𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫

46. A Breakup

July 1, 1985

Lucas and Mike jerk awake as Will played music loudly.

"What the hell are you doing?" Lucas asked groggily.

"Yeah, Will can you please turn down the music?"

"Please address me by my full name." Mike looks at Will confused and annoyed as he said what. Will just slams his stick loudly. "My full name!"

"Oh my god, okay. Will the Wise can you please turn down the music?"

"That is not music, that my friends is the sound of destiny." Mike rolls his eyes and pinches the bridge of his nose. "I have seen into the future and I have seen that today is a brand new day. A day free of girls!"

"What the fuck is happening right now?" Lucas asks as he squints his eyes.

"Oh, Will come on." Will ignores his two friends as he begins to explain the game. "Will please it's so early!"

"Is it, is it early Michael? Tell that to the villagers crying for your help. The children are so frightened that they can't sleep. Are you truly going to let them perish? Or will you come to their rescue and become the heroes you were always meant to be?"

"Uh, can I please at least take a shower first?" Lucas ask.

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Hopper looks at his fridge drinking milk from the carton, noticings a note from El.

Gone to Maxs sleeping over -El

Suddenly Hopper hears a knock on the front door. "Hopper? Hopper are you there?" Hopper rolls his eyes as he goes to open the door.

"Oh look who it is, Miss. Joyce Byers."

"Listen Hopper we need to talk." She says as she walks over towards the yellow fridge.

"Oh, you bet we do." Hopper says as he slams the front door. "I haven't been stood up like that since Alice Gilbert in the ninth grade." Joyce bends down grabbing magnets from her purse and dumping them onto the floor. "What the hell are you doing?" He asks as he slips on his shirt. "Hello? Joyce, what are you doing?"

"Just shut up and watch, okay." She begins to place a magnet onto the fridge but it doesn't stick and falls to the ground. She tries to multiple times but they still don't stick to the fridge.

"Okay, you're freaking me out."

"You slipped on this remember?" Hopper nods as he leans onto the couch. "Yeah, it fell in the night and lost its magnetism. The same thing had happened at my house the day before. And I had thought, 'okay that's weird'. Right, why are all these magnets losing their magnetism? So, I went and saw Scott."

Hopper furrows his eyebrows. "Scott? Who's Scott?"

"Scott Clark."

"Your child's science teacher."

"Yeah, well he's pretty brilliant actually. And I had asked him how is this happening and he had built this magnetic field using an AC transformer and plugging it into a solenoid."