Your life was a collection of little moments put together, some sticking out more than others and some long forgotten in far reaches of your mind that you couldn't seem to dig out unless you smelled a certain scent, heard a certain sound or the stars aligned.

Then those hidden memories would unlock in your mind, they would come flooding out like a gate had opened.

Sometimes they'd linger around for a while like a smack of nostalgia that you couldn't shake, some would go as soon as you remembered.

Quite a few you wish you could relive, be back in that exact moment in time. You'd yearn for it so deeply but of course, it's not possible to go back.. it's not possible to relive your greatest hits like it's the first time all over again.

You can think of the memory, the details, the feelings but there's nothing you can physically hear, touch or feel. It's just a tiny little fragment in your mind on rewind.

One of many memories that always stuck with you is the day you moved to Hawkins. It was fourth grade, you were an absolute dork (or so you thought) and were almost certain you'd never fit in, make friends or be worthy of mention.

You were seated beside this equally dorky boy, If not even dorkier. His hair was always combed over and always wore hideously striped button up sweaters, straight out of a stepford household.

He'd bug you daily, endlessly. Eventually you kind of just gave in, accepted that this boy was going to annoy you to the ends of the earth and back. Some how, he grew on you.. maybe it's because by fifth grade he lost the ugly sweaters.

You can remember the first time you actually associated with him off of school grounds, your dad was late to picking you up and this annoying boy, who made you want to pull your hair out.. walked you the entire way home and he still had to walk back to his house, himself.

In that moment, you realized he wasn't half bad and getting beyond the dork qualities.. you guys actually had some things in common and those things multiplied as you got older.

By sixth grade, it was obvious that you were deterring on the more than friends line so one day while you were at his house like many times before, playing board games or dancing around to records.. you kissed.

It wasn't even a thought, it just happened like it was suppose to happen. Many things changed after that, you guys were on and off like a faulty light switch. The dramas of young love - young relationships.

In your pre teen mind, it was stressful times but If younger you could see what shit you got yourself into now, the past you would not dare to complain.

The break up, oof.

The actual, final break up.. that was something you'd never forget. You had never known or felt pain like that before, you were young but it did truly feel like your world was ending.

It wasn't a pretty break up, by any means. It consisted of him coming to your house, knocking on the door and emptying out a box right on your doorstep.

All the things that he had from you, the gifts, the little treasures, things forgotten. All dropped like trash right in front of you.

You screamed that you hated him and he screamed that he hated you too.

You sobbed so violently that night, you were puking your guts out and lost your voice.

Your entire body under a spell of the shakes, you laid in your bed for what felt like ever and just cried, then screamed.. then cried some more.

It took time. It was still taking time for you guys to be friends again. To be able to look each other in the eye, to not let the past creep up on the both of you and hit you right where it hurts. Sometimes it still did.

Now, you felt like you two were almost as close as you use to be.. but it just would never be the same. No matter how hard either of you tried.

A lot of memories with Steve pop into your mind but those ones.. they really stick.

With Max, well. She was like an instant best friend, you were both quiet and reserved. Though you both stood up for yourselves and had one hell of an attitude, you guys just clicked and meshed so easily.

She was the sister you never had but always wanted, you knew her better than you knew yourself and your families histories compared to hers were remarkably similar which just drew you guys closer together.

The two of you were always getting into trouble growing up, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not.

It's like you guys found your rebellious streak together, sneaking out, staying up late.. dabbling in things you probably shouldn't be dabbling in. Pissing off your parents to hell and back, likely worrying them like crazy.

You'd tell her anything and everything, she would always do the same. There was truly no topic off limits.

There was this one time you and her went down to a local diner, it had been a bum week and you guys were just.. bored. Hawkins wasn't the most exciting place to grow up, after all.

So the both of you got this great idea to go down to lovers lake, your parents and hers always said not to hang out down there because there was always parties and all these other scary things.. so of course, that made you and Max want to go more and so you did.

You guys stopped by your house, picked up a couple bathing suits and headed for the "risky" part of lovers lake. Sadly, to be disappointed that there was no earth ending parties going on, no mischief to be had

That is the day you first noticed Eddie though and that day played in your mind on loop, constantly.

You went to school with him, you saw him in passing but he was just one of the many blurry faces passing by. You didn't even recognize him at first at lovers lake until Max pointed out who it was.

You and Max were sitting on some rocks on the shore, you could hear other people talking and splashing around but couldn't see anyone, so both of you being curious.. you walked into the water and saw Eddie, Jeff and Jeff's girlfriend at the time all splashing and swimming around with out a care in the world.

