wires, steve harrington

thirty-two.

"only one person knows what really happened." dustin said, looking between max and his sister.

meadow nodded. "yeah. but how do we find him?"

"we make some calls? i don't know!" dustin replied. "have you talked to anyone else?"

max shook her head. "no. i can't get a hold of lucas, or nancy, and mike's-"

"in california," both henderson's realized at once, looking between each other, "dammit."

"shit shit shit." dustin added, putting a hand to his hat. "we need to go find steve and robin."

his sister smiled. "now you're using that thinking cap."

as the three made their way to the door, claudia looked up. "where are you going?"

"uh.. seeing a friend." meadow replied.

"you heard the news. it's not safe!" her mother responded, but she didn't make a move to get up from her spot on the couch.

dustin smiled. "good point, we'll be careful."

"thanks. love you. bye." meadow spoke as she closed the door behind her, grabbing her bike from its position on the grass.

max looked over at her. "don't you have a car?"

she tilted her head to the side. "i mean.. kind of? yeah, no, i don't have a car. at least.. i don't have a car that can properly function."

the other girl nodded. "bikes it is."

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when they arrived at family video, meadow burst through the doors immediately. "hey!! my lunch break isn't happening for another hour or so, what are you-" steve's smile at the sight of his girlfriend dimmed when he noticed the two kids that sprinted in front of her to the register. "what do you two-"

"how many phones do you have?" dustin demanded.

robin leaned over to meadow. "hey, did you see this? someone was murdered?"

she nodded. "yeah, that's kind of why we're here-"

"how many phones do you have?"

"two. why?"

robin looked over to dustin. "technically three, if you count keith's in the back?"

max nodded. "yeah, three works."

"what are you doing?" steve asked, watching as dustin took his backpack off and hopped over the counter. "my tapes, dude!" he complained as he knocked nearly everything off of the counter. "what are you doing, man?"

dustin sat down in front of the computer. "setting up base of operations here."

"base of operations?"

"what are you doing? get off of the computer."

"no, i need it!"

"need it for what?"

"eddie's friends' phone numbers!" dustin explained.

steve then rolled his eyes. "oh, eddie. your new best friend eddie who you think is cooler than me because he plays your nerdy game?"