"Micheal after dinner i want you to pick out your toys for the yard sale" karen asked calmly while the wheeler family and the harrington kids sat around the dinner table eating their food
"fine" mike relpied rolling his eyes
"Two boxes worth" Karen added
"two boxes??" mike awnsered in shock
"you heared me"
"im fine with you giving away a couple but the other ones just have way to much emotioal value" mike protested
"emotional value?" Karen sighed
"Theyre hunks of plastc micheal" Mr. wheeler added
sometmes shay wondered why mr wheeler talked at all, everyhting he was wasnt nessasary or it was rude and un helpful
"You already took away my atari" Mike spoke louder this time getting visably more mad
"if you didnt wanna lose toys you shouldnt have stolen from nancy" Karen said
"i didnt steal, i borrowed" mike shot back to them
"oh and you didnt curse out mr. kowalski last week either, right? or plagirize that essay? or graffiti the bathroom stall" Karen scolded
"shes looking at you too shay" Mr. wheeler added, again, unnsessasary
"the BOYS bathroom stall, as you can see im a woman" shay said back, her mr. wheeler never really got along
Steve let out a little chuckle from where he was sitting because he knew shay did infact go into the boys washroom to draw on the stalls
"everyone graffitis the bathroom stalls" mike defended himself
"so if your friends jumped off a cliff you would too" Mr. wheeler jumped into the conversation yet again, unneeded
Shay sat there knowing how ironic it was that mike has infact jumped off a cliff for his friend, and she knew he would do it again
"we know youve had a hard year micheal but we have been patient" Karen said understanding "but this isnt your first strike, or your 3rd"
"its strike 20, your on the bench son and if itd been my coach you would have been lucky to still be on the team" Mr. wheeler pointed out
"Two boxes. two. so shay? how was your day?" Karen asked tring to defuse the tention in the room that she created
"My day was good i guess" shay awnserd poking at her food
"anything interesting happen" Karen asked again wanting information from the girl
"Well theirs this new girl in our class, shes pretty cool" shay explaimed now visibly more interested in the conversarion
"shes not that cool" Mike protested shooting a look at shay
"well whats so cool about her?" Karen asked wondering what the girl had to say now about this mystery new girl
"she really cool because she skateboards, and she has really read hair ive never seen anything like it" she said now happily eating her food
mike rolled his eyes from his seat at shays words
"whats got mike so whiny" Nancy asked shooting a look at her younger brother
"hes mad because the new girl beat our digdug high score" shay exlaimed smirking
"We dont even know if its her yet" Mike pouted
"Its probably is, i saw some ginger girl leaving one day when i was dropping shay off" steve awnsered
"How do you remeber that" shay qustioned looking at her brother genuinly confused
"Because she was fighting with this guy in the car next to us, i dont know it stuck with me" steve explained before going back to eating his food
"well, i think this girl sounds pretty cool" Karen said reaching over the table to grab shays hand
karen wheeler was like shays mother, the harrington parents were never around much to all the parents of the party took turns taking care of her, before steve had his redemption arc
Shay smiled at karen then went to finish her dinner
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After they finished eating the harrington kids went back to their house for the night
knowing their parents would defenantly not be homethe wheelers offered them a place to sleep at their house but steve and shay said they would be fine at their house
They walked in a comfortable silence to their house slowly but surley making their way across teh dark street
when they opened the front door the ligths were off and the house was pitch black, steve tried to stand infront of the living room door to hid the empty beer cans their father had left behind but she was too old to be clueless
she went to sit that the island in the kitchen while steve went to lead the dishwasher with the many dished that had been left around the kitchen
"So whats this ginger skater girls name again" steve asked making Shay crack a smile
"Her name is max, max mayfield" Shay said
"So are you guys friends yet??" Steve questioned causing a frown to appear on Shays face
"Well not really, i tried to talk to her but she was really closed off, she kinda just ignored me completly" Shay explined hoping steve could help
"What are some of her interests, maybe you have somting in common you can talk about" Steve suggested leaning on the counter with his arms crossed
"She likes going to the arcade, and skateboarding" Shay told him
