Eleven's sister (complete)

Another Day In Paradise

Alex and Richie went back to the motel. "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." Richie said. "Richie." Alex said. Richie kept freaking out. "Richie." Alex said raising her voice a little. He didn't stop. "Richard Trashmouth Tozier!" Alex yelled. "What!?" Richie asked. "Stop being a big baby and shut up so I can think!" Alex said. Richie was quiet. After a couple seconds he started pacing back and forth while Alex was sitting down on the bed. "Are you done thinking?" Richie asked. "No." Alex said. A couple more seconds passed. "What about now?" Richie asked. "Oh my god, would you stop!?" Alex said. "I could no I mean. Ugh!" Alex said. She flopped down on the bed with her hands in her hair. Richie looked at her. "If you wanted me that bad you could of just asked." Richie said. Alex looked at him and rolled her eyes. "And he's back." Alex said. "So what you got?" Richie asked. "Nothing." Alex said. "We could keep doing what we're doing right now and if we see the mind flayer you can handle him then keep doing it." Richie said. Alex looked at the ceiling. "I think that's our only option right now." Alex said. Richie nodded. They went to sleep and the next morning went to school. They were in math class. They were taking a test. " Hey! Hey! I need to talk to you." Stan whispered. "Eyes on your tests. No talking." The teacher said. "Dina, come on." Brad whispered. The teacher saw and walked up to them. "Hey. How's it hanging?" Brad said. "It's hanging." The teacher said taking both Dina and Brad's test. "And, uh, how are you today, sir?" Brad asked. "Mm-hm." The teacher said. "I didn't do anything wrong." Brad said. "You wanna try that again?" the teacher asked. "Well, you- you see, my- my ankle's been swollen. And these pain meds I'm on make it hard for me to focus, and I was-" Brad said. "Detention, after school, both of you. And you'll receive failing grades on this test." The teacher said. "Seriously?" Syd asked. "Excuse me?" The teacher asked. "Oh fuck." Alex whispered. "Dina's been studying this for weeks. Now Brad cheats off her, and she has to fail the test? I mean, that is such bullshit!" Syd said. "You can take that language straight to detention." The teacher said. Syd sat back in her chair and crossed her arms. "Anyone else?" The teacher said. Stan stood up from his desk. He pushed all the books off his desk. Richie and Alex looked confused. "M-motherfucker." Stan said. Richie started laughing. "Okay, fine. Detention for you, too, Mr. Barber and Mr. Tozier." The teacher said. "What?" Richie asked. "You heard me." The teacher said. "Syd was right this is bullshit." Alex said. "What was that ms. Wise?" The teacher asked. Syd, Stan, Dina, Richie and Brad looked at her. "I said this is bullshit!" Alex said raising her voice. "I will see you in detention as well." THe teacher said. Alex rolled her eyes. "Asshole." Alex whispered. Syd was sitting in front of her and smiled a bit. "Did you say sometime Alex?" The teacher asked. Alex shook her head. After school, Richie and Alex were heading to detention. "So detention?" Richie asked. Alex nodded. They see Dina walk in along with Stan. they walked in after. "All right. Everyone take a seat. Now. Hurry. Now, you seven students are here for one reason. Disrespect. You have disrespected this fine institution, and in doing so, you have disrespected yourselves. Four of you I've never even seen in detention before and two of you are new to this school. I want you to take the next few hours and think about your mistakes. And carve out in your mind a plan for change. Determine how to improve yourselves. Define what the word respect means to you. Now, you can start by respecting this beautiful gymnasium. Between now and seven p.m., you're gonna scrape up every goddamn piece of gum from the bleachers." Mr. Whitaker said. He dropped a bucket of scrapers on the bleachers. "Get started." Mr. Whitaker said. "Uh, Mr. Whitaker, sir? Um... Will there be a break for snacks or dinner?" Stan asked. Mr. Whitaker left. "Okay." Stan said. Stan whispers to Syd. "hey, I'm really sorry-" Stan started. "No. I'm not talking to you, okay?" Syd said. "Okay. I know none of us wanna be here right now, but I was thinking, if we divide and conquer the bleachers, maybe we could be done before seven and Whitaker will let us out early, so..." Dina said. Jenny clapped. "Go, team!" Jenny said. "I'm not a cheerleader." Dina said. "Maybe you should be." Jenny said. "Maybe you should be in prison." Dina said. "Ooh. That's my wet dream." Jenny said licking her teeth. Alex, Richie and Dina looked at her disgusted. "I don't know, guys. This gum has been here for decades. I don't think Whitaker actually checks." Brad said. "It's just a social experiment, like a simulation." Richie said. "You know what? I have an idea. Why don't we play Fuck, Marry, Kill?" Jenny said. "How on-brand." Dina said. "So, who goes first? Eenie, meenie, miney, Brad." Jenny said. "Guess if I have to-" Brad started. "No. Not another word." Dina said. "Okay." Brad said. "Oh, what about you, Miss Goody-Goody? Or are you too afraid to play?" Jenny asked. "Why would I be afraid?" Dina said. "Cool, then. Fuck, Marry, Kill. Stanley Barber... Mr. Whitaker... and... Syd." Jenny said. "Well, clearly, I'm killing Whitaker." Dina said. "So are you going to fuck Syd or marry her?" Jenny asked. "Total life goal to marry your best friend, if