The Seventh Experiment (background info)
1974, Jim Hopper was on his way home from work, to his wife and their baby girl, when suddenly he slammed on his breaks causing his body to fling forward. He brought his head up from behind the steering wheel and came face to face with a child, who couldn’t of been older than 8 years old. He climbed out of his truck, rushing to check on the girl. His dark brown eyes meeting with light green ones.
That kid was me. I was so scared. Terrified. Hopper guided me to the passenger side of his truck and helped me get in. Once I was settled he called home to tell his wife he would be picking up dinner for them on his way home. He drove us to benny’s burgers to get me some food. I guess I probably looked starving. Hopper came back out to the car but didn’t see me in his truck. He hurried around the side quickly opening the passenger door, seeing that I had been laying down for a nap and he just hadnt seen me in the window. Calming down he smiled grabbing his food from the top of his truck and hopped in next to me, driving us home.
At first Hopper’s wife was upset that he had brought another child into their home without including her, but she grew to love me and treated me like I was her own. She helped me get changed into some comfortable night clothes. And after a few nights of staying with the Hopper’s I began speaking. It was little to no words I spoke but at least I was trying. I attempted to tell them about how I had been taken when I was younger, and how the bad men did things to me and made me see things I didnt like seeing. The man and woman knew they couldnt report me missing or else those bad men would find me and do more of those horrible things. So they decided together that they would adopt me and hide that I had come from the lab.
They decided to name me Brilyne, they taught me how to do normal things a child should know and tried to expand my vocabulary best they could so I could start speaking normally.
A year after adopting me, and seeing my hair had grown from the buzz cut I had when they first found me they sent me to primary school. Where I met my childhood best friends, Nancy Wheeler, Steve Harrington, and Jonathan Byers. Nancy and Jonathan were younger than me and Steve but, I had met Nancy and Jonathan on my first day and we became quick friends. As for Steve Harington, he was told to show me how to do things since we had been in the same class and instantly we became the best of friends. Naturally we all became really close but, something happened in middle school.
Jonathan grew apart from us and started hanging out by him self. I didnt know why, but I was happy that we still shared smiles when passing by each other and sometimes he even waved back when I did. Me and Nancy were still friends and we hung out during gym but, Nancy also had a separate group of friends that didn’t like me because they thought I was weird. I didn’t mind though I still had Steve who treated me normal even if he had also made different friends. I wasn’t as great at meeting people as I used to be. I developed a bit of social anxiety over the years. I did however manage to meet a nice group of three girls. Cadence, Natalia, and Natalias younger sister, Robin. I grew especially close with Robin. I considered her to be like a little sister to me too.
As if my life wasn’t bad enough with the bad men still looking for me. My time in middle school were the worst years of my life. In 6th grade I didn’t have any friends because that was when my friend group found new people. And yes Steve did include me in everything but he was mostly friends with guys so we didn’t hangout very much with other people. Just them. I also hadn’t had the chance to meet Robin yet. But 7th grade changed everything for me. After school one afternoon I came home to a letter on the fridge saying my parents had gone to the hospital. Later that year, my little sister died of cancer. Thats not the only thing that made middle school my worst years though. A few months after my sisters death, my mother ran out on me and my dad. Leaving us to go live in New York.I didn’t let any of that bring me down though. I knew I had to be there for my dad, and I knew that meant being the strongest I could be for him.
With Brilyne there Hopper remand happy. He was glad that he hadn’t screwed up the one part of his happiness he had left. He never wanted his daughter to feel like she had to hide things from him. And she didn’t. She trusted him more than anyone in the world.
