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WHITE SNEAKERS SLIDE AGAINST THE TILED FLOORS, olivia harrington slides to a stop inside of her kitchen with a small squeak. half her hair pulled up into a small pony tail with a bright pink scrunchie, light mascara and soft pink lipgloss painted onto her face. a bright pink turtle neck sweater and black leggings as an outfit, a black bag clung to her back dotted with cool pins and patches and to finish off the look are shiny diamond studs put into her ears. "you must take me to school, right now." the eleven year old speaks, demand in her tone, looking at her older brother, steve harrington.
her voice gathers his attention and he looks up from a pile of open textbooks and a pad of paper laid on the table, his hair is swept to the side but hanging over his forehead more messy then usual, a steaming cup of coffee is placed on the table before him and he's still dressed in his pyjamas. steve frowns a little, brows dipping and a crease forming between them, "livvy, it's seven in the morning, we don't have to even leave the house for another half an hour."
"i don't care." olivia shrugs her shoulders, slipping into the seat opposite him. "please, stevie." she says after a moment, putting on her best innocent face that she knows steve can't say no too. steve shakes his head and looking down at his at his studies and then back at olivia and he caves in.
heaving in a sigh, the harrington boy nods, "alright, but i need to get dressed. you get some eggo's from the fridge and heat them up for us, we can eat breakfast on the way there." he pushes himself up as olivia jumps up, punching her fists into the air and dancing in a circle. he shakes his head, smiling at her. "oh, and, put my coffee into the flask so i can bring it too school with me, please."
she dashes over to him, looping her arms around his waist, her index fingers just barely hooking together behind him. the harrington girl hugs her older brother tightly, he smiles even brighter, hugging her back and kissing the top of her head. "thank you." olivia whispers, giving him a tight squeeze before pulling back and skipping over to the fridge.
olivia heats up the eggo's, two and a half for steve, one and the other half for her. she pours his coffee into the flask after washing it and tidies up the kitchen table, shoving his books into his bag before he comes back down, dressed for the day. the siblings lock the house up, checking the windows and turning off the lights before they leave, steve pulls the cover over the pool to protect it from the violent winds that blow the autumn leaves off the trees and into their pool. they climb into his new car and drive towards the school.
steve halts his car just before will byers, mike wheeler, lucas sinclair and dustin henderson, they all beam at her through the window. the four boys are stood on the edge of the pavement, waiting for the car to stop and her for her too jump out. the harrington boy turns to her, shaking his head a little, slight confusion in his expression "what are you doing here so early, olivia?" his eyes narrow ever so slightly as his gaze shifts to look at the boys waving at him.
olivia smirks, opening the car door, swiping her bag up and the half of an eggo left over but stops before she closes the door and tilts forward to look at him, "a science experiment." steve purses his lips, thinking for a second.
"alright, meet me out here at three on the dot, and don't do anything to get you into trouble. love you livvy." he smiles softly, his head tilting forward to look at olivia
"love you too stevie, i'll see you later." she smiles back, closing the door too his car and turning to her bestfriends. he takes one last look at her before driving off.
olivia was closest with will byers, the two have been bestfriends for as long as olivia can remember. when olivia's mother was still about and not a drunk, their mother's had been very close friends, so naturally, they grew up as bestfriends. will was there for olivia when her mother disappeared one night with some of their most prized possessions and a lot of their money, the bits that they have saved up. he was there for her when her parents got divorced, her dad began to disappear on 'business' trips for long times. they took care of each other, olivia was there for will when his dad left and his parents got divorced just as he had been for her.
will and olivia met mike on the first day of kindergarten, lucas joined sometime around 2nd grade and finally dustin joined their tight nit in 3rd grade and the five became inseparable. will and olivia came as a package deal and the extra bonus of olivia's over-protective brother, steve. the four boys didn't really know steve all that well but they knew that he would slit their throats if they let anything happened to olivia under their watch.
dustin and lucas secretly had a crush on olivia, they would do everything for her, pick up her pens if she dropped them, carry her books and get her lunch. she was completely oblivious to it, just seeing them as her bestfriends.
one day dustin had built up the courage to go declare his love to her, he stepped up onto her porch and was about to go and knock on the door when it swung open and steve stood in the doorway, a wooden baseball bat swung over his shoulder and an angry expression on his face, dustin took one glance at the older boy and ran away, from then on out he got over his crush on olivia because there was no way in hell he was getting any where near her with steve about.
mike and olivia where close friends, olivia spent quite a bit of time at his house, helping mrs wheeler out with cooking and stuff, mrs wheeler gave olivia dinner to take home most nights so her and steve wouldn't have to make anything, some nights she ate there as steve was out with friends and other nights she ate at will's but mostly at home with steve and sometimes his friends, she didn't like his friends, they treated her like a baby and called her names, steve didn't hear this though and olivia was too scared to tell him.
she wasn't popular like him, she didn't have a reputation like him, she didn't have many friends like him, but the four boys were enough, her books were enough and her paintings were enough. she was happy.
