~Just Another Kid (Y/N Harrington x Will Byers)~

Chapter One: Suzie, Do you Copy?

One Year Later...
Will and I sit on Will's bed reading a comic together. We had finally became a couple.
"Okay, so which one?" Will holds up two comics.
"Hmm... X-Men." I say as I point to a comic that has The Scarlet Witch on the cover.
"Okay." He smiles placing the other comic down. We read for about ten minutes. I check my watch.
"Shit! We're gonna be late to the mall!" I say sliding off the bed and putting my y/f/c vans. Will puts the comic we were reading down and comes up beside me. I grab his hand and run outside. We both get on our bikes.
"You're late. Again." Lucas sighs as Mike arrives on his bike.
"We're gonna miss the opening!" Will says.
"Yea if you keep whining about it let's go!" Mike starts walking.
"If you guys keep whining about it." Lucas mocks.
"Just please stop talking."
"Let me guess you were busy..." Lucas imitates kissing.
"Yea real mature Lucas." Mike rolls his eyes.
"Oh, El! I wish we could make out forever and never hang out with any of our friends!"
"Guys stop." Max sighs.
"Will thinks it's funny!"
"That's because it is!"
"Yea so funny that I want to spend romantic time with my girlfriend."
"We're spending romantic time with our girlfriends." Lucas wraps his arm around Max's arms. I glance down at Will and I's intertwined hands. We weave in and out of people on the escalator.
"Excuse me."
"Hey!"
"Watch it."
"Sorry."
"Excuse me, sorry." We get off the escalator and Mike runs straight into someone.
"Watch it!"
"Yea watch it, nerd." Erica, Lucas's little sister says. I wave to her with my free hand.
"Isn't it past your bedtime?" Lucas asks.
"Isn't it time you die?"
"Psycho!"
"Butthead."
"Mallrat."
"Fart face!" Erica yells. Lucas blows a raspberry.
"Yes, now that was real mature." Max says grabbing his arm. I giggle. We walk into scoops ahoy and I ring the bell to get the attention of my brother in the back. At the counter is Robin. I think Robin is the perfect friend for my brother. Plus she helped me with my summer project.
"Hey Dingus, you're children are here." Robin announces.
"Again, seriously?" Steve asks. We all make our pleaseeee faces and he lets us in the back.
"Come on come on. I swear if anybody hears about this.."
"We're dead!" We all say in sync. We walk through the back hallway and sneak into the theater playing Day Of The Dead. We all move in front of people and sit down.
Y/N Will
Mike Max Lucas
"See Lucas? We made it." Mike whispers.
"We missed the previews."
"Still made it. Fart face." Max mocks the name Erica called Lucas earlier.
"Shh." A lady whispers. Will opens his backpack and hands everyone drinks and candy.
"Thanks." I whisper sharing a pack of Reese's Pieces with him. We start to watch the movie but then it stops playing.
"Come on!" Everyone grumbles. After a few seconds, the movie turns back on. Will takes his hand that was intertwined with mine and touches the back of his neck. He stares in the distance for a moment.
"Are you okay?" I whisper. He looks at me for a moment.
"Yeah." He says.
"You sure?" He nods his head.
"Of course."
"Okay." I say. I place my head on his shoulder and watch the movie.
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Next day...
I brush my hair into a ponytail and slip my outfit on.

The party was about to go surprise Dustin when he got home. But first I was going to El's house. I'm hoping her and Mike aren't making out. She said she wanted to talk to me about something.
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I knock on El's door. Two knocks pause one knock pause three knocks. It was a secret knock that means "us" in morse code. El unlocks the door with her powers seen as she's not standing by the door.
"Hey El!" I smile greeting my sister. She sits on the couch watching a soap opera. Next to her is a box.
"Hi Y/N!" She smiles turning her head towards me.
"So what did you want to talk to me about?" I sit down next to her the box in the middle of us. El points to the box. On it is labeled "Y/N Carter."
