tweleve

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SUMMER CAME AROUND for the group.

max and lucas were still together, despite breaking up five times and getting back together.

y/n and max were still friends of course, but still, something was just off for y/n with the thought of lucas and max dating. she still hasn't figured it out yet.

but on the bright side for y/n, she saw mike and eleven happy together, since they were both dating now.

dustin was away for now at summer camp, but he's coming back tomorrow.

but right now, the group was supposed to meet up at starcourt to go to the movies, but they were stuck outside waiting for mike, who was late.

mike made it to starcourt on his bike, to find y/n, max, lucas, and will waiting for him.

"you're late." lucas says.

"sorry!" mike apologizes.

"again!" y/n adds.

"we're gonna miss the opening." will adds.

"yeah, if you keep whining about it." mike insults. "let's go!"

"'if you guys keep whining about it." lucas mocks mike.

"just please stop talking, dude." mike says, as they kept walking.

"let me guess, you were busy." lucas jokes, but not in a funny way, in a more scolding way, while he made kissing noises.

"oh, yeah, real mature, lucas." mike says.

"'oh, el, i wish we could make out forever, and never hang out with any of our friends.'" lucas mocks mike again.

"lucas, stop." max warns.

on the other hand will and y/n we're laughing at lucas' antics.

"will and y/n thinks it's funny." lucas reminds max

"because it is." y/n replies while laughing.

"yeah, it's so funny that i want to spend romantic time with my girlfriend." mike sarcastically says.

"i'm spending romantic time with my girlfriend." lucas comments as he puts an arm around max.

y/n watched lucas put his arm around max, feeling herself get a little sad, but she pushed that feeling away, and just decided to get tonight over with.

they went down the escalator, running into people, as they let out apologizes since people got annoyed.

"watch it!" a girl tells lucas.

"yeah, watch it, nerd!" erica insults lucas from afar.

"isn't it past your bedtime?" lucas asks.

"isn't it time you died?" erica shoots back, as her friends started laughing.

"psycho!" lucas insults.

"butthead!"

"mall rat!"

"fart face!"

lucas then blows raspberry as erica.

"oh, now that was mature." max scolds lucas as she grabs his arm.

she then quickly let's go of lucas as the group went into scoops ahoy.

mike went up to the counter, and started repeatedly ringing the bell.

"hey, dingus, your children are here!" robin yells to steve.

steve opens the tiny scoops ahoy window. "again? seriously?"

mike glares at steve, then rings the bell again.

steve scoffs, then he leads them to the back.

"i swear if anyone finds out about this-"

"we're dead." the whole group cuts off steve.

"all clear." mike tells everyone.

they start walking into the theatre for the movie, day of the dead.

they quickly find seats and sit down, there wasn't enough seats for them to all sit together, so they had to split up.

mike and will sat next to each other, while max sat down with y/n on her right, and lucas on her left.

"see, lucas, we made it." mike whispers to lucas.

"we missed the previews." lucas intervenes.

"still made it." max reminds him. "fart face." she teases with a smile.

will starts passing down all the snacks to everyone.

"hey, do you want some of my skittles?" y/n offered to max.

max nodded her head yes, with a small smile, accepting the rainbow candy.

max and y/n reached into the pack of skittles at the same time, their hands brushing against each other slightly, with the two girls feeling a fluttery feeling inside of them, that they tried to ignore.

y/n pulled her hand away, in embarrassment, and started to watch the movie.

then suddenly, the power went off, causing everyone in the theatre to groan.

once the power went out, max immediately grabbed onto y/n's hand, since she was startled.

max immediately noticed what she did, and pulled her hand away from y/n.

"sorry." max quietly apologized.

a smirk forms on y/n's face. "what are you, scared of the dark?"

max started to smile back, with a blush forming on her face as she scoffed. "no!" max laughed, as she looked away from y/n. "shut up."

then the power turned back on, which made the movie play again, and everyone in the theatre started to cheer.

max and y/n shared a glance, with both of them smiling at each other, then they turned back to the movie.

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the next day approached, they were all at dustin's house at the moment, they wanted to surprise him since it was his first day back from camp.

el used her powers to make all of dustin's toys move around the house, making his plastic robots walk on its own.

el's eyes were closed and she had blood dripping down her nose.

lucas nudged max to signal her, then max nudged y/n, y/n nudging will, and will nudging mike.

el felt mike nudge her, as blood dripped down from her nose.

