There's No Place Like Hawkins//Stranger Things. SH

FORTY FIVE

Suzie, Do You Copy?

One of Catherine's favourite things about summer was that she could spend as much time as she wanted  with her boyfriend, Steve. Even though they had been dating for some time, it still felt surreal to call him that. Her boyfriend.

When they weren't hanging out in Scoops Ahoy with Robin, or making out in the back, they were spending time with each other at their houses. Although it was mainly Steve's house they hung out at due to it being empty ninety-nine percent of the time. It was during one of these times that Cat's secret got out.

It wasn't really a secret, just a hidden tattoo that she hadn't told anybody about. She had got it done ages ago, using a fake ID she made when she turned fifteen. She had been cliché and got a little daisy tattooed just under her ribs. The daisy was on the right side of her body. On the left  side of her body, again, just under her ribs, was a more recent tattoo. This one was a date, super cliché, right?

"What's this?" Steve asked, gently touching the daisy that was inked on his girlfriend. They had been making out, their shirts had been discarded somewhere on the floor, leaving them topless- although Cat still had her bra on.

"That? Oh, that's a daisy."

"I can see that. I meant... How come you never told me about this?"

"Because it's never come up in conversation."

"What about this one?" Steve asked, pointing to the date inked on her left.

"That," Cat grinned at him, "is the day you told me you loved me. The 4th of the 11th 1984." She read it out, although on her skin it looked like 4/11/84.

They locked eyes and smiled at each other. "I'm so in love with you." Steve whispered, leaning down to peck a kiss on Cat's lips.

"I'm so in love with you, too." Cat smiled, leaning up to kiss him.

***

The group was back together, well, mostly. Max was helping Lucas wash the hairspray out of his eye in the kitchen while the rest of the teens stood around in Dustin's room as he showed them his creations from 'Science Camp'. "I call it... the Forever Clock." Dustin held up the invention after carefully removing it from his bag. He demonstrated how it worked. "All right? Powered by wind. Very useful in the apocalypse."

"There's not going to be an apocalypse." Cat said, crossing her arms over her chest as her fingers fiddled with the bracelet on her wrist. It was brand new, only gifted to her a few days prior by Steve.

"Well, if there ever is one, my inventions will come in handy." Dustin handed the clock to Will before dashing over to his bag and finding something else to show his friends. "Then, I give you... the Slammer." He held it up to his friends, chuckling as he made it work. "Pretty neat, huh?" He handed it to Catherine. She smiled at him, she was bored but happy that her brother had found something to be enthusiastic about. "But this..." Dustin trailed off as he pulled out his next creation, lifting up a huge bag that looked to be very heavy. "This is my masterpiece."