chapter 2, something i didn't think i would get to. So, a few expectations. This is a violent little story. The bad guys are unsympathetic, while the heroes are people you want to root for. This is the only warning i am putting in this story but, some chapters may be upset by the content of this story. I welcome all feedback and look forward to hearing how you all enjoy the story.
Despite how shaky her dream the previous night was, El still was excited about orientation. Hopper still spent way to long saying goodbye, he even willingly took a selfie with her. He then handed her his over large cowboy hat. "I guess you will need something physical to remember me by." He said as he put it on top of her head. She smiled as it covered most of her head. She gave him a massive hug. "I'll try to call every night." She said. Hopper smiled and El did not miss the tears in his beard.
She walked to the massive auditorium while Hopper helped the worker with her bags. She wanted to stay and help but she was informed that she need to attend the new term orientation. As she took her seat, she could feel eyes on her. She looked up and saw Dr. Brenner still looking at her and it gave her the creeps.
Students filed in and took their seats and El sat next to a redhaired girl about her age. The girl saw how Brenner was starring at her and nudged her. "You're his flavor of the month, he moves on pretty quick." She said. El nodded. "My name is Max, you must be new here." She said. El smiled. "Yea, I'm Jane Hopper. Call me El. I met your boyfriend last night." El said. Max giggled. "Yea, I would be helping with the lighting but Dr. Brenner doesn't want special effects." She said. "So why are you called El?" Max asked. El smiled at her. "I hate the name Jane, way to plain. And my middle name of Eleanor is to much. So El it is." She explained. Max grinned at her. "Well, do you have your dorm assignment?" She asked. El shook her head. "Well, hopefully you get a good place. Some of these girls can be psychos." Max explained.
"Also, the staff here sucks. Well, except for Coach Josh. This one kid grabbed my ass and Dr. Brenner just said I shouldn't tempt them." Max said. El nodded, feeling a flashback to her old school. "Did you meet the rest of the club?" Max asked. "Yes, they seem really nice. I kinda want to join. I love working on electronics." El said. Max laughed, "Yea, you might just get on with us. Just, be advised, the boys are giant fucking nerds and they will not shut the fuck up about nerd shit." Max said. "Noted." El said. She looked up and saw Mike working on some lights. He looked down and waved at the two girls who waved back.
"If his sister Nancy could see him….She would scream at him being up there." Max explained. El laughed. "Yea, this place sucks, but I dunno what I would do without my boys." Max said. She looked over by the sound system and smiled at Lucas, who was hard at work sorting cables.
Dr. Brenner then stepped up to the podium and lights focused on him. He wore a dark blue suit that seemed to make his eyes colder. "Good morning ladies and gentlemen. For those who are new, my name is Dr. Martin Brenner. I am the director of the Hawkins Institute." Brenner began. "Here, we hope to cultivate talented individuals to becoming the future our country and our world deserves."
"Today marks a new term and a new chance for you to prove yourselves. And make no mistake. Those who do not earn their place here will be cast out. Wasting your parents money because you can't handle the acceptable school work here will show you are not the leaders of the world, but rather the followers." Brenner said. El looked to Max who nodded to her while rolling her eyes. "He hates students. He barely puts up with the orphans." Max whispered.
After the speech, Max dragged El over to the A/V Club. She quickly jumped into Lucas arms and wrapped her legs around his waist. "Miss me lover?" She asked. Lucas nodded and kissed her. Dustin and Mike both made vomiting noises watching the pair. Will pulled out a water pistol and squirted the pair. "Hey, fuck you Byers." Lucas said. "If we don't do that, they end up nearly screwing each other rather than work." Dustin explained to El. Mike noticed El had joined them and sheepishly smiled at her. "Hey, glad you decided to join us losers," Mike said good naturedly. El smiled at him. "What can I say, I love a good underdog." El said. At that moment, Dustin, Mike and Will all got into formation and sang, "HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY!" Causing El to burst into giggles.
