Yay: I actually don't write that fast. While I can write fast, I normally don't finish a chapter of this length in a day or even two, given that I go to work and have housework to do as well. The reason for these chapters coming out that quick is my process of planning and writing stories. I suffer from insomnia so I often lie awake at night and think about things. After I finished watching every episode and I was in bed, I thought about writing a story and in my head, I created several plot points. It goes so far that I write them out in my head and in order for me to not forget them, I usually transcribe them the next day.
That's why I have so many chapters out already. Over a third of what you read so far was already written before I released the first chapter. I have more paragraphs written already for later chapters ^^
And you wouldn't need to check everyday if you made an account and followed the story ;)
Me who else duh: Sicher könnt ich auch in deutsch schreiben, aber da hätte ich ja eine viel kleinere Leserschaft ;) Und du bist in kühleren Gefilden? Reib Salz in die Wunde -.-
grievesforyou: Yeah, just measured mine and wrote it in :D And remember, it's only the part that sticks out ^^
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Stacy sighed, standing in the store with her friends who tried to find stuff to buy for Christmas. She missed the time when she was the queen of the ball, every boy in her class and also from the other classes wanting to be with her and buying her presents to gain her attention. Yet ever since entering high school, a lot of the boys ogled over the older girls and even the nerd crew seemed to have forgotten about her as well. Like that Dustin kid who asked her to dance at the Snow Ball. It had been fun to turn him down, though weird when she had seen Wheeler's sister dance with him.
Wheeler. That name caused more than just a bit of confusion inside her head. He used to be the scrawny boy getting beaten up by Troy every other day. But in the two years since the Snow Ball, the kid had grown freaking huge, towering over his classmates and a lot of the guys in the grades above him. And whereas he used to be scrawny, now he had a damn body. She remembered the day she went to the pool, visiting Jennifer, who worked there part-time at the entrance desk, thinking she and her friends could have some fun alone before it was opened for the public.
That day, Jennifer had told them that Mike Wheeler of all people was swimming, having started a job as a lifeguard which allowed him to be there as well during closing time. They had changed into their bikinis and bathing suits and had entered the pool area to scare him a little so he would leave. What she hadn't expected was Wheeler doing laps, wearing those earbuds that prevent water getting into his ear but also making it impossible for them to shout him out of the water.
So they had waited. And waited. And waited. Wheeler had continued to swim, never stopping his crawl for another ninety minutes. A quick question to Jennifer had confirmed that Wheeler usually did this for two hours straight, sometimes even more. She herself was tired after ten minutes of swimming like that and she couldn't fathom that a scrawny boy like Wheeler could swim that much without pausing.
But the biggest surprise had come when he was finally done. Wheeler had exited the pool on the side they were waiting on, pushing his upper body over the rim before his long legs followed and to her own embarrassment, she and the girls had actually squealed at what they had seen. No longer scrawny, but a tight body, slim, V-shaped, with visible but not overly huge abs, broad shoulders, broad chest and strong arms and thighs. She had even heard that he had broken Troy's nose with a single punch a week ago. To her, he had looked as if he had stepped directly out of a male teenage swimsuit model catalog.
And ever since then, she couldn't stop thinking about him. She had made Jennifer call her whenever he was at the pool to swim and she had hurried over there to watch him, waiting in her bikini for him to come out of the pool but the only thing he usually said was a short greeting before he headed to the showers and then took his break in the employee room until his shift started. When he was on shift, he never paid particular attention to her, he seemed to be too professional for that. She had even thought of faking an emergency but the danger of being ridiculed by her classmates was too high for her to go through with it.
"I'm telling you, it's here, I called ahead." she heard a loud commotion from the entrance, the bell announcing the arrival of new customers and she saw Dustin walk into the store.
But that meant...
As she had thought, Wheeler came behind, almost a full head above Dustin. When she looked at him, it felt as if someone had punched her. She knew Wheeler had stopped combing his hair flat but today, his hair was practically flowing from his head and making him look like a rock star. But her eyes really fell on what was probably the reason for him ignoring her. A cute girl was holding his hand and at first, Stacy thought it was his sister but the girl wasn't blond and also too old for that.
She looked at the girls face, saw her adoring eyes whenever she looked at Wheeler and cursing when Wheeler looked even more dopey-eyed when he looked at the girl. She knew the girl from somewhere, she had seen her face before. Then it came to her. She had seen her at the Snow Ball, two years earlier, where she and Wheeler had been dancing all night to almost every song.