"Carter?" I raise my eyebrows. El opens it. Inside is files and pictures. She pulls out a file. On it says "Lidia Lynn Carter."
"Lidia," I whisper. El had mentioned the name a year ago when she was talking about her mother. "Is that my biological mom?" I was perfectly happy with my adopted family but I couldn't help but be curious. El nods.
"She's pretty." She says as she opens the file and takes a picture out.
"How is she?" I ask.
"Sad. Not gone." El awnsers. "I can show you." She smiles. I nod.
"Okay." I respond. She grabs my hand and I enter the void with her. In the distance is a woman. El walks towards her. The woman is reading a book sadly in a diner booth humming a lullaby to herself. She has short brown hair similar to mine. Her hair has a white streak in it. She looks up seeming to look straight at us.
"Y/N?" Her hopeful eyes say.
"Lidia?" I ask. She wipes a tear off her face and looks back into her book. She must not be able to see me. The book is one of my favorites.
"Oh sorry coming." She says placing her book down. I see smoke blur over my vision and leave the void.
"That was my biological mom?" I ask again. El nods. She was really pretty and seemed sweet.
"Wow." I say. Learning this bit of information about myself was nice. I had always wondered about my biological mom.
"Thanks El." I smile. She pulls me into a hug. We sit and talk for a little bit until we go to meet the group up to surprise Dustin.
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"This is gold leader returning to base do you copy over. This is gold leader returning to base do you copy over. I repeat: this is gold leader returning to base do you copy over. I operate this is goddamn Gold Leader--!" I hear through my walkie-talkie as we sneak into Dustin's house. I turn my walkie-talkie off as we hide behind a wall. I read Dustin's mind.
"At least someones happy I'm home." He says to his pet turtle, Yurtle.
"Okay." I whisper to El. Eleven makes Dustin's toys all go out into the hallway.
"Now." Mike whispers. We all come up behind him holding a welcome home sign. We all blow our noisemakers. He turns around and sprays hairspray into Lucas' eyes. Will grabs my waist pulling me back to shield me from the hairspray.
Max takes Lucas to wash the hairspray out of Lucas's eyes. We all follow Dustin so he can show us his new inventions from camp.
"I call it the forever clock. All right? Powered by wind. Very useful in the apocalypse." Dustin winds it and hands it to Will who looks at it in curiosity. "Then. I give you the slammer." Dustin moves it close to El and Mike to show them. "Pretty neat huh? But this..this is my masterpiece." He shows us a duffel bag. " I would like you to meet Cerebro."
He shows us a machine-looking thing.
"What exactly are we looking at here?" Mike asks.
"An unassembled one-of-a-kind battery-powered radio tower."
"Cool!" I smile. No one else looks as intrigued.
"So, it's a..a ham radio." Will says.
"The Cadillac of ham radios. This baby carries a crystal clear connection over vast distances. I'm talking north pole to south. I can talk to my girlfriend whenever and wherever choose."
"Girlfriend?" We all ask.
"Wait so her name is Suzie?"
"Suzie with a z. She's from Utah."
"Girls go to science camp?" Will asks. I hit him in the arm.
"Suzie does. She's a genius." Dustin says.
"Is she cute?" Mike asks.
"Think Phoebe Cates, only hotter."
"Sureee." I giggle.
"What's going on?" Max asks.
"We're going to talk to Dustin's girlfriend." Will smiles.
"Girlfriend?" Max and Lucas ask in sync. We walk for what feels like hours.
"Arent we high enough?"
"Cerebro works best at a hundred meters."
"You know I'm pretty sure people in Utah have telephones."
"Yeah but Suzies Mormon."
"Oh, shit she doesn't have electricity?"
"Oh, that's the Amish."
"What are Mormons?" Will asks.
"Super religious white people. They have electricity and cars and stuff but since I'm not Mormon her parents would never approve. It's all a bit Shakespearean."
