HAVEN - stranger things.

ii. PUNK ROCK KID.

ii. susie carmichael's boyfriend!

the carmichael household was quiet for a few months after wendy went off to college, but it didn't remain quiet for long.

"how long has it been like this?" wendy asked as she heard the rock music blaring from downstairs.
"ever since she started dating that...punk rock kid. i was hoping you could talk to her." lori carmichael took her casserole out of the oven.

wendy sighed and left the kitchen. as she climbed the steps, she had wished that she had stayed at the video store with steve and robin. wendy opened the door to her little sister's room and part of her wished that she hadn't.

"hey!" susie had been making out with her boyfriend, but now she was staring at her sister with a red tinted face, partially from embarrassment and partially from anger.

"ew susie! at least lock the door! mom said turn your music down," wendy looked over towards her sister's boyfriend. "and when are you gonna introduce me to him?"

susie carmichael's boyfriend propped himself up on his elbow, staring at wendy carmichael. he had dark brown eyes and dark brown hair to match. wendy could see that he had black eyeliner around his eyes. she didn't know that susie could go from dustin henderson to whoever this guy was.

"i guess now since you barged in here," susie began with a sigh. "wendy, this is my boyfriend charlie. charlie, this is my sister." susie motioned her hand between the two.

"'sup." charlie gave wendy a head nod.
wendy blinked a couple of times before nodding.
"hm...what's up," she wanted to be as nice to her sister's first boyfriend as she could, no matter how hard he made it. "dinner's almost done." wendy turned back to her sister.

"are you eating with us?" susie asked as she leaned into her boyfriend.

wendy shook her head before responding.
"no, i'm going to a basketball game with steve and then i'm sleeping over his house tonight." wendy informed, looking down at her watch.

the watch that steve harrington gifted wendy for her eighteenth birthday was her most prized possession, she guarded it with her life.
"oh shit, i'm late!" wendy groaned as she saw the time on her watch.

as wendy rushed down the stairs, she said goodbye to her parents on her way out the door.
"bye mom, bye dad! see you guys tomorrow!" she called out.

"tomorrow?" lori and richard carmichael glanced at each other.

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"you didn't tell me lucas was on the basketball team!" wendy whispered into steve's ear as tammy thompson sang the national anthem. well, 'sang' was a large overstatement, in wendy's opinion. she had laughed when steve pointed out how similar tammy sounded to a muppet.

"he's usually on the bench so i didn't think it was important to mention." steve whispered back.

once the national anthem was over, the couple sat down on the bleachers, wendy leaning against her boyfriend.
"i never once said that a new hope was my favorite movie, by the way." wendy spoke.

"what?" steve looked towards his girlfriend, he genuinely hadn't heard what she had said.
"robin told me that you rented a new hope, you said it was my favorite movie. do you know how embarrassed i was when i said annie was my favorite movie?" wendy replayed the moment in her head—it was still awkward and embarrassing.

"annie? annie is your favorite movie?" steve furrowed his eyebrows.
"yes! you know that!" wendy argued.
"you know what, i do know that, wen. yet that doesn't make it any less lame." steve teased, a smile tugging on his lips.

"steve!" wendy laughed, burying her face in her hands.

"i'm kidding, wen. i'd watch annie with you any day. remember when we went to go see it when it came out?" steve wrapped his arm around his girlfriend's shoulders.

wendy thought back to it—steve's mom had driven the two fourteen year old teenagers to the hawkins movie theater to see the movie. steve had lied to his mom and said they were going to see rocky III, but he wanted to cheer up his best friend after she had had a rough week. her first middle school boyfriend had dumped her and she was heartbroken.

the sound of the buzzer brought wendy out of her distant memory and she looked at the score board, it was halftime.

"hey steve, you know what would suck?" wendy asked, looking at her boyfriend.
"what?" steve wondered.
"if hawkins high won a championship the year after you graduated."