There's No Place Like Hawkins//Stranger Things. SH

TWENTY THREE

MADMAX

Cat cycled her bike up to the high school, jumping off it and walking up to Steve's car where he was going over his essay with Nancy. She knocked on his window, scaring the pair slightly. Steve rolled down his window so Cat could talk to them. "Hey, losers." She greeted.

"Hello to you, too, Catherine." Steve greeted.

"I've told you. Don't call me that." She leaned her head through the open window to talk to Nancy. "Hey, Nance. Do we still have the dinner at Barb's tonight?"

"Yeah. You going to leave me in history, again?"

"Yup. Sorry. I've got to go with Will to his appointment."

The sound of a car engine revving grabbed the teen's attention and Cat pulled her face away from the window as Steve began to roll it up before he and Nancy climbed out of the car. They leaned on the doors of Steve's car and watched as an unfamiliar car screeched to a stop in the parking space in the row behind where they were currently stood. Catherine scoffed as the car took up two spaces and squinted her eyes to read the number plate; 'California'.

They watched as the owner of the car climbed out. He wasn't that bad looking, Catherine just didn't see him as her type. He had a mullet and was wearing a denim jacket over a white t-shirt with a really tight pair of jeans and some black boots. The passenger door opened and Cat's attention turned to the younger girl that exited the car. She was about the boys' age and had long red hair. The older girl watched as she hopped onto her skateboard and made her way towards the middle school.

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Cat left the classroom, ready to go home. She walked alongside Jonathan and Nancy as they began to walk down the hallway. "Hey, Nancy." Tina said as she handed Nancy one of her orange flyers.

"Hey!" Nancy greeted back, reading the flyer. "Thanks." Nancy continued walking down the corridor with Jonathan and Catherine, who Tina had completed ignored. The two teens were used to it by now and so weren't too bothered by it. "Oh, could I get two more?" Nancy asked, turning back to Tina.

"Yeah, sure." Tina handed her the flyers and Nancy shoved them at her two friends as they walked down the hallway.

"You two are coming to this."

Cat shook her head, frowning at the piece of bright orange paper.

"'Come and get sheet faced.'" Jonathan read. "No, I'm not."

"Yeah." Cat agreed. "Parties aren't really my scene."

"I can't let you two sit all alone on Halloween. That's just not acceptable." Nancy slipped the paper into her folder.

"Well, you can relax." Jonathan told her. "We're not going to be alone."

"Yeah. We're going trick-or-treating with the boys." Cat added.