So Wheeler had a girlfriend? Stacy was trying to figure out why she had never seen the girl at school when the couple walked past her, not even acknowledging the presence of the girl who tried to get the guy to look at her. Her curiosity peaked, she followed them at a distance, staying the neighboring isles as to not get their attention.
"It looked impressive, it really did." Wheeler was saying as she came close enough to hear them.
"I felt ridiculous." the girl giggled back. "I had no idea it was so big. It didn't look that massive when I had my hands around it."
"You didn't have to try to get it into your mouth completely." Wheeler grinned and Stacy almost choked on her breath when she heard this salacious bit, starting to follow the couple around so she could listen further.
"Hey, you made it a challenge, and I loved your facial expression with every bit more that I got into my mouth." Stacy heard the girl go on, almost making her drop the merchandise she was holding as cover.
"I thought I died and went to heaven." Wheeler laughed and Stacy couldn't stop the movie starting in her head of these two doing something that even Stacy had not considered doing yet.
"But come on, what you did was even worse." she heard the girl again. "When you got started down there, I thought I was dying for real."
"I never thought you'd be so loud." Wheeler was defending herself and Stacy felt her legs go weak when the picture in her head developed.
"I hate you, you know?" the girl suddenly said, a spark of hope lighting up inside Stacy. 'Hope?'
"No you don't." Wheeler was chuckling.
"You made me squeal." the girl giggled. "I never squealed before in my life!"
"I didn't hear you telling me to stop."
"I did! But you simply kept going."
"You didn't stop either when you were on top and I pleaded for you to go easy on me." Wheeler continued and Stacy couldn't stop the movie in her head of the two pleasuring each other.
"Yeah aardvark, that's called revenge." the girl nodded, completely serious as she looked into his eyes and probably wondering when his brain will have processed the nickname.
"Yeah it... wait, aardvark?" Wheeler gasped, his voice taking on a higher octave. "We agreed that you never call me that anymore."
"We didn't agree on anything. And now that I know how freakishly long your tongue is..." the girl began to explain but when she did, Stacy couldn't hold on to the box in her hand anymore, letting it fall to the floor with a thud.
"Are you okay?" Wheeler asked her as he turned around the shelf. "Oh, hey Stacy."
"Wheeler." she nodded and quickly got away from them to hide her blush, leaving the store and waiting for her friends to emerge but determined to get herself some of that Wheeler meat someday.
"What's with her?" El asked.
"No idea." Mike shrugged.
"Guys, I got it." Dustin smiled, holding the equipment he had ordered.
"What is it?" El asked. "Another vibrating hammer?"
"Or a doomsday clock that will stop working when the wind stops?" Mike added.
"I'll show you when I've assembled it." Dustin grinned and turned to see one of the girls of the bitch squad smiling shyly at him. "Hey Jennifer."
"Hey Dustin." Jennifer waved back, resulting in oohs and aahs from Mike and El before she was pulled out of the store by her friends.
"Shut up guys." Dustin huffed after the girls were gone. "So, El, are you trying tonight for another record?"
"Seriously, she barely managed to get a stack of three eggos in her mouth at once, you really want her to try more?" Mike asked.
"Hey, it looked funny with her cheeks puffed like a hamster." Dustin laughed.
"That did look cute." Mike agreed.
"I'll do that when Mike promises me never to tickle my feet again." El pouted. "Or at least stop when I tell him."
"But then you wouldn't give that really cute squeal." he grinned and dropped a kiss on her temple.
"Could you two do me a favor?" Dustin asked and both looked at him in expectation. "Stand a few feet apart."
"No." El decided, involuntarily using the same inflection of her voice that Jim had used when he had shut down Dustin's suggestion of leading them down into the Russian base.
"You sound just like your father and he wasn't even your real one." Dustin smirked as El wrapped her arms around Mike, neither of them knowing that their displays of affection were being watched from outside the store.
"Hey Dustin, what's with Jennifer?" Mike asked. "She seems to like you."
"Totally." El nodded. "She smiled so warmly at you."
"She and I were partnered for a project in biology class." Dustin shrugged. "I thought she was quite nice."
"So?" El prodded.
"What do you mean, so?" Dustin looked at her.
"Dustin, she likes you and she's cute." Mike pointed out.
"I have a..."
"No, you don't have a girlfriend." Mike groaned. "You have a radio pal you met at science camp who you will never see again."
"That's mean, dude." Dustin sighed.