The two of you locked eyes and from that point forward, he was on your radar. You couldn't even describe what it was about him. The Eddie then is not who Eddie is now.

Back then he was just a trouble maker with a bad attitude, a buzz cut and nothing to him.

As you guys grew up, he started finding who he was.. then again, you did too. It started with the metal music then the long hair and then the style to match.

You always thought he was so cool, even when people would make fun of him. They didn't know what they were talking about anyways.

He still was a trouble maker, got thrills out of being the class clown, he was and still is extremely outspoken.. yet so ironically shy too.

Your attraction and interest in him grew, it was obvious to everyone the school girl crush you had on him, well obvious to everyone but Eddie himself.

You always found yourself crossing paths with him, especially in the party scene and concert scene. He was a huge flirt so you never even attempted to dip your toes into that pond, why would he go for you? He clearly has his picks and you weren't one of them.. so you thought.

One of the first times you remember having an actual conversation with him that was more than five words was when you went to the hide out in grade nine, you didn't usually venture there but again there was very little to do in Hawkins and you were bored out of your mind.

You sat in one of the booths, ordered some food and listened to some music. There was nothing that spectacular about it, until a home made poster was placed on your table.

You looked at it, it was for a band called Corroded Coffin who was playing their first gig at the hideout that Friday. Then you looked up to see who put the poster on your table and it was none other than Eddie Munson.

He slid into the booth, seated opposite of you and you guys just talked. It wasn't about anything fancy or riveting, he asked if you were being dared to go to the hideout as he was there very often and never saw you there before.

You said no, you just wanted a change of scenario which he said he could appreciate. Then Eddie basically tried to sell coming to his bands first gig, and boy did he ever try.

You were curious about the band before you knew Eddie was lead and played guitar, but you were sold the moment you found out.

You could have said that and saved him the trouble but you were highly amused at his ways of speaking, how charming and animated he was.

Eddie was much more.. normal, down to earth than you ever thought. He was much more kind than you had envisioned too, you didn't want to say you were shocked he was a genuinely nice person (depending) but it was a long way from the boy with the buzz cut and all hell breaks loose attitude.

So you went to his first gig, you had an amazing time and you got to talk to him a little bit Steve showed up and while you two were long past dating, you were pretty sure Eddie was intimidated by him or maybe even thought you and Steve were still on and off.

There was also that kiss at a party that was thrown at skull rock, where he came up to you.. told you he was dared to kiss the one girl he had a thing for at the party.. then he planted one on you, dropped to his knees and mock professed his wishes to date you.

At the time you thought it was him being drunk and trying to cause a scene, maybe trying to stir up drama. You also thought maybe he was dared to embarrassed you, but now you know he was very much serious.

You and Eddie grew closer as the years went on, you'd get in all sorts of hell together. He was your comfort, your safety net.. he understood you on a level no one else could.

You'd flirt, He'd flirt. You'd pull away, He'd pull away. It was a mess.

You'd see him with other girls, he'd see you with other guys.. there were a lot of issues that could of been avoided if you two were just straight up with each other.

Maybe it was your fear of getting hurt.. of it ending up the way you and Steve did. You weren't exactly sure.

But one night at the drive in, you were both seated in the back of a trucks cab, you can't even recall whose it was, maybe it was Gareth's.

His hand found yours underneath the blankets, neither of you pulled away.

You can remember so vividly leaning your head on his shoulder, his thumb rubbing small circles against the back of your hand, watching The Lord of The Rings (the animated movie)

You can remember that he smelled like leather and gasoline, that he had his long, wavy (now signature hair) pulled back in a hair tie.

You can remember that he was wearing a white muscle tee with some band on it and black pants that were cut into shorts. All tattered and ripped up.

Every tiny detail you can recall like it was just yesterday, that's how often you think of it.

A girl came up to you guys, fawning over Eddie and it pissed you off. You wanted to knock the lights out of her, Eddie blew you away by saying "Go bug someone else, I'm with my girl here."

His girl. You swooned, hard.

At that moment he decided you were his girl and he didn't care who knew it, you weren't exactly sure If that's when the two of you truly started dating but it wasn't long after that at least, that the two of you were mad about each other.

The arguments.. man did you guys ever bash heads. You were both stubborn, outspoken and feisty which had ended bad multiple times.

Of course, the arguments never lasted long and staying mad at each other was near impossible.

He'd sneak in your window when you were least expecting it because he missed you, because being mad at whatever was stupid and that's all it would take to get over it.

There was one fight though that you thought it was the end, your heart still drops when you think about it.

