THE HALLOWEEN PARTY
⇾bubblegum bitch by marina
oh dear diary, i met a boy. he made my doll heart light up with joy
⸺BILLY and Tiffany headed over to the party. They were having a great time and Tiffany had been drinking a lot. Billy brought her over to the keg stand. They both held records in California, so why not become the Keg Queen and King of Hawkins. Tommy and another boy lifted up Billy's legs and two other guys held up Tiffany's legs. They were hanging upside down and they were chugging beer out of a keg.
"Thirty eight, thirty nine, forty, forty one, forty two!" Tiffany and Billy shook their legs, signaling for them to let them down. They let go of their legs and everyone cheered for them. They had both broken the record. "Yeah!"
"Forty two!"
"We got ourselves a new Keg King and Queen!" Billy and Tiffany high fived each other. "That's how you do it, Hawkins!"
People started chanting their names. Billy threw his arm over her shoulder and they started walking inside. Tommy and a few other people followed them. Tiffany tapped Billy's hand, signaling for him to let her go. Billy took his arm off and he started walking over to Steve to rub him breaking his record in his face.
Tiffany walked back outside and Tina brought her over to another drinking game. They helped her up onto a bar stool. "I'm sorry, what is this?"
They handed her a cup of beer. "Balance on one foot."
Tiffany then caught on to what she had to do. She stood on one foot and chugged the beer. Tiffany kept going and going until she chugged thirty four cups of beer, until she lost her balance and jumped off. "Yeah! She broke another record!"
Tiffany high fived everyone around her. She started walking back inside. It was more stumbling, but she got inside. Tiffany saw Jonathan near the door and stumbled over there. "Jonny!"
Jonathan looked around and he saw her stumbling towards him. He finally got to him and she put her hands on his shoulders. "Jonny."
Tiffany's words started to slur a lot. "Listen to me. You are such a greeaaat guy. And one day, you're gonna marry Nancypoo and have a million children. And you can name them alllllll after me!"
Everyone then suddenly went quiet. They looked to the kitchen and saw Nancy with red punch all over her shirt. "Nance. Nance, I'm sorry."
Nancy walked passed everyone and went to the bathroom. Everyone went back to dancing. Tiffany leaned into Jonathan and whispered, still with slurred words. "That's the future mother of your children."
Tiffany laughed and stumbled away from Jonathan. She went into the giant pile of dancing teenagers and started dancing around. Billy found her and he joined in dancing. A few minutes later, Tiffany saw Steve storm out of the house. She couldn't help but wonder why Steve was so upset, so she stopped dancing and followed him out of the house. He got into his car and slammed the door. Tiffany also hopped in his car and slammed the door, which scared him a little. "Why are we slamming doors?"
"Get out."
"Nooooo! My bestie looks sad, so I have to make you feel better!" Tiffany booped his nose and it made her laugh. Steve sighed. "Tiffany, I'm not in the mood, okay?"
"But I have to cheer you up!"
"It's not your job to cheer me up!"
"Yes, it is! Cheering you up is my job!"
"Well, then you're fired."
"You can't fire me, I'm union bitch." Tiffany then slapped him in the face. "What the hell?!"
"You always wanted to see me drunk and you got it! Now you owe me! So, we are gonna drive somewhere private! You're gonna tell me what's wrong! You're gonna cry! I'm gonna cry! Then we're gonna go get ice cream! Now drive!" Tiffany grabbed the seat belt and tried to clip it into the wrong one. "That's mine."
"Duh, yeah, I knew that." Tiffany looked at the metal part of the seat belt and was inspecting it. "Ooh, shiny!"
Steve grabbed the seat belt from her and clipped it for her. "Oh, that's how you do it!"
"Uh huh." Steve did his seat belt and started driving away. "Sooooo."
"What?"
"Where are we going?"
"I'm taking you home."
"What?! No, I need to help you."
"You're drunk."
"So what?! I give the greatest advice when I'm drunk. I once told Billy we should steal a shopping cart and ride it down a hill. Best. Idea. EVER!" Steve rolled his eyes at the mention of Billy's name.
"Come on! Stevikins, just tell me!" Steve sighed. He knew she wasn't going to give up. "I'll tell you, but can we just park first."
"Mhm. Your car is verrrrrrry pretty by the way." Steve rolled his eyes again. He's always wanted to see Tiffany drunk, but now was not the time. He drove off to the bottom of the cliff where they found the fake dead Will and where Mike almost died. They pulled up in front of the water and they took their seat belts off. "Okay, Steverino. Tell me your problem."
"Nancy just said some things about our relationship. It's not a huge deal."
"What did she say?" Steve sighed and rubbed his eyes. "She called me bullshit, our relationship bullshit, just everything bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. She also said, 'like' we're in love. When I asked her if she loved me, she said it was bullshit."