"Mike, don't you owe Dustin a date with Jennifer because he ate that giant pizza?" El asked her sweetie.
"Yeah but when we were sitting in the train on our way back here, he told me that I should wait because of Suzie." Mike replied.
"Guys." Dustin sighed.
"You know what?" Mike shook his head. "Screw it."
"Where are you going?" El asked but Mike simply walked outside.
"Girls, a moment?" Mike stopped the bitch squad that was about to leave after they had been comparing the stuff they bought.
"Mike." Stacy nodded at him, almost shyly, even pushing her hair over her ear, an action that didn't go unnoticed by her friends.
"Jennifer, can I talk to you for a moment?" Mike asked and looked at the group. "Alone."
"Sure." Jennifer shrugged and followed Mike a few steps away.
"Listen, you like Dustin, right?" Mike began after they were out of earshot of the others.
"Uuuuh..." Jennifer looked at him with big eyes. "Why would you think that?"
"Because you keep looking at him and smiling and whenever he says hi, you look away shyly." Mike pointed out.
"Well... fine, yes, I like him." Jennifer sighed. "What about it?"
"What are you doing on the 29th?" Mike smiled.
"Nothing, why?"
"Date with Dustin." Mike grinned.
"I'm sorry, what?" Jennifer gasped.
"Listen, I'm going to be completely honest with you, alright?" Mike looked at her, waiting for her nod. "When we visited my girlfriend and Will in Chicago, we went to an All You Can Eat pizza parlor. Dustin ordered the largest pizza ever and I told him, if he finished it, I'd get him a date with you. He successfully finished it."
"But you went last month, didn't you?" Jennifer wondered. "Over the Thanksgiving weekend?"
"Yes, when we came back, Dustin told me to not do it after all because he has a girlfriend."
"He has a girlfriend?" Jennifer felt like someone punched her in the stomach.
"Actually, he doesn't." Mike shook his head, making her even more confused. "He met her during his stay at the science camp he went to during Spring Break. They have a radio relationship."
"A what?" Jennifer was even more confused now.
"Imagine a pen pal, just with a radio." Mike chuckled. "He talks to her once a week and before you start wondering, he will never see her again."
"How can you be sure?" Jennifer was apprehensive.
"She's from Utah, her parents are Mormons, so she's most likely as well and her parents wouldn't allow a relationship between the two since he's not Mormon." Mike shrugged.
"Okay, so lets say I get my wish and become his girlfriend..."
"Interesting." he grinned.
"You didn't hear that!" Jennifer gasped, cursing at her mistake. "Anyway, how should I deal with that?"
"Okay, lets say you get your wish and become his girlfriend." Mike winked, causing her to blush. "I doubt he would keep referring to Suzie as his girlfriend. Dustin is not that kind of guy. But depending on her reaction to it, he could keep her as a radio pal, so if he does his once a week radio date with her, just let him. Nothing will happen there, except talking about their shared interests."
"Okay." Jennifer accepted.
"Good, I'll tell Dustin about the date and I'll make sure he honors it." Mike nodded and returned into the store, Jennifer rejoining her friends.
"What did he want?" Silvia, another girl, asked her.
"Stuff regarding the pool." Jennifer lied and before her friends could plaster her with questions, she decided to take the attention away from her. "Stacy, what's going on with you?"
"What do you mean?" Stacy asked.
"When Wheeler came out, you pushed your hair over you ear and you said his name like you wanted to jump him." Jennifer added with a smile.
"Ooooh!" Alexandra cooed. "Stacy has the hots for big boy Wheeler."
"Shut up!" Stacy shouted at her.
"Alex is right though, Wheeler has become like a tree." Christine added. "He's what now, six-two?"
"No idea, but he's gotten yummy since he started swimming." Silvia growled. "Wouldn't say no to those big hands running over my body."
"I think she would have something against it." Jennifer giggled and Stacy thought it was another dig at her but her friends were looking into the store through the window to where Jennifer was pointing at.
"Damn, look at that." Silvia gasped, when they saw Mike kissing his girlfriend, the girl's feet off the floor because of their height difference. "And with tongue too."
"I wonder if they had sex already." Christine mused.
"Girls, you really want to speculate if the president of the nerd crew is doing it already?" Stacy huffed, not liking a bit where this was going.
"I'd say yes if he offered to speculate me." Silvia gave a little purr.
"What does that mean?" Jennifer looked at her confused before the others began laughing.
