"I'm sorry what? Your pet demogorgon ate Mews?" I yelled at my younger brother after a long day at school.

"His name is Dart, and yes. Yes he did." Dustin nods. My hand flys to my forehead. "Last year, a demogorgon kidnapped your best friend, and now you're keeping it as a pet?" I shouted. Thank the lord our mom wasn't home. Dustin bit his finger nails.

"As much as I hate to say this, I'm calling Steve." I groaned. Dustin cheered as I walked over to the house phone. I picked it up off the wall and dialed Steve's number before leaning against the wall. It rang for a few seconds before a familiar voice picked up. "Hello?" Steve answered.

"Hey, hate to bother you, but we kind of need your help. My idiot brother decided to keep a demogorgon as a pet, and it ate our cat. He apparently locked it in our basement-."

"It's a demo-dog!" Dustin yelled. I rolled my eyes. "Fine, I'm on my way." Steve sighed. "No need to be excited or anything." I said before hanging up. "You're boyfriend's on his way." I rolled my eyes before sitting down on the couch. "You're just jealous that he's my best friend and not yours. Better that, you want him to be your boyfriend." Dustin teases. "Shut up! That was in middle school!" I threatened.

Not long after Dustin and I calmed down from our fight, I heard a familiar car pull up. Dustin got up and ran outside to meet his 'boyfriend.'

As I walked outside to meet them, I saw Steve holding an All too familiar bat. "You going to murder us with that?" I questioned as I stepped in front of him. "You wish." Steve rolled his eyes. "Can you two quit flirting and deal with the demo-dog in our basement?" Dustin exclaimed. Steve broke eye contact and moved around me to follow my brother.

"Don't kill him!" Dustin exclaimed as we entered the back yard. "Angel, Hold this." Steve says as he hands me the bat. "Oh wow, I'm honored." I fake smiled as I held it. Steve rolled his eyes once again and bent down to open the door. "How many times are you going to roll your eyes?" I questioned. "How many times are you going to annoy me?" Steve asked. "Many." I shrugged. "There's your answer, now can we get on with it!" Dustin yelled. Steve and I laughed before returning to work.

•••

Dustin, Steve, and I walked down the train tracks, leaving chunks of meat (?) behind us. "What's the point of this?" I questioned. "Well, girly girl, the point is to attract the demogorgon-." Steve starts, but my brother cuts him off. "How many times do I have to say this! It's a demo-dog!" Dustin waves his hands around before putting more meat on the ground.

"When will you guys just kiss already? It's obvious you two like each other." Dustin rolls his eyes. "Ew! No!" We both exclaimed. Dustin glared at me before I pushed past and walked ahead. I heard them talking behind me as we walked, but I decided to not intrude on their privacy.

After a long walk, we arrived at a junk yard. "Yeah, this can work. Good call, Henderson." Steve smiles. "Quit flirting and get working." I joked as I started to put a bunch of metal on the bus so the demogorgon, Sorry, Demo-dog couldn't get to us as easily.

Steve rolled his eyes and started helping me. Dustin poured a pile of meat as bait. After a while, Lucas and a girl with red hair rode up on their bikes. "Hey, Lucas." I greeted. He waved at the two of us before turning to Dustin. The red hair girl started helping Steve and I. "Hey, I'm Angel. You are?" I smiled as she helped me pick a piece of metal up. "I'm Max. Wait, aren't you friends with Billy?" She asked. "I was, but he turned out to be a jerk. Why?" I questioned. "He's my brother." She says with a straight face. "Oh! Oh my god, I'm sorry." I quickly said. "Don't worry about it, I think the same thing." Max laughs as we set it down on the bus.

"So, I take it your friends with my idiot brother?" I questioned. "Yeah, do you know Mike?" She asked. "Yeah, I used to be best friends with his sister but when Barb went missing everything changed between us. That and she told Steve over there that their relationship was bullshit." I shrugged. "Oh, do you by any chance know who Eleven is? Mike won't tell me because he hates me." Max says. "I do, but it's not my place to tell you who she is. It's Mike's. And sorry about Mike, he's kind of a jerk lately." I explained as we picked up another piece of metal.

"Hey! Why are the only ones helping are the girls?" Steve yelled at Dustin and Lucas. "Steve's kind of the mom of the group. Don't ask why because I don't even know." I laughed as we set the metal on the windows before walking back over to the other metals. "Why doesn't he hang out with other people his age?" Max laughs. "He lost his popularity, now Billy runs the high school. Steve kind of lost his friends during the last incident, so he hangs out with my brothers friends and me." I explained. "What incident?" She asked as we worked. "I said too much, sorry." I groaned.

"It's okay, I'm used to not getting answers." Max slightly laughs. "I really do want to tell you, but Mike would kill me." I told her. The boys started to put sand bags on top of the bus. "So, you and Steve?" She asked. "No, we like to annoy each other, though. But I did like him in middle school." I loudly laughed. "Would you quit playing around, Henderson?" Steve groans. "Which one you yelling at?" I asked. "You!" Steve laughed.

"How about you mind your business and fix your hair!" I laughed. He immediately looked into the broken mirror on the bus. "See, he's obsessed with his hair." I laughed. Max laughed as we watched him fix his hair. "Harrington, there was nothing wrong with your hair." I told him as we put the last piece of metal on the bus. Steve sighed as he got on the bus. Max and I laughed as we followed him in. The boys had set up a whole sitting area.

"Did we bring snacks?" Dustin asked from up top. "I thought you were in charge of that?" I joked. Dustin started to freak out. "Relax, I packed you food." I laughed before sitting down. Dustin relaxed up top. I'm taking it he either fell asleep or he found the snacks, could be both.

Max climbed up the ladder, leaving Steve and I alone down here.