The Long Game, Lucas Sinclair

037. QUIT ROPING ME INTO THIS SHIT

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN.
4x02: Vecna's Curse

August Santos was sort of a loser.

Okay, correction.

He was a major loser.

August Santos was a major loser, and he was well aware of it—there were many attributes of his life that supported this truth. For two years he was the only person in the AV Club, because after sophomore year the two seniors who did it with him graduated; he was obsessed with movies to an unhealthy degree; but he steered away from renting them at familyVideo because he refused to have a repeat of last summer (it was too embarrassing to even repeat for the readers); he'd lived in the trailer park off Roane County since his dad up and booked it when he was four; his only friend was a freshman with the soul of a fifty-year-old woman who'd lived through ten wars; his favorite t-shirt of his favorite band—The Smiths—was stolen from a dumpster.

Going back to the freshman with the soul of a fifty-year-old woman who'd lived through ten wars:

Auggie had been nervous all night. He'd barely gotten any sleep last night because of her.

You see, the thing was, Sam left a drawing on her desk in the AV room—her own drawing, to be specific.

And it was a picture of Eddie Munson and Chrissy Cunningham going into Eddie's trailer at night.

And last night Auggie saw Eddie Munson and Chrissy Cunningham going into Eddie's trailer.

And this morning there was a multitude of cops interrogating Wayne Munson (Eddie's uncle) outside their trailer.

Had Auggie ever seen Chrissy leave?

"Corazón, entra en la casa," his mom said in her Latin accent. "No quiero que estos cerdos nos causen problemas."

Auggie turned his head down to see his oh-so short mother out of the trailer now too. He was trying to inspect what was really going on, but it was hard, because while his trailer was to the left of Eddie's, it was still a good bit away.

"Un segundo, Mamá, te lo prometo," Auggie assured.

His mom squeezed his hand before she entered back inside.

Right across from Eddie's trailer, Auggie saw that Maxine (Max) Mayfield was outside too, trying to do the same thing as Auggie. Auggie knew enough about Max—he knew Sam and Max used to be best friends, he knew Max's step-brother died in the mall fire, he knew Max and her mother had to move into the trailer park after, and he knew Sam and Max were no longer best friends.