HAVEN - stranger things.

vii. WENDY'S JEALOUSY.

vii. max's sister!

steve harrington, dustin henderson, and wendy carmichael all sat in steve's car as max went to try and find out how much the school counselor knew about chrissy cunningham's encounter with vecna.

"okay. she's in." steve announced.
"i'm missing collarbones, not eyes." dustin sassed.

steve harrington heard a laugh from the backseat and he turned around to stare at wendy. she immediately stopped laughing at dustin's joke.

"so...we gonna talk about...it?" dustin asked, looking from steve to wendy.
"huh? sorry, talk about what?" steve turned towards dustin.

wendy was also confused on what dustin was referring to, she leaned forward and her face was in between the two front seats of steve's car as she listened to the conversation.
"your temporary insanity earlier today when you basically threw yourself at nance?" dustin pointed out.

wendy hadn't thought of it like that, but the way that dustin had framed it made it sound true. she looked towards steve as she waited for his answer. steve looked at his girlfriend, he could already see clouds of jealousy forming in her eyes. even though steve harrington was rarely a jealous boyfriend, wendy was usually a jealous girlfriend.

"okay first of all, that's not what happened. dude why are you saying this when my girlfriend is right here?" steve was annoyed that dustin had instigated what would surely become an argument later on.

"i'm pretty sure that's what happened. it was pretty public, there were like a lot of witnesses." dustin said.

"yeah, steve, it was pretty public." wendy interjected, leaning back in her seat.

"goddammit," steve muttered along with something that wendy couldn't hear. "wendy, i swear it wasn't like that. henderson, are you implying that i still have a thing for nance? i've literally been dating my girlfriend for fifteen months." steve pointed out.

wendy thought that it was sweet that steve was able to easily remember how long they had dated—a year with steve had flown by before they even realized. sometimes it still felt like a dream to wendy, that she was dating the man of her dreams, her best friend, the guy that she had like for years.

"no, i'm not implying. i'm stating." dustin retorted.

wendy shook her head, she knew that she had nothing to worry about. if steve didn't want to date her, he wouldn't have let it gone on for this long.

"dustin, enough. he just wanted to make sure nancy was safe. it's no different from when he wants you guys to be safe." wendy sat up again, and steve looked back at her with a smile.

"exactly. i was just trying to protect a friend," the couple looked over to see dustin nodding with a smile. "a friend, henderson, okay?" steve emphasized.
"okay." dustin agreed.

wendy rolled her eyes at how immature dustin had been acting, it didn't make her feel too good that dustin was trying to illuminate problems that weren't there.

"i don't wanna find her with her eyes sucked out of the front of her skull by this vecna creep. i would've done the same if wendy were driving separately." steve tried to explain himself.
"you wouldn't have taken no for an answer if it were me." wendy pointed out, and she was right.