Nothing More- Mike Wheeler

SEASON 2- A New Friend

"Look at you with your mouth watering

Look at you with your mind spinnin'

Why don't we just admit it's all over

She's just the girl you want"

I hand the hairbrush to Mike so he can sing into the mic.

"She's just the girl, she's just the girl
The girl you want
She's just the girl, she's just the girl"

Mike and I both fell to the ground from exhaustion. We've been singing and dancing in his basement for what feels like hours.

"Mike, Penny do you copy?" Dustin's voice came out of Mike's walkie.

Mike got up from the floor and answered, " We copy?"

"Lucas and I have six bucks total. What's your haul?"

Mike and I gave each other a look, an Oh my gosh we totally forgot to scavenge for money look.

Mike ran upstairs and I rummaged through my backpack. I found a total of $4 for the arcade. I grabbed the money and went upstairs.

When I reached the top Mike was running and grabbed my arm pulling me along with him, "Run!"

We ran to our bikes and started to peddle. Nancy was running after us but stopped at the end of the driveway. "Asshole!"

I turned back to Nancy, "Sorry! I'll pay you back!"

Mike and I rushed to the arcade to meet the party, we were cutting it very close but we made it on time.

Mike and I made it to the arcade at the same time Will got there, I hugged Will and said hi to Ms.Byers. I grabbed Mike and Will's hand and we met the rest of the party in the building.

We were all surrounding Dustin who was playing Dragons Lair. Mike's arm was around my shoulder. He's been warming up to me a lot lately. He always tries to be touching me, whether it's our shoulders grazing one another, or playing footsie under the table.

But I do the same. The party hasn't noticed all these little exchanges we have but I can't even label them. I have no idea what we're doing. I think we want to break the rule of No dating within the party, but we're too scared to.

"Down! Down! Down!" We all simultaneously were yelling at Dustin who was doing terribly at this game.

"No! No! No! I hate this overpriced bullshit!" Dustin kicked the game causing all of us to snicker. "Son of a bitch! Piece of shit!" he continued.

Lucas patted his shoulder to comfort him, "You're not nimble enough. But you'll get there one day." He pointed in Dustin's face, "But until then, Princess Daphne is still mine."

Dustin rolled his eyes, "Whatever. I'm still tops on Centipede and Dig Dug."

I scoffed, "You mean I'm top on Centipede? Stop being a sore loser you knew I beat you last week. But I have to give it to you, being top on Dig Dug is pretty impressive."

"You sure about that?" We all turned to the arcade employee, Keith.

Just saying his name makes me want to gag.

We all ran towards Dig Dug to see what he was talking about. MADMAX. Who the hell is Max?

"Holy shit, 751,300 points! She whooped your Dustyass!" Dustin shoved me but Mike and I giggled off to the side.

Dustin looked up at Keith, "Whose Mad Max?"

"Better than you."

"Ha ha ha you're so funny. Now tell us who mad max is." I said, tired of his snarky remarks.