Strange Love • Steve Harrington

Back In Time

A month in, two more months until we move. We started to pack a few things, just the little things, books, extra stuff we had. It was early, 6 am early. I woke up by the sun that peeked out from the window. I turned to see El sleeping. I silently got up and went to the kitchen.

"Good morning." Aunt Joyce said as she gave me a kiss on the cheek. "Up a little early dont you think?"

"The sun kinda woke me up."

"Remind me to fix those curtains then." She said as she poured herself some coffee. I sat on the couch and turned on the tv. The news played. Aunt Joyce sat next to me. She went through her keys and handed me one. "After your parents died, Lonnie decided to put their things in a storage room, then gave me the key." She looked the key. "Now that we are moving, now that you are grown, you can look through their stuff, keep whatever you want." I saw the tiny key.

"Everything is in there?" I looked at her. She nodded.

"Everything." I took a long pause. "Whenever you are ready of course."

"Im ready Aunt Joyce. Maybe me being there, it will bring me closure." She rubbed her hand on my shoulder. "Thank you." She gave me a smile.

"You are welcome Wendy." I pulled me for a hug. She's literally the best aunt. I mean she is the only aunt i have but, she is the best. Aunt Joyce went to work, the kids went to Dustins house, Jonathan went to develop some pictures. I stayed home. I pulled out a map to see where the storage place ways. After i did my calculations, i drove to Steves house. I ran to the front door and knocked.

"Ahoy there beautiful." Steve smirks.

"Ahoy handsome." I gave him a kiss.

"What bring you here to the humble abode of Steve Harrington?"

"Okay, so what do you think about if we go on an adventure?" I asked. He smiled at me, seeing how excited i was.

"Go on."

"So my aunt Joyce gave me keys to a storage unit, Lonnie put all of my parents things in there. I did my math, it will take us 45 minutes to there and back here. Are you in?"

"45 minutes?" I pulled out my car keys.

"Since im the most beautiful, awesomeness girlfriend in the whole entire world, Im driving." I sang.

"Ill buy dinner then." We both laughed and went to my car. It was a stressful drive, Steve was confused by the roads on the map, telling me the opposite roads, restroom stops, snack stops, BUT finally we made it. "Using a map is so hard, i wish we had someone tell us where we are going." Steve whinnied as we walked to the storage room. I walked up to the door. "Are you sure about this?"

"Im 100 percent sure." I put the key in the lock and unlocked the door. There was a bunch of boxes and some furniture. i walked in and scanned the boxes. They were all labeled my dads name, there was some labeled my mothers named.

"Dick?" Steve asked as he opened a box.

"Short for Richard, my dad." I smiled. I sat on the ground and looked at boxes. Steve found some old pictures of me as a kid and baby. He definitely kept one of them. We took some boxes to the car. I sat down and I opened one the boxes. There was a bunch of video tapes, and a box full of letters. I opened the first letter.