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CHAPTER ONE : ROWWINS
Air is filled with the sound of video games in progress, screens glowed brightly from all across the room, kids lined up at the coin exchange machine with layers of laughter. the arcade was a place where kids went to get mad at the fact they couldn't beat the high score or to play games and hang out with their friends.
Rowan Hargrove usually went with his stepsister Maxine who'd rather go by max but this time he didn't. His dad expected him home by eight and he was but Rowan decided to sneak out and go to his only favorite place in Hawkins. Well, the only place he's been to longer than home due to the fact he had just moved there.
He honestly didn't know why he called it his favorite place when he sucked at the arcade games and didn't enjoy playing them as much as Max did.
The boy licked his lips as he concentrated on his dig-dug score, trying his best to beat Max's and some boys named Dustin and Lucas's score. Rowan had only been trying to beat them since he first started going to the arcade just to meet Max's level, but the only one who could get it was Max and that was cause she was way better at it than him. Of course like every other boy, rowan made a bet on beating the stepsisters score because there was no feeling like beating another's a high score on games.
Speaking mindless foul-mouthed smack talk, rowan jabbed at the colored buttons in frustration, jerking the joystick in every direction possible. He shoved his hands into the pocket of his baggy denim jeans and searched for the loose change he had, slipping coins into the coin slot rowan continued and continued to play the game.
Dig-dug wasn't the best game rowan had played and that was just because he sucked at it. It should've been and is quite easy but Rowan didn't feel that way about it. Let's just say that he needed a little practice.
"Come on, man . . ." muttered rowan, basically punching the different colored buttons without any patience at all. He had managed to beat Lucas in third and was hoping to at least beat Dustin before the arcade closed. "No, come on !. . . Shit, Sh—damnit!" He groaned and slammed his hands onto the machine before unexpectedly behind shoved out of the way and to the side.
"Hey, no! No! No!" A curly-headed boy with a red, white, and blue cap on shouted towards the arcade game, banging on the side. The video game chimed, showing the scores letting the curly head boy and his three friends behind him, that he had just found out that he had lost first place in dig-dug and to the look on his face and sound of his voice Rowan knew that he wasn't happy.
"751,300 points!" exclaimed the smaller boy with a bowl cut. "That's impossible." another mumbles in surprise, as he puts his head in between the curly head and a black boy to see the screen.
