Alexithymia | STRANGER THINGS [ON HOLD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE]

ten | trick or treat, freak

While Matthew was leaning against the doorway to the room with a smirk on his face and a glass of orange juice in hand, Mike said, "Alright, that's the last one."

With a smile on her face, Karen said to him, "No, just one more. Come on, please?"

While Karen went to take yet another picture of Mike in his costume, Matthew only chuckled to himself with a mere shake of his head.

As soon as the photograph came out of the camera, Mike asked her, "Can I go to school?"

While raising the camera yet again, she said to him, "Wait, wait. Okay, say, 'Who you gonna call'?"

In turn, Mike said, "No!"

After Karen had taken yet another picture of him, Mike looked over at Matthew, who looked like he was enjoying every bit of it far too much.

With a scoff, Mike said to him, "Shut up, Matt."

In response to Mike's words, Matthew's smirk had only widened as he raised his glass of orange juice at his brother with a raise of his eyebrows.

Then Mike rolled his eyes at his brother and yelled out a 'hey' when Karen had taken yet another picture of him.

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With his arms crossed over his chest and a lit cigarette hanging out of his mouth, Matthew silently eyed Valerie after seeing her walk over towards him.

It wasn't until she stopped right in front of him that he leaned back into the car his parents had bought him once he turned sixteen over the summer and asked her, "What do you want, Val?" When she only tilted her head at him, he told her, "If you're here to ask me about Tina's party, then the answer's no. I'm not going."

With a scoff, she asked him, "You really think I give a shit about her party?" When he only raised his eyebrows in response to her words, she told him, "No, I came to ask you if you know any good dealers in the area."

With an eyebrow raised, he asked her, "You came to ask me if there are any good dealers in the area?" When she only nodded her head, he told her, "Then you'll have to find Munson. He's a pretty good dealer."

In turn, she asked him, "And which one is Munson?"

He replied, "You can't miss him. He's about my height, has crazy long hair and is always wearing that denim jacket of his that's got this, um, Dio patch on the back of it. Plus, he's apparently repeating his senior year, so there's that, too."

With a tilt of her head, she asked him, "And how exactly do you know all that?"

He told her, "Because I used to buy from him, like, a year ago." Then he nodded his head over towards Eddie's van as he said to her, "His van's right over there, so you could go and ask him about buying something from him before he leaves."