✓ | Happiness Is A Butterfly ~ Lucas Sinclair

|31| Weird Vibes

"And I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch your name"

"Leah"

"El"

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After Eleven had explained to the two girls what she had seen Billy doing (which was something with a girl) they decided to walk to Max's house.

"Its gonna start pouring soon" Max says as thunder rumbles. She wasn't wrong, the sky was pretty dark for an early July sky. "We should be at the mall or, like, watching a movie or something"

"Or watching Ralph Macchio" Leah jokes.

"You don't believe me?" Eleven asks, a sense of hurt in her voice.

"I believe you saw some super weird stuff, totally, but you said Mike has sensed you in there before right?" Max asks, getting a nod from Eleven. "So maybe it was just like that, maybe Billy just.... sensed you somehow"

"But the screams" Eleven argues softly. Oh god.

"Heres the thing. When Billy is alone with a girl, they make like, really crazy noises" Max says making Leah stifle her laughter.

"They scream?" Eleven asks.

"Yeah but like.... happy screams" Max explains to her.

"Happy screams? What is happy screams?" Eleven continues asking.

"Its like.... I'm just gonna... lend you my moms cosmo" Max says while patting Elevens shoulder awkwardly as they approach Max's house.

"His cars not here" Max points out, and looks at Eleven. "You really wanna do this?"

Eleven nods. "You don't have to" Leah says softly.

"I want to" Eleven firmly states.

The girls walk through the Mayfield home, and stop at Billy's door, opening it.

"Why do I feel like we're gonna find all kinds of wrong in here?" Max asks.

"Because its your racist brothers room" Leah says monotonely.

"Good point" Max agrees cheerfully.

Max and Leah open a drawer and see some magazines with half naked girls on it. "Gag me with a spoon" Max says while slamming it shut.

The girls go into his bathroom, and in the bath their is ice packs. "Probably for his muscles or something. He works out like a maniac" Max says while picking one up.

Eleven gets a worried face as she looks at a cupboard. Blood. "Holy shit" Leah says  while Eleven opens the door and grabs a green bucket out of it.

"El what is it?" Max asks. Eleven reaches in and grabs a lifeguards fanny pack, and a yelllow whistle, that was covered in blood.

"Jesus, Max. El was right" Leah says, her voice trembling.

The girls put on raincoats and headed to the pool, to give the lifeguards fanny pack back. They were keeping the whistle for "evidence". As soon as the girls went up to the desk, a cranky looking lifeguard said "nobody in the water until 30 minutes after the last strike"

"Yeah, we don't care. We're not here to swim" Max says, a tint of sass in her voice. "Or get electrocuted"

"We found this" Eleven says, grabbing the fanny pack.

"Does that belong to anybody here?" Leah asks.

"Oh, yeah. Thats heather's. I'll get it back to her" The lifeguard says.

"We could give it back to her" Eleven suggests.

"You could. 'Cept shes not here. Bailed on me today." He says, as the three girls exchange a glance. "What is this? You girls want a reward or something?"

"Nope. We're just... Good Samaritans" Max says with a fake smile. Eleven walks over to a board with all the lifeguards, Max and Leah following after her.

"Heather. Do you think you can find her?" Max asks as Eleven looks back at the two lifeguards and rips the paper off.

The girls go into the lockerroom and set things up. Max turns on all the water, Leah puts duct tape over goggles, and Eleven examines the picture.

Leah hands her the goggles, and Eleven puts them on, and stays quiet for a minute. Eleven rips off the goggles and starts breathing heavily.

"What happened? El?" Max asks.

After Eleven had told the other two about what she saw, they went to Heathers house. Eleven used her powers to unlock and open the door. As they walk inside, they see Billy having a dinner with Heather, and  Heather's Mom and Dad. Weird

"Max" Billy says when he sees her, the parents giving the girls a glare, which was reasonable, they had just broken in to their house.

"We didn't mean to... barge in. We tried to knock but... you must not have heard us over the storm" Max lies.

"I'm sorry, who is this dripping all over my living room right now?" Heather's father asks.

"I'm sorry" Billy laughs. "Janet, Tom, this is my little sister, Maxine"

"Oh!" Heather's mother exclaims cheerfully.

"What on earth are you doing here?" Billy asks, walking up to the trio. "Is something wrong?"

"We just... wanted to make sure everything was okay" Max lies again.

"Okay? Why wouldn't everything be okay?" Billy asks his sister.

"Where is she?" Eleven asks suddenly.

"I'm sorry. Where is who?" Billy asks, seemingly getting angry.

"Well there a little burnt, I'm sorry-" Heather starts, but stops when she sees the three girls in her living room.

"Heather! This is my sister, Maxine" Billy introduces. "And I'm sorry, I did not quite catch your name"

"Leah" "El" the two girls say.

"Leah. El" He says, putting emphasis in 'El'. "Now what were you saying, El? You were looking for somebody?" Billy asks.

"I-I saw you" Eleven stammers to Heather.

"Your manager. At the pool" Max finishes.

"He said you didn't come into work today, so we got worried" Leah says, cringing at her words. Yes, we were worried about the girl we've never met. Good thinking Leah

"Heather wasn't feeling so hot today, so we decided to take the day off to nurse up. But you're feeling just fine, aren't ya heather?" Billy asks. He sounds creepy as shit right now.

"Feeling so much better" Heather says with a big smile. "Do you girls want a cookie?" She asks while signalling to the tray in her hands.

"Sure!" All three girls say and take a cookie. They didn't care how shady the situation was, their was cookies, and they were gonna take them.

As they walked out Billy watched them. Creeper.

A/n

PLEASE remember that the italics are leahs thoughts (in case that wasn't clear)

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