Little Dark Age || S. Harrington

Season Two, Chapter One: MadMax

"Son of a bitch! Son of a bitch!" Dustin yelled from the hall. Violet looked over at her best friend Jackie and rolled her eyes as she walked over to her bedroom door. She was about to open in to see what in the world her younger brother was yelling about when the door flew open, almost knocking her back onto her bed.

"What the hell Dustin! You could have really hurt me!" Violet yelled, annoyed. "What the hell is so important?"

"Do either of you have any quarters?" Dustin asked, flying into his sister's room and beginning to search through some of her drawers.

"Hey!" Jackie shrieked, throwing a teddy bear from Violet's bed at Dustin. "Have some manners dude."

"It's an emergency, guys!" Dustin yelled, as he got down on the floor to look under his sister's bed.

"Aha!" He exclaimed, pulling out a couple quarters. "Thank you, bye!" Dustin called out as he ran out of the room, slamming the door behind him in the process.

"What has gotten in to him?" Jackie asked from her place on Violet's bed. Violet rolled her eyes and shrugged. "He's Dustin, this is normal."

Jackie nodded her head in agreement, but the two of them left Violet's room in search of Dustin.

When they got to the living room, Dustin was
practically throwing the pillows off of the couch.

"Another stupid penny!" Dustin announced,
throwing it onto the ground. Jackie and Violet stood at the doorway, watching, unimpressed.

"Can I please check under your cushions?" Dustin begged their mom.

"Dusty," Their mother warned, giving him a look.

"Mom, please?" Dustin begged. "It's an emergency!"

Their mother got up, and Dustin searched under the pillow. He triumphantly held up two more quarters and raced to his room.

"Love you, Mom," he said as he pushed his way
past Jackie and Violet.

"Lucas, you copy?" Violet heard Dustin say from his room as she and Jackie returned to hers.

"I've got four quarters, what's your haul?"

"Take your puny haul and multiply it by five,"
Lucas answered smugly through the machine.

Violet smirked as she turned to Jackie. "I know why Dustin's going crazy." She announced.

Jackie looked up, intrigued. "Why?"

"The boys are going to the arcade tonight." She answered. "Dustin needs money."

"Oh," Jackie thought for a moment, "here," she said, handing Violet eight quarters. "Give him the two dollars that I know you were going to give him, and give him these from me. Tell him he owes me one." She smiled. "I have to go, my dad's expecting me back."

Violet smiled and waved as Jackie biked down the driveway, just as she was making her way back to her room, she heard Dustin yell from across the hall.

"How?"

"While you were scrounging around like a
homeless bum, I mowed Old Man Humphrey's
lawn."

"Old Man Humphrey's got that kinda cash?" Dustin exclaimed as Violet made her way to his bedroom.

"Just call Mike already," Lucas ordered.

"You call Mike," Dustin whined. He was propped
up against his bed, his walkie talkie in his lap and
his headset over his ears.

"I have to go take a shower from doing real work,
like a man," Lucas tutted.