Ch.3
Mike POV
When Mike was woken up by his alarm clock at 3:30 AM, he started awake and wondered why the hell his alarm clock had gone off at 3:30 am. "Ah, shit!" Mike exclaimed. "I have to meet Mr. Clarke in thirty minutes!" He sprang out of bed, pulled on a new pair of boxers, jeans,
and a short, then went to brush his teeth. He put on some deodorant, grabbed some Pop-tarts right out of the box, jumped on his bike, and rode to Mr. Clarke's house, barely making the 4 am deadline.
El POV
El slowly opened her sleep heavy eyes, squinting at the glaring light streaming in from the window. She sat up, and looked at the clock, noting the time was 10 AM. 'That's weird, Hopper usually wakes her up at the crack of dawn to go running and then go do heavy labor.' El thought. 'Speaking of Hopper, where is he?' She remembered eating dinner and dessert, then playing monopoly, but after that, nothing. She swung her legs off her bed, and stood up, walked to her door, closed it, and put on a sports bra, new underwear, and got dressed in her "work" clothes that she used when she and Hopper went to build houses for Habitat for Humanity. She then put on some deodorant and went to the kitchen to make breakfast. When she walked into the kitchen, she noticed that Hopper was nowhere to be found. She shrugged, opened the fridge, and saw a Post-it note stuck to the Eggos.
"Sorry, kid, a call came in. One of those mutilated animal corpses just showed up on Lucas's front lawn, with 'Stay away from her!' written in blood. I think that if you were awake, you'd agree that this is important enough for me to drop everything and head over to check things out. Lucas is still going with Mike and others. His parents and I think he should just try to go have fun. It'll take his mind off of this. We don't know for sure, but there are 3 people the messenger could have been talking about when he said 'her'. They could have been talking about, in order of likelihood, Max, Lucas's mom, and Erica. I'd give you a list of chores to do, but I know you won't do them. You're too much like your old dad. Lazy-asses, the both of us. - Love, Dad"
She laughed, then decided she would bike over to Max's house, and see how she was doing. She hadn't seen Max at all in the last couple of weeks, come to think of it. What kind of a best friend was she becoming? Well, she could start being a better one right away.
End Ch. 3
A/N: So, if I get some positive feedback on this idea, I might write a story about the field trip with Mr. Clarke and the A/V Club
NEW PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT/AN: THE WEED THAT EL SMOKES IS 80'S WEED. THAT HAD WAY LESS THC, SO WHILE IT WAS STILL BAD FOR YOU, IT WAS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS SO. NOW WEED WILL MESS YOU THE HELL UP. DONT DO IT. Also, I can hear you saying, "But if it was still bad for you, and El claims to get extremely high every day, how is she not getting messed up?" The answer is that she smokes in public, never in private. She only does it to provoke Hopper. When she doesn't want to do that, she doesn't get high. She was EXTREMELY exaggerating her drug usage there to make Mike look bad. Also, some characters, (not main ones) will use some harder drugs. Honestly, that will probably only be ecstasy. THAT IS A DEADLY AND EXTREMELY ILLEGAL DRUG. EL ONLY PRODUCES IT BECAUSE SHE IS BEING THREATENED WITH SERIOUS PHYSICAL HARM. THE CHEMICAL PROCESSES THAT PRODUCE THIS DRUG ARE JUST AS OR MORE DANGEROUS AS THE USAGE OF THIS DRUG. IT IS FOR SURE MORE ILLEGAL THAN THE USAGE OF IT. LIKE, DEA BLACK-OPS UNITS WITH MACHINE GUNS KICKING DOWN YOUR DOOR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT ILLEGAL. Simply put, don't use or produce any illegal drugs, and I KNOW you know not to, but just DON'T, okay? Ok, I'll step off my soapbox now. That was mainly for legal reasons. I DO NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES ARISING FROM YOUR PRODUCTION OR USE OF ANY ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES.