one last thing. (eddie munson x mike's sister)

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"i'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb!" dustin joined us in unison.

we had a laugh as i turned the music down.

"what about kate bush?" max asked.

"babooshka, wuthering heights or cloudbusting?" i asked, looking at her in the rearview.

"running up that hill." she said.

"that's on hounds of love with cloudbusting. stevie!" i called, putting my hand back for the tape.

"already ahead of you." he said, handing me the tape as i swapped joan for it.

i rewound the tape, it was the first song on the album.

max sung along quietly to herself before robin and i joined her in the chorus.

"i didn't think you'd like kate bush." dustin shrugged.

"mom loves her, it's dad guilty pleasure music." i giggled as we pulled up at rick's boatshed/cabin situation.

it was sunset at this point.

dustin got up and started repeatedly ringing the doorbell.

"eddie! it's dustin!" he yelled, now knocking on the glass.

"we just wanna talk, no cops i swear! we just wanna help." he called.

he knocked again, trying the doorbell a few more times.

"you're all useless." i said, walking over to the boatshed door and pushing it open gently.

"eddie, are you in here?" i called, shining my torch around the room.

"what a dump.." steve said quietly.

"shush! eddie it's just us. we're here to help." i said as everyone started looking for him.

i walked over to a boat sitting beside steve and dustin.

"stop hitting the damn tarp and just rip it o-" i was cutoff by the tarp suddenly jumping up and something pinning me to a wall with a knife to my throat.

"woah woah woah woah woah!" everyone screamed.

"love, it's just me. it's just me, and dustin, and max and robin and steve. it's ok." i said, softly reaching for his hair.

"you scared the shit out of me." he whispered, dropping the knife.

"what are you doing here?" he asked.

"we're here to help." i said, tucking his hair behind his ear.

it was starting to matt, he had been fiddling with it.

when he was nervous, he fiddled with his hair.

"we're on your side. we just wanna know what happened so we can help you." robin said from behind dustin.

he backed up against a post, staring at the ground before huddling on the floor, just staring.

"eddie, we just want to talk." dustin said, softly crouching infront of him.

robin started to get closer and he raised the broken bottle in his hand.

dustin softly pushed it back down.

"we wanna know what happened." she said, crouching down.

"you won't believe me." he whimpered, shaking his head dismissively.

"try us." max said.

eddie looked up at her in confusion.

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bang.