𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬
❝ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴀᴄᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ɪᴛ.❞
𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐎 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄, 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 a b-line to the one game that she actually cared about; gaplus. she still had a bunch of quarters left from the night before, making sure to leave them in steve's jacket pocket. once she was there, she unzipped her bag and grabbed her walkman and headphones. she place the headphones over her ears before she clipped the walkman to her her jeans. she pressed the button with the triangle on it, the white symbol starting to fade from use. she smiled as someone to love by queen started to play, bringing her hand up to rub her nose. she dropped zipped her bag up and dropped it to the floor. she stuffed her hand into the pocket of steve's jean jacket, grabbing a quarter before she shoved it into the slot. she pressed the start button and started to play the game, spamming the button as she used the joystick to move her spaceship around, shooting the ships and aliens that was at the top of the screen.
this went on for about thirty minutes, the harrington girl trying to get her high score back from maxine "MADMAX" mayfield. she had about two quarters left in her pocket, a groan leaving her lips once one of the opposing spaceships shot a beam at her, killing her. karma chameleon by culture club started to blast through the speakers of her headphones. she muttered the words as she pulled out another quarter from her pocket, stuffing it into the coin slot and pressing start. she bopped her head to the beat gently, her eyes trained on the screen in front of her as the game started to speed up.
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𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊, stranger things 1
Fanfictioncharlotte harrington was a normal kid. she lived with her parents and older brother, steve. she was friends with dustin, mike, lucas, and will. she didn't necessarily like playing d&d, but she still sat through their campaigns to help them in times...