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"HE'S A WHAT?" Bev shouted, completely breaking her promise of remaining calm and reasonable about this. Stan sighed heavily.
"A. Drug. Addict" Stan repeated, purposefully pausing afterwards, even though he knew that it wasn't hearing what he said, that Bev had a problem with. "The last time I spoke to him, and apparently every time I've spoken to him he was high"
"Oh Stan, what have you got yourself into?" Mike asked, as he threw his water bottle up and down in the air. Both Mike and Bev had agreed to come over to Stan's house after school to do 'homework' but in reality, Stan just needed an excuse to make sure things could be slightly normal again.
He hadn't spoken to Richie, or Ben, and obviously not Eddie. Although it pained Ben to choose a side, he seemed to agree with Richie on this one and although Stan's common sense understood this, his intrusive thoughts made him pissed.
"It doesn't make much of a difference" Stan said "It says more about what they're struggling with rather than their morals"
Mike sighed, placing his hands on his hips. "I'm no expert, but I guess I can recede on my further judgement for what makes Stan happy" He said reluctantly. "But, this isn't some shitty YA romance or fanfiction, it isn't your job to 'save' or 'heal' broken people"
Stan put his hands up in surrender, "I get it, a mentioned it because it's another clue, and besides I have my own issues to figure out first" He said
"Good point" Bev said "Who's next on our list?" She turned back to her whiteboard.
"Well my next one was Will Byers, the lad who's always asks about Stan" Mike said and Bev frowned.
"He's a little weird but he doesn't look like he does drugs" Bev said.
"His older bother looks like a stoner" Mike said seriously and Stan rolled his eyes.
"Mike, play nice" Stan said and Mike gave him an innocent grin. "We could ask Rue, she knows everything, it's lile she's been building blackmail files on everyone in the school" The mention of Rue caused a soft rose to tint Mike's cheeks.
"I'll call her" Bev said and Mike's eyes widened.
"You have her number?" Mike asked and Stan laughed, Bev tried to back away her's to make him feel better.
"Yeah, we sit next to each other in Maths" Bev explained, taking her phone out of her back pocket. "She says the only thing she's got on him is that he's orginally from Hawkins, was a little upset for a while after having to leave his boyfriend and his friends. Doesn't look like he does drugs, but she then says 'who does, ask him'. Also did Mike blush at the mention of my name, I have a tally chart"
Mike looked like he had just spotted the sleep paralysis demon, his expression was priceless and was joined with laughter from Stan and Bev. "Just ask her out Mike, it's no big deal" Stan said and Mike shook his head quickly.