As they laughed, the doors burst open and the boy from the diner last night, Frank, walked in with a look of fury in his eyes. "BYERS! YOU FUCKING PRICK." He shouted. Will got off the stage and looked at Frank like he was a world class jerk. "What do you want Armburser?" Will asked. Frank then pulled out an iphone. "You were supposed to fix this yesterday." He said. Will rolled his eyes. "I was a little busy on other things more important than your dumbass phone." Will said. El looked at the arguing pair and Mike merely put a hand on her shoulder and shook his head.
"Yea, but I need my phone. You fix this shit now." Frank said as he began walking backstage. "I'll fix it when I'm good and ready." Will said following him. El looked confused. "Shouldn't we stop them from fighting?" El asked. The others began laughing. "Follow me." Mike said grabbing her hand. Both blushed from the action. Max didn't miss it and filed it for teasing later.
They followed to another part of backstage and saw Frank and Will arguing still. The pair lowered themselves to see them without being spotted.
"And furthermore, I am not your personal repair man." Will said. Both began looking around and began laughing slightly. "Think that fooled them?" Frank asked. Will shook his head and Frank pulled the smaller boy to his arms and tenderly kissed him. "Miss me?" Will asked. Frank nodded. "All I could think about was you." Frank said as he resumed kissing Will.
Mike led El away so the two could have privacy. When they returned to the others, Mike noticed a smirk on Max's face. "Showing her the back room Mikey?" Max asked teasingly. Mike glared at her and flipped her off, earning a laugh. "Why do they sneak around?" El asked. "Well, the nuns look down on that kind of behavior, Dr. Brenner is homophobic and Frank's dad will sooner kill him than admit his son is gay. We keep their secret." Lucas explained. "That's very sweet of you all." El said. Max nodded and looked at her watch. "Well boys, I need to get this young lady to her dorm. We have class tomorrow." Max said leading El out. "Don't be a stranger." Mike said. El smiled at him. "Bye Mike." She said as the pair walked out.
"Don't even fucking start." Mike said to Dustin and Lucas. Both laughed and mimicked El "Bye Mike." As they made kissing noises. Mike rolled his eyes.
Max took El to the girls dorms and found the RA sitting at her desk. She was an older girl with dirty blonde hair reading a trashy horror novel. "Hey Buckley, got a new one for you." Max said. She looked up, her blue eyes looking bored. "You were supposed to get your dorm assignment last night." She said. "Yea, but Coach Hutchinson said I could spend one final night with my dad." El said. The girl put a bookmark to keep her place and took El's id. "Hopper, Jane….you are in room D-9. You are with Jennifer Hayes. I am Robin Buckley your RA, please don't bother me with stupid shit." She said. El and Max grinned at her, Max knowing she was just burned out from working at the ice cream shop in the town mall. "Oh, and since your new. Come by and get a free cone from Scoops Ahoy!" Robin deadpanned as she handed El a coupon. El nodded as Max took her to her dorm. "And no scissoring after curfew." Robin called out. EL and Max couldn't contain their laughter.
Roland spent most of his first evening unpacking his stuff while Jeffery kept reading a book. He asked for help from his new roommate but all he got was a hateful glare. The next day while heading to the orientation, a large boy ran into him and knocked him over. Roland looked furious with him as the boy kept running on. When lunch began, he sat alone, reading his coding book as he began work on his game. Roland programed a game called Kings Knight, a role playing game he came up with to occupy the time. It had battles, murders, even rudimentary blood effects. He began programing it after he was stuffed in a locker by several football players and wanted some form of revenge.
As Roland was about to start eating, he aught a glimpse of the girl from yesterday. She was still dressed in punk clothes, uniforms were not needed till classes started, but Roland saw she was quite cute. He remembered he didn't give a good first impression and decided he might rectify that. He looked at his face with a spoon, it was a warped face with some heavy acne, but his mother told him he was handsome.
Roland got up and walked quickly with his tray and book. He almost stopped when another girl walked up to the punk girl. She was a redhead dressed in coveralls, as if she was working as a mechanic or something. Roland shook his head, it was now or never.
