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( the vanishing of will byers / the weirdo on maple street, part i )
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november 7, 1983
"DO YOU THINK I could come to school with you?"
There's an immediate clatter from the bathroom before Eddie pops his head out into the hallway, brows furrowed, his toothbrush hanging loosely from his mouth. "What?" he asks, his voice garbled through the foamy toothpaste threatening to spill onto the carpeted floor.
"I wanna go to school," Allison mumbles, shrugging her shoulders as she digs her white plastic spoon into her white plastic bowl.
The shaggy-haired boy dips back into the bathroom to spit into the sink and rinse out his mouth, promptly reappearing to take a seat at the barstool by her side. "You want to go to school?" Eddie incredulously repeats, his voice soft, acutely aware that his uncle is passed out on his fold-out chair in the corner of the room. Neither teenager feels like facing the wrath of a sleep-deprived Wayne on a Monday morning. The redhead nods sheepishly in response. "Most people actively avoid going to school, y'know?"
Allison frowns as she brings her gaze back to her cereal, quickly becoming mushy in the bowl from absorbing the milk. "Well, it's either that or spend another day with Wayne, and I think he's getting tired of me lounging—" Wayne snores loudly, effectively cutting Allison off mid-sentence. Eddie snickers into his palm as the girl clamps her mouth shut. "I don't think he likes me."
The redhead has only been living with the Munsons for a week, and while she and Eddie have gotten along like a house on fire, Wayne has been slower to warm up to her. In his defence, he did arrive home from his job at the plant to find his nephew passed out on the sofa with a random girl in his bed, which never happens. And, then, the girl didn't leave the next morning. Eddie had explained the situation as concisely as possible — "Yeah, she just kinda turned up all scared and shit. Figured I shouldn't leave her out in the rain by herself." — and all Wayne could do was agree because he made damn sure to raise Eddie as a gentleman when the boy was surrendered to him as a preteen.
