4 CHIMES ; Mike Wheeler 1986

Chapter 3 ; Wipe out

"Alright Everyone, this next song is dedicated to Jane. The local snitch."
The DJ says as he plays wipe out

Me, Mike and Will look over at Jane, people are surrounding her on the roller rink.
"Shit" I say. "Come on don't just stand there do something!"
I head over to the dj
"Hey! You, turn off the music!" I shout
"Sorry!! Cant hear you"
dipshit
"I SAID TURN OFF THE MUSIC YOU DIPSHIT" I shout even louder but he ignores me. I slap his face and hurry over to Mike and Will.
"Shit- is this what you meant Will?" I ask Will
"Yeah I- I should've told you guys sooner I just-" He says as I cut him off
"Don't worry, just, stop whatever she's doing" I say, the guys nod and we split up, we all try doing something that could help El
I try getting through the people roller skating around El, they're calling her names, bullying, mocking her, laughing at her. How could I be this stupid.
The music suddenly stops, I look over at El. Angela's friend splashed the milkshake on El as she fell on the floor. My heart drops, out of anger, out of sadness.
"EL!" I shout, looking at her, she looks at me but then gets up and skates away from everyone.
While leaving she cries, as everyone laughs at her. I look over at Angela, seeing her laugh at El too. I skate over to her
"What was that, Angela?" I ask her, with a harsh tone. Looking her dead in the eyes, signaling that I'm pissed.
"Come onnn! It was just a joke, we're friends" she says, as she laughs and looks back at her friends
"I didn't think you'd be like this. Asshole" I say and go away. I can't find Mike or Will, so I'll just try finding El.

I look around for some minutes, she's nowhere to be found, until I see her. Walking out of the employees only door, she walks over to Angela and her friends.
I get closer to hear what they're talking about

"-Oh no, did we embarrass you in front of your friends?" Angela says as she laughs
"I, Want you to say sorry to me." Eleven says, I hear the pain in her voice. "And I want you to tell them, that it was just a joke.. and that we are really friends."
"Or what? You gonna hurt us with your mean stare again?" Angela says, harshly. Moving her hand up, mimicking when Eleven uses her powers. I guess she tried using them on Angela in school, but failed. Since she lost her powers
Angela giggles, and so does her friends
"Sorry you can't cry to teacher today. Guess you'll just have to cry to your daddy instead. Oh wait, can't do that either." Angela says, she and her group laughs.
I walk up to them
"Dude." I say "You're making fun of El- Jane, not having a dad. When your own dad is dead? What's wrong with you"
Angela rolls her eyes
"Correction, your dad. I was raised by my mom and my step dad, And he's more of a dad to me than your dad will ever be." She says, as her and her group walks away.
I look over at El, looking furious. She walks away and I follow her
"El where are you- where are you going" I say. She walks over to a guy and takes his roller skate
"El- El, no don't do this-" She keeps on ignoring me and heads over to Angela.

"ANGELA" El shouts, Angela turns around and El hits Angela with the roller skate. Angela falls to the ground and she screams, her nose is completely bloody.
"Fuck, El."
Mike and Will run over to us
"o..oh.. my god."
"Holy shit, El, what'd you do? What'd you do?"

. . . . DRIVING BACK HOME TO THE BYERS HOUSE
(Argyle - Jonathan - Both )

"I know this may be, like, upsetting and shit, but that future prom queen is gonna be fine." Argyle says to Jonathan. There's an awkward silence in the back seats
"I mean, it's just like rubber wheels." he says again
"Plastic"
"Ohhh.."
"Not like hard plastic, just... just the soft kind"
"Totally. But, you ever wonder why the wheels aren't wood, man? Or metal. So people don't get hurt when they get schmacked"
"ohhh"
"Yeah, because it happens more than you think, man. Roller skate attacks" He says and looks over at us
"Man. Hey, at least it wasn't an ice skate"
"That nose would've been sliced clean off, man"
They both exclaim
"It could've been so much worse."
"So much worse." they both say and look at El. They look back at the road and keep talking
"In the grand scheme of things, it's just a little blip."
"That's a funny word man."
"Blip."
"Blip"
"Blip"
"Blip"
"Blip"
"Blip"

"Blip"
"Blip"
"Blip"
"Blip"
They continue on saying, 'blip' while jaunting to the music. While us 4 in the back just look around.

