Other Friends

Chapter 12 - Charming

"So have you seen Liz lately?" Windy questions as they walk down the train tracks ahead of the boys.

"No... Should we have updated her on all this?" Bella asks.

"How? She doesn't have a walkie talkie." Windy points out.

Bella sighs, "That's fair? Should we start using them? Like get one for each of us?"

"Do you really think Lizzy, of all people, would keep track of a walkie talkie? You're around the boys nearly every day and I live with one." Windy reminds her.

"Yeah fair. No walkie talkie. But we could have called last night?" Bella suggests.

"She's probably still with the new boy toy." Windy says with a sigh, "What does she even see in him?"

"Who knows? A cool car? I don't know." Bella replies.

Windy looks at her confused, "You think she's dating him 'cause of his car?"

"I don't know man! Lizzy does what she wants." Bella rebuttals.

"Fair." Windy nods.

"The key with girls is just... just acting like you don't care." The two hear Steve say, making them stop and turn around to look at the boys.

"Excuse me, what just came out of your mouth Harrington?" Windy questions, crossing her arms.

Steve shrugs, "It works."

"The fuck it does!" Windy argues.

Bella slaps her friend's arm, "Child." she reminds her.

"Sorry... No, not sorry he has said worse." Windy says before looking back at Steve. "What the hell? That's not how you get girls, that's how you lose girls. Just ask Jonthan."

"Jonathan's an ass." Steve says with an eye roll.

"Besides the point. He still lost a girl acting like that. So don't give my little brother stupid ass advice." Windy argues.

"But it drives them nuts." Steve argues back.

"Not the good kinda nuts." Windy fires back.

"Is there a good kind of nuts?" Bella questions.

"We will talk about that later." Windy says glancing at her friend before looking at her brother. "Don't listen to him."

Dustin looks between the two arguing teens confused. "But he's Steve Harrington." he says, stressing on his name.

"Who doesn't have a good track record with girls." Windy points out.

"Hey." Steve weakly whines. "You don't think the same, right Bella?"

Bella gives him a small smile, "Well..." making Steve groan.

"We hear the same things, Steve. It ain't pretty, dude." Windy tells him.

"Well, what did you hear?" he asks.

"I don't think you wanna know." the two girls tell him.

"Tell me, I can take it." Steve says standing up straighter, seeming to gain confidence.

"If you insist." Windy says, ready to tear him to shreds.

"Okay. No. No, we are done with this." Bella says to them. "We need to focus on our mission plan. We still have a monster on the loose."

"But he asked for it." Windy tells her friend, but she only receives a look. "Fine."

"Good. Now, let's get going." Bella says, taking the lead to the junkyard.