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𝔥𝔞𝔴𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔰, 𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔦𝔞𝔫𝔞

𝔬𝔠𝔱𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯, 𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔫-𝔢𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔶-𝔣𝔬𝔲𝔯

Tess was searching all around her new house for any money she could find for the arcade.

"Lucas, you copy?" Tess hears Dustin ask through her walkie talkie, "I've got four quarters. What's your haul?"

"Take your puny haul and multiply it by five," Lucas replies, making Tess' eyes widen.

"How?" Tess asks through her walkie talkie, startling the two boys a bit.

"While you both were scrounging around like homeless bums, I mowed Old Man Humphrey's lawn," Lucas explains.

"Old Man Humphrey's got that kinda cash?" Dustin asks, as Lucas responds with a hum.

"Just call Mike already," Dustin tells Lucas.

"You call Mike," Lucas argues.

"Tess?" Dustin says, hoping the girl would call him.

"Nope, I gotta call Cheryl," she responds.

"Oo lala."

Tess chuckles at Lucas and Dustin's childish responce, "Shut up."

"Okay, okay," Dustin says, "Can't you just call Mike, Lucas?"

"I have to go take a shower from doing real work, like a man. Over and out."

"Yep, over and out," Tess says after Lucas. Both of them leaving Dustin to call Mike.

CHAPTER 1         — ˗ˋ ୨୧ ˊ˗ —         MADMAX

The six friends are now at the arcade, the three boys were watching Dustin try and beat Lucas' highscore on some random game the girls clearly didn't like.

Tess and Cheryl were busy trying to gain back Tess' highscore on the PacMan game. Turns out some random person called 'MADMAX' had beaten her score.

Tess was so close to winning her highscore back, but Dustin's screaming caused her to loose the score, which was only a few hundred points away from beating MADMAX'S.

"This is outrageous!" Tess yelled, hitting the machine. But Cheryl drags her girlfriend away before she could break the machine, like the 'Mario Bros' machine she had broke a couple weeks ago.

"Whatever. I'm still tops on digdug," Dustin tells Lucas "and soon enough, i'll be able to beat Cheryl on centipede."

"Keep dreaming bud," Cheryl says, patting Dustin's shoulder, "Both mine and Tess' scores have been beaten."

Tess scoffs in annoyance, "Yeah, by some random shithead."

"You sure about that?" Keith says out of no where, causing the young teens to look at him. Keith was an employee at the arcade, and was currently stuffing his face with cheeto's.

"Sure about what?" Dustin asks, scared that he's also just lost his highscore, which was a lot.

Once the party finds the digdug game, they check the highscore to see that 'MADMAX' had also beaten Dustin's highscore.

"751,300 points!" 

"That's impossible."

Dustin turns back to Keith, "Who is Mad Max?" 

"Better than you," Keith responds. Dustin flips him off. (this part always gets me)

"Is it you?" Will asks Keith.

"You know I despise Dig Dug."

"Then who is it?" Lucas asks.

"Yeah, spill it, Keith."

"You want information, then I need something in return," Keith says, looking between Mike and Tess.

Both of them quickly get what he's talking about, and continueously shake their heads.

"No, no, no. No way. You're not getting a date with her," Mike responds.

"Ew, what the fuck," Tess says, with a disguted face.

"Mike, Tess, come on. Just get him a date."

"We're not prostituting our sisters!" Mike yells.

"But it's for a good cause," Lucas tried to convince them.

"No, don't get him the date," Dustin disagrees with Lucas, even if he does wanna know who MADMAX is. "Know what? He's gonna spread his nasty-ass rash to your whole family."

"Acne isn't a rash and it isn't contagious, you prepubescent wastoid."

"Oh, I'm a wastoid? She wouldn't go on a date with you. You make, like, what? $2.50 an hour?"

During Dustin and Keith's little argument, Mike noticed Will had ventured off to elsewhere. But he spots him just outside of the arcade.

"Will!" Mike calls out to his friend, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah. I just... I needed some air."

"Come on. You're up on Dig Dug," Mike tells Will, putting his arm around him, "Let's take that top score back, huh?"

CHAPTER 1         — ˗ˋ ୨୧ ˊ˗ —        MADMAX

^ outfits ^

The next day, during the kids favourite class, with their favourite teacher.

"Meet the human brain," Mr Clarke tells his class, with a little model of a brain on his desk, "I know. I know, it doesn't look like much. A little gross even, right? But consider this. There are a hundred billion cells inside of this miracle of evolution. All working as one. No, no, I did not misspeak. I did not stutter. A hundred billion."

Suddenly there was a knock on the classroom door, as everyone turns their attention to the sound. There stood the principle with a young redhead girl who looked the party's age.

"Ah, this must be our new student."

"Indeed. All yours," the principle says.

