Chapter Eight: The Upside Down

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Eleven, Mike, Dustin, Lucas and I sit in the gym on the wooden steps

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Eleven, Mike, Dustin, Lucas and I sit in the gym on the wooden steps. Dustin, Mike and El sit on the first row while Lucas and I sit behind them. I look down at Mike and can tell that he's agitated because he's tapping his foot and constantly looking around. Mike gets up and makes a run for the front school doors. I get up and follow him to make sure he doesn't make any stupid decisions "Mike!"

"Nancy? Jonathan?" Mike calls from the top of his lungs. I come out the doors and he looks at me.

"Mike come inside its freezing" I tell him as I open the door wider

Mike comes back into the gym and walks towards the steps with me following "They're gone"

"What?" Lucas asks looking up at us

"Nancy and Jonathan. His car's gone" I inform them as I sit back down and lean on my elbow against the step behind me

"They're probably just sucking face somewhere" Dustin tells us

I look and him and nearly push him off his seat with my foot.

"Gross"

"No. No way!" Mike says looking at Dustin

"Did they go with the chief?" Dustin asks

"I don't know"

"No" El softly speaks

"What? Did you see them? Do you know where they went?" I ask now sitting up and looking and Eleven

"Yes"

"Where? Where did they go?" I ask as I get off the seat and kneel down in front of El

"Demogorgon"

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"Guys, guys! This is crazy. We can't just wait around"

The boys all stand in a circle away from El and start to talk. I pull out a cigarette and light it. Eleven watches me intensely as I take the cigarette out and blow the smoke away from El's face. I sit up and put the smoke in front of her. She looks at me and takes it. She put the orange part into her mouth and breathes in the smoke, she quickly pulls it away and hands it back and she starts to cough. I start to laugh a bit. The boys turn and look at me, who's laughing and El, who's still coughing.

"Did you give her some of your cigarette?" Mike asks me

"Maybe" I say with a smile on my face as I lean back onto my elbows like before and put the cigarette back into my mouth while looking at Mike before shooting him a quick wink

"Don't! That's literally the most dumbest things you've ever done" Mike informs me

"Anyway, I mean Nancy's kind of a badass now, so well" Dustin turns and starts to walk out of the gym

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