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16. 𝙑𝙚𝙘𝙣𝙖'𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚.

Chapter 16~ Vecna's curse.

"Hey, Steve." The bell rang as Max, Dustin and Ziggy all walked through family videos. Ziggy was extremely hesitant over seeing them again but finding out where Eddie was, and what actually happened to Chrissy was way more important. "You see this?" Steve pointed to the small tv on the counter, "how many phones do you have?" Dustin asked, completely dismissing what Steve said, Ziggy felt eyes on her so she looked up and saw Robin trying to catch her eyes but quickly looked away awkwardly, "someone was murdered." Steve stated, "how many phones do you have?" Dustin repeated, more agitated this time.

"Uh two, why?"

"Technically three, if you count Keith's in the back." Robin chimed in as the younger teens gave each other looks, "yeah. Three works." Max said before Dustin took off his bag to Steve's confusion, "what are you doing?" He asked as Dustin threw it over the counter, knocking some tapes down with it, "woah- what are you-"

"My pile!" Robin shouted, making a grin fall upon Ziggy's face, "that's only a fraction of the karma she deserves." She mumbled under her breath.

Dustin threw himself over the desk after his backpack, causing more tapes to fall on the floor, "no, no, no! My tapes! Dude." Steve exclaimed and walked over to the computer where Dustin was now sat, "what are you doing, man?"

"Setting up base of operations here." He typed away on the keyboard, "base of operations?" Robin questioned as Ziggy and Max joined them behind the counter, "stop, get off of that." Steve demanded, "no." Dustin pushed his hand away, "I need it."

"Need it for what?"

"I'm looking up Eddie's friends phone numbers."

"Oh Eddie." Steve's voice was now riddled with jealousy, "your new best friend, you think is cooler because he plays your nerdy game?"

"Eddie. Yeah, I never said that."

"Nows not the time to be jealous Steve." Ziggy chimed in, "seriously, you guys, maybe on a Monday you can play around in here like toddlers but it's Saturday, it's our busiest day."

"Okay, look Robin, I totally emphasise, but this cannot wait until Monday." Dustin replied, "what? Cause calling all of Eddie's friends is an emergency?"

"Correct!"

"Want me to strangle them or do you wanna do it?" Steve mumbled to Robin who was sorting through the knocked over tapes, "we could take turns." She grinned, "wish I could strangle both of them." Ziggy said to Max, "can you- fill them in while I do this?" Dustin asked the girls, "fill us in on what?" Robin turned around.

"Chrissy's dead." Ziggy let out, causing both their eyes to widen.

~

"Yes Eddie Munson, have you heard from this?" Ziggy paced back and forth, twirling the phone wire between her fingers, the same as all the other teens, except, the way Max was doing it sort of distracted her, "nah man, look I'm too high for your questions right now." The person on the other line hung up, "great." She sighed and crossed another number off the list, "every guy I've spoken to is high." Ziggy stated, "me too." Dustin rolled his eyes.

"Hey guys." Max slammed the phone down, getting everyone's attention, "I may have a lead."

"Seriously?" Dustin questioned with a hopeful look on his face, "yeah. Apparently Eddie gets his drugs from some guy named Reefer Rick and sometimes Eddie crashes there."

"That sounds promising, um- where does this Reefer Rick guy live?" Robin asked, "see, that's the thing. No one knows, he's more of a...a legend than someone that people actually know, "well, what about a last name?" Ziggy asked, "I don't know that either."