୨⎯ "𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑" ⎯୧ | STRANGER THINGS

❝ 𝗘𝗣 𝟮: 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞 ❞

- Your POV

I got ready for school pretty quickly. Why? So I could prep my costume. I opened my closet doors and displayed it out on my clothes hangers. I was pretty proud of it since I bought it all by myself. Anyway, Steve had already left so I had to walk to school. No,I wasn't late.

When I got to school, I saw Mike and his friends at the bike racks. They were dressed up. The ONLY ones dressed up. I sorta felt bad, they started looking at me, so I smiled at them. Which made two of them stumble around. Yeah, they were kind of weird, but I still felt bad.

After class, Max and I were standing near her locker. We were talking about our costumes for tonight. I was going as Vincent from Tim Burton's short film of the same name. I watched it a couple of times on a sketchy CD I got from a yard sale. Max was putting stuff in her locker and two of Mike's friends came up to us.

"Hi, Max. Harrington, it's an honor. I'm Dustin. And this is-" Dustin said before getting interrupted. "Lucas..." The other boy said. "Yeah. We know. The stalkers," Max responded. I held back my laugh. They were taken aback and started stumbling on their words. "No... actually we weren't stalking you," Lucas spoke up. "We were just concerned because you know... you're new and all!" The curly-headed boy pointed out. "Mhm. There's a lot of bullies here-" "So many bullies it's crazy." "Yeah." They said.

"Well I already have Y/n here, so I was fine anyways. Also is that why you're wearing proton packs?" Max asked. "Well, these don't function...but! I do have this handy dandy little trap here!" Dustin said, very excited to show us. "And look, it even opens and closes, Look!" He shows the ghost trapper opening and closing a couple of times. "Cool right? No? Okay." Dustin sighed.

"So we were talking last night, since you two are friends and Max you're new here...  you guys probably don't have many friends to take you guys trick or treating. And since you're scared of bullies we were thinking... that it would be okay that you two come with us," Dustin declared. He was rambling for at least two minutes. " 'It'd be okay?' " Max quotes them. "Yeah. Our party's a democracy and the majority voted you guys could come," He answered. "Didn't realize it was such an honor going trick or treating with you guys," I said to them. "Well yeah! We know where to get the full-sized candy bars. We'd figured you'd want in," He responded to me.

"That's presumptuous of you," Max told him. The boys looked confused because they didn't know what that meant. So they started agreeing with her. "So uh.. you'll come?" Dustin asked us, to switch the subject. Max slammed her locker shut and tapped my shoulder to walk away. "We're meeting at the Maple Street cul de sac at seven. Seven on the dot!" Dustin yelled before we went to class.

After school Max and I were walking to our rides. "I'll call you when I get home alright?" She said. "Are we going?" I asked her. "Going where? Trick or treating? Yeah obviously," She responded. "Yeah but with Dustin and Lucas," I said. "Oh. Yeah, I guess. But I'll think about it so get home fast," she said to me. "I will," I replied before she walked to her brother's car. I also ran to my brother's car; I had to hurry since Steve had to go to a party with Nancy.

When I got home, I went to my room quickly to get ready. Then the last touch was the face makeup which was done quickly just lots of eyeshadow for some fake eye bags. I waited for Steve, his costume was pretty simple, so I wasn't sure why he was taking so long. While I was waiting, I finally got a call from Max. She told me that she was going to scare the guys when we got there. I laughed, talked to Max for a bit more but had to leave since Steve finished getting ready. I said bye and finally left the house with Steve.

We picked up Nancy and then went to the party. "Meet back here once you're done, kid. Ten o'clock." Steve said to me. "Yeah, I will," I replied. I got out of his car, heard the loud chants from inside, and then rushed to the spot where Max and I agreed to meet. I eventually found her and she got ready to scare the boys with her Micheal Myers costume.