stranger things // texts //

Day 11| continued

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Dustins POV

"MOM IM GOING UPSTAIRS" I yell to my mom. "OKAY SWEETIE!" She yells back.

We run upstairs into my room and I grab my bag, "you got the stuff I asked?" I ask him, he nods and opens the bag. "NO, DONT" he looks at me confused. "My mom can't know what we're doing" I say walking past him. "You following?" I ask. He nods and follows me.

"Mom, we are just going to...Wills house." She nods "be back by 5:30 boys" she says. "Let's go!" I say turning to Lucas.

"So why did we need all this stuff?" He asks when we get on our bikes "I wanna find where Barb is" "Barb? Why?" "Nancy asked me to. It's my job"

Lucas' POV

I didn't get why we had to look for Barb, she was dead anyway. Also she's in the upside-down. Eleven couldn't get ahold of her, Wills not going back in there to just find Nancy's friend. I'm definitely not going and I will not let Dustin go in there either.

"But why?" I ask whinging, 1. Because we've been riding non-stop for about 15 minutes at a pretty fast speed. 2. Why would Nancy ask Dustin, a young boy to go find Barb? Why couldn't she find her herself? Or even just be with peace her friend is dead.

"Like I said, Nance asked me to find Barb- I'm sorry, I'm being rude." I nod and chuckle "yes you are, but I know you are worried and nervous" he nods and thanks me.

"Can we stop?" I ask when we near a bakery. He checks his watch, "yep" we hop off our bikes and lock them into the bike-rack.

The bakery is called "Sophia's Mouthwatering Good Café and Bakery" "what a mouthful" I say pointing up to the sign, Dustin laughs. "I'll pay" he says. "You sure? I can" I reply he shakes his head. "Nah it's good, I have made you ride out here so I should pay" "thanks Dust."

We walk in the shop and the owner is a sixty year old man and his granddaughter, maybe fifteen?

"Hello, I have to go to the vet to pick up my dog. But Lindsey will answer and look after y'all" the man says in a loud southern accent. I nod and thank him.

"What do you want Luke?" Dustin asks me walking over to the warm options. "Y'all dating or what?" Lindsey says in a stronger accent than her grandfather. Dustin becomes tense, I stand frozen. "I'm- ah- there's-there's- no-um no" I try to say.

Dustin glances at me, smiling lightly. "No, we are not" he says. "Y'all could've just said no. But you didn't and now I'm hungry, I'll be at the back" I nod.

"Thanks Dust" I say turning towards him, "so what are you getting?"  I ask him. "I think I might get the cheese and steak pie, you?" "Ooh, I might get that too" "copy cat" he smirks.

Okay. I might have a little crush on Dustin, only a little. But it's only platonic... what can I say it's complicated. (
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But I don't think he likes me, or in that case any boys. God, I thought I was gonna be with Max and live happily ever after. But damn no. I have to like one of my best friends. Fuck, what if he likes me too? What will I do? Will we date? But Will would be left out, El/Mike, Me/Dustin. Wait isn't Will dating El though? So Mike could date Max?

Fuck, I'm thinking too deeply about this.

"Lucas? Here's your pie and what the hell were you thinking of? You look like a ghost." Dustin says cutting off my train of thought.