"Dude, what did you say to them?" Dustin asked Mike when he finally let El back to the floor and pointing outside where the bitch squad was laughing and pointing at one of their members.
"Nothing but I made that date with you and Jennifer." Mike winked at him. "December 29th. Be your best."
"Wait a second, I can't cheat on Su..."
"Seriously, don't say Suzie." El huffed, getting fed up with Dustin about this. "She's your radio friend. You should accept that. There's a pretty girl is interested in you."
"I don't know." Dustin hesitated.
"Dustin, remember when you came back from science camp and you thought we had abandoned you because we weren't answering your radio calls?" Mike asked.
"Yes." Dustin smiled, remembering that day and how he sprayed hair spray into Lucas' eyes.
"You always want to be the third or fifth wheel?" Mike continued.
"What?" Dustin gasped at Mike's directness.
"Imagine me and El going on a double date with Lucas and Max." Mike said. "Since it's supposed to a date and be romantic, having you there would make it awkward."
"I know that sounds harsh but it's the truth." El added.
"So, if you and Jennifer were together, we could do triple dates." Mike nodded a thanks to El. "We could do stuff together, go eat or bowling or the movies or whatever and afterwards, each couple gets on with the more romantic things apart from the others."
"Okay, but what if I had Jennifer as my girlfriend and we want to double or triple date but El is in Chicago?" Dustin pointed out. "You'd be the fifth wheel then."
"Dustin, I have no problem with staying at home." Mike said. "Would I feel disappointed because I couldn't join you with El? Of course I would. But I'd still know that El is my girlfriend, so I'm not alone. I could talk to her over the SuperCom, or I could go swimming to... get some stress relief."
"I love you." El smiled at him.
"Fine, you made your point." Dustin lifted his arms in surrender. "December 29th. Is six o'clock okay?"
Mike turned around to look at the girl group that was still talking animatedly amongst themselves. Jennifer looked up and saw him looking. He held up six fingers before he pointed at his watch and then Dustin, Jennifer nodding and giving a thumbs up before she gave Dustin another shy smile, the boy receiving it returning the thumbs up.
"Dude, that silent communication you did there was great." Dustin laughed. "Come on, lets get to the video store."
"Yo, Wheeler?" one of the girls of the bitch squad called out to him when they had left the store and walked to their bikes.
"What?" Mike called back, unlocking his bike.
"How tall are you now?"
"I don't know, six-two I think." Mike replied, looking at El and shrugging when he saw her questioning look.
They climbed on their bicycles and started up the road, the arcade and video store already visible in the distance. The ride took less than ten minutes, even though a cold wind was blowing against them, making El shiver when it got into her neck, making her curse that she forgot to wear a shawl. Luckily, they arrived quickly at the arcade, putting their bikes right next to each other again so Mike could use his chain to tie them together.
"Well, now we know it wasn't the hat." Robin giggled at him, causing Steve to groan.
"What, no blackboard?" he asked as he sat down in front of and with his back to her, referring to the You Rule You Suck blackboard she had used at Scoops Ahoy.
"No need, all in my head." she grinned and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "Maybe you should cut your hair."
"Are you insane?" he turned his head to look at her aghast. "My hair is my most prominent feature."
"And that's saying something." she poked out her tongue and then dropped a friendly kiss on his cheek. "Now go, there's still another customer in the store who hasn't yet turned you down."
"Yeah, yeah." Steve sighed. "I don't get it, it's as if all the girls I talk to think I'm the biggest asshole."
"Well, women have astute observational skills, don't you know that?" Robin looked at him and tried to keep a straight face.
"Devil child." he huffed.
"Hey mom, hey dad!" Mike grinned, seeing Steve and Robin doing their usual bickering when he and the others entered the store.
"Hey children." Steven waved at them, Robin too until she saw who followed Mike into the store. "El!"
"Hey." El waved, just managing to get her hand out of Mike's before Robin enveloped her in a hug.
"Man, you get more beautiful every day." Robin said. "How are you?"
"Great, now that I'm with Mike again." El smiled. "It sucks without him."
"Aw, you two are so cute." Robin smiled back and looked up at Mike. "Hey Lurch."
"Seriously?" Mike huffed.
"How's it going with you two?" El asked them.
"Ah well, you know." Robin shrugged and stepped behind the counter, hugging Steve from behind again and putting her head on his shoulder, making them look like a two-headed human. "Girls think Steve's an asshole but other than that, we're fine. Having no monster trying to kill you or Russians trying to open a gate to hell is always nice."
