DISCONTINUED
Alina Fairgrieves-Byers and Gabriel Burton have learned to expect the worst, but that doesn't make things less disappointing.
𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄
( 𝐎𝐂 𝐗 𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐑 )
( 𝐎𝐂 𝐗 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐘𝐄...
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. ✧ ・゜. +・o ✧
Because Alina had left her own bike in California, she had to ride Gabe's to Family Video. It was a smidge too small for her liking, but she didn't want to adjust it—after all, Gabe was still going to want it when he got back. Instead, she gritted her teeth and endured the ride, even if it meant her knees occasionally hit the bike's handles whenever she pedalled too hard.
Fortunately, it didn't take too long to arrive. The store Steve and Robin (and also Keith) worked at was across the street from the Palace Arcade, a place Alina used to bike to on the regular. In fact, if the circumstances weren't so dire (and so strange; this had honestly been the last thing she'd expected when she'd arrived), the ride might have been nostalgic. But today Alina was focusing too much on what Max and Dustin had told her to feel any sort of wistfulness. There were more important things to do than reminisce.
The doorbell rang as they entered, and Alina was immediately greeted with the welcome sight of Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley, two older teenagers (well, Steve was technically an adult, now) that she'd grown rather fond of. Steve had become the babysitter in all things Upside Down—to varying degrees of success; there had been that one time they'd practically kidnapped him—and Robin, though new to the weirdness that was Hawkins, was still someone Alina could talk to about everything that had happened. Well, that and her sexuality crisis. Robin was, as it turned out, very good at giving advice in that front.
Before she could say hello, Dustin was already blurting out, "Hey, Steve."
Steve whirled around. "You guys see this?" he asked, gesturing to the television, which was currently displaying the trailer park Chrissy had died in. At first, his eyes went right over Alina—after all, she might have just been any other party member. But then they darted back to her, and his mouth dropped open. "Alina?"
"How many phones do you have?" Dustin asked, ignoring him.
