CHAPTER TWO
THE DUNGEON MASTER
"Then Vickie laughed. And it wasn't like a cheap, fake laugh either. It was like... It was a real, genuine laugh."Mavis was intensely listening to Robin swooning about her interaction with Vickie during the game the night before as she sat at one of the chairs behind the counter, watching Robin and Steve sort out some of the freshly returned movies back into their respective shelves.
This was an usual occurrence for her. Whenever she had the day off, she would come there and hang out with Steve and Robin while they worked. At first, Keith wasn't too fond of the idea, but he got used to it after a while, finding it weird whenever the girl wasn't there. He even offered her a job there, but she was happy with her job next door, so she declined. However, she really enjoyed hanging out at Family Video with her friends. And Steve and Robin really liked having her there. Especially Steve.
"Of course she laughed, Robin. It's my Muppet joke. It's hilarious," Steve said as he organized some movies on the shelves.
"My point is that Vickie laughed and everything was just like... it was perfect."
"But?" Mavis asked, sensing a 'but' was about to leave her friend's mouth.
"But I'm having this problem where it's like, I should stop talking. I have said everything I need to say. But then I guess I get nervous, and the words they just– they keep spilling out, and it's like my... my brain is moving faster than my mouth, or... or rather my... my mouth is moving faster than my brain. And it's like I'm digging this hole for myself, and I want to stop digging, and I'm trying to stop digging, but I can't. And I'm doing it right now, aren't I?"
"Yeah, you are," Steve agreed with his best friend, Mavis sending him a small glare to which he just shrugged.
"Oh, I'm hopeless," Robin said defeatedly as she leant against a poster of The Last Dragon, a martial arts comedy film that had been released a year ago. The three of them had seen it together, but it wasn't exactly up Mavis' alley. Steve loved it though.
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PUZZLE , steve harrington
Fanfiction[completed until season five] you're the remedy i'm searching hard to find to fix the puzzle that i see inside. [steve harrington x female oc] [stranger things seasons three and four]