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27. i like girls

I LIKE GIRLS

July 2nd, 1985
⏰ 6:45 am, 📍Hawkins, Indiana

༺♥༻ Nancy takes a deep breath as she rings the doorbell to the Holloway house, Jonathan next to her and the rest of the kids scattered behind her, Max and Stephanie still attached by one another's hand.

Nancy rings the doorbell again. No response.

Nancy and Jonathan look behind their shoulders at El, who focuses in on the door and unlocks it with her powers.

With a nod of her head, the door swings open, hitting the wall and knocking down picture frames.

Nancy invites herself in and walks through the door, followed by Jonathan and the party. "Tom?" Nancy says, loud enough that if he were here, he would hear it. "Heather?"

Stephanie walks in and is immediately hit with the flowing cold air. She tries to not show the fact that she basically has frostbite to try and seem brave, but that really didn't work.

"Jesus, it's freezing." Max nestles closer to Stephanie as Stephanie also does to Max.

Nancy walks farther into the house and turns around to face the kids. "Do you guys smell that?"

Stephanie smells the air, leaning her head in different directions. She walks over to the kitchen and almost throws up at what she sees.

Cleaning products, so many cleaning products emptied and spilled across the counter, staining it with blue liquid. Power is littering the floor, along with more drops of blue.

"Oh, God," Stephanie whispers, putting her hand over her mouth to try and shield the smell.

The rest of the group looks back at her in confusion until they follow her into the kitchen and share their own reactions.

"More chemicals," Nancy concludes, walking past Stephanie to the counter.

Jonathan walks over to a empty container and picks it up. "You think they're guzzling this shit?"

Nancy picks up another bottle. "Yeah, either that or they just went on a hell of a cleaning spree."

"But last year, Will didn't eat chemicals," Max points out. "Did you?"

"No." Will steps forward. "This is something new."

Well isn't that great.

"Mr. Clarke, fifth grade. Posit," Mike spits out words that sound like German to Stephanie. "What happens when you mix chemicals together?"

"You create a new substance," Will and Lucas chant in unity.

Mike shrugs. "What if they're making something?"

"In themselves?" Stephanie asks.

Max gestures to the table. "I mean, come on, if you drink this crap, it'll kill you."

"Yeah, if you're human," Lucas contradicts.

Mike turns to Lucas and immediately starts arguing his point, making everyone start arguing as well.