CH2 - The Weirdo on Maple Street [PT3]

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"Hello, ladies." Steve said opening the door and looked at me. "I see we have a plus one with us today." He looked back up to Nancy and smiled. He brought is inside and we headed out to the pool where we just relaxed at first. Then Tommy kept trying to throw Carol into the pool. I was relaxing on the end of the pool with my feet in the water.

"You're such an asshole, Tommy." Carol told him. After, Steve shotgunned a beer.Wow so 'impressive'.

"Nancy replied to Steve. "Is that supposed to impress me?" She seemed actually impressed though.

"You're not?" He asked, completely oblivious, while lighting a cigarette to smoke.

"You are a cliché, you do realize that?"

"You are a cliché." Steve replying to her. "What with your.. Your grades and your band practice."

"I'm so not in band." She said defending herself.

"Okay, party girl. Why don't you just, uh, show us how it's done, then?" He asked her. She agreed to it. She got up with the beer and knife in hand. "You gotta make a little hole right in-"

She interrupted him, "I got it."

"Yeah, she's smart, you douche." Tommy said to Steve as he crushed a can with his head. Everyone just started chanting 'chug' as Nancy drank the beer. Barbara and I just sat and watched. She finished the beer and dropped the can. They started to cheer and laugh.

"Hey Y/n, you wanna try?" Nancy asked me.

"Oh, uh." I looked at her, "I guess I could." She smiled and handed me a beer and the knife and I stood up. "Here goes nothing." I cut the hole in the bottom of the beer, opened it and started to chug. Everyone started to chant 'chug' again. When I finished my beer, I dropped it onto the ground. Everyone whopped and clapped.

"I didn't know you were a party girl." Steve said to me. I glanced at him, and back to Nancy.

"Don't you think Barbara should do it?" I asked her. She smiled and grabbed the knife and a beer.

"What? No," Barbara declined.

"Oh come on." Nancy and I said in sync.

"No, I don't want to. Thanks." she said, still declining.

"Come on. Yeah." Steve joined in.

"Y/n, Nance, I don't want to." she still declined

"It's fun! Just give it a shot." I said to her, while Nancy handed her the items.

"Nance." Barbara said.

"Just." Nancy pleaded. " Just give it a shot." Finally after all of that peer pressure, she finally decided to do it. She stood up and began to cut the can.

"So you just.." she asked as she cut her thumb with the knife. She dropped the can onto the ground. Tommy called in Gnarly.

"Are you okay?" I asked Barbara as Nancy walked up to her.

"Yeah." Barbara replied.

"Barb, you're bleeding." Nancy says.

"I'm fine." Barbara admits. " Where's your bathroom?"

Steve answered, "Oh, it's.. It's, uh, down past the kitchen, to the left." he said, standing up.

"Okay, thanks." she replied, heading to the bathroom. I sat back down next to the pool with my feet in the water. Then, Tommy pushed Carol into the pool and jumped in with her. Suddenly, I got pushed in also. I shot up from the freezing water, and watched Steve push Nancy in. He followed shortly after. We were all actually getting along, somehow. We were all pushing each other around. I noticed one of my shoes was gone. I looked up and saw Steve with it holding it up, waving it at me. I swam over to him to get it back and he was playing 'keep away'. At the end, he just threw it across the pool. I swam all the way over there to get it. Shortly after being in the pool, we decided to get out. Steve all hands us a towel.

"It's freezing." Carol being Captain Obvious.

Tommy replies, "Hmm.. well, I hear his mom's room has a fireplace."

"Are you kidding?" Steve asks. "Okay, well, you know, you are cleaning the sheets. You ladies alright?"

"Yeah" Nancy and I replied.

"Hey, uh, Nance. I think I should head home. It's pretty late."

Steve stops me, "Wait, lemme get you some dry clothes so you don't get a cold." Wait, Steve-the-douche not being a douche?

"Oh, you don't have to." I told him.

"No, no. We don't want you freezing out there." He walked back with a sweatshirt and some sweats. "Here." He hands them to me. "You can keep 'em, if you want."

"Oh, I'm-"

Steve interrupts me, "I insist. The bathroom's down the hall."

"Thanks." I told him. "If I don't see you again tonight, bye Nancy." I waved to Steve bye. That was weird. I walked to the bathroom and started to change. I thought I heard something, so I peaked my head out of the bathroom to see if anyone was there, and no one was. I just went back to changing. I didn't feel like drying my hair fully so I just left it how it was. After I got done changing, I walked out to the living room and no one was there, so I left. I walked to the front door and headed to Barbara's car to get my bike. I got it down, unstrapped it and rode home. As soon as I got home, I went straight to my bedroom, and slept.

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