the others - the portal split us into three groups."

"And you are your own group?" Billy laughed, "Pretty much."

"Is everyone okay?"

"Yeah, I was just on the walkie-" Steve reached for his jacket pocket, but there was no walkie-talkie

He checked his other pocket, "Did you seriously lose your walkie-talkie?"

"No- no, I had it. Oh shit, yeah, it's your room." Billy lifted his hands, making finger quotes, "Room."

Steve slowly opened the door, looking down at the demogorgon, "You killed it?" He put his finger over Billy's mouth

He smacked his hand away, Steve went in the room, stepping over the demo-dog, grabbing his walkie-talkie

"Now let's see -" Steve tried finding the station he needed to be on, Billy walked over, leaning to look.

"Let me see." In a second, he found the station, "This one?" Steve took the walkie-talkie

"It's Steve. Does anyone copy?" Billy smiled as he asked his question, "I guess it's the wrong -"

"Steve!" Dustin yelled, making the ears of Billy and Steve ring, "Damn Henderson!" Eddie shouted

Steve went to speak, "Is that Eddie?" Billy asked, "You found Billy?" Nancy turned on her transceiver.

"He found Billy?" Max got the walkie-talkie from Nancy, "Billy?"