4 CHIMES ; Mike Wheeler 1986

Chapter 2 ; A match

Some hours passed after I talked to Ms. Kelley, Jason's supposed to hold a speech soon, everyone's forced to go, so everyone's heading over to the sports hall. sucks for the people who have more important stuff to do, but, whatever. He has a basketball game later tonight, I'm really excited to see him play for the first time! I bet he's amazing. I'll be cheering for him as loudly as I can! Anything to support my brother.
I enter the sports hall and see people finding a place to sit at, I'm not quite sure where I should sit. I spot Mike and Dustin, and I walk over to them
"God, save me, if Jason sees me standing next to you guys I'm done for"
Dustin and Mike chuckle as the school band starts playing music and the cheerleaders start dancing, I see Chrissy and I wave at her. She's so good!
"-Suzie she's a certified genius!" Dustin says to Mike
"Woah. You guys are still together?" I ask and he nods
"You do realize El saved the world twice." Mike says
"And yet you still have a C in Spanish" Dustin says, I gotta agree with Mike. El saved the world twice, no genius could do that. But I'll let him keep crushing on his girlfriend.
Max walks over to us and stands next to Mike
"Hey Max!" I say as she smiles and waves as me

The band stops playing as the cheerleaders stop dancing, and go sit at the bleachers. Everyone starts clapping.

"AND LETS HEAR IT FOR YOUR TIGERS!" our principal shouts while Jason runs over to the microphone and the basketball team, including Lucas, spread themselves around Jason and stand there. Everyone starts cheering with excitement.

"GOODMORNING HAWKINS HIGH" Jason shouts, everyone cheers, once again.

"First off, hey, first off I want to thank each and every one of you. Without your support we wouldn't be here. Give yourselves a big hand"

Jason says and a lot of people applauds themselves and others, while the basketball team applauds for everyone else.
Lucas waves at me and I wave back to him

"And of course, of course I have to give a special shout-out to the best and prettiest fans of all time. THE TIGER CHEER SQUAD"
"Chrissy.. Chrissy I love you, babe" Jason says to Chrissy. I swear, I love their whole relationship. Jason cares so much for her. I'm happy he found someone that he loves and is happy with.

"You know.. I think I can speak for all of us when I say, It's been a tough year for Hawkins. So much loss, sometimes I wonder, how much loss can one community take. In dark days like this we need something to believe in, so last night, when we were down by ten points at half to Christian Academy, I looked at my team, and I said: "Think of Jack, Think of Melissa, Think of Heather, Think of Billy." Jason says, I look over at Max to check if she's okay, she looks kind of sad. I get that.
"Think about our heroic police chief Jim hopper"
Me and Mike share a quick look but we look over at Jason again.
"Think about every one of our friends who perished in that fire. What did they die for, for us to lose to some.. some crap school?"
"No!" the crowd shouts
"No. Let's win this game! Lets win this game for them, and that's exactly what we did."

Everyone starts cheering, showing support to everyone who has passed.
"This is bullshit" I say, Dustin and Mike look over at me "They probably didn't even know their names till they died. I mean-" I stop after I thought I saw someone, of course I didn't
Jason continues talking. "We embarrassed those candy-asses in the own house, and now tonight, tonight, we're gonna bring the championship trophy." he says as the whole crowd cheers.

"Tonight?" Mike says
"HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?" Dustin then says.
Max sighs "They call it a tournament, you win one game, you go on until there's only one team left." She says
Mike and Dustin look at each other

Jason looks over at me and waves at me, I wave back at him, smiling.

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Everyone's heading outside of the school