"Well ask her if she wants to skateboard to the arcade with you" Steve exlaimed, thinking he had come up with the best idea of the century
"Okay but she hates me and i dont have a skateboard" Shay reminded him
"Maybe shes just intimidated by you" steve said ruffling her hair
She heard the faint noise of dustin yelling through a walkie talkie coming from her room
She jokingly pushed steve out of the way and fanticly ran up the stairs too her room wondering if they have any more infromation about max
"Hello shay? shay? are you there? mike said you are home?" dustin asked into the wakie talkie
"Im here" she awnserd out of breath from running up the stairs
"finally, ive been trying to reach you all day, we were right, max is madmax" Dustin explained to her causing shay to smile, now her and max have the same interest, videogames
"Did you tell mike, man hes gonna be so mad" shay laughed into the walkie talkie
"I did already, he shut the walkie off after daying he was busy" Dustin awnsered laughing along with her
"What do you do now??" Lucan asked dustin from beside him
"We stick to the plan" Dustin said as if it was obvious
"Mikes not going to like that" Shay added again
"Last time i checked this party was not a dictatorship, its a democracy" Dustin told them
"What if max said no?" Lucas asked
"Says no to what" Shay wondered, wanting to be involved in whatever plan they were plannning
"We were thinking of asking max to come trick or treating with us, anywas how can max say no to these" Dustin said making a purring noice
"I told you to stop that" Lucas complained
"I think he should keep doing it, its his signature" Shay said from the other side of the walkie talkie
While dustin and lucas were saying their goodbyes to eachother from the other side of the walkie talkie there was a knock on Shays bedroom door
"Come in" shay said knowing it was steve as he was the only person other than her in the house
"Hey i have a bit of a headache so im going to go to the drug store and get somthing for it, do you need anything" Steve asked pushing the door open
"Can you get me a pack of gum for school tommorow" she smiled
"No shay i buy you gum everyday, are you okay staying home alone?" Steve questioned her
"Yes im fine go get the meds" She laughed as he shut her door
she turned her walker talkie on low volume so it could wake her up if her friends needed anything but not loud enough to wake up steve from his "beauty sleep"
she turned off her lamp and closed her eyes and started to think about all of her friends, every night before bed she would think there and think about all her friends, she would worry about will, laugh about dustins jokes and remeber about el but tonight a new person was in her nightly thoughts
max. for the past 12 hours she could not stop thinking about the girl, she didnt even know what made her so special, she didnt feel this way about anyone else
and with that, she drifted off to sleep
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for the first time in forever she didnt wake up to the boys having a conversation on the walkie talkie, she woke up to the sound of nothingness, she found it disturbing
she sat up in her bed and rubbed her eyes, as she put her foot down on the ground it landed on somthing hard that almost made her fall off balance
a skate board was on the floor of the best, and right beside it was a pack of gum, then on top of the skateboard there was a note
"dont fall off trying to impress your girl" the note read
Shay smiled but then she read it again, your girl? what did that mean? max wasnt hers or anything, steve calls nancy his girl.. but surley he didnt mean it like it... right?
shay went down stairs expecting to see steve but instead she saw another note that told her nancy was going to give her a ride this morning because he had left for basket ball practice
she groaned knowing that nancy was one of the worst drivers she had ever been in a car with but continued to pack her bag
she threw in her walkie talkie, pack of gum and her lunch that steve had made for her before he left
she contemplatd before grabbing her new skateboard but ended up grabbing it anyways, she felt like she forgot somthing but she ignored that feeling and kept walking
she walked to the wheelers house and mike was already outside
"Wheres your costume" he aksed her looking at her outfit
"UGh shit i forgot it" she explaimed
"no time to grab it because i have to drive you guys to school before i get to mine and we are late already" nancy panicked motioning everyone to get in the car
"i dont even know what im being yet so theres no point in going to grab a non existant costume anyways" shay said before slamming the car door behind her
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AN: if no one reads this its gonna be emmbarssing