20. The Case of the Missing Lifeguard

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I still couldn't believe what we'd uncovered. Russians in Hawkins. When I got home I saw Dad. He looked at me with a smile. "Hey, mija, everything alright?" He asked me and I looked at him with a nod.

"Yeah, everything's fine. You don't need to worry about anything." I said to him trying to sound normal but not.

"Well that was not convincing at all. But have you seen that none of these godforsaken magnets are sticking." Dad said and I went to look at the fridge. On the floor was just a mess of papers. The ones that had been on the fridge since we moved.

"That's strange. Mom won't be happy." I said to him and he looked at me. He had a sense of fear in his eye.

"As if the hospital wasn't stressful enough. She's gotta deal with this as well. You know what might be going on?" He asked me and I looked at him shaking my head.

"Not at all." I said and he looked at me.

"Mija, tell me the truth." He said to me and I looked at him.

"Don't tell anyone. Not even Hunter, not yet at least. Dustin, Steve, Robin and I have been translating a message. It's Russian." I said to him and then I walked away. Sparing any conversation that could be had. The next day. Whilst Steve, Dustin and I were people watching, Robin was continuing with her translating.

"You see anything?" Dustin asked Steve and I. I shook my head.

"Not yet." I said to him.

"Uh, I guess I don't totally know what I'm looking for." Steve said to us and I didn't either.

"Evil Russians." Dustin said to us both.

"Easier said then done." I said to him as I continued to scan the room.

"Yeah, exactly. I don't know what an evil Russian looks like." Steve said and I was still surveying the room.

"Tall, blond, not smiling." Dustin said and that was hard when people looked like that Russian or not.

"Mm-Hmm?" Steve and I hummed out.

"Also, look for earpieces, camo, duffel bags, that sort of thing." Dustin said and that was impossible.

"Right, okay, duffel bags. Oh, you've gotta be kidding me." Steve said to us and I looked at him.

"What?" Dustin and I asked him.

"Anna Jacobi's talking with that meathead Mark Lewinsky." Steve said and I looked at them.

"That's just a dumpster fire waiting to happen." I said to him. They would never work.

"If you're not gonna focus, just gimme the binoculars." Dustin said to the two of us but we didn't listen.

"Aw, Jesus Christ, whatever happened to standards? I mean, Lewinsky never even came off the bench." Steve said and I remember watching all of Steve's games and he was right. Mark was always on the bench.

"Dude, you are the worst spy in history, you know that? Give me those." Dustin said as he reclaimed the binoculars.

"Stop, hey. Stop." Steve said to him and I managed to keep my binoculars.

"I don't get why you're looking at couples. You are in the perfect one with Y/n." Dustin said to him and I smiled.

"I mean we are pretty great." Steve said to him and I smiled.

"Perfect. Perfect. Perfect." Dustin kept saying correcting Steve's answer.

"We are perfect." I said and the two of them started bickering back and forth.

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