𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧 ➼ 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘍𝘪𝘤²

3☾︎

I shut my locker next to Will's as I see him take out a piece of paper. "Ooh, love note? Mr. Will Byers, does someone have a crush on you?" I ask teasingly before looking at the paper he unfolded. It was an old scrap of newspaper article with him when he was missing and on the green marker was the word 'Zombie Boy' written across the article and his face. "Will? Are you ok?"

Will frowned and walked away throwing the paper on the ground. He ran off to class early. I pick up the paper and look around. I see a random boy watching Will walk off to class and the boy laughed at his friend and mocked Will. As the bell rang, the boy shut his locker and went to class. I on the other hand didn't mind being late.

I took a red marker out of my locker and walked up to the boy's locker. I looked around to see no one there. I wrote on the back of the paper, 'do any shit like this again and I'll find you.' and stuffed it in the openings of the locker and walked off to class.

"Ms. L/N," Mr. Clarke called me out. "and why are we late?" He asked." No one was looking towards the front because they were talking in groups. Except for the party.

"Girl problems?" I said. It came out more like a question but it worked. Mr.Clarke dismissed me and I sat in my seat behind Will.

"Ok Class," Mr.Clarke began. "Meet the human brain." He sat down a model on a stand. "I know it doesn't;t look like much a little gross even but consider this there are 100 billion cells in here working together as one to make our body function. No, you heard me correctly. 100 billion. Now I-" He was interrupted as the principal walked in with a girl.

"Here you go," the principal walked out of the classroom.

She tried darting to an empty seat but Mr. Clarke was quick to stop her. "Alright, hold up. You don't get away that easy. Come up here don't be shy, Dustin drum roll please." The girl walked back to the front of the room and stood near Mr. Clarke. "Class please welcome, all the way from sunny California, much like our beloved Y/N," I smiled sweetly at the mention of my name, "the latest passenger to join us on our curiosity voyage, Maxine!"

"It's Max," She says

"Sorry?" Mr. Clarke asks

"Nobody calls me Maxine, it's Max." The redhead explained

Realization hits me like a fucking bus! MADMAX! I lean forward, "Mad Max?" I whisper to Will, and he nods.

"Well, all aboard Max." Mr. Clarke smiles and continues talking as Max sits in the empty dest diagonally from me. And I, like the rest of my friends stare at her with curiosity."

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"There is no way that's Mad Max," Mike says rudely

"Yeah, Girls don't play video games, besides Y/N of course," Will said fixing his mistake.

"Mhmm." I rolled my eyes playfully.

 "But there is no way Girls can get 750,000 points on Dig Dug. It's impossible." Mike said glaring at the girl. I glare at him. That's a bit sexist.

"But her name is Max." Lucas defended.

"So?" Mike asked.

"So how many Maxes do you know? Zero, that's how many."

"Plus she skateboards," Dustin added. I couldn't hear what they said because I started walking away from him and towards her.

She was cool, and she was from California. Maybe she was like Lenora Hills like me. I walked up to her while she stepped on her skateboard, "Hi Max, my name is Y/N I'm in your science class. You sit across from me." I say holding out my hand.

She looks back at my friends and they look away suddenly pretending to do something else. She hesitantly takes my hand. "Hi." She says unsure. "Are those yours?" She ask pointing at the party who were back to shamelessly staring again. I sigh,

"Unfortunately those are mine. They aren't normally this rude I promise you're just kinda a celebrity to them." I smile.

"How?" She asks.

"Dig Dug." She mouths 'oh' silently. "Yeah, is it true you're from California?" I ask excitedly.

"Yea, right by the coast." She said proudly.

"I'm from Lenora Hills. So what made you move to Hawkins?" I ask.

She suddenly got distant, "Um... I gotta go." She skated right past me. I frowned, and I thought this was all going so well. She stopped her board at the stairs and as she reached the top she threw down a piece of paper and went into the main building.

The boys rushed to the trash bin that Max had thrown her paper in. A group of girls had walked past them and they tried playing it off cool. They failed. I walked over to see what the note said, 'STOP SPYING ON ME CREEPS' I smiled.

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"Hey, El. It's me. Y/N, It's day 352. 7:40 pm" I'm up on my roof again. "I miss you a lot. There's a new girl at school. She's pretty cool. I talked about you to Will. I told him all about how cool you are and how we kissed." I sighed. taking my eyes off the stars. I feel like I'm going crazy talking to nobody. "Say something if you're out there." I say looking at my supercom it had started to static really bad, "Never mind. This is stupid." I went to put the antenna down when I heard her.

"Y/N, I'm here." It was her voice. I understood it anywhere. It was disoriented but it was there.

"Here?" Came through another voice, but being the stupid person I am I hoped it was her again

"El? Are you still there?" I asked into the supercom

"Yeah, I'm here. What are you doing on this channel? Never mind," Lucas's voice came through. "Dustin was right, Max is Mad Max!" I rolled my eyes.

"No shit sherlock!" I yelled and shut the antenna down. Got my hopes all high for nothing. Dammit!