"Shakespearean?" Max and I ask at the same time.
"Yeah. Like Romeo and Juliet."
"Right."
"Starcrossed lovers."
"They both die at the end.." I say.
"This is fun and all but uh.." Mike stops.
"I have to go home." El says
"Were almost there!"
"Sorry, man. Curfew. Come on let's go."
"Good luck." Eleven giggles.
"Curfew at 4:00?"
"They're lying." Lucas sighs.
"It's been like this all summer." Will adds.
"It's romantic."
"It's gross."
"Its ridiculous." I roll my eyes. Ever since they started dating Els not even been hanging out with me that much.
"It's bullshit. I just got home." Dustin sighs. "Well, their loss right? Onwards and upwards! Suzie awaits!" I follow the group but notice Will's not next to me. I turn around to see Will touching the back of his neck again.
"Will, Y/N come on!" Dustin yells. Will runs up to us. We walk for a little bit more.
"You okay Will?" I whisper. He looks to me with concerned eyes and then nods. I nudge him playfully to cheer him up. He smiles.
"Made it." Dustin says as he drops a bag.
"Yeah only took five hours." Max sighs.
"Why couldn't we just play D&D?" Will asks. I wish we were but at the same time I want to meet Suzie.
"I'm so thirsty," Lucas says chugging all the water. I drop my bag next to our pile. "Did you seriously just drink the rest of our water?" Max asks Lucas. I roll my eyes and start to unpack the bag I was holding.
"Here you go." I toss water bottles from my backpack to Will Dustin and Max. Lucas looks at me with a frown. "Hey you're the one who drank all of you and Max's water."
We all set up Cerebro.
"Pretty impressive right?"
"Yeah."
"Now you ready to meet my love?"
"Okay sure."
"Yeah."
"Yup!"
"Susie, this is Dustin. Do you copy? Over. One sec. She's probably... she's still there. Suzie, this is Dustin do you copy? Over. I'm sure she's there it's just-."
"Yeah."
"You know maybe she's like busy or."
"Yeah."
"It's around dinnertime."
"Mm.."
"Here."
"Maybe she really is busy." I try.
"Suzie, do you copy? This is Dustin. Over. Suzie, do you copy? This is Dustin. Over."
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"Suzie this is your Dustin do you copy?" I lay next to Will with my head on his chest. We look up at the sky as we listen to Dustin repeat the same sentence.
"Dustin come on she's not there!" Max says.
"She's there all right? She'll pick up."
"Maybe Cerebro doesn't work." Will sits up making me move.
"Maybe she's asleep or something." I suggest.
"Or maybe Suzie doesn't exist!"
"She exists!" Dustin argues.
" She's a genius and hotter than Phoebe Cates? No girl is that perfect." Lucas says. I shake my head rolling my eyes.
"Is that so?" Max asks.
"I mean your perfect.. I-i mean per-perfect like in your own way. In your special- your own special way."
"Relax, I was just teasing. I'm obviously perfect and Dustin is obviously lying." She stands up pulling Lucas with her. "Come on, Don Juan." I stiffle a laugh. 'Seduction of women.'
"Where are you going?" Dustin asks.
"Home."
"Well guess it's just us, Byers and Harrington."
"Um..its late." Will says checking his watch. "Sorry. Maybe tomorrow we can play D&D."
"Or something fun like we used too." I add smiling. Dustin nods.
"Yeah, sure."
"Welcome home." Will and I say at the same time. Will walks off.
"I'm sorry Dustin. I just don't want my parents to worry about me." I faintly smile.
"I get it. It's fine." He says.
"Bye." I wave while running after Will. I hear something come through his radio as I walk after him but just assume it's a interception.
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I'm sorry if you wanted this to be a scoops troop book. It was hard to decide especially since her brother is Steve but this is a Will x Y/N book so... That was 2151 words.
-Love Hcney🤍