How Soon is Now?
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Nancy reached out, brushing Steve’s hair from his face. She had to keep reminding herself that he wasn’t hers anymore. She’d ended that, tonight actually. Though, if she was honest, it had ended a long time ago.
Maybe, in a way, it had never really been anything. Another attempt in her long and storied history to be noticed for something other than her grades, her nice clothes. Another accidental fall into the same tired cycle the women in her family had been playing out for generations. Cute boy, good family, marriage, kids and a house with a station wagon out front. And she’d wanted it, she really had.
She wanted to love him, especially since he’d changed. She just…couldn’t. Not like that, not like he needed her to. His words from earlier tonight echoed in her ears.
"I may be a pretty shitty boyfriend…"
Yeah, she thought, you were. Sometimes. But I wasn’t much better.
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Or, Nancy takes a turn hiding someone in the basement.
Split POV Nancy and Jonathan
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- Part 1 of How Soon is Now?
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Robin almost convinced herself in the last week that the mall really was an alternate dimension, one that had now been permanently destroyed both in reality and partially in her mind. She couldn’t really have made friends with Steve and his gaggle of weird children; that was ridiculous.
That was until he called to invite her to a movie night at Jonathan Byers’ house.
Robin almost said no. She knew exactly three things about Jonathan Byers. He took pictures, he was ready to attempt field surgery at a moment’s notice, and everyone in town thought he’d killed his brother for approximately a week.
She could only assume that Nancy would be there too. She knew even less about Nancy Wheeler. Robin didn’t have any exes, but if she did, she didn’t think she would make a habit of hanging out with them and their boyfriend.
Then again, they’d been through things together that she’d only gotten a small, horrible taste of.
So she said yes when Steve asked. Mostly because she was nosy, and she wanted to know what the hell was going on with this group of people.
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Split POV Steve and Robin
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- Part 2 of How Soon is Now?