We get home to the byers
"Mom?" Will says as we walk in the house.
We see someone, it isn't Joyce, but it's Murray, we see him in the kitchen
"Well, Well! Aren't you lot a sight for sore eyes, huh?" he shouts and looks at us
"Hi Murray" Jonathan says
"You kids like risotto?" Murray asks.

We eat at the dinner table, Joyce is here too. Murrays explaining why's he's here, visiting the byers. I just kind of zone out, I don't really pay attention to what they're saying. I just eat, as I'm processing the whole day, thinking.
Joyce: "-So Jonathan this means you're going to have to take charge while I'm gone. And get Mike and Y/N to the airport safely"
Jonathan "Wait, What? What's going on?"
Will: "oh my god."
Argyle (Whispering): Your mom's going to Alaska.
Jonathan: "You're going to Alaska?"
Y/N: "Wait she's going to Alaska?"
Jonathan: "What's going on in Alaska?"
Argyle: "The britannicas are there"
Jonathan: "The britannicas?"
Joyce: "Jonathan, what is wrong with you?"
Murray: "I think I know what's wrong with him."
Jonathan: "We just had a super, stressful day."
Murray: "Stress, huh?"
Argyle: "This girl got Schmacked in the head today, at the roller rink."
Murray: "Schmacked?"
Argyle: "Yeah, one of those vicious skate attacks."
Murray: "Skate attack?"
Jonathan: "Yeah but it wasn't like an Ice skate. It was ... It was a plastic skate"
Argyle: "Mm no, it was, like, rubber."
Jonathan: "Rubber, rubber."
Argyle: "You know what? I'm not sure.. anyway, she looked like she's gonna be fine"
Jonathan: "She's totally fine"
Mike: "She didn't look fine."
I look over at mike
Y/N: "Mike!" I whisper to him
El looks over at Mike and leaves
Joyce: "El.. aren't you gonna finish your- what.?"
Will sighs
Joyce: "What is going on, you guys?"
Murray: "Okay uh, I sense, Tension. Is it the risotto? Everyone hates the risotto?"
Jonathan: "Absolutely not. No, it's incredible.
Argyle: "This risotto, is schmakin' dude."
Y/N: "He's right"
Murray chuckles
Murray: "I still have no idea who he is" he says, talking about Argyle.

. . . . THE NEXT DAY

I got a letter from Jason, explaining, that I'd have to get back home to Hawkins as fast as I can, something happened, but he's not telling me what until I get back home.
Me and Mike are at the airport, saying bye to everyone. I give Will a tight hug before we leave
"Bye guys!" I say to them and wave
They all wave back and me and i get on the plane. It's 8 in the morning right now, so we'll be back in Hawkins in about 4 hours.
Jason told me Julia's gonna pick me up, I'm wondering what happened in Hawkins, I hope everything's alright

I wake up in the plane, I took a little nap, I really have to go to the bathroom. I get up, trying to not wake Mike up and I go to the bathroom.

I close the bathroom door, the lights aren't working, i try turning the lights on multiple times but nothing works. The lights slowly turn on, finally. But then they start flickering, someone bangs on my door. What the fuck is happening.
"Open up" a feminine voice says.
"I said open up." It says again
It sounds like—
"Open up! Open up! Open up!" She starts screaming as her voice distorts and she bangs on my door multiple times.
Not this shit again.
I crawl up into a ball and close my eyes, I take deep breaths. Knowing it's gonna go away like it did before.
As the lights stop flickering, the banging on the door stops too. I open the door and see a line.
"Sorry, my apologies." I say and leave.
Shit, I'm just gonna wait till I get home to Hawkins so I can do my deed
I find my seat, "where were you" Mike asks me.
"Bathroom, sorry" I say
He nods, I close my eyes. I'm just gonna try to sleep and forget what happened today.

A/N: SHORTER CHAPTERRR, we're finally going back to Hawkins. Cuz cmon
The California group is fun but they're in a car quite a lot ☹️☹️

Released: 08/18/2022