• The Best Hargrove • Steve Harrington x Reader •

Chapter Fifteen

"Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hands off her, man!" Steve defended, charging toward Eddie to try and get him off you, but Dustin held him back to keep him from getting hurt. "Dustin tell your freak of a friend to get off my girlfriend right now or we're gonna have more problems!" he ordered, fighting against Dustin's grip on him.

But your words didn't make him hesitate to press the broken glass bottle slightly deeper into your throat, causing you to wince in pain. "Eddie, it's me! It's Dustin!" he placed a hand on his own chest. "This is Y/N! She's not gonna gurt you, right Y/N?" he hints, pointing an open hand towards you. Not that you wanted to hurt him anyway. "Tell that to him! He's the one with broken glass to my neck!"

"Y/N, why don't you drop the oar?" you hesitated, considering the fact that this guy was ready to penetrate your throat with glass at any second, but you did as he said, not wanting to cause any problems. Eddie pressed the bottle deeper. "Agh!" you whined. "She's cool, she's cool!" Dustin reassured, stepping a bit closer. By now, he had let go of Steve, but he didn't move. He knew that he would cause more problems, but he looked really mad.

"I'm cool, man!" you repeated. It was getting hard to breathe now. "What are you doing here?" Eddie demanded. You looked up into his teary brown eyes. He looked so scared, so sad. You couldn't help but feel so bad for him. "We're looking for you!" Dustin replied, desperately trying to make him open up and remove the broken glass from your neck.

"We're here to help" Robin assured. "Eddie, these are my friends! You know Robin from band, this is my friend Max, the one who never wants to play D&D, and she's her sister, and that's Steve, her boyfriend" Dustin pointed to each of you when saying your names.

"Eddie, we're on your side!" he panted. "I swear on my mother! Right guys?" he looked at all of you. "Yes, yes, we swear! Now let go of my sister" Max ordered, but he stayed put. "Yeah, on Dustin's mother.." Robin added. "Yeah, on D-Dustin's mother.." you stammered from the lack of oxygen you were getting.

His release from your neck felt so good, but so painful at the same time. It was aching. Steve had rushed over to you and pulled you into his arms. "You okay?" he worried, lifting your chin to take a look at the red mark on your neck. That was sure to stay a while. You nodded before he leaned in to kiss you. You took his hand and lead him over to where the rest of the group sat.

Steve sat on the ground against a wall, pulling you in between his legs to lay back on him. Eddie looked so worried. "Eddie.. we just want to talk.." Dustin reassured as he tried to take the bottle away, but Eddie pulled his hand back. "We want to know what happened" you got up and placed yourself beside him and Dustin.

"You won't believe me.." his brown eyes met yours. By now, they were full of tears. "Try us." Max challenged.

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"Her body, just lifted up into the air, and uh.." he spoke shakily. "And she just, like, hung there.. in the air.. and her bones, she uh.." he started to whimper. You had never seen someone so afraid before. "Her bones started to snap.." the thought of Chrissy's bones snapping made a shiver run down your spine. You stood beside Steve with his arm wrapped around you, neck still aching from earlier.

"Her eyes, man.. It's like there was something inside her head, pulling.." he made a pulling motion with his hands. "I didn't know what to do so I.. I ran away.. I left her there.." his voice cracked. Everything he just said matched up with what you and Max both saw last night and this morning.