Syd'll have me." Dina said. "Oh, so then it's you and Stan in an all-day bone sesh. Ugh. You little slut. How does that make you feel, Bradley?" Jenny said. "Whatever Jenny." Brad said. "Why don't you go next Jenny?" Alex asked being annoyed. "Well, Actually, I thought Syd should go next. Then I remembered that no one in their right mind would realistically have sex with you, so-" Jenny said. "Hey!" Stan and Dina said. " What? Is it not true? Does Syd Novak have some high fuckability score, and I just don't see it?" Jenny asked. "Why don't you shut the fuck up and go back to rehab?" Alex asked. "Damn your a feisty one." Jenny said. "Just don't listen to her." Stan said. Syd scoffed and left. Jenny started laughing. Alex rolled her eyes. Jenny went to go vape on the other side of the gym and Richie and Alex decided to talk to Stan. "Hey." Alex said. "Hi." Stan said. "What you did in math was hilarious." Richie said. "Thanks I guess." Stan said. Richie had to go use the bathroom. Stan took out a rubik's cube. "You wanna help me solve it?" Stan asked. Alex nodded. Stan scrambled the rubix cube and handed it to Alex. Alex looked at it. "You have to solve it by putting all the colors in one side of the cube." Stan said. Alex looked at it closer then she started solving it. Stan looked around and Alex solved it in under 5 seconds because of her super speed. "Done." Alex said. Stan looked at the rubix cube. "What the? How did you do that so fast?" Stan asked. "Practice." Alex said. Stan nodded. Alex scrambled it for him. Stan tried to solve it. He laid down on the bleachers as Alex watched him try to solve it. "Stan!" Syd whispered from the door. Alex turned around. "Stan!" Syd whispered. Alex tapped Stan and pointed to Syd. Stan got up. "Can you take care of this for me for awhile?" Stan asked Alex nodded. Stan went to Syd and Richie came back. "Where did you get that?" Richie asked. "Stan told me to take care of it for awhile." Alex said. Alex solved it in 5 seconds. "What the hell?" Richie said. "What?" Alex asked. "Alex you don't even know what half the things in a world are how the fuck do you know how to solve a rubix cube?" Richie asked. "I don't know." Alex said. Syd came in and asked Dina for help. "What do you think it's about?" Richie asked. "I don't know but where's the bathroom?" Alex asked. Richie and Alex got up and walked to the bathroom. They walked passed the library. "Holy shit." Richie said. "What is it?" Alex asked. Richie went into the library. Alex followed. They saw the shelves were knocked down. "What the fuck?!" Richie asked. "Richie calm down I'll fix it, okay?" Alex said. Richie nodded. Alex ran to the bathroom then came back. She put the shelves back into place along with the books. "See, there all fixed." Alex said. Richie and Alex turned around about to walk out the door when they heard crashing. "Please don't tell me that was the shelves." Richie said. Alex turned around. "It's the shelves." Alex said. "Shit." Richie said. He turned around. The mind flayer appeared behind them but they didn't notice. The mind flayer hit Richie and he went flying into the wall. "Richie!" Alex yelled. She ran to him. "Hello, Alex." The mind flayer said. Alex looked up at him. "Long time no see." The mind flayer said. Then he smiled. "Shut up." Alex said. Richie was knocked out. "Richie? Richie!?" Alex asked grabbing his face. "He's fine." The mind flayer said. He broke off a piece from the shelves and threw it at Richie, stabbing him on his side. Richie woke up and groaned in pain. "Richie!" Alex yelled. "For now." The mind flayer said. Alex stood up. "What do you want?" Alex asked. "For you to stop. I'm warning you Alex if you don't, there will be a war between us." The mind flayer said. "I'm not going to stop. You want war? You'll get war. And by the end off it, I'm going to be the one that won." Alex said. "I like your enthusiasm." The mind flayer said. Alex punched a shelf and it turned into a lot of pieces. Alex used her telekinesis to pick up all the pieces and stab the mind flayer with all of them. The mind flayer screamed. The fire alarm sounded. "You tell my dad I'm ready for war. And I'm going to be the one that kicks your asses." Alex said. The mind flayer disappeared. Alex kneeled down next to Richie. "Richie, are you okay?" Alex asked. Richie nodded. Alex helped him up. He grabbed his side. Alex took out the piece of wood and healed him. "Come on we have to get out of here and back in the gym." Alex said. Richie nodded and they went back into the gym. Dina walked fast out the gym. "Please! She's lying!" Brad said. Alex and Richie moved out of her way to let her leave. "Hey! Which one of you punks eats burritos? All right, I don't know what the hell went on tonight, but I wanna see everyone in my office first thing in the morning!" Mr. Whitaker said. Richie and Alex left and went back to the motel. "What are we gonna do now?" Richie asked. "Homecoming is close. After homecoming I'll give them back their memories and we'll go back to Hawkins." Alex said. "Okay, but isn't it dangerous to wait? And isn't them being in danger the reason we erased their memories and sent them here?" Richie asked. "Yeah, but the mind flayer I stabbed him. It might take him awhile to heal. Like a day, and right now they're safer with us and the others then alone. Plus I need to teach Beverly how to control her powers. At least while she still has them." Alex said. Richie nodded.