"Stop being a baby and do it already," Mike hurries, rushing Lucas to get into the garbage dump and fumble around the trash bags.

Goldie squinches her nose at the thought of being in poor Lucas's place.

"This is so disgusting. Is this really necessary?" Max questions, leaning onto her wooden pole which would later be used for poking and proding.

Before anything else can be said about the discontentment of having to dig around in the trash, Dustin rounds the corner confused. Apparently, he must've not gotten the memo about having to dig around the trash in search of dart before school began.

"What the hell is going on?"

"What do you think? We're looking for Dart," Mike explains, just as a bag of trash comes flying out of the dumpster.

"Jesus!" Dustin shouts in both surprise and disgust.

He moves away just in time to avoid being hit. Marigold follows his lead, staring down at the bag in disgust. A second bag comes flying out and Lucas isn't too far behind, hopping out of the bin with a new, and far less desirable smell to him.

"Well, well, well," Lucas places his hands on his hips, "look who finally decided to show up! After I drew the short straw. Real convenient."

"You stink!" Max gags, moving to stand beside Dustin instead.

He grins at her, "hi, max."

"Hi?" She confusedly responds.

Goldie quickly notices the love quarrel and simply shakes her head and gives a giggle. Max definitely had no idea about either boys feelings, although it's so painfully obvious.

"Where's will?" Dustin questions.

"He'll be here," Mike assures.

Goldie gives Max a confused look. Did something happen to Will after she stormed off?

Max simply mumbles, "I'll tell you later."

"Are you just gonna stand there?" Lucas scoffs, tossing Dustin a rod, "or are you gonna help?"

They all begin to poke the trash bags, keep an eye out for any signs of dart. The only thing that really comes of it is cockroaches and flies buzzing loudly around them.

Before much more can be done, the bell rings, and they all throw their poles aside and rush to gather their things. Before they enter the building, Marigold grabs hold of Mikes hand, something neither Lucas or Dustin fail to notice.

"Hey, Mike, wait up," she stops.

Mike turns to her, raising an eyebrow, "what?"

"Is there something you aren't telling me?" She questions. "I thought maybe the Halloween thing was just an anxiety attack, but it's starting to seem like there's a bit more to the story about Will..."

"That's none of your business," he snaps.

She immediately drops his hand, giving him a hurt look.

"Oh," she mutters, pushing past him into the school.

Mike immediately regrets his tone of voice, trying to catch up to her.

"Goldie, wait! I-" he fumbles to apologize, and unfortunately isn't able to get the words out before she walks off into her next class. "Damn it."

"Woah woah woah," Lucas raises an eyebrow, following closely after him. "What was that all about?"

"Yeah, since when are you sorry for being a jerk to her?" Dustin smirks.

"Since they kissed," Max reveals, walking past them after Goldie.

"SINCE THEY WHAT?!"

Mike flips her off and turns to the boys. Their expressions are riddled with confusion and absolute shock.

Lucas jumps straight into action, "Dude, what the hell? I thought you told us to stay away from them? Now you're kissing her?!"

"I think that's besides the point! What about El?" Dustin reminds, unnecessarily loud.

"Shhh!" Mike hushes, bring them into a closer huddle. "Look, can we talk about this later? There is NOTHING going on between Goldie and I. We kissed, so what, big deal. It meant nothing."

"I don't know man," Lucas mumbles with a disbelieving look, "it didn't look like nothing to me when she stormed off right now."

Dustin nods, "yeah. Don't do anything stupid, Mike. Like hurt her on accident, or lead her on. Cause you would be a total asshole if you did that. Plus, I'm pretty sure Mad Max would kick your ass for it."

Mike rolls his eyes.

"Don't worry. I'm gonna talk to her about it later today."

"Swear?" Lucas questions.

"Swear."