𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗬𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗬 [steve harrington]

chapter 44

the freak
🎶 pass the dutchie - musical youth

"Are you seeing this Izz? Some girl just died." Steve sighed as he watched the news playing on the tv behind the counter.

"We live in a total nightmare town." She frowned before hearing bells ring behind her.

"Hey, Steve. How many phones do you have?" Dustin questioned as two redheads came in behind him.

"Hello, hi, welcome home, haven't seen you in forever." Izzie sassed, listing all the ways Dustin could have greeted her instead of totally ignoring her.

"How many phones do you have?!" He repeated.

"Two but you can't use them until you stop being a dickwad." Steve quipped.

"I'm sorry." He sighed. "We're in a stressful situation. Izzie, I missed you. I really did. It's just kind of an emergency. Okay?"

"It's fine, Dust." Izzie replied.

"Can we use your phones or not?" Torie asked.

"Technically we have three if you count Keith's in the back." Robin added.

"Yeah. Three works." Max said to Dustin.

The boy started to take off his back pack and Steve cocked an eyebrow. "What are you doing?" Dustin didn't answer as he pushed his backpack over the counter, knocking down all of Robins stuff and throwing himself over the counter as well. "Woah, what are you- no, no, no, no my tapes! Dude! What are you doing man?"

"Setting up base of operations." He answered as he began typing into the computer.

"Base of operations?" Robin questioned.

"I leave for less than a year and you all go insane?" Izzie huffed.

"Stop, get off." Steve demanded.

"I need it." Dustin argued.

"Need it for what?" Steve asked.

"I'm looking up Eddie's friends' phone numbers." The younger boy answered.

"Oh, Eddie. Your new best friend that you think is cooler than me because he plays your nerdy game?" Steve replied jealously.

"I never said that." Dustin shot back.

"Seriously you guys maybe on a Monday you can play around in here like toddlers but it's Saturday, our busiest day." Robin complained.