Stranger Things: Rebuilding

Chapter 41 of my Stranger Things story, enjoy.

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Languishing Sorrow

Ring, click, beep.

"You have reached the Myles Residence, please leave a message at the beep, thank you."

Jessica groaned as she lay on the sofa, alone at home, hearing yet another message from a caller. She hoped that this time it would be what she was waiting for.

But it wasn't. "Jess, it's Stacey, I am still so totally freaked from what happened in school today. I mean, I can not believe Eric would film you guys, you know, doing it. Then to have it be shown in class. That's like, urgh, so unbelievably tasteless. Seriously, like what if you were wearing weird underwear or something? So, like, call me when you get home, bye."

Click, beep.

Jessica groaned again, what kind of idiot was Stacey, she knew Jessica didn't have a phone of her own, this was the family phone, in the family room where anybody could hear it. It wasn't like her parents would ever purposefully listen to an incoming call and were pretty good about not snooping, but still. They could have easily been walking past the room and overhear Stacey talking about her and Eric 'doing it'.

'Idiot.' Jess thought bitterly.

She was seriously questioning just what she was doing, before reminding herself that she had to do this, she had a good reason to after all.

She was waiting for a certain someone to phone after all, instead she was getting all this crap.

Ring, click, beep.

"You have reached the Myles Residence, please leave a message at the beep, thank you."

Jessica perked up, maybe this time.

But now. "Hi, it's Ashley, I skipped school today to get my hair done but I just got the best dirt. This morning someone actually showed a video of people having, like, sex – in school. Well no, I mean, they weren't having sex in school, they showed the video in school, the sex was, like, some place else. I don't know who was on the video though, I only heard it from Valerie who heard it from Mandy who heard it from like...someone else. I don't know. Anyway, I'm bummed I missed it, but wait, you're in that History class aren't you, so you must have seen it. Cool, call me with the info."

Click, beep.

Jessica gritted her teeth, she had been dealing with this for at least an hour now, deleted at least twenty messages on this very subject. But she refused to take the phone off the hook, she was waiting for Eric to call, to explain himself, to apologize, anything really. Right now she'd settle for him simply calling her. So she had come home from the disaster at school and spent the past hour lying on the sofa, screening calls.

This time, she didn't even bother getting her hopes up.

Ring, click, beep.

"You have reached the Myles Residence, please leave a message at the beep, thank you."

"So, Jessica, it's Jeff Landen, heard about your film debut, whoa. Didn't know you were into that kinda stuff, so, you free Saturday night?"

Click, beep.

With a shriek of rage she threw a cushion at the phone but missed.

'I cannot be having this...it's, urgh.' She thought angrily then heard the phone again. 'That's it, I've had it.'

She stood up and ignored the message, which was Stacey again. She stalked out to the door and pulled her shoes on, enough was enough. If Eric decided to finally man up and call her, he'd find her not in, let him deal with that problem, she was done wallowing in self-pity. She didn't care what, she just wanted to get out of here and try and do something, anything, to get her out of her funk. She left the house and began stalking through town, trying to think of something, yet all the while dealing with her seething anger. Making her way down the street near the school she glowered.

'Urgh, seriously, this is ridiculous.' She thought angrily. 'The universe is clearly out to get me here.'

Her reason for thinking that was that she had just seen none other than Jane Hopper's friends, the nerd crew with the disgusting tomboy, along with four college students, Eric's roommates she realized, two of whom she knew were related to two of the nerds. Not only that but the chief was there too, along with the two adult Wheelers. She scoffed as she saw them arguing, overhearing some of it and almost laughing at the fact they were getting worked up over something like Mike Wheeler skipping school.

She smirked. 'The way his grades are, a single day skipped would barely make a blip on them.'

She turned and was about to leave. When she heard it.

"We had to it, for Eric Gibson's sake." Will Byers burst out.

She spun back around and immediately went to intervene.

She made sure to make as much noise as possible, therefore getting the attention of all present who turned to her, startled.

"Excuse me!" She snapped, glaring at Will. "What on earth are you talking about, what the hell does Eric have to do with you!"

"I-" Will began.

But then, to her outrage, the chief spoke to her, dismissively. "This doesn't concern you miss, so please-"

"It clearly does." She snapped angrily, not caring if she was talking to the police chief. "Eric is my boyfriend, so anything to do with him involves me."

"As I was trying to say, before I was rudely interrupted." Will cut in, glaring.

Jessica almost wanted to take him to task for daring to disrespect her, but the look on his face stopped her, she was shocked to see Will Byers look anything other than polite, friendly or shy.

"They had to skip school, because El needed to follow the instructions she was given in order to save Eric who has been kidnapped. Mike left to help her." He explained, his tone sharp.

This led to shock and consternation from the three adults. But for Jessica, it was unbelievable, she froze, she couldn't believe it. She now knew exactly why Eric hadn't called her and felt as if she had just been plunged into a pool of freezing cold water.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.