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CHAPTER 1: MADMAX

Bob Newby loved movies . As a kid, on a Saturday morning he could usually be found in a darkened cinema with a bucket of popcorn and a large soda, staring up at that big screen. It didn't matter what film, he loved all types, sci-fi, action, musicals, comedies, everything except horror movies. He didn't like scary things.

He felt like his life was now a movie, a romantic comedy, where the lovable geek gets the girl. The girl in question, Joyce Byers, Bob's longtime crush. They'd been dating for a few months now and he still couldn't quite believe it was real, that she chose him. During their secret make-out sessions in stockroom of the general store, where they giggled like a couple of teenagers behind the bleachers, he half expected her call out someone else's name, but it never happened.

He was worried about Joyce. She'd been very anxious lately and very protective of Will. But then it was approaching the one year anniversary of his disappearance, bad memories were resurfacing. Bob didn't exactly know what happened to Will a year ago. He just vanished one night. Joyce was worried sick. People started to believe he was dead, the police even found a body in the quarry. There was a funeral. Then miraculously Will turned up alive. Rumours flew all over town about where he'd been, what he did. The family didn't talk about it, but the whole thing left them badly scarred.

Bob wanted so much to take away Joyce's pain, ease her worries and anxiety, bring back the happy carefree girl he knew in high school. So he was always thinking up ways to make them all happy. He brought one of them to movie night, a video camera. The could turn their lives into actual movies. He and Joyce could watch them in years to come with their grandkids, he crossed his fingers and hoped. If only he could get her to stop hiding her face everytime he pointed the camera at her.

He found the boys in Will's room talking, something do with Kenny Rogers.

"I love Kenny Rogers" Bob exclaimed stepping into the room.

The boys looked at each other and burst out laughing. Bob wasn't sure what the joke but he suspected he was the butt of it. He didn't mind, it was nice to see them laugh.

Later, watching Mr Mom, one of his favourite movies with Joyce and her sons, Bob didn't think he'd ever been happier in his life. He could spend the rest of his life in that moment. But as he was leaving reality intruded. He gave Joyce a hug and a kiss, then he smelt cigarette smoke in her hair, nothing unusual in itself. But it was the brand, he recognised it. Camels! Jim Hopper's brand.

Joyce had seen Jim today. That alone was not enough to burst Bob's bubble. It was the fact she'd never mentioned it. Why? Was it something to do with Will? Or was there another reason?

Sleep did not come easy to Bob Newby that night. When it did, he was haunted by dreams of Joyce and Jim Hopper in each other's arms.

END OF CHAPTER ONE