brutal ━ mike wheeler

twelve. suzie, we need a genius

TWELVE━━━━
SUZIE, WE NEED A GENIUS

stranger things;
season 4    ep 5

FRANKIE GROANED AS SHE got out from the back of the van, her legs sore from sitting in the same spot for so long. She leaned up against the side of the van as she stretched, making sure she didn't fall over. "I can't feel my butt." Frankie opted to ignore Argyle as she followed after Will, who was following Jonathan. "Everyone needs to be on their best behavior, okay?"

Frankie didn't miss how he specifically looked at Argyle for that. "Okay, why are you looking at me when you say that?"

"Wha— I didn't."

"They're just really religious." Frankie told Argyle to try and get him to shut up before they got to the door. "Yeah, and I'm like super spiritual, dude... dudette!" Frankie pursed her lips but couldn't help but smile at that. "Yeah. . . it's just in a different way."

Jonathan knocked on the door. It didn't take long before the door swung open and revealed a young boy who was dressed up. He had paint all over his body and a quiver strapped to his torso, a toy boy in his hand. "Uh. . . Suzie here?"

The young boy shot one of the arrows, just barely missing all of them, and ran off. Jonathan took that as an invitation inside, and the rest followed. Frankie looked around the house curiously. It looked very well lived in. Scribbles on the walls, family photos trying to cover some of them. School achievements and medals littered the empty spaces. There were toys thrown all around the floor, as well as shoes that didn't even look like they had another show to match it.

There were many kids around the whole house, making noise and making messes.

They eventually made their way to what looked to be their living room, where a young girl was on the floor with fake blood pooling out of her mouth, her brother towering over her with a camera in his hand. "Uhm. Uh, excuse me? We're looking for Suzie?" Jonathan asked the boy, but in return he snapped angrily in their faces.

"Can you not see that we are filming?" Frankie felt bad to say that she found this whole situation quite hilarious. However, since she knew they were on a time limit, she just moved around the kids and walked away, finding the kitchen. "Hey, we're looking for Suzie. Have either of you seen her?" They looked up at the sound of her voice. "Don't know, don't care."

Frankie sighed and smiled. "That's okay. Thank you." She told the girl and turned around once more, trying to find her way through this maze of a house. She quickly caught sight of the same boy with the arrows near the electrical system, and rushed over before he could put his hands on to, lifting him up. "Okay, let's not touch that." She moved him to the side and knelt in front of him.

"You shouldn't touch those until you're older. You ca get seriously hurt." He stared at her for a moment, specifically at her eyes, before he huffed and hissed. She furrowed her eyebrows and shook her head. "Nope. Not doing that." The boy stopped and stared for another moment of two. "Suzie. Where is Suzie?"

"Suzie?" They all turned around to look at a girl with black hair. She had clothes that matched her hair perfectly, and she had her arms crossed over her chest. "Who the hell are you guys?"

"We're friends of Suzie. We're looking for her but have so far only gotten lost." The girl smiled at Frankie. "Third floor, second door on your left."