"Um, hey." Roland said to the girls. Both turned and looked at him. Roland caught a glimpse of disgust in the redhead's face. The other just looked curious. "Hi, I'm Roland. We met yesterday?" He said, hoping she remembered.
The girl nodded. "Yea, I tried to introduce myself and you glared." She said. Roland looked embarrassed. "Yea, I'm sorry about that. My parents kind of dropped me off here and it kinda sucks." He said. The girl nodded while the redhead just kinda shrugged. "Well, I don't really know anyone so I was wondering if you wanted to sit together?" Roland asked. The girl gave a faint smile. "I met some people yesterday, why don't you come sit with us?" She asked. Roland nodded, he might just make some friends after all. And maybe he will get with this sexy punk chick.
They made there way to a table where Roland saw a dark haired boy, a smaller boy with a bowl cut, another boy fixing a radio, and finally a black boy flicking paper footballs at the one working on the radio.
"Lucas, do you have to test Dustin so much?" the redhead asked. The boy named Lucas merely grinned while the other boy finished up the repair. "Okay, hopefully I can reach a few people in town. Or hell maybe listen to some truckers." He declared. Roland didn't know what to think about them. The small boy with the bowl cut looked up and smiled at him. Roland thought he was weird. 'maybe he's a fag' Roland thought.
"Hey El, who's your new friend?" The small boy asked. El turned to Roland and introduced them. "Roland, this is Will, Mike, Dustin and Lucas. The redhead is Max." She said. "Guys, this is Roland." She said. Roland merely sheepishly waved to them. The three sat around the large round table. Will noticed his coding book. "What kind of coding do you do?" Will asked. Roland looked at the book and spoke. "I program my own RPG." Roland said. This perked the other boys up while Max face palmed. "Cool, we love that stuff." Dustin said enthusiastically. Roland smiled and pulled out a flash drive. "It's called King's Knight. This is an older version I keep around. Why not take it for a spin late?" Roland said handing the drive to Dustin who took it eagerly. Roland hoped they also would share in his love for the content of the game.
"So Roland, what else do you specialize in?" Lucas asked. Roland smiled slightly. He had quite a few ideas. His father had a horde of books on history. Not the sanitized history they were taught, but the kind that would make these soft kids turn sick. "I have an interest in history. It helped me program Kings Knight." Roland said. The boys nodded while Max just focused on her food. 'what a bitch' Roland thought. He did notice her cling to Lucas. Roland had quite a few issues with that, but he didn't need to show his disdain just yet.
Will slightly looked at Roland's bag, he saw a book that he hated. It was how jews and gays were in a secret cabal to destroy civilization or some shit. Will kept quiet, not wanting to start a scene.
"So El, whats life like in the big city?" Mike asked. Roland gave Mike a rude look that neither Will or Mike missed. "Well, Its not that cracked up. My dad is a cop and also the size of a grizzly bear." El said. The boys nodded, remembering the large man. "My boyfriend Jak is still scared of him." El said. A look of slight disappointment crossed several faces. Roland just shrugged, he could probably win her over.
"Yea, but I love sneaking out to see a few bands now and then. My friend Kali got me into several punk bands." El said. Mike perked up. "What kind of bands?" He asked. El smiled at him and Roland imagined smashing Mike's head in. "Dead Kennedys, Joy Division, I love the misfits even though Danzig is a bit of an asshole for my tastes." El said. Mike smiled. "I like a lot of those also, but yea, I usually enjoy Danzig even if he is a bit of a prick." Mike said.
Roland hated music. He kind of huffed, a little louder than he expected. Max looked at him. "Not a music fan?" Max asked. Roland shrugged. "Ya know, I have some moisturizer that could help with that." Max said pointing at his acne. Roland began looking embarrassed. Max looked through Lucas's backpack and pulled out a tube of moisturizer that she used. "I used to get real bad zits a few years ago." She explained. Roland was soon getting mad, how dare this whore talk about his face.
