one

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"LUCAS, Y/N, YOU COPY?" dustin asks lucas and y/n through their walkie. "i've got four quarters, what's your guys haul."

y/n got up from her bed, and grabbed her walkie as she sighed.

"take your puny haul, and multiply it by five." lucas insults dustin.

"how?" dustin impressively asks lucas.

"while you were scrounging around like a homeless bum, lucas mowed old man hunphrey's lawn." y/n explained to dustin.

"old man humphrey's got that kinda cash?" dustin shockingly asks.

"y/n, just call mike already." lucas cuts them off.

"you call mike." y/n argues.

"i have to go take a shower from doing real work, like a man." lucas shoots back. "over and out."

dustin turns off his walkie too, causing y/n to scoff at his laziness.

"mike, do you copy?" y/n lazily, and flatly asks mike. "mike do you copy?"

mike picks up his walkie and answers. "yeah. yeah, i copy."

"what the hell are you doing on this channel?" y/n asks him, suspicious.

"nothing." mike immediately replies.

"well, lucas, dustin, and i have nine bucks total. what's your haul?" y/n asks mike, changing the subject.

"s-shit!" mike realizes. "i don't know yet."

"what do you mean you don't know yet!?" y/n frustratedly asks mike.

"hold on." mike instructs. "call will."

mike shuts off his walkie, causing y/n to scoff again, with the boys making her call everyone while they go do whatever.

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mike, lucas, dustin, and y/n arrived in front of the arcade, with the boys getting off their bikes, and y/n getting off her skateboard.

the four of them heard a car honking, which caused them to immediately turn around.

they see will smiling at them from the car, which joyce next to him.

"hey!" dustin excitedly shouts, as all of them started waving.

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y/n and the others watched as dustin played the arcade game, he was so eager. but for dustin, he lost.

"no, no, no!" dustin rants as he kicked the machine. "i hate this overpriced bullshit, son of a bitch! piece of shit!"

"you're just not nimble enough." lucas smirks. "but you'll get there one day. until then, princess daphne is still mine."

"you know what? whatever. i'm still tops on centipede and dig dug." dustin confidently says.

"you sure about that?" keith suddenly asks.

"sure about what?" dustin asks.

keith smirks as he stuffs his face with his chips.

"you're kidding me." dustin mutters to himself and runs over to dig dug.

"no, no!" dustin shouts.

"751,300 points?" y/n asks in shock.

"that's impossible." mike decides.

"who is mad max!?" dustin demands keith.

"better than you." keith simply replies.

dustin angrily flipped keith off, which keith wasn't fazed at all.

"is it you?" will asks.

"you know i despise dig dug." keith reminds him.

"then who is it?" lucas asks.

"yeah, spill it keith." dustin adds.

"you want information, then i need something in return." keith implies, then he turns to mike and smirks.

mike then realizes what he meant and widened his eyes. "no, no, no. no way. you're not getting a date with her." mike refuses.

"mike, come on. just get him the date." lucas encourages.

"i'm not prostituting my sister!" mike raises his voice.

"but it's for a good cause." lucas says.

"no, don't get him the date. know what? he's gonna spread his nasty ass rash to your whole family." dustin insults.

"acne isn't a rash, and it isn't contagious, you prepubescent wastoid!" keith fires back.

"oh, i'm a wastoid?" dustin sarcastically asks.

"she wouldn't go on a date with you." y/n speaks up. "you make, like, what? $2.50 an hour?"

mike though, noticed that will was outside of the arcade.

"will?" mike calls.

will gasps and turns around.

"are you okay?" mike asks.

"yeah. i just.. i needed some air." will replies, still looking up at the sky.

"come on. you're up on dig dug." mike says, as he walks closer to will, and puts his arm around him, walking back inside. "let's take that top score back, huh?"

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mr. clarke placed a plastic brain on the table, in class.

"meet the human brain." mr. clarke explains. "i know. i know, it doesn't look like much. a little gross even, but consider this. there are a hundred billion cells inside of this miracle of evolution. no, i did not misspeak. i did not stutter, a hundred billion." he excitedly explains.

then the door opened and closed, bringing in a new student.

she had red hair, freckles across her face, and she was wearing this cool red jacket, y/n absolutely loved it.

"ah, this must be our new student." mr. clarke speaks.

y/n glanced over to the boys, to see if they were just as intrigued by the girl as her.

"indeed it is. all yours." the principal replies, then leaves.

the redheaded girl tried leaving and sitting down.

"all right. hold up there, you don't get away that easy." mr. clarke stops her. "come on up, don't be shy."

the girl rolls her eyes, then goes in front of the class.

"dustin, drum roll." mr. clarke instructs.

dustin repeatedly banged on the desk to create a drum roll sound.

"class, please welcome, all the way from sunny california, the latest passenger to join us on our curiosity voyage, maxine!" mr. clarke excitedly introduces.

dustin then stopped the drumroll.

"it's max." the girl corrected.

"sorry?" mr. clarke says confused.

"nobody calls me maxine. it's max." max tells him.

"mad max." y/n heard lucas whisper, which caused her to roll her eyes.

"well, all aboard, max." mr. clarke welcomes her.

max then went to sit down at an empty seat, sitting down next to y/n, as her, and the boys stared at her.

she stared back as she crossed her arms and slouched in her seat, but they didn't look away.

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y/n watched through the gate as max skated around. she just wanted to get to know max, and to talk to her.

"there's no way that's mad max." mike rants.

"yeah. girls don't play video games." will agrees.

"and even if they did, you can't get 750,000 points on dig dug." mike adds. "i mean, that's impossible."

"but her name is max." lucas reminds mike.

"so what?" mike asks him.

"so, how many maxes do you know?" y/n intervenes.

"i don't know." mike replies.

"zero. that's how many." y/n reminds him.

"yeah, and she shows up at school the day after someone with her same name breaks our top score." dustin adds.

"exactly!" lucas says. "so she's gotta be mad max. she's gotta be."

"and plus she skateboards, so she's pretty awesome." y/n says, amazed by max.

"awesome?" mike sarcastically asks her. "you haven't even spoken a word to her."

"i don't have to, i mean look at her- shit i've lost the target." y/n speaks, but then once she turns back, she didn't see max.

"oh- there." will points, they watched as she walked up the stairs, and threw a piece of paper in the garbage, then walked in the school.

the boys, and y/n immediately ran over to the trash.

they stop once they reach the trash, and then dustin went to go dig in the trash for the paper as y/n, mike, dustin, and lucas awkwardly waved at the people passing them.

dustin got the note and opened it up.

stop spying me creeps.

"well, shit." dustin muttered.

"william byers." the principal called.

will turned to the principal in confusion.

"your mothers here." the principal tells will.

"you guys think he's okay?" y/n asks, in worry.

"he's always weird when he has to go in." lucas says.

"i don't know. he's quiet today." mike adds, as he watched will walk away with a sad look on his face.

"he's always quiet." lucas says.

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