Steve's eyes were starting to water. Tiffany could see a tear starting to run down his face. She put her hand on his hand. "If you ask me, she's bullshit. I mean, who leads someone on like that?!"
Steve gave her a confused look and Tiffany had to elaborate. "Her and Jonathan tooootally like each other. Are you really that dumb?!"
Another tear started to fall down his face. Tiffany was not being the most comforting, but she had a very different style of comforting people. "Stevie, how have you not noticed?! I mean, at least you know now cause now you can find a new squirrel. A squirrel who loves you just as much as you love them and won't call you bullshit. Also won't dress up as someone from Grease, I mean that is a reeeeeeally bad costume idea. A squirrel is a girl, by the way."
"I-I didn't know she liked him." Tiffany sighed. She started shifting in her seat and struggling. Steve was confused with what she was doing, but she finally stopped shifting and pulled him into a hug. Steve was hesitant, but he hugged her back. He wrapped his arms around her waist and she started petting his hair. "There, there Stevie."
Steve just let her since she was drunk and he didn't have the effort to get her to stop. More tears started to stream down his face. He knew she was drunk, but out of everyone that was there, Tiffany was the one who ran out to him, Tiffany was the one who helped him, Tiffany was the one who despite having her own problems and her own needs, she set it all aside to make sure he was okay. Tiffany wasn't consciously sure what she was doing, but it was like a reflex to help people she cared about. And she cared about Steve a lot.
Tiffany's ears started ringing again. She was hearing the flat line noise again, but it was so much louder than the other times. She pulled away from Steve and started looking around his car. "Steve?"
Steve looked at her with confusion and a tear stained face. "What?"
Tiffany kept looking through the windows and in his car. "Stevieeeeeeeeee?"
"Tiffany, what are you-' Steve got cut off by her opening the door and rolling onto the ground. "Dear god, that hurt."
Steve got out of the car and tried to help her stand up, but when he tried to get close to her, there was like an invisible force, keeping him from getting close to her. Tiffany stumbled, but she was able to stand up by herself, she started looking at the sky with fear. Steve kept trying to get close to her, but the force was still holding him back.
Suddenly, Tiffany became completely still. Steve walked around her and stood in front of her. Her eyes were bleeding and she looked like she was focused on something in front of her. Steve looked behind him, but nothing was there except darkness.
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TIFFANY'S POV
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One minute she was hugging Steve and the next she started hearing the flat line sounding noise. Her visions started flickering and every thing around her started to look like the Upside Down. Steve disappeared and she started looking around. "Steve?"
She looked outside the car and all she saw was the Upside Down. "Stevieeeeeeeeee?"
Tiffany opened the car door and rolled onto the ground. She groaned when she hit the ground. The car was higher up than she thought. "Dear god, that hurt."
Tiffany stumbled, but she got to her feet. In the distance she saw the giant shadow swirling and forming. It started floating in one direction and she wasn't sure what it was doing. Tiffany tried to use her powers to bring the shadow to her instead. She figured it was doing something bad, so she wanted to be safe. Tiffany was still drunk, so it took a lot more effort than it normally does. She was frozen in place and her eyes started bleeding. The shadow started shifting towards her and when it got close enough, it just disappeared. She was no longer in the Upside Down. She looked in front of her and saw Steve with a concerned and confused look. "Heyyyyy! You're back!"
"What the hell happened to you?"
"I don't know, man. But bring it in!" Steve walked closer to her and she threw an arm around his shoulder. She had to stand on her toes since he was so much taller than her. "Now, let's go get ice cream, and you can eat away your sadness. Also, get more alcohol because alcohol makes eeeeeverything better."
"You've had enough to drink." Steve helped her get into the car. He did her seat belt for her since he learned from before that she's helpless when she's drunk. Steve got into the car and started to drive Tiffany home. When they pulled up to her house he helped her to her door.
"Heyyyy! This is not where we get ice cream, silly." Tiffany poked his cheek and he opened the door with her keys. Steve helped her to her room and laid Tiffany down on her bed. "We will get ice cream another time."
"Pinky promise?" Steve sighed and they interlocked pinkies. "Pinky promise. Bye Tiff."
"Merry Christmas!" Steve closed her door and couldn't help but stifle a laugh at her response. Her mom came out of the kitchen and saw Steve. "Oh Steve! It's so good to see you, how are you?"
"Uh, I'm good. I just dropped off Tiffany."
"Oh, you're such a nice boy!" Mrs. Henderson walked over to him and gave him a giant hug. He still wasn't used to her bear hugs that she gives people. "Well, you have a nice night."
"You too." Steve walked back out to his car. He took one more look at Tiffany's house and he couldn't fight off his smile. There was something about her that just made him smile.
A/N
The whole "It's my job to cheer you up", I wasn't sure what that was from and I thought it was just something that seemed like Tiffany would say when she's drunk, but someone left a comment so now I can give credit to How I Met Your Mother.