"Roland, you okay?" Will asked. He looked over at Will and he could tell the other boy was mad. "I'm fine you little fag." Roland growled. Will was shocked. "Hey, no need for that." Mike said. Roland growled at him. "What, you suck his cock to fag lover?" Roland said. Mike stood up, he was going to teach him some manners but Will and Dustin grabbed him before he could move towards him. "Dude, you need to chill." Lucas said. Roland turned to him. "Fuck you, stupid black leech!" Roland said. "You take up welfare and demand you be given more than people who work harder than you. You even took a white girl that doesn't know her place well." Roland snarled. Max also had to be restrained from kicking Roland's ass.
"Listen here you racist fuckstain, I earned my way here, and Max doesn't belong to me she is my fucking partner, now why don't you get the fuck out of here before I kick your ass all the way up the hallway." Lucas said, his eyes narrowing. Roland looked at El, who was looking at him like a piece of trash. "You will learn soon enough." Roland said as he walked off. As he walked away, he heard El. "Hey Roland!" She shouted. Roland turned around. "You forgot your moisturizer!" She yelled and threw the bottle square at his face. The entire cafeteria laughed when the tube made a loud thud against his head. Roland was angry and embarrassed. He then ran out of the building.
El had a smug smile on her face as the rude boy ran off. She then felt a chill and looked to her left and saw another boy sitting alone. This was the boy from the library, Jeffery was his name. He stared at her with hate in his eyes. She was getting tired of this and she walked up to him.
"Hey, do you have a phone?" El asked. Jeffery looked up at her, surprised. He then pulled out a cell phone. She grabbed it and unlocked it easily and found the camera. She then walked next to him and took a picture with him. She gave a winning smile while Jeffery had an incredulous look. "Have something that lasts longer." She said as she strode off.
When El came back to her seat, the others were impressed with her. "So you embarrassed both a fuck head racist and Jeffery. You got balls Hopper." Lucas said. El smiled. "Thanks. Whats that guys problem?" She asked. Mike groaned. "If we had some time we would tell you but lunch is almost over." Mike said.
The group all moved out, with El taking a bit of time to get her things. A boy walked up to her and got her attention. "Hey, that was a damn good arm. You should try out for softball later." He said. El smiled. "Maybe, my dad showed me how to throw. I think he wanted a son." El said. The boy smiled. "I'm Eddie, if you want to talk to more than the geeks, I am around." He said. El shrugged him off and walked out.
As she walked out the cafeteria, she was stopped by another girl. "Think your hot shit huh?" She said hotly. El stopped and just wondered what was everyone's problem. "Look, that kid was an ass and I'm tired of shitheads glaring at me." El said. The girl, a blonde wearing designer clothes walked up to El and got in her face. "Look here, you stay away from my man, and I won't teach you a lesson you little bitch." She said. El looked at her school ID around her neck and saw her name was Stacey. "Fine, I don't want to date anyway." El said. Stacey got more angry. "So you want to fuck around!?" She growled. El shook her head. "No, that's not what i….." She started but Stacey walked off, mumbling about getting back at her.
El rolled her eyes and kept walking, heading to another introduction class. El privately wondered what the hell was with this school.
Baal was furious. That uppity little bitch dared to defy him. He looked at the photo in his phone. He was fuming seeing her smiling face. "I'll get you for this you whore." Baal quietly said to himself. As Baal rounded a corner, he saw a young boy walking with a pair of crutches. It was one of his followers. One he needed to speak to.
"Peter, you have betrayed me." Baal said, sneaking up behind the boy. Peter fell over after being startled. "Baal….what…..?" The boy stammered. Baal was not in a happy mood. "Sister Rosamond asked you about me. You told on me." Baal said. The boy was trying to stand but Baal put his foot on his leg. "Please Baal, she just wants to help." Peter said. Baal's eyes blazed with fury. "She is an evil conspirator. She wants to know things so she can harm me." Baal said. "She saw you were weak. I know you are weak. I know all about you Peter." Baal said. Peter shook his head.
