Chapter Seven | Army

Start from the beginning
                                    

"It's Dustin cat," Steve tells us.

Dustin's eyes widen. "Steve!"

"Well, was." I correct with a small grin and Steve chuckled with me.

"I knew it!" Lucas cried out. "You kept him!"

"No!" Dustin denied "No

Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.

"No!" Dustin denied "No. No, I... No, I... He missed me. He wanted to come home." He whines.

"Bullshit!"

"I didn't know he was a Demogorgon, okay?" Dustin exclaimed loudly.

"Oh, so now you admit it?" Lucas continued to argue back.

"Guys, who cares? We have to go." Max tells the two boys.

"I care!" Lucas yells. "You put the party in jeopardy! You broke the rule of law!"

"So did you!" Dustin fought back.

"What?" Lucas asked, clearly offended.

"You told not one, but two strangers the truth!" Dustin flashed the torch on both of us.

I scoffed

Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.

I scoffed. "A stranger?" I stepped closer to them.

"You wanted to tell them too!"

"Yeah, but I didn't, okay?" Dustin snapped. "I didn't tell them! We both broke the law, okay? So we're even. We're even."

"No, no!" Lucas glared. "We're not even! Don't even try that. Your stupid pet could have eaten us for dinner!"

"That wasn't my fault!"

"Guys?" Steve asked and I noticed he had walked a bit away from the group.

"He wasn't going to eat us," Dustin argued back.

"He was crawling to come say hello?" Lucas snaps, meaning what happened a few minutes ago.

"Guys!" Steve snapped and all four of us turned our heads towards Steve. In the distance, you could hear screeching which means we're close. Steve continued to venture forward. The boys following him.

ASPEN | Stranger ThingsWhere stories live. Discover now