Eddie munson. I still can't believe after all this time I'm actually seeing his face again. After I left, I worried that, it would be the last time I'd ever see him.

I know it sounds sad, but what else was I to think when taping up box after box, and leaving the place I grew up in?

Eddie:"hey, you okay?"

Rory:"yeah, sorry."

Eddie:"you spaced out for a second there."

Rory:"sorry, what were you saying?"

Eddie:"I was saying...I can't guarantee you'll get into hellfire club, but if you do, which I think will most likely happen, you need to prepare yourself."

Rory:"prepare myself? What is this, boot camp?"

Eddie:"our campaigns have taken a month before. Its one game a week."

Rory:"a month?"

Eddie:"we're really serious about it too. None of us would choose to miss a game even if it killed us."

Rory:"god, you really do take it seriously."

I looked down at my watch and the hour had just struck 5. We'd been out for two hours and I'm pretty sure I'll be expected home by now.

Rory:"I hate to break up the serious conversation about D & D, but I need to head back home. My mom will be expecting me back so I can unpack everything properly."

Eddie:"I have to head back to my trailer anyway, there's a slight chance my uncle's passed out on the sofa again."

Rory:"you still live in the trailer park?"

Eddie:"I haven't left."

Eddie had quite a bad relationship with his parents, that's why he was living in a trailer park with his uncle. He didn't like to bring it up when I'd asked him before, so I didn't wish to overstep my boundaries now.

Rory:"well, I guess...I'll see you tomorrow."

Eddie:"yeah. Tomorrow."

Rory:"goodbye, Eddie."

Eddie:"later...Rory."

His smile was beaming, but it faded when those words crushed every inch of his heart. 'Goodbye'. I was never able to say that to him before I left, and my poor choice of words broke him as he realised how hurt he would've been if I'd have said it 5 years previous.

But he was glad I was back, I could see the look in his eyes when he realised who I was. It was like a great amount of happiness, the most I'd seen in a while. That's what I loved about Eddie. He could be the most scarily dressed person in the room, but he also had the most enthusiastic personality, that's what made him different from everyone else. That's what made him unique. Maybe not so much for the others, but he was always different, but aren't we all? He was the good kind of different. The kind that you wouldn't have to spend ages getting used to, because he was so accepting of those who didn't fit in, that their club was like their family.

*back at home*

Katherine:"hey sweetheart, where were you, I made dinner, but you weren't home when I came back from work?"

Rory:"oh yeah, sorry, I ran into some old friends so we were just catching up after school."

Katherine:"friends? anyone I know?"

Rory:"Eddie munson."

Katherine:"oh my god, I have seen Eddie in ages. He still lives here in Hawkins?"

Rory:"yeah."

Katherine:"and how was that? I bet it was nice seeing him again?"

She winked at me indicating something I didn't particularly want to talk about, but I knew she'd still bring it up anyway.

Rory:"honestly mom, what are you doing?"

Katherine:"oh come on, don't pretend like you didn't have a crush on him. You always used to make me do your hair all nice for school because you wanted to impress Eddie."

Rory:"yeah, I was also 12. And he's my best friend."

Katherine:"honestly Rory, I don't understand why you get so embarrassed about it, it was the sweetest little thing when you told me you liked him."

Rory:"it's not like that anymore."

Katherine:"what about now though? Is he still cute?"

Rory:"well, when you look at the old photos of the both of us from middle school, you wouldn't even think we were the same people."

Kathrine:"he's changed that much?"

Rory:"yeah."

Katherine:"you should bring him round sometime? I'd love to see him now after all this time?"

Rory:"Mom, it was my first day back and you're already planning ahead of everything."

Katherine:"okay, sorry, I'll butt out of it."

Rory:"thank you."

Katherine:"your foods sat in the microwave also, so just take off the foil and heat it up for a couple minutes."

She seemed calm. And she wasn't on her laptop working like she normally was.

Katherine:"the principal called me today. He said you got in trouble. What's that all about?"

Rory:"I've kind of....got to have detentions every day after school next week."

Katherine:"on your first day? Honestly Rory, we moved here for a fresh start, not so you can keep misbehaving in school."

Rory:"yeah, well, if some asshole wouldn't have felt me up then maybe I would've gone easy on him."

Katherine:"he what?"

Rory:"two of the basketball team students were hitting on me during my lunch break, then one of them decided to push their luck."

Katherine:"my question is, what did you do?"

Rory:"I practically cupped the one of them and kind of lit the other ones jacket on fire...."

Katherine:"Rory!"

Rory:"look, I'm sorry, its not my fault that that's how I defend myself."

Katherine:"you control your own actions, Rory. I honestly expected better from you. Even if he did deserve it. Violence isn't the answer."

Rory:"and moving to a new house, having to change my identity at every new school I go to is? Yes, I got in trouble, but so what? I can't keep pretending like everything's okay. That's you mom, that's not me."

Katherine:"and its not my fault your father left. Care to blame me for that too?"

Rory:"that's not what I'm saying."

Katherine:"I thought moving back here would be nice for you."

Rory:"nothing I say to you matters, does it? I appreciate that you took a job here, but before I know it, we'll be packing up our stuff again and we'll be going else where. Nothing I say will make you realise it, but don't you ever think that I act the way I do because all your focused on is work?"

Katherine:"I have been busting my ass off trying to provide for the both of us, sorry if that disappoints you, but that's just how life is unfortunately. You can't have what you want every time you ask for it."

Me and my mom had a bipolar relationship. Sometimes you get the good side of her, but when you push you luck, you get the side of her that unleashes anything she can to make you feel guilty about it. My dad left by choice, I never blamed her for that. But the fact that she thinks I'd blame her for that? What kind of a person does she think I am. I know we fight a lot, but that's what every parent does with their kids. Right?