Alexithymia | STRANGER THINGS [ON HOLD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE]

two | the weirdo on maple street

With an eyebrow raised, Matthew silently watched as Mike shoved something into his jacket before putting two waffles onto his own plate and then made his way over towards the kitchen table.

And while each member of the Wheeler family ate their breakfast, Matthew simply drank some orange juice out of the glass he grabbed and watched as Mike had rather quickly eaten his waffles without any syrup on them.

After looking between her two brothers, one of whom was staring at the youngest brother with an eyebrow raised, Nancy said to Mike, "Slow down, Mike. That's disgusting."

It was then that Mike turned to Nancy and asked her, "Do a lot of studying last night?"

After quickly glancing over at Matthew, who was doing nothing but shaking his head to himself with a smirk on his face, Nancy said with a nod of her head, "Yeah, actually, I did."

Mike replied, "What was your test on again? Human anatomy?"

After watching two of her children move around in their seats, Karen asked them, "Hey, what's going on?"

Simultaneously, the both of them said, "Nothing."

Then Karen turned her attention over towards Matthew, who was covering the entirety of his plate and his waffles with syrup.

It wasn't until she cleared her throat that Matthew slowly looked over at her to see that she was staring at him with an eyebrow raised.

He silently eyed her before he said, "What?"

When Karen only glanced down at his plate that was filled with syrup, he scoffed to himself before he started to eat his last remaining waffle and chose to ignore the look that Karen had on her face.

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With his headphones on and the tape on his walkman playing, Matthew quickly walked through the school and in the direction of where his locker was.

And while he walked through the school, he caught sight of his sister Nancy talking to Jonathan Byers— the older brother of the boy that had recently gone missing.

After taking his eyes off of them, he could see Nancy's friend Barbara Holland standing near Steve Harrington and his two friends, Tommy H and Carol.

And while he walked past the four of them, Steve and his two friends quickly glanced over at Matthew and watched as Matthew had walked past them with a scowl on his face.

And despite not being able to hear whatever it was that Tommy H was saying to him over the sound of Highway to Hell loudly playing on his walkman, Matthew still made a point of raising a middle finger up at Tommy and completely ignoring Steve and Carol, who were silently eyeing him before bringing their attention back over to Jonathan and Nancy.