"All right. Hold up," Mr Clarke stops the girl from going to her new desk, "You don't get away that easy. Come on up. Don't be shy."

"Dustin, drum roll," Mr Clarke says, as Dustin closes his book and does a little drum roll on it.

"Class, please welcome, all the way from sunny California, the latest passenger to join us on our curiosity voyage, Maxine."

"It's Max."

"Sorry?"

"Nobody calls me Maxine. It's Max."

"Mad Max," the party whispers to themselves.

"Well, all aboard, Max."

CHAPTER 1         — ˗ˋ ୨୧ ˊ˗ —       MADMAX

The party is now spying on Max, who has been skateboarding since the start of break.

"There's no way that's Mad Max," Mike says to his friends, who were all basically spying on the new redhead girl.

"Yeah. Girls don't play video games."

"Woah!" Tess exclaims.

"And even if they did, you can't get 750,000 points on Dig Dug."

"What is this, 'gang up on girls day' or some shit?" Tess says.

"It's impossible."

"Yeah they're ignoring you," Cheryl whispers to Tess.

"We'll see about that," Tess scoffs, taking her girlfriends hand and dragging her towards Max.

"Hey!" Tess calls out to Max, hand in hand with Cheryl.

"Hi?" Max says stopping her skateboard, and catching the boys spying on her. "Those your friends?" she asks pointing to them.

Tess sighs at the question, "Not by choice..."

Cheryl elbows her girlfriend, "Don't say that!"

"Yeah yeah. Anyway, i'm Tess, and this is Cheryl," Tess introduces, pointing to each other.

"Max."

"I know. You looked very embarrassed and awkward up there."

"Uh, what do you like to do for fun?" Cheryl asks Max, trying to figure out if she's MADMAX.

"I guess I like to skateboard-" 

Tess cuts Max off with her sassy attitude, "I thought so."

"Sorry about her.." Cheryl apologies and moves in front of Tess.

"So you like to skate," Tess says making Max nod, "What about the arcade? You like that?"

"Yeah," Max responds.

"Well, we were just wondering if you wanted to be friends?" Cheryl asks.

"Sure."

"Are you madmax?"

"Yeah, why-?"

Tess starts to lunge at Max, but Cheryl stops her from doing so, "Why did you beat my highscore?!" Tess struggles in the arms of her girlfriend.

Max jumps a little at the sudden outburst of the girl. "Jeez."

"Shit, I've lost the target," Mike says

"Oh! There," Will points out, "With Tess and Cheryl?" he stammers, not even realising the girls had left their side. "When did they leave?"

The girls start chatting. and before they head inside, Max writes on a note and throws it in the trash beside the stairs. "I'll see you later," Max tells Cheryl and Tess.

"Bye!" "Later."

The boys runs up to where the redhead had trashed the paper. Tess notices what they do, and walk over, "What're you doing?"

Dustin had started searching in the trashcan, while the others watched girls walk past them; clearly laughing at why one of their heads is in the trash.

"Got it," Dustin says holding the note, and unfolding it, "There we go."

"'Stop spying on me, creeps.'," Dustin reads out what the paper said, "Well, shit."

"William Byers," The person on the school speaker says, "Your mother's here." 

Will sees the principal gesture for him to follow. He says his goodbye's and walks away with the principal

"You guys think he's okay?" Mike asks his friends, genuinely concerned about his best friend.

"He's always weird when he has to go in."

"I don't know. He's quiet today."

"He's always quiet."

CHAPTER 1         — ˗ˋ ୨୧ ˊ˗ —         MADMAX

Cheryl had gotten home from school now. She unpacks her bag to hear her walkie talkie go off.

"Mike."

"Mike?"

"Hello, is that you?"

"Yeah, it's me, Dustin."

"What're you doing on this channel again?" Dustin asks him, but before Mike could respond Dustin speaks up again, "I've been trying to reach you all day. We were right. Max is Mad Max."

"No shit, she told Tess and I at lunch," Cheryl spoke into her walkie talkie.

"And you didn't bother to tell us?"

"Whoops..?"

CHAPTER 1        — ˗ˋ ୨୧ ˊ˗ —        MADMAX

"It's 8-1-5," El tells Hopper once he got home, "You're late."

"Yeah, I lost track of time. I'll signal next time, all right?"

"Uh, and it's 8:15," Cheryl tells El coming out of their room, "It's not 8-1-5."

"Eight-fifteen."

"Now, what did we talk about?"

"Dinner first, then dessert. Always. That's a rule."

"Yeah?" Hopper says, making sure the El remembers.

"Yes," El and Cheryl both repeat, as Hopper ruffled their hair, causing all of them to smile.

SORRY THIS IS SO SHORT!

REBECCA WILL COME SOON, DONT WORRRRRY.

1500+ words

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