"Why do girls think you're an asshole?" Dustin asked.
"Beats me." Steve shrugged. "I talk to them, everything's fine but as soon as I ask them out, they look at me as if I'm a monster and flee from me."
"If Mike was trying to ask another girl out with me in the same room, I'd think him a monster too." El said. "Then I would kill him." she added with a giggle.
"Well, you're his girlfriend, of course you would." Robin said. "Also, different situation."
"Aren't you two together?" Mike asked confused.
"No, why would you think that?" Steve wondered, looking at Robin who had the same reaction, which was weird given how close their heads were still so close together.
"Because you two act like a couple." Dustin pointed out. "You have this friendly bickering pat down, Robin constantly hugs or touches you and I've seen her kiss you quite often."
"I never kissed him on the lips." Robin argued.
"Still, when I see you two, I see a couple in love. Or at least, I see a woman in love with a guy and a guy who sees a woman he wants but can't have." Dustin shrugged and pointed to Mike and El. "And believe me, I have plenty of experience recognizing two people in love. These two are as close to Siamese twins you can get without having them being actually attached together."
"We're not..." Robin started, looking into Steve's eyes but couldn't say anything else, her thoughts and feelings a complete mess.
"Did you want something specific or did you just come here because you missed us?" Steve asked the three, inadvertently saving Robin, who let him go.
"We wanted to rent some Christmas movies." Mike said. "It's El's first real Christmas that she can celebrate in the open, so we want to give her the full spread."
"Well, there's Don't open till Christmas, or Black Christmas..." Steve started.
"Are you nuts." Robin interjected, giving him a gentle slap on the back of his head. "Are you trying to scare El into hating Christmas?"
"What, these movies have Christmas in their names." Steve argued.
"They're horror movies!" Robin laughed and grabbed a few tapes.
"Here." Robin handed them to Mike. "The first is It's a Wonderful Life. It's a classic."
"Wait, you're giving them Gremlins?" Steve gasped as he saw the bottom tape. "So, you hit me because I recommended horror movies and then you hand them a horror movie?"
"Gremlins isn't horror." Robin shot back. "They're cute."
"Until they change into monsters." Steve retorted.
"It has comedic elements." Robin tried once more.
"So has Trading Places." Steve said and pointed to the middle tape in Mike's hands. "It's a comedy that just happens to play during Christmas time."
"See? Husband and wife." Dustin laughed, getting glares from both of them. "Why don't we just take those movies and you can make up and kiss?"
"Shut up, Dusty-bun." Steve and Robin shouted at the same time, sharing a look before Steve huffed and walked away to sort more tapes.
"How long do you need them?" Robin asked, glad for the moment that Steve had left.
"Over Christmas." Mike told her. "So, three or four days."
"Alright, that's ten bucks for you guys." Robin smiled at them.
"Won't you get in trouble for giving us a rebate?" Mike asked as he handed her the bill.
"Meh." she waved them off. "Dustin has paid more than enough already for you to rent every movie given how much money he has dumped into the arcades."
"Glad to be of service." Dustin deadpanned.
"Thanks, Robin." El smiled at her friend and waving as they walked past Steve and entered the arcade through the door at the left wall.
After they had left, Robin sighed and wondered why the kids had thought that she and Steve were a couple. She looked at what she could easily now call her best friend, someone she essentially went through hell with, who was sorting videos and sometimes running his hand through his hair. When he did that, something happened inside her, a feeling she usually had only when a certain type of girl or woman walked through the door.
She still liked women. She looked at every single one that walked into the store, checking her out. But she'd be damned if she didn't start to feel similar things whenever Steve came in after her. And now that Dustin had made his comments, she couldn't deny the irrefutable fact that she felt a pang of jealousy every time Steve talked to a girl and also that gnawing fear that one would actually agree to a date which was followed by relief when those girls shot him down. She felt very confused now.
While Robin did her soul-searching, El and Mike were standing at a Star Wars arcade machine, El trying her abilities in steering an X-Wing into the Death Star trench and trying to get to the end. She flinched a bit when the machine suddenly said 'Use the force, Luke', not having expected that but Mike assured her that it meant that she was close to the end.
After a tense minute of weaving the stick left and right to avoid the shots of the fighters behind her own, she hit the button that sent the torpedoes flying, the screen congratulating her on her success. She whooped excitedly and turned around to hug and kiss Mike, who congratulated her profusely. They went over to Dustin, who was trying his best to finally beat Dragon's Lair, cursing loudly when he died yet another time.
