Aaliyah groggily opened her eyes, unable to move because of the raging headache from the beers last night so instead of getting out of bed, she stared at the ceiling for five whole minutes until she realize it didn't possess the star stickers she placed on them when she was nine years old.
She swiftly sat up straight, which caused Johnathan to jump in surprise. She noticed that he had nothing on except his boxers, Aaliyah blushed while he quickly put on his shirt.
She grabbed her head at her sudden movement while Johnathan came over to her with some Tylenol. He smiled at her while handing her the medicine and she smiled back.
"Thanks" Aaliyah said.
"No problem" Johnathan replied "So what happened last night?"
"I thought I seen something but it was probably me having too much to drink." Aaliyah said thinking about what that 'creature' was. She thought she had seen a demon from hell.
"Wait a sec, this isn't my house which means I spent the night over here?" Aaliyah asked while trying to find her jacket around the room. Johnathan gave her a sheepishly and rubbed the back of his neck.
"I didn't know where you stayed and I couldn't just leave you in the woods by yourself." Johnathan said but that had got Aaliyah wondering. She finally found her jacket on the floor and tied it around her waist.
"Why were you in the woods late at night?" Aaliyah asked, at first Johnathan was reluctant to tell her about his hobby. But he also didn't want to lie too her.
"I was taking pictures" He told her, she gave him a confused look so he went to his bag and gathered multiple pictures from it and showed it to her. It was of Tommy and Carol in the pool, Nancy and Barb and the last picture made her eyes bulge.
It was Her and Steve together with their faces inches apart from last night. She quickly snatched the picture from his hands to inspect it more clearly.
"You where there?" Aaliyah said angrily "What you stalking us or something."
"No, of course not I heard screaming and I thought someone was in trouble" Nathan said.
She gave him a weary look, she knew she couldn't leave the photo with him. If the wrong person got their hands on this, the evidence would cause a lot of problems.
"Can I keep this?" Aaliyah asked. Johnathan gave her a look but said "Sure."
She hugged him and this time he hugged back unlike last night where he hesitated a bit. They friendly embrace was cut short by a voice. They both heard his mother say his brother name over and over, they both looked at each other and dashed to the Will's room.
They both found her sitting on Will's bed muttering to herself, Aaliyah haven't seen Miss Byers since the disappearance of her son. Seeing her in this state made Aaliyah's heart sink.
"Mom?" Johnathan said.
"Johnathan, please come here" Joyce pleaded desperately completely ignoring Aaliyah's presence. Then Aaliyah slightly nudged Johnathan towards his mother, while she stood silently in the doorway.
"It's Will, he's trying to talk to me" Joyce said
"He's trying to talk to you?" Johnathan said repeating her
"Yes, through the lights" Joyce exclaimed. Aaliyah cocked her head to the side and wondered if this was the starting of a mental breakdown. Aaliyah could see the reasonings behind it but she didn't want to believe it.
"Mom-"Johnathan started but Joyce cut him off " I know, I know. Just watch"
"Will, you're brother's here could you show him what you showed me, baby" Joyce continued. Then a spark suddenly appeared but as soon as it did it was gone. Aaliyah wasn't convinced that Will was dead, she like her brother Lucas think that he's still missing. So she didn't believe in Joyce's paranormal breakdown.
"Did you see that?" Joyce said frantically.
"It's the electricity, Mom" Johnathan said unconvinced, "It's the same thing that fried the phone."
"No! It not the electricity, Johnathan." Joyce said. She started going on about more lamps and even said that something came out of the walls. Aaliyah started to doleful as she was seeing this scene before her own eyes.
"First the lights, then the wall?" Johnathan said.
"I just know Will is here" Joyce replied.
"Maybe if I get more lamps-" Joyce was cut off by Johnathan "No, no more lamps."
"He is just lost" Johnathan exclaimed "People are looking for him and they're going to find him."
Joyce seemingly coming back to her since muttered okay, Johnathan gave his mother a hug and told her he'll be right back. They both walked into the living room together and he gave her an apologetic smile "I'm sorry you had to see that" Johnathan said.
"No, no I completely understand." Aaliyah said, Then she remembered her own mother then her father. She knew she was going to get in so much trouble for not coming home last night. Johnathan meanwhile was in his own his thoughts staring at her in a somewhat hypnotize daze until Aaliyah snapped her fingers.
"Could you please take me home now?" Aaliyah asked, Johnathan nodded sheepishly. Her eyes started to trail down his face towards his waist "And you should probably out on some pants." To that he dashed for his room while she giggled hysterically.
When they pulled up outside of her house, she unbuckled her seatbelt and told him "Remember, if you need anything come to me." She then gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and got out of the car.
She came to the front of her door and retrieved the key from under the door mat. She silently opened her door, then she eased her way up the stairs. For a second Aaliyah thought she was in the clear until her sister Erica came out of her room. Before Aaliyah had a chance to bribe her, she yelled for both of her parents.
"Do you know what time it is?" Her father shouted coming out of his room, with her mother right behind him.
"Do you know how worried we were?" Her mother continued, they both yelled at her for being irresponsible and not trust worthy. She told them she stayed over at Nancy's, so they would get off her back and to her surprise they did.
Aaliyah walked to her locker excepting both Barb and Nance but to her surprise no one was present. She shrugged it off and assumed they must be already in class. She started to walk to class until Steve unexpectedly got in front of her which caused her to collide into him.
But before she could fall, he quickly caught her. He then dragged her into the girl's bathroom, Aaliyah gave him an annoyed look and he only smirk in return.
"What do you want?" Aaliyah said not wanting to talk to him at this moment. She was already late to class and she didn't want to be any later then she already was.
"About last night." Steve replied, Aaliyah breath hitched in her throat. She hoped that he would've forgotten that whole mess.
"You were going to let me kiss you." Steve continued. She shook her head ferociously
"We were both heavily drunk." Aaliyah said.
"Stop denying it babe" Steve told her, Aaliyah froze at that. "I'll prove it to you." He started to lean in closer and closer to her, with their lips inches apart once again.
