What do you think? I think you're an idiot. (Dustin Henderson x Reader)

14: Train tracks.

Y/n's pov

*Bam*

Mike stabbed the pencil through the paper, just like Mr. Clarke had done.

El slightly jumped back, the pencil too close to her nose for her liking.

"It would take a lot of energy to build a gate like this, but that's what's got to have happened, otherwise what happened... Right?" Mike questioned.

"We just want to know how to open it, and where it is!" Lucas said, obviously annoyed with El's lack of knowledge.

Meanwhile, Dustin was pacing back and forth with a compass in hand.

"Hey dust, what are you doing?" I asked.

When he didn't answer the boys started saying his name loudly, trying to get his attention.

"Dustin?!" Mike yelled.

"Dustin!" Lucas shouted.

"Hey! Dustin!" Mike said.

I held my hands up at Lucas and Mike, signalling them to shut it.

"Dustin." I said softly.

"Yes?" He answered finally, as if summoned by me, smiling his goofy smile in my direction.

Still got it.

"What's up?" I asked curiously.

All of a sudden, he was snapped back into whatever he was doing with the compass and yelled, "I need to see your guy's compasses."

"What?" Lucas asked, his furrowed brows giving away his confusion.

"Your compasses! All of your compasses! Right now!" He yelled.

"Okay, okay! Jeez!" I said, placing my green compass, red compass and silver compass on the D&D table.

Mike and Lucas both gathered all their compasses and threw them on the table.

I looked at the compasses to see them, strangely, not even facing North.

"They're all facing North, right?" He asked.

"No." I said.

"Yeah." Mike and Lucas both replied, looking at me weirdly.

Dustin smiled at me, before starting his rant again.

"Well, that's not true North." Dustin said.

"What do you mean?" Lucas asked, irritated.

"I mean exactly what I just said! That's not true North! Are you two seriously this dense? The sun rises in the East and it sets in the West, right? Which means, that's true North." Dustin said, pointing to where North was supposed to be.

"So your saying... They're broken?" Mike asked.

I sighed, rolling my eyes at their stupidity.

"Do you guys even know how a compass works? Do you see a battery pack on this?" I explained, picking up a compass and showing it was flat on the bottom. "No, you don't. 'Cause it doesn't need one. The compasses needle is naturally drawn to the earth's magnetic pole."

"Yes!" Dustin said, pointing at me in excitement.

"So what's wrong with them, then?" Lucas asked.

"Well that's what I couldn't figure out, but that's when I remembered you can change the course of a compass with a magnet. If there's a more powerful magnetic field, the needle deflects to its power. And then I remembered what Mr. Clarke said, the gate would have so much power-" Dustin started.

"-It would disrupt the magnetic field." I finished.

"Exactly, meaning, if we follow the compasses North, it should lead us to the gate." Dustin said.

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"How much further?" Lucas complained as we walked along the train tracks.

"I don't know, compasses tell direction not distance." Dustin said irritably.

"You really need to learn more about compasses." I added with a nod.

"I'm just saying, how do we know when we've reached the gate?" Lucas asked.

"Uh, I think a portal to another dimension is going to be pretty obvious." Dustin replied, slightly annoyed.

Mike and Eleven were walking together a little ways back, talking, and I now had a huge suspicion that he had feelings for her.

"Do you think she's acting weird?" Lucas asked, looking back at El.

"You're asking if the weirdo is acting weird?" I questioned sarcastically.

"I mean weirder than normal!" Lucas elaborated.

"I don't know, who cares!" Dustin and I said in sync, slightly annoyed with Lucas today.

We kept walking.

——

We arrived at an old abandoned junkyard, that looked pretty cool.

"Oh no." Dustin muttered, looking around.

"What do you mean, 'oh no' ?" Lucas snapped.

"I think we're heading back home." Dustin said.

"What!?!" Lucas yelled.

"Yeah, the sun is setting right there." I agreed, pointing to the sky.

"Maybe we looped back around?" Dustin offered.

"How did you not realize this?!?" Lucas said.

"Why is this on me?" Dustin asked.

"It was your idea!" Lucas yelled.

"What do your guy's compasses say?" Dustin asked.

"North." We all replied in unison.

Lucas sighed in annoyance.

"Great." I huffed.

"Maybe the gate moved?" Mike questioned.

"Really, Michael? Do you really think a portal to another dimension moved?" I asked sarcastically.

"Well-" Mike started.

"No, y/n's right. I think something's screwing with the compasses." Dustin stated.

"So, what, some weirdo's been following us around with a magnet?" Mike asked unrealistically.

"Not what he meant, genius." I said, rolling my eyes.

"It's not a magnet." Lucas spoke suddenly, a tinge of realization in his words.

He pointed at El.

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