"Dustin, take it easy." El grinned.
"It's so frustrating." Dustin huffed. "I must have fed hundreds of dollars into this crap machine already over the years."
"Why don't you just accept that you may not be able to beat it and move on to some other game?" El suggested.
"How did your Death Star trench run go?" Dustin shot back, mentally preparing to tell her that she too will pour a lot of money into that to beat it.
"She beat it in her first try." Mike said proudly.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Dustin groaned.
"You should stop playing now." Mike suggested. "You need your money for next week for your date with Jennifer."
"Guys, what should I do for a first date?" Dustin asked.
"I don't know, go to the movies?" Mike shrugged.
"What did you two do on your first date?"
"We never really had a real date with just the two of us." El realized. "When we got together, dad wouldn't let me go to places with a lot of people so I wouldn't be recognized."
"I think that should be remedied." Mike stated. "El, will you go on a date with me?"
"Yes, I would like that." El smiled widely, pursing her lips as an invitation for him to kiss her, which he gladly did.
"We could double date." Dustin suggested.
"No!" Mike and El shot him down immediately. "A first date should always be just you and your date."
"But what if I bomb it?" Dustin was afraid.
"Mike, how about we have our date at the same place but not together." El suggested. "We could share a cab."
"That's actually a neat idea." Mike agreed. "We could have dinner and a movie."
"There's only one restaurant in town that's not fast food, so our options are limited." Dustin pointed out.
"Then we should reserve a table for four, right?" El looked at the guys.
"No, that would be the double date." Mike winked. "We need two tables for two."
"That's so sweet." a familiar voice interrupted them before a freckled blond crashed her arms over Dustin's and Mike's shoulders, resulting in a lopsided pose due to the height difference between the two guys. "You guys are going on a date."
"Yeah." Mike nodded.
"Won't Max and Lucas be mad that you exclude them?" Robin wanted to know.
"They won't be back until the 30th." Mike told her. "At least Max won't be."
"Lucas as well." Dustin confirmed.
"Hey, we could drive you." Robin offered.
"Who is we?"
"Me and Steve." Robin said. "I got a van I can transport up to eight people in. You can save money on a cab."
"You would do that for us?" El asked.
"Sure." Robin giggled. "We pick you up, take you to wherever you want to go and pick you up once you're done."
"We're planning a dinner with a movie after." Mike said.
"No problem, we can go to the movie theater as a group, right?"
"Sure." the others agreed.
"Did someone say date?" another familiar voice startled them.
"Keith, there's nothing for you here." Robin said. "You bombed the date I set up for you."
"That wasn't my fault." Keith said, creepily eating his cheetos like he always did when he worked the arcade.
"Sure it wasn't." Robin scoffed. "Asking her if she brought protection wasn't awkward enough, right? You had to suggest doing it in the arcade."
"What are you even doing here?" Keith asked in his slow way of talking. "The arcade is mine today."
"Careful or I don't let you in here at all anymore." Robin squinted at him.
"Moving along." Keith said and left them alone.
"God, he gives me the creeps." Robin shuddered and turned to the others again. "So, when is this going to go down?"
"December 29th." Mike said. "I think we should get the tables for six o'clock, gives us enough time for the meal before we have to get to the theater."
"Then it's settled." Robin giggled and skipped back into the video store. "Steve, December 29th. Keep your evening free."
"Why?" Steve asked.
"We have a date."
"We do?" Steve looked at her confused.
"Well, El and Mike have." she clarified. "We're driving them."
"And why do I need to be there too?" Steve still looked confused.
"If you think I'm going to sit alone at Benny's while waiting for the kids to finish eating, you got another thing coming." she poked out her tongue at him. "Dustin also has a date, they're going too."
"See, if you had led with that, I wouldn't have argued." Steve laughed. "I am so there to watch my little boy all grown up!"
"Then it's settled." Robin nodded. "Pick you up at five. We're using my van."
"Alright." Steve nodded too and help up his hand so she could give him a high five.
Okay, this is it. Other POVs. Lets see how you like my stomach bug infused writing -.-
You may have noticed that I may go into a different direction with Robin. The reason I do that is due to the great chemistry between Maye Hawke and Joe Keery. These two give that couple vibe, especially after Hawke's character had told him that she always watches him coming in and how she knows what he eats on certain days. The 'I'm lesbian' for me felt like as if the creators had to include it to satisfy some LGBTQ thing. Never understood that part of the storyline.
Review please :) (but be gentle)