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🔥CHAPTER 29🔥

*-*Merliah's POV*-*

Nancy stopped at the first store she could find, once we enter the town, throwing a rock through the window, we follow Nancy into the shot, alongside Eleven. Nancy went to grab a bunch of random things from the shelfs.

"Okay, get her down." Nancy tells Mike and Max who were carrying the injured girl, they gently placed her on the ground.

"Okay. Lemme see." Nancy says crouching down, and rolling up El's jeans, I quickly looked away, starting to feel dizzy after seeing the blood oozing out of the bite mark on her leg.

"Oh shit."

"What... What... Hey, what are you doing?" Max asks Nancy who was opening a pack of bandages she grabbed from the shelf.

"I'm cleaning the wound." Nancy says.

"You need to stop the bleeding first, then clean, disinfect, bandage, those are the basic first aid rules." I point out.

"It's true, and I skateboard. Trust us." Max adds. "Mike hold this." She takes his hands putting in on the bandage Nancy has started putting on El's leg. "You need too keep pressure on it, nice and firm, all right?" I tell him, he only nodded his head.

"We're gonna need water and soap." Max says, Nancy and Jonathan quickly got up to go and find it. Lucas started emptying his backpack on the floor. "Does any of this help?" He asks.

"No. Go get me a washcloth and a bowl." Max tells him.

"A bowl?" Lucas asks confused.

"Lucas. Go."

"Okay."

Lucas and Will went to find a bowl like the red haired girl asked. We sat there waiting for them to bring those things. When they were taking to long, Max and I went to look what was taking everyone so long, only to find Lucas and Will standing, looking at fireworks.

"That doesn't look like a bowl." Max spoke up.

"Nah, it's way better. There is a reason this warning label says, 18 or older. This sucker is filled with 150 grams of black powder, aka gunpowder." Lucas explains, throwing the box to Max who didn't look too impressed. "Strap two of these together and it's bigger than an M-80 five of them we've got ourselves a stick of dynamite." Lucas proudly explains to us.

"You wanna kill that thing with fireworks?" Max asks.

"Do you have a better idea?" Lucas shoots back in question.

"Uh, yeah. Eleven." Max states, throwing the box back at him.

"Against that thing? She's gonna need some backup." Lucas points out, which made Max turn around and walk away, I told the boys that it was a great idea and followed the girl to get a bowl.

Max and I quickly worked on El's wound, since we apparently got a code red from Dustin, once the girl was treated she tried to find out where he was. The boys had a very distracting conversation about old coke and new coke, but they were all the same to me.

Turns out Dustin was at the movies, which made no sense at all. Lucas ended up taking all the fireworks in the store, pushing it towards the exit.

"Dustin's so freaked out about the gate, he decides to go watch a movie? Yeah, makes total sense." Lucas says.

"You're positive he said gate and not great?" Max asks.

"Yeah, like, this movie I'm watching is great." Will states.

"Sounded like gate." Eleven says.

"Which would explain how the mind flyers still alive." Mike points out.

"Yeah, we just have to shut it again." Nancy says.

"Then those monsters will die." I add, walking next to Eleven.

"But if not, we always have Lucas's fireworks." Max points out.

"Keep mocking my plan, Max. Keep mocking it. I wanna hear you say it again, because you keep doubting me. You keep doubting me." Lucas says to his girlfriend.

"Ridiculous." Max says.

"Will? We're gonna prove em wrong, right?" Lucas asks the youngest Byers, who didn't say anything, and kept on walking to the car.

We loaded the fireworks, than we got in, Jonathan immediately sped towards the Starcourt Mall. When we got there, inside  we found guys with guns walking closer to a hotdog place, in the food court.

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