Kate Hopper's life hadn't been exactly easy.
Ever since her little sister had fallen ill, it seemed her life turned into a game of dominoes, and as each one fell, it felt as if things got harder and harder.
When her life got uprooted from New York C...
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EVERYONE HAD DONE their jobs perfectly.
Nancy and Mike had found two hoses to fill up the kiddie pool that Dustin and Lucas had set up. Jonathan and Hopper, once the pool was filled, poured in the fifteen hundred pounds of salt. When Dustin finally dropped an egg into the bath, floating to the top, the group felt a weight lift off their chests.
Kate hadn't realized that a group of twelve-year-olds could be so intelligent. It wasn't that twelve-year-olds weren't intelligent: she just remembered what she and Steve were like in seventh grade, and intelligent was not a word she'd used to describe the two of them. Not in the slightest. If the two of them had found Eleven in the woods like those three boys had, they would have probably run away, and if they had dared take her in, the second they found out she had superpowers, they both probably would have cried.
She missed him already. Even if it had only been a few hours since her renounced friendship with Steve, her heart still ached. She tried not to think about it, especially with everything going on, but she couldn't help it. Even after everything, she wished things were different. She hated that Steve Harrington had finally ascended to a douchebag of the highest order, but she wouldn't let it happen again. Not to anyone she cared about.
That's why she knew she had to protect those boys, that girl with everything she had. Those kids were something of geniuses, and she wouldn't let that go to waste.
