No Longer Alone Together || Dustin henderson x Fem reader

The Flea and the Acrobat

"Mom, no make-up!" I said as my mom tried to get me ready for the funeral

She had to get Nancy ready before me so of course she fussed we she saw I didn't pick a dress

"Fine, no makeup, but please put the dress on." Mom begged

"Fine, just go do something else. I'm getting ready." I said pushing her out the door

I ended up in a black loose dress, it's pretty flowey. It's not tight at all anywhere, honestly it's not to bad. I could see myself wearing it again one day, to a dance maybe.

I put on my black high-tops because fuck heels, and put my hair in a messy bun and threw my music bag over my shoulder.

As I walked down the stairs mom spoke to me "You look nice sweetie."

"Yeah, whatever." I mumbled putting my headphones around my neck

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I stand in in the crowd next to Dustin, slightly shivering. I completely forgot my jacket. As we all stand a man is talking about Will, I know he's not actually dead but tears started welling up in my eyes. I couldn't even begin to imagine what he's going through right now.

Dustin smacked my arm and we all looked at a blond girl crying. No way

"Just wait till we tell Will that Jennifer Hayes was crying at his funeral" Dustin whispered

Mom leaned over and shushed us. Honestly hearing Dustin say that made me smile, I'm not really sure if will even likes girls but it'd still be funny.

After the man talked people started to walk away, our parents talked for a minute then we left. Joyce looks like she really needs some sleep. I can't imagine how she must feel right now.

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"Mr Clarke" Mike said

"Oh, hey there" Mr Clarke smiled at him.

Me and Dustin saw food and went straight for it. I grabbed a nilla wafer and bit into it, Dustin grabbed one after.

Me and Dustin weren't paying much attention. After I chewed my wafer I looked at it weird "Man! These aren't real nilla wafers!" I whined

Everyone looking at me and Dustin slowly then back to Mr Clarke

"We were wondering if you had time to talk?" Mike asked

"We have some questions." Lucas added

"A lot of questions" I added onto that

We sat down and Mike did all the talking, I just listened.

"-theoretically how do we travel there?" Lucas asked as Mike wasn't getting to the point fast enough for him

Mr Clarke asked a dumb question, then went on about a dimension that none of this happened in. Dustin told him about the vail of shadows and then he decided to explain

"Picture an acrobat standing on a tightrope. Thats our dimension. And our dimension has rules. You can move forwards or backwards. But, what if, right next or our acrobat there is a flea. And the flea can also travel back and forth, just like our acrobat, right? The flea can also travel this way, along the side of the rope. He can even go underneath the rope." He drew on a paper plate

"Upside-down" We mumbled

"Exactly."

"But we're not the flea we're the acrobat" Mike checked

"In this metaphor yes"

"So, we can't go upside-down?" Lucas asked

"No."