The Haunting - Stranger Things [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

20 - Reunion

A man in a grey suit carries a box filled with Mike's things out of our garage and to a sleek, black car at the end of the driveway. Several other men carry cardboard boxes out of our house to different cars. Our house is surrounded by these men, all of them taking Mike's things, no doubt from the basement. 

"We have to go home." Nancy announces from my left. She snaps her head to look at me with wide eyes. 

She's scared about what's happening. I can't say I blame her. Nancy has no idea about Eleven or why there's men invading our house. I think a part of her is actually kind of hurt by that fact that Mike trusts me more than her. 

"No, you can't." Hopper lowers the binoculars from his eyes. He glances over his shoulder at the two of us. 

"Our mom, our dad are there." 

"They're gonna be okay." Hopper replies.

His words must not be good enough for Nancy because she steps around the open door of his car that we were leaning against and marches in that direction. I reach out to grab my sister to keep her from heading home. 

Hopper grabs her first. "Hey, hey, hey, hey."

"Let go." Nancy attempts to shake him off. "Let go!"

I step in front of my sister, placing my hands on her shoulders. "Nancy, listen to us, okay. We can't go home." 

"The last thing in the world we need is them knowing you're mixed up in all this." Hopper explains from behind me. 

Nancy slices her hand through the air. "Mike is over there!" 

I shake my head. "No, Mike is smart, Nance. He would have gotten out of there in time. I don't think they've found him yet."

"Not yet, at least." Hopper points to a helicopter circling the area in the sky. 

Nancy jaw nearly hits the asphalt. "For Mike?!" 

"Come on," Hopper ushers us back to the backseat. "Get in the car." 

I climb through the door and slide until I end up in the middle of the backseat. Jonathan sits next to me on my right with Nancy on my left. All of us left the station after I told them everything that I knew about Eleven. 

Hopper and Mrs. Byers spin around in their seats up front. Their eyes settle on my sister and me. We need to find Eleven and everyone else as soon as possible. 

"Look, we need to find them before they do." Hopper begins to say. "Do you have any idea where he might have gone?"

I shake my head, "No, I don't."

Mike and I may be closer than he was with Nancy, but that didn't mean I knew where he hung out with his friends when he wasn't home. We talked and I would occasionally hang down in the basement with him. We just never talked about these kinds of things. With Will and Barb missing, we managed to get separated and I haven't been up to date with everything going on with them. 

"I need you to think." Hopper stresses to me. 

Nancy shrugs her shoulders, "I don't know either. We haven't talked a lot. I mean, lately." She sighs, "Reagan has been closer to him."

"Is there any place that your parents don't know about that he might go?" Mrs. Byers asks us.

"I-I don't know..." I trail off, stressed. My hands move around in the air as I struggle to form the correct words. "Ever since Barb went missing, I haven't really seen him. We've both been busy and he doesn't tell me where he goes with his friends--"