He saw you with Steve and for some reason Eddie just had it in his head that you were going to leave him, that you wanted Steve. That Eddie, himself was merely a place holder until you and Steve got back together.

That was of course as far from the truth as possible and you could scream that until you were blue in the face, which you did.. many times but Eddie was just so in his own head. Even now, you could see he still had those thoughts lingering around in his noggin.

So then after that, you spotted him with this girl, Tabatha. She was your complete opposite in every way possible, different style, different personalities, different interests.. and she was far off from what Eddie was usually into.

You lost it. You lost it so bad you thought you'd never stop going off on him. You were so enraged, you could literally feel your blood boiling and yourself fuming.

You had been hurt once, you had dealt with a heart wrenching break up before. You didn't want to do it again, you couldn't.

Eddie and you got Into a screaming match, every fight before had never reached that level.

"Why are you doing this, Eddie? Are you trying to make me jealous, are you trying to hurt me?"

"You think I'm trying to hurt you mean while you, Y/N, my girlfriend - is out here prancing around with her ex boyfriend."

"prancing?! We hung out, that's it! We are friends, even if you don't want to believe that."

"Yeah well when the whole town is saying that you're with Steve and I better go check on my girlfriend before I lose her.."

"Oh screw them! Really Eddie? You're going to listen to the people you can't stand over me?"

"You know what, I can't do this.. I either want you all the way or not at all because I'm not going to be second guessing every time you're with him."

"Then don't second guess! It's that simple. I'm telling you right now, there is nothing going on between us!"

"Maybe not for you but there sure is for him,"

"I can't control what he feels,"

"But you entertain it."

"that's so not fair and you know it,"

"What's not fair is waiting for the day you call me up to say hey Eddie sorry, it's been fun but see ya."

"You really think I'd ever do that to you?"

"I don't know what to think anymore."

"You know what, fine. Believe what you want, go talk to Tabatha or who ever. Go - just fucking go Eddie."

"No, Y/N. you go, get the fuck out of my trailer. Have fun with Steve, tell him I said hi."

"Oh fuck you, you asshole."

"Coming from the bitch herself.."

"I wish I never met you,"

"Trust me. The feelings mutual."

Yeah. It was that bad. You stormed out of the trailer with tears rolling down your face, gasping for air as you sobbed. You thought that was the end, the last time you'd ever see him or speak to him.

You both went weeks with out talking, with out seeing each other.. intentionally at least.

Then Max snapped up a plan with out even letting you know, she told you how horrible Eddie was doing with out you and told Eddie how horrible you were doing with out him.

She didn't lie, you were both like walking zombies. You could barely eat, sleep.. it was just a dark depression.

So you got together, you talked.. for hours. Eddie apologized and so did you and from that moment on you agreed that you'd both never let it get to that point ever again.

So, that would be when you and Eddie really became official. When you realized that neither of you could stand losing each other.

People would tease you relentlessly, "you're dating Eddie the freak?" They'd laugh. It never bothered you, well.. it bothered you how people talked about Eddie like he was some wild creature from the darkest depths of the earth.

You defended him, over and over and over. You proudly wore the title of being his girlfriend and he proudly wore the title of being your boyfriend.

You fell so fast you barely had time to catch up, one minute he's this guy you're crushing on and hoping you have a chance with to him being this guy you're insanely in love with.

You are still falling for him, every moment of every day.

These types of moments - memories are the ones that shape your life, who you are as a person and who you're going to be.

They're also what flash before your eyes when you're moments from death.

"We aren't going to make it up," Eddie yells, watching as the demonic bats fly in at super speed, seemingly hundreds of them.

He uses his body as a shield to protect you from the ravenous creatures, "I have an idea," He holds up the last remaining shield with nails through it, fighting off every bat that comes at the two of you.

"Whatever it is, I don't like it!" You yell, "Trust me, Princess." He yells just as loud, you squeeze your eyes closed, preparing for whatever Eddie has planned.

He uses the last remaining shield on the newly broken vent, covering it so more bats can't get in.

"COME GET ME YOU SONS OF BITCHES," Eddie's voice is strained as he yells, barging through the trailer door as all the bats swarm behind him

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" You run to the door in a panic, was he trying to get himself killed?

"I got this," you could hear him say to himself as he made the demonic bats circle themselves, giving him enough time to run to the trailer door.

You let out a sigh of relief as he made it to the door, "I told you," he grinned, going to shut the door behind him

You watch as one of the bats launch at him, wrapping its tail around his neck and dragging him by his throat out of the trailer.

"EDDIE!" You scream in horror.

Moments. All little moments. Good, bad, some what good and some what bad. But you never thought all moments would lead up to this.