"They didn't want you, you know. I saw the files. They keep them in a cave under the school. I broke in and read them all." Baal said. Peter was now violently shaking his head. "Your father was drunk, all the time. He hated the mere sight of you." Baal said. "Nooo!" Peter said. "YESSSSSS! Think Peter, Think how he came into your room. He grabbed your leg, pulling it harder and harder." Baal said, grabbing Peter's leg himself. Peter then began to cry. "Nobody every wanted you! Not your parents, not the old man who dropped you here. Nobody will ever love you!" Baal snarled. Peter cried more furiously. "No, I'm sorry Baal. I'll never do it again." Peter said.
Baal's voice softened, and he began to comfort the child. "There there, my good Peter. They can't get to you here. As long as you are mine, nothing will harm you. My good Peter." Baal said. The boy looked up, tears streaking his face. "I love you Baal." He said. Baal smiled, a wicked horrible smile. "Never lose faith in me Peter." He said, picking him up.
"What is going on here?" A voice from behind. Baal and Peter looked and saw Sister Rosamond. She was a young woman of thirty. She was fairly tall, with high cheekbones, sea green eyes and a face that boys started drooling over. Her habit left the boys wondering what was underneath. Baal wondered if she ever fucked.
"Peter fell over, I was helping him up." Baal said. Sister Rosamond was skeptical. "Peter move along, Father Perez was looking for you." She said. Baal looked at peter, silently reminding him to keep silent. Peter limped away and Baal moved toward his dorm. "Not so fast Mr. Raines." Rosamond said.
Baal turned to her. His arms crossed. He hated that name. "We both know he didn't fall normally." She said. Baal glared at her. "I don't know what you are talking about." Baal said. Rosamond walked up and grabbed his shoulder. "You are coming with me." She said. Baal grabbed her wrist and she felt shock. "I am going nowhere with you." He said as he stormed off.
Sister Rosamond watched as he left, shocked from his touch. It was white hot. She looked down on her wrist and saw a burning hand print.
That night, El was wearing a large flannel shirt she stole from her Dad and sweat pants. She was getting ready for bed when a dark haired girl walked in the room. "You must be the famous Jane Hopper!" The girl said. El looked at her and smiled. "You must be Jennifer." She said. The girl nodded. "Call me El." She said.
"Well, I heard you already have a reputation." She said. El shrugged. "I dunno why they roomed me with a whore." Jennifer said. El stopped, and looked at her. "The fuck are you saying?" El asked. "My friend Stacey, you met her. You were talking with her man Eddie." Jennifer said.
"First, he talked to me. Second I am not interested in him. Third, fuck you." El said. Jennifer smiled. "You know we like to take whores down a peg." She said. El walked up and sized the girl up. "Yea, how you going to do that." EL said. She got her answer when several girl came in the room and swarmed her. El was punched twice in the face and two large girls held her down.
Stacey, the blonde bitch from earlier stepped it. "Tie her up." She said. On cue, they sat her in a chair, ripped off her flannel shirt and puled off her sweats, leaving her in her underwear. She tried to fight but her struggles resulted in punches to her stomach and slaps to her face. They tied her wrists together and one held her in place as her waist was tied to the chair. Her ankles were tied to the chair legs tightly.
"Let's shut her up." Jennifer said as she pulled out a pair of underwear from her dirty laundry. Forcing her mouth open, they stuffed them in and wrapped pantyhose around her mouth. "Now, lets see how you look when I'm done bitch." Stacey said. EL screamed but it was muffled. Stacey then pulled out a pair of clippers and began shaving her head. El tried to fight but the larger girls held her in place. Jennifer began taking video and another girl was taking pictures. After a few minutes, El's head was shaved. They took more pictures before throwing a sheet over her head. "Leave her like this. Stupid whore shouldn't talk to my man." Stacey said. The girls all walked out, leaving El to sob under the sheet as she struggled to get free.