|Rule The World| Steve Harrington

Chapter one

A 15-year-old blonde girl slammed Melissa Reyes's car door as they parked in front of Hawkins High School. "Chrissy! What did I tell you about slamming the car door?" The older girl scolded her friend.

"Sorry..." The girl sheepishly said, knowing how much Melissa cared about her car.

Melissa Reyes and Chrissy Cunningham practically grew up together. They lived just across the street from each other, so it was only a matter of time before one of the girls made the first move to befriend the other.

Despite being very different, the girls were inseparable. While Chrissy went to her gymnastics classes after school, Melissa was in a forest with her father, training how to shoot a gun. Nobody, not even Chrissy, knew how Melissa and her father spent their free time. It's because her father knew that not everybody in town would approve of a grown man teaching his daughter how to use a gun since she was in elementary school. So, Melissa and her father had made a pinky promise to never tell other people about their training sessions.

After her father's death, Melissa didn't train as much. When she was little, she saw the trainings as a quality time with her father, but after his death, she didn't see the point of doing this without him. It's not like the monsters from her father's stories would one day come alive and she would need to use her skills on them.

However, every time she felt down, she would go to the same place in the forest they used to go to. Sometimes she would try using different weapons she had found in her father's garage, for example, a bow and a knife, and other times, Melissa would just sit on a log and let her mind wander to the great memories of her childhood. And even if she didn't train as much as she did with her father, Melissa's aim was still better than that of an average American man.

The two girls started walking towards the school. "Could you help me with my math homework tonight? I have a test tomorrow, and I don't get the harder algebra tasks." Chrissy asked her friend since the older girl would always help her with the schoolwork.

"Yeah, sure. You can come over to mine whenever you want." Melissa replied with a smile, glad to help her friend with whatever she needed.

The girls walked through the hallway past Nancy Wheeler and Barbara Holland, who stood next to their lockers. Melissa gave a small smile and a wave to them. Nancy was dating her friend Steve Harrington, so they had grown accustomed to each other.

Melissa and Steve had been best friends since elementary school. They befriended each other because of a funny incident, which was when Melissa punched Steve in the face, and they had been by each other's side since. However, since the two started hanging out with Tommy H and Carol, they drifted apart a little bit. Steve wasn't the person she went to talk to about her problems or silly little crushes anymore. Yes, they still cared for each other, but it seemed that the main priority to Steve was popularity. And that's where their opinions clashed.

Melissa and Chrissy walked past a group of cheerleaders, and the latter followed the girls in green skirts with her eyes. "I'm thinking about trying out for the cheerleading team. What do you think?" Chrissy looked at her friend with a big smile.

"I think they would be too stupid not to pick you for the team. I mean, you have been going to gymnastics classes for as long as I have known you, so I think you would do more than great."

Melissa knew that being the captain of the cheerleading team was one of Chrissy's biggest dreams. And she knew that one day her friend would accomplish this dream. So, Melissa was as excited for this as her friend. Even if it meant having to drive her friend to a lot of practices. Because Chrissy wasn't of legal age to drive a car, Melissa, besides Chrissy's parents, was the one to drive the girl everywhere.