"now!" mike whispers to el.

el's eyes shoot open, and dustin's toys stop moving.

they slowly walk up behind dustin, who was kneeling on the ground and picking up his toys.

max gave a signal for a '3, 2, 1'. then, they all blew party whistles as y/n and max held up a sign.

dustin screamed in fear and sprayed lucas in the face with hairspray, which caused lucas to start screaming too.

eleven gripped onto mike in surprise.

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lucas was running his eyes in water, to stop the stinging.

lucas softly groaned as he lifted up his head and rubbed his eyes.

max concernedly looked at lucas. "better?" max asks lucas.

lucas shakes his head with his eyes closed. "still stings."

lucas then opens his eyes, and looks over to y/n, noticing a small pimple on her face.

"is that a new zit?" lucas asked y/n, with his eyes squinted.

y/n slightly widened her eyebrows. "what is wrong with you?" y/n asks lucas.

y/n grabbed lucas' head, and put his eyes back in the water.

"i was just asking- ah!!" lucas protested.

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"wait, so her name is suzie?" mike asks as they were about to leave.

"suzie with a 'z.' she's from utah." dustin replies as they continued walking.

"girls go to science camp?" will asks.

"suzie does. she's a genius." dustin responds.

"is she cute?" mike asks.

"think phoebe cates. only hotter." dustin tells mike.

"what's going on?" max asks, noticing that mike, will, dustin, and el were about to leave.

"going to talk to dustin's girlfriend." will replies.

y/n and max glance at each other in surprise with wide eyes.

"girlfriend!?" lucas, y/n, and max ask in unison.

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the seven of them sweated, as they kept walking up the hill.

"aren't we high enough?" y/n complains as she sweated, from walking up the hill.

"cerebo works best at a hundred meters." dustin replies.

"you know, i'm pretty sure people in utah have telephones." max reminds dustin, as she panted.

"yeah, but suzie's mormon." dustin says.

"oh, shit. she doesn't have electricity?" lucas asks, in a little sympathy.

"oh, that's the amish." max reminds lucas.

"what are mormon's?" will asks in confusion, as he continued walking behind y/n.

"super religious white people." dustin replies. "they have electricity, and cars and stuff, but.. since i'm not mormon, her parents would never approve. it's all a bit.. shakespearean."

"shakespearean?" y/n asks.

"yeah. like romeo and juliet." dustin says with a smile.

"right." y/n flatly says, with no enthusiasm.

"star-crossed lovers." dustin adds.

"i got it." y/n cuts him off.

"hey, guys!" mike shouts from afar.

all of them stop, and turn to mike and el, noticing they were far behind.

"this is fun and all, but, uh.." mike begins.

"i have to go home." el finishes his sentence with a smile.

"we're almost there." dustin remiss mike.

"sorry, man. curfew." mike lies.

mike grabs el's arm, to bring her home.

"good luck." el says with a smile, then they turn to leave.

"curfew at 4:00?" dustin asks.

"they're lying." lucas says.

"it's been like this all summer." y/n rolls her eyes.

"it's romantic." max comments.

"it's gross." will comments.

"it's bullshit." dustin cuts all of them off. "i just got home."

"well, their loss, right?" dustin says. "onwards and upwards! suzie awaits!"

everyone groaned in response, not wanting to continue walking up the hill, since it was so hot out.

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"-suzie, do you copy? this is dustin, over." dustin continued.

it was already dark outside, it was night, max and y/n were laying down next to each other.

will laid down by himself, already asleep.

"suzie! this is dustin, do you copy? over." dustin repeats. "suzie, this is your dustin. do you copy? over. suzie—"

"dustin, come on! she's not there." max speaks up.

"she's there, all right? she'll pick up." dustin convinces.

"maybe cerebo doesn't work." will says as he wakes up.

"or maybe suzie doesn't exist." y/n blurts.

"she exists!" dustin defends.

"she's a genius, and she's hotter than phoebe cates?" lucas asks. "no girl is that perfect." lucas adds.

max immediately sits up.

"is that so?" max asks lucas.

lucas sat up too, not knowing what he just got himself into.

"i mean.." lucas stutters. "you're perfect. i mean, like per-perfect in your own way way, in your special way."

max immediately starts to laugh.

"relax, i was teasing." max tells him. "i'm obviously perfect and dustin's obviously lying."

max then gets up and sticks out arm out for lucas to grab.

"come on, don juan." max tells lucas, then lucas takes her hand and gets up.

"where are you going?" dustin asks them.

"home." max coldly replied.

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