Alexithymia | STRANGER THINGS [ON HOLD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE]

twenty five | the hellfire club

When Valerie didn't immediately come out of the trailer, he rolled his window down and yelled, "Hey, Val, come on! It's time to get your ass up for the last day of school before spring break, you know?!"

It wasn't long after that that Valerie came stumbling out of the trailer and ran over towards Matthew's car, where he sat in the driver's seat with a grin on his face and Mercyful Fate's Into the Coven playing loudly in his car.

And due to the fact that Matthew had his eyes solely focused on Valerie, who was trying to keep any of her breakfast from falling out of her hands at the same time that she closed the trailer door behind herself, he was unaware of the fact that Eddie Munson was walking out of his own trailer and watching the usual interaction between the two juniors that were almost never away from each other since the disaster that occurred on the Fourth of July and the Mayfields had started to live in the trailer park.

And just like any other time that Matthew would come to the trailer park to give Valerie Mayfield a ride to school, Matthew would be driving super fast and have to avoid hitting anyone because of just how fast he was driving and was blasting at least some form of a metal or hard rock band that he was listening to.

The only difference this time, though, was that Matthew didn't take a quick glance over in the direction of Eddie's trailer and silently hoped that he would catch the repeating senior walking out of his own trailer.

He kept his eyes solely focused on Valerie as she finally reached his car and practically threw her school things in the back of his car before getting into the front passenger seat and simply wincing to herself upon hearing just how loud Mercyful Fate's At the Sound of the Demon Bell was playing.

With a roll of her eyes, she turned down the volume to his radio, which got him to let out a groan as he said to her, "Oh, come on, Val. Why do you always have to turn down the volume to the goddamn radio?"

With a sigh, she replied, "You know why I always have to do it, Matt." When Matt only slowly turned his head to look over at her, she told him, "It's too fucking early to hear your music blasting in my fucking ears."

With a shrug of his shoulders, Matthew maneuvered his car around and made a quick turn before he found himself driving back out of the trailer park and in the direction of the school, leaving himself unaware of the fact that he'd nearly collided his car with Eddie Munson's van, leaving the second-time repeating senior to shake his head to himself with a sigh at the actions of the second eldest Wheeler sibling that had become somewhat of a tradition of his during the months in which Matthew had come by the trailer park to give Valerie a ride to school.

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While the cheerleaders had quickly made their way over towards the bleachers in the gym, a man yelled into the microphone, "And let's hear it for your Tigers!"

While both Matthew and Valerie slowly clapped their hands together with a mere roll of their eyes, Jason Carver was the first to run through the banner with a grin on his face as he stared directly at the crowd of mostly cheering people, followed shortly by the rest of the basketball team.

It wasn't until the rest of the team was standing out in the middle of the gym that Jason yelled into the microphone, "Good morning, Hawkins High!" While a majority of the crowd simply broke into yet another cheer, Jason took the microphone out of its place on the microphone stand and started to walk closer to the crowd of people as he said into it, "First off... Hey. First off, I'd like to thank each and every one of you. Without your support, we wouldn't be here. Give yourselves a big hand."

After Matthew had simply snorted to himself in response to Jason's words, Jason said into the microphone, "And of course, of course, I have to give a special shout-out to the best and the prettiest fans of all time, the Tiger Cheer Squad."