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Without any further yada yada yada...
This chapter is Section8grl's idea! I hope captured the idea correctly. Sorry if it's too short.
"Hopper!" Joyce calls. Bob frowns. The cop can handle himself. Why would Joyce care? Isn't Bob the one she's dating? Bob knows they were friends when they were younger, but how far does that friendship go? She smiles at Hopper in a way she never smiles at him. She smiles at him the way she smiles at her kids, the same way she used to smile at Lonnie. She had never smiled at Bob that way. She had her own special smile for him. It was full of pain and sadness, one that almost pities him. Oh no. Did Joyce only love him because she felt bad for him?
Later, Bob watched as his vision started to blur, Joyce shouting for him.
"Bob!" She calls, more hurt than ever. And then, when Bob lay dying, he decided, that Joyce did love him, just as much and maybe more than Hopper.
