Just a call away | ronance

Chapter 1 | Nancy's P.O.V

My alarm wakes me up, I quickly slip on my sandals and run to the bathroom.

"Ugh, Micheal!!" There's a horrible stench coming from the toilet, I don't dare and lift open the top. "What!?" He comes to the bathroom. "Was this you??" I point at the toilet. "Yeah, why?"."Why!? It stinks Micheal!! A normal human being sprays air freshener or leaves the door open so the air can get out!!" I'm looking at him with my arms crossed. My mother Karen walks up the stairs, "What is going on!?" She says holding on to the stair's railing. "Micheal doesn't know how to not keep the bathroom smelling like a sewer!" I say. "Nancy, just use the downstairs bathroom. and for you Micheal, here's this." She hands him a can of air freshener. "Thank you?" He walks off. I shut the bathroom door and go to the downstairs one. 

I receive a text from steve saying that he can come by my house and drop me off at school, I reply with a simple 'sure'. I finish getting ready and grab some eggos from the freezer and place them in the toaster. by the time I've finished packing my lunch steve honks his horn, I say goodbye to my parents and grab mike by his school bag. we get in steve's car and start heading towards Hawkins High.

"So Nance," Steve starts, "You know our senior year is coming to an end and all this graduation stuff is happening pretty soon, so I was wondering if after graduation we can go out and eat? it's fine if you're busy, I mean I get it." He's still paying attention to the road. I don't wanna reject him, I mean what if he gets sad? "Nance?" He taps me on my shoulder, snapping me out of my thoughts. "Huh?? Uh yeah, sure I don't mind!" I say stupidly, my mouth moving faster than my brain. "Ugh just kiss already, my god" Micheal laid on his backpack inspecting his fingernails.

Steve parks the car and gets out, he comes to my door and opens it. I step out and open the backseat door. Micheal groans and grabs his backpack, not caring enough to close the car door so I close it. Steve, Micheal, and I wave each other goodbye and walk to our classrooms.

The bell rings and it's time to go to the pep rally. When I arrive I spot Robin at the door, we wave at each other and hug. We hear a familiar voice, it's Vickie. "Hey Robin, Hey Nance!!" She's out of breath. "Hey, Vickie!" Robin says. She nudges me, that's my sign to say hello. "Hello, Vickie!" I say with the fakest smile on my face. "You here for the pep rally?" Vickie asks. "Yeah, I am! I'm coming to support robin!" I lay my arm on Robin's shoulder. "That's nice, well Robin and I have to get going! See you later, Nancy!" They run into the auditorium to get prepared. I get this weird feeling but just shrug it off. Steve, Micheal, and I head into the auditorium and sit down. I sit in between Mike and Steve.

While the pep rally is going on I can hear some girls sitting behind us swooning over steve, and not very quietly either. I nudge steve to alert him. "Steve," I start, "those girls behind us are swooning over you and being very loud about it, at least look at them or something so I don't have to hear that, please." Steve laughs and then turns around. "Ladies, Ladies, My friends and I can hear you crushing over me, I know I'm good looking but keep it down please." he gives them a 'charming' smile. "Finally" Micheal takes a bite out of his sandwich he decided not to eat during lunch.

Once the pep rally is over Steve, Micheal and I get in steve's car, while in the car steve mentions our 'date', if you can even call it that, I'm only going because I accidentally said yes, not because I like him or anything. "Nance, I was thinking about where we were gonna go for our date, do you have any restaurant that you like?" He makes a turn to go to my house. "Uhm not really, there's not much to pick from." I'm thinking about Robin when I'm supposed to be thinking about Steve and I's date, is this normal?. "the cheapest place I can think of is not appropriate for a first date." He laughs. "Don't do anything fancy if you're gonna be taking her to McDonald's on your 15th date, no point in being fake about the type of person you are," Mike states. "Micheal, can you tell me what your sister likes? she's in la la land right now." I glare at Steve.

We finally arrive at my house. "Call me Nance!" Steve pulls out of the driveway.

Mike opens the door and I close it. "How were school kids?" My mom's making lunch. "It was like every other day, nothing special." Micheal groans and places his school bag on the ground. "Nancy? Honey, you never answered my question. How was school?". I sit down and place my face in my hands. "Hun, what happened??" My mother walks over to me and starts rubbing my back. "I've just been stressed, that's all.". "You know you can tell me anything, right?". I nod. "Well dinner is gonna be ready in a few minutes. Go take a shower to calm yourself down." She steps back into the kitchen.

I walk into my room and close the door, while searching for pajamas I get a text. Is it robin!?. It's Steve, the message reads 'I think I've found a place ;)'. I don't wanna go but what will steve think of me? will he tell everyone I didn't show up? god thinking about that makes me anxious.

Micheal enters my room. "Steve wants to know why you won't